Favourite FreeWare?

[bystander]

What is everyone's favourite freeware?

Having trouble installing MSOffice 2000 on WinXP Pro, I decided to try Sun StarOffice 5.2. It's very good for freeware, although it takes some getting used to, after using MSOffice for so long. It does everything I need, but it seems a bit slow in starting up.

I another program which I found to be quite useful is AVG's Anti-Virus System. Not only is it freeware but its also gives you free virus updates too. :smile:

Of course how can I forget my favourite piece of freeware SiSoft Sandra 2002. :smile:

 

[mat]

WinAmp!

 

[pascal]

Staroffice is great

 

[Dave Baumann]

Zonealarm! :smile:
And Trillian is fast becoming one of my Favorites.

 

[Saem]

Heh, I love Trillian, if it had a whiteboard and could work with MSN's voice chat, it'd be amazing!

 

[Dmitry]

mirc & aim

 

[pascal]

Some rumours that Sun charge for staroffice ($50 to $100)

 

[zxzx]

add IrfanView

 

[Anonymous]

Some rumours that Sun charge for staroffice ($50 to $100)

Yes, StarOffice 6.0 costs money, but You can use the OpenOffice 1.0 instead. IMHO the only drawback is they have no spell checker and a few different not so important things missing. The spell checker for instance is from an different company, so Sun can not use it for the OpenOffice too.

 

[Pete]

Arachnophilia (HTML editor)
Ad-Aware (Lavasoft.com?)
BSPlayer (video player, lowest CPU util)
Coolmon (PC stats, Arsware.org)
Folding@Home (donate CPU cycles for a good cause)
IrfanView (picture viewer/saver/cropper)
LeechFTP (to queue Internet downloads)
Motherboard Monitor (keep tabs on CPU + MB temp, for OC'ers)
NetStat Live (keep tabs on internet usage + speed, analogx.com)
NoteTab Light (excellent notepad replacement)
PowerArchiver 6.11 (no annoying WinZip prompts)
PowerDesk (> Explorer)
Proxomitron (filter pop-ups)
Sasami2K (video player, nice GUI)
SmartFTP (open-source)
Tiny Personal Firewall (smaller than ZoneAlarm, rule-based--tougher to setup, but offers more control--TinySoft.com)
TxtPrint (useful for printing code)
Winamp (and Geiss3D, Milkdrop, and Smoke for plugins)

I've heard GuildFTP is a good freeware FTP server.

That's enough for now. Google 'em up for links.

BTW, how do you like AVG AV? I'm not sure I trust freeware AV programs--I'm paranoid that way. But my Norton has lapsed, and I've yet to buy another $12 Norton Systemworks Pro (AV, Utilities, Ghost)--an unbeatable value, IMO.

 

[Saem]

I use AVG and pass off the URL to anyone looking for a virus scanner, I have'nt heard on complaint yet and I know people who've tossed the scanners they paid for, to use AVG.

 

[|)U(|0F|)3@TH]

A similar thread was posted at Anandtech forums a while back, and one of the more intrepid posters put everyone's suggestions together on a web page. Here it is:

http://www.dma.org/~millersg/CoolSoftware.html

This topic would make a good sticky.

 

[Simon F]

One other not mentioned on that site is "Gravity", a top notch news/Usenet reader for windoze. It was shareware (which I bought) but is now free.

 

[Colourless]

I like Exult but I have certain ulterior motives, and while the engine is free, the content isn't (not ours obviously).

 

[Pete]

Just tried GuildFTP (only on my local LAN), and it seems pretty sweet. Not sure if it has any gaping security holes, though.

 

[RussSchultz]

I like Exult but I have certain ulterior motives, and while the engine is free, the content isn't (not ours obviously).

Wow. I used to think U7 was the shiznit. When I looked at some of those screenshots, however, I thought "eeewwww".

But, of course, I had this wierd thought that C64 games were the pinnacle of quality and deep thought. Then I played them on a C64 emulator. Bleh. Anybody who says games these days suck should go look at what was made in the past.

 

[Anonymous]

I like Exult but I have certain ulterior motives, and while the engine is free, the content isn't (not ours obviously).

Wow. I used to think U7 was the shiznit. When I looked at some of those screenshots, however, I thought "eeewwww".

But, of course, I had this wierd thought that C64 games were the pinnacle of quality and deep thought. Then I played them on a C64 emulator. Bleh. Anybody who says games these days suck should go look at what was made in the past.

/off topic:

oh yeah? Zak McKracken's still better than a lot of them

the word is 'playability' my friend - that goes for all games
...Gridrunner anyone?

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