DISQUS

Connected Internet: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

  • Ashish Mohta · 2 years ago
    I had been using Infran view and paint dot net from a long time. They work awesome.

    Thanks for sharing this info Gili!!!
  • abhishek · 2 years ago
    I have used Irfanview ,Undelete and file shredder and i can say that they are the best in there category.
    Gili thanx for coming up with such a nice list.
    Cheers
    Abhishek
  • Travis · 2 years ago
    Not really a program people "use" commonly, but one of the free programs that I'm very thankful for is Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery. It's a free app to recover media from a flash card (SD/XD/CF, etc).

    My wife went to Germany a couple months ago and took about 150 pictures and when she got back the card basically died. Neither her camera nor 3 computers in my house could read from it. This software was able to recover nearly all of them (I think there were maybe just one or two that she couldn't find which she remembered taking).

    Anyway, for what it's worth. Hopefully this will help someone down the road as it did me. Thanks for your blog!
  • Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago
    I use the PDF Xchange Viewer but run into occasional bumps when authors create a document that requires Adobe Reader v7.08 and above. Then I have to revert to bloatware Adobe.

    Odd really, how companies bloat up software that don't add value. Symantec is 200MB+! Same for many other commercial utilities and readers. Do they equate value for money with size of file??

    Someone ought to send them to freeware school.
  • Ashish Mohta · 2 years ago
    I think they just go with the standards. They had marketted well and developed a matter of trust. Moreover it depnds how they give service back in case of problems. Freewares wont come with services. So ultimately they pay fro SIZE ...Money and Service all of them
  • gili · 2 years ago
    @Joseph,

    Why you don't use Foxit Reader? Since i used it for the first time, i never opened my Adobe Reader :)

    Gili
  • Howard · 2 years ago
    The programs I use are FL/OSS ones:

    Firefox Open Source web browser

    Wyzo Open Source web browser based on Firefox 2.0 code base with BitTorrent functionality

    Thunderbird Open Source Email client

    SumatraPDF Open Source PDF reader based on XPDF and MuPDF projects

    InfraRecorder Open Source CD/DVD burning facility

    ClamWin Open Source Anti-virus scanner based on the *nix ClamAV project
  • Zath · 2 years ago
    I'm going to try out Notepad++ and Paint.net as I've also heard good things elsewhere too, but not got round to having a proper play.

    Shall also keep Undelete Plus bookmarked...just in case it's needed!

    Thanks guys!
  • credit member · 2 years ago
    well Gili you post is interesting one for me today. i will be using firefox. i like the first three in your post Notepad ++ , Paint.NET, Irfanview. i wish to try it . is there help option to clear my doubts while using it.
  • Eros Henry · 1 year ago
    I recently found this amazing web browser, by the name of Spacetime.. welcome to 3D browsing! You thought tabbed windows were easy..? Check this demo out an see just how easy it can get! www.spacetime.com