Power Your PC With 45 Free Applications
In this day, not every useful application is connected with a price, there are plenty of applications out there which are free. Google for example, has developed many wonderful applications & give away for free.
For those who are using PC for their day to day business, these are applications that may help to save money. Setup your PC with only the basic Windows & power it with the free applications available for download from the internet.
Gathered here are over 45 free applications for your PC. System utilities, office, audio, video, images and more … download & give it a try.
File System Utilities
1 CCleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system make Windows run faster. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. As a today, CCleaner has over 350 million remarkable downloads!
Link: http://www.ccleaner.com/
2 Ultradefrag
Use ultradefrag to defrag your entire hard drive. It is a powerful Open Source Defragmentation tool for Windows Platform. Features include: boot time defragmentation when windows is fully running, computer shut down after defragmentation has completed, file and folder defragmentation, defragment scheduler, etc.
Link: http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/
3 7-zip
7-Zip works in Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, ME & 98. 7-Zip is open source file archiver software. It was the winner of the SourceForge.net 2007 community choice awards. 7-Zip supports for zip encryption, and be able to create self-extracting archives (*.exe files).
Link: http://www.7-zip.org/
4 Kruptos 2 (Kruptos is no longer free, see next item)
File security is important. Kruptos 2 is a powerfull 256 bit file encryption utility that allows you to secure any sensitive files stored on your PC or portable storage device. Kruptos can also produce self-extracting (*.exe file) encrypted files that contain encrypted files & the software necessary to decompress the contents.
Link: http://www.kruptos2.co.uk/
4 TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is a free real-time on-the-fly files encryption software. This means that data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right from the disk or any portable storage device. Unlike the other encryption software which encrypts only on individual files, TrueCrypt can store many files in an encrypted file or even in entire storage device. This is useful when you want to prevent others from exploring your files. Read more. (updated: 27 Jan 2010)
Link: http://www.truecrypt.org/
5 DirSyncPro
DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively. It has many options, including the deletion of destination files if the file has been removed from source. DirSync Pro is programmed completely in platform independent Java, so you need to have Java Runtime installed.
Link: http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/
6 TeraCopy
TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed. Copy files faster, it uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
Link: http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
7 PC INSPECTOR File Recovery 4
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery 4 is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Use File Recovery 4 to undelete, recover deleted files or recover a lost file. Get your files back with no charges.
Link: http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1
8 Drive manager
If you have lots of drive letters of different types of drives, such as mapped network drives, USB thumb drive, CD-ROM and DVD then this utility is perfect to help you manage them.
Link: http://www.alexnolan.net/software/driveman.htm
9 Auslogics Duplicate File Finder
Day to day computer usage are sometime leads to accumulating of duplicate files on your hard disk. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder will find the and duplicate files for you, and it is totally up to you to delete the duplicated files.
Link: http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/duplicate-file-finder
System & Other Utilities
10 Startuplite
Many computers have the problem of slow startup. StartUpLite is a lightweight and simple to use application that allows you to speed up your system startup. Accordingly to the author it is safe and efficient. The program allows you to disable or remove unnecessary startup entries from your computer. You can then shorten your computer startup time.
Link: http://www.malwarebytes.org/startuplite.php
11 Process Explorer
Now you can find out which program has a particular file or directory open. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
12 InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. Support for burning disc images, discs copying, audio, CDs, DVDs, and more. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. InfraRecorder is your lightweight burning tools.
Link: http://infrarecorder.org/
13 CamStudio
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and turn those AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). Use CamStudio to create a demonstration video for any software program.
Link: http://camstudio.org/
14 Greenshot
Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second. Greenshot is open source software.
Link: http://greenshot.sourceforge.net/
15 Rainlendar
Rainlendar is a feature rich customizable desktop calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The appearance can be customized with skins. Rainlendar uses the standard iCalendar format to store its events and tasks so you can easily transfer them between applications.
Link: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
16 RocketDock
RocketDock is an application launcher for Windows. It provides a dock similar to Mac OS X Aqua GUI. It is freely available under a Creative Commons license. It is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. It is available for Windows 2000, XP, Vista & Windows 7.
Link: http://rocketdock.com/
17 360Desktop
360desktop is free software that extends Windows as a 360° workspace, plus an online environment for creating interative 360° wallpaper, with a gallery and a widget platform, for sharing your favorite 360’s with everybody. Currently, 360desktop operates on Windows XP and Vista, both 32bit and 64bit Windows versions.
Link: http://www.360desktop.com/
PC Security
18 Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. The PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials.
