Thread to put any and all recommended free software apps for laptop / PC(not free trial apps):
Video Converter: Freemake Video Converter...
Details: Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, SWF, 3GP, DVD, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android, rip & burn DVD, convert FLV & online videos from 50+ sites, burn Blu-ray etc....,
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
Have been using it to convert movies to watch on the phone etc...quare job
Office Package: Open Office
Details: All the features of Microsoft Office, but free.
http://www.openoffice.org/ (http://www.openoffice.org/)
If you've got MS Office, or decide to buy it, it's difficult to remove Open Office and can conflict with MS Office.
AVG do great virus software for free.
VLC Media Player is a fantastic software that lets you watch video in any format.
Open Office as Ziggy mentioned is handy if you can't get Microsoft Office
Quote from: The Iceman on September 14, 2011, 03:00:13 PM
AVG do great virus software for free.
VLC Media Player is a fantastic software that lets you watch video in any format.
Open Office as Ziggy mentioned is handy if you can't get Microsoft Office
AVG seems to slow your PC down too much. I use MS Security Essentials.
Revo Uninstaller is an extremely useful freeware program to have if you want something that does a more thorough job than the Windows Add or Remove Programs applet! (Not sure if there is a Mac or a Linux offering.)
The interface is very straightforward –little or no learning curve. It's also got a slew of useful addons like an autorun manager and a junk files cleaner.
The standard Windows removal tool leave a lot of registry keys behind but Revo can be configured to search for them all and give you the option of deleting them manually.
If you should ever decide to remove Open Office from your computer for any reason,
Bear in mind that I did it once and found I had over 1,400 registry entries to delete!
I'd have given up long before the end but I had to do the most thorough job possible as some leftover entries were apparently conflicting with Ms Office which I was in the process of installing.
www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html
Quote from: J OGorman on September 14, 2011, 10:27:20 AM
Thread to put any and all recommended free software apps for laptop / PC(not free trial apps):
Video Converter: Freemake Video Converter...
Details: Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, SWF, 3GP, DVD, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android, rip & burn DVD, convert FLV & online videos from 50+ sites, burn Blu-ray etc....,
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
Have been using it to convert movies to watch on the phone etc...quare job
How do you convert video with this software, surely you can only put your video in a video recorder?
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
free audio recording software.
SpyBot S&D for spyware and adware removal.
As mentioned VLC is a very good media player but I prefer the lighter Media Player Classic (MPC).The Combined Community Codec Pack CCCP is also essential for any serious media nerds.
For a complete media centre, I've started using XBMC media center and have found it very impressive (and wife proof) and works well with Windows 7 and Windows Home Server 2011
For watching and recording telly, MediaPortal is pretty good. A bit chuggy for watching stuff in, but it recognises pretty much every tuner. Finding it very handy with all these rugby matches on during the middle of the night.
Audacity for sound recording, editing and processing.
Aptana Studio is a good IDE for web development with some functionality for creating iPhone app. Eclipse is a more heavyweight IDE I've used for developing Android apps. BlueGriffon is a good basic web page creator/editor for newbies which supports modern standards such as HTML5.
Virtual Dub for some video processing and some basic editing features. Especially useful for batch processing (converting a dose of video files to different format or settings at once).
HandBrake for DVD ripping and converting into different formats. Needs a little tweaking though to get around digital rights management though.
XAMPP sets up an Apache web server, databases and scripting installations all in one go.
Joomla a good free Content Management System with loads of available templates which allows you to set up a complete, top end website quickly with little fuss.
Google Sketch-up is a good 3D modelling application with loads of easily downloadable models to get you up and running.
GIMP is a pretty good graphics editor which is particularly good for web design work.
QuoteIf you should ever decide to remove Open Office from your computer for any reason,
Bear in mind that I did it once and found I had over 1,400 registry entries to delete!
I dont use windows much if I can help it, but usually something like CCleaner mentioned by Fionntamhnach will find and remove trailing registry entries.
For free software I use Linux as my os, and pretty much all free software on it.
any other good free software for audio other than audacity?
Quote from: cadence on September 16, 2011, 10:37:11 AM
any other good free software for audio other than audacity?
What are you looking it to do?
Anyone know of any good (free) software for editing photos?
Quote from: omagh_gael on September 16, 2011, 10:57:13 AM
Anyone know of any good (free) software for editing photos?
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/ (http://www.gimp.org/)
Quote from: omagh_gael on September 16, 2011, 10:57:13 AM
Anyone know of any good (free) software for editing photos?
I downloaded Lightroom 3 as a torrent from the piratebay.
Great program and easy to use.
Quote from: Ulick on September 16, 2011, 11:04:39 AM
Quote from: omagh_gael on September 16, 2011, 10:57:13 AM
Anyone know of any good (free) software for editing photos?
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/ (http://www.gimp.org/)
No need for the abuse Ulick ;)
Cheers lads will check those out when I get home from work.
CutePDF is useful. Sets up a printer driver to allow any application print to PDF. Handy to printing webpages, tickets etc to PDF for later printing or emailing.
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
GIMP is a bit fiddly for the layman. Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net/download.html) is excellent if you want something simpler with which to manipulate images