Free Programs That Do Cool Things

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Backup/Storage/Sync
https://www.dropbox.com/

Anti-Virus
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download

Dictionary and thesaurus
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html

Internet calls
http://www.skype.com/en/

Email
https://www.mozilla.org/EN/thunderbird/

Media player
http://www.videolan.org/

Anti rootkit
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
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You need the truth.
YOU NEED THESE PROGRAMS

Quick screen capture: http://www.etrusoft.com/
Because fuck any other screen capture method. Especially useful for older versions of Windows, specifically ones without any screen capture method. Even if you have a built in screen cap fuck that too. Try it. Love it. LOVE IT. Ask why. Lightweight and flexible (portable)

All you Aspiring Engineering students and Professors hold onto your pants because this shit just got serious.
BAM! Witness
GEOGEBRA : http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
So what it doesn't have a three dimensional graphing option, fucking buy a 400$ program for specifically that if you want it, this shit does everything short of your richfag products. Algebraic input as well as object placing. Insert graphics and trace them with your fancy conics. Graph your Yearly Wage and your Father's yearly wage to rub it in that SOB's face. Nothing beats it. Not so light but Portable.

I would bump some other suggestions but it seems you guys have gotten most of the essentials already. Good job guys, I've been looking for my CCleaner. Sexy profile pics too. Might be back.
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Mandelbulb 3D
Visualize 3D Fractals. (Yay math)
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Hopefully no one has posted this already, but Audiggle is a free program (well, kind of free) that takes a sample of a song (that you provide for it), and then searches for it in it's massive data base, and then gives you the artist, album and the name of the song.

In other words, it's a music search engine that actually works and isn't stupid.
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For Android game programs

[color=red]Game maker studio[/color] - It's much more easier to use this software since you can program the system movements or the flow of the system easily the mapping, characters, skill, menu. Although the Game maker Studio has some limits what it can do especially in AI monsters on how it can attack the player( I still haven't figured it out yet since the codings i made in my game still haven't working yet) and GM Studio doesn't support 3D models and in terms of programming the codings in the system is not that difficult to learn it

[color=red]Cocos2d[/color] - an open source 2D game framework. The original Cocos2D framework is written in Python upon pyglet but has since been ported to other languages and platforms. although this software has a different types or version in this software you literally code the whole system before you can see the system you made and in terms of installing this software it's not much a user friendly since it has a lot of requirements and different kinds of method in installing it that can cause some confusion to the user of the system ending up having a huge trouble for user

[color=red]corona sdk[/color] - It allows software programmers to build mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. although corona sdk is a free the system it self is depending on the 3rd party tools to utilize the sdk performance and the party tools doesn't come for free which means you have to buy this tools before you can use it although corana has a high potential if only it doesn't to depends on this 3rd party tools
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omg, cant belive no one mentioned this one:

Total Commander: http://www.ghisler.com/
Allows fast and easy control of files on pc. Lots easier than using what microsoft gave us.
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Jetbrains Intellij Idea is a much better idea than eclipse. The Community version is free.
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Flaser OCD Hentai Collector
SolidShark wrote...
http://www.videolan.org
It plays your copyright-protected DVD's, since some DVD's now come with a protection which doesn't allow them to be played on your PC.


Please stop the bullshit. All DVDs are encrypted with CSS, and region locked. Some players comply with the region restrictions other don't.
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Flaser OCD Hentai Collector
SolidShark wrote...
Flaser wrote...
SolidShark wrote...
http://www.videolan.org
It plays your copyright-protected DVD's, since some DVD's now come with a protection which doesn't allow them to be played on your PC.


Please stop the bullshit. All DVDs are encrypted with CSS, and region locked. Some players comply with the region restrictions other don't.


I believe we are experiencing some confusion. I got the Paprika (2006) DVD, I put it on the laptop, it didn't play, it was blocked due to "copyrights". It didn't let me view the movie in neither Windows media player, Real Player, or Quicktime. The message that popped was something regarding copyright. I went to ask.com and asked how to play copyrighted movies. I found the program, it worked. That's why I reccomend it. That's it, I just wanted to add something helpful to this thread.

