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[Discord]

Firefox - web-browser from Mozilla with a huge selection of useful add-ons for it. (I know that this one is obvious, but somebody might not have known about it.)
Sunbird - not-yet-so-ready calendar and time manager from Mozilla. Has a great potential.

OOC:	Could we actually get this thread sticky?

[bipper]

Originally Uttered by Discord

OOC:	Could we actually get this thread sticky?

I think it would have a better chance if the first post contained an updated list of the technology with links and a detailed description for each, then yeah. I would definitely like to see something like this stickied.

Oh, PSXE

Aslo, osalt.com is a great site for finding opensource alternatives. Put in like Microsoft Money in there search field, and you willget GNUcash and other Open Sourced Alternatives.

[Discord]

Originally Uttered by bipper

Originally Uttered by Discord

OOC:	Could we actually get this thread sticky?

I think it would have a better chance if the first post contained an updated list of the technology with links and a detailed description for each, then yeah. I would definitely like to see something like this stickied.

Oh, PSXE

Aslo, osalt.com is a great site for finding opensource alternatives. Put in like Microsoft Money in there search field, and you willget GNUcash and other Open Sourced Alternatives.

Good thinking, bipper.

[bipper]

good list: you for got ZipGenius though. A compression archiver that kills small kittens.

Also, perhaps add slackware (slackware.com) as another linux distribution that focuses on stability, ease of use, and customization.

Gentoo as one that aims to by completely configurable and a spawn of many a migrane.

[Mirage]

Originally Uttered by Discord

DivX isn't a free application. It's a format. Even more so, it's not even a free format. Xvid is free though, but I don't like it very much.(not many people use it)

XviD can encode and decode XviD, and decode DivX. DivX can only encode and decode DivX.

Tons of anime releases use XviD.

[Omecle]

Open Office ain't too bad. It's basically your typical office package (like Word, Excel, etc.).

[rubah]

PNG Crush is a command line utility to convert files to PNG or pngs to smaller pngs in batches

Semagic is a utility to update one's Livejournal

Bink and Smacker is a way to convert videos to different types (like mov to avi)

windirstat displays how big each of your computer's folders are.

[ZeZipster]

Things I install on new computers:

Daemon Tools (or well I use to, it comes with adware and doesn't work on Vista now)
Trillian. Hands down the best IM solution. Even if you just use 1 Instant Messenger, it'd be better to have this just because it's adless.
AVG. Best virus detector I've ever used.
Winamp. Self explanatory. You've all seen this old name by now.

and my all time favorite free program (besides Firefox)... Soulseek. It's a filesharing client, specifically for music. It doesn't really hold any advantage over other p2p clients, it's just most people who use it share ENTIRE albums, not singles. When you download, you can download the entire album, you right click and 'Download containing folder' and 99% of the time that person had the entire album in the folder you downloaded from. I guess I'm partial to it because it reminds me of the glory days of Napster (the original Napster).