OT-Free open source software

[Jammer28]

I thought about posting this under UK_Widowmaker’s thread, “Anyone know how to make a Screensaver?”, but didn’t want it to get lost in the shuffle. Here is some free software that may help people with their creative endeavors. 

 

OpenOffice

http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

 

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

 

GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

 

 

I upgraded my video card from a 8800GTS to a EVGA 285GTX and trying to play mpeg2 videos would result in a BSOD and a reboot. InterVideo would play DVD’s which are mpeg2’s and it would play all other mpeg2 files. An internet search pointed me to a codec issue. I found this EVGA forum: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=223882

 

I downloaded GSpot here: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

And followed the instructions in the post and now I can play mpeg2 videos.

Edited May 19, 2009 by Jammer28

[UK_Widowmaker]

Thought I would add some of my favourite bit's too

 

My favourite Malware remover (free to use)

 

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

 

And a free compression utility (opens RAR and Zip files)...again, totally free

 

http://www.7-zip.org/

Edited May 10, 2009 by UK_Widowmaker

[Herr Prop-Wasche]

Textpad is a nice text editor with many more features than Notepad or Wordpad.

 

http://textpad.com

[Test Pilot]

Very nice selection of programs above, and here are some more you may find useful.

 

 

convert just about any sort of file- Format Factory.

 

http://www.formatoz.com/

Edited May 11, 2009 by Test Pilot

[Test Pilot]

CD/DVD burning/ripping tool and more - Imageburn

 

http://www.imgburn.com/

[ONETINSOLDIER]

check out the freeware section at www.snapfiles.com

[Test Pilot]

Here are a few more:

 

Program to wipe HD's unused diskspace clean (make sure to be careful when using this though) - Eraser

http://www.heidi.ie/node/6

 

On the other hand, a program to find old deleted files - Recuva

http://www.recuva.com/

 

Regisry cleaning program - CCleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com/

 

Very nice all around light-weight (but plays pretty much anything without needing to download codecs) media player - VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

A few programs to check up on the runnings of the CPU, GPU, and temperatures

CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

GPU-Z http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/

Speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

[rabu]

A couple of my favorites free programs:

 

Audacity media editor (mentioned above)

 

Convert -Unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! (click here)

 

 

Here's another of my free favorites, Clipboard Helper

Clipboard Helper enhances the Windows clipboard. It will put together all text fragments that you have copied to clipboard and will save them in a single file. Increases productivity with at least 400%.

(click here)

 

I always donate something to programs like these that I tend to use a lot.. even a few dollars can help.

[Creaghorn]

i have used audacity in rb3d days to alter soundeffects or to make my own ringtones for my cell. nice little tool. does anybody know if there is a similar tool, which can make doppler effects on sound files? you can make wah wah sound, phaser sound and stuff like this from normal soundfiles, but i would like to have an option to simulate doppler. if i would find a sort of tool, i would try to tinker around with the extern aicraft engine sounds.

[steve58]

...perhaps not open source, but I see that in addition to OpenOffice, there is now Lotus Symphony (also free).

 

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/s...y/home.nsf/home

[OvS]

...perhaps not open source, but I see that in addition to OpenOffice, there is now Lotus Symphony (also free).

 

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/s...y/home.nsf/home

 

 

I need to let this one go out of the Sticky, I'm running out of room. Sorry guys, it's a good one, but I am replacing it with a thread more relative to OFF.

 

OvS