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elo

03-23-2007, 01:54 AM

I thought it would be a good idea to share some knowledge and links about programs.
Hopefully i´m not gonna be the only one to post on this thread.
Antivirus ans firewalls

Comodo Firewall Pro - better than anything you can buy and free; Windows FW is a joke BTW

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

AVG Antivirus (Free) - not a resource hog like any of the commercial products

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

Zone Alarm Firewall due to Computer Bild,a very well known german computer mag,one of the best firewalls and of course free.

http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en

Browsers and mailing programs.

Firefox,a save browser with a huge number of very usefull add-ons(which i post later).
And from the same link Thunderbird,a save and good mailing program.

http://www.mozilla.org/

Opera,supposed to be the safest browser and he has an mailing client included,meanwhile free without advertising.More comfortable then Firefox IMO but Firefox has the way better Add-ons.Made in Norwegia.
http://www.opera.com/

DownThemAll,massdownloader for FireFox.Download pics,videos,mp3 and more from a website with one click.Fantastic add-on.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

Downloadhelper for Firefox.Download embeded videos of sites like Youtube.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3006

You can download videos from sites like Youtube with Opera as well with this Widget.

http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4398

Foxmail
Free email client

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/E-mail-Clients/Foxmail.shtml

FireGPG?

FireGPG is a Firefox extension under MPL that provides an integrated interface to apply GnuPG operations to the text of any web page, including encryption, decryption, signing, and signature verification.
http://de.getfiregpg.org/s/home

Multimedia
AUDIOGRABBER
Convert music to MP3 with the best MP3 encoder LAME,formCD,platter or audiocassette.
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html

VideoLAN Media Player - play anything without all the stupid skinz, stream it too

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Audacity
Free open source software for recording and editing sounds.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

SUPER
Converts and shrinks video files in almost every container or codec.
Of course free.NOTE:The newer versions are phoning home pretty often.
http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html

XMEDIA RECODE
Converts pretty much every audio or video file in another codec.
http://www.xmedia-recode.de/download.html

MPLAYER
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

EXACT AUDIO COPY
Excellent audio grabber, can use external encoders such as LAME
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Operating systems

Ubuntu is good Linux distibution like Suse Linux is(very popular in germany).Both are very good alternatives for Windows And you can even use Windows programs on Linux through WINE..And how else could it be Linux is much safer then Windows.
Both are not less comfortable then Windows if not more camfortable and you can create with XGL an incredible 3D-desktops with them.See on pics below.

http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.winehq.org/

Solaris

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

BartPE and PE Builder

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled
Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original
Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable
for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a
graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem
support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files
to a network share, virus scan and so on.

This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.windowspe.com/

http://www.apcstart.com/3894/windows_pe_2_0_a_tiny_version_of_windows_for_syste m_maintenance

http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm

KNOPPIX
KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a
representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware
detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and
USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a
productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system,
or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product
demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-
the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable
software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

BLENDER

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Various

A Note
A Note is a software that let you put post-it like notes onto your desktop.When the computer shuts down the notes will be uploaded to a database so you can share your notes between your home and office computer.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/a-note/files/

NOTEPAD PLUS
Tired of the crappy Notepad? ... try Notepad++, on install you can specify IE to load pages source in notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

For quick viewing and editing images:
http://www.irfanview.net/

UltimateZip (fully functional, nonexpiring shareware) - compress/decompress anything: zip, gzip, tar, rar, 7zip, winace, war, etc.

http://www.ultimatezip.com/download.htm

Synergy - share a single mouse/kbd over multiple computers

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Google Picasa - photo editing and publishing all-in-one

http://picasa.google.com/

Google Docs - Word processing and spreadsheets on the web

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html

A very good program,you would be surprised how many junk is on your harddrive and its safe.I use it very often and never had problems.I don´t recomend the registry cleaning function.It might crash your operating system.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

FOXIT READER
Alternative to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) reader.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

FDM due to a well known german computer mag one of the best downloadmanager(made the second place).

