ITT: We recommend cool software/games/etc. for PC's!

[CaptaiN_JacK]

I'm sure we all have neat little programs, games, or random things on our computer that everyone else will never hear of. That's where this thread comes into play. We need to spread the joy of cool or essential computer programs that other people probably don't know about. I got the idea for this thread from StumbleUpon, a cool extension for Firefox that allows you to randomly browse through websites that other people have recommended, because there are thousands of cool websites that you'll never encounter with normal browsing.

Try to keep the programs free and easy to find/install.


The Rasterbator - http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ - Allows you to print pictures as large as you want, from 1 sheet to 200 sheets, the sky's the limit.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

StatBar - http://www.statbar.nl/ - Neat little customizable stat bar that moniters your computer stats.

Firefox - www.getfirefox.com - Web browser that's 10x better than IE6. Download and utilize extensions (available on Mozilla's site) such as Adblock, Adblock Filterset.G, and ForecastFox.

Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory - http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/downloads/ - Free Online FPS. Nuff Said.

[beam]

Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory - http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/downloads/ - Free Online FPS. Nuff Said.

ET FTW :)

[lopxtc]

Some of my personal fav's

Open Solaris -- Excellent O/S
PHP -- Scripting
MySQL -- Free DataBase
Apache -- WebServer
VI -- The only text editor
Open Source Tripwire -- Excellent Unix Filesystem Security

*edit -- How can I forget

Tomcat -- Open Source Free App Server

All of the above, all you need to run a free and fairly easy to setup web/app server for any small/home business.

Aaron

[beam]

After seeing lopxtc's list, on of my favorites:

www.openoffice.org - free office suite

[wad04]

I tried making a similar thread, but they shut it down. good luck.

https://www.skype.com

[robnix]

http://amarok.kde.org/

The best jukebox software out there.

[geekwarrior]

http://www.reallyslick.com/

some pretty cool screensavers.

[robnix]

http://www.reallyslick.com/

some pretty cool screensavers.

Another cool screensaver:

http://electricsheep.org/

[thecavemankevin]

Excellent free anti-virus/anti-spyware: http://www.clamav.net/

Very nice free media converter (video files, audio): http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

DVD Shrink, a backup and compression tool for DVD's

[RapidTransit]

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ - Mind Mapper great for getting ideas down on paper.
http://www.7-zip.org/ - Best compression utility
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ - Multi Networ IM'er
http://flaskmpeg.sourceforge.net/ - Encoder
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ - Another good encoder.
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ - Image editor
Quite a few others I have forget which though

[MoeMag]

A super Nintendo emulator. Play all Nintendo games on your computer. Win DOS Linux

http://www.zsnes.com

http://www.x-plane.com/SpaceCombat.html

[skife]

I'm getting into abandoned ware

Http://www.abandonia.com

[pachytriton]

http://www.winextra.com

BOSS is an excellent all around utility, you can download it for free and it has some great tools.

[slade]

from the computer megathread:

os - linux - ubuntu
everyone knows firefox, adaware and spybot
office suite - openoffice.org
zip - 7-zip, its completely free, not a trial version
music - winamp
crapcleaner - cleans unneeded files, and searches registry for errors
messenger - trillian or gaim
dictionary - wordweb dictionary
Jodix free Ipod video converter - converts any video file to .mp4 compatable with the ipod video... i have about 20 paintball videos on my ipod

one thing ive been looking for - a free audio editor. not a trial version, i mean completely free. ive found plenty of trial versions but they either dont let you save as mp3, or allow only limited periods of use/limited saves. all im looking for is a program that will let me open a file, cut sections of the song, and save the remainder. and maybe fade in/out. its something i want but its just not worth $30 to me. bands always think its "cool" to have the last track of their cd 30 minutes, with a hidden song at the end, but it just pisses the heck out of me.

[thecavemankevin]

one thing ive been looking for - a free audio editor. not a trial version, i mean completely free. ive found plenty of trial versions but they either dont let you save as mp3, or allow only limited periods of use/limited saves. all im looking for is a program that will let me open a file, cut sections of the song, and save the remainder. and maybe fade in/out. its something i want but its just not worth $30 to me. bands always think its "cool" to have the last track of their cd 30 minutes, with a hidden song at the end, but it just pisses the heck out of me.

ask and ye shall recieve

audacity is a great free audio editing program that allows you to do what you've asked for and much more.


I made this Aqua teen hunger force ringtone

It is made up of sound clips, primarily from the boost mobile episode, where you at?

where you at?

give it 30 seconds and then down in the bottom right hand corner a red link will allow you to download. You may have to right click and save as.

if you want to steam it

file size: 142kb