List of Useful and Free Software v2

[Jamesds]

Is this being kept up to date?

A couple of my favourites that I've not spotted in the main list:

NetBeans IDE (development) - Powerful IDE that supports many languages and frameworks, including Java, C/C++, Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
OpenTTD (entertainment/games) - Open-source clone of the Microprose classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a game I really enjoyed alongside Civ when I was younger
7-Zip (utilities) - reads almost any compressed format and saves to the main ones, including its own (.7z) which has a high compression ratio.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

is therea free progrem that will let you keep track of what files and foldirs will need to be keep backd up to an externil. becuse sometimes i move files to a subfoldur and end up with a lot of duplicites and files change and i dont know what needs replaceing or not. possible a syncing progrem.

Do you guys think thes one will werk?
click this

 

[civ_king]

Are you feeling fine? your post is uncharacteristically filled with spelling errors, and you said you were having programs previously

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Are you feeling fine? your post is uncharacteristically filled with spelling errors, and you said you were having programs previously

its in the Questins thred. the docters think i have a "concussion" the word i have in a text editur so i can copy it when i need to use it

 

[Genocidicbunny]

its in the Questins thred. the docters think i have a "concussion" the word i have in a text editur so i can copy it when i need to use it

Stop posting. I mean it.


When you have a concussion, you need to rest. That means go to bed, sleep, and then sleep again. Stop posting for a week. Hell, pretend the world doesnt exist for a week and just sleep.

 

[Integral]

is therea free progrem that will let you keep track of what files and foldirs will need to be keep backd up to an externil. becuse sometimes i move files to a subfoldur and end up with a lot of duplicites and files change and i dont know what needs replaceing or not. possible a syncing progrem.

Do you guys think thes one will werk?
click this

1. Get some sleep. Now.

2. If you're running a Windows platform, I suggest the Microsoft Synctoy.

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Integral's freeware tips of the arbitrary time-period, now annotated:

CCCP (video playback) - have I plugged this recently? One-stop solution to video playback. Includes FFDshow, Haali, and the Media Player Classic-Homecinema player. Decodes avi/mkv/ogg containers; h264/x264/xvid/divx video, and virtually all audio codecs. Extremely handy. Alternatives: k-lite codec pack. CCCP is much more lightweight, though.

Code::blocks (development) - my C++ editing environment of choice. I never had any good experiences with Visual Studio. Alternatives: my roommate swears by netbeans.

vim (text editor) - One step up from Notepad++. When I was running a Linux box, vim was my go-to text editor. It comes with built-in syntax highlighting for a variety of languages; it also has extremely powerful editing tools. Takes a bit of getting used to, but well worth the effort. Alternatives: notepad++ and emacs.

MikTeX (LaTeX) - I'm pretty sure everyone on Windows who uses LaTeX knows about MikTeX by now, but it's worth repeating. Also, MikTeX 2.8 and later comes with the handy TeXworks editor, so there's no need to install a front-end.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Stop posting. I mean it.


When you have a concussion, you need to rest. That means go to bed, sleep, and then sleep again. Stop posting for a week. Hell, pretend the world doesnt exist for a week and just sleep.

i didnt know that nobudy told me that maybe they told mom but sence my mom makes me go to scool I dunt think postin will hert too much/ i will go ask her why im going to scool ....

 

[Genocidicbunny]

i didnt know that nobudy told me that maybe they told mom but sence my mom makes me go to scool I dunt think postin will hert too much/ i will go ask her why im going to scool ....

You need to report her for child endangerment.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

i askid her why she says that i cant miss any more time off scool Ive missed too much alredy.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

by the way Thanks for the "recommendations" i turned on the spell chicken thats a good thing i can spell words now if i can remember them thats good

 

[Jamesds]

Found my new favourite free application yesterday and now I will never be without it again. It is absolutely brilliant, although do note that it only works with Windows 7, and certain functionality is only available if you have a compatible network adapter.

I now have my iPod and Nokia phone connected to my laptop's access point (accessible throughout my flat) which gets internet through my Uni residence over ethernet (firewalled to the max, of course). It's the first time I've been able to do this, and all because a friend and I were having problems with internet connection sharing being dropped sporadically when we were playing Team Fortress 2 through my VPN with him connecting to me via an adhoc wireless network through which internet connection sharing was enabled. Connectify made it all so easy.

Connectify - quickly and easily turns your computer into a wireless access point through which you can share your internet connection - even an internet connection arriving through the same wireless card.

 

[civ_king]

You need to report her for child endangerment.

this, your Mom is insane

by the way Thanks for the "recommendations" i turned on the spell chicken thats a good thing i can spell words now if i can remember them thats good

cross between and ... turn on Tom Petty and go to bed, sleep is good

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The techer whos the head of the tech depertment at my scool says this is a good program im trying it now for something
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

In the other thread i mentined i used ffmpeg i didnt really use ffmpeg as i kept screwing up the command line as usual so i atually used a gui here it is
http://avanti.arrozcru.com/
to use it you need to download a windows build of ffmpeg and put it in the ffmpeg folder in the program folder but if you have it in another place on the computer you can tell it that

 

[cardgame]

RarZilla not on the list? Strange. It's a free alternative to winrar and by all accounts, better.

http://www.philipp-winterberg.de/software/rarzilla_free_unrar.php

 

[Mise]

It only unrars things though, looking at the website (and the url).

 

[cardgame]

hmm, I guess. But why would you need to rar it, just zip it

 

[Mise]

Well I don't know why people bother using WinRAR in the first place. Most everything these days is compressed anyway (music, movies, pictures... even PDFs and such), and the things that aren't compressed are usually so small that it doesn't matter whether you compress it or not. Zipping only has value for packaging up lots and lots of files into one single file for convenience's sake. So whatever advantages the RAR format had in compression are meaningless in this age of ubiquitous fast internet and unlimited data storage.

/pointless ramble.

 

[Takhisis]

Well, I use it when uploading stuff, y'know.

 

[Mise]

Why use the RAR format though?