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Office Suite:Open Office,like Microsoft Office just without the typical monopol like pricepolicy of Microsoft.

http://ne.openoffice.org/

Taskbar Shuffle
Taskbar Shuffle is a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to rearrange them. Here’s a full feature list:

*
Full 32-bit and 64-bit support
*
Reorder your taskbar buttons by dragging and dropping them
*
Reorder your tray icons in the same way
*
Reorder tasks in a grouped button's popup menu in the same way
*
Middle-click to close programs on your taskbar
*
Works with UltraMon (version 3+ only) taskbars
*
Tweak taskbar button grouping

If you run more than a few applications at a time, you'll definitely find Taskbar Shuffle useful, so give it a try!
http://nerdcave.webs.com/

Ultimate Boot CD
# Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

# Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.

# Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

PC Decrapifier
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

SCRIBES
For LINUX:If you like doing development in Linux you'll love this editor.Now I edit pretty much everything using it: Java, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, RHTML, HTML, CSS, JS... etc etc ... I love it!
http://scribes.sourceforge.net/

Web Authoring
NVU
A free WYSIWYG web editor, ideal for beginners
http://www.nvu.com/index.php

rvince

03-23-2007, 01:58 AM

http://www.ubuntu.com/

elo

03-23-2007, 02:32 AM

Thanks rvince and congrats for winning the contest.Ubuntu is good Linux distibution like Suse Linux is(very popular in germany).Both are very good alternatives for Windows And you can even use Windows programs on Linux through WINE..And how else could it be Linux is much safer then Windows.
Both are not less comfortable then Windows if not more camfortable and you can create with XGL an incredible 3D-desktops with them.See on pics below.

http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

http://www.winehq.org/

Jericho

03-23-2007, 02:43 AM

For quick viewing and editing images:
http://www.irfanview.net/

Linux...Pah...Buncha geeks! 8)

otherguy

03-23-2007, 03:08 AM

Comodo Firewall Pro - better than anything you can buy and free; Windows FW is a joke BTW

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

AVG Antivirus (Free) - not a resource hog like any of the commercial products

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

UltimateZip (fully functional, nonexpiring shareware) - compress/decompress anything: zip, gzip, tar, rar, 7zip, winace, war, etc.

http://www.ultimatezip.com/download.htm

VideoLAN Media Player - play anything without all the stupid skinz, stream it too

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Synergy - share a single mouse/kbd over multiple computers

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Google Picasa - photo editing and publishing all-in-one

http://picasa.google.com/

Google Docs - Word processing and spreadsheets on the web

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html

Use gmail for your domain email:

http://www.google.com/support/a/?hl=en

elo

03-23-2007, 05:06 AM

Zone Alarm Firewall due to Computer Bild,a very well known german computer mag,one of the best firewalls and of course free.

http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en

Coroner

03-23-2007, 05:09 AM

For quick viewing and editing images:
http://www.irfanview.net/

Linux...Pah...Buncha geeks! 8)

Yeah, that´s a great program made by Irfan Skiljan from Vienna. IrfanView was the first image viewer that could read animations. That guy is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina like me :)

elo

03-23-2007, 05:18 AM

Coroner

03-23-2007, 05:30 AM

Never had troubles with IrfanView.... he´s updating it quite often, try the latest versions.

elo

03-23-2007, 05:32 AM

Never had troubles with IrfanView.... he´s updating it quite often, try the latest versions.I have the latest version 3.99.

Jericho

03-23-2007, 05:40 AM

Yeah, that´s a great program made by Irfan Skiljan from Vienna. IrfanView was the first image viewer that could read animations. That guy is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina like me :)

He's on my list of "Internet Saints" for putting that prog out.

Unfortunately it crashes quite often.

I can't comment on that, the program itself's never crashed for me [more than i can say for the OS's 8) ]

Coroner

03-23-2007, 06:14 AM

I prefer ZDelete for deleting Internet history, cookies, temporary files etc...... a very good program

elo

03-23-2007, 06:33 AM

CCleaner (http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10634975.html?tag=lst-0-1)

Clean up junk files and invalid Registry entries.A very good program,you would be surprised how many junk is on your harddrive and its safe.I use it very often and never had problems.

elo

03-24-2007, 01:36 AM

Today:Downloadmanager

FDM due to a well known german computer mag one of the best(made the second place).

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

elo

03-25-2007, 01:32 AM

Office Suite:Open Office,like Microsoft Office just without the typical monopol like pricepolicy of Microsoft.

http://ne.openoffice.org/

elo

03-25-2007, 11:07 PM

DownThemAll,massdownloader for FireFox.Download pics,videos,mp3 and more from a website with one click.Fantastic add-on.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

elo

03-27-2007, 03:17 AM

OK.Again me,since no other seems to know free and good programs.

