OK, guys, you've been at it for quite some time now, like busy beavers, posting lots of fascinating info about freeware gems.

So what's I want now is a Top Ten list!

<VBG>

;-)

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oxelon media converter
musikcube

K-Meleon, Adbolck Plus, Ramdisk

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

Proxomitron (local web filtering proxy and more...)

K-Meleon, Ubuntu, OpenOffice ... not freeware, but free

A+

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Mozilla/5.0 (x11; U; Linux x86_64; fr-FR; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Ubuntu/12.04 K-Meleon/76.0

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Web: http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Mail : alain [dot] aupeix [at] wanadoo [dot] fr

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Ubuntu 12.04 - Gramps 3.4.9 - Harbour 3.2.0 - Hwgui 2.20-3 - K-Meleon 76.0 rc

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oxelon media converter
musikcube

Oxeleon is great... I also like FileSplitter, from the list. Very nice for big files. Hadn't used anything newer than the original DOS chunker.

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Yogi
Proxomitron (local web filtering proxy and more...)

Yogi,

Yes, saw that one. Like the concept, not sure I wish to put in the effort though.

N

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JujuLand
K-Meleon, Ubuntu, OpenOffice ... not freeware, but free

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Juju,

Ah, Linux... have played with it off and on over the years, but never was able to replace the tools I use in Windows and at work. So admirable, but not for me. OpenOffice I've had too, from time to time.. but what a monster of a suite and there too I ended up with Office 2000 and converters. Found myself in the constraints of work and customary software.

As for K-meleon, great, so long as Early Blue Theme works! <g,d&r>

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@ndebord,

I have found all the tools I used under Windows, or equivalent. The hardest has been to find a tool to correct wavfiles ripped from LPs. Now I have one, and as Windows has destroyed a 40 Go HD of ripped music, I have replaced definitively XP by Ubuntu.

For OpenOffice, it's a great suite, and what guys often forget, when they say that Ooo is not as quick as MsOffice, it's that Windows opens a lot of dll to accelerate MsOffice opening. They think that it's Windows which is long to open, instead of thinking that Microsoft can be unfaithful on the reason of time used when initializing.

I always love K-Meleon, and I will continue, even Firefox under Linux (and perhaps under Ubuntu) offers some nice functions, as print the page in pdf file (no need to connect to specific website, to have a pdf version of a complete page.

Under Linux, even there are some limitations, it a pure bliss to use K-Meleon, which is as quick as, and probably more, Firefox.

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Mozilla/5.0 (x11; U; Linux x86_64; fr-FR; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Ubuntu/12.04 K-Meleon/76.0

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Web: http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Mail : alain [dot] aupeix [at] wanadoo [dot] fr

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Ubuntu 12.04 - Gramps 3.4.9 - Harbour 3.2.0 - Hwgui 2.20-3 - K-Meleon 76.0 rc

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Alain,

<<I always love K-Meleon, and I will continue, even Firefox under Linux (and perhaps under Ubuntu) offers some nice functions, as print the page in pdf file (no need to connect to specific website, to have a pdf version of a complete page.>>

In Windows if you use CutePDFWriter, you can print anything to PDF from files or from the web. Snagit (commercial) allows you to print to file or printer in a variety of formats and you use the scrolling window feature there to do a lot of the stuff.

N



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Writemonkey, Unlocker, Trout player, Foobar, AIMP, XnView, FastStone Image Viewer, FastStone Capture (last free version), FastStone MaxView (last free version), Cinta Notes, Ditto, Flash Disinfector, Taskarrange, DsCrypt, Truecrypt, 7-zip



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Magic formation, Toolbox 2.85

Windows Freeware working well in Linux with wine :

Oxelon Converter
Format Factory Converter
Mp3QualityModifier
Foobar2000 player
RadioSure player/recorder
Aimp2 player
Winamp

ScreenRecorderGold
freez_screenvideocapture

FLVplayer
DVDdecrypter

IrfanView
ImageCropper
FastStoneCapture
Xnview

7-zip
FoxPDFreader
CCCalc writing calculator
QCalc spreadsheet
Spread32 spreadsheet
NFreader newsreader
FBreader bookreader
Speakonia voice reader
RDFticker newsticker
Unstoppable copier
Gul bookmarks
Proxomitron local proxy
Scite source editor

OB1 browser (no javascript, but fast)
and of course, a certain
K-Meleon.

and many others.
All of them good in Windows too.

