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asinine
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 Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Do everything on your computer for free. |
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Just bought your computer and have no money left over heres a few programs I use some because they're better than what comes with the computer some because they dont cost as much as the computer (M$ office):
Internet
Firefox - nuf said.
Flock - basically firefox geared towards social networking.
Opera - extremely fast browser.
Thunderbird - better and more secure than outlook plus with addons can do webmail.
Pidgin - multi-protocol chat client.
Trillian - multi-protocol chat client more features than pidgin.
Multimedia
VLC Media Player - players just about everything.
Media Player Classic - plays just about anything.
Realplayer Alternative - replaces Realplayer and has a lot less bloat and no nag-ware.
Quicktime Alternative - replaces Quicktime and has less bloat.
Irfranview - image viewer.
The GIMP - photo editing, a bit complicated.
Paint.NET - photo editing more user friendly need .NET framework.
IMGBurn - for burning iso files to disk.
CDBurnerXP - good cd/dvd burning utility.
MP3Tag - very good mp3 tag editor.
Audacity - audio editor.
Exact Audio Copy - cd ripper.
Security
Antivir - anti-virus.
Avast - anti-virus.
Spybot SD - anti-spyware.
Spyware Terminator - anti-spyware with real-time shield.
PC Tool Firewall Plus - firewall very user friendly comes with Threatfire malware scanner.
Comodo Firewall Pro - firewall very good but less user friendly the the above.
RootKit Revealer - finds rootkits.
File Mangement
7zip - archiver.
Universal Extractor - can extract just about anything from anything.
System
CCleaner - cleans windows up for you.
JKDefrag - excellent defragger.
SIW - system information.
WinAudit - system information.
CPU-Z - system information.
Office
Openoffice - office suite.
StarDict - offline dictionary very useful.
Foxit PDF Reader - pdf reader thats light weight and a hell of a lot faster than adobes.
FreeMind - mind mapping program.
Bullzip - pdf writer.
PDFCreator - pdf writer.
GNUCash - personal finance sofware.
Evernote - note organiser program
ATNotes - sticky notes program.
I'll add some more tomorrow. Needless to say linux is the best way if you want to pay nothing. |
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thescruff
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In my wisdom I downloaded JKDfrag and tried it out 
Worked very well on the computer, so thought I would do the portable 
Hey its only 500gb and never been done before, but I can honestly say I've never seen anything the fragmented before, it looks like sand on the beech. 
Phase 2 has taken about 5 hours so far 
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Rog (RJ)
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: Do everything on your computer for free. |
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| asinine wrote: |
I'll add some more tomorrow. Needless to say linux is the best way if you want to pay nothing. |
Any more to add yet?
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asinine
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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OK a bit late but never mind I've been away for a while. Right heres some more but rather than writing them all out myself or copying and pasting heres a lot more. And they're updated as well.
More Free Alternatives to Commercial rip offs
If you want to run your whole life from a USB stick with all you programs documents and setting, which you can with how cheap memory is getting try Here and Here |
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Rog (RJ)
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That's excellent, thanks.
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lockie
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I would also add AVG antivirus to that list.Runs in the background without slowing things down and its free. |
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asinine
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| The only reason I didn't was the new free version and I'd assume the paid for one is resource hungry and bloated, the older versions were much better. |
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thescruff
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: |
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I will agree with that asinine.
The new versions slow the computer right down, in addition Firefox and Avg don't get on together.
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Foggy
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| thescruff wrote: |
I will agree with that asinine.
The new versions slow the computer right down, in addition Firefox and Avg don't get on together. |
its AVG thats the problem ,everybody thought it was the new version of firefox causing the problems but it seems to be AVG
something about AVG`s link scanner
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lockie
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What sort of problems are people experiencing as i've had no problems at all and i only use firefox and avg.
Im also on vista and everyone seems to hate that too |
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asinine
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I personally had a minor problem, basically what happened was I installed it and my computer couldn't do anything and half the programs wouldn't work, I uninstalled it everything was fine. Thinking it was a one off I reinstalled and same thing, so I installed antivir which is much better.
Luckily I personally use linux as my main os so I don't have to worry too much. |
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Inisfad
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:40 am Post subject: |
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www.techsupportalert.com
This link is for Gizmo Richard's best ever freeware list. Everything and anything is listed on this, as well as his (rather good) review of each item. |
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