Ever thought "Hey, AVG has a link scanner, but AAW has a Registry watcher... :x"? Well, I wanted to compare my set of software with you guys. (Yeah, this is a thread to discuss about the best softwarez! :-))
For Medias
-Windows Movie Maker (I only know how to use THIS!)
-Photostage Slideshow creator
-WavePad (Audio Editor)
-Switch (sound file converter)
-Prism (Video file converter)
-MixPad (Audio mixer)
-aTube Catcher (Used to download YouTube videos)
-CamStudio (Screen Recorder)
-Express Burn (says it)
-Express Rip (same)
For Communications
-Windows Live Messenger (Nope, I don't want to install Skype since I don't use others)
-Advanced IRC (The name says it, doesn't work anymore) :cry:
-mIRC (Same)
-the .BAT Messenger :-D
-IE8 (My mother doesn't allow meh to uninstall!)
-Firefox (With an entire stash of 60 extensions) :-P
-uTorrent
For System
-AVG Free :-D
-(*System maintenance stash*) Smart Defrag, Registry Defrag, CCleaner, File Shredder, RegToy, CPU Speed, UPX Frontend (haha!)
-Ad-Aware (AE)
-Update Checker :-D
-SpeedFan
-Meo Encryption Software
For OTHER STUFF
-Editra (Don't know how to use it, will be uninstalling later)
-Code::Blocks (Compiler) :-o
-WireShark + WinPcap (To capture my friends' IPs if they know what one is to scare them off) :evil:
-MapleSEA (WTF I still have it installed?!)
-BZII + Mods + MM5 (Obviously!)
-"Micro$haft" :? Office 2007 (DAMMIT my mother doesn't allow me to get OpenOffice!!!) :-(
Yes it's a Vista 32 bit Home-Pre. DAMMIT my mother won;t allow me to install 64-bit!
No, not to say that my mother is so *Whatever*. Post your set if you want to share it too.
Set of what? And why do you need 64 bit if you dont have like more than 4 GB of ram?
Hmm
Acoustica Beatcraft
CCleaner
Hijack This
Audacity
MSN
Xfire
Guitar Pro 5
Practically anything on bzscrap.com
Blender 3D
Game Extractor
FRAPS
G.I.M.P
Paint.NET
Python 3.0
Winrar
7-Zip
Kaspersky Internet Security (Full package)
Firefox
3DS Max 7
Photoshop 7 (soon to be CS3)
Goldwave (Trial)
OpenOffice
Reason 4
Wavosaur
Wavepad
ITunes & Media Center & Player
Pretty much everything i use regularly...
OMFG you're RICH!!! OMFGWTFBBQROFLOLMAOZORD ! I mea, 3Ds Max? That's EXPENSIVE!!! And yeah, I use 7-zip too, and I see no need for WinRAR.
Um 1, yeah i also use 7 zip, much easier, simpler, and faster (but i keep both anyway) and 2, trust me im not saying he did this but, *Cough* Pirate *Cough*
AIMP2 (Audio Player, like winamp except not slow and bloated)
Firefox (Web Browser)
Thunderbird (Email)
TVersity (For streaming video and radio stations to my PS3)
Adobe Photoshop (cuz The GIMP doesnt cut it for me)
Last.FM player (for quick access to new music thats similar to my tastes)
Audacity (Audio Editor)
Frostwire (P2P)
uTorrent
Picasa 3 (Photo Manager)
Foxit Reader (WAY faster than Adobe Reader)
Tuneup Utilities 2008
NOD32 Antivirus (AWESOME antivirus)
Nero 8 (Burning Suite)
Openoffice.org 3.0
WinRAR (Its nagware, but still one of the best unpackers there is)
And a couple of linux apps that deserve mention!
Yakuake (Dropdown terminal for KDE)
K3B (CD/DVD burning suite)
Amarok (Media Player/Manager)
Konqueror (File Manager)
mocp (an ncurses (text-based) audio player)
Frostwire,Firefox,Thunderbird (they work in linux too)
KTorrent or Transmission (torrents)
Emesene (Windows Live Clone -- cuz I can't stand Pidgin)
And some linux security tools:
Aircrack NG/PTW (Penetration Testing, cracks WEP encryption on wireless networks)
Ophcrack (Automagically cracks passwords on Windows machines)
Offline NT Password and Registry Editor (Reset and change passwords on windows accounts)
Lol, he should get photoshop CS4, then :P (But Ultra CS3, also, because Ultra isn't in CS4).
it wasnt expensive for me if you catch my drift.