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
19 AVG Anti-Virus
AVG are still offering basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows for free. Limited features, no support, for private and non-commercial use only.
Link: http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
20 PC Tools Firewall
PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful free personal firewall for Windows® that protects your computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network.
Link: http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
21 Comodo Firewall and AntiVirus
If you prefer a more complicated firewall, then Comodo firewall might be your choice. Comodo firewall is a free Award-Winning firewall & antiVirus application. Comodo firewall uses sophisticated tests to ensure your computer is saved from the attacks.
Link: http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Office Applications
22 Open Office
OpenOffice is a open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Link: http://www.openoffice.org/
23 Excel Viewer
You can use Excel Viewer to open, view, and print Excel workbooks. Although if you have your Open Office installed, you may not be able to view some of the Excel files. Use this to copy data from Excel Viewer to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook. Similarly, Word Viewer & PowerPoint Viewer is also available.
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1CD6ACF9-CE06-4E1C-8DCF-F33F669DBC3A&displaylang=en
24 Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. Unlike the Window Notepad, this powerful text editing tools can open up very large text file within seconds.
Link: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
25 tinySpell
When you need to check spelling in an application that does not include a spelling checker, then tinySpell is the right choice for you. tinySpell is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application, especially the notepad.
Link: http://tinyspell.m6.net/
26 Adobe Reader (Acrobat Reader)
Acrobat Reader are now namedx Adobe Reader, it is available as free from Adobe’s web site. It allows the viewing and printing of PDF files. The Reader are widely used as a way to present information similar to a document printed on a paper.
Link: http://get.adobe.com/reader/
27 PDFCreator
With the PDFCreator installed on your computer, creating a PDF file is as easy as printing a document. It helps users convert any printable documents into PDF files. It is FREE for use & even commercial purpose.
Link: http://en.pdfforge.org/
Internet & Email
28 Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free & popular web browser. I believe you are already using it right now.
Link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
29 Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. This download tool can accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. Beware of a fake versions of Free Download Manager.
Link: http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
30 µTorrent
µTorrent is the world’s most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet).
Link: http://www.utorrent.com/
31 Google Earth
I just can’t leave out Google Earth to be installed in my PC. Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
Link: http://earth.google.com/
32 Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla’s Thunderbird in now on version 2. It is an powerful email application. Thunderbird 2 includes many new features to help you manage your inbox. You can now tag your email and find content within your email faster.
Link: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
33 Affixa
Affixa makes your webmail account as Windows application. Today, people use more than one mail system in their day-to-day life. Someone may use Microsoft Outlook for business matters and Gmail for personal stuff. You can use Affixa to handle that multiple email functionality for you.
Link: http://www.affixa.com/
Social Tools
34 Skype
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Free calls, video calls and instant messaging over the internet. Plus great value calls to phones anywhere in the world.
Link: http://www.skype.com/
35 digsby
digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. It is a chat client with many stuff to offer. It is a social networking tool that be able to alert you when new messages arrive.
Link: http://www.digsby.com/
36 TweetDeck
TweetDeck brings your Twitter, Facebook and MySpace into your desktop. It is a personal browser for your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. It is a popular Twitter application. It is compatible with several operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux & iPhone.
Link: http://www.tweetdeck.com/
Image Manipulation
37 GIMP
GIMP is an free & popular image manipulation application. It can be used as a simple paint program or an expert quality photo retouching program. I use it for images I have created for my blogs.
Link: http://www.gimp.org/
38 Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
Link: http://www.getpaint.net/
39 PhotoPerfect Express
PhotoPerfect Express maximize the potential of your photos without spending hours in front of a computer. PhotoPerfect Express create image enhancement with just 3 simple steps. It create stunning results without any technical knowledge.
Link: http://www.arcadiasoftware.com/photoperfect-express.html
Video & Audio
40 VLC media player
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs.
Link: http://www.videolan.org/
41 DVD Flick
DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set.
Link: http://www.dvdflick.net/
42 Winamp
Besides MP3, Winamp supports variety of music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio, etc. The Winamp allows software developers to extend Winamp’s functionality through the use of plug-ins, those are stunning.
Link: http://www.winamp.com/
43 Songbird
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development. Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players.
Link: http://www.getsongbird.com/
44 Foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
Link: http://www.foobar2000.org/
45 Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder. You can use Audacity to Record live audio, Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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This was a little painful to read. Might want to read things over before you publish them? Or if English isn’t your native language, maybe find someone else to edit it for you.
Also, of all the .pdf viewers in the world, how can you recommend Acrobat?
