POLL: what types of programs you are most interested in?

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R. L. wrote:

What draw your interest most??

Many kinds. Here are the categories I have my archives of
saved freeware install packages broken down into:

Audio (editors, players, etc.)
Business related (accounting, database, spreadsheet
etc.) CD related (burners, cover makers, etc.)
Desktop
Drivers
Dvd (burners, cover makers, etc.)
Educational
File utilities
Font related
Games
Graphic editors and tools
Icon related
Image viewers
Microsoft downloads
Online related (email, usenet, internet, ftp)
Photoshop Plugins
Program installation related
Reference (zip codes, area codes, maps, etc.)
Religious
Screen saver
Security (antimalware of any type)
System (tweakers, managment, information, etc.)
Video (editors, players, etc.)
Written document related (word processors, OCR, PDF,
etc.) XP stuff (I don't use XP, but work on computers
that do.)
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wow.... you have big size of storage there! Hey, curious,
what type of religious freeware you have ...all I saw often
are just Bible readers.



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Pimmy?
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I myself like it very much. Yet one thing still makes it a
bit hard to use is that one cannot flat read and unread mails
in it (all new mails are either read or unread, and you could
only mark the "last x unread") ...hope that the flag feature
will come soon :-|

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I came across a totally stupid app the other day that does
mouse clicks for you. The only use I can see for this is to
automate the playing of really boring games. I had to get
it and play about with it for a while just so as to stare
at it in disbelief. One day someone will post here with a
question that can only be answered by this ridiculous
program. I will be ready for them. :-)
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lol, yes...from time to time I saw something like that, too.
I think we should have a poll for "most silly program ever",
or a poll for "program you don't ever know whether you will
ever use" award <g>



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*ProteanThread* said:
Check alt.binaries.freeware
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Uh, no. I said "True Type font creator" not "font viewer". Font viewers
are all over the place.
Especially the one you posted. That's an old one; one of the first ones
I tried years ago.
 
R. L. said:
Sure, absolutely :-) ..and perhaps also good to check them in
Google archives to see if they have been mentioned recently
before posting :)
(not only checking the name of the program, but their URL)
This has been a little bit more work for me but it worths it
IMO.


It is hard to find kidsware. Besides games, what kinds of
goodies you usually find for kids? (btw how old are yours ?)
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My daughter is 3 and a half with another one on the way at the end of this
month.

I'd take anything for kids (that's why I post whatever kids freeware I find)
'cause not only are they hard to find but their $$$ counter parts are almost
never the money I spend on them.


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Ben Cooper said:
Uh, no. I said "True Type font creator" not "font viewer". Font viewers
are all over the place.
Especially the one you posted. That's an old one; one of the first ones
I tried years ago.
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Only a matter of time, then. :o)


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http://rtdos.com/forum (rtdos message boards)
http://rtdos.com/rtdos (rtdos active developer chat)

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R. L. said:
lol, yes...from time to time I saw something like that, too.
I think we should have a poll for "most silly program ever",
or a poll for "program you don't ever know whether you will
ever use" award <g>
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I also have a candidate. But I've sworn to shut up about it until the end of
this year. And besides, I don't want to wake the dog in this case...

MightyKitten
 
I also have a candidate. But I've sworn to shut up about it
until the end of this year. And besides, I don't want to
wake the dog in this case...
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yes yes <hehehe>



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R. L. said:
John Corliss <[email protected]#> says in




wow.... you have big size of storage there! Hey, curious,
what type of religious freeware you have ...all I saw often
are just Bible readers.
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My family is Catholic, so there are a few such programs I keep for
them. For instance, the Douay-Rheims Bible, a rosary program, stations
of the cross.

As for the freeware, it's a simple thing to back it all up on CDR,
which I do on a regular basis.

By the way, as for me I worship Odin and Shiva the Destroyer.
 
