24-01-2003 19:41									#1
	Good Programs, And/Or Good Programs For Computers Support Apolyton

I saw a thread discussing Ad-Aware, and the suggestion was to not use, but rather to use Spybot.

What are some other bad and/or good programs?

imesh, a file exchange program, is one of the most spy-ridden programs I've seen yet; somewhat related,
AVG, a free virus detection program, seems very good.


What are some others you would recommend, or condemn?

	24-01-2003 19:43									#2
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Proxomitron

	24-01-2003 19:54									#3
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KolQl8or - A handy little calculator.

	24-01-2003 20:01									#4
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For Windows, ACDSee classic (image viewer) and Mozilla.

Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD for everybody.

	24-01-2003 20:11									#5
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Umm, despite the thread title, are these "Good" programs, or "Bad" ?

	24-01-2003 20:22									#6
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Much easier to recommend good ones - a lot less to type.

	24-01-2003 20:59									#7
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I agree, but I'd like to know the bad ones in advance.

The thing is, at downloads.com, if one reads the description on imesh, they tell you it's full of Spyware.
If you go to the imesh site instead, you're on your own.

	24-01-2003 21:05									#8
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Good: PGP, PGPi or GPG - free public key encryption program for personal use.

	24-01-2003 21:43									#9
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quote: Originally posted by loinburger Proxomitron

I use that too. So much for 'Poly's ads

	24-01-2003 21:50									#10
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It's better than PopUp Stopper? How?

	24-01-2003 21:54									#11
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I don't know if it's better than PopUp Stopper. I've never tried PopUp Stopper, but it does work very well. I've never seen a popup ad on Apolyton, and it also blocks the banner ads on the top of the page.

	25-01-2003 01:03									#12
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Mozilla is great. You can disable pop-up ads with it. Plus it's a good web browser

	25-01-2003 22:00									#13
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand It's better than PopUp Stopper? How?

More powerful. You can do things like block embedded MIDI files, banner ads, redirects, etc.

	25-01-2003 23:17									#14
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For Windows, Editpad is a great replacement for wordpad and notepad.

http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

	26-01-2003 00:21									#15
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Good - Winamp 2.8: A brilliant little program that plays music files. Does it's own little job and nothing else.

Bad - Winamp 3: A nasty, bloated piece of software that tries to be a replacement for Windows Media Player, at which it fails spectacularly. Crashes on all my computers.

	26-01-2003 00:53									#16
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Do you guys know any good economics programs for either mac or pc?

	26-01-2003 00:59									#17
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Most people I know use either Quicken or TurboTax, and seem to get along fine with them. I can't comment on either -- I've never used either.

	26-01-2003 02:41									#18
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I have a Quicken legal program that's pretty all-inclusive.

	26-01-2003 02:47									#19
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civ III PtW is a fun little program. So is an RPG by the name of Neverwinter Nights. As for more utilitarian programs, everything in my microsoft suite is pretty helpful... to lazy to write specific program titles, but im sure your familiar with most of 'em, word, powerpoint, works, encarta encyclopedia, stuff like that.

	26-01-2003 03:01									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Kramerman civ III PtW is a fun little program.

I hear its very buggy though

Anyway, I like Nero for all my burning needs. Much less buggy than Adaptec whatever.

	26-01-2003 04:53									#21
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A great free image-viewer/editor: Irfanview.
And my absolute favourite: Eyedropper, only 28K and I use it almost every day.
For downloading all those pornflics and music from Usenet: Grabit

	26-01-2003 06:24									#22
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Xnews is a good newsreader, superior to Microsoft or Netscape in every way.

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

	26-01-2003 06:52									#23
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Oy, almost forgot... If you want an excellent free, almost up to par with Photoshop, graphics program, try GIMP...

	26-01-2003 08:24									#24
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SoulSeek = great music P2P program
BigFix = nice program that tracks MS patches, and also some other stuff