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Bored: Looking for cool freeware/open source apps

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:47 pm
by Chalks
So far I've downloaded:

Open Office - Seriously the BEST program I've ever downloaded. EVER.
Winamp
VLC - VideoLan Crumbuckets (I don't know what the C stands for)
EAC - Exact Audio Copy
Audacity
FileZilla
7-zip
Apache2Triad
Notepad++
Madtracker (Making your mouth organ obsolete since 1998)


I love all of these programs, but I still have about 70Gb of empty space. Any suggestions for what to download next? Must be free, preferably open source, and not a game (unless it's an AWESOME game). Also, offline use is a must... my internet access is sometimes a tad crappy.

I'd like something that organizes my media files/makes playlists (I don't really like winamp's playlist tool).
I'd like a graphics program of some sort (GIMP?)
Something that makes programming in php easier?




Suggestions?!?! :D

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:49 pm
by s.dot
Yeah, gimp is nice.

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:35 pm
by Benjamin
Download the entire Project Gutenberg library.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:51 am
by Scrumpy.Gums
Emacs :lol: hours and hours of fun :wink:

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:33 am
by John Cartwright
Firefox :)

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:35 am
by feyd
The entire SourceForge, et al, library. :)

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:35 am
by Josh1billion
QuickTime Alternative - includes Windows Media Player Classic which is cool too
Mozilla Firefox - you know what it is!
Mozilla Thunderbird - good for e-mail, it's much like Outlook Express
Visual Studio Express - free versions of Visual Studio, but with a few limitations (like VC++ Express's lack of a Resource Editor, which is a pain if you're writing a Win32 API application)

Hmm they renamed Firebird to Firefox, I wonder if they'll ever rename Thunderbird to Thunderfox *just thought of this.*

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:36 pm
by VladSun
Prism - web application browser
TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN - CVS and SVN clients

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:46 pm
by Kieran Huggins
astions wrote:Download the entire Project Gutenberg library.
:rofl:

Ubuntu! It has all sorts of awesome OSS installed (or installable) by default. And it rocks.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:51 pm
by s.dot
For making programming a bit easier... PHPMyAdmin.

:)

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:11 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Jst write an application that visits every web site on the internet and save it to your computer. That might fill up half of your HDD. What ever is left, use it as a local juke box.