Topic: Favorite freeware

[KnowsNothing]

Back from the dead, is this thread?  I have more!  Yay!

Anagram Artist
This program is pretty old (long before this thread), so I bet a bunch of people already know about it.  But for those who don't, and anagram is a word or phrase that is made out of the letters of another word or phrase.  For example, my name (Eric O'Brien) can be mixed up to spell "ironic beer."  That one isn't so good, but two I love are CardBoardBox's name (Alex Hoy) can be mixed up to spell "Holy Axe" and "Infernal Monkey" can spell "Freaky Melon Inn."

It took me a while to figure out how to use this program.  First, you choose your word/phrase you want to start off with and type it into the top box.  AA will then show you every word it can make using those letters, and yuou can choose what part of speech to show (ie: only nouns, only verbs, etc.  very useful).  Then, you choose a word from the list and enter it into the bottom box, and AA will then form another list using only the remaining letters.  If a word on the list appears in ALL CAPS, then you know that if you use that word you will have a complete match, letter-for-letter, of the original word/phrase.

It's just a nifty little program I happen to enjoy.

[Bill Aurion]

"Infernal Monkey" can spell "Freaky Melon Inn."

That sounds about right...

The one I could come up for mine is "alibis will mask"

[vudu]

mine is winzip.

wait...what's that you say?  winzip isn't freeware?  

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

VirtualDub is awesome, especially for encoding DivX files in conjunction with AVISynth.  And yes, my audio input works.

[aoi tsuki]

Filezilla -- An excellent FTP client with lots of features. i've been using it for the past month and it's much more complete than EFTP, which i may have originally recommended.

[Ocarina Blue]

It's a niche product, but Dia is a really good tree-drawing program. It's Windows port is a bit dodgy though, you might have a few problems with it.

Nobody has mentioned The GIMP yet, and it is arguably the best image editing program available. Once again, it's Widows port is less than perfect.

FreeBSD is a decent OS as well. It's generally not as widely used as Linux - which essentially just changes the kernel. It's decent, but it's userbase certainly suffers from the overshadowing Linux.

Lastly, Wings 3D and Blender are both excellent modeling programs.  

[S-U-P-E-R]

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mine is winzip.

needs more winrar!

Also, I second ad-aware to the extreme.

DC++ is a great app, too, if you know a cool group that runs a hub.

[manunited4eva22]

I vote spybot search and destroy.  Combined with ad-aware, will find any spyware.

[Uglydot]

Spybot is my prefered Adware destroyer.  Ad-Aware is my second choice, using them together is like the justice league of the spyware world!

[Ness_the_Mess]

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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
I didn't say that you were pro-MS.  I just said it shocked me.  It's like someone saying that they prefer country to metal, or prefer Zelda II to Zelda: Wind Waker.  It's just a complete defiance of conventional logic.  

It's like someone saying that they prefer country to metal, eh?  Well, if music that takes a day to write, is loud, crude, obnoxious, generally swears too much for its own good, and destroys the 'musician's' vocal cords is attractive, then I suppose you have a point.   Not to say I like country, either, though.

[KnowsNothing]

Well, I suppose talking to someone who has long left is like talking to yourself...........which is healthy, right.....?  Well, I guess talking to Grey is like talking to a melon or something.  Haha!  I bet someone will keep talking to him, and he'll never respond and he'll manage to piss someone off even even he doesn't visit anymore! =P

Anyway, please not the winky-dink face at the end of his post.  And please respond with something relevant, since Grey's post was made on June 26, 2003.

[Bill Aurion]

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Originally posted by: Ness_the_Mess
Well, if music that takes a day to write, is loud, crude, obnoxious, generally swears too much for its own good, and destroys the 'musician's' vocal cords is attractive, then I suppose you have a point.   Not to say I like country, either, though.

No, that's "Grundge" or whatever...Stuff like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath is the REAL metal...

[ib2kool4u912]

Does anyone know of a good free program that could rip movies from DVDs? (Namely my Family Guys to use on my Movie Advance. Portable Family Guy=amazingness.)

[Shift Key]

I use DVD Decrypter to backup my DVDs. True story.