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IceDigger - Jan 8, 2003

		IceDigger		Jan 8, 2003
			1st Page 2000 POW! AVG The Gimp

		Nadius		Jan 8, 2003
			Winkey Winamp 2.x SmartFTP Girder

		MasterAkumaMatata		Jan 8, 2003
			[]Winamp []Final Burn / Final Burn Alpha []Nebula []CDmage [*]... and umm... Windows?

		cww80		Jan 8, 2003
			Proxomitron AVG Winamp (2.80 & Below) Star Downloader Ad Aware

		Link Hylia		Jan 8, 2003
			Ad Aware Winamp 2.81 Pop Up Killer Kazaa Lite Gens

		racketboy		Jan 9, 2003
			Winamp Kazaa Lite Ad Aware ACDSee '95 Beta (old version) Irfanview Smart FTP CDex

		segasonic		Jan 9, 2003
			Ultimate Zip SmartFTP CD Record Pop-up Stopper WinMX Direct Connect

		ExCyber		Jan 9, 2003
			Linux... GCC.../binutils... grep... Mozilla... Daemon Tools... cdrtools...

		alpharogue		Jan 9, 2003
			KDE MAME Kazaa Lite WinMX

		mal		Jan 9, 2003
			MAME... CDmage...

		racketboy		Jan 9, 2003
			crap! I forgot about MAME and Mozilla. Actually I use Phoenix -- a nice stripped down version of Mozilla

		IUG		Jan 9, 2003
			Mac OS X.2 (if you are an educator, or your mom is) Safari All of the emus Transmit (if you don't register) AOL Instant Messanger DVD Player ...oh, the only Mac person on this site just had to chime in his 2 cents.

		Taelon		Jan 9, 2003
			- Classic Media Player (WMP6.4 replacement) - Winamp Lite 2.81, with MIDI plug-in separately installed (it was missing from the Lite install) - Mozilla 1.2.1 - Clickomania! (very cool desktop game) - Microsoft Photo Editor 3.01 (part of Office) - Ad-Aware - Mailwasher (preview, bounce and delete email without downloading) - Nero, CDRWin and CloneCD (sshhh.....) - DC++ 0.22 - Trillian 0.74b - WinUAE (Amiga emu) and VICE (C64 emu) - Microsoft System Information - scanregw, regsvr32 and winipcfg :: - OnTrack Powerdesk 5 (free version) - WinRAR 3.00 (trial version - I never cracked/regged it, and it still fully works after expiring. Kinda cool. Heh.) - FileMon (shows all filesystem accesses in realtime - VERY useful if an app complains and you need to track down what it's trying to find that it doesn't) - ModPlug player - Eudora 3.01 (very old, but runs nicely from whichever directory it's in without registry entries, superfast, no spyware/ads like newer free versions, and is perfect for my wife who just needs a simple email program separate from Mozilla's mail/news) - Sygate Personal Firewall 5.0 - SmartFTP - N-Koder 2.0 (LAME-based MP3 batch encoder - extremely simple and invaluable) - TMPEGENC (once helped me fix MPEG movies that were OK but not accepted by Media Player) - MaxMem and CacheBooster, both by AnalogX... - Various small utilities, such as Whitsoft File Splitter, 3dfx Tools (heh), etc..... Wow. Come to think of it - other than my CD burning apps and WinRAR, I really don't have any pirated software on my computer. Some of it was downloaded and paid for to register it, some of it was commercially bought (Sound Forge XP comes to mind), but indeed, most of what I use daily is free. TRULY FREE. One ought to be damned grateful for that. For all of us, there are people out there writing great software for nothing but a little recognition. To all of you - the Mozilla team, the DC++ guy and everyone - HAT OFF! I appreciate what you've done, and love using it!

		Taelon		Jan 9, 2003
			Yup. I forgot WinMX. And I know I'll think of one more, yet...

		Zziggy00		Jan 9, 2003
			iml2iso cdmage Winamp 2.81 WinRAR (not really freeware, but shareware) GrabIT!

		Curtis		Jan 9, 2003
			Winamp 2.8x WMP 6.4 (thank god they included it with XP Pro ) Internet Explorer 6 - don't bash MS, it does a great job. Gens Irfanview - best freeware Image view...evar! Ikonboard! I'm surprised your new pet, Coranto, isn't up there in your list Iceman

		Taelon		Jan 10, 2003
			Tried Irfanview. It's impressive but it just wasn't for me. I wanted my good old MS Photo Editor 3.01 back after reinstalling Windows, and boy, did I have to mess with it to make it run again. You see, Photo Editor is VERY quick, VERY simple, and opens multiple images at once. Irfanview does one at a time... which irritates me. BTW, in my list, I forgot ISOBuster. Most damned useful tool I've ever had for iso/wav or plain audio ripping, not to mention fixing ISO files - which also reminds me to mention CDmage. grin

		scorch56		Jan 10, 2003
			Irfanview is MOST definitely at the top of the list.. I've been using it for five years; and BTW Taelon.. you can open as many "instances" of it as you like! Girder.. 2nd (if it wasn't for Girder.. I wouldn't have a remote for my ATI AIW) Proximitron.. 3rd (Best dmn free pop-up remover) RegionKiller 2.. #4 (Kills region checking for DVD playback) Lastly.. Ad-Aware.. so I can use all this "free" sht safely

racketboy

Jan 10, 2003

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by Taelon@Jan. 10 2003, 3:54 pm



Tried Irfanview. It's impressive  but it just wasn't for me. I wanted my good old MS Photo Editor 3.01 back after reinstalling Windows, and boy, did I have to mess with it to make it run again.



You see, Photo Editor is VERY quick, VERY simple, and opens multiple images at once. Irfanview does one at a time... which irritates me.

I don't use Irfanview for editing (or even viewing) much

I use it mostly for scanning.

For light editing I'll use it, but it's off to Photoshop for the heavy stuff.

Viewing, as I mentioned before, I use an old beta version of ACDSee (free, fast and without extra crap)

		Taelon		Jan 11, 2003
			I use MS Photo Editor for scanning (or grabbing stills from my webcam) as well. As for opening multiple instances of Irfanview, sure I could - but I'd have my taskbar full of Irfanview buttons and I'd still have to switch between them all to get at each image No...it's gotta be true multiple-window (image) support within ONE program for me. Proxomitron? Heard very good things about it, still, if one uses Mozilla, one does not need Prox.