[djc]

Winlibre 0.3.1, Free Software for Windows

WinLibre is a rigorous selection of free, legal software for Windows 98, 2000, XP
WinLibre packages this quality software in a complete and coherent product
WinLibre software meets your essential needs : Office (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation), Internet (web, email, messaging), Multimedia (music, video), Create (drawing, music), Tools (file compression, antivirus)
WinLibre automates and simplifies their installation
WinLibre stands in two versions: a complete autonomous setup (151 MB) and, a mini setup (0.6 MB) which downloads from Internet the selected software at installation time.
After having downloaded and launched Winlibre , choose the software to be installed in a single click. Winlibre will install them for you.

http://www.winlibre.com/en/

[piXelatedEmpire]

sonu27, on Oct 11 2006, 06:02 AM, said:

No offence, but this list it crap.

Your missing soo many good products.

I'm not even going to start naming them.

Well that's a great attitude to have

[pepoluan]

Add my favorite: EverNote. (NOT the Plus edition, but the FREE edition)

hq4ever, on Sep 30 2006, 01:15 AM, said:

Irfanview is NOT "Free", when you say Free the term means "Free as in Freedom, not as free beer".
The Freedom of the software is the power of so many developers to "Free" their software under CopyLeft licenses, please read more about it here: http://www.gnu.org/p...hy/free-sw.html

Free is free. Choose between 'libre' or 'gratis'. For me, I'd prefer 'gratis' over 'libre' anytime. Furthermore, 'libre' does not always mean 'gratis'.

As for copyleft ... I refrain myself from using GPL-ed software if I can.

[eyeball]

i recommend adding vlc to that list, ccleaner, daemon tools and foxit reader.
all fantastic progs, (sorry if they have already been mentioned)

[sonu27]

I have a small list here: http://betasonu.tripod.com/

Check if theirs any you missed, I doubt it though.

This post has been edited by sonu27: 26 December 2006 - 05:31 AM

[mark]

Hugin is FOSS. If you have taken 2 or more pictures for a panoramic shot, then you can use this program to stitch them together. It will even to a spherical image so you are looking at the inside of a bubble picture, so to speak.

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With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

Yeah, and it will do more. Sweet.

Home page.


DL

Edit: Thank you Jeremy, piXelatedEmpire and TAiN. (below)
I took some panoramic shots while on vacation or should I say shots taken side by side, hand held and not having followed any instructions for this program (I didn't know about this program yet). The panoramic shots (3) I put together with this program turned out reasonably well. What a difference it is to see them spliced together. It really is worth the effort, even if the panoramic isn't perfect. I ran into two problems that were created by me. One was that I didn't look to see where an imaginary horizontal line would be and that led to each picture being at a slightly different elevation (fixed with merging the pictures with Hugin and then cropping). The second was that I took each picture with the camera adjusting the apperture and it should have been set at a point of my chosing first. This caused the shots pointed closer to the sun to be darker than those to either side and so on with each shot further away. Another thing in the same vein is that when you take the shots, make sure you do them fairly quickly if there are clouds moving fairly rapidly. This caused each frame to have the same clouds in different positions and shadows in different locations. That will mess up the panorama.

Read the instructions. There are some important details that need to be taken into account for better pictures.

This post has been edited by DL: 02 January 2007 - 08:36 PM

[Jeremy]

Nice find!

[Jeremy]

http://www.neowin.ne...howtopic=522081

[piXelatedEmpire]

DL, on Dec 28 2006, 12:06 PM, said:

Hugin is FOSS. If you have taken 2 or more pictures for a panoramic shot, then you can use this program to stitch them together. It will even to a spherical image so you are looking at the inside of a bubble picture, so to speak.

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With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

Yeah, and it will do more. Sweet.

Home page.

What a killer app!

[tain]

piXelatedEmpire, on Jan 2 2007, 05:00 PM, said:

DL, on Dec 28 2006, 12:06 PM, said:

Hugin is FOSS. If you have taken 2 or more pictures for a panoramic shot, then you can use this program to stitch them together. It will even to a spherical image so you are looking at the inside of a bubble picture, so to speak.

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With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

Yeah, and it will do more. Sweet.

Home page.

What a killer app!

I've always used AutoStitch. Will have to try Hugin now!

[Claude]

desktoplistview: http://iamwill.com/d...tView/index.php

If you want to make it load in startup, put a shortcut of it in the startup folder (Start > Programs > Startup)

This post has been edited by prankst3r: 06 January 2007 - 07:13 PM

[albator]

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
http://www.softperfe...ducts/firewall/

A great rule based firewall who only take 1 meg of ram !

[Jeremy]

albator, on Jan 19 2007, 07:20 PM, said:

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
http://www.softperfe...ducts/firewall/

A great rule based firewall who only take 1 meg of ram !

http://www.matousec.com/

[albator]

Be more explicit, what do you mean with this link ? There a review of many firewall but not the one I am talking about.

[Jeremy]

Maybe because they've never heard of it or it sucks? Comodo passes all known leak tests. The point was to provide you with information and let you know there is an excellent firewall that is freeware that you should try.

[albator]

Leek Test are for newbie. I dont cath spyware, I only care about outbound attack.
Like I said this is rule based firewall or negative firewall, your firewall like comodo are good for my mother, but not for me.

Maybe next time try to read my post.:

A great rule based firewall

The other firewall reviewed a this site are application based mostly

[Jeremy]

That site has reviews and user comments on firewalls that are based on a lot more than just leaktests. I only mentioned that one aspect of that one firewall.
Maybe next time you'll see the bigger picture and revise your attitude towards someone simply providing information.

[Zxian]

albator, on Jan 22 2007, 12:54 PM, said:

Leek Test are for newbie. I dont cath spyware, I only care about outbound attack.
Like I said this is rule based firewall or negative firewall, your firewall like comodo are good for my mother, but not for me.

Maybe next time try to read my post.:

A great rule based firewall

The other firewall reviewed a this site are application based mostly

A great rules based firewall for someone who knows how to use it. Leak Tests are not for "newbies", and they give a very good idea of how well a firewall protects your system.

1MB or 20MB of RAM isn't going to affect the prerformance of your system. I could easily write a program that uses less memory but takes MUCH more time to compute. If you look at any decent programming textbook - usually we face the tradeoff between memory and processing time. The more of one you use, the less of the other you can get away with. People somehow have this misconception that lower RAM usage leads to faster computation, which is not the usual case for programs.

And I'll say this again - task manager does not give reliable information about process memory usage. The old "minimize trick" should prove that to anyone who takes a second to think about what's going on.

[albator]

I mean leak test are use to test outbound connection. This mean that you have to catch a spyware in first place.
The memory usage of the software in this case is a indicator of it's minimalist approach.

[Zxian]

How is memory usage an indication of a minimalist approach? You didn't seem to pick up on my point... RAM and CPU are generally a tradeoff in terms of optimization. If you want less RAM usage, you'll need more CPU cycles.

Leak tests are indeed to test outbound connections, and no - you don't need to be infected to be suceptible to such an attack. There are several sites out there that will generate a page with an image of your desktop as it appears to them. Good firewalls will try to stop this type of activity, but separating out "good" data on port 80 from "bad" data is more difficult than a simple rule can specify.