Useful Computer Programs

mcmoustache · 23-11-2011 07:11PM

The program that most impressed me for windows (not needed for Linux) is a search program called Agent Ransack.

You tell it which directory you want to search, select some of the name of the file or some text within the file and it recursively searches the directory for you. Amazing! I really don't get how WinXP search wasn't able to do that. Sure, indexing files is handy and all but when I do a search, I want the file-system checked. I don't want a list being checked which may not have been updated.

Avast anti-virus is great too and I hear that avg it good as well. These are free and no one should be paying for McAfee or Norton (grr.. norton.. worst piece of malware ever) for their home desktop use. Windows security essentials is impressive too.

Steam client is another. It's a games distribution network which lets you download games and play online. I've got games like bioshock for 4.99 in the sales there. Some games are expensive but there is always something on sale so it pays to check the client daily.

Project64 is another one for the gamers. It lets you play all the old N64 games. There were some amazing games made for that console.

Besides that, adblock plus and flashblock are about the only other "programs" on my WinXP desktop that I would use daily. They make browsing so much more pleasant.

To be honest, I only use WinXP for games and everything else I do is done on Ubuntu or Mint and I would suggest that everyone give those a try sometime. If I could play my games through it, I wouldn't bother with windows. So many things are just much easier such as finding software. It's fun to customise the appearance too.

CaSCaDe711 · 23-11-2011 07:46PM

foobar2000

Glary Utilities

Directory Lister

TrueCrypt

Recuva, CCleaner, Defraggler

TreeSize Free

SyncBack

K-Lite Codec Pack and Media Player Classic

spokes · 23-11-2011 07:59PM

we7 is great for music lovers

yoyo · 23-11-2011 08:01PM

Digsby - Chat-MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, Google etc.
FileZilla - FTP Application
CDBurnerXP - Decent free CD burner, much better than bloated Nero, Roxio etc.
ImgBurn - Again burns CD images and can make CDs also
Notepad++ - Decent text editor
The Gimp and Paint.NET - PDN is more like a much improved Ms Paint, the Gimp open source photoshop solution
LibreOffice - Open source office suite
Greenshot - Very handy screenshot program
7Zip - Decent compression program[/url]

Some ones I'd suggest, sorry if I've repeated some already mentioned!

Nick

Chuck Stone · 23-11-2011 08:03PM

Don't forget 'the Internet'. There's loads of stuff on that.

Na, seriously, I try to keep my netbook as free from shite as possible (not scat porn you horrible people

).

El Weirdo · 23-11-2011 08:06PM

spokes wrote: »

we7 is great for music lovers

Is that not just a website?

The_Thing · 23-11-2011 08:24PM

UltraSearch

Morlar · 23-11-2011 08:38PM

Grepwin.

Capt'n Midnight · 23-11-2011 08:40PM

You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway? Such as when changing directory, or opening a file.

I have invented Suicide Linux. Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into "rm -rf /" and wipes your hard drive.

It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.

There is another app that changes random bytes in memory until your machine crashes.

um maybe not so useful...

imitation · 23-11-2011 08:54PM

Space monger, its the best way clean junk files off your computer, it gives you a diagram that shows you instantly what big files / folders are eating your space.

http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

The free version is buried under Free software and is at the bottom, does the trick every time though.

dvpower · 23-11-2011 09:44PM

SlickRun: Very handy app launcher.

Tazio · 23-11-2011 11:29PM

Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »

0 PRINT CHR$(147)
1 FOR I=0 TO 1023
2 POKE 1024+I, 3
3 NEXT I
4 PRINT CHR$(147)
5 END

C=64??

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

READY.
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HLecter · 24-11-2011 12:19AM

Freecorder

http://www.applian.com/freecorder4/

It basically copies what you're playing on your screen - up to a limit of the disk space you allow. Takes a little getting used to.

So if you're playing a youtube video, (or filth for that matter), you can save it.
It can save videos as mp3 files also, although i prefer to use flvto.com for that.

Jesus Wept · 24-11-2011 12:29AM

Not sure I like this flux thing, it's weird. It also makes the mouse cursor stand out like crazy, like when you look at clothes under a neon light.

SteelyDanJalapeno · 24-11-2011 12:30AM

Slutdump.com is useful

Jesus Wept · 24-11-2011 12:40AM

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Slutdump.com is useful

It really isn't.

