Author Topic: Best of Free Software (Started August 2008) (Read 20773 times)

TriniXaeno · « **on:** August 23, 2008, 08:16:08 AM »

Simple premise:

As of 2008, what is the best free software you use on your computer?

Hit us the application name and it's purpose

I"ll start with some of my favs:

Irfan View: Image viewer, slideshow, image file renamer, batch resizer, generally all light image manipulation, free and extremely fast.

Winamp: If you don't know what winamp is, get the hell out of this forum, j/k. It's the defacto mp3 player from old. Many have attempted to steal it's spot on my rig as the default mp3 playback app and failed. (Yes, I"m looking at you windows media player 11)

RSS Owl: An opensource RSS reader. Spoon feeds me all the posts from the gatt site and other tech sites. It's proven to be a killer way to stay informed and on top of the websites that offer RSS feeds.

AVG Free 8.0: Been using AVG AntiVirus since version 7, I've found it to be a trust worthy companion and not as clunky as mcafee and norton.

Carigamers · « **on:** August 23, 2008, 08:16:08 AM »

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #1 on:** August 23, 2008, 08:23:09 AM »

WallPaper Master: IF you're tired of having the same desktop image gracing your screen for months on end, then this is for you. Put a bunch of your favourite images in a folder and let Wall Paper Master do the rest.

Google Photo ScreenSaver: This app brings your digital photos to life on your monitor. Does a much better job than the built in windows photo screensaver.

Firefox 3: Best internet browser imo.

Treesize: This app gives you a graphical break down of your hard drive, showing you the size of all your folders. Great for answering the question "20gB free on my 500gb drive, wtmc....where did all the space go???"

Redfish · « **Reply #2 on:** August 23, 2008, 09:38:10 AM »

AIMP2: I was also hooked on winamp and thought there couldn't be anything better but this Russian program made me change my mind. Winamp has since been uninstalled from my system because I have no need for it. This program makes playing your music so easy, with tabbed viewing of playlists while automatically grouping subfolders of music together. Try it and see, you just might like it.

You can get it here AIMP2

Crixx_Creww · « **Reply #3 on:** August 23, 2008, 11:25:35 AM »

for audio have this cooooooooooooooll application called windows media player
its freakin awesomezz!! try it out mengz!!.....

gay @$$ irfran view uggg atleast yu not with that jet audio garbage still.

Tree size roxx out with its c*** out fersure!! life saver

adrive.com
love eeet : online file storage, lots of space up to 2 gigs uploard @ a time.

any and everything on lifehacker yes

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #4 on:** August 23, 2008, 05:26:16 PM »

lol, Jet Audio still real bad eh.

It was the only app at the time that could handle "video slide show" of a live monitored folder. We couldn't have done the game video / trailers display at Euro+ without it.

I'm pretty sure VLC would be up to that task now but never tried it.

Now that we mention it, VLC and MPC definitely still earn spots on my PC.

That AIMP2 looks very cool fish. Gonna try that.

Damn, you're right. AIMP2 FTW yes. Retire in winamp mc. That "send to folder" option from the playlist is a nifty addition. Something I've always wished winamp would have added.

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** August 23, 2008, 05:26:16 PM »

Redfish · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2008, 09:24:30 PM »

^^See told ya

There's this video player that I use called GOM Player. Plays ALOT of video formats and even plays those video files that wmp can't play.

vivman1107 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 26, 2008, 06:56:06 PM »

KeePass - A password storage program

MagicDisc - An ISO and general disc image reader/writer

Foxit Reader - A PDF reader that is a lot easier on resources than Adobe's

7-Zip - Open source compression program

uTorrent - Very good and light torrent program

doubleTwist - A program that lets you convert purchased iTunes songs to MP3

ImgBurn - Open source burning program

Paint.net - Paint replacement with tons of features

Virtual PC 2007 - Run other OS's on your PC in a virtual machine

Nephilim · « **Reply #7 on:** August 26, 2008, 08:09:44 PM »

Quote from: vivman1107 on August 26, 2008, 06:56:06 PM

Paint.net - Paint replacement with tons of features

that right thurr is a good thing...if yuh not planning to do any serious photo editing then this thing is your friend been using it since it in 2.0 beta hasn't been replaced yet.

CDBurnerXP
http://cdburnerxp.se/

small and light burning program

PDFCreator
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

This little beauty prints anything to a PDF document.

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #8 on:** August 26, 2008, 08:32:31 PM »

PDF Creator kicks ass. Nice addition to the list.

utorrent is another definite keeper.

ImgBurn is a boss @ burning ISOs. Good call there too.

Keep it comin'

Crixx_Creww · « **Reply #9 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:31:27 AM »

http://lifehacker.com/5098944/free-software-were-most-thankful-for

lifehacker has a nice round up of best of free software
40 best.

Some familar faces and some hmm whats that *click* zomg that real bad!!

like songbird!! ive been a big windows media player fan for years
but this may be my new player and screw freakin winamp ok it sucks, get over it

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #10 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:42:15 AM »

can songbird beat AIMP?? I absolutely am in love with AIMP. Every single future feature I wanted for winamp, it has and then some. Sweet player, thanks again redfish for the find.

Nephilim · « **Reply #11 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:55:16 AM »

i 2nd winamp is Sh1t.

already knew about a lot of those.

songbird...interesting...

Crixx_Creww · « **Reply #12 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:57:54 AM »

songbird is like firefox for your music

and that should be all i have to say about that

Nephilim · « **Reply #13 on:** December 08, 2008, 11:11:26 AM »

sweet, i downing it now...btw for the media PC ppls

http://xbmc.org/

fk me. it on all platforms now.

XBMC was a boss freaking app on the classic box, hell i still use it.

Spazosaurus · « **Reply #14 on:** December 08, 2008, 03:03:23 PM »

Personally, I like the UltraVNC as it works just like radmin but its free and has even MORE features and cool features, like the ability to have it run w/o an icon in the tray etc.

Arcmanov · « **Reply #15 on:** December 08, 2008, 03:13:29 PM »

* Downloads ALLLLLL *

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #16 on:** December 08, 2008, 03:18:43 PM »

radmin is faster than ultravnc. I use ultravnc because it's free but I won't deny radmin's superiority in the speed department. rdp pwns them all but that's a whole other thread.

Synchronomyst · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2008, 07:30:33 AM »

...does songbird allow me to double click my songs in my folders to open?

Crixx_Creww · « **Reply #18 on:** December 09, 2008, 08:17:03 AM »

lol your very funny sync

mailman166 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:32:11 PM »

So far i've not seen songbird work like that... will try sync

Carigamers · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:32:11 PM »

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