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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex
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 Posted: Tue Nov 16, 04 3:49 pm Post subject: Useful Free Software |
 
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Below is a list of free software suggested by our members, please PM one of the Mods if your favourite isn't listed. Downsizer doesn't endorse any of the software listed so please check the suitability yourself before using.
Audiograbber, the best and easiest CD ripper:
https://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
Real VNC, remotely connect to another PC regardless of Operating System
https://www.realvnc.com/
Karen's Power Tools, a mine of useful Windows utilities:
https://www.karenware.com/
phpBB the software that runs this forum:
https://www.phpbb.com/
Mambo the software we use for our home page:
https://www.mamboserver.com/
mySQL an industrial strength multi platform database:
https://www.mysql.com/
OpenOffice a useable replacement for MS Office:
https://www.openoffice.org/
Opera my favourite browser, unfortunately the free version displays ads:
https://www.opera.com/
FireFox, a browser that's streets ahead of Internet Explorer:
https://www.mozilla.org/
Thunderbird an excellent mail client, much better than Outlook Express:
https://www.mozilla.org/
PICASA Photo cataloguing software:
https://www.picasa.com/picasa/
Get a firewall, and you do need one:
www.zonelabs.com
Free on-line virus check:
https://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Get rid of unwanted adware with:
www.lavasoftusa.com
Image and Photo Editor:
https://www.gimp.org/
Easy to use image handling software. Can auto resize to all the fav screen sizes:
https://www.irfanview.com/
Help with Ifranview can be found in this post: https://forum.downsizer.net/about1570.html
Windows XP power toys, official Microsoft free utilities, including an easy image/picture resizer.
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/default.mspx
AVGFree Free AnitiVirus Software
https://free.grisoft.com
https://www.grisoft.com
Free file extraction, archiving and much more:
https://www.7-zip.org/
An FTP client for up/downloading files to FTP sites:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
ISO->CD/DVD Recorder:
https://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
A link to the some of the best free software:
https://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
Weather Watcher, weather in over 77000 cities from your toolbar
https://www.singerscreations.com/AboutWeatherWatcher.asp
KeePass, free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
https://keepass.info/ |
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