Fun Poll: do you know the nationality of your freeware? :)

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R. L.

Ok, here is my list:

Pimmy was born in Italy www.geminisoft.com
KeyNote was born in Poland http://www.tranglos.com/
MyIE is obviously Chinese www.myie2.com
Atnote is from Austria http://atnotes.fr.st/


Firefox...hmmm...."muti-racial"??

Anyone :-D ???


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Places that host a list of the Pricelessware annual voting
results and information:
http://www.pricelessware.org,
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org, http://www.earths-
ocular.com/mirror/www.pricelesswarehome.org/
 
R. L. said:
Ok, here is my list:

Pimmy was born in Italy www.geminisoft.com
KeyNote was born in Poland http://www.tranglos.com/
MyIE is obviously Chinese www.myie2.com
Atnote is from Austria http://atnotes.fr.st/


Firefox...hmmm...."muti-racial"??
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I've thought about making a map for the PL site - with the locations of
the PL authors marked - it's a mice international collection. :)

KeyNote - Poland (as noted above)
Oubliette - Poland
Visit URL - Poland

and all by Marek Jedlinski :)

THE Rename - France
XnView - France
MyAlbum - France

I believe it's someone else's turn now. . . Hint - go here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004ProgramIndex.php?sortby=Author

and read the author's names. ;)

Susan
 
I've thought about making a map for the PL site - with the
locations of the PL authors marked - it's a mice
international collection. :)
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Hey, it will be good to have stat listing countries that have
most freeware got listed on the pricelessware. But of course,
many did not really get into the pricelessware list. I am
alwasy wondering which country have people making most
freeware (I mean quantity-wise).



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I've thought about making a map for the PL site - with the locations of
the PL authors marked - it's a mice international collection. :)
Click to expand...

Due to our quarantine restrictions, foreign mice are generally not
permitted entry into Oz. ;-)
KeyNote - Poland (as noted above)
Oubliette - Poland
Visit URL - Poland
and all by Marek Jedlinski :)

THE Rename - France
XnView - France
MyAlbum - France

I believe it's someone else's turn now. . . Hint - go here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004ProgramIndex.php?sortby=Author
and read the author's names. ;)
Click to expand...

Cheers, Phred.
 
: R. L. wrote:
:
: > Ok, here is my list:
: >
: > Pimmy was born in Italy www.geminisoft.com
: > KeyNote was born in Poland http://www.tranglos.com/
: > MyIE is obviously Chinese www.myie2.com
: > Atnote is from Austria http://atnotes.fr.st/
: >
: >
: > Firefox...hmmm...."muti-racial"??
:
: I've thought about making a map for the PL site - with the locations
of
: the PL authors marked - it's a mice international collection. :)
:
Don't we have enough problems with domestic house/field mice; you gotta
bring in the International ones, too! <beg>
:
: KeyNote - Poland (as noted above)
: Oubliette - Poland
: Visit URL - Poland
:
: and all by Marek Jedlinski :)
:
: THE Rename - France
: XnView - France
: MyAlbum - France
:
: I believe it's someone else's turn now. . . Hint - go here:
:
:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004ProgramIndex.php?sortby=Author
:
: and read the author's names. ;)
:
: Susan
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: Pricelessware: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org
: alt.comp.freeware FAQ: http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq.html
 
PuppyKatt said:
news:[email protected]...
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: I've thought about making a map for the PL site - with the locations
of
: the PL authors marked - it's a mice international collection. :)
:
Don't we have enough problems with domestic house/field mice; you gotta
bring in the International ones, too! <beg>
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but they're so *cute*. . . and they do write nice apps. . . ;)

Susan
 
Of course. :) On my best freeware and shareware list,
every program has "country of origin" info...

http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.7985
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Thank you. A very nice link.


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BTW I update this list every month with new programs...
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You do not have Photofiltre (France) and Pixia (Japan) in your Images
section. Maybe you'd like to consider including these two excellent
programs.

Photofiltre is an image processing program, and Pixia is a paint
program. Both are of the highest possible quality and usefullness, and
are real freeware.
 
You do not have Photofiltre (France) and Pixia (Japan) in your Images
section. Maybe you'd like to consider including these two excellent
programs.
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I've just yesterday installed "GIMP", and he is scheduled to be one of
programs for next list update. :) I'll also install two programs
you mentioned to see how they compare. Thanks for suggestions!
 
Stardust said:
I've just yesterday installed "GIMP", and he is scheduled to be one of
programs for next list update. :) I'll also install two programs
you mentioned to see how they compare. Thanks for suggestions!
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I have tried all these programs and I can tell you my experiences, so
you can compare with your own experiences.

Gimp is potentially a very powerful paint program, a freeware Photoshop
equivalent, but it is very big, it has a strange interface which needs a
lot of training to use, and it has always crashed too often for me so I
have never been able to use it for real work. Others have much better
experiences of Gimp and think it is the superior freeware paint program.

Pixia and Photofiltre are very small and very fast programs, never
crash, and are really useful.

When I work with pictures I can use Paintshop Pro (not freeware), or I
can use a combination of Irfanview, Pixia and Photofiltre.
This trio of freeware programs can replace all functions of PsP and is
more powerful than PsP, uses less memory and cpu resources.

In my previous computer PsP8 would not work, it froze the computer after
a few minutes, but this freeware trio had no problems.

Irfanview (or XnView) is the viewer/selector program, from that you can
start Photofiltre to process pictures, change colors etc..
To create new pictures (or for more advanced editing) I need a paint
program and Pixia is the best freeware alternative, unless you want to
install and learn the Gimp which needs a lot more resources and
training.

I have tried several versions of Gimp on several machines and operative
systems, and I still have not seen it work without serious problems for
more than a few minutes. It is definitely not a program suitable for a
lot of people.
 
Gimp is potentially a very powerful paint program, a freeware Photoshop
equivalent, but it is very big, it has a strange interface which needs a
lot of training to use, and it has always crashed too often for me so I
have never been able to use it for real work. Others have much better
experiences of Gimp and think it is the superior freeware paint program.
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My thoughts exactly... GIMP is potentially very powerful, but what good
is that when it crashed after 10 minutes of use. :) (console popped up
complaining about some font errors)
Pixia and Photofiltre are very small and very fast programs, never
crash, and are really useful.
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I tried PhotoFiltre and I must say it's an excellent program!
Very stable, conservative in memory usage and has added only a few
keys/values to windows registry. (trademark of a great programmer)

Also... it's very easy to use, everything is where I expect it to be.
That PaintShop Pro "look and feel" is another thing that impresses me.
This program goes on the list in the next update for sure.

Pixia is good, but since I don't really create any pictures from the
scratch, I think PhotoFiltre will be enough for my basic editing needs.

BTW
I'm looking for a freeware CD Burning program to replace CDRWIN.
Since we have so similar "taste" in programs, any suggestions? :-)
 
Stardust said:
I'm looking for a freeware CD Burning program to replace CDRWIN.
Since we have so similar "taste" in programs, any suggestions? :-)
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No, sorry, no own experiences. I got a commercial prog with my CD-burner
and I have not researched the freeware alternatives. But I have heard
people here talk about Deepburner as one of the best freeware programs.

I am sure others have more experiences and can mention other burner
programs.

Check out the pricelessware list, there is at least one there.
 
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