For those who love FOSS(Free and Open Source Software), I am bringing some reasons to rejoice. I have shortlisted a bunch of my favorite freewares which, according to me, will increase your accessibility on a computer. Those already rejoicing can carry on their good work; and those who like the gates and windows in their houses/offices; you have few reasons to rejoice.
Suggestions and demands for software, other than those listed are most welcome.
- MULTIMEDIA
- K-Lite Codec Pack (Plays all kindda media using Media player classic, after you program it.)
- VLC Player
- Winamp
- Media Coder
- Super/Any/Total (All in one video, audio converter)
- CD/DVD
- ImgBurn
- Daemon Tools Lite
- Isobuster Free
- GRAPHICS
- FastStone Capture v5.3 (last free version)
- IrfanView
- INTERNET
- Google Chrome (Oh yes!)
- Firefox
- Free Download Manager
- Download Accelerator Plus
- Filezilla
- uTorrent
- SYSTEM UTILITIES/TWEAKING
- CCleaner
- Defraggler
- Glary Utilities Lite/XDN Tweaker
- Revo Uninstaller (Basically unnecessary)
- Treesize Free(a free disk space manager for Windows)
- SECURITY
- Avira Antivir Personal
- Comodo Firewall Free
- Spybot Search & Destroy
- MISC
- 7Zip
- WinRar Free
- Foxit Reader(Pdf viewer)
- Adobe Reader(always keep around)
- OpenOffice
- IOBit Gamebooster(fixes lagging of high end games by closing all unnecessary apps to focus all PC resources on the game)
And now, the shocker
Five free software from Microsoft :
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Bing Maps
- Windows Live package(Other than Writer and messenger, even includes a family safety!
Have kids? Then you are good to go) - Process Explorer
- Paint.NET(excellent graphic tool, not technically a MS product but mentored by it.)
2 Comments:
Great list!
Indeed these FOSS make computing really easy and fast.
And talking about Open Source softwares, I guess your list should also have included the open source OS, like the various versions of Linux based operating systems.
And tht also reminds me of the much awaited OS of the decade: Google Chrome OS. Hoping to read a review of that as soon as it gets launched in the tech section of arbitSpecs.. :)
Thanks. Me too eagerly waiting for the monolithic Chrome OS. I have been following the developments, will write about it. :D
I have deliberately not listed any Linux based OS because I am going to try some of them by the end of May/June and will be posting the experience based review.
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