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Nicely put :D... Now for us to try the ones out we havent heard of and come back with our verdict ;)
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Re: My Must Have Programs

Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:06 am

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I can't believe no one has said this yet, but Treesize is definitely a must-have app.
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
 
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Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:43 am

Usacomp2k3 wrote:
I can't believe no one has said this yet, but Treesize is definitely a must-have app.
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

That's pretty cool. But about 5 years ago, I had a little app that would do the same thing and make a pie chart to show you graphically where your space was. Way cool, and it was freeware... but I can't remember what it was called.

In these days when a hundred gigs of storage costs fifty bucks, I just don't care. I have 360gb of total storage, only 137 used, and that includes some big chunks of video files that I should stick on dvds but haven't bothered.
 
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Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:34 am

Klyith wrote:
That's pretty cool. But about 5 years ago, I had a little app that would do the same thing and make a pie chart to show you graphically where your space was. Way cool, and it was freeware... but I can't remember what it was called.

There is Spacemonger, however, it doesn't make a pie chart. But I find it's graphical representation more helpful then a pie chart.
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Here's my $0.02

1. Avast! antivirus - I don't know what issues make some people so averse to it. they don't like the default settings but aren't savvy enough to edit their preferences? It's still miles better than NAV and is going into my upcoming x64 build.

2. Azureus - for all the times I need to, uh, download Linux ISOs

3. Opera - It's fast, it's free, and for me at least, it's more usable and stable than Firefox.

4. RMClock - great utility for dynamic over/underclocking of your CPU. Perfect for me since I live in a tropical climate, and don't want my cpu heating up my room with its waste heat when it's just idling.

Notebook users may want to look at Notebook Hardware Control instead, which provides more features and hardware monitoring tools specifically for laptop users. By undervolting my Banias laptop by 25%, I was able to gain an extra 20-30% battery life. Not too shabby...

5. Netlimiter. OK, you have to pay for this, but it's well worth it in my book. App-specific bandwidth control and monitoring. Something that MS ought to incorporate into Windows but hasn't yet. Unless anyone knows any free alternatives...
 
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Hmmmmm. Im intrested in the Dynamic Over/Underclocking program. Totally free ya say :). I take it that its for desktops, might be something i'd be intrested in. Although my previous attempts with overclocking VIA BIOS left me with a vegitable of a computer for a week at a time. Does it have the ability to overclock the FSB or just the core clock?
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Since this is sticky, I will add one more...

Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:47 am

Just wanted to add a very good video player:

BS Player http://www.bsplayer.org/

Free, skinnable, works with most file types, and seems to have the best in-built subtitle support for people who like foreign films/anime. Also has easy to use screen-shot function for capturing frames.

I love it.

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Also, RegSeek 1.45 http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1035382760/1

Good registry cleaner.
It does not require installation.
It does have a roll-back function for changes, but not always reliable.

Powerful and not to be used lightly (BACKUP the registry file BEFORE you mess with it! and have a BOOT DISK/CD!)
 
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Well I just got Azureus. WOW!!

Best I've seen so far.
 
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newbie_of_jan0502 wrote:
Well I just got Azureus. WOW!!

Best I've seen so far.


try µtorrent. It's better. :D
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Smooth Beaver wrote:
try µtorrent. It's better. :D

Azereus has a lot of plugins for extended functionality. There are cool things like automatic loading from RSS and stuff like that. But I prefer utorrent as well. It's great if you are manually controlling torrents anyways. That and bitcomet are all C++, so they don't use python scripts that require more cpu load.

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Klyith wrote:
Smooth Beaver wrote:
try µtorrent. It's better. :D

Azereus has a lot of plugins for extended functionality. There are cool things like automatic loading from RSS and stuff like that. But I prefer utorrent as well. It's great if you are manually controlling torrents anyways. That and bitcomet are all C++, so they don't use python scripts that require more cpu load.

Azereus : Java, slowest, most features
bittorrent (original), G3 torrent, YABC : Python, medium
utorrent, bitcomet : C++, fastest


FYI µtorrent will have RSS autoloading in the 1.4 release
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Got a new one today. Used to delete files that Windows won't let go of.


Unlocker

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uTorrent: Very fast and lightweight torrent application. I find it more stable and less demanding than Azereus. Plus for some reason, a single Azereus client downloading at 15kB/s and uploading at 5kB/s bogs down my network, while a uTorrent client downloading at 700kB/s and uploading at 80kB/s is hardly noticable. Maybe it's just me.

Litestep: A replacement shell for windows. I find it to be unstable unless you're running XP, but then it's a godsent for anyone looking to integrate media players and such into their taskbars, minimalists, people used to Blackbox, and anyone who wants a good looking theme without having to deal with crappy apps like Windowsblinds.