--LOS-- · 24-11-2011 12:46AM

big fan of 'dinternet' myself :cool:

Fart · 24-11-2011 01:26AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Not sure I like this flux thing, it's weird. It also makes the mouse cursor stand out like crazy, like when you look at clothes under a neon light.

... and you see cum stains? Yeah, it's like that for me too.

wonderfulname · 24-11-2011 01:28AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Not sure I like this flux thing, it's weird. It also makes the mouse cursor stand out like crazy, like when you look at clothes under a neon light.

You get used to it, and when you do it's fantastic on your eyes.

LaVail · 24-11-2011 02:00AM

Few browser extensions... (chrome)

Most are well known but maybe all of you didn't come across them yet.

WOT Handy extension to see a sites reputation

Last Pass Password and form filler manager

Ad Block Handy for skipping youtube ads etc

Hal Emmerich · 26-11-2011 10:52PM

Lots of freebies

Stiffler2 · 29-11-2011 01:26PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Computer program?

I thought we just called them apps now.

I thought only retarded Apple Fans called programs "apps"

I put a strike through simply because I didn't need to add that to the sentance.
If you like Apple then you are already this.

AnonoBoy · 29-11-2011 01:37PM

Stiffler2 wrote: »

I put a strike through simply because I didn't need to add that to the sentance.

Does your keyboard not have a backspace or delete key?

parrai · 29-11-2011 01:59PM

This is deadly and free

http://download.cnet.com/3001-18502_4-10212112.html?spi=24e9659ecd63fcab77354ff0a264d17b

Edit: It's a dj console with all the effects and mixer, uses your existing music library... You can basically mix your own tunes and record the mix on MP3...

skinny90 · 29-11-2011 02:04PM

norton 360!a brilliant programme that slows down ur machine..all for a whopping €89.99 a year :O

danniemcq · 29-11-2011 03:09PM

skinny90 wrote: »

norton 360!a brilliant programme that slows down ur machine..all for a whopping €89.99 a year :O

Norton, The antivirus for those who know nothing about computers

mediamonkey is a great program for organizing your music collection. Tons of features but still really easy to use if you just want to play music!

Filebot - This is the greatest program on my computer at the minute. If like me there is lots of tv shows on your harddrive all named something stupid like Arresed Drvelopment- s01e01 or if they all have slightly different filenames so you can't look at them in order you can drag and drop the folder into filebot match the name of the show against IMDB, TVDB and others. It will then give the episode the proper name and do all the episodes the same.

I had 100+ tv shows that i wanted to rename. an evening with this and sorted!

only downside user interface is slightly annoying and you can't edit the resulting name if its not a match but move the file up and down till it matches the output...

wow that soulds really awkward but its not!

farna_boy · 29-11-2011 03:10PM

KMPlayer is the best media player I have found. Between intuitive controls i.e. play/pause = space, volume up/down = up/down cursors, it also lets you add subtitles if something you downloaded doesn't have them and you can re-sync audios, etc. There is a load of other stuff that it can do as well.Overall very very useful.

Can be found here.

cocoshovel · 11-12-2011 12:23AM

Stellarium is an interesting program that maps the sky at the current time. I find it fun and educational and has taught me a good bit. When I say map the sky I mean the names of stars and formations etc.

Capt'n Midnight · 11-12-2011 01:39AM

ntbackup - but not the lame excuse that you get with windows home versions

robocopy - unlike xcopy it doesn't give up after 300K files

testdisk - recover partitions
photorec - recover files
ddrescue - recover 1's and 0's

cygwin - linux commands at dos prompt so you don't have to remember which command line options work in which version of windows and sed doesn't choke on odd characters in filenames and all the other goodies

blat - send emails from dos , handy in backup scripts

If you have vista/7 on an SSD this may help
dism /online /cleanup-win /SpSuperseded

paintdotnet

virtualbox *hugs*

ktorrent

GreenWolfe · 11-12-2011 02:24AM

danniemcq wrote: »

4cdl

don't have a link as i'm at work but it works for downloading threadsfrom 4chan, doesn't matter if its /s/, /hc/, /b/ or any of the others just copy the thread address while this program is running and it will download all images, a copy of the thread and the thumnails for browsing offline.

very handy and the cmd window it opens will keep checking for new posts and download accordingly.

Downloads where you tell it and names all the folders 1234123 or whatever the title is so its easy enough to manage and sort the folders if you want to move them by theme

Did you try Chan Thread Watch? Works with more chans!

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