I myself like organizers, reminder or time related ones. I
also like to look at some that I don't often see (e.g., I
recently saw a "baby growing log" program and think that it is
kind of fun). How about you guys? Browsers? Chat programs?
What draw your interest most??
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I am looking searching, gasping, crawling, the net for a decent and easy
to use relational database... (Something like filemaker) but I don't think
there is one.. :-(

However I am interested in most graphics and draw packages, webdesign apps
multimedia, sound, music...

As for browsers, Email, Office AV and Firewall etc... happy with what I
have..




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R. L. said:
I myself like organizers, reminder or time related ones. I
also like to look at some that I don't often see (e.g., I
recently saw a "baby growing log" program and think that it is
kind of fun). How about you guys? Browsers? Chat programs?
What draw your interest most??
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1) Games (especially retro games / remakes). http://www.remakes.org/ is
a good site for that.
2) Utilities. Found a nice system tray icon to to a quick "standby"
mode: http://www.winutility.com/qsd/. Still would love to find a way to
add an icon to explorer so that I can quickly create a new folder.

Cheers,
-Scott
 
I am looking searching, gasping, crawling, the net for a
decent and easy to use relational database... (Something
like filemaker) but I don't think there is one.. :-(
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Have you look at Literary Machine?
(http://www.literarymachine.com/lm__index2.htm)
It is a bit hard to use, though.



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R. L. said:
I myself like organizers, reminder or time related ones. I
also like to look at some that I don't often see (e.g., I
recently saw a "baby growing log" program and think that it is
kind of fun). How about you guys? Browsers? Chat programs?
What draw your interest most??
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"Professional usage" programs.

e.g. CAD, image editing, audio editing, web design.

My area is electronics and there is a lack of free programs for circuit design
(mainly for circuit boards).

[]s
 
My area is electronics and there is a lack of free programs
for circuit design (mainly for circuit boards).
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I don't knwo what that exactly is, but my search returned
this:

http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/

I saw the page has fuzzy a "window like" screenshot and says
something as GPL licensed...

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Chaos Master <[email protected]> says in

e.g. CAD, image editing, audio editing, web design.

My area is electronics and there is a lack of free programs
for circuit design (mainly for circuit boards).

[]s
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and are these also freeware?? I don't know, they didn't say

http://hans-w.com/

and saw some screenshots here:

http://hans-w.com/download.htm


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S said:
Still would love to find a way to
add an icon to explorer so that I can quickly create a new folder.
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Hmmm...

There are any amount of ways of adding that functionality to the right
click menu, or a hot key.

There must be an easy way of adding an icon.
 
John, I'm most impressed with your list (I'm rather a dilettante at
heart too :) but it does remind me of a complaint by software
publishers about 20 years ago. IIRC, they were complaining about lost
sales amounting to "billions of dollars" worldwide due to piracy, and
the article mentioned some bloke who allegedly had "over 700 pirated
programs".

My immediate reaction was "So what?" Quite obviously, anyone
busily collecting that many programs had no time left to use even one
of them, much less buy one to be unused! So there had been no loss to
anyone at all.

R. L. wrote: [...]
What draw your interest most??
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Many kinds. Here are the categories I have my archives of saved
freeware install packages broken down into:

Audio (editors, players, etc.)
Business related (accounting, database, spreadsheet etc.)
CD related (burners, cover makers, etc.)
Desktop
Drivers
Dvd (burners, cover makers, etc.)
Educational
File utilities
Font related
Games
Graphic editors and tools
Icon related
Image viewers
Microsoft downloads
Online related (email, usenet, internet, ftp)
Photoshop Plugins
Program installation related
Reference (zip codes, area codes, maps, etc.)
Religious
Screen saver
Security (antimalware of any type)
System (tweakers, managment, information, etc.)
Video (editors, players, etc.)
Written document related (word processors, OCR, PDF, etc.)
XP stuff (I don't use XP, but work on computers that do.)

Note, I don't use a computer in a business environment so YMMV.
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Cheers, Phred.
 
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