Author Topic: Software Recommendations (Read 5306 times)

AIDS · « **on:** September 20, 2005, 11:57:53 PM »

This is the place to let everyone know what appz you think are good and wich ones are not.

I'll start with Ulead DVD Workshop 2 which I think is the best DVD authoring app I have ever seen.
It allows you to add almost all video formats and create menusfor your DVD's. Not just one page menues with a PLAY button either, I'm talking full pro quality multipage menues that are fully customizable with video and audio, animated buttons and evn invisable links. The software also allows you to add Subtitles and multiple audio streams (for various languages if you want) to your DVD's. Compression is built in so that you can control the output size of your disc and you can burn directly from the app. You can even include an additional folder (such as an autorun, or pics) that will be added to your disc while maintaining the compatability with most DVD players. The program also supports macrovision copy-protection but an agreement with Macrovision is neccessary for this option to be activated. All in all it is a great program that works well and I highly recommend it.

Carigamers · « **on:** September 20, 2005, 11:57:53 PM »

specialK · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2005, 12:06:38 AM »

DOS 6.0 - Best command line OS
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 - Best OS
Visual Studio 2005 - best programming language
mIRC - best IRC Client
ISOBuster - The Ultimate CD/DVD data recovery tool

AIDS · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2005, 08:51:35 AM »

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 - Best browser

Net Ants - Best Download manager

Discreet 3d studio max 7 - Best Advanced 3d design prog. (simpler than Maya but with great results & faster rendering too)

Ulead cool 3d production studio - Best simple 3d design prog. (quickly to basic effects, great for 3d animated gif's)

Adobe Audition - Is the best app for audio editing. You can add many effects to your audio files and output at studio quality. Supports mostl common formats and can even rip audio straight from DVD's.

Adobe Premiere 6 is great for video editing. Supports almos all codecs and can convert to mpeg for DVD output. Great for joiningor splitting video streams. Can add overlay video by dropping out a specified colour (green screening). Also allows multiple video and audio streams to be overlapped and mixed.

Dragon Naturally Speaking - Best program for text to speach and voice recognition. You can control ALL your PC's functions via voice. Dictation is high accuracy with little voice training. You can even control your mouse by voice. Works with all appz, including media player and power DVD. Can shut down or restart your computer by voice. Reads all text in a customisable voice. You can have it read PDF books to you while you just sit back and relax. Turn any text into audio books. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!

Steganos Internet Anonym - Best anonymous surfing tool. It manages cookies and your I.P. Address. You can automatically change your I.P. from every few minutes to every 2 seconds. It route you through numerous proxy servers. Shows wich country your fake I.P. is broadcasting from on a map. Recommended for those who would like to retain some sort of privacy while surfing online.

W1nTry · « **Reply #3 on:** September 21, 2005, 08:55:13 AM »

Hmm I can see Special K is a windows man... however my roots are different and I will put meh 2c
Free BSD best command line OS (if yuh only using console that is)
Mac OSX best OS and best interface (trust me Multitasking on this makes ppl wonder what ppl on windows doing, besides wasting time, its so damn cool and fast)
NOTE: Visual Studio is NOT a programming language, there are languages within the suite, like C, C++, pearl, etc.
I would have to say I am partial to PHP.
Apache, best free webserver (the world seems to think so too)
Nero, best mass commercially available burning software

I'll add as ppl add and I rem other things.

TinyGrasshopper · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2005, 10:32:39 AM »

Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org). Best Free Linux Distro. Running it on the laptop now. works like a charm. (http://tinygrasshopper.blogspot.com/2005/09/ive-broken-win32-shackles.html)

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2005, 10:32:39 AM »

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:33:05 PM »

Here is my list. All are free unless otherwise specified with the $ sign.

Winrar: Best compression tool ($)

QuickPar: Best Parity tool

IrfanView: Best Image viewer

Picasa2: Best Media organiser (Made by Google):

Trillian 3.1 : Best Multiple IM client (Does yahoo, msn messenger, irc, icq, aol, etc..)

Klite Mega Codec Pack: Best collection of audio and video codecs.

SharpReader: Best RSS News feed reader application.

Windows XP: Best gaming OS. ($)

Editpad Lite: Best Notepad replacement (comes with tabs, ala Firefox)

Daemon Tools: Best virtual drive application.

Winamp: Best audio player.

