09-02-2003 12:51									#1
	Apolyton freeware utilities thread. Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

All right. Let's do something useful you dumb ****ers.

There have been threads where someone asked or presented a useful free and high quality, tested, program.

There has been adaware for removing spyware and then another program like adaware only better.

There also have been threads about free and great up to date anti-virus programs.
Also programs which harmonize the MP3's volumes at the same rate, also anti-pop ups, web designers etc etc etc.


Anybody who can dig up those threads, or knows them already is kindly requested to post them here so we can have all in one place for easy reference.
Please include a very brief description or a link for your presented here favorite free programs.


I'll include them all nice and in order here in the first post of this thread.

Let's go (at your leisure)


===========The Programs===========

Fire walls:
Zone Alarm

Spyware removal programs:
Ad-aware
Spybot

Anti-Virus programs:
AVG

Anti-pop ups/web filters
Proximitron

Last edited by Bereta_Eder on 10-02-2003 at 10:00

	09-02-2003 14:47									#2
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Well, no utilities but some great freeware point & click adventure games: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/

	09-02-2003 15:46									#3
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I use a great free news client 40tude Dialog. It is more flexible then OE I used to use and it is free (but still a beta)

I use Hamster local news server for retrieving and archiving newsgroups. Free.

I use ofcourse Opera browser. Free version has a banner.

Hmmm... thats about it and I cant be arsed to find links

	09-02-2003 20:27									#4
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--"There has been adaware for removing spyware and then another program like adaware only better."

Probably talking about Spybot: Search and Destroy.

--"There also have been threads about free and great up to date anti-virus programs."

AVG Anti-Virus.

--"also anti-pop ups,"

Mozilla ^_^

Wraith
Of course I can do it. The question is, do I WANT to?

	09-02-2003 20:34									#5
	Got spare money?

Proxomitron.
ZoneAlarm.

	09-02-2003 20:34									#6
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SharpE, a cool shell replacement at http://www.lowdimension.net/
&rq, a fine ICQ clone at http://www.rejetto.com/&rq/
DC++, a nice file sharing application at http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Last edited by Al'Kimiya on 10-02-2003 at 00:09

	09-02-2003 21:43									#7
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www.bigfix.com

	09-02-2003 23:20									#8
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AVG, Zone Alarm, SpyBot, Winmx

	10-02-2003 10:07									#9
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Allrighty.

Thank you very much for your help to me and I'm sure to others.

That's more than I asked but I'm gonna include all of your proposals to the initial post, in categories a little bit later, in addition to those already made.

From your offers, at least another 3 categories emerge I think:
(alternative) browsers
file sharing programs
free games.

I will include them a bit later.

Also, Zoperroni what is the bigfix? Which category of program is it (and what does it do? I'm a bit ignorant (or more than that) on computers)

Vetty, could the programs you proposed be categorised under news client programs?

Thanks again

	10-02-2003 11:41									#10
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Graphics: GIMP (free photoshop kind of program!), IrfanView (best image viewer ever), eyedropper (great colorpicker)...

And hey, were's the free game section?

	10-02-2003 11:47									#11
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Will get to it a little bit later. I'm a busy lazy bastard. (not as contradictory as one may think...)

It would also help immensly if you could all include a link with your proposals.

	10-02-2003 11:55									#12
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quote: include a link

People have heard about that Google thing I hope...

	10-02-2003 11:58									#13
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They have but they are also busy lazy bastards

There's also another problem. When searching for a program I know nothing about (like those vetlegion proposed) and I'm faced with like 100.000 choices, I could very well take the wrong one (i.e. a webpage which is "secondary", "not official" etc

So if you already know and use that program and have downloaded and tried it from a certain location, it would be more certain to have it also included in this list from that location IMO

	10-02-2003 14:31									#14
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Webwasher at www.webwasher.com is good for filtering out advertisements and web junk.

Freezip is the best and most convenient zip utility I have ever seen.

	10-02-2003 15:02									#15
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

http://www.theopencd.org/

There's some open-source software to keep you busy for a while ...

	10-02-2003 20:02									#16
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I've got almost 3 CDs full of utilities and games I've downloaded form the internet. There are many cool programs out there.

Powerarchiver 2002 is the ultimate shareware archive compressor, compatible with every format.

I've also found a cool program that helps you create crosswords, croswmaker.

Iconforge is a shareware utility for creating icons for your programs.

e-chaos is a nice tool for converting Greek to Greeklish and vice-versa (that's for you only paik!).

I will add links later.

	10-02-2003 20:11									#17
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Winamp.

	10-02-2003 20:12									#18
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Someone suggested Popup Popper for controlling popups; I've been using it and find it very helpful:

http://www.bayden.com/popper/

	10-02-2003 21:59									#19
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Bloodshed C++ compiler, easy to set up and use (unlike some others i could mention)

JCreator - Java compiler, will run on very low end systems

	10-02-2003 22:28									#20
	Put an end to popups!

Arachnophilia - an excellent text/HTML/programming editor
VirtualDub - very nice video editor

	10-02-2003 22:39									#21
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Scanner - Great intelligence for the great file purges that we don't do anymore now that we all have 180GB drives.
Trillian - A superior ICQ, AIM, MSNIM, Y!, and IRC client in one.

	11-02-2003 01:02									#22
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I subsidize this job to someone willing to do it
Hey, I provided the idea