The Freeloader Topic

[The Guru]

Not sure if this would be good for this topic but you could put this in the list:

 

Skype

-Free calls, video calls and instant messaging over the internet. Plus great value calls to phones anywhere in the world.

[ScratchCard]

Freeloaders.. i am disappoint.

 

Safari - http://www.apple.com/uk/safari/download/

Google Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en

[3niX]

Well...

 

Time for a few games:

 

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

One of my favorite free MP games. Its extremely fast paced and popular (ranked 15 on xfire today).

 

True Combat Elite

A modification for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. In principle its basically a free Counter Strike game.

 

FEAR Combat

A free MP version of the popular PC game F.E.A.R.

[spdrlfc]

dvd video soft youtube to mp3 converter i love this HQ get all the mp3s you want FREE and LEEGALY dvd video soft

[The Guru]

When are you going to announce the Top 10 Freeloaders?

[GTArv]

Forget about what I said about the "Pixillion Image Converter". Its supposed to be freeware, but loses most of its vital features after a 30 days.

 

I just discovered FastStone Photo Resizer as an alternative, which comes with no strings attached.

From the website - "An image converter / resizer intended to enable users especially digital camera owners to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermark to images in a quick and easy BATCH mode."

 

EDIT: FastStone Image Viewer may interest a few.

"FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments."

 

Also, Congrats on the commendation dave, keep up the good work!

Edited September 27, 2009 by GTArv

[Star-Lord]

This a neat program i came across today that caught my interest so I decided to share it with you.

Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds.

 

 

 

Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season's greetings stationary or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall.

 

Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...).

 

FotoSketcher is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware or virus. It runs on any version of Microsoft Windows (sorry, no Mac version available).

 

 

FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.

 

Completely FREE! YAY!

Main Site Here

Download Here

[GTArv]

> MediaCoder - Convert between various audio and video formats. Batch conversion possible.

 

Firefox Addons

> Lazarus - Saves forms as you type, so you'll have no more "WTF Moments" where you've lost all the text typed into a form due to connection errors and other malfunctions.

> Stylish - Customize websites by adding your own styles (CSS) to it. A repository of styles can be found at http://www.userstyles.org

[lordjubblydave]

 

When are you going to announce the Top 10 Freeloaders?

If i ever get more than 2 sets of votes.

 

Coming Soon.

 

I want to make A Feeloader Top 10.

Basically the top 10 most essential pieces of Free Software.

But, i need a little help from you guys.

If you could all PM me your Top 3 applications from the main Freeloader list.

I can collect the results and create the top 10.

Which i will then, hopefully put up for Download in 1 package as kind of a beginners guide to Freeloading.

Please Send Your Top 3's Here

 

 

 

In my opinion (!), the table would look better if the names weren't in large size. The software name isn't really THAT important to make it large as possible . Yeah, I realize it'd take a sh*tload of time to edit it all...

 

I agree, especially now the list is getting big it hurts my eyes

So i made it a bit smaller, when i do my next update it will shrink again

 

Does anyone know how i could make seperate tables for each subject ?

i think it would make for easier reading if each category was seperate.

But every time i try it they all come out different sizes WHY ????.

 

A Bit of a Fun, Pointless, Freeload.

 

Press the Spacebar

 

 

My record for the 5 Second setting is 36, can any of you do better ?

 

 

Edited October 3, 2009 by lordjubblydave

[The Guru]

Found this. It's just like Spotify but works world wide (no limitations)

 

iMesh

[Ryan]

 

> MediaCoder - Convert between various audio and video formats. Batch conversion possible.

Thank you so much Arv. This was exactly what I needed to convert my TV shows to MP4 so I can watch them on my iPod.

 

All the other ones I tried only allowed a couple of minutes of conversion before they made you pay.

Edited October 8, 2009 by Unlimited

[ghost of delete key]

 

Just wanted to add to ZoneAlarm: If you are using Kaspersky Anti-Virus, it will cause BSoDs when using the Internet. It happened to me, took ages to figure it out.

 

I've never seen such a state.

I happen to be running ZAPro v8 alongside Kaspersky 2010 on a Compaq SR1603WM, and while ZA is now (since v7) admittedly a RAM hog, and does not recognize Kaspersky av in its monitor, it otherwise works flawlessly, and is a very powerful combo. It could be your BSoD hell was machine-specific.

BTW, if you run this combo on a HP board like mine, you may want to consider disabling or outright uninstalling the HP boot optimizer. It often slows down your bootup considerably. I don't have the link handy but a Google search will easily reveal the details. (search "HPBootOp")

 

A word about the SysInternals suite...

Once upon a time, SysInternals was the creation of one Mark Russinovich, and the suite of free tools was extremely awesome in the most extremely extreme way. These tools COMPLETELY exposed the internal workings of the Windows platform in a way rivaled by apps costing thousands. DebugView was the tool we used with (Spooky's?) ASI hook to read the debug messages streaming from GTAVC.exe to diagnose mod crashes.

 

Enter the Evil Bill Gates:

Apparently Microsh*t did not like the way SysInternals undressed the biotch that is Windows, and could not legally kill Mr. Russinovich. So they went all thug on him and made him an offer he couldn't refuse...

