ken_cinder Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Ok, so I figured I would share and encourage the sharing of alternatives to oft bloated and costly software for (Usually) everyday use.Feel free to contribute to the list, I'll add it to this post. Just be sure to denote what the software is, and it's homepage. Windows 98/2k/XP ONLY! (I don't know anyone still using 95, ME counts as 98 and Vista only stuff is of no use to most people yet) Internet Browsers - Because Internet Explorer isn't Mozilla FirefoxOperaLynx - Text Browser Email Clients - Face it, Outlook Express has more holes than swiss cheese! Mozilla ThunderbirdAnything else here people? Eudora is no longer developed, taken over by the Mozilla team. FTP Clients - Because a standalone app does a better job FilezillaWinSCPFireFTP (Firefox plugin, requires Mozilla Firefox) Microsoft Office Alternatives (Can I say it any different? Didn't think so) Open Office Art Programs - Because Corel and PSP are great, but not FREE GIMPDrawPlus (I haven't used this, but it looks decent)PicasaIrfanView 3D Modeling/Animation - 3D Studio Max is THE best, bar none. But it's INSANELY EXPENSIVE! Google SketchUpAnim8orBlender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prithwin Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 (edited) you forgot image manipulation-GIMPhttp://www.gimp.org/ Edited August 11, 2007 by prithwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 The FireFTP Firefox extension (FTP client) can be found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Jackson Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 (edited) You didn't mention Blender ( http://www.blender.org/ ) which goes under 3D modelling/animation it just behind 3DS Max, Blender was used to create a video called Elephants Dreams ( http://www.elephantsdream.org/ ) which I watched in HD myself. As for the Internet Browser there also Safari ( http://www.apple.com/safari ) yes the new version does runs on Windows. Edited August 12, 2007 by Hexter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_cinder Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 Added Blender, did not add Safari. I knew of Safari already, but I did not add it because the Windows version is still a beta and has not had a stable release for Windows. Let me know when it does and I'll add it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iq_132 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/ Lynx - http://lynx.isc.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Jackson Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 (edited) Multi-Protocol Instant Messaging, Trillian is free & useless (to me it is,) and Trillian Pro is better but is not free. The best alternative is Pidgin (GAIM) ( http://pidgin.im/ ) and it very stable of course. Edited August 14, 2007 by Hexter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad89 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 You also forgot SUPER which is a program for converting video and audio files. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodPigeon Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Paint.Net is an Awesome PS alternative and its super Small. Gimp is better, but still this is cool. http://www.getpaint.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 For hard drive partitioning, there's gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ it can be used as regular software, a livecd, or liveusb edit: replacement for Partition Magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Paint.Net is an Awesome PS alternative and its super Small. Gimp is better, but still this is cool. http://www.getpaint.net/I love paint.net. Also, another free and open source IM program is Miranda which is nice and lightweight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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