Today,dear posters and lurkers:Downloadhelper for Firefox.Download embeded videos of sites like Youtube.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3006

elo

03-29-2007, 02:26 AM

You can download videos from sites like Youtube with Opera as well with this Widget.

http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4398

Jericho

03-29-2007, 02:39 AM

Foxmail
Best of the free email clients

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/E-mail-Clients/Foxmail.shtml

kukm4

03-29-2007, 02:50 AM

Audacity

Free open source software for recording and editing sounds.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

elo

04-04-2007, 02:36 AM

Today dear posters and lurkers a operating tranny system. :?

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

hwbs

04-04-2007, 02:42 AM

very good site run by friend ...just dont want to put exact url to get traced back to here... blueangelsdotnet your guide to everything free that you shouldnt pay for online :lol:

otherguy

04-04-2007, 03:23 AM

Today dear posters and lurkers a operating tranny system. :?

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

Solaris is dead. Jump on the Ubuntu bandwagon already.

classydtwngrl

04-04-2007, 03:41 AM

lol Elo if i ever have a computer problem or need anything solved im commin strait to you :P well you or Fox lol

peggygee

04-04-2007, 08:21 PM

Outsourcing is a bitch!

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/magi43/dotcomkris.jpg

XPBMX

04-04-2007, 08:29 PM

cool links duetcher!! thanks!

peggygee

04-04-2007, 08:51 PM

Let's say you've 'screwed the pooch' and your computer is
'dead as disco', but if you could get in you might be able to fix it.

For Windows:

Here are a few;

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

What is BartPE and PE Builder?

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled
Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original
Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable
for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a
graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem
support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files
to a network share, virus scan and so on.

This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!

Vista environments:
http://www.windowspe.com/

http://www.apcstart.com/3894/windows_pe_2_0_a_tiny_version_of_windows_for_syste m_maintenance

http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm

There's another one that has a number of system utiliities built in that
I use, but I am not seeing the link. I will post it when I find it.

For Linux:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

What is KNOPPIX®?
KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a
representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware
detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and
USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a
productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system,
or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product
demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-
the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable
software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).

kusumrani

04-05-2007, 10:17 AM

peggygee BartPE is just a plugin for Bacula (from my understanding), which itself is an open source tool for backing up data. Pretty good really.

My addon to this train of thought is FireGPG
http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/index.php?page=install&lang=en

Its really cool cos it allows you to sign messages (hence non-repudiation) and is really secure. The code is GPL so it can been seen and modified (blah blah). It works brilliantly with Gmail and webmail. I haven't tested it work on yahoo though. The installation is terribly simple and doesn't hog too much memory either. Really cool

Another cool (and quite essential) tool to use Task bar shuffle. http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshufflev10.htm

Now this is has been soo useful I cannot even begin to think what I'd do without it. Its nifty, not processor intensive and ever so useful in managing all those processes on the task bar.

muhmuh

04-06-2007, 03:37 AM

really good tool that just ruined my day:
http://www.memtest86.com/

and a really nice iso with memtest and a whole bunch of other useful stuff
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

kukm4

05-17-2007, 04:47 AM

A Note
A Post-It like program for PC.
When you minize the "post-it" they rest off to right side
of your screen. Also has a feature to add an Alarm to a
Note to insure you wont forget a note/msg.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=85069

Fox

05-17-2007, 06:01 AM

Wow, how did I completely miss this thread? Good stuff.

Colorado Bulldog

05-17-2007, 06:55 AM

The Gimp - a free graphics app similar to Photoshop. Originally written for Linux, there is a port for winblows...

http://gimp.org/

Colorado Bulldog

05-17-2007, 07:01 AM

Here is a free version of Avid called Avid Free DV. For those not familiar with Avid, it is used for video editting. It is a free version but if you want REALLY want to do video editing, i would suggest one of the Sony Vegas versions.

But anyway, this one is free
http://www.avid.com/products/tryout.html.

Colorado Bulldog

05-17-2007, 07:04 AM

Blender is a free 3D graphics environment. It is a bit quirky but they don't expect you to pay $1000-$8000 US for a 3d app.