Miranda IM: An IM client without the adware/security risks, etc of AIM. It's more usable than Gaim and much faster than Trillian. It also supports quite a few different protocols, including AIM. I don't think it handles AIM direct connections well.

Last.FM: A free streaming audio player, and a set of plugins for every major audio player to upload what you listen to your profile on their site. With that, it recommends to you bands, genres, etc. that you would like. It also has a streaming audio client that allows you to listen to music based off of their tags. Generally it's pretty awesome, adds no noticable lag to audio players, and will recommend you bands you never thought you'd like. This doesn't fit well into the thread, but I'm just going through my C:/Program Files folder..
 
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after being a geek since dos,ZTREE

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ZTREE is a file management , browzer, viewer, editor, and has plugin ability to do just about anything. It is the windows desendant of XTREE the most loved of all pgms. Stand alone, well just let me say that it is my most favorite program of all time. I use it almost everyday.
 
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Samurize!

For making a cool desktop!
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Sorry to boot a very old thread in the rear, but I didn't think it pertinent to start a whole new thread for this. One program I've had a lot of success with is Hitman Pro 2. LINK

It's got it's flaws like many spyware removal programs but it incorporates a lot. [/url]
 
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Microsoft Office Accounting Express, it is a free version of their accounting stuff for small buisness's.

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Opera Web Browser
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Ext2Fsd

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd

Lets you read/write to the Ext3 Linux file system in Windows. I formatted my external hard drive in the Ext3 format and now I can use it with both my Windows and Linux boxes. Very simple and I have it configured to start up automatically.
 
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Paint.NET - A very useful free image editor.

RocketDock - A fast, low resource intensive dock if you're into that sort of thing.

Picasa - Surely everyone knows about this photo organizer but I"m continually amazed by how good it is at what it sets out to do.
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Paint.NET - A very useful free image editor.

Picasa - Surely everyone knows about this photo organizer but I"m continually amazed by how good it is at what it sets out to do.
Is Picasa's photo editing capabilities be good enough compared to Paint.NET? Just thinking about which one I should be installing on my next reinstall.
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Flying Fox wrote:
crazybus wrote:
Paint.NET - A very useful free image editor.

Picasa - Surely everyone knows about this photo organizer but I"m continually amazed by how good it is at what it sets out to do.
Is Picasa's photo editing capabilities be good enough compared to Paint.NET? Just thinking about which one I should be installing on my next reinstall.


Picasa's just meant for very basic editing so its capabilities are quite limited, basically you can crop, straighten, adjust the color temperature, and tweak the shadow and highlight levels. It has a few filters too but I never use them. For most things that you need to do to photos it works quite well, perhaps not to the the level of the photoshop shadow/highlight tool or a curves adjustments using masks, but good nonetheless.
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Here's another couple programs I've found quite useful:

TaskswitchXP
an alt-tab replacement for Windows XP offering window previews.

Launchy
an indexed keystroke launcher that has pretty much made the start menu unnecessary for me.
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Switcher - For Windows Vista users with Aero turned on. It's a clone, of sorts, to Mac OS X's Expose. It's got a ton of features, support for mouse gestures, and live window previews (which I tested with a 720P video). For some reason, Trillian and Xfire contact list windows don't seem to get exposed...

WinExpose - Windows XP users can get similar functionality from from WinExpose, which has quasi-live window previews, and supports mouse gestures and highly customizable features. WinExpose has an easier-to-use interface than Switcher, and seems to be smoother. It does cause some... odd problems... though.
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crazybus wrote:
Here's another couple programs I've found quite useful:

TaskswitchXP
an alt-tab replacement for Windows XP offering window previews.

Launchy
an indexed keystroke launcher that has pretty much made the start menu unnecessary for me.

#1- There is a MS Powertoy that does something quite similar. It's called TaskSwitch

#2- that's alot like the Windows Vista start menu search thing.
 
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A_Pickle wrote:
Expose knock-offs
Oooh, shiny! Grabbing these. Anyone else that wants or thinks they might in the future want an expose clone for windows, you should dl it now. You never know if apple will do a look and feel cease & desist, like they did to y'z dock.

Expose was something that, when I used it on a mac the first time, I thought was a superior bit of interaction. Most mac things just feel different to me, but expose is really better.

crazybus wrote:
Launchy
If you like the idea of launchy, you can also try Colibri or SlickRun. Colibri is faster than launchy but not as versatile (pretty much only start menu, whereas launchy can index other places). SlickRun is by far the most powerful (user macros, wildcard stuff, etc) but it's not pretty and hard to configure. I tried all of them, and settled on launchy myself.

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