Fred

P.S.
A few of them are shareware, but can be used
in Linux with wine for a longer time,
creating a new .wine configuration, possibly
renaming the older .wine folder to
e.g. .wine2, and renaming it back to .wine
after having used the shareware.
In Windows they would cost something after
the evaluation period. But not much.

Fred

Some more for Linux with wine (and Windows) :

Spider player
FastStoneMaxViewer portable
FastStoneImageViewer portable
CintaNotes
PhotoFiltre image editor
PhotoStudio image editor
Pixia image editor

InkscapePortable vector graphics (if Linux version not available)
Abiword word processor (if Linux version not available)
OpenOfficePortable word processor (if Linux version not available)
Gnumeric spreadsheet (if Linux version not available)
Gimp image editor (if Linux version not available)

(Note : Inkscape, Abiword, Gnumeric, Gimp, OpenOffice are the
standard apps in Linux, and mostly already present in
the distros, the Windows versions are highly recommended
for Windows users too, all free.)

Fred

ERUNT, NTREGOPT, audiograbber, eac, autorun eater, CDex, CDisplay, cdrtfe, everything, Daemon tools lite, FARR, imgburn, jaangle, jarte, jkdefrag, katmouse,
lilith player, apollo player, mp3gain, MRU blaster, Notepad++, restoration, revo uninstaller, sandboxie, script sentry, trust-no-exe, f.lux, super, format factory, unstoppable copier, xplorer2 litek, q-dir, zenkey, ykill, Kmplayer, mplayer for windows, media player classic, VLC

Leaving browsers out of it , must haves for me include:

strokeit (ABSOLUTE MUST) - windows mouse gestures app
qttabbar - tabs for windows explorer
pop peeper - checks all email accounts
launchy - like an address bar for your desktop to open anything on your PC
mouse extender - easy way to launch apps with your mouse instead of cluttering the desktop w/icons
yahoo widgets(resource hog I know, but still love it) - I use 10 of them
7zip - self-explanatory
winwall - excellent wallpaper changer
styler toolbar - windows toolbars skinning app
taskbar activate - great when viewing apps in fullscreen
extended task manager - self-explanatory
GridMove - almost forgot about this customizable windows snapping app. Very handy when comparing macro module files. Better than Win7's snap feature. More options.



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samurize
virtual dimension

WinSnap, Brute force uninstaller, Suamp, Hijack this, Dosbox, ScummVM, Screenshot Captor , Pitaschio, PDFOCR, Scribus, Osiva, FreeOTFEexplorer, stripmail, Artsee, IsoBuster, Colibri, CloneSpy, CCleaner, Antifreeze, Scanner (Steffen Gerlach), Close Many, KillBox, DelAny, FSL Launcher



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/15/2010 07:55AM by JujuLand.

Abiword Portable, Aida32, ATF-Cleaner, Atomic Clock, AutoPing, AutoStreamer, Avast, BlogDesk, Dawn5, Erunt, ExplorerXP, FileHide, FileSplitter, FontViewer, Foxit Reader, Foxmail 5, FTP Wanderer, Gif Animator, Handy Recovery, HijackThis, Icon Thief, IMGBurn, InCtrl5, IrFanview, Kindle for PC, MadMacs, Media Player Classic, MalwareBytes, nPop, PDFSam, Power Archiver, Process Explorer, Reg Cleaner, SetBrowser, Stunnel, SyncBack, TerraIM, TweakUI, UnClean, WinWinner, Win32x, XClone

N

Files2HD

Dailymotion Video Downloader (only because I can download files from public computers even when ESET Antivirus is blocking others downloaders and when Keepvid and others can't download these videos because comp does not have Java installed or because they can't recognize video for some reason or another altought they claim they can).

I am still waiting for universal downloader where I could download everything I want from any site. I do not think this is possible though.



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Arena (chess), WinboardX_Rybka, Angel Writer, ArsClip, Outpost Firewall, dvdisaster, EditPad lite, ERUNT Gui, File Splitter & Joiner, FlashOffliner, MV2Player, NoteTab Light, PC Inspector File Recovery, PC Inspector smart Recovery, PureRa, The Sage, xpy, eraser, AutoIt, Autohotkey, TED Notepad, minipad2, NFOPad, ShirusuPad, QuotePad (Notes holder), Unlock Me, Universal Viewer, universal Extractor, Who Crashed, Note Mania, MusicBee

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