To Jack Vermicelli:
Whine, whine, whine. I don’t see you doing anything productive. I would love to see your epic list.
To Darcy:
It’s a special thing called criticism. If no one brings it up, the author won’t get better. The comment Jack made was far from an attack, if he was to have insulted the author without giving any advice, that is grounds for anger. Jack, however, did not. He told the author, quite respectfully, that his English isn’t great, and gave him a method of rectifying it.
It should also be noted that the “You can’t do better” argument holds about as much water as a rock. The easiest analogy is; “You don’t have to be a chef to know that the food tastes like shit.” Movie critics don’t have to make movies, software critics don’t have to make software. They do all know, however, what can be done, what should be done, and what shouldn’t be done in that particular area, and they base criticism on that. Jack knows the construct of the English language, and he based his criticism on that, not his knowledge of free programs.
No Darcy, it is not Jack that is whining, it is you. Learn to take criticism, or be prepared to fail.
This message brought to you by reality.
I appreciate that for what it’s worth, Creat.
@Darcy, @Creat
Thanks for your comments, my English isn’t great is for sure & need improvement. Writing is one of the challenging aspects of my life, especially English is not my native language. I willing to accept criticism or advice, as long as it is not attack (that’s why I still publish the comments in this post).
Jack Vermicelli did help me to up previously. He has made some helpful suggestion to my writing in one of the older post. Check out his comment here: http://techmilieu.com/keep-your-firefox-plugin-up-to-date/comment-page-1#comment-302
Once again, thanks to both of you & also Jack.
I agree. Adobe Reader is the slowest most bloated, time consuming PDF reader out there. It is rediculously HUGE, and they obviously must be being paid by hard drive manufacturers to fill ‘em up. How can a reader such as Foxit, use so much less space and still offer more?
I don’t know, as I am not a programmer. All I do know is … I agree with you on this comment.
Finally, WHY is Spybot not on the list? It starts to make me wonder about this list, even though I did find a couple good softwares.
I believe Spybot is similar to Ms Security Essential or AVG … I’m not sure. Thanks for sharing the info, I will give it a try.
I owe you the same courtesy and will take a look at Ms Security Essential!
AVG? Is more of a on-the-fly virus protection, but SpyBot offers protection against most rogue threats (including unknown threats), with its “TeaTimer” settings.
Thanks for putting together this list! Good Job.
What are you talking about Jack? This was perfectly easy to read. If this person is not a native English speaker, then their English is spectacular and better than most native English speakers here in the US.
@Frank Throed, examples:
“As a today, CCleaner has over 350 million remarkable downloads!”
“It is a chat client with many stuff to offer. It is a social networking tool that be able to alert you when new messages arrive.”
“PhotoPerfect Express maximize the potential of your photos without spending hours in front of a computer. PhotoPerfect Express create image enhancement with just 3 simple steps. It create stunning results without any technical knowledge.”
The article is perfectly understandable; I’m not debating that. I just said that it could use editing. The author clearly has a commendable grasp of a difficult second language, yes, and many native English speakers would do worse, I agree again. Neither of those facts diminish my point about how a published document should read, however.
Hello, Jack,
As a native American blogging in a second language, I sympathize with the author of this blog.
What can be difficult for native speakers/writers to understand is the fact that it can be extremely difficult, time-consuming or, possibly, expensive to have someone revise our texts.
And we all have our reasons for choosing to blog, despite our limitations.
As long as the texts are understandable, as long as we know that it´s a non-native writer, can´t we have a little patience? Can’t we give these authors some understanding and support?
To my mind there are two types of criticism:
1. destructive criticism – points out defects without teaching truly workable solutions.
2. constructive criticism – points out viable solutions, teaches.
I believe you had good intentions, but I disagree with your approach.
You wrote: “This was a little painful to read. Might want to read things over before you publish them? Or if English isn’t your native language, maybe find someone else to edit it for you.”
Kind sir, what you wrote there was a little painful for me to read. Since I cope with a challenge that is quite similar to the one our author faces, I saw your words as a flat-out criticism – destructive, although perhaps well-intentioned – that seems to assume some sort of lack of seriousness on the part of the author, as if he isn´t doing everything he reasonably can to produce the best texts he reasonably can – and the key there is “reasonable”. There appears to be a subtle arrogance in this kind of criticism. Have you ever considered the possibility that the author does not have access to someone who can do native-level editing (why don´t YOU offer to do it?????).
Instead of just producing a list of mistakes (which can make one want to give up), how about showing him a corrected version? Or do you prefer that he simply give up, since he can´t meet your standards?
