Other Free software that you cannot live without?

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  1. Faye Kane

    Faye Kane Homeless Crazy Idiot Savant

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    That I can't live without?

    firefox of course
    google earth
    and TASKINFO -- if you don;t have it, get it.

    --flk
     
  2. AJB2K3

    AJB2K3 What's a Dremel?

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    iTunes,
    Firefox,
    Opera,
    Chrome,
    Gimp,
    Inkscape,
    notepadd++
    VLC,
    Wireshark,
    PSPVideo 9
    Dvdecryptor
    Dvd Shrink,
    Openoffice.org
    Adblock+
    Spybot S&D
    Mame,
    Quake Live
    Winrar,
    UFraw
    Daz 3d
    Sony PMB
     
  3. Sanzy

    Sanzy Minimodder

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    google Chrome
    VLC player
    Winrar
    Flash
     
  4. Booga

    Booga Cuppa tea anyone?

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    Sorry to necro, but you can get a free version of Fraps it just has limited functionality.

    http://www.fraps.com/download.php


    Any chance of making this thread a sticky?
     
  5. fluxtatic

    fluxtatic What's a Dremel?

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    No necessarily every day, but for me:
    Opera (FF's memory management problems are just inexcusable at this point, imo)
    7-Zip (unlike WinRAR, actually free)
    CCleaner
    Most of the Sysinternals suite (Process Monitor, Process Explorer, SDelete, Autoruns)
    Speccy
    GIMP
    Foxit Reader (stick to pre-3.0 versions)
    Media Player Classic Home Cinema
    VLC (for the rare file MPC can't handle)
    FileZilla
    XAMPP
    Peerblock
    uTorrent
    avast
    ClamWin
    Spybot S&D
    McAfee Stinger (the only McAfee product I'll come near)
    Irfanview
    ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
    IMGBurn
    MP3TagTools
    CutePDF

    Incidentally, I'm surprised so many people use Acrobat Reader - it's bloated crapware, and there are better alternatives. Maybe it's magically better under Win7?

    I've played with Chrome a bit, and it seems all right, but I don't really trust Google. That's why I stick with Opera - occasionally it leaks memory and needs a restart, but it's far better than FF or IE for me.
     
  6. Booga

    Booga Cuppa tea anyone?

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    Add VLC to my list.
     
  7. Showerhead

    Showerhead What's a Dremel?

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    Thought i'd add sumatra PDF most lightweight pdf viewer i've found. Only drawback is i know get frustrated having to wit for the computers at uni to open a pdf as they use adobe.
     
  8. roarke80

    roarke80 What's a Dremel?

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    Chrome
    Grooveshark (I know it's not technically software)
     
  9. Hawkest

    Hawkest I got some 4GB new RAM

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    Firebug add-on!

    Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
     
  10. fluxtatic

    fluxtatic What's a Dremel?

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    I carry Sumatra on the flash drive that's always with me, but it's a little ugly for everyday use. But that's just me. Also, it seems to not play nice with interactive PDFs, iirc.

    I almost forgot the one I do use every day - Crimson Editor. The only downside I've found is that it can't handle multiple-syntax highlighting (ie, Javascript and HTML).
     

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