Good (and Free) PC Programs

[Proteus_MST]

Yes, MS Office is better (have it installed on both my PC and Laptop as I program Databases in Access),
but if you are not willing to pay much (or anything at all) for Office programs, Openoffice is the best you can get
(which is why I installed Openoffice on the PC of my parents)

[germanos]

good tool to control SPAM

http://www.mailwasher.net/

[SlowwHand]

I dl that ccleaner, and I may like it better than Clean Up!.
No reboot. I'll probably use them both since I'm a practicing paranoid.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Both.

GoogleCalc works, too.

Why would you ever actually use Google Spreadsheets? It doesn't even have charts.

[LordShiva]

Just be careful to exclude cookies from your regularly visited sites (like Apolyton) so that they're preserved after full cleanups.

[SlowwHand]

I left cookies there.
I also created a Restore Point prior to running; once again due to being a paranoid.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why would you ever actually use Google Spreadsheets?

I wouldn't.

[Geronimo]

anybody know of a good free mpeg editing tool?


My dvd burner came with nero but it's buggy as hell when it comes to cutting segments out of an mpeg and patching nero not only failed to fix that it also broke everything nero had been doing correctly.

[SlowwHand]

I'm trying to figure out where I got Easy Video Joiner - Splitter 5.
Is that what you need? Splitting and Joining?

I can upload here without pissing anyone off, since I see no reference to anything that might be reflective of pirated.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Geronimo
anybody know of a good free mpeg editing tool?


My dvd burner came with nero but it's buggy as hell when it comes to cuting segments out of an mpeg and patching nero not only failed to fix that it also broke everything nero had been doing correctly.

Virtualdub is decent enough, if a bit spartan.

http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

[Spiffor]

Thunderbird ftw

[Aeson]

I regularly use:

The Gimp: graphics editor
OpenOffice.org: office stuff
Blender: 3-d modelling
CodeBlocks + MinGW: programming
VC++ 2005 Express: programming
SUPER (c): video format conversion
EditPadLite: tabbed text editor
CCleaner: great for OCD computer users
VirtualDub + AviSynth: video editing, some effects
Audacity: audio editing
MWSnap: screenshots
IZArc: (de)compression (has trouble with .7z files though)
AVG: antivirus (going commercial soon)
ZoneAlarm: firewall (i think going commercial too)

[LordShiva]

Avast is a good free anti-virus program, but, alas, it's no NOD32.

[aneeshm]

This discussion is a good indicator of how much free software (free as in free speech) had come into the mainstream.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Aeson
IZArc: (de)compression (has trouble with .7z files though)

That's why you should just use 7zip

It even gets better compression ratios on regular zip files.