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(free) Essential sortware for the PC user

-oRnein9- · 2004-09-02 08:30:31

Right ladies and gents I'm looking to get a list of the free software all you's boarders use for the essential tasks that you's need to perform on your PC's. Anything for cd/dvd burning software, audio , video, web browsers, gaming software, hardware monitors, cleaning ware, office tools, generally the first things that…

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#32 16-09-2004 2:32pm

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Khannie wrote:

Post 2:
Phew! Glad that's over.

Khannie.

Can you now sort them alphabetically?

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#33 16-09-2004 2:46pm

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Macros42 wrote:

Can you now sort them alphabetically?

Yours for a mere two bazillion euro

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#34 16-09-2004 2:49pm

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Good work Khannie.

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#35 16-09-2004 3:05pm

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Brilliant idea for a thread. I just got my new computer last week and there's loads of stuff that I want for it. Cheers lads

Eljono

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#36 16-09-2004 3:25pm

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Good work Khannie but your works not done yet

That Mame32 link is old (I dont know why they left that site up)

Here's the one with the newer versions on it,
Mame32

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#37 16-09-2004 3:34pm

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Good work fella!

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#38 16-09-2004 4:44pm

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Great thread - question: Is there a personal edition of O&O or am I missing it?

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#39 16-09-2004 5:30pm

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A couple more :

Skype - VOIP application
nmap - Network security tool

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#40 16-09-2004 7:51pm

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bus77 wrote:

That Mame32 link is old (I dont know why they left that site up)

Nice catch

All: I'm updating with all the requests, I just wont reply to them individually. Will prolly only do updates once a day now 'til it's stickified in its own thread (then I'll leave it to the mods).

Here's a link to the full list.

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#41 16-09-2004 8:13pm

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The OpenCD project might be of interest to anybody reading this thread.

Quote:

"TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience."

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#42 17-09-2004 8:39am

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Looks like good stuff allright. Gonna grab me a copy. A lot of the stuff mentioned here is on it.

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#43 17-09-2004 8:56am

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ShiverinEskimo wrote:

AnyDVD helps if you watch movies via your pc.

free?

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#44 29-09-2004 10:12pm

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Why hasn't this thread been stickied? This is the third or fourth time in as many weeks I've had to go hunting the damn thing down. It's quite handy. Although maybe it's partly the cause of the 4 rebuilds I've had to do lately! Hmm... anyway, can we sticky this?

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#45 29-09-2004 10:21pm

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Here's a good 'un http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html Audiograbber MP3' creator to turn your music on CD to MP3's

Just follow instructions to download and setup encoders into the program. Lame encoder I find is the best.

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#46 30-09-2004 9:59am

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Great List!!! well done

"Sam Spade" nice little prog i've used in the past, bit old now.

it's a network query tool and it's free has online tools as well.

http://www.samspade.org/

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#47 30-09-2004 10:09am

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http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/

"TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience."

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#48 30-09-2004 12:15pm

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Top Thread

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#49 20-10-2004 12:12pm

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GreyAlien wrote:

I'd have to say virtualdubmod is better then virtualdub
link: http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

I'm just looking for some video software -- what's better about virtualdubmod?
Thanks

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#50 20-10-2004 2:06pm

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Couple of handy programs, i thin full versions cost money but shareware is available.
Diskkeeper
(excellent defragging utitlity, defrags in half the time ms defrag does, and also lets you defrag your swap file which ms defrag WONT do)

Hmm..i was gonna mention partition magic as its incredibly handy but theres no trial version :rolleyes:

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#51 20-10-2004 2:55pm

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frost wrote:

I'm just looking for some video software -- what's better about virtualdubmod?
Thanks

You can edit MPEGs with it IIRC. It's not a replacement for VirtualDub as some of the features are missing, more of a complement.

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#52 20-10-2004 4:22pm

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free stuff i have would be;

soulseek - filesharing
opera internet browser
quintessential - media player
spybot - anti spyware
zone alarm -antivirus+firewall
icq - instant messenger
audicity - music editing/recording
acoustic labs mixer - basic demo for guitar recording
stomper hyperion - for making beats
guitar scales method - guitar theory
ulead photoimpact xl trial demo - photo manipulation
switch off - timer for programs and shut down
winpatrol - program security and info
acdsee - image viewer
winzip
fractal forge - for making fractal art

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#53 20-10-2004 4:40pm

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What no iTunes??

The user interface on iTunes rocks, even if you don't use it to buy music.

Plaxo (www.Plaxo.com) is also a great program for keeping your Outlook (and Outlook express) address book up to date.

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#54 20-10-2004 5:10pm

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bus77 wrote:

Sygate Personal Firewall
Foxmail (Most popular mail client in...........CHINA!)
Mame32 (Runs thousands of old arcade games)
Deamon Tools
Damn Nfo Viewer (No more dragging .nfo files to notepad )
Treesize (Dead handy for working out whats taking up space on your system)
Smartclock

After installing daemon tools my PC BSOD'd every day, until I uninstalled dt.
I was using it to mount iso images as virtual drives

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#55 20-10-2004 5:10pm

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Great thread,loads of usefull links here!

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#56 22-01-2005 4:32pm

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Some great stuff here.
Anyone mention Audacity (Audio Editor)

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#57 22-01-2005 5:52pm

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Microsoft anti spyware Beta 1

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#58 22-01-2005 7:32pm

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Mad, haven't seen this thread in a while and just when I need it, it's on the front page. I'll reiterate a request for a sticky of the two largest posts (around page 2 methinks) please. We can then make them uneditable so that the thread doesn't go to crap like the "read this before asking" one.

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#59 22-01-2005 7:45pm

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So whats the best (freeware) programme to use to convert video files (mpg avi, the more the better) to DVD? I had a programme that did it quite well but you could only put either PAL or NTSC files on a DVD, you couldn't put the 2 on the same one unfortunately.

If there is a programme that does this and can also edit videos that would be great.

thanks

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#60 22-01-2005 10:05pm

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here`s one i use on a regular basis. http://www.codeode.com/privacymantra/index.html

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#61 23-01-2005 12:50am

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Ultramon - UltraMon gives extra features for running more then one monitor that windows doesn't give like extra taskbars and buttons etc.

If any of you are running more then one monitor I'd highly advise getting this program. And if you are running one monitor and use your computer a lot I'd advise you to upgrade to dual monitors.

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