I had a PC, an XP, many many years ago, which without any program, played movies without any mention of regional or copyright block. Sorry for my ignorance of not knowing that ALL movies have that problem. I haven't played movies on a laptop for a long time, and that was the first time, and said that mention. Can I really be blamed for running into the wrong conclusion? No.


The issue was likely region blocking on the disc. All DVD drives, even the ones in PCs are supposed to have a region set. When the region on the disc and the device don't match the movie's not supposed to be played.

...except cheap Taiwanese/Chinese stand alone players didn't ever give a fuck.

Same goes for software. "Brand name" products from Microsoft/Apple have to play by the rules or they get the the mother of all anal law-suits over breaches of copyright treaties.

3rd party video player programs tend to not give a damn.
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Taz_9000 Cafe Regular
Flaser wrote...
SolidShark wrote...
Flaser wrote...
SolidShark wrote...
http://www.videolan.org
It plays your copyright-protected DVD's, since some DVD's now come with a protection which doesn't allow them to be played on your PC.


Please stop the bullshit. All DVDs are encrypted with CSS, and region locked. Some players comply with the region restrictions other don't.


I believe we are experiencing some confusion. I got the Paprika (2006) DVD, I put it on the laptop, it didn't play, it was blocked due to "copyrights". It didn't let me view the movie in neither Windows media player, Real Player, or Quicktime. The message that popped was something regarding copyright. I went to ask.com and asked how to play copyrighted movies. I found the program, it worked. That's why I reccomend it. That's it, I just wanted to add something helpful to this thread.

I had a PC, an XP, many many years ago, which without any program, played movies without any mention of regional or copyright block. Sorry for my ignorance of not knowing that ALL movies have that problem. I haven't played movies on a laptop for a long time, and that was the first time, and said that mention. Can I really be blamed for running into the wrong conclusion? No.


The issue was likely region blocking on the disc. All DVD drives, even the ones in PCs are supposed to have a region set. When the region on the disc and the device don't match the movie's not supposed to be played.

...except cheap Taiwanese/Chinese stand alone players didn't ever give a fuck.

Same goes for software. "Brand name" products from Microsoft/Apple have to play by the rules or they get the the mother of all anal law-suits over breaches of copyright treaties.

3rd party video player programs tend to not give a damn.


You can get DVD player that support multi region with big brands, i have had LG and Panasonic DVD player that would play any region
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Rainmeter is a pretty solid program, pimp your desktop out.
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IMclient in progress

http://tox.im/

Right now it's in pre-alpha.

I hope it becomes a final product.
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Nachbar wrote...
Comic/doujin reader of awesomeness:
CDisplay
I fucking love this program. you can set it up to view 2 pages at the same time, do japanese mode, scroll wheel changes pages, double clicking minimizes, holding left button zooms, full screen view, and other features. It reads zip and rar archives and sorts the pages accordingly.

example 2page view, japanese view, while zooming in at full screen:
Spoiler:
Forum Image: https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/53733-EF5I93Z.jpg


Best torrent program on the internet:
uTorrent

File hash checker:
Hashtab
You know that anime you downloaded with all the weird numbers at the end of the filename? If the CRC32 hash matches up with those numbers then you correctly downloaded the file. Good to use in case your having problems to make sure the file doesn't have an error.

Open-source alternative to Microsoft Office:
Open Office


Well, I would've said what Nachbar said above.
CDisplay and OpenOffice are just awesome free utilities! \(^o^)/
And I personally love CDisplay, it allows me to view my most beloved hentai collection at ease. (¬■_■)
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animefreak_usa Child of Samael
Adobe photoshop cs2 http://www.techspot.com/downloads/3689-adobe-photoshop-cs2.html
I guess they just freeware it now.
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I don't know if any of these were mentioned, so feel free to knock me down a peg or two, but I'd like to kick in a couple...