Internet is a very international forum. We are going to run into all sorts of “accents”. I sometimes find myself obliged to publish articles without revisions by native speakers – for various types of reasons. And, once in a while, I get a comment about a mistake in my Portuguese. I genuinely appreciate the comments that tell me what the correct form would be and send a thank-you note. But, concerning the ones that simply criticize or simply tell me to have somebody edit before I publish – well, these don´t help me in any way.
If you´re truly interested in helping Philip Ze improve his blog, then my suggestion would be for you to select one or two of his worst mistakes in a given text and show him how to write it correctly. Over time, he´ll learn and improve his English – and will probably be very grateful to you.
Otherwise, perhaps it would be nice to leave him in peace about his English – which is quite understandable.
By English-as-a-second-language standards, he does quite well and should be encouraged, not discouraged.
Hope this makes sense to you, because I do think you meant well…
K
Hi,
Why are you so picky with english expression and stuff, I am sure that you got all the article was trying to say, it is not our problem english is the language of the internet even though is such a poor to explain things.
Thanks for the article anyway, it is a great collection of software to keep in mind.
I have to agree that some are not really useful or recommended like adobe, digsby, staruplite and stuff but basicly it rocks.
Keep going :)
Because it’s free?
You should also try SSuite Office for a free office suite. They have a whole range of office suites that are free for download.
Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small and efficient.
You may try these links:
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/index.htm
or
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/ssuiteexcalibur.htm
or
http://ssuite5element.webs.com/thefifthelement.htm
Hay Excellent list op applications :) Really like PC Inspector :)
Keep up the good work.
M
Seriously, nice list, but people aren’t going to take you seriously for suggesting adobe reader. Try Foxit or something similar.
@Jack Vermicelli @JOsh : I was using adobe reader previously. I notice problems like: heavy download, incompatible with certain pdf files & it occasionally connect me to the internet. Now I’m using Foxit Reader, thanks for sharing the info.
This is a good list and I will be using this for sure
Good stuff thanks
Has anyone tried 360desktop? Is it as good as advertised?
I think a nice addition would be Mixero. It’s for Twitter, and it has a really nice interface. They also have it for iPhone / iTouch also, just as a side note. I thought that was neat.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/
I am not spamming here. That site is suggesting most efficient freewares and freewares only. You can find free software reviewed with download page links. Try it. Thank You.
Oooo, good stuff. Thanks
How can you criticise adobe reader,, if it doesn’t view certain PDF’s then it is the PDF’s fault and has most likely been created with a 3rd party creater, PDF is adobe technology, and their reader IS the best on the market for reading legit PDF’s, if you prefer another inteface, then that is fine, however to say you experience problems reading certain PDFs, that is most likely because it was created in a 3rd party app such as primopdf, and or PDF creator, and as such you should criticise that app, and not the reader……
It’s easy to criticize Adobe Reader. Of all the .pdf viewers I’ve used, Reader/Acrobat is the biggest and slowest. Sumatra or Evince for example, each take up a small fraction of the space, and open much quicker.
I also recommend using Sumatra or Evince as your default PDF viewer, while keeping Adobe’s at hand for some cases. For instance, I recently tried to copy some text from a PDF in Sumatra and, it turned out, Sumatra doesn’t have that function. As far as I remember, neither does Evince.
@Jack Vermicelli : The reason it is the Biggest Jack is because the other writers cut corners to cut code size, hence why you get incompatibility issues, its the whole CD / MP3 issue, they are smaller, but they lose quality, at the end of the day, adobe designed PDF, you need to accept this fact first, you also need to accept that it doesn’t suffer with any compatibility issues with Original PDF’s, therefore it is the best reader, the list isn’t selling smallest / quickest, its reccomending the best, and seeing as Adobe is the only free reader 100% compatible with original PDF’s, then it is the only one that you can install that it will open and display correctly original PDF’s… FACT !
I’d add unlocker (google it), really nice programs to move, remove, rename or copy files which are in use. One of the programs I first install on a new pc.
About AVG virusscanner: It’s crap. I used it for years because a lack of better. But lately I had enough of it and found Avira. Works 10 times better.
For unzipping I prefer winRAR, but never tried 7zip so can only say which one i like and you should maybe try :)
And last for camstudio I prefer hypercam. Hypercam requires less from your pc ;)
Regards,
Luc.
Hi Luc, thanks for your comment. I am using Microsoft Security Essential (MSE) currently & not sure whether it is powerful enough to catch those worms. The good thing for AVG & MSE is that it always keep your virus definition up to date.
As for the hypercam, I will definitely give it a try.
