(OT) 25 BEST FREE applications for 2006 (according to me)

1) Media> GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com
2) Browsers> Avant www.avantbrowser.com and Firefox www.getfirefox.com
3) Torrent> uTorrent www.utorrent.com
4) Disk Cleaner> CCleaner www.ccleaner.com
5) Downloades> www.flashget.com and Orbitdownloader
www.orbitdownloader.com
6) Email client > ThunderBird www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
7) RSS reader> GreatNews http://www.curiostudio.com/
8) Office Suite> Openoffice www.openoffice.org and Portable >
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
9) Chat application> Live Messenger http://messenger.msn.com (can now chat
with yahoo 8.x users)
10) Disk Burner > CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se (I have not tested
this on vista)
11) Note taker & Clipper> Evernote www.evernote.com/en/ Firefox/Thunderbird
addon> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1926/
12) System information dispay> Samurize www.samurize.com
13) System information> SIW www.gtopala.com
14) Torrent search> Torrent Harvester
http://torrentharvester.awardspace.com/ (needs network framework 1.1)
15) Annoyance solver> Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
16) Virtual Machines > Vmware Player and Server, and http://www.easyvmx.com/
site
17) Graphics> Irfanview www.irfanview.com
18) Cool applications> Google Earth http://earth.google.com
19) Shell enhancment> PowerMenu
http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
20) Startup Manager> StartUp Manager
http://www.wheresjames.com/index.php?page=startupmgr
21) Antivirus> Avast Home www.avast.com
22) Antispyware> spybot www.safer-networking.org and
Adaware Personal
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...bj=dl&tag=top5
23) VNC > UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
24) Linux and Linux Live CD > Knoppix 5.1
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03938#0, Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com Kubuntu
www.kubuntu.org and Mint Linux http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/ (there are too
many good linux distros.. I mentioned these because they are updated all the
time and much alive)
25) PDF reader> Adobe acrobat 8 has been improved greatly in speed in
comparison to 6 or 7 www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Enjoy and happy new year!

Forgot the link for Vmware player and server
www.vmware.com


"Red nosed reindeer" <-> wrote in message
news:%...
> 1) Media> GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com
> 2) Browsers> Avant www.avantbrowser.com and Firefox www.getfirefox.com
> 3) Torrent> uTorrent www.utorrent.com
> 4) Disk Cleaner> CCleaner www.ccleaner.com
> 5) Downloades> www.flashget.com and Orbitdownloader
> www.orbitdownloader.com
> 6) Email client > ThunderBird www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
> 7) RSS reader> GreatNews http://www.curiostudio.com/
> 8) Office Suite> Openoffice www.openoffice.org and Portable >
> http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
> 9) Chat application> Live Messenger http://messenger.msn.com (can now chat
> with yahoo 8.x users)
> 10) Disk Burner > CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se (I have not tested
> this on vista)
> 11) Note taker & Clipper> Evernote www.evernote.com/en/
> Firefox/Thunderbird
> addon> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1926/
> 12) System information dispay> Samurize www.samurize.com
> 13) System information> SIW www.gtopala.com
> 14) Torrent search> Torrent Harvester
> http://torrentharvester.awardspace.com/ (needs network framework 1.1)
> 15) Annoyance solver> Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
> 16) Virtual Machines > Vmware Player and Server, and
> http://www.easyvmx.com/
> site
> 17) Graphics> Irfanview www.irfanview.com
> 18) Cool applications> Google Earth http://earth.google.com
> 19) Shell enhancment> PowerMenu
> http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
> 20) Startup Manager> StartUp Manager
> http://www.wheresjames.com/index.php?page=startupmgr
> 21) Antivirus> Avast Home www.avast.com
> 22) Antispyware> spybot www.safer-networking.org and
> Adaware Personal
> http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...bj=dl&tag=top5
> 23) VNC > UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
> 24) Linux and Linux Live CD > Knoppix 5.1
> http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03938#0, Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com Kubuntu
> www.kubuntu.org and Mint Linux http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/ (there are too
> many good linux distros.. I mentioned these because they are updated all
> the
> time and much alive)
> 25) PDF reader> Adobe acrobat 8 has been improved greatly in speed in
> comparison to 6 or 7 www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
>
> Enjoy and happy new year!
>
>
>
>
>

Red nosed reindeer wrote:

> 25) PDF reader> Adobe acrobat 8 has been improved greatly in speed in
> comparison to 6 or 7 www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Some good and interesting choices there. I agreed with pretty much all the
ones I'd heard of - not sure if you'll think thats a compliment or not ;-)

Just wanted to point out the PDF reader - have you looked at foxit reader?
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ - much more lightweight and in my opinion much
faster and more robust than the Adobe reader.