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

elo

05-17-2007, 03:30 PM

Audiograbber:Convert music to MP3 with the best MP3 encoder LAME,formCD,platter or audiocassette.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html

elo

06-10-2007, 02:34 AM

SUPER 2007.Converts and shrinks video files in almost every container or codec.
Of course free.

http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html gowth the curser on freeware.

OlenkaDC

06-10-2007, 09:47 AM

For Windows:

The PC Decrapifier
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

Tired of the crappy Notepad? ... try Notepad++, on install you can specify IE to load pages source in notepad++:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

For Linux:
If you like doing development in Linux you'll love this editor:
Scribes: http://scribes.sourceforge.net/
now I edit pretty much everything using it: Java, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, RHTML, HTML, CSS, JS... etc etc ... I love it! :wink:

Automatix:
http://www.getautomatix.com/

MPlayer:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

taniatv

06-10-2007, 11:29 AM

A free WYSIWYG web editor, ideal for beginners:

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

Jennifer

06-10-2007, 12:34 PM

EAC (Exact AUdio Copy)

www.exactaudiocopy.de (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de)

Excellent audio grabber, can use external encoders such as LAME.

Jennifer http://www.smiliemania.de/smilie132/00000413.gif

XXX

Willie Escalade

06-11-2007, 08:33 AM

Lots of good shit in this thread!

Some I use already (CrapCleaner, IrfanView, Firefox)...; I'll have to try out some of the others!

Rogers

06-11-2007, 10:42 AM

OpenOffice.org 2 - Product Description
Compatible with other major office suites, OpenOffice.org is free to download, use, and distribute. Download it now, and get:

Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book.
Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics.
Impress – the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations.
Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.
Base – lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within OpenOffice.org
Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.
http://www.openoffice.org/index.html

It also allows you to save the files you create in different formats such as .doc, .xl, etc..

kukm4

08-16-2007, 01:37 AM

Foxit Reader

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Alternative to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) reader.

manbearpig

08-16-2007, 02:31 AM

http://www.gentoo.org/ For linux geeks =D
http://www.freecol.org/ Fun game
http://www.pidgin.im/ IM client
http://www.inkscape.org/ For you artists out there

youcancallmeclaire

08-16-2007, 03:02 AM

Audacity

Free open source software for recording and editing sounds.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I used to use this on Mac. It works quite well for a free program.

Here's some other Mac stuff I really like.

iStat Pro: an awesome system resource monitor for dashboard.
http://www.islayer.com/index.php?op=item&id=7

Shell Watcher: mini terminal widget for geeky people. YAY.
http://www.liepins.org/en/dashboard/shell-watcher/

MenuShade: make your menu invisible so your screen isn't plagued with super-bright gui-ness.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products

Mplayer osx: because sometimes quicktime is gay and rejects certain types of encoded video. Best Mac video player imo.
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

SNES9X: awesome Super Nintendo emulator. Piracy is bad lol.
http://www.snes9x.com/

and bittorrent. :) I'm sure you can find that one.

mofungo

08-16-2007, 03:48 AM

Thanks Claire. That MenuShade app is pretty neat.

youcancallmeclaire

08-16-2007, 03:54 AM

Thanks Claire. That MenuShade app is pretty neat.

zomg. another mac user??

What machine do you have?

manbearpig

08-16-2007, 04:01 AM

Piracy IS bad...but everyone loves GBA =D http://vba.ngemu.com/

mofungo

08-16-2007, 04:38 AM

Thanks Claire. That MenuShade app is pretty neat.

zomg. another mac user??

What machine do you have?

- Intel core duo MacBook
- 1.2GB RAM
- 2GHz processor
- 110GB hard drive w/
- 35GB OS X partition (with parallels running XP)
- 50GB Mac OS data partition
- 25GB XP partition (accessed via BootCamp)

XP installations run MacDrive so they can see the data partition as they should (coz windoze needs all the help it can get). I only run XP because sometimes I need to use software/hardware that's only engineered for windoze. My other laptop (an old Dell Latitude) runs Ubuntu very nicely indeed, although I *may* consider changing over to the Mac OS for Intel PCs when it supports older hardware.

The MacBook is also connected to a 26" Samsung LCD HDTV/monitor dual screen setup.

So then, what r u using?

youcancallmeclaire

08-16-2007, 04:53 AM

So then, what r u using?