I love ur collections, But would be fantastic had u had added foxit pdf reader which has a better added features of any pdf reader like highlighting text
Adobe Reader is a joke. Big, slow, bugridden. You say “But it displays “Real”(tm) PDF’s like it should.”
PDF is a standard now, and Adobe Reader should be able to handle “Fake” PDF’s without having a nervous breakdown because “*********!!!!!1! This wasn’t written by Acrobat????!?”
I use Foxit on Windows to read, and I use Okular on Linux (KDE) because Reader just plain sucks.
Should Adobe Reader ever stop behaving like a spoiled fat kid I’ll use it.
Why should it cope with fakes,, what a silly thing to say, if you had written software to earn a income you wouldnt be saying this,,,…
That’s why Adobe will become irrelevant! This is honest criticism from users who obviously find much room for improvement.
Kruptos, http://www.kruptos2.co.uk/, is no longer free…
Ya, ur right, the author finally decided to commercialize it, however only for the latest version “Kruptos 2 Professional”. There download are still available for older version in many download websites. Google it to get those links.
Adobe Reader? No way.
Foxit Reader, all the way.
I would like to suggest in the place of AVG & MSE that you try out either Avira or Super AntiSpyware (both free) which are not only small downloads but really powerful free anti virus/spyware cleaners.
As for this whole Adobe Reader, while I do agree that it’s bloatware on the consumer side of this, I don’t agree that it should conform to handling 3rd party hacked up PDF files. They created the standard as it is today and should not be expected to read anything beyond that. Foxit is well worth its glory in PDF reading but there’s no point in downing the program that started it all just because other PDF editors code their files improperly.
Nice to see another person who lives in the real world
Great list of applications. I would add one more anti-virus program. Avast is a good app. I’ve been using it for about a year now and have no complaints what-so-ever. I think it rivals AVG.
Doesn’t look like Kruptos is free.
What do you all think about the free version of Clary Utilities?
http://www.glaryutilities.com/
I’ve been using for awhile and find its registry cleaner and defrag superior to store bought.
That’s Glary Utilities
Kruptos is no longer free. I have updated the list to replace Kruptos with TrueCrypt, be sure to give it a try.
Fabulous list – and well put together. I have most of this list on my PC – one new piece of freeware available for those interested in photo-manipulation is Photoscape and it deserves a place on this list or perhaps boost the number of applications on the list to a round 50 !
Once again thanks for putting this list together.
As well as sumatra and foxit, another pdf reader with slightly more features is xchange pdf viewer. The free version is very useful if not as fully featured as the paid ones. I find it useful for converting pdf’s to images fast and easily, to include inline in phpBB forums rather than pdf’s as downloads, and the text copying to clipboard and rubber stamping / marking up of pdf’s is good too :-)
http://pdf-xchange-viewer.en.softonic.com/
NOT as quick as foxit or sumatra but does work very well.
I enjoyed the article and had no problems reading it. Thanks for publishing!
Personally i am not a huge fan of winamp for playing my audio files, but I do see the merit in that program. If you’re having issues with winamp, you may want to try out mediamonkey. I love mediamonkey purely for its ease in finding all of my music and other sound clips, beyond that, it’s fairly similar to most other audio software.
No problem, I will try out mediamonkey for sure. Thanks for sharing the info.
I must say Adobe has become crap. It used to be decent, but they took a good thing a ruined it. I use Foxit now and am a very happy user of said software. It does the job much more efficiently and without all the security holes. In fact, I have tried to purge all Adobe software from my system and have been successful minus Adobe Flash. Are the any alternative plugins available?
CCleaner is not free!
I have just visited the website http://www.ccleaner.com/, it is still under freeware & available for download.
CCLEANER is free!
Does anyone know of a good open source Blu-ray player?
Has anyone tried Rocketdock ? Is it a resource hog ?
dude you got one more subscriber,thnx a lot for such a nice posts and yeah a wonderful plugin.
If I need to view a manual for a car or copier or whatever published in pdf format, I have no control over what progam authored it. If Reader chokes on it, then I want to use whichever program will read it and display it quickly. Would Google be as useful if it was not tolerant of minor spelling mistakes and kept saying “syntax error” like an old BASIC interpreter?
I used to HATE pdfs because Adobe was s-l-o-w and crashed alot.
Good list. I do not have to agree with every one of your selections to say that.I am gonna try File Recovery in hopes that it will recover files my 84yr old dad keeps loosing with his ANCIENT DOS shareware word processer which he uses as a file manager! Undelete used to work until win 95. Sigh.