Best FREE Software

Life Technology
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100% MALWARE FREE

www.7-zip.org (".7z" - higher compression than “.rar” and supports more compression files than winrar, including .rar itself)
www.utorrent.com (Super fast / low resource bittorrent client)
www.freedownloadmanager.org (Faster downloads… use it w/ Flashgot Firefox extension or IE)
www.daemon-tools.cc (able to emulate nearly all known copy protections on the market today)
mediamonkey.com/ (Organize, convert, rip, synchronize your music.)
gaim.sourceforge.net/about.php (multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows)
irfanview.com/ (lean mean graphics utility… great for viewing images)

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so whats the best free program that will allow me to format a partition? Pehaps a program that boots off a disc?

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For your iBook? The free way would be to use your Tiger CD and install OS X onto any bootable firewire drive. The other way would be to clone your bootable partition to any firewire drive with SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner. BootCD is free but not yet Tiger ready. If you wanted to repartition without reformatting, it would be iPartition or that other program out there.

I used to have a separate partition (“E-drive” made from TechTool Pro) I would use for defrag and any maintenance. I only used it for defrag. I now use an external firewire and freed up some space on my PowerBook. I discovered today there are Firewire thumb drives; that’s a must. :slight_smile:

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Sorry I meant for PC.

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for PCs, there’s lots of DOS and linux boot disks out there.

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I partitioned my hard drive using the install CD for Ubuntu Linux.

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Get the Ultimate Boot CD which has a choice of partition tools and a ton of other utilities you’ll probably need at some point.

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Thanks jlick, trying that out tonight.

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Found a good one. Partition Magic 8. Great tool to use.

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nice free software frost. :slight_smile: There’s lots of partitioning softare. I’ve used Acronis TrueImage for the past few years for the few times i’ve needed to use windows. :slight_smile:

I’m looking into WebKit, the open source component of Safari. And was thinking about Firefox. This was interesting.

blog.acmelab.org/?p=26
theinquirer.net/?article=29707

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Did I miss this, or did nobody bother to tell me? Doug’s Applescripts for iTunes are fantastic!

Ok, I bet everyone already knew. Just poor, dumb, Macnewbie Jaboney, left out in the cold…

any suggestions on what scripts are best? Super Remove Dead Tracks just cleaned out 190 pieces of dead wood. Now I’m combing through the library to see what files aren’t being added. Very cool.

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audacity.sourceforge.net/ An easy to use cross platform sound editor. I use it for chopping MP3s for Mrs T’s school things.

dvdshrink.org/what.html Probably mentioned before. Awesome for making backups of DVDs from Dual Layer to Single layer. Works seamlessly with Nero

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If you have the full Nero 6.0 or higher package you already have Nero Recode which mostly does the same thing (except decrypting locked DVDs).

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[quote=“Jaboney”]Did I miss this, or did nobody bother to tell me? Doug’s Applescripts for iTunes are fantastic!
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I did recommend it in another thread a long time ago. I’ve been using scripts from ther for years. And over time, have learned how to write quite a few of my own.

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This is a very useful free utility I’ve been using lately. Kind of a Windows taskmanager on steriods. Especially good to see if any trojans, bots, etc. are using up any processor power. I like it because it briefly explains some of the more obscure processes. sysinternals.com/Utilities/P … lorer.html

Also useful reference: processid.com/processes.html
example, a common worm is scvhost.exe (bad) svchost.exe (good).

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[quote=“4nr”]This is a very useful free utility I’ve been using lately. Kind of a Windows taskmanager on steriods. Especially good to see if any trojans, bots, etc. are using up any processor power. I like it because it briefly explains some of the more obscure processes. sysinternals.com/Utilities/P … lorer.html
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Ah yes. Process Explorer was very helpful to when I was trying to remove loaded drivers from Windows. There was a time I was using XP under Virtual PC and got it to load up using less than 35 megs of memory.

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…and some more…

For sorting out Gates’ f’d up registry http://www.iobit.com/WindowsCare.htm
Get rid of old temp files http://www.glocksoft.com/temp_cleaner/index.htm
Get your internet connection performing http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Network-Tweak/TCP-Optimizer.shtml
As mentioned before for bittorrent http://www.utorrent.com/ (if you’re still using azurerus - why?)
and don’t forget to patch windows and google for utorrent speed guides http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
Firefox / Thunderbird & OpenOffice obviously
DivX player http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/?tiger_aff=s&cc=A_fcid=000047
CD / DVD burning software http://www.burn4free.com/
DVD decrypter & ripper http://www.dvd-replica.com/dvdfreeware3.php
DVD shrink http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html
Convert almost any media format to any other media format http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
Turn off troublesome shell exts http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html (particularly useful for turning off the avi ext and video thumbnails ext which can cause windows explorer to crash for divx/xvid files)
Alternative realplayer (without the bloody spyware!) http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

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Thanks for all the good free stuff.

(I am looking for a good free OCR. Any pointers?) Never mind. I found one :slight_smile: simpleocr.com/?kSite=GO&kWor … g_software

Also any help adding web mail to Tbird mail? It wont let me save the server name.

Ps. If you have way too much free time add stumble upon to your Firefox.

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A couple of new freebies MS apps.

Microsoft Groupbar just came out. It is a freeware utility that adds another taskbar to the screen that you can group apps in. Note: once you run the setup, you have to go into the \program files directory, find the microsoft research directory, then copy the .exe file to the desktop or startup directory. research.microsoft.com/vibe/groupbar.aspx

Another MS freebie that came out a month ago: Microsoft Private Folder (like truecrypt). softpedia.com/get/Security/L … lder.shtml

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Did anybody already mentioned Xara Extreme for Linux?

xaraxtreme.org/

There is finally a decent Vector Graphics program available for Linux.
I cannot wait until I need to make my next graphics. This program is
still in version 0.7, but is evolving rapidly.

Stay tuned.