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I hear this all the time... with absolutely no reasoning. Explain?
Must Have Software
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
gogusrl
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http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/=> real time traffic monitoring
http://shellscape.org/#gnp=> gmail notifier with w7/8 taskbar integration
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/...df-reader.html=> best pdf reader evah
http://windirstat.info/=> pie charts of how much hdd space your shit is using
http://imgur.com/apps=> imgur stuff
http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/netmon/=> small latency checker. been using this for the last 7-8 years.
http://shellscape.org/#gnp=> gmail notifier with w7/8 taskbar integration
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/...df-reader.html=> best pdf reader evah
http://windirstat.info/=> pie charts of how much hdd space your shit is using
http://imgur.com/apps=> imgur stuff
http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/netmon/=> small latency checker. been using this for the last 7-8 years.
I wouldn't recommend it for graphic designers or anyone else that needs color accuracy, but I've been using f.lux (http://stereopsis.com/flux/) for several months now and have noticed I've had less trouble sleeping following late night computing.
It essentially adjusts the display based upon the time of day. The screen gets a sort of orange hue that takes a little getting used to.
It essentially adjusts the display based upon the time of day. The screen gets a sort of orange hue that takes a little getting used to.
gogusrl
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I'm using it as well but they need to make it smarter as in disable it during (fullscreen) video playback and games. I always disable it when I'm watching a movie and then forget to turn it back on. An option to disable it for more than 1h would be pretty awesome as well.
kitsune
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My own personal list would be:
Teamviewer with app on iphone - Whenever my WoW server overflows with queues I log myself on before I go home from work, effectively skipping the queue.
f.lux - changes monitor brightness based on the time of the day. Really really nice and after you get used to it, switching it off will really hurt your eyes. Lovely tool
Chrome. I love the browser, but I am a bit interested in trying Waterfox
uTorrent. Whether legal or not, very nice tool to help you manage what you download
Teamviewer with app on iphone - Whenever my WoW server overflows with queues I log myself on before I go home from work, effectively skipping the queue.
f.lux - changes monitor brightness based on the time of the day. Really really nice and after you get used to it, switching it off will really hurt your eyes. Lovely tool
Chrome. I love the browser, but I am a bit interested in trying Waterfox
uTorrent. Whether legal or not, very nice tool to help you manage what you download
xrg
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Audio Editing
LMMS- Open Source alternative to FL Studio
Graphic Design
Inkscape- Vector graphics editor
Not sure what category to put these in:
Blender- 3D Software Suite
Sculptris- free very easy to use 3D sculpting application
LibreOffice- Office Suite (forked from OpenOffice, but where most of the devs went)
LMMS- Open Source alternative to FL Studio
Graphic Design
Inkscape- Vector graphics editor
Not sure what category to put these in:
Blender- 3D Software Suite
Sculptris- free very easy to use 3D sculpting application
LibreOffice- Office Suite (forked from OpenOffice, but where most of the devs went)
I need a music player that doesn't take version juggling and 15 plugins + a skin to be good (foobar).
Sublime text 2, best text editor for web development imo since textmate is dead in the water. Best of all you purchase one license and you can install it on any computer no matter the os. I have it on my mac, win 7, and linux machines. It is written in python so it is not for the feint of heart especially if you are looking to add plugins and mods.
TextExpanderfor OSX only unfortunately =(. Easy to record text macros so you don't have to keep retyping shit.
Cygwin on windows cause PUTTY just doesn't cut it.
VMWare and Oracle VirtualBox.
Spotify, duh! And it's available on win, linux, and osx.
Daemontools lite, for mounting iso's. Small install and easy to use.
Kingsoft office writer. For those too cheap to pony up for MS Office this is a pretty decent free alternative.
Hydra IRC client. It's afreeIRC client for windows. Best of all no fucking adds or annoying messages when you leave a room.
Teamviewer. For when you need to remote to another computer pc or mac in a hurry. Free as well
Media Player Classiceasy to use for watching most video formats.
TextExpanderfor OSX only unfortunately =(. Easy to record text macros so you don't have to keep retyping shit.
Cygwin on windows cause PUTTY just doesn't cut it.
VMWare and Oracle VirtualBox.
Spotify, duh! And it's available on win, linux, and osx.
Daemontools lite, for mounting iso's. Small install and easy to use.
Kingsoft office writer. For those too cheap to pony up for MS Office this is a pretty decent free alternative.
Hydra IRC client. It's afreeIRC client for windows. Best of all no fucking adds or annoying messages when you leave a room.
Teamviewer. For when you need to remote to another computer pc or mac in a hurry. Free as well
Media Player Classiceasy to use for watching most video formats.
xrg
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brekk
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I've had good luck withDive Image XML. Moved A 100gb partition with games installed, off of my 1tb Movie/TV drive, to a dedicated 500gb drive, everything worked without issue. Can't say I've used it with the active OS drive.
gogusrl
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I've been usingNorton Ghostfor years now. Make sure to go to Options=>Image/Tape and pick Image Disk to grab the MBR & shit or it won't boot. Of course you gotta do this from another OS like the MiniWindows XP from theHirenBootCD.
Eomer
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I used Acronis when I migrated my various computers over to SSD's a couple years ago. Not free, but it worked flawlessly. Just bought a new SSD for my laptop, which still had a mechanical drive, and all I had to do was dig up my old emails with the serial numbers and it once again worked great. Easily worth the $40 or so bucks.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...s/migrateeasy/
If you've got a Western Digital hard drive in your computer (I think even USB drives), you can get a free version of Acronis. It might be a slightly stripped down or older version but it does the job.
http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...l.asp?swid=119
You should be aware that there are some optimizations that go into making an SSD get the most bang for your buck. If you're cloning from a HDD then the correct settings probably won't be used. I just did a quick google search and found this thread which seems to cover the basics:http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...ndows-7-a.html
Clonezilla is an excellent tool. Just pay attention during the process or you could accidentally fuckeverything.
xrg
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Adobe has the entire CS2 Suite available for free. Justregister here, and you can download Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. No idea if it's just a limited thing or what.