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Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Eros Henry — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:32:37 -0000

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Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

credit member — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:57:38 -0000

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.

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Zath — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:43:51 -0000

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!

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Howard — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:38:11 -0000

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

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

gili — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:54:52 -0000

@Joseph,

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

Gili

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Ashish Mohta — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:55:41 -0000

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

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Joseph Plazo — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:50:35 -0000

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.

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Travis — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:14:18 -0000

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!

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

abhishek — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:46:20 -0000

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

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer – Part II

Ashish Mohta — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:21:30 -0000

I had been using Infran view and paint dot net from a long time. They work awesome.

Thanks for sharing this info Gili!!!