List of Useful and Free Software v2

[Mise]

Well, the full version of Excel doesn't do OCR, so I don't see why the trial one would.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Manual typing.

"Well thats too much"

I typed 56 magazine articles (including a few over 10 pages long), 47 newspaper articles, four press releases, and .... something else. Im not sure what its categorized under.

127 newspaper articles now

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This I found. It can search PDF files if you install that oiption.l. You need net 4.0 or it will crash.
http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/

This I found. It can search PDF files if you install that oiption.l. You need net 4.0 or it will crash.
http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/

That should say: "I found this. It can search PDF files if you install the option. You need Net Framework 4.0 or it crashes."

I did some tests now that I'm not halfway out of it. It works pretty great.

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, aimee, you can edit posts, y'know .

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Lol. I didnt think that at the time

This program I use to pull images out of PDF files. However its very fussy and crashes easily and has sort of a poor translation (e.g. "Images Coverting". Wow. Undercover images!)
http://www.somepdf.com/some-pdf-image-extract.html

Does someone know a decent alternative? Screencapping is a pain. and a lot of the ones I found are either shareware or have missing features (e.g. only doing specific pages).

 

[Mise]

For anyone who has a car, this Dos program that I recently rediscovered on my hard drive is sooooo freaking cool:

http://www.cartestsoftware.com/cartest4.5/index.html

You put in your stuff and it tells you what your car's doing. For example, for my VW Passat 1.8T (before it died nearly 3 years ago), this is a graph of loss components, as a function of velocity:

It's sooooo freaking cool...

 

[PeteAtoms]

Apparently the folks at Dropbox have made a new way for you to increase your free storage space connected to your account. It's some sort of scavenger hunt, I just started.

Dropquest 2011

 

[Narnia]

My Jr Highschool introduced me to this program. It is GREAT! It's called graphcalc.
Here's the cnet.com download link

Spoiler :

http://download.cnet.com/GraphCalc/3000-2053_4-10032337.html?tag=mncol;1

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I stumbled on this open-source backup thingy. Anybody know anything more about it? Is it recommended?
http://www.areca-backup.org/

Quick google it seems mostly positive, it doesn't have scheduled backups but I dont use those anyways. And its written in Java it looks like.

 

[jono256]

"Who Crashed" (http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed) is a Windows crash dump file analiser. It points to the driver/device that caused the crash.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My mom said she didn't want AVG anymore (after I set up her new laptop after her computer blew up). She kept screaming at me that AVG wanted her to upgrade. I tried to explain to her that it was optional but she went and uninstalled it anyways. So I decided to try ClamWin this time. But after looking up stuff I maybe try another one. What's a good free one with auto-scanning (she's too dumb to understand to turn it on once a week) and that won't bug her with notifications to upgrade?

Or better yet, some way to lock down her computer so she can't do anything dumb? (And that I wouldn't have to keep running in and manually doing it for her. Maybe remotely.)

 

[PeteAtoms]

I think Sandboxie is supposed to help protect you while using sketchy sites/apps.
And I would look into Microsoft Security Essentials as an AV.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well my mom wouldnt be able to figure out Sandboxie. But Ill look at the Microsoft thing.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well my mom wouldnt be able to figure out Sandboxie. But Ill look at the Microsoft thing.

So anyways she went to the store. I told her not to bother with Norton or McAFee b'cos they have cruddy detection rates. But she let some fast-talking salesman convince her to buy Norton... here's the clincher.... It was the most expensive A/V in the store. Mhm.

 

[Takhisis]

It's about time we got a facepalm emote for CFC.

 

[cidknee]

antivirus.....KASPERSKY. nortons is garbage, so is mcaffe.

 

[luk3Z]

antivirus.....KASPERSKY. nortons is garbage, so is mcaffe.

If we talking about KASPERSKY - you can find KAV8 source code on the ed2k
Anyway I don't use any commercial AV programs I have only free ClamAV nad Avira installed and both they're great (but not started both simultaneously).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

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

Wow. I was looking through this thread and I have no memory of making this post.

I installed this on my mom's computer and accidentally got her addicted to it:
http://supertux.lethargik.org/

 

[dragonprobably]

Excuse Me, I'd like to find a free software to make music mashups with. It must have the Following Requirements:

Spoiler :

• Must be free
• It must be easy to use
• It can mash together more than 2 songs
• It can use MP3 files
• It can be used on a Vista or a OS Mac.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Audacity is a good general-purpose audio editor (and has all those requirements. The second requirement may require some tutorials but it's easy to get the hang of it). But I dont know its use for mashups (Im not even sure what those are).