'shushes and goes back into hiding'
Should also get 7zip. It not only good, its not nagware. :D (probably jsut a tad "not-as-good-as" winRAR)
So, um, should I get Notepad++ or Editra as my text editor?
just use notepad. nothing wrong with it.
i use arachnophelia sometimes. ZA pointed me in its direction and its a pretty good program and allows you to edit textures in .msh files without buggering them up like notepad does. (notepad does not work with binary, at least, not .msh's form of it)
I noticed some text files are displayed as one line in notepad, instead of having "enter"'s in the line like displayed in wordpad.
That is because thy do not have the end line character notepad recognizes (\n)
In C++ I always use std::endl since it includes both \n and the other character wordpad recognizes, \f I think. Oddly, if they both appear, the \f is not seen in notepad, but if only the \f is there it is a box. Again, I think it was \f (escape character F) but I am not sure.
It has been the bane of my existence in some programming instances.
EDIT: Turns out it is \r not \f, read GSH's link and it shows all 3, \n, \r, and \n\r.
Line endings vary by platform. Apple does it one way. Unix does it another way. MS-DOS (and derived) does it a third way. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) for more info.
Good editors (i.e. NOT notepad) recognize all three variants, and do the right thing.
-- GSH
Quote from: TheJamsh on February 02, 2009, 02:35:22 PM
just use notepad. nothing wrong with it.
i use arachnophelia sometimes. ZA pointed me in its direction and its a pretty good program and allows you to edit textures in .msh files without buggering them up like notepad does. (notepad does not work with binary, at least, not .msh's form of it)
Yea, Arachnophila 4.0 is an OLD HTML editor I used to use, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you can edit the text inside of binary files without breaking them. (In the case of MSH files, when you edit textures, they need to have the same amount of characters as the original texture)
this is most of my software
- audacity (audio editing). i use it for music recording, editing, and for annoying people on vent :-D(recording someones voice then playing it over and over :evil:)
- bitlord
- DAEMON Tools Pro
- Diskeeper Corporation
- DVD Shrink
- fraps (although i am actively searching for new software, since the video size and cpu usage piss me off with this, someone pls tell me of a good program that can record bz2!!)
- GIMP
- KMplayer (media player)
- LimeWire
- Sibelius (music composition software, also supports guitar tabs etc). another good program is 'finale'. i recommend against guitar pro due to limitations.
- super (video file conversion)
- Ventrilo
- Zone alarm
Ac/dc, use virtualDub to reprocess fraps video or else they are HUGE. They say to do that online somewhere, I forget where.
yes thats the problem. atm i just use windows movie maker to compress them. is it possible to compress them into smaller vids austomatically? this would be extremely helpful!! :-)
Quote from: Ac/dc on February 03, 2009, 12:25:22 PM
- Diskeeper Corporation
Ya might wanna consider changing to Smart Defrag, a free alternative to DisKeeper and PerfectDisk.
Use a H264 codec for best quality/size ratio. Use Huffyuv for best lossless compression.
*I'm speaking about codecs, of course. So get some video compression software that supports Microsoft Video (AVI) and/or MPEG4. Download codecs here: http://www.cccp-project.net/. Google for Huffyuv and use it through ffdshow (I belive ffdshow comes with CCCP, otherwise, use the codec pack that comes in CCCP). I believe hou get H264 through apple quicktime.
Quote from: Ac/dc on February 05, 2009, 08:34:36 AM
yes thats the problem. atm i just use windows movie maker to compress them. is it possible to compress them into smaller vids austomatically? this would be extremely helpful!! :-)
Not automatic, but I encode fraps videos with divX but with a noticeable loss of quality. Look at my recall mine Youtube video.
omfg are fraps programmers so *Ammo*ing retards to not have picked up on this problem by now? seriously, 1 gigabyte per 10 secs... wtf were they thinking lol, i cannot believe they charge money for this....
thx btw, although i got no problem with compressing the vids, i would however be very greatful if there was something that could compress the videos automatically, prefebly as soon as they are made
Does anybody here think of OpenSource before they buy stuff?!
What a rip-off!!!
So next time, before you hit the BUY button,check osalt.com for a free (and better) alternative.
