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[-Dexter]

Pictomio

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Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection.
Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.

[-Dexter]

aMSN

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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

    * Offline Messaging
    * Voice Clips
    * Display pictures
    * Custom emoticons
    * Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
    * Webcam support
    * Sign in to more than one account at once
    * Full-speed File transfers
    * Group support
    * Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
    * Chat logs
    * Timestamping
    * Event alarms
    * Conferencing support
    * Tabbed chat windows

[Spartan]

Pwn, aMSN is for macs . The cool thing about it is that it allows you to use the iSight camera as a webcam without affect the performance of your system. But its can be resource heavy sometimes. I prefer MSN:Mac to be honest.

Edited by Spartan, 21 July 2008 - 08:13 AM.

[WF10]

pwn247, on Jul 20 2008, 01:20 AM, said:

aMSN

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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

    * Offline Messaging
    * Voice Clips
    * Display pictures
    * Custom emoticons
    * Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
    * Webcam support
    * Sign in to more than one account at once
    * Full-speed File transfers
    * Group support
    * Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
    * Chat logs
    * Timestamping
    * Event alarms
    * Conferencing support
    * Tabbed chat windows

How sad. Don't add it... why would people choose this of Windows Live?

[kewlceo]

List updated. Now totaling 76 entries! Thanks guys, and if you can think of more freeware utilities/apps that you can't live without, please post them.

Rick

[-Dexter]

WF08, on Jul 21 2008, 01:16 PM, said:

pwn247, on Jul 20 2008, 01:20 AM, said:

aMSN

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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

    * Offline Messaging
    * Voice Clips
    * Display pictures
    * Custom emoticons
    * Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
    * Webcam support
    * Sign in to more than one account at once
    * Full-speed File transfers
    * Group support
    * Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
    * Chat logs
    * Timestamping
    * Event alarms
    * Conferencing support
    * Tabbed chat windows

How sad. Don't add it... why would people choose this of Windows Live?

Windows Live Messenger? Are you kidding me? aMSN has plenty more features , plus it's free, so what's not to like.

And honestly, do so many people still use apps that only handle one IM? Pidgin [free], Digsby [free], Trillian [free], etc... allows me to chat to ALL of my friends, through ALL of my accounts (AIM, MSN, YIM, Google Talk, etc...) within one, easy-to-use application . Plus, I have one chat window open- with tabs for each person I'm chatting with.

Makes it 100x easier to use a single application, rather than running five or six apps to manage your IMs.

[kewlceo]

pwn247, on Jul 21 2008, 07:23 PM, said:

Makes it 100x easier to use a single application, rather than running five or six apps to manage your IMs.

I agree, though there is no all-in-one app that matches the features of those it replaces.

[Chris598]

Many thanks for the list! I have a few more to add.


Celestia: A free program that lets you view the universe in 3-D

Flock: A web browser specializing in social networking. Based off of Firefox.

GraphCalc: A calculator for advanced mathematics.

Restoration : A handy utility for recovering lost files.

AlfaClock: An enhancement for the taskbar clock.

[kewlceo]

Chris598, on Jul 22 2008, 12:22 AM, said:

Many thanks for the list! I have a few more to add.

Thanks, mate, all added. Your contributions are appreciated.  

[pyruvate]

Free Studio Manager

Has many great A/V conversion tools which are fast and reliable.

[kewlceo]

Naturelles, on Jul 22 2008, 06:47 AM, said:

Free Studio Manager

Has many great A/V conversion tools which are fast and reliable.

Thanks, added.  

[-Dexter]

Chris598, on Jul 22 2008, 03:22 AM, said:

AlfaClock: An enhancement for the taskbar clock.

AlfaClock isn't free . I just downloaded it, and right on startup it told me my trial had expired .

And seeing as the last time it was September of 2007... yeah.

[kewlceo]

pwn247, on Jul 22 2008, 09:50 AM, said:

AlfaClock isn't free .

REMOVED

[Chris598]

pwn247, on Jul 22 2008, 12:50 PM, said:

Chris598, on Jul 22 2008, 03:22 AM, said:

AlfaClock: An enhancement for the taskbar clock.

AlfaClock isn't free . I just downloaded it, and right on startup it told me my trial had expired .

And seeing as the last time it was September of 2007... yeah.

Oops.

Sorry. My mistake.

[Chris598]

Sorry for the double post, but I thought I'd add a few more that I use (or have used)

http://www.flashget....en/download.htm : A free download manager. I've used a few of 'em (Download managers, that is. ) and this is my favorite.

http://www.virtualdub.org/: VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video (The site could explain it better than I could. )

Inkscape: A free vector graphics editor.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007: A free virtual machine. Useful if you want to install your old copy of windows 95 but don't want to shell out money on Parallels or VMware





Also, to make  for my alfaclock mix-up:
TClocklight: An app that replaces the taskbar's default clock. No installation is necessary, just unzip into a folder and click on tclock.exe  (Unlike Alfaclock this one is completely free. )

Note that I've only used it for a few hours, so I'm not sure if you have to click on the exe everytime you start up your computer or if it starts up automatically.

Edited by Chris598, 22 July 2008 - 11:08 PM.

[kewlceo]

Chris598, on Jul 22 2008, 09:06 PM, said:

Sorry for the double post, but I thought I'd add a few more that I use (or have used)

Thanks for all the contributions. They have been added.  

Rick

[ollyau]

WorldWide Telescope -

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.

WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.

WWT is a single rich application portal that blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Kids of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.

Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the universe like never before.

Edited by ollyau, 23 July 2008 - 03:32 PM.

[kewlceo]

ollyau, on Jul 23 2008, 01:31 PM, said:

WorldWide Telescope -

Thanks, added.  

[SwitchFX]

F-Secure Rescue CD

http://www.f-secure....elease-3.00.zip

It's a bootable Linux CD that can scan Windows hard drives (NTFS and FAT) as well attached USB drives.

If the computer has an Internet connection, the virus definition databases are updated automatically. If an Internet connection isn't available, the definition databases can be manually updated using a USB drive.

It's an excellent support tool. It's also one of the best ways to scan for and to remove MBR rootkit infections.

[kewlceo]

Nice. Added.