I'm sitting here at work this morning and need to get some drawing files from a general contractor so I fire up my copy of FTP Explorer. Which, sadly, was once free and is now shareware with a $35 tag associated with it. But I did get it when it was free and that was ten year ago now and I still use the program on a regular basis. It's a thousand times better than the crappy FTP client through Internet Explorer.
Speaking of IE, I never could get Flash to work properly on it at work and about half the vendor sites I go to use Flash so I downloaded Firefox. Flash works fine on it and Firefox is now my default browser for both work and home.
So now my plans are downloaded but the image viewing/printing software we have here is one of the most God awful programs I've ever worked with. Which is why I view & print plans now in about 1/3rd of the time using the free IrfanView.
What free programs do you use that you couldn't (happily) live without? By "free", I mean legally available without cost and not "I got Photoshop for free off of Bit Torrent!". I also realize that not every program which is "free" is free for commercial use but we'll overlook that.
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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Irfanview
Filezilla
Firefox
Linux
putty
Filezilla
Firefox
Linux
putty
Do what now?
Open Office and Adobe Reader. Also all my spyware programs.
avant browser. Much faster than firefox I find. www.avantbrowser.com. For free FTP, I and most of the admins here use WinSCP. Lots of other little utilities i use as well, but those are the two that come immidiatly to mind.
i totally forgot the antispyware "Kill everything" cocktail
Javacool spywareblaster for blocking known bad sites
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spybot search and destroy - more immunization, cleans most infections easily
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Startuplist and hijackthis for clearing out more stubborn infections or ones tew new to have a definition file: Please note, can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. you can destroy your windows install with those two.
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html
Windows defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
One of the best antispyware tools out there. Whatever else you want to say about microsoft, they do know their backend code better than anyone, so it's actually a very effective tool, works well with spybot as well.
i no longer use AdAware, since it turned into a piece of crap.
One other that I have used on occasion is the Ewidoanti soyware engine. it works differently than defender and spybot, and I have had it occasionally catch things the others cannot find. On the other hand it usually misses more than the other two, so best for spot check applications.
http://www.ewido.net/en/
Edited, Aug 21st 2006 at 2:05pm EDT by Kaolian
i totally forgot the antispyware "Kill everything" cocktail
Javacool spywareblaster for blocking known bad sites
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spybot search and destroy - more immunization, cleans most infections easily
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Startuplist and hijackthis for clearing out more stubborn infections or ones tew new to have a definition file: Please note, can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. you can destroy your windows install with those two.
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html
Windows defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
One of the best antispyware tools out there. Whatever else you want to say about microsoft, they do know their backend code better than anyone, so it's actually a very effective tool, works well with spybot as well.
i no longer use AdAware, since it turned into a piece of crap.
One other that I have used on occasion is the Ewidoanti soyware engine. it works differently than defender and spybot, and I have had it occasionally catch things the others cannot find. On the other hand it usually misses more than the other two, so best for spot check applications.
http://www.ewido.net/en/
Edited, Aug 21st 2006 at 2:05pm EDT by Kaolian
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The Paskil of Doom wrote:
Open Office
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I like either Paint .NET or more recently GIMP for messing with images. I can't afford Photoshop and GIMP seems to be able to do a lot of things very well, once you learn how.
Wint wrote:
I can't afford Photoshop
Yeah i've wanted that for a long time, but $600 is kind of out of my range for a casual use program.
I suppose only Firefox and PDF995, now. I can't find much freeware that doesn't come loaded with crap.
Oh yeah, pdf995 is a good one too
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Firefox, Adaware, UltraEdit (though I did end up buying it). WinZip, of course.
Can't think of any others offhand, but they're probably so embedded by now I just don't see them.
Can't think of any others offhand, but they're probably so embedded by now I just don't see them.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Firefox
Infranview
GIMP
I did use the free Fraps for awhile too, until I was gifted with the paid version so I could more easily record guild vids.
Infranview
GIMP
I did use the free Fraps for awhile too, until I was gifted with the paid version so I could more easily record guild vids.
Good 'ol Winzip. I couldn't function without it seeing as no one bothers with an email account able to take a file larger than 10mb. I love my clients with FTP sites.
All of the apps I can think of at the moment have been mentioned already, but I find that pricelessware is a good place to look for things.
As an example, here is their FTP client list.
As an example, here is their FTP client list.
What's a PDF995? God willing, it's a replacement for the Acrobat Reader bloatware?
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Trillian
Firefox
putty
Keygens
loftcrack
mIRC
DivX
Various OCX controls and DLL's
Google Earth/Maps
MyMail
eBay
putty
Keygens
loftcrack
mIRC
DivX
Various OCX controls and DLL's
Google Earth/Maps
MyMail
eBay
AVG
VNC
Firefox
Spybot
Ad-aware
Putty
Remote Desktop
And a few others I can't think of right this second.
VNC
Firefox
Spybot
Ad-aware
Putty
Remote Desktop
And a few others I can't think of right this second.
Can I count Winamp and Bittorrent (it is semi legal in canada for the moment)?
Other than that and Firefox, EQ2 and Medeval Total War its about all I have on my computer.
Other than that and Firefox, EQ2 and Medeval Total War its about all I have on my computer.
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Jophiel wrote:
What's a PDF995? God willing, it's a replacement for the Acrobat Reader bloatware?
Nah, it makes PDFs for free. You still need reader to open them, but it makes it so you don't have to buy the $$$software$$$$ to write them. It's a printer driver that you use to 'print to file'. It makes the pdf and then pops up with an ad of some sort. It's by far the cleanest one I've found, and totally free if you don't mind clicking the ad shut at the end.
It's great for sending my translation invoices and other docs you want to make read-only.
Edited, Aug 21st 2006 at 3:08pm EDT by Atomicflea
Oh, that sounds handy.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Spybot Search & Destroy, Lavasoft Adaware, AVG anti-virus, Winamp, Ventrilo, Firefox, Google Earth, and Progress Quest.
GitSlayer wrote:
Good 'ol Winzip. I couldn't function without it seeing as no one bothers with an email account able to take a file larger than 10mb. I love my clients with FTP sites.
Isn't Winzip actually something you have to buy after a trial period? For archiving and compressing I like izarc myself.
And you are....?
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Professor CrescentFresh wrote:
trickybeck wrote:
Bwaha, I've had that running for about a year straight, now.
Firefox/Thunderbird
AVG Virus Scan Stuff, I had McAffe for two years couldn't stand it, bogged down my PC something fierce and never did as it was told.
Shoutcast from WinAmp Link from the makers of WinAmp, the freeware version gives you 30 minute recording sessions, unlimited listening. $17.99 gets you unlimited recording. This thing is a god send. Thousands of stations and the software "rips" them onto your PC in segregated folders all titled and tracked with artist info. You can also set up your own little radio station, haven't done that yet but sounds fun.
AVG Virus Scan Stuff, I had McAffe for two years couldn't stand it, bogged down my PC something fierce and never did as it was told.
Shoutcast from WinAmp Link from the makers of WinAmp, the freeware version gives you 30 minute recording sessions, unlimited listening. $17.99 gets you unlimited recording. This thing is a god send. Thousands of stations and the software "rips" them onto your PC in segregated folders all titled and tracked with artist info. You can also set up your own little radio station, haven't done that yet but sounds fun.
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