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

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Red nosed reindeer

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...045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=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 said:
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
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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.
 
Red said:
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.
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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/win/8.x/8.0/enu/AdbeRdr80_en_US.exe

That is the English version.
 
Alexander said:
RDC (builtin client/server in all recent WIndows OSes)
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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
 
Alias said:
Can one install Acrobat 8 over the top of 7 or does 7 need to be
uninstalled first?

Thanks,

Alias
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Yes.

Installing Acrobat Reader 8 removes version 7.

It has worked flawlessly in all systems I upgraded.

Zee
 
Sure, it covers client part only. But assuming the scope of this group it's
sufficient. If we'd talking about other platforms here I suppose the "Best
apps for 2006" would be quite different.
 
Can one install Acrobat 8 over the top of 7 or does 7 need to be
uninstalled first?
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In the past, I've had a lot of grief trying to install new versions of
Adobe products over earlier ones. My recommendation is to comletely
uninstall the previous version before installing the new one. That
includes emptying any program folders that the uninstall leaves behind,
because Adobe's install/uninstall routines aren't very good at cleaning
things up.
 
| > Can one install Acrobat 8 over the top of 7 or does 7 need to be
| > uninstalled first?
|
| In the past, I've had a lot of grief trying to install new versions of
| Adobe products over earlier ones. My recommendation is to comletely
| uninstall the previous version before installing the new one. That
| includes emptying any program folders that the uninstall leaves behind,
| because Adobe's install/uninstall routines aren't very good at cleaning
| things up.
|
| --
| Gary L. Smith
| Columbus, Ohio


Good advice.

But Adobe's uninstall routines are not alone in leaving a lot of junk
behind.
 
DCR said:
| > Can one install Acrobat 8 over the top of 7 or does 7 need to be
| > uninstalled first?
|
| In the past, I've had a lot of grief trying to install new versions of
| Adobe products over earlier ones. My recommendation is to comletely
| uninstall the previous version before installing the new one. That
| includes emptying any program folders that the uninstall leaves behind,
| because Adobe's install/uninstall routines aren't very good at cleaning
| things up.
|
| --
| Gary L. Smith
| Columbus, Ohio


Good advice.

But Adobe's uninstall routines are not alone in leaving a lot of junk
behind.
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Well, uninstall/install the new one it is then.

Alias
 
Alias said:
Well, uninstall/install the new one it is then.

Alias
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Again, the install process only runs after uninstalling version 7.

That means it will UNinstall not OVERwrite the previous installation.

Zee
 
Again, the install process only runs after uninstalling version 7.
Click to expand...
That means it will UNinstall not OVERwrite the previous installation.
Click to expand...

True, but the uninstall leave files behind. I prefer to delete those
manually before installing the new version, just to be sure that I have
only current files.
 
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