FREE Software Thread - Utilities & Applications You Cannot Live Without

#86
Freeware I'm using regularly on the Mac:
AviInfo
Azureus
BoomRecorder (great recording app)
ClamXav
FilmLoop
Flip4Mac plugin (WMV in Quicktime)
Flock
FLV2iTunes
Graphing Calculator (by Pacific Tech)
iTunes-LAME (front end for LAME encoder)
MacFLAC
MacHacha
Mac The Ripper
Max encoder (alternate encoder)
Onyx Utilities (be careful with that optimizer!)
Perian plugin (FLV and others in Quicktime)
RAR Expander
Super SFV
VLC
xACT (another encoder)

Useful Mac shareware:
Amazing Slow Downer
Annotation Transcriber
Audio Hijack Pro
Dr. Betotte (metronome)
Fetch
Fission (audio editing)
iPod Access
Little Snitch
Mahjong Solitaire 2 (hehe)
Modul8 (real-time video editing and compiling)
RadioTuner
Strobe Tuner
Transcribe!
VolumeLogic (iTunes plugin)

Sources:
www.macupdate.com
cross-platform: www.versiontracker.com
www.rogueamoeba.com
 
#87
MakiSupaStar said:
Anyone got the equivalent of all these programs but for a mac?
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Most foreign languages are supported natively by OS X and come with it. When you do an install from your backup discs, you can choose to turn on all languages. However, be aware this takes up mondo, mondo space. Alternately, you can shut off (and even delete) languages you feel you are not using. This can create problems too so I just stick with the default behavior.

You'll find a comprehensive listing under the 'International' menu in System Preferences. Not having been on a Windows machine in a while, I can't remember the exact specs of the MS Languages Pack. I'm not sure if you're asking about support and input or if you want a vast array of fonts for all languages. I'm assuming you're asking about support and input. All that should be on your install disks if not already installed, awaiting activation. A super-cool feature of the International Input Menu is to be able to select your keyboard input language so you can, for example, switch from an English keyboard to a French or German layout at the flick of a switch. Not sure if that answered your question. I've helped my friends turn these features on and off before and I'm pretty sure this is what you're looking for.
 
#88
lmoh said:
LilyPond is PC freeware; however, it's not a mouse-driven program. You input the music in ASCII text form using a special code language (not hard to learn). The output is neatly formatted, perhaps the best looking you can get on a computer.

For Linux, there is Rosegarden, which is a general-purpose audio/MIDI composer/sequencer/editor. It's only distributed as source code, so you'll have to do the compiling yourself.
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I used LilyPond for my university course's music project and it worked out great! Thanks! ;)
 
#91
I'm amazed, nay, astounded, that no one has mentioned the number 1, grand daddy of all open source, free software projects:

LINUX

Without linux, 60%+ of these other programs wouldn't exist. Gimp for a start was created to make graphics for the gnome desktop environment. Gnucash started on linux. Rosegarden also. The majority of the world's webservers run on either Linux or another Unix-like OS (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD...). Apache, the webserver software itself, started on Linux and is responsible for serving up 50% of the world's web traffic as the most used server.

www.ubuntu.com
www.distrowatch.com
www.redhat.com
 
#94
An alternative to that whole FreeRam XP whatchamicallit involves coding a very simple program.

Open up notepad and type this into it:

Mystring = (80000000)

Save it as Memory.vbe

To use, simply double-click the icon. It will free up RAM and get your computer running as fast as a fresh startup (you may need to run it once or twice; it takes all of .5-2 seconds to run). For best results, exit as many programs as possible (i.e. don't have any games running and it'll be fine).
 
#95
Lots and lots of excellent software here, so I'd like to contribute a website, called Giveaway Of The Day. As the name implies, they give away free, licensed software, with a different one every day. It's free so long as you download and set it up on that day, otherwise it's software you pay for. Some of it is useful and some of it is not, but I've gotten a lot of excellent software from them, so you've got to check them out every day. Check it out and see for yourselves!

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
 
#100
I got a Zune but there was a problem with my videocard I fixed
it by doing that.

zuneerror.jpg


Exit the Zune software
1) Start->Run->regedit
2) Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Zune\GeneralS ettings
3) Right click and click New->DWORD Value. Name it ReevaluateVideoSettings
4) Right click again and create a new DWORD Value. Name it UseGDI.
5) Press enter, then right click it again and click Modify
6) Change the Value Data to 1. It should be hexadecimal by default.
7) Restart the zune software.
 
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