It was bought out and became MucouSoft property.

 

The current suite of tools now offered are severely crippled, much of their original functionality was stripped down, and some tools disappeared altogether. Yay for Boss Gates.

 

I happen to have the original suite, but the license does not permit redistribution. I know if I were foolish enough to host them for access, ol' Billy would have a pack of meat eating lawyers baying at my door, and besides, I honor EULA's.

But I just thought y'all should be aware of all that.

 

Now, on to the sauce...

 

SECURITY ALERT!!!

 

For those interested in internet security, there is a wonderful suite of free tools and a web app by Gibson Research Corporation. They are too numerous to list here, but this link contains them all.

The ShieldsUp! web app will test your port security, and shows why Zone Alarm is the greatest firewall you can get.

GRC is not affiliated with ZA, but Gibson is a fan. The site also has many informative and interesting pages that should not be missed by anyone with an internet connection, IMHO.

All the tools are simple, and help with such Windows security issues such as DCOM and uPnP.

I consider this site a must-see.

 

...and I cant believe that nobody has mentioned the BitTorrent client, the de-facto standard, and free.

 

Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a free, open-source torrent client based at SourceForge.

 

www.emailaddresses.com has a list of free security-conscious web surfing tools such as Proxify and Stealth Message (very cool!)

 

I guess that sums up my top picks of indispensible freeware.

Enjoy!

 

btw, I would have a hard time picking a top 3 from the List, but I'll have another look in a bit.

 

 

[lordjubblydave]

Microsoft have released their free anti virus software.

I have not tested it personally,

it is compatible with Xp sp2 and later versions of windows

 

It is called Security Essntials

 

Check out a small review Here

 

Vote Vote Vote.

 

I want to make A Feeloader Top 10.

Basically the top 10 most essential pieces of Free Software.

But, i need a little help from you guys.

If you could all PM me your Top 3 applications from the main Freeloader list.

I can collect the results and create the top 10.

Which i will then, hopefully put up for Download in 1 package as kind of a beginners guide to Freeloading.

Please Send Your Top 3's Here

[SWEETSAPRIK]

 

The current suite of tools now offered are severely crippled, much of their original functionality was stripped down, and some tools disappeared altogether.

Out of curiosity, could you give an example or two?

 

I only ask because I've had a few sysinternals apps on every PC I've used at least as far back as 2001. Specifically process explorer (as far back as it still being called HandleEx), process monitor, and tcpview, but a handful of others as well.

 

Of the ones I've used (and the ones I still use) I've noticed no missing or removed functions. It's entirely possible that I just never used said functions to begin with, or the specific programs you're talking about, but I'm still curious.

 

I still have zips and install exes from most of the programs I ever downloaded going back to like 2000, so mostly I'm curious if I'm missing something worth digging around for. Also, there's actually a decent chance you might be able to find a few of them on the Wayback machine.

[nixxio]

DVDVideoSoft

Basically lots of free applications that range from video and audio conversion software(including downloading Youtube videos), to video and audio editing software, and a lot more.

 

DeepBurner

Its well, ahh f*ck it.

 

DeepBurner is a CD/DVD authoring program made by Astonsoft which supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. Additionally it can create and burn ISO images.

 

Its pretty good actually, especially since the free vers is only 2mb. Had no problems with it whatsoever, same goes for DVDvideosoft applications(well the ones I tried at least).

 

Unlocker

Can't believe that one wasn't in. If you ever had trouble trying to delete/move a file because of permissions or Windows is being a bitch, just use this application, it will solve all your problems.

 

Combined Community Codec Pack

All the damn codecs you'll ever need, for watching videos, and stuff.

 

PeerGuardian

Well, blocks IP's and stuff, you know, and it's free.

Nevermind, seems that's in already, woops.

Edited October 13, 2009 by rdbx1234

[Doc Rikowski]

This is very useful if you don't want to choke your GTAF topics/posts with giant and ugly white boxes full of CODES.

http://freetexthost.com/

 

It's free

 

[lordjubblydave]

*****Update*****

Ok we are all Up to Date Freeloaders !!

 

The Top Freeloads will be coming soon.

 

I Still need some help, i want to separate each software type into its own little table.

But every time i do it they all come out different widths, any ideas how to stop this from happening ?

[Canoxa]

*****Update*****

Ok we are all Up to Date Freeloaders !!

 

The Top Freeloads will be coming soon.

 

I Still need some help, i want to separate each software type into its own little table.

But every time i do it they all come out different widths, any ideas how to stop this from happening ?

From table to table? Not sure if that's possible.

[The-King]

You could always add another line of tables to each set of tables containing a repeating symbol designed with the sole purpose of keeping the table widths even.

 

Send me a PM and I could demonstrate if you don't understand this post.

[lordjubblydave]

*****UPDATE*****

 

Freeloader Topic Version 1.50

I had a bit of a fiddle around and i think i sorted out the tables, let me know if it looks sh*t

 

I just made my 2000th post, if anyone is interested .

