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razor1394
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 Posted: Sun, 20th Feb 2005 13:16 Post subject: >>>Recommended applications<<< |
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Here's my list of recommended applications. You are welcome to add your own list but follow my example. Posts who don't follow the example will get erased.
And my recommendations for Windows XP:
Shell replacer - Xoblite (http://xoblite.net/) - Very little impact on resources, looks great, nice features, good modication of Blackbox, crashes less than explorer
File manager - Directory Opus (http://www.gpsoft.com.au/) - Very nice interface, many different window views, good plugins
Video players - Zoom player (http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml) - Only player that plays most codecs properly without hitches including real player and quictime movies., Videolan (http://www.videolan.org/) - Good for subtitles and when Zoom player can't play certain files
Audio player - Winamp 5 (http://www.winamp.com/) - Good looking interface, many plugins and skins to choose of, supports most file formats
Image burning app - Alcohol 120% (http://www.alcohol-soft.com/) - Superb cloning options, manages to copy most discs properly, supports many image types
Text editor - Textpad (http://www.textpad.com/) - Adapted for programming, supports several windows inside the main window, comfortable for coding
Web browser - Mozilla firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) - Free, follows the web standards correctly, supports tabbed windows, several good plugins available especially Adblock, uses less resources
Office pack - Microsoft Office 2003 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx) - One of the few Microsoft apps that I like, only app for Windows that works good for synching the pocket pc, nice features
RSS and mail reader - Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/) - Free, supports both pop3 mail downloading/reading and RSS, very good interface, nice junk filter
Remote connection - UltraVNC (http://www.ultravnc.org) - Based on the great VNC source, very fast, free, nice features for connection types (cable, modem, fiber, lan etc), good interface, better than standard Windows terminal
Tweaking - Tuneup utilities 2004 (http://www.tune-up.com/) - Very good and userfriendly interface, supports the most common tweaks, has the ability to defrag and clean the registry, can do the most important tweaks with one click
Defragmenter - Executive Diskeeper (http://www.executive.com/coverpage.asp) - Very fast defragger, almost never crashes, pause features, good view of the file system
FTP client - FTP Rush (http://www.ftprush.com/) - Much better than the popular FlashFXP and other ftp apps, inbuilt sfv and md5 file checking, .net interface, very fast
Image viewing and sorting - ACDSee (http://www.acdsystems.com/English/index.htm) - Supports simple but useful editing, supports scanning, transferring from devices, converting to all types of formats, has a nice interface
DVD decrypting and burning - DVD decrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.com) - Very light app but it does the job very well
Backup - Backup Magic (http://www.moonsoftware.com/bmagic.asp) - Simple but it does the job well and has some extra nice features
Screenshots - Hypersnap DX (http://www.hyperionics.com/) - Supports most file formats, nice options for section selections, advanced image editing feature as a bonus
IRC chatting - mIRC (http://www.mirc.com) - Many good plugins available at the moment especially NNScript, several nice looking themes available, well supported between apps for ex Winamp and Windows (sysinfo)
Data, SVCD, VCD and DVD burning - Nero (http://www.nero.com/en/index.html) - Supports most burners, haven't encountered any serious bugs, good VCD, SVCD and DVD creation tools, encodes audio for audio discs
Alternative IE based browser - Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/en/index.htm) - Tabbed Browsing Interface, Mouse Gestures, AD Hunter, Skinning, well updated
Password manager - Password agent (http://www.moonsoftware.com/pwagent.asp) - Fast, compact and easy to use, good options for exporting to file, password generator
Telnet and SSH client - Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) - Free, good features, nice interface, very fast and easy, inbuilt xterm terminal emulator
CD content catalogizer - Whereisit (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) - Fast searching even when houndreds of discs exist in the database, easy to use, supports [data cd's, diskettes, audio cds, etc]
Translator - Wordfinder (http://http://www.wordfinder.se/) - Supports many languages and It's easy to use. Plugin available for IE.
CAD - Autodesk architectural desktop 2005 (http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=452932&id=4014829) - Familiar Autocad interface, broad support for industry-standard formats and interoperability standards, rapid visualization
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Feb 2005 13:36 Post subject: |
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Audio Player - VUPlayer http://www.vuplayer.com/ Some nice features, assignable keyboard shortcuts you can skip tracks etc even when the players mimized. Doesnt scan for new tracks at startup so if youve added more to your mp3 folder you have to make a new playlist. Worth a try.
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Mar 2005 12:15 Post subject: |
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Image viewing - Irfanview ( http://www.irfanview.com/ ) IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. Many supported file formats / Slideshow / Batch conversion. Very nice and small program.
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Mar 2005 22:19 Post subject: |
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Linux Dont forget it!
Video Players - Video lan (http://www.videolan.org/) - The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes.
Web browser - Mozilla firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) - Free, follows the web standards correctly, supports tabbed windows, several good plugins available especially Adblock, uses less resources. - Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/) Konqueror is an Open Source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance, supporting Java applets, JavaScript, CSS 1, CSS 2.1, as well as Netscape plugins (for example, Flash or RealVideo plugins) and it can send data to servers to be pretending to be another web browser and to be running a nother OS, such as IE on Win2k.
Office pack - Open Office.org (http://www.openoffice.org) - Free Open Source office package suite.
FTP Server - glFTPd (http://www.glftpd.com/) glFTPd is a free FTP server for UNIX based systems. It is highly configurable and its possibilities are endless. One of the main differences between many other ftp servers and glFTPd is that it has its own user database which can be completely maintained online using ftp site commands. glFTPd runs within a chroot environment which makes it relatively safe.
HTPC Software - MythTV (http://mythtv.org/) MythTV is a homebrew PVR project, it's been under heavy development for two years, and is now quite useable and featureful.
