Must have apps for your new Sager ... - Page 2

That wasn't my sig, but that's a good sig! Yeah, it should be 127.0.0.1, but you get the idea. Sheesh.

Everyone's a critic.

Oh, and there are negatives with too much in the hosts file, whereas you may have apparant dead links from decent sites, because a lot of them use cliksrv or some other blockable service to link various thing.

Oh, you can also use 0.0.0.0 so there!

-myrkat

EDIT: one more useful site (my personal favorite, cexx.org)

Apps that you can't live without on the new sager would be.

mplayer
Xmms
xevil
netscape firebird
Eterm
WindowMaker

Oh wait did you mean windows apps

I guess Nero and netscape firebird.

That's pretty cool. For some reason I was always under the impression that Tiny Personal Firewall had become Kerio Personal Firewall (www.kerio.com). Is Tiny free? I downloaded it from their site just now, but I also see a Pro version for sale. Did I get a free non-Pro version?

Tiny Firewall is free for personal use. I recently bought an SMC NIC card and it had a coupon that claimed to drop the cost of Tiny Firewall for business if the proof of purchase was retained. LMAO

Hosts file RULES!
I don't even remember when I started using it. Its actually pretty much all that makes Kazaa Lite work. Some of the little buggers are still in the software, but they can't do anything because of the hosts file.
(P.S. It is catastrophically fun to fool around with friends' computers by modifying their hosts file. I know people who re-format at first sign of anything going wrong..... Bahahahahahah)

You guys might as well hit up the web interface apps, although I think MS includes the Real and Macromedia stuff.

Macromedia Shockwave Player
Macromedia Flash Player
Apple Quicktime
RealOne Player

The atomic time software I use is Rocket.Time.

If you can, find a copy of WinAmp 2.81 or older, because the new one doesn't randomize the first song on the start of a playlist and cannot update a MP3 tag in the middle of a song. Low CPU/Mem usage on that one too.

Nero Burning ROM is a must have if you plan to make CDs. One of the few burning programs that is not completely based in giant color buttons.

Norton Internet Security is a great firewall/anti-virus package, but you can get Zone Alarm for free.

For DVD playback, I use PowerDVD. So far, no problems and great sound/video.

For ripping CDs, CDex

Whatever word processing program you can get, might want to wait on MS Office 2k3, if that is coming out in a month as I thought I heard somewhere. No idea if its any better or just costs more. Linux people will say OpenOffice.

And anyone who games out there, two apps I highly recommend. Kali.net for internet game lookup and joining without opening the game, and TeamSpeak for all your voice apps, since its free and supports multiple channels on a server.

And I have had trouble going to certain pages with Mozilla because the stupid page creator's don't support it. If you want only one browser, go with IE. People agree it's not always the best in performance, but it probably is in compatability,

I think that is it.

Oh, the MS Powertoys for MS XP Pro and the MS XP Home . Kinda replaced TweakUI from 98 I think.

photoshop 7.01
acrobat 5.05
paint shop pro 7.0
office 2003

all others are need to know

Yea, Virtual CD is CRAP!!!

For one it sucks b/c it isn't free & Daemon-Tools is. I've used Daemon-Tools for about a year and it works perfectly. I'm currently using Alcohol 120% right now, but it kinda sucks IMO.

True Daemon-Tools only lets u create 4 virtual CD/DVD drives (Alcohol lets you do 30 I think)...but I only use at most 2 virtual drives, and this is only when I'm reinstalling all my software are a reformat.

Vegas 4.0 is better.

Acrobat 6.0 Pro pissed me off as it broke the SCAN module it uses.

Cannot scan with it (it hangs Acrobat), so I reinstalled 5.05 and am happy again. However, 6 allows large format PDF's (E-size, D-size, etc) which is really nice in my line of work (architecture).

Anyway, until Adobe fixes their "new" acrobat, I'm staying with the older version, too!

Also, what does OFFICE 2003 have that makes it any better than 2000 or XP (2002)? if you say "Smart Tags" you'll get shot.

-myrkat

Sure it might be better...but Premiere is more widely used on the PC.

So why would you use an inferior product?

Y would u use software-based video editing? All of them (Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc.) are nothing compared to hardware-based video editing machines like Avid.

Yeah i love doing that. Reset www.yahoo.com and www.google.com to the IP of your porn site of choice

Because Vegas is only $500 and it has a better interface than both Final Cut and Premiere, and is more powerful than Premiere.

neb.. Vegas Video 4.0 is the best non linear software out! period. here at school we have everything from Adobe - Final Cut Pro... and i still ALWAYS go back to Vegas for any editing its kicks the s*** out of the comp. easy to use yet you can do anything you want with it. add in the "Digital Juice" series and damn you have some great editing!!

Well they sure don't do a very good job at advertising...I'm not debating that it might be better, but just b/c some is better doesn't automatically mean it will be used more then other stuff.

give it a try you will not turn back, you can even dowload it off the site once you purchase it via credit card. sonicfoundry.com

Purchase? ha...that's funny. Do you think I have $500 laying around? If I had that kinda money I would just buy 3D Studio Max or Maya.

I'll just d/l it and crack it. I'm not a video production major, I'm a Game Art & Design major (a.k.a. 3D & video game design.)

dont worry im in college... i too do not have 500$ but i do have a wonderfull T1 line + kazaa lite

...lol...lol...lol...well see your lucky. I live at home b/c my school doesn't have dorms & we only have cable internet, plus KaZaA is PAINFULLY slow.

I'll have to ask some of my friends...maybe one of them can FTP it for me.