 

2000th Post

Edited October 19, 2009 by lordjubblydave

[Maxrevv]

May I suggest PC Wizard ?

 

A great system analyzer IMO. It summarizes your system to Mainboard,Processor,Video Card and such.

 

It also runs benchmarks for DirectX 3D,RAM, and Video benchmarks.

Highly recommended.

 

Link : PC Wizard's Homepage

[Star-Lord]

maxrevv, Great! program I've used it before many times. What I like about it? Is that you can run it off a USB Flash Drive-take it with you to other jobs. No installation required

[Maxrevv]

Exactly. I always have an exe. copy of it in my pendrive. Its a full-on package,all info that you can even print!

[Star-Lord]

 

KGB ARCHIVER

 

 

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for man.

[GTArv]

Nullsoft Install System - Create interactive Windows installers with customised UIs. A disadvantage of NSIS is that everything needs to be scripted, there's no wizard or GUI included that lets you create your installer with a few clicks. However add-ons such as this one can add that functionality.

 

 

EDIT: Found another one; Sweet Home 3D.

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

Use it plan your home's layout, preview your house before moving around furniture or redecorating.

Edited October 23, 2009 by GTArv

[lordjubblydave]

Hey, Freeloaders.

 

I present to you.

 

The Freeloader Essentials Package V 1

Included in this package. Are some of the most essential pieces of free software money can't buy

 

Highlights include:

 

Personal Firewall

VLC media player

CCleaner

Pidgin

 

Plus many more.

 

Check it out

 

Freeloader Essentials Package V 1

 

Download, Enjoy, Share.

 

This package has been Compiled and Uploaded by pcguytech_2005 so cookies for him

It has also been tested by 3niX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Star-Lord]

And I thank you,3niX and everyone who has contributed to this thread. So 's for all

[Edmachine]

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I made this little script for Greasemonkey (a Firefox Add-On). It adds Post Wrappers to your posts. Only if you want to, of course.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=430071

[/shamelessadvert]

pcguytech made me do it anyway.

 

I think you should add PatrickW's Firefox extension as well.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=189597

 

Also, do Steam games (free ones) apply to this thread?

If so, I suggest this:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/3483/

While it does have unicorns, it's actually very fun.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/29150/

This is a very interesting game. You have to draw a loop around crystals to get to a something. You can draw the loops two ways: on your PC using a mouse (boring) OR printing out a sheet, drawing the loop and taking a picture of it/scanning the sheet (interesting).

[Star-Lord]

^^ Yup! When in doubt blame me

 

A sweet looking multi-media player like no other, and FREE!

Modern looking interface, capable of playing most media without additional codecs, extremely customizable.

 

Introduction to KMPlayer

 

    * All the necessary codecs are built within the multimedia replay, KMP. Thereby, the video can be played without any additional codecs. KMP supports internal/external codecs. The internal codec is processed within KMP rendering a faster and a safer action.The current internal codec supports for all the codecs already found in ffdshow. Additionally, it can also partially hold up for MPEG1/2, which could not be normally supported by ffdshow.

   

* The audio codecs AC3, DTS, MPEG1, 2, AAC, WMA 7, 8, OGG are supplied. In utilization of internal audio codec, the matrix function/normalizer is addionally provided. Furthermore, AC3/DTS S/PDIF passthrough fuction is automatically supplied in creating a high quality home theater experience. This means that a high quality home theater environment is provided with only KMP.For those who do not utilize the internal codec, even though the external codec is supplemented, there is no need to register the system alike to the general program.

   

* The current total codec packs and the players create numerous problems by compulsorily installing codecs on the system. However, KMP is different. It does not harm the system. This means that the installation and the removal of KMP do not affect the system. Depending on the decoder of the external codec, it is possible to set up an individual decoder if required. Furthermore, either the establishment of priorities for filtering or restrictions on its use is supported.

   

* Support for Winamp, RealMedia, QuickTime

   

* KMP does not include advertisements and is an autoreplay multimedia use for free. It provides an enhanced function in comparison to other internal autoreplay codecs and most of the multimedia files can be ran without any supplementary installation of codec independent from the computer settings.

   

* Possible to create a new dimension by utilizing the KMP especially for those who has difficulties in installing codecs, who owns a low version of computer, and who looks forward to an enhanced video entourage.

   

* Support from low-capacity computer to high-capacity computer

Download

[SLAYERMAGGOT]

 

Racer Car and Racing Simulator

 

 

Description:

Racer is a free cross-platform car simulation project (for non-commercial use), using professional car physics to achieve a realistic feeling and an excellent render engine for graphical realism. Cars, tracks and such can be created relatively easy (compared to other, more closed, driving simulations). The 3D, physics and other file formats are documented. Editors and support programs are also available to get a very customizable and expandable simulator. OpenGL is used for rendering.

 

Screenshots:

NOTE: All cars shown in the screenshots are custom cars, not all cars are compatible to the newest version of Racer.

 

Video:

 

NOTE: This video shows are very early version of Racer. Watch it in HQ.

 

Download Link:

CLICK ME!

NOTE: There are version of Racer for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X