Nero: Best burning software ($)

NewsLeecher: Best binary decoder. ($)

Treesize: Best hard drive file storage tool

Filezilla: Best FTP client

Some "also ran" apps on my machine but I can't say that they are the BEST:

Azureus: Torrent client
Cowon Jet Audio: Feature rich media player
AVG: Antivirus
Microsoft Antispyware: Anti spyware tool
Fair Use: DVD to AVI/DIVX/XVID application
Wackget: Minimalist download manager. (180k)
Dr.Divx: Live Video to AVI/DIVX/XVID application ($)

AIDS · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:47:42 PM »

I also use AVG and as far as the price goes FREE isn't a bad thing at all but I have just started to use Kaspersky and I must say so far I am impressed. It even has a built in firewall that gives me the ip of people who try to hack my machine. When I have given it a full review and tested it for a while I will give my recommendations but so far it looks to be better than AVG.

UberMod · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:52:31 PM »

AIDS, Just modified your profile to include your sig automatically when you post.

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:54:40 PM »

Kaspersky soundin serious.

Will give dat a shot.

W1nTry · « **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2005, 02:35:31 PM »

We have a new mod... ubermod... umm who's this??? no intro?

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #10 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:05:53 PM »

newly appointed mod of law and order iwmc. bane to would-be troublemakers.

AIDS · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:48:05 PM »

Not that I wasn't curious too but I think we getting a little off topic discussing the new MOD so could we please stick to the Software Recommendations.

Thanks.

AIDS · « **Reply #12 on:** September 25, 2005, 01:43:03 AM »

Softmac 8 / Gemulator 8 - best OS 8 emulator.

Allows you to actually install the full OS from the original disc on your PC with almost full functionality.

I even downloaded games and other apps with it and they all worked fine except for the ones that required a PowerPC processor.

With Pear PC this hardly seems necessary anymore but for people with older machines who would like to experience Mac software you can't go wrong.

AIDS · « **Reply #13 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:51:49 AM »

I'm sure there is still a lot of good software out there that we haven't heard about yet so please keep your recommendations coming in.

For people who make there own software compilations or who just want to auto launch their CD's in style I would like to recommend CDMenuPro Editor.

It offers many advanced autolaunch features, including but not limited to;

Startup splash screens
Startup Video (with built in avi player)
Background Audio (with volume controls)
Button designer for customised buttons
Can launch any file in it's registered program (e.g. *.xls, *.htm, *.doc etc.)
Supports mutiple paged menues
rounds off corners (it is possible to make circular or oval menus this way)
Custom Icons in title bar
Desktop covering in customizable colours
and much much more.

Highly recommended for the freeware and open source collector.
Great for making archival DVD's of school or office projects.

richjob · « **Reply #14 on:** September 28, 2005, 08:20:11 PM »

K3B. KDE Cd burning software.

Mepis. Best free KDE based Linux (1 CD)
Xandros. Best pay Linux distro.

OpenOffice.org v2. A serious piece of software.

AIDS · « **Reply #15 on:** September 30, 2005, 08:38:10 AM »

What is the best/smallest live CD distro?

I've heard good things about knoppix STD but I haven't used it. Any recommendations?

richjob · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2005, 10:55:48 PM »

Depends on what you want to use it for.

STD is good for forensics.

SimplyMepis is pretty decent for an installable desktop as is PCLinuxOS.

Knoppix is decent all-round.

AIDS · « **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2005, 11:52:19 PM »

I want to use it for managing NTFS partitions.

e.g. say I can't get Windoze to boot but I need files from the drive. I want to load a live CD distro and get access to my files. Or if I for some reason forget the admin password to my Win XP machine I can recover it (or remove it) so that I can log in again.

also if there are any that come with W.I.N.E. or some such similar app that can allow me to run my windows progs.

specialK · « **Reply #18 on:** October 04, 2005, 01:39:39 AM »

BitLord - by far the best torrent downloader!!!
ReGet - best download manager (can you say "eat all bandwidth possible"?)
Video LAN VLC Player - Media player
MAME32 - Arcade Emulator
ZSNES - Super Nintendo Emulator
NEORageX - NeoGeo emulator
There is no Pearl, C or C++ in Visual Studio 2005. btw, I meant VB .NET for Studio 2005

AIDS · « **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2005, 09:07:32 AM »

I listed most of the emulators in another thread a while ago.

Quote from: AIDS on September 25, 2005, 01:17:41 AM

Carigamers · « **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2005, 09:07:32 AM »

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