The last Powermac G4 ever built, the first one incapable of booting into OS9.

Dual 1.42ghz G4 processors
2GB ram
120GB HDD with 6.5GB remaining >_< need a sata card and some 500gb drives.
128mb GeForce 4600Ti (thinking about replacing this soon)

and a 22" flat-panel CRT that weighs 11,000lbs.

I also occasionally use a 25mhz powerbook 520 for chatting on aim. :)
I have about a dozen macs in my house. Most of them are vintage.
Also 3 or 4 PCs. One with Ubuntu.

I wish I could afford a new Mac Pro.

mofungo

08-16-2007, 05:11 AM

Dual 1.42ghz G4 processors. 2GB ram. 120GB HDD ... need a sata card and some 500gb drives. 128mb GeForce 4600Ti (thinking about replacing this soon) and a 22" flat-panel CRT that weighs 11,000lbs.

Sounds pretty sweet (except for the CRT).

I have about a dozen macs in my house. Most of them are vintage. Also 3 or 4 PCs. One with Ubuntu.

I think I love you... ;-) Ubuntu is a great OS; and ubuntu (in the African sense) is a very loving and harmonious way to live.

Before I bought the MacBook I had an 8600; I used it for internet radio :-)

I wish I could afford a new Mac Pro.

If I had a TS girlfriend, I would buy her the latest Macintosh and show her how to use it (if she needed assistance)... aren't I romantic ;-)

youcancallmeclaire

08-16-2007, 05:42 AM

I have about a dozen macs in my house. Most of them are vintage. Also 3 or 4 PCs. One with Ubuntu.

I think I love you... ;-) Ubuntu is a great OS; and ubuntu (in the African sense) is a very loving and harmonious way to live.

Before I bought the MacBook I had an 8600; I used it for internet radio :-)

Haha.. You were still using an 8600? Was that your main computer?

Before the G4 I used a Dell XPS 450. That's the one that now has Ubuntu. I swapped the 450mhz p3 for a 1.3ghz celeron recently. :)

I paid $4500 for my first Mac on a whim, and I had never even used one before. I'm glad I took the risk. ^_^

If I had a TS girlfriend, I would buy her the latest Macintosh and show her how to use it (if she needed assistance)... aren't I romantic ;-)

I'd let you talk geeky to me... Imagine it, a freezing winter night and a cabin in the woods, warming our hands over a crackling processor, relaxing under the glow of cold cathode tubes.

:)

hehe

manbearpig

08-16-2007, 05:47 AM

I'd let you talk geeky to me... Imagine it, a freezing winter night and a cabin in the woods, warming our hands over a crackling processor, relaxing under the glow of cold cathode tubes.

:)

hehe

Thats quite possibly the hottest thing ever lol

mofungo

08-16-2007, 06:03 AM

Haha.. You were still using an 8600? Was that your main computer?

Nup!. I had a G4 at work and a Linux network @ home with the 8600 connected.

Before the G4 I used a Dell XPS 450. That's the one that now has Ubuntu. I swapped the 450mhz p3 for a 1.3ghz celeron recently. :)

I bet it runs without any trouble.

I paid $4500 for my first Mac on a whim, and I had never even used one before. I'm glad I took the risk. ^_^[quote]

I paid the same for my first windoze PC and I have regretted it ever since.

[quote="youcancallmeclaire"]I'd let you talk geeky to me... Imagine it, a freezing winter night and a cabin in the woods, warming our hands over a crackling processor, relaxing under the glow of cold cathode tubes. :)

Boing!! I think my hard drive is developing 'bad' sectors...

kukm4

08-16-2007, 06:06 AM

Can we move this to another thread so we get too off topic on this one. Thanks

mofungo

08-16-2007, 06:12 AM

Can we move this to another thread so we get too off topic on this one. Thanks

Sorry kukm4 :oops:

I thought my input *may* be a little too much for some, but obviously didn't put enough thought into it.

youcancallmeclaire

08-16-2007, 06:19 AM

Can we move this to another thread so we get too off topic on this one. Thanks

I guess. :(

Here is another Mac program I really like.

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx

It makes all sorts of things transparent.

http://www.hungangels.com/board/files/windowshadeitunes_copy_902.jpg

Nifty, huh?