And, uh, that's exactly what I do, however, OpenSource software may be a little complicated to use as compared to commercial software, though. (But some aren't, like AIRC and VLC.)
EDIT:
Quote from: Ac/dc on February 03, 2009, 12:25:22 PM
- bitlord
- LimeWire
Mind telling me why you got TWO torrent programs?
Quote from: Ac/dc on February 06, 2009, 12:23:51 PM
omfg are fraps programmers so *Ammo*ing retards to not have picked up on this problem by now? seriously, 1 gigabyte per 10 secs... wtf were they thinking lol, i cannot believe they charge money for this....
thx btw, although i got no problem with compressing the vids, i would however be very greatful if there was something that could compress the videos automatically, prefebly as soon as they are made
No, they did it on purpose, If you look it up, they have maximum possible compression on a video of that resolution made at that speed without impacting game play.
Quote from: Arbystrider on February 06, 2009, 01:59:58 PM
Mind telling me why you got TWO torrent programs?
Helps if you actually KNOW what they are. Limewire is P2P yes, but it does not use torrent files. If it does, and I am wrong, it uses them silently telling you nothing as you search for what you want IN IT and get it that way, not by downloading torrent files. Limewire however has less legal uses than bittorent clients.
Quote from: Nielk1 on February 06, 2009, 09:15:34 PM
No, they did it on purpose, If you look it up, they have maximum possible compression on a video of that resolution made at that speed without impacting game play.
it still perplexes me as to why they dont have an option to make them smaller
*Edited for vulgarity.
oops got a little carried away in the last post
I found a desktop recording program that has a decent sized bitrate and works fine with bz2 (although i think you have to tab out to start it). its called SuperVideoCap, but the torrents for the full version dont work :S, and the trial version only records 10 secs which wont be much help.
ill keep yall posted as soon as i can get it working
I have at least 150 pc games. Nothing to mod with but I do have the full fraps. And your typical stuff like messengers, ventrilo, ACDSee 32(for pictures).
Quote from: Axeminister on February 08, 2009, 02:47:21 AM
I have at least 150 pc games. Nothing to mod with but I do have the full fraps.
Overkill. Too rich for my taste.
omfg.... OMFG!!!! ive been trying to dl supervideocap with bitlord for the past week. it didnt start till 2 days ago, in about 10 mins, it got to 94%, and now its STOPPED again!!!!!!!
If its the trial get it from their site, if its full that is illegal and should not be done and at the very least not talked about here.
Someone suggested I try CamStudio. I think that was the name. It is free and legal!
Yes, it is very good.
Quote from: Nielk1 on February 10, 2009, 04:21:33 PM
If its the trial get it from their site, if its full that is illegal and should not be done and at the very least not talked about here.
Someone suggested I try CamStudio. I think that was the name. It is free and legal!
tried it. doesnt work with bz2 and like fraps, has a big bitrate which was the problem in the first place.
CamStudio is a desktop recorder (basically a video output interceptor) and is EXTREAMLY useful in recording anything fraps and other programs cannot.
It works for me very well and is what i use to record 3DS Max tutorials and occasionally BZ2 in windowed mode.
After you save using CamStudio, it will be in .AVI format. Use 7-Zip to compress that file by 99%... Or use another format, MP4 is recommended (By me).
Unless someone can find me a .avi compressor (besides bink, takes ages and .biks are NOT compression), then eys thats how I do it.
Throw it into 7zip and smashes a 8 gig file to 80 mbs. Beautiful. :D
um... VIRTUALDUB
I said that when someone was complaining about FRAPS file size.
Quote from: Warfreak on February 15, 2009, 03:54:52 PM
Throw it into 7zip and smashes a 8 gig file to 80 mbs. Beautiful. :D
Are you frakin serious?
And, of course, 7-zip does "lossless compression". I don't know of any codecs that could be that efficient at lossless compression, though. About the best I've seen is Huffyuv which does about 40-50 percent of the size of the uncompressed video, maybe smaller sometimes.
Quote from: bigbadbogie on February 16, 2009, 02:29:21 AM
Are you frakin serious?
WF's movie files are extremely light. Very low density. But still LARGE.
And .AVI movies can be compressed by 99%... imagine having a huge tripler... then squashing it and saving it for later... And you can still open it back up to savour it ALL... That's what it's like.