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Cain
14-Nov-2003, 06:02 PM
Thought we could share some programs/codecs/cool stuff wei use in computers which we just could never do without, the things which you would immediately get your hands on once given the chance! ;)

Some of mine are -

1/ Max Payne - If you don't have this SHAME on you! :D

2/ Infranview - It's a pretty good viewer supports loadsa image files, video files, Mp3s the lot, the best thing about this is the speed which it loads at! Pretty fast on my old 166 mmx pc!

Get it here -

http://www.irfanview.com/

Game file explorer - Allows you to open just about any game's data files, includes quake's .pak files, max payne's .ras files etc age of empires DRS files, files that you could'nt normally open.

Good for getting the music of a game that you crave for ;)

get it here - http://gfe.ravencommunity.net/

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All of the following inside the lines are downloaded from here - http://www.kazaalite.tk

Kazaalite codec packs - Can't play a video file 'cause of missing codecs? Then get this

Nimo codec pack - More codecs.

Tmpgenc plus - This program can convert AVI files into (S)VCD (MPEG1/MPEG2). It will only take a few hours to convert a whole movie. [yeah yeah I know I copied and pasted!!!]

kazaalite - Don't you often read about downloading some famous UFC bout or Tyson's famous bite on kazaa but don't know where the hell to get it from? Well this is what they are talking about ;-)
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Spybot search and destroy - Helps in removing spyware etc, trust me - you will be surprised at how much jusk you'hv got in your pc after using this one!

I had first used this to remove keyloggers. :rolleyes:

get it here - http://security.kolla.de/

Download accelerator plus - Helps resume downloads and also my preference some prefer flashget though.

Get it here - http://www.speedbit.com

Opera - Internet explorer sucks, whaddya waiting for??? Get Opera!!!

IZArc - Freeware zip utility unlike winrar/winace which are evaluation versions.

get it here - http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/

More stuff I use but am bored to give the links ;)

WinISO - for ISO files

ISO buster - Same as above

Nero - CD burning, creating images, also allowes you to emulate images as CD drives

Trillian - Chat proggy, connects to yahoo, MSN and more [can't remember the rest :(]

Guess that's it.....for now ;)

|Cain|

YODA
14-Nov-2003, 06:13 PM
Ok - here goes.

The freebie stuff...

Irfanview ROCKS! See link in Cain's post

Download Accelerator! Err... See link in Cain's post



Stuff I use pretty much every day
- All fully legit bought & licensed (Yeah I know I'm in the minority)

Max Payne 2 :D

Macromedia Studio MX (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand, Coldfusion) - Hoping to get the new 2004 MX suite very soon.

Adobe Acrobat (Not just the free reader)

MS-Office XP Pro

CorelDraw Suite Version 11

ZoneAlarm Pro

Sophos Antivirus

FireTrust Mailwasher pro

Aravi
15-Nov-2003, 02:14 AM
Well, I run Redhat 9. So my software choices will be very different.

GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program. Perhaps not quite at the grade of Photoshop, but close enough for most.

KMail
Email program (part of KDE), sorts email from numerous mailing lists into various folders. Will need to configure SpamAssassin too though, getting significant amounts of spam these days.

Java SDK
Practice the art of Code Fu :D.

FuhQuake
Quake 1 sourceport. Cool graphics for a schweet game. Quake 1 is still the best game out IMHO :). Got Frogbots installed for practice.

EDonkey
My alternative to KaZaa.

X-Chat
IRC client. :)

Kopete
Multi-protocol instant messaging (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, etc).

MPlayer\Mencoder
Not the Windows one. The one that's actually a damn good vid player\encoding tool. Rocks, just gotta have the codecs installed before you compile it.

And many more :P

Heh, I was expecting people to point out martial arts related programs :P.

ns_oni
15-Nov-2003, 12:15 PM
not really a program but i found this a few days ago. if you're anwhere and u need to talk on msn but the program isnt available, go to www.wbmsn.com or www.everywhere-msn.com, has come in handy a few times :p

Cain
15-Nov-2003, 01:42 PM
I just actually forgot an excellent addon to the teaking geeks :D

X-setup - http://www.xteq.com

|Cain|

YODA
15-Nov-2003, 02:09 PM
Niiiiiice :D

Greg-VT
16-Nov-2003, 08:27 AM
Hmm. I'm sure there is more.
But,

WinAMP
MSN Messenger
Kazaa Lite
Nero
IE6
MS Word2002
DreamweaverMX 2004

ns_oni
16-Nov-2003, 08:30 AM
Photoshop 7
mIRC
Steam
Blubster
Spybot
Powerstrip !

Cain
16-Nov-2003, 08:39 AM
Powerstrip? Blebster? err.....new to those.....

|Cain|

ns_oni
16-Nov-2003, 08:41 AM
blubster is like kazaa with less viruses, powerstrip alters your computer settings like advanced brightness etc