Friday, January 19, 2007
Windows Freeware
1. Openoffice - replaces MS Office and also runs on Linux.
2. Spybot - removes spyware
3. iTunes - a decent way to backup your MP3 and you may occassionally need to buy something
4. Classic Media Player - replaces Windows Media Player and does not require another application to play commerical DVDs.
5. Deepburner - The only free DVD data burner I found. There's also a paid version.
6. MAME - plays old arcade games by emulating the hardware and running the same ROM that was in the original game.
7. Daphne - plays old laser disc games like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace
8. Virtual Pinball - Get the GnR table
9. The emulator zone has many more emulators to old consoles(NES) and computer(Commodore 64). I didn't have an interest to try any of those. I did try the Apple IIe emulator once to play Bards Tale, but you can get the PC version now.
10. Powertab - guitar tabs program with a play button. It's not as popular as Guitar Pro and probably not as good, but it's free.
11. Ultimate Guitar has all the tabs you would want.
12. Audacity - record or edit your music. It only records a single channel. I use my digital 8 track to record and Audacity to edit.
13. Internet Archive has free music and books. It's famous for all the live Grateful Dead concerts, but check out the Derek Trucks band and the 78RPM stuff.
14. DOS Box and VDMSound - These can help you play old DOS games. I needed this in Win2K, but the latest XP seems to run those games fine without this.
15. DVD Decryper, DVD Shrink, Rip4Me, and FixVTS - This combo will work for any DVD that your PC can read. Some movie DVDs are not recognized by some DVD Drives.
16. DVD2AVI will get the audio off of DVDs in case you want to make a CD from the concert you have on DVD. Use Rip4Me to get the VOBs, then load it with DVD2AVI. Audacity can edit the audio. In DVD2AVI, press F5 and ESC to play a bit of the move. Take note of the audio settings and click Audio->Channel Format->xxx to set the proper format.
17. Auto Gordian Knot - Like DVD2AVI but works well with Dolby. Takes a few hours.
18. Putty - telnet and ssh client
19. Cygwin - UNIX bash shell and it comes with standard UNIX tools
20. VIM - VI like editor for those who want to do it all without a mouse
2. Spybot - removes spyware
3. iTunes - a decent way to backup your MP3 and you may occassionally need to buy something
4. Classic Media Player - replaces Windows Media Player and does not require another application to play commerical DVDs.
5. Deepburner - The only free DVD data burner I found. There's also a paid version.
6. MAME - plays old arcade games by emulating the hardware and running the same ROM that was in the original game.
7. Daphne - plays old laser disc games like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace
8. Virtual Pinball - Get the GnR table
9. The emulator zone has many more emulators to old consoles(NES) and computer(Commodore 64). I didn't have an interest to try any of those. I did try the Apple IIe emulator once to play Bards Tale, but you can get the PC version now.
10. Powertab - guitar tabs program with a play button. It's not as popular as Guitar Pro and probably not as good, but it's free.
11. Ultimate Guitar has all the tabs you would want.
12. Audacity - record or edit your music. It only records a single channel. I use my digital 8 track to record and Audacity to edit.
13. Internet Archive has free music and books. It's famous for all the live Grateful Dead concerts, but check out the Derek Trucks band and the 78RPM stuff.
14. DOS Box and VDMSound - These can help you play old DOS games. I needed this in Win2K, but the latest XP seems to run those games fine without this.
15. DVD Decryper, DVD Shrink, Rip4Me, and FixVTS - This combo will work for any DVD that your PC can read. Some movie DVDs are not recognized by some DVD Drives.
16. DVD2AVI will get the audio off of DVDs in case you want to make a CD from the concert you have on DVD. Use Rip4Me to get the VOBs, then load it with DVD2AVI. Audacity can edit the audio. In DVD2AVI, press F5 and ESC to play a bit of the move. Take note of the audio settings and click Audio->Channel Format->xxx to set the proper format.
17. Auto Gordian Knot - Like DVD2AVI but works well with Dolby. Takes a few hours.
18. Putty - telnet and ssh client
19. Cygwin - UNIX bash shell and it comes with standard UNIX tools
20. VIM - VI like editor for those who want to do it all without a mouse
# posted by Mack @ 6:43 PM 
