I decided to create a page for free programs as alternatives to ones that the media tells every they must use to meet standards. I know a good few, but I would love other peoples input. Here are some of the ones I know:
AntiVirus: *AVG- http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Avast Anti Virus- http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
Art and Graphics: *Gimp- http://www.gimp.org/ (Gimp Extention: *Single windower- http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892)
Pixia- http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
Ad/Spyware removal: *AdAware- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
*SpyBot S&D- http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
WebBrowser: *FireFox- http://www.getfirefox.com
Word Processing: *OpenOffice- http://www.openoffice.org/
FTP clients: Filezilla- http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
*FireFTP- http://fireftp.mozdev.org/
Firewall: ZoneAlarm- http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
Download Manager: FreshDownload- http://freshdownload.com/
Multi Protocal Instant messanger: *Gaim- http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda- http://www.miranda-im.org/
IRC Client: Chatzilla- http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/
Jabber Client: Jabberzilla- http://jabberzilla.jabberstudio.org/
3D Modeling: Blender- http://www.blender3d.com/
Google Sketchup- http://sketchup.google.com/
Wings 3D- http://www.wings3d.com
Software/Website Development: HTML-Kit- http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
*NVU http://www.nvu.com/
Music&Movie Playback: *Winamp- http://www.winamp.com
VideoLan http://www.videolan.org
RealPlayer http://www.real.com
*.Editors picks
Those are a few to start out, what else do you guys have. I am not just looking for great free programs, I am looking for free alternatives to very expincive software.
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 Dec 13 2004, 10:41 am (Edited on Aug 16 2006, 4:24 am)
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Repiv wrote:
VS .NET IDE: SharpDevelop- http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ VS .NET IDE: VS .NET from the MSDN Academic Alliance :) Free for students/teachers of participating schools anyways | |
Burning Software:
CDBurnerXP Pro 3 burnatonce IM: Gaim Virtual CD emulation: Daemon tools Also here is a thread from Dslreports that has a lot of stuff (9 pages). http://www.dslreports.com/forum/ remark,11550319~mode=flat~days=9999 | |
development software (HTML, PHP, Perl, C/C++, BYOND, Java) - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
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For those who don't have download managers in their browsers.
http://freshdownload.com You have to "register" it but that's free. Works with Http and Ftp, can resume paused/interrupted downloads, and it even shows a little graph of your download speeds. :) | |
Nice, keep em coming guys, I will compile a list, and make a page (As well as post the full list on the forums so my site is not the only reference to it). I consider free programs to be instrumental in lowering the cost of the pay programs (because they are normally better.) It also gains free programs support when they are easily found, hopefully it will help them develop and maybe even get better than their pay counterparts.
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Something I thought was nice in another community was a bunch of sticky posts they had listing resources to aid in development. BYOND forums could really use some stickies. :)
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I agree that stickies could be nice, but I think ByondBwicki would be at least better than currently making a thread. (Sorry if I posted this just as the thread died.)
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No problem. I don't want this thread to die, it talks about something that I want everyone to contribute to. It was only like a day old anyways, that is not dead.
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Repiv wrote:
3D modeling: Blender- http://www.blender3d.com/ Do you know where I can find a good tutorial for this? | |
http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Tutorials.243.0.html
There is a tutorial button on that page he linked to. | |
Easiest to use firewall I've found.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp There are a few versions you have to pay for, but the free, basic version seems good enough. | |
Avast Anti Virus:
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html | |
I found a half decent FireFox extention that turned it into a FTP client as well, but I have not had a good run with it yet, but it does use a tab, so it is almost like any other webpage, only FTP.
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Sorry to bump this topic, but it's great.
Also, I think you should add: Music&Movie playback-RealPlayer (http://www.real.com/) | |
Bump away. This thread is ongoing, and has been edited about 20 times since it was last on the front page. I don't like the real player. It used to(might not anymore) come with ad/spy ware and was rather forcive on using itself for all your media, weather or not you liked it. I have it on this PC, but only for vedio playback in the browser. If you think that it nolonger does these things, I will put it on my list.
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Doesn't for me, I can control what it opens with...with ease! And I've gotten no spyware or anything, and I have no protection (not even Spybot, I should get it though..).
I check my "programs" list everyday too, there's nothing new besides the normal programs I run. :) *goes to watch Inuyasha on his RealPlayer* | |
VS .NET IDE: SharpDevelop- http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
3D modeling: Blender- http://www.blender3d.com/