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Best free obscure software

Another 3D modelling and animation program for Windows that is currently free is trueSpace from Caligari. It's roots go back to the Amiga in 1990. This was a mid range(around $500 IIRC) commercial PC program for years but Microsoft acquired the company in July 2008 and released it for free. Which makes no sense to me but I'm sure it fits in their program of world domination somehow. :D

Ahh, MS wants the technology for their Virtual EarthTM so I'm more or less right about the world domination thing.
 
Ducky said:
On a side note, for those who love VIM, you can make firefox act like vim (this serves no good purpose I can find except to be a neat novelty):

http://www.developernotes.com/archive/2008/06/30/vim-firefox-vimperator.aspx
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Well, I have used vimperator as my primary FF interface for well over a year -- the added screen real estate and built-in keyboard shortcuts get hardwired real quick.

Ironically, in that timeframe I have transitioned from vim to emacs as my primary editor/dev environment. Go figure. :)
 
Someone already mentioned 7-Zip.. WAY better than Acrobat for reading PDFs.

I also use the "image resizer" power tool from Microsoft quite often. I download a hundred pics from my camera, select them all, and re-size them all to internet posting size in just a couple of clicks. Very handy.

Also, check out I want a freeware utility to... A handy searchable, categorized list of 450+ freeware/shareware utilities.
 
Pantaz said:
My $0.02...

IrfanView graphics utility
http://www.irfanview.com/
After all the years I've been using IrfanView, I'm still amazed that it's free!
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Careful. IrfanView is not free for commercial (i.e. at-work) use. I keep catching people at work using it; too many don't realize (or, in some cases, don't seem to care).

ETA: PDFCreator is usable in commercial settings, though (in fact it's open-source).
 
ddt said:
As a Linux user, I'm using always open source software :). As I'm mostly into system administration and programming, I mostly write my own scripts to automate tasks the way I want them :D.

For the Windows users though, I'd nominate this one:

NT password editor: very convenient if you forgot the administrator password. Of course, it's Linux based :rolleyes:
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Haha, i used that on an office computer at a non-profit organization once, because the people that administered the computer were no longer around, and they left us stuck with user permissions.. It worked like a charm.. but apparently it can be risky.. i forget what the risk, was..

yairhol said:
CCleaner
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I use ccleaner at my job - it's part of our malware removal script. As far as I know, it has no functionality for detecting and removing duplicate files. But then again, we only use it for it's registry cleaning functionality.. We do use dllcompare for looking for duplicate dll files.


I think Aceftp is my favorite ftp program - very easy to navigate and use, and it's free.

Of course there's Hijack This, and VLC media player would be other worthy nominations.. but i think we all know about them..

There's also a variety of neat, and free, little utilities from gibson research center. Apparently he writes a lot of his software in assembly language, which keeps it free of being bulkware:

http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm
 
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Almo said:
Various OS:

Synergy. Share one mouse and keyboard among N computers running various OSs with software.

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
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Oh.. my.. GOD... thank you for sharing that software with us. I've been contemplating buying one of those "switch boxes" because I have two computers at my desk, and i get tired of using two keyboards and two mice.. I set this program up and it works beautifully.. you can even copy and paste stuff from one computer, directly to the other.. it's amazing. Thanks again. VERY nice piece of software.
 
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