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From: SMD [#1]
19 Sep 2004
To: ALL
By the by, if you think I've missed out a category or one is redundant, just say. Right now I'm only going to put up a few types of software to get things going:
| OS Type Things |
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BART-PE: Basically it's a mini-OS on a CD (bootable, natch) that has lots of nifty features. These include: - Inbuilt file browser - Can read FAT, FAT32 and (ye gads!) NTFS volumes - Inbuilt text editor for on-the-fly editing of system files - Network support And lots of other stuff. A great disk to have around when Windows has a spafe attack or when a particularly nasty spyware program refuses to be deleted. |
| Antivirus |
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McAfee AntiVirus Corporate It's small, inexpensive, and is McAfee's bread and butter so they make damn sure it works before they release a new one. It doesn't look pretty, but it does what it should and nothing else. |
| Firewalls |
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Kerio
Personal Firewall: It works, has plenty of options, and is free for home use. |
| Browsers |
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Mozilla Firefox: Small, light, hugely configurable, tabbed, free, fast. |
| Media Players |
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Media Player Classic: Small, light, free, fast, intuitive. Plays all yer files, and DVDs to boot. |
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VideoLAN: Small, light, free. Often manages to play even corrupt or incomplete files. Can do fancy streaming things if you ask it nicely. |
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Zoom Player: Does what you might expect, but DVD-bits aren't free these days. Skinnable. Lighter than WMP. |
| Filesharing |
| I am empty, add something here! |
| Torrent clients |
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Bit Tornado: Traffic light! Throttling! Speedy-downloads! (doesn't do multiple torrents in one window, though. But you can minimise it to tray, so that doesn't bother me.) |
EDITED: 25 Aug 2005 by SMD
From: Radio [#2]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
Not exactly in any of those categories, but I'd put IrfanView in there - I think pretty much everyone here uses it, or has used it at some point.
Its great because it has a small footprint, loads quickly and has a very uncluttered interface. It will also recognise almost every image format under the sun, handily renaming any files that have incorrect extensions.
Oh, and its free.
www.irfanview.com
For filesharing, I don't know if its the best, but I use Shareaza. It plugs into emule, bitTorrent etc. and has a nice, easy to use bandwidth throttler.
From: dave (DAVE3) [#3]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
From: SMD [#4]
19 Sep 2004
To: dave (DAVE3) [#3] 19 Sep 2004
But that doesn't cover as wide a range as I'm aiming. Nor does it explain them.
And he's too busy boning his woman to update it often.
From: Wayne (SCOREZ2000) [#5]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
I'm wanting to buy a new ADSL router at the minute.
Preferably:
at least 4 ports
firewall
wireless.
Anyone recomend?
From: Rowan [#6]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
- Mozilla Firefox:
Small, light, hugely configurable, tabbed, free, fast.
Media Player
- Media Player Classic:
Small, light, free, fast, intuitive. Plays all yer files, and DVDs to boot. - VideoLAN:
Small, light, free. Often manages to play even corrupt or incomplete files. Can do fancy streaming things if you ask it nicely. - Zoom Player:
Does what you might expect, but DVD-bits aren't free these days. Skinnable. Lighter than WMP.
Torrent Client
- Bit Tornado:
Traffic light! Throttling! Speedy-downloads! [doesn't do multiple torrents in one window, though. But you can minimise it to tray, so that doesn't bother me.]
Image Viewer
- IrfanView [addendum]:
Does batch operations splendidly, too.
From: Dave!! [#7]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
Well, I'd put Firefox in for browser, I've recently been converted to Azereus for BitTorrent cos it's very nice and fast. Plus it's open source. I also use eDonkey and SoulSeek regularly too. For media player, I actually use Winamp 5 for audio and Media Player Classic for video. Other people will prefer Media Player 10 for both together.
AVG is my current Anti-virus software cos it does the job without hogging resources, plus it's free. Finally, I don't use a firewall cos my router has one built in.
From: steve [#8]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
Trillian Pro (or just vanilla-trill).
Best program to automatically make playlists from certain keywords and launch Winamp with them all in one click;
SmurfAMP Launcher by STEVE
From: [LST]Daniel (MODGE2K) [#9]
19 Sep 2004
To: Wayne (SCOREZ2000) [#5] 19 Sep 2004
From: steve [#10]
19 Sep 2004
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From: Wayne (SCOREZ2000) [#11]
19 Sep 2004
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From: steve [#12]
19 Sep 2004
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From: bohman75 [#13]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
meh... I've seen better
From: bohman75 [#14]
19 Sep 2004
To: SMD [#1] 19 Sep 2004
Norton
Firewall
osX's included firewall
Browser
Safari
Mozilla
Media player
iTunes
Quicktime
MPlayer
VLC
Filesharing
Poisoned
Image viewer
Preview
iPhoto
Photoshop 7 (I know, not a "viewer", but love it just so much)
From: SMD [#15]
19 Sep 2004
To: ALL
MINI REVIEWS PEOPLE!
(not in anyway directed at anyone. Nope. Nuh uh. No way.)
From: Dave!! [#16]
19 Sep 2004
To: bohman75 [#14] 19 Sep 2004
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