tolik
09-22-2004, 11:37 PM
(I guess this will continue a thread about MS Paint)
While lurking through the web spaces, I've found this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=33&threadid=997283&enterthread=y
Everybody will find something usefull there.
Being responsible for tracking every aspect in the projects, I've created similar list of software and when a new team member comes in and admins pre-install new computer for him, we also install all the extra software.
For some people who are worried about legal issues, this is a nice list of software replacements.
I would like to add "7-Zip" archiver to the list of "must have" free tools. It does easily handle a lot of archives plus gives superb compression outstanding RAR/ACE. The only disadvantage of using exactly 7z compression is speed (slow) and absence of crossplatform compatibility.
The only thing I haven't found for free is good compare/merge tool.
There's LCS which is the best out of free tools (in my opinion) http://www.ascotti.org/programming/lcs/lcs.htm
It's easily outstanded by CompareIt! (35$ I think)
http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp.htm
Here are some more usefull things I personally use:
FAR (non-free) as File Manager (Norton Commander-style, very advanced) + Colorer (code highlight)
PSP5 (non-free) - somebody already mentioned this, it's very lightweight FAST and almost free, too bad it can't handle some images more than 2048x2048.
IrfanView (freeware) - view everything, do batch operations
Audacity (opensource) - for simple audio processing
Do you have any special tricky "free" tools which increase your productivity?
While lurking through the web spaces, I've found this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=33&threadid=997283&enterthread=y
Everybody will find something usefull there.
Being responsible for tracking every aspect in the projects, I've created similar list of software and when a new team member comes in and admins pre-install new computer for him, we also install all the extra software.
For some people who are worried about legal issues, this is a nice list of software replacements.
I would like to add "7-Zip" archiver to the list of "must have" free tools. It does easily handle a lot of archives plus gives superb compression outstanding RAR/ACE. The only disadvantage of using exactly 7z compression is speed (slow) and absence of crossplatform compatibility.
The only thing I haven't found for free is good compare/merge tool.
There's LCS which is the best out of free tools (in my opinion) http://www.ascotti.org/programming/lcs/lcs.htm
It's easily outstanded by CompareIt! (35$ I think)
http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp.htm
Here are some more usefull things I personally use:
FAR (non-free) as File Manager (Norton Commander-style, very advanced) + Colorer (code highlight)
PSP5 (non-free) - somebody already mentioned this, it's very lightweight FAST and almost free, too bad it can't handle some images more than 2048x2048.
IrfanView (freeware) - view everything, do batch operations
Audacity (opensource) - for simple audio processing
Do you have any special tricky "free" tools which increase your productivity?