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I use VLC for movies, but what would be the difference between Winamp and VLC as music player (and itunes)? The only difference I see is the UI, I like the UI itunes/winamp more than VLC, but it doesn't really matter a lot for me.
[QUOTE=snuwoods;20431899]Peazip is simply the best compression software. It supports a wide range of formats, and has shell integration if you really want it. Nice interface, too. It's under LGLP.[/QUOTE] Peazip is good for opening and compressing its own files, but it failed to open a lot of archives for me when I used it.
Proud 7-zip user for a long time.
[QUOTE=IllegalPaste;20432827]Proud 7-zip user for a long time.[/QUOTE] Me too, I tried Peazip briefly but I didn't like how it took a dump on my context menu. 7-zip puts its entries in a nice submenu. Edit: oh cool, Peazip does the same now. I think I'll try it out again.
Add this. [B] Security, Backup, (System Maintenance)[/b] Todo Backup [url]http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/[/url] [quote] EASEUS Todo Backup is an award-winning and Free backup and restore solution for a good reason: with detailed instruction wizards, your computer will be in a safe condition within minutes without the help of an IT specialist to backup your system state, partition and disk. And this program is totally free to use! EASEUS Todo Backup can backup your system partition to quickly get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or hardware failure. It allows you to backup and restore disk or partition after viruses attack, unstable software download, hard drive failure, etc. Meanwhile, EASEUS Todo Backup is useful if you want to upgrade the older smaller hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again. If your system is crashed or Linux based bootable CD fails to restore the system, we recommend you to restore system with WinPE based bootable CD which is more powerful than Linux one: operate without installation, support Windows 7 and Hardware Raid, etc. This free backup software supports nearly all major Windows systems, like Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008. [/quote]
Aviary is a pretty powerful tool, its free and all online. Should be added.
add openoffice, when my MS office expired it was a fucking savior
[QUOTE=JIAC;20431597]Are you being sarcastic or do you actually believe something like that AOL owns Nullsoft but the fact they're a separate development team should [b][i]null[/i][/b]ify worries that AOL is shitting it up past making them add their dumb AOL radio as one of the options in the library.[/QUOTE] I was being somewhat sarcastic... I saw AOL on winamps site and instinctively boycotted it. Personally I find winamp too cumbersome to use. I use media player classic to play my massive collection of 0 songs. [editline]06:25PM[/editline] [QUOTE=nono345;20433427]add openoffice, when my MS office expired it was a fucking savior[/QUOTE] open office is the shit I do all my english with it.
I've used it too long to switch to anything else haven't found a player past WMP or Winamp that dynamically searches my music library for updates [URL=http://img37.imageshack.us/i/yesyh.png/][IMG]http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4370/yesyh.th.png[/IMG][/URL] That and there's limited support for chiptune files in other players and I really can't find MP3s of shit like Gradius very easily, since everyone and their mother is afraid of getting sued for having gigs worth of 10 year old game music on their websites or the game is too obscure for anyone to give enough of a shit to convert them. Plus they save space. One entire pack of minigsfs for a game takes up like 8-16 MB. If all of the shit I had in chiptune format got converted to MP3, it'd probably add an extra 8 gigs to my collection alone (let alone if I converted them to something like FLAC, where each file takes up 30 MB more or less.)
I like itunes the most cause it's super easy to manage playlists.
Paint.net is the shit
[QUOTE=raccoon2112;20435571]Paint.net is the shit[/QUOTE] :smug:
[B]Screamer[/B] Ever feel like listening to internet radio but can't be arsed with having to find the page every time? Want to record that song you can't remember the name of on the spot? Then try Screamer the Internet radio app. [IMG]http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp80/FPfan/Capture-1.jpg[/IMG] [quote]Why to use Screamer Radio * It's easy to use * It's not bloated * It's ad free * It has no spyware * It has a huge database of radio stations * It has a cool peak meter ;) * You can easily record what you're listening to * You can hide it in the system tray * You can play back on multiple soundcards * .. and it's free! Supported Stream Types * Shoutcast and Icecast MP3 Streaming * Icecast OGG Vorbis Streaming * WMA Streaming * AAC Streaming Recording Features * Recording buffer: start recording in the middle and still save the entire song! * Direct MP3 Audio stream saving, no loss of quality! * Direct OGG Vorbis stream saving, no loss of quality! * Or encode OGG Vorbis as MP3 using Lame * Encode WMA or AAC to MP3 using Lame [/quote]
Freeware? All software is free for me. :smug: [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Warez" - JohnnyMo1))[/highlight]
I'll put my favorites here (might add more later): [img]http://static.piriform.com/pf/icon/cc_64.png[/img] Piriforms CCleaner, originally CrapCleaner is a program that pretty much makes windows run faster by removing temporary internet files and useless registry entries. Worth getting. [quote]CCleaner is a freeware PC optimization tool. It combines a system cleaner that removes unused and temporary files from your system and also a fully featured registry cleaner! CCleaner allows Windows to run faster, more efficiently and gives you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's Small, Fast and Free![/quote] [img]http://www.ccleaner.com/img/screen/screen_301.png[/img] Get it here: [url]http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard[/url] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [img]http://static.piriform.com/pf/icon/df_64.png[/img] Piriforms Defraggler is a deframentation tool that I personally prefer to the one provided with windows. [quote]Defragment exactly what you want Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. Safe and Secure When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows. Small and lightweight Defraggler's tough on your files – and light on your system. Interactive drive map At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation. Quick Defrag Give your hard drive a quick touch-up with Quick Defrag. Defragment free space Organizes empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation. Scheduled defragmentation Defragment while you sleep - and wake up with a faster PC. Set Defraggler to run daily, weekly or monthly. Full Windows OS and Multi-lingual support No matter what your native tongue is, Defraggler speaks your language. It currently supports 37 all major languages.[/quote] [img]http://www.piriform.com/media/9362/defraggler1.png[/img] Get it here: [url]http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download/standard[/url]
I would recommend Gom player. Really awesome, userfriendly mediaplayer. I only use it for movies/videos, but I don't know if it plays music (I don't think so). It's very stable, plays tons of different file types, and unlike VLC, the interface is nice to look at. It has some easy to remember, useful keyboard shortcuts too. It boots instantly and is overall just the best mediaplayer I know of. [url=http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html]Get it here[/url] [img]http://www.freewaregenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gom-player-screenshot21.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;20486609] Get it here: [url]http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download/standard[/url][/QUOTE] This is what I needed, I hate the windows vista one for not showing me the nice coloured bloks from windows 98, now I has them back :3:
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