Frostbite

08-16-2007, 09:55 PM

Interesting, thanks.

werwt22

08-16-2007, 10:26 PM

Nice thread. theres some good shit on here

mofungo

08-24-2007, 11:27 PM

...more for the Mac people (Hi Claire) ;-)

There's a show called "Mac Geek Gab" where two guys talk all things mac. Podcasts are available at http://www.macobserver.com/podcast/

Their website also contains links to all software/resources mentioned within the podcasts.

mistab

08-24-2007, 11:42 PM

kinda neat OS www.linuxmint.com (ubuntu based)

elo

10-12-2007, 03:30 AM

Google Pack.Including Star Office 8

http://pack.google.com/intl/de/pack_installer.html?hl=de&gl=de

voy4her

10-12-2007, 05:13 AM

For all your DVD ripping/burning/backup needs

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX-Related/RipIt4Me.shtml

http://www.imgburn.com/

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

For those of you unfamiliar witht he process Ripit4me will walk you thru the use of Dvd Decrypter and DVD Shrink. Occasionally you might need to use IMGBURN instead of DVD Decrypter as they dont update the decrypter anymore.

Alternately DVD FAB offers a free trial which will do it all in one for you. It only lasts a month. I purchased DVD FAB which is a great deal as it lasts for life, its not a yearly subscription and is updated alot. Occasionally DVDFAB doesnt like some DVDs, usually burns of original movies. Ripit4me etc will usually take care of that for me.

If youre wanting to rip HD movies, decrypter/shrink will not work, as the file will still be too large to burn to disc.

Hara_Juku Tgirl

10-12-2007, 05:18 AM

Elo do you have any type of staffing program I could use thats used in healthcare? :?

~Kisses.

HTG

xrey

10-12-2007, 07:30 AM

How can i paste a picture in this text box?

elo

10-12-2007, 01:06 PM

Elo do you have any type of staffing program I could use thats used in healthcare? :?

~Kisses.

HTGThis program might help you,HJT.

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/DRoster_Employee_Scheduling_34340_p/

elo

10-31-2007, 01:41 AM

A of course free burning suit:BwgBurn

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwgburn/

Hara_Juku Tgirl

10-31-2007, 02:13 AM

elo

10-31-2007, 11:10 PM

File Recovery from the programers of CCleaner

Recuva

http://www.recuva.com/

elo

11-02-2007, 01:19 AM

Defragmentation program

http://www.defraggler.com/

liisawinkler

11-02-2007, 03:51 AM

Never had troubles with IrfanView.... he´s updating it quite often, try the latest versions.

yeah i second this comment...it has never crashed on me...i use it alongside canon's xoombrowser for editing and resizing pics :D

elo

11-03-2007, 08:58 PM

Problems to read out a disc?Take Unstoppable Copier.Great software.

http://roadkil.net/unstopcp.html

ARMANIXXX

11-03-2007, 09:46 PM

Where can I get a real good, yet still free, video player..........one that will pretty much have ALL the codecs?

Night Rider

11-03-2007, 09:48 PM

have u tried divX?

elo

11-03-2007, 09:56 PM

Where can I get a real good, yet still free, video player..........one that will pretty much have ALL the codecs?This one is gonna please you for sure.Plays pretty much all video and audio files.It plays even isos and internetradio.I use it too.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

elo

11-04-2007, 03:27 PM

One more data recovery software

http://www.roadkil.net/undelete.html

elo

11-05-2007, 03:20 AM

Another media player:Winamp.Plays a lot video and audio files,but not flv or iso.Good player for internetradio.Regarding radio better than vlc.

http://www.winamp.com/

ARMANIXXX

11-05-2007, 05:40 PM

lewdguppy

11-05-2007, 06:49 PM

my short collection of good and free software includes of course:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
I'm still learning how to fiddle around with it. so i got this one as well as ol' W2K running.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ nuff said

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
aka 'no more outlook for me, no f-in' way' :lol:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
as said before, it rocks!

http://www.irfanview.com/
never crashed on me and I hate photo-software cause it's always way too complicated. this one isn't.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html
AIDA32, a nice systemtool wich saves a load of time getting that damnable driver you can't find anywhere

http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1
Emule; cause I like to collect stuff :twisted:

