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Favorite Free Software ProgramsThese following free software programs (freeware) are recommended by Rad readers. • 3dmark - Benchmark your system's ability to generate 3D images, very popular, especially if you have a powerful 3D graphics card. • Acrobat
Reader - PDF file reader from Adobe, almost ubiquitous. Many of the more popular Radified guides are available for download in PDF format, but you need the pay version of Acrobat to be able to write PDF files. • AnalogX
- Tons of goodies • AOL
Instant Messenger (AIM) - Chat with online friends realtime, very
popular. You don't need to subscribe to AOL (AO Hell) as your ISP (Internet Service Provider) in order to use this program. UPDATE - February, 2006: Radified changed web hosts to Lunarpages, whose servers are physically located in downtown Los Angeles. They are much faster than the old host. • Atto
- Hard drive benchmarking [Windows SCSI Utilities Bench32],
looks like
this • Avast!
AntiVirus - Maybe the best freebie for the not-so-technically savvy. • Axcrypt
- File encryption & compression. Also check out TrueCrypt. • Blogger - Weblog
publishing. Some complain of instability.
Don't need your own server. I use Movable
Type. • CDex
- CD Ripping & audio encoding [like Audiograbber],
popular, read this • CDRDAO -
CD burning [like Nero or CDRWin] • Desktop Sidebar - Instant access to daily info & functions • DVD Decryptor - The gurus at Doom9 calls this program "the most complete DVD ripper". Guide posted here. You will need to install an ASPI layer. Can also download this program from AfterDawn. As of June 2005, DVD Decryptor has ceased development due to legal pressure. • EasyCleaner - Registry cleaner • Exact Audio Copy - Audio CD Ripping, encoding & burning, considered the world's best, read this. For more info along the lines, see the world-famous RADIFIED Guide to Ripping & Encoding CD audio. My buddy Chris Myden (from Calgary Canada) claims v0.9b4 is the best. • FileZilla - FTP Client [like CuteFTP] I use this program almost every day. • FlasKMPEG - Video conversion [like Discreet Cleaner] • FTP Explorer - FTP Client [like CuteFTP] Free only for students & faculty • GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program [like Photoshop]
• Google Toolbar - Access the web's best search engine from your IE toolbar, very popular, now with pop-up blocking. |
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