Freeware utilities

Post by **faceless** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:01 pm

The plan for this thread is to add links to useful and free software.

TheCaptain · Post by **TheCaptain** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:22 am

And instead of burning it with rubbish bloatware like Nero, you could use the rather fabulous freeware InfraRecorder which is brilliant and FREE!

Get in there!

maycm · Post by **maycm** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:54 pm

Here's a page jam-packed with freeware.

https://www.onlyfreewares.com/

major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:51 am

Almost anything you need at filehippo:

https://www.filehippo.com

(note: mostly freeware, but some shareware; nicely organized)

Post by **faceless** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:10 am

If you ever need to add a load of files to individual zips, then you need a program like this:

https://rom-zipper.software.informer.com/download/

It's designed for game roms (megadrive, snes etc) but it will work with any file that you might want to work with.

Post by **faceless** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:06 pm

To get a rough clip from most video formats, this is what I use. It relies on keyframes so you might not get precision.

https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:33 pm

https://www.filehippo.com/download_soluto/ Soluto

Quite a nice and easy way to figure out what you can do to speed up your boot times

dmrtn · Post by **dmrtn** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:05 pm

www.ninite.com

A fantastic site when you have a new computer or just reinstalled your operating system. Tonnes of free vital applications that will be downloaded and installed automatically. I use this a lot.

dmrtn · Post by **dmrtn** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:33 am

And here's an online photo editor

www.pixlr.com

Its probably the closest to photoshop that I've seen. Obviously doesn't have photoshop's wide range but its still pretty good. It also has firefox and chrome add ons which allow you to click on an image and edit it in pixlr.

Very handy for quick edits.

gordonrussell · Post by **gordonrussell** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:50 am

Useful for Windows 7

Free Native 64bit programs

gordonrussell · Post by **gordonrussell** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:44 pm

Happy sharing New Year

Hiren and Pankaj's Homepage

gordonrussell · Post by **gordonrussell** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:35 pm

This one not bad for less geeky to check out what/where/how much on their hard drive, and gives a visual interpretation like

Here's the Link, but beware not clicking on the TeamViewer ad- bumf UNLESS you want that:

WinDirStat

mine has the beautiful 'SequoiaView' at the bottom of above image

so yours should too

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:35 am

great app for recording live radio,

"RarmaRadio allows you to listen to and record radio stations from around the world.

Powered by a world class radio directory it has everything you need for a wonderful listening experience.

Recording is available in many formats - including mp3, wma and ogg."

https://www.raimersoft.com/rarmaradio.aspx

It is very good, and free, the pro version is also free ..

gordonrussell · Post by **gordonrussell** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:00 am

Six Different Ways to Backup Your Computer:

Backing Up 101

Post by **faceless** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:55 am

Paint tool sai - great.

https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

To get an idea of why it's good, watch this. The best line is probably in the guy's description early on - "Photoshop is for editing pics, Illustrator is for designing graphics, sai is for drawing."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H591xwLdcck