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Azureus; cause sometimes I like to collect stuff in large quantities :twisted: :lol:

http://www.adobe.com/
for using .pdf files etc

http://java.sun.com/
another tool wich is quite useful for getting all those websites up and running, needed to get Azureus running smoothly as well

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Spybot! amazing that it hasn't turned up in here yet....free n easy, keeps your OS clean; anti-malware tool. very simple thingamajig

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Adaware; what Spybot misses, Adaware mops up and vice versa. with these 2 tools I keep my scrapheap running :wink:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Housecall; online anti-malware scan. this is the ONE reason I still keep IE hidden on my PC. Firefox doesn't run it OK, cause Java is waging war on them or something. this is a very handy and safe way to clear out your PC once in a while and it sure beats having big ff-in anti-virus progs slowing the PC down.

I don't like crap like Norton , McAfee and the like. it's heavy, itr screws up the regisatry very very bad, it's slowing down everything......installing stuff like this is like running around with a condom on your dick ALL DAY AND NIGHT cause maybe, once in a while, you might have sex! :roll:

no anti-virus progs screwing up here, uh uh. with spybot, adaware and the occasional housecall I keep it going OK. the fact that I've hidden myself behind a big whoppin' router (Draytek Vigor) might help a wee bit too :lol:

edit:
CRY! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
despite me fixin' it in my profile this site blocks or trashes HTML??? made me have to edit this post in a big big way :cry

VGA

11-06-2007, 12:03 AM

Good freeware audio-player
http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?newlang=english

elo

01-04-2008, 03:39 AM

Do you want to merge files?Then Mergedizer is the right program for you.You can merge vob,mp3 and other files.And its fast!And very small.Great program.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Mergedizer.shtml

longhorn

01-04-2008, 05:53 AM

oldversion.com

sopcast.com

elo

05-17-2008, 10:01 PM

Packing / unpacking software

http://7-zip.org/

peggygee

05-18-2008, 12:39 AM

Packing / unpacking software

http://7-zip.org/

I've been using 7-zip for a while, I really like it.

Inventor Igor Pavlov has me salivating with his product.

Reference to Pavlov's bell ringing and his dogs....geek humor... :oops:

elo

09-26-2008, 02:17 AM

After the thread was inactive the last months,heres another delicacy.

Due to a recent test of well known german computer journal this program has the best encription function of all tested programs and its for freeof course.

http://www.truecrypt.org/

kukm4

09-26-2008, 02:29 AM

This is more for firefox users. Its a extension called
Febe.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109
"febe allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers."

peggygee

09-26-2008, 03:25 AM

Ya know you need it, you know you want it. :wink:

Pocket Putty

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/magi43/PocketPuTTY3.gif

Features:

SSH1
SSH2

Telnet

Serial
Tunneling

Private key authentication

Color terminal emulation

Future plans:
WM5 compatiblity (not yet tested) DONE.
Full Pocket PC 2000, 2002 compatibility

Smartphone compatibility

SIP awareness (soft keyboard doesn't resize the terminal window correctly at the moment)

Full VGA support

Landscape support (even on non 2003SE OS?)

Horizontal scrolling

Font sizing DONE.

Session saving DONE.
More connection options DONE.

TCP/IP Port option DONE.

Port forwarding DONE.

Private Key authentication DONE.

http://www.pocketputty.net/

elo

11-30-2008, 11:09 PM

A video capture and video processing application
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub

http://www.virtualdub.com/

elo

03-16-2009, 06:35 PM

Firefox Add-On:Save Images

Save Images saves the images from the current tab page, from the cache, to a specified location, with either the images original file name or a file name that you specify. The size, dimensions and types of images saved may be chosen, with options if the file size is unknown or if duplicate files are found. Images may be either saved from the current tab, left or right of the current tab or from all tabs. Also, all or selected links or image links in the current page can be opened in a new tab or multiple tabs. There are shortcut keys for some of the menu options.rnrnSave Images can be accessed from either the Firefox Tools menu, the context menu (right click in page) or from a button placed on a toolbar (recommended - requires placement by user). Clicking the button will save the images using the Option "Default Save Action". Click the arrow next to the button to display a menu for more options

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3404

Cartman2000

03-16-2009, 09:54 PM

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
FREE antivirus software with spyware protection: avast! Home Edition

bulldog

03-17-2009, 12:45 AM

im really surprised noone has said this program, its a anti malware program that works with your antivirus, its free, you just have to run it manually, the paid version allows you to set up scheduled runs, i had a bunch of stuff on my computer that Norton, McAfee, and 2 other antivirus programs missed, this program really helped

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol

^^ free download there, really easy to use

Coroner

03-17-2009, 04:26 AM

This is one of the best threads around here. :twisted:

elo

03-18-2009, 02:09 AM

This is one of the best threads around here. :twisted:Thanks for the appreciation.

