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What is the best freeware that you have ever gotten off of the Internet?

By Perryman Asked Feb 9 2007 10:52AM
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by Im Alec on Feb 9, 2007 at 10:57 am Permalink

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Firefox
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Avatar Carmella Jun, 22 2007 at 01:23 PM
I'm not sure why exactly I prefer FF, though the tabbed browsing was a huge novelty until IE7, but I've been so indoctrinated on AB that I have to agree with this answer!
Avatar shahrukhmalik Jan, 04 2008 at 12:40 PM
Agreed.
Avatar wheelnut53 Oct, 07 2009 at 07:16 PM
Glary utilities, I'm still finding out how to use it. whenever my PC starts acting up I run Glary.

Answer 2 out of 108

by Karl Plesz on Feb 11, 2007 at 8:13 am Permalink

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Until lately, my answer would have been Firefox.

But not long ago, I found a very powerful conversion program called Super.
http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

It boggles my mind what this program can do. It can convert practically any multimedia format to any other format. AVI to MPEG-4? Done. WMA to MP3? Done. MOV to DivX? Also done. The GUI is a little intimidating, but it isn't impossible to learn. The best part is that all of the codecs needed to do the conversion are built in.

This program wouldn't be useful to everyone, but if you've ever had a music file or video in the wrong format and wish you could change it - Super is the tool. I can't believe that it's free.
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Avatar shahrukhmalik Jan, 04 2008 at 12:40 PM
I think MediaCoder is better.
Avatar Karl Plesz Jan, 04 2008 at 02:31 PM
Thanks for the tip.....
Avatar Karl Plesz Mar, 12 2008 at 07:02 PM
To the person who down-rated me..... thank you very much.

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by Meleggles on Dec 29, 2008 at 9:01 am Permalink

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Changing to Firefox has been wonderful! I love Adblock as well
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Avatar Perryman Dec, 29 2008 at 10:06 AM
Yes, Firefox is nice. Thanks!

Answer 4 out of 108

by Frank Tank on Jul 23, 2007 at 7:24 pm Permalink

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Spybot. The best free spyware detection sw!
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Avatar buxtonite ..back from the brink Oct, 03 2007 at 01:46 AM
ditto 'retroglide' I have used them for a very long time and there are great and are always updated
Avatar - retroglide - Oct, 03 2007 at 05:47 AM
The three together are a great combination.
Avatar buxtonite ..back from the brink Oct, 03 2007 at 02:49 PM
yeah they are and they work with the dreaded 'windows'

Answer 5 out of 108

by shahrukhmalik on Jan 4, 2008 at 12:41 pm Permalink

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Ubuntu Linux
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by Joshua_Frozen on May 1, 2007 at 7:41 am Permalink

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OpenOffice!
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Avatar Karl Plesz Jun, 09 2007 at 07:46 AM
OpenOfice rocks yo! I tell all my clients - if you find MS Office to be too expensive for your situation, give OpenOffice a try. I still get thank yous for showing it to them, plus I get to show it off as part of my Ubuntu Linux demo (it comes in a variety for all OSes).
Avatar nemo1990 Dec, 30 2007 at 06:34 AM
I agree. My PC didn't come with MS Office so I downloaded OpenOffice. Works pretty much the same really. Quite pleased with it :)
Avatar douchebarge Aug, 17 2009 at 08:05 PM
OpenOffice rocks. In my opinion the biggest drawback is the inability to open .mdb databases natively without importing- and of course there are almost no programs that can do that other than Access. AFAIK even MSSQL imports them or uses them as a data source.
Many advanced spreadsheet functions such as pivottables / datapilots work *better* in OpenOffice. Certainly, IMO the OpenOffice interface is miles ahead of that of MS Office.
Honestly, I wouldn't recommend using either suite to set up a database initially. Better to use a full-feature DB engine like MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL Server, or similar and then connect to it through your database client of choice (Access, OOBase, Kexi, Navicat, etc).
I can't speak to the other programs in either office suite as I don't use word processors- I type marked-up text in an editor and then use LaTEX or an HTML browser or other parser to format it. I *sort of* understand what PowerPoint is for, but the idea causes me to recoil in horror.
Yikes!
Ick.

Answer 7 out of 108

by raghu77 on Oct 4, 2007 at 11:07 am Permalink

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irfanview. No two ways about it guys
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Avatar Costantinus Dec, 14 2007 at 08:55 AM
I second the Irfanview statement. It should come with widows.
Avatar An0nym0us Dec, 18 2007 at 02:24 PM
"widows" :-) how appropriate...
Avatar Costantinus Dec, 18 2007 at 10:53 PM
lol, I am on a dvorak keyboard and miss the keys sometimes.

Answer 8 out of 108

by Wolfen on Feb 9, 2007 at 11:13 am Permalink

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Adaware & CCleaner
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Avatar Perryman Feb, 09 2007 at 11:24 AM
CCleaner Rocks.
Avatar Wolfen Feb, 09 2007 at 11:35 AM
That it does :)

Answer 9 out of 108

by KinKStar on Feb 9, 2007 at 11:01 am Permalink

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RoboForm at: http://www.roboform.com/


TinyURL is great too! http://tinyurl.com/
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Avatar Stableboy Feb, 11 2007 at 08:30 AM
I LOVE Roboform! Could not web without it.

Answer 10 out of 108

by weareallhypocrites on Feb 17, 2009 at 9:21 am Permalink

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Linux mint
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