Happy new year to you too.

rob

Yes I know about foxit and it is also no-install or portable too..
That's what I used before acrobat 8 came out. 7 was unacceptably slow.
BUT I have seen Foxit does not render all pdfs perfectly and it does
not have a thumbnail pane.. nor does it integrate with windows explorer
so that it shows thumbnails in windows explorer. (im not talking about
internet explorer but about windows explorer). Im not saying that foxit is
not good.. its nice...
people should check it out. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

One small notice though about acrobat 8.. it would be good for someone to
delete the
2 startup shortcuts it creates in the startup folder....
Too many programs what things to startup and it bogs down performance...
It should have had an option to choose if you want this or not.


"Robert Moir" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Red nosed reindeer wrote:
>
>> 25) PDF reader> Adobe acrobat 8 has been improved greatly in speed in
>> comparison to 6 or 7 www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
>
> Some good and interesting choices there. I agreed with pretty much all the
> ones I'd heard of - not sure if you'll think thats a compliment or not ;-)
>
> Just wanted to point out the PDF reader - have you looked at foxit reader?
> http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ - much more lightweight and in my opinion
> much faster and more robust than the Adobe reader.
>
> Happy new year to you too.
>
> rob
>

Red nosed reindeer wrote:
> Yes I know about foxit and it is also no-install or portable too..
> That's what I used before acrobat 8 came out. 7 was unacceptably slow.

Can one install Acrobat 8 over the top of 7 or does 7 need to be
uninstalled first?

Thanks,

Alias

Im not sure.. I would uninstall the old one first just to be sure

there is a standalone installer for acrobat 8 here (as apposed to the web
installer)
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader...dr80_en_US.exe

That is the English version.

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
news:eihgh$...
> Red nosed reindeer wrote:
>> Yes I know about foxit and it is also no-install or portable too..
>> That's what I used before acrobat 8 came out. 7 was unacceptably slow.
>
> Can one install Acrobat 8 over the top of 7 or does 7 need to be
> uninstalled first?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alias

> "Red nosed reindeer" <-> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>
>> 1) Media> GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com

Media Player Classic
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

>> 2) Browsers> Avant www.avantbrowser.com and Firefox www.getfirefox.com

Maxthon 2 Beta
http://www.maxthon.com/

>> 10) Disk Burner > CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se (I have not tested
>> this on vista)

DeepBurner, works on Vista
http://www.deepburner.com/

>> 17) Graphics> Irfanview www.irfanview.com

Unfortunately, it's free only for non-commercial home use.


>> 23) VNC > UltraVNC www.uvnc.com

RDC (builtin client/server in all recent WIndows OSes)


26) Text/Script Editor

Notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net


--
Alexander Suhovey

Alexander Suhovey wrote:

>>> 23) VNC > UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
>
> RDC (builtin client/server in all recent WIndows OSes)

RDC is very good at what it does (and is probably a better choice where it's
suitable) but VNC offers two distinct advantages.

* Multiplatform servers
* multiplatform clients

"Robert Moir" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Alexander Suhovey wrote:
>
>>>> 23) VNC > UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
>>
>> RDC (builtin client/server in all recent WIndows OSes)
>
> RDC is very good at what it does (and is probably a better choice where
> it's suitable) but VNC offers two distinct advantages.
>
> * Multiplatform servers
> * multiplatform clients

http://www.rdesktop.org/
:-)

--
Alexander Suhovey

As robert said, RDP is good.. however if you have XP home for example you
cannot
use it as a server... I use bothe RDP and VNC

BTW there has been an update for the RDP client from 5.2 (latest) to
6.0.2600

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

This is for XP, vista has 6 preinstalled.

"Alexander Suhovey" <> wrote in message
news:CEDE77D0-E834-41BE-8065-...
>> "Red nosed reindeer" <-> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>>
>>> 1) Media> GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com
>
> Media Player Classic
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
>
>>> 2) Browsers> Avant www.avantbrowser.com and Firefox www.getfirefox.com
>
> Maxthon 2 Beta
> http://www.maxthon.com/
>
>>> 10) Disk Burner > CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se (I have not
>>> tested this on vista)
>
> DeepBurner, works on Vista
> http://www.deepburner.com/
>
>>> 17) Graphics> Irfanview www.irfanview.com
>
> Unfortunately, it's free only for non-commercial home use.
>
>
>>> 23) VNC > UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
>
> RDC (builtin client/server in all recent WIndows OSes)
>
>
> 26) Text/Script Editor
>
> Notepad++
> http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
>
>
> --
> Alexander Suhovey