Here´s another one

concrete5

concrete5 is a content management system, built in PHP, that makes it easy for anyone to run a website. It will save the planet.

It's super friendly. You edit as you go like Google Pages, but anyone can build out a whole site that does cool stuff by just pointing and clicking. If you can write on a computer you can update your website with c5. It's intuitive: just point, click, and edit in place. By making it so easy to use, people feel comfortable experimenting with their site. That's freedom of expression and we like that a lot.

It's powerful for developers. It can be easily extended in any number of ways. It wasn't some news or blogging application we just called a CMS and released quickly. It is a toolbox we spent 5 years working on as a commercial solution to our own problems as web developers, before giving it away in 2008. You can build any type of website you want out of c5 without compromise.

It's dependable & stable. It has been around, runs on a LAMP stack and it handles sites with hundreds of thousands of visitors with no problem. Its block-permission-template structure actually works very well. It's not written in some language that doesn't scale, it's OOP, uses a database abstraction layer, all the stuff a developer would expect.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/concretecms

http://sourceforge.net/community/potm-200810/

elo

07-09-2009, 10:55 PM

Firefox 3.5 is ready for download.It´s the fastest browser on planet earth!
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Jericho

07-10-2009, 02:19 AM

Great prog if your porno flick collection's getting out of hand:

http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/

partlycloudy

07-10-2009, 04:35 AM

elo, you should list all the programs and their descriptions in the 1st post so people don't have to click through the thread to find out what's listed. then edit whenever something new gets added.

dupdetector - find and delete duplicate images.
http://www.keronsoft.com/dupdetector.html

:mrgreen:

elo

07-10-2009, 11:36 PM

SmashysmashY

07-11-2009, 12:07 AM

Most of this software isn't actually free. Technically anyone with an internet connection can steal any software they want, so in a sense it's "free".
When we talk about free software we mean free in the sense of free-speech, not in the sense of free beer. Free software is software that respects your freedom and privacy.
If you'd like to learn more about free software visit the free software foundation at:

http://www.fsf.org/

MrBig99

07-11-2009, 06:54 AM

Maximum PC Magazine had a great cover story a couple of issues ago with 33 Freeware programs. They haven't posted it online yet (they wait 2-3 months to post some stuff, but you can get FREE copies of their magazine on their website). Anyway, to fill up your USB key:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/freeware_files_five_portable_software_suites_your_ usb_key-646

and some good utilities

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/freeware_files_five_apps_diagnosing_pc_problems_34 1

elo

10-14-2009, 02:43 AM

BetterPrivacy
Extention for Firefox

Ever heard of Flash cookies or Super cookies?Thats cookies that you can´t normaly delete.Sites use them to spy you out.
Better Privacy ends the spying!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/6623

partlycloudy

11-19-2009, 11:15 PM

http://ninite.com/

brenda_h_j

11-20-2009, 12:46 AM

Never had troubles with IrfanView.... he´s updating it quite often, try the latest versions.I have the latest version 3.99.I have had version 4.23 for about three months now.

TsVanessa69

11-20-2009, 02:00 AM

I acedintally deleted the XP off mu computer, what can i do??

Silcc69

11-20-2009, 02:48 AM

I acedintally deleted the XP off mu computer, what can i do??

There are bootleg copies out there :lol:

Anybody got a good free video editing program out there?

elo

11-22-2009, 06:20 PM

I acedintally deleted the XP off mu computer, what can i do??I´m curious.How did you accidently delete XP off your computer?
When its deleted you have to install it again. :claps When you don´t have a copy of XP on CD you have to obtain one.
There are tutorials on the net how you can make a Full Windows XP CD from a recovery CD on the net.

TsVanessa69

11-22-2009, 10:00 PM

Silcc69

11-22-2009, 11:03 PM

elo

11-23-2009, 12:30 AM