List of Useful and Free Software v2

[aimeeandbeatles]

Old post (before my head injury, at that!), I could've sworn I did a search before I posted it.

 

[Takhisis]

Ninja power!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Aha. Finally, a single-pane outliner that actually works right.

http://uvoutliner.com/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

These two programs add an item to the context menu that are useful.
HiddenFilesToggle - http://students.kennesaw.edu/~rzillige/shell/HiddenFilesToggle.html
FileExtensionToggle - http://students.kennesaw.edu/~rzillige/shell/FileExtensionToggle.html

 

[Gelion]

Diagram drawing program: http://projects.gnome.org/dia/

 

[cardgame]

For those with OSX, there's a free program called Flux that automatically tints your screen at night to create better lighting. If you haven't heard, the blue light your screen naturally emits can really screw with your sleep cycle, as it's essentially trying to imitate daylight, and (at least in anecdotal experience) can cause some eye strain. When I launched this app, just as a review claimed, my eyes relaxed immediately and it's simply a much better experience than the natural daytime lighting of 6500K. Oh, and it's customizable, too.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This is another decent little program for encoding audios and videos.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FFCoder

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

Great thread, it has opened my eyes to some great free programs I never knew existed.

I would just like to ask when the last time anyone checked the links on the first page. It seems some of the products have been discontinued, such as Google desktop.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Not sure if I mentioned this before. TeraCopy is a copy handler program I use. It claims to make things faster. I can't verify that but I find the interface a lot better than the default Windows one, especially since you can see the progress of individual files and also do CRC checks when you finish. Oh, and you can pause it which I don't think you can do with the default Windows one.

http://codesector.com/teracopy/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This adds VirusTotal to your sendto menu (as well as other options). Good for lazy people who don't want to go to the site and upload it manually. Unfortunately doesn't work for files above 32 MB

https://www.virustotal.com/documentation/desktop-applications/virustotal-uploader/

 

[Loppan Torkel]

For those with OSX, there's a free program called Flux that automatically tints your screen at night to create better lighting. If you haven't heard, the blue light your screen naturally emits can really screw with your sleep cycle, as it's essentially trying to imitate daylight, and (at least in anecdotal experience) can cause some eye strain. When I launched this app, just as a review claimed, my eyes relaxed immediately and it's simply a much better experience than the natural daytime lighting of 6500K. Oh, and it's customizable, too.

I like this one.


Do you have a good, easy-to-use program for viewing photos and perhaps some very light editing? Win 7..
Picasa is sorting all the faces on my parents computer, I've learned, and I'm not too thrilled about it, since I'm included in their collection...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Do you have a good, easy-to-use program for viewing photos and perhaps some very light editing? Win 7..
Picasa is sorting all the faces on my parents computer, I've learned, and I'm not too thrilled about it, since I'm included in their collection...

I like IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com/

Here's two others I use. They have slightly better browsing capabilities (e.g. you can browse folders) although I'm not too sure about their editing capabilities
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html

 

[cardgame]

How light of editing are you talking about? MS Paint and Windows Picture Viewer or whatever have sufficed for my needs. PDN (Paint.net) is a Paint-alike (read: familiar interface and controls) with much more powerful features but still much lighter than GIMP.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I figured 'light' means cropping and resizing and maybe sometimes messing with the brightness/constrast/hue/saturation. Thats what it usually means to me.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I think IrfanView might suit. I'm not sure how light editing it is, but I doubt Picasa does that much. Thanks!

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

I find Picasa does a better job of just displaying photos for me over Windows photo gallery. Both have a pleasing UI over IrfanView although I also use IrfanView, Gimp handles all my photo editing.

 

[Takhisis]

I use Windows Explorer…

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I find Picasa does a better job of just displaying photos for me over Windows photo gallery. Both have a pleasing UI over InfranView although I also use InfranView, Gimp handles all my photo editing.

Its spelled IrfanView.

For browsing photos, I like FastStone Image Viewer, which I linked a few posts ago.

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Is it just me or are others having trouble following this link?

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[Takhisis]

As of right now, it works.