Telnet and SSH client - OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com/) penSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides a myriad of secure tunneling capabilities, as well as a variety of authentication methods.
Audio Player - XMMS (http://www.xmms.org/) XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. For the fifth year in a row XMMS has been voted Favourite Audio Tool by the readers of LinuxJournal.
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| Posted: Mon, 16th May 2005 22:02 Post subject: |
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Video converting/ editing - Tmpgenc express ( http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te3xp.html ) TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress is a High quality Video encoder software, based on the famous "TMPGEnc Plus 2.5" and completely reworked to offer beginner and advanced users, the ease of work and quality that can be expected from a modern software. TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress natively supports source files in MPEG-1/2 format, unprotected DVD-Video VOB, Windows Media Video®, uncompressed AVI and QuickTime® files. Its available in trail download only (easy to get around it  ) or you can buy it. Very nice program for converting movies.
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fisk
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Location: Von Oben
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| Posted: Tue, 17th May 2005 10:02 Post subject: |
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Damn it! Can't get DirOpus8 to work, it just doesn't start :/ (8.1.0.5)
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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| Posted: Tue, 17th May 2005 13:09 Post subject: |
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hmmm i wouldnt say ftp rush is better than flash FXP but yea you should add BSPlayer www.bsplayer.org every thread i've mentioned it in has been a success 
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Jul 2005 22:12 Post subject: |
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Audio Player - foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ It's a player with built in gapless playing, supports nearly everything, emulates Winamp API for spamming IRC, and has built in CUE support, which is just amazing.
Screenshots - Print Screen & Alt+Print Screen Works for almost everything. I don't see why you need to install a program to take screenshots in Windows. Use Photoshop for editing.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Jul 2005 22:56 Post subject: |
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| Tatsh wrote: | | Screenshots - Print Screen & Alt+Print Screen Works for almost everything. I don't see why you need to install a program to take screenshots in Windows. Use Photoshop for editing. |
with printscreen you can only take one shot, then have to insert it in an application to save it...so i'd say
Screenshots/Video Recording - FRAPS www.fraps.com
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Sep 2005 02:20 Post subject: |
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Video - K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - http://codecguide.com/ - includes media player classic and bsplayer.. plays EV..RY..THING
FTP - Smart-FTP - http://www.smartftp.com/ - free.. open.. and is MUCH better than FlashFXP
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Gh0UL
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Location: southern AZ, USA
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Nov 2005 04:06 Post subject: |
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plz update wordfinder.se link, it leads to MS.
*avatar by R. K. Sloane*
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Dec 2005 19:25 Post subject: |
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| kyoukan wrote: | | Video - K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - http://codecguide.com/ - includes media player classic and bsplayer.. plays EV..RY..THING |
You have got to be kidding me?! 98% of all codec packs are junk, K-Lite Mega Ultra Deluxe Giga Pack especially so.
If you don't want to roll your own, the DefilerPak is the only thing you need. It's a small download, welltested and doesn't bug your system down with useless crap.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Dec 2005 23:15 Post subject: |
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i'll fix this thread 2morow 
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Myst112
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Location: Tallinn, Estonia
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Mutantius
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Location: In Elektro looking for beans
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Dec 2005 13:35 Post subject: |
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sys utility:: Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
| Code: | | The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. |
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Jan 2006 02:16 Post subject: |
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| indiana wrote: | | kyoukan wrote: | | Video - K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - http://codecguide.com/ - includes media player classic and bsplayer.. plays EV..RY..THING |
You have got to be kidding me?! 98% of all codec packs are junk, K-Lite Mega Ultra Deluxe Giga Pack especially so.
If you don't want to roll your own, the DefilerPak is the only thing you need. It's a small download, welltested and doesn't bug your system down with useless crap. |
never had any problems with k-lite mega pack,currently using 1.38v & i can play Everything
Image Resizer CLICK ME
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Aug 2006 01:41 Post subject: |
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I'm looking for a good , fast & free software to check sfv files.
which program you suggest me ?
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werdercanuck
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Location: Pot Capital of Canada (BC)
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Aug 2006 01:45 Post subject: |
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quickpar supports checking sfv files, its free...
www.quickpar.org.uk/
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Aug 2006 11:20 Post subject: |
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Some people have way too much time on there hands.
PowerOff is useful
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Sep 2006 03:26 Post subject: I looking for a program to manage servers from a blackberry |
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I've tried mobile admin www.idokorra.com [url] and I love it but I can't seem to get one that acts right.[/url]
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| Posted: Sun, 14th Jan 2007 06:39 Post subject: >>>Recommended applications<<< |
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Text Editor - UltraEdit32 (http://www.idmcomp.com/) - If you want to replace Notepad or are looking for a super powerful text editor? UltraEdit is what you're looking for. UltraEdit is the ideal Text, HEX, HTML, PHP, Java, Javascript, Perl, and Programmer's editor. It's extremely versatile and easy to use. Written BY programmers, FOR programmers, but is aimed at being very user friendly for novice computer users too. Been using it for years, ..... It's GREAT.
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mag2005
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2007 00:57 Post subject: |
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What do you guys recommend for video editing? What others are there that are better than Adobe Premiere Pro?
If you hate it, ignore it.
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2007 10:07 Post subject: |
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FileZilla - I have used most of the commercial FTP clients over the years, but the free FileZilla beats them all. It is by far the fastest FTP client that I have tried, it supports various methods of SFTP/SSL as well as multiple uploads just to mention a few things.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
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_SiN_
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Mar 2007 19:03 Post subject: |
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I've been using FlashFXP for more then 2 years and I find FileZilla easier to use
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