Useful Free Programs

[BigBear]

I am always glad when I find a useful free program such as Mozilla Firefox.

Please post all useful programs you may happen to come across. These programs can be useful for any task such as editing pictures or games etc.

Useful Free Programs I have found :

CCleaner
A Cookie/Temp cleaner and basics registry fixer (www.ccleaner.com)

Firefox
A browser with custom skins and add-ons (www.mozilla.com/firefox)

Foxit Reader
A small, quick loader PDF reader (www.foxitsoftware.com)

Frets on Fire
A guitar hero based game uses keyboard or guitar hero or rock band guitar and custom songs with note editor (fretsonfire.sourceforge.net)

itunes
A music player with a store and many features (www.apple.com/itunes/download)

Open Office
A complete Suite includes Word Processing, Database, Calc, Impress, Math, Draw (download.openoffice.org)

Stepmania
A DDR based game can be used with custom songs with step editor or user downloaded songs and computer dance pad. (www.stepmania.com/ )

Moffsoft Calculator
A calculator (www.moffsoft.com/downloads.htm)

[michaelp]

Tune XP 1.5
http://www.download.com/TuneXP/3000-2086_4-10290929.html

Tweak XP utility:
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakutility/

These are the only ones I can think of. And CCleaner, which is already posted.

http://forums.qj.net/f-everything-windows-15/t-free-software-list-41908.html

[Mackie]

Fling FTP: Constantly uploads any changes to your Hard disk to a web server, the best auto backup ever!

Paint.NET: Awseome image editor, for Windows. It does a few neat things The Gimp doesn't.

The Gimp: Another awesome free image editor, works with most Photoshop plug-ins. It also picks up the slack where Paint.Net fails.

Blender: Awesome free 3D editor.

Thunderbird: Best Email client ever!

[PaulButler]

Linux

[Mackie]

PaulButler @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:45 pm wrote:

Linux

Touche

[Tony]

All of the software you might want (functionality wise) is available for free and open source.

[Bobrobyn]

Tony @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:01 pm wrote:

All of the software you might want (functionality wise) is available for free and open source.

Agreed. All the software I use on a daily basis is free and/or open source.

[Euphoracle]

However, all of the software you are forced to use by various institutions are not!

[Tony]

Euphoracle @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:58 pm wrote:

various institutions

Your high school?

[Bobrobyn]

Euphoracle @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:58 pm wrote:

However, all of the software you are forced to use by various institutions are not!

My university's compsci program has some flavour of linux in all it's labs. So, no, not really. One thing that disappointed me, though, was our resume's for our co-op program are required to be in .doc format (they're submitted online).

[PaulButler]

Bobrobyn @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:32 pm wrote:

Euphoracle @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:58 pm wrote:

However, all of the software you are forced to use by various institutions are not!

My university's compsci program has some flavour of linux in all it's labs. So, no, not really. One thing that disappointed me, though, was our resume's for our co-op program are required to be in .doc format (they're submitted online).

Yeah, universities tend to be more friendly toward OSS than other institutions. Unfortunately software that comes with text books is usually Win/Mac only, but that hasn't been a problem for me so far.

Fortunately OpenOffice supports .doc format. I've used it for a few times when I was forced into using the .doc format, and it turned out ok.

[ericfourfour]

I'm just going to go down my start menu:

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
Notepad2
Notepad++
SciTE
uTorrent
Daemon Tools
ePSXe
PCSX2
Project64
Mozilla Thunderbird
7-Zip
FileZilla
The GIMP
Pidgin
Audacity
VirtualDub
Foobar2000
MediaPlayer Classic
Media Portal
Songbird
VLC media player
Ruby
Privoxy and Tor
innotek VirtualBox
Mozilla Firefox
Opera

I probably missed a few. Not all are open source. Some are just free as in free beer.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Most distros of Linux.

[BigBear]

AVG Anti Spyware
Best Free Adware/Spyware/Scumware Remover http://www.ewido.net/en/

ClipX
A small Clipboard manager http://bluemars.org/clipx/

Sandboxie
A Browser Protection program to ensure the safety of your files http://www.sandboxie.com

Sunbelt-Kerio Personal Firewall
A great Firewall http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

Keep the Programs coming. By the way the beloved CCleaner stands for Crap Cleaner!

[Nick]

BigBear @ Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:22 pm wrote:

Diablo II

Onlyer Pack
This is a collection of files containing a No CD Loader, Diablo II CD key Changer, and a program to display your current CD KEY without re installation. [LINK REMOVED]

Quote:

Trojan
Confirmed. Contains a virus - Trojan backdoor.

errr....