Blackbox for Windows

Okay, bbLean is like the best thing ever. It's basically a sleeker, better shell for windows.

Spoiler:
Forum Image: https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1005794_561183583941718_862585648_n.jpg


That black bar at the top is my bbLean. There's themes for it too. Give it a look. It doesn't delete your regular shell or anything either, so if you don't like the shit, you can U-Turn like a Genesect.

Launchy

Launchy is just as awesome. It basically acts like a start menu of sorts, except you just click Alt+Space. Works well for those with bbLean, and it's pretty user friendly.

I'll kick in more when my eyes and brain don't hurt.
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Iwanagi wrote...
I don't know if any of these were mentioned, so feel free to knock me down a peg or two, but I'd like to kick in a couple...

Blackbox for Windows

Okay, bbLean is like the best thing ever. It's basically a sleeker, better shell for windows.

Spoiler:
Forum Image: https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1005794_561183583941718_862585648_n.jpg


That black bar at the top is my bbLean. There's themes for it too. Give it a look. It doesn't delete your regular shell or anything either, so if you don't like the shit, you can U-Turn like a Genesect


Bblean is being worked on again for x64, it has been a abandoned project for quite a few years now.

LICEcap - take animated screenshots!

Dual monitor tools - It got a handy tool that combines two wallpapers.

AHK - Can be used for so much more than key bindings.
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I'm totaly still noob in computer.. need to learn more bout programming but don't know where to start. Anyone please help this stupid me to learn.. Or please gave some program that help me learn bout programing.
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I don't know if this has been posted or not so if it has I'm sorry.

Blender

A free and very professional 3D animation program. It's confusing but if you take the time with it you can do some amazing things with it.
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godsend The Pun Master
Everything.exe -- (permanently builds an index of your computer (works on all NTFS volumes), to allow searching in real-time -- NO MORE WINDOWS SEARCH -- EVER)
Explorer++ -- (free, portable, 32/64-bit replacement for Windows Explorer, I personally don't use it anymore, as I don't really have a need, but when I did use it, it was incredibly useful)
WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics -- (view, in colored blocks by size and location, how the files inside your computer take up space -- you can delete things from this program, though only individually, not in groups/selections)
Dimio's Tools -- (collection of free programs) -- (yeah, just look through here for w/e you want. I personally only use DTaskmanager (which can FREE UP RAM), but you guys might find other stuff)
Waterfox -- 64-bit Firefox. Yeah, it's a real thing. And it works. -- (try it, anyone who hates firefox getting locked up due to using more than 2GB of RAM)
Calibre -- (ebook management)
MComix - GTK+ Comic Book Viewer -- (can view images inside several free types of archive files, allowing you to read that entire manga you just torrented from Bakabt without unzipping everything)
Autoruns.exe -- (Microsoft-made, but one of the very few things I wholeheartedly RECOMMEND from them: see - and control -- what starts when your computer first turns on -- this is an admin-level too. Not for beginners.)
XMouseButtonControl -- (allows you to modify what your mouse does -- in a very large group of functions/substitutions -- and also to make 'layers' which can be used interchangeably, all of which allow different functions for your mouse. Best of all, allows you to determine mouse functionality on a program-by-program basis. ex: in Autodesk Maya, mouse button 3 is typically the 'orbit' function -- on my mouse, I swapped it to button 4, because button 3 is a pain to reach frequently and easily)
TeraCopy -- (only free for non-commercial usage, but that pretty much covers everyone here. Unless you need to have specialized control over your copying functions (like auto-sorting into folders, idk), this will likely utterly replace your copy program)


piperka.net -- (website, not program -- organizes all your webcomics almost perfectly, though some comics without specifically-numbered comics do cause some issues. Either way, you can LINK TO all your webcomics from a single place.)
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SneeakyAsian CTFG Vanguard
[color=#993300]Google Chrome Extensions to get around blocks and such
DotVPN
Browsec
ZenMate