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Australia WonderBoy Rostered Member for Proxiteam October 19 2010 18:36Posts: 1000
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Hey guys. Every now and then I'll be using my PC and do something with incredible ease, prompting me to think "this is nice, everybody could benefit to know about this". I thought it could be a good idea to compile a list of applications that people think are worth having or at least trying. If people will post applications, I will add them to this post in the necessary category (or a new one if that happens to make sense), followed by who recommended it. I've already put my favourites up.
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Australia Ratfink October 19 2010 19:04Posts: 99
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Since when has Microsoft Office been free for students? It wasn't free for us, just cheap.
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Australia WonderBoy Rostered Member for Proxiteam October 19 2010 19:34Posts: 1000
WonderBoy
Oh, I thought for some reason that DreamSpark included Office... Not sure what exception was thrown to make me think that. I'll fix it, thanks.
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Australia Ratfink October 20 2010 04:39Posts: 99
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Office is the one thing that all students need... so cha-ching! But students can get it for cheap (< AU$100), which is pretty good.

I'd suggest Paint.NET for graphics. Photoshop is unnecessary in most cases and Paint.NET is free (and written in .NET!).
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Australia Echoes February 10 2011 05:45Posts: 305
Echoes
Im not sure if its bad to resurrect old threads, but you should add grooveshark to your list. so good for listening to any music you want while playing :)
Australia WonderBoy Rostered Member for Proxiteam February 10 2011 14:57Posts: 1000
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echoes wrote:

Im not sure if its bad to resurrect old threads, but you should add grooveshark to your list. so good for listening to any music you want while playing :)

Is always fine as long as you're contributing something, which you certainly are. I added Grooveshark to the list :)
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Australia NapE February 10 2011 15:52Posts: 225
NapE
GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/

Basically a free photoshop, although obviously not as good. Still, an amazing program for free.
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Australia Echoes February 14 2011 18:13Posts: 305
Echoes
frostwire http://www.frostwire.com/

only found this the other day, awesome for finding/downloading torrents and music. so happy because itunes was costing me way too much.
United States Bobotastic Rostered Member for Proxiteam February 14 2011 22:34Posts: 619
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Google Chrome TeamLiquid Streams Extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/padelkgfoancpcpjlhfnamekcomkhbnk

If you use Google Chrome, this is a really neat extension.
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Australia WonderBoy Rostered Member for Proxiteam February 15 2011 21:23Posts: 1000
WonderBoy
OP is now up to date ^_-
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United States Yage March 07 2011 18:21Posts: 23
Yage
easy way to install lots of programs at once
http://ninite.com/

Skype - voip
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home

ventrillo - viop lot of teams use to talk
http://www.ventrilo.com/

defrag harddrive
http://www.mydefrag.com/

Remove crap from PC
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

all around media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

a deeper program uninstaller
http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

Update checker for latest version of software
http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/
Australia Echoes March 07 2011 22:12Posts: 305
Echoes
how did u get fraps for free?
Australia WonderBoy Rostered Member for Proxiteam March 08 2011 16:44Posts: 1000
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I guess it's not free if you want what the paid version has. I'll update the OP to reflect that.
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Canada Jarc March 08 2011 18:34Posts: 132
Jarc
There's Open Office which is basically remakes of MS Office programs without the need of a license, for free.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Also, for social networking, there's linkedin. Pretty much a facebook of your work experience that you can forward to employers for referrals and etc.

http://www.linkedin.com/
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Australia Echoes March 10 2011 16:43Posts: 305
Echoes
http://raptr.com/

"Part Twitter, part Steam community, and part Facebook, Raptr is a social network that gives gamers a place to connect with one another over the games they frequently play."

its pretty nice.
Australia Pioneer Rostered Member for Proxiteam March 10 2011 18:24Posts: 274
Pioneer
CPU-Z - Used by overclockers the world over
Australia WonderBoy Rostered Member for Proxiteam March 16 2011 19:58Posts: 1000
WonderBoy
I must say, nice recommendation with the grooveshark there Echoes! I use that shit at work so much now :D
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Australia NapE March 17 2011 04:34Posts: 225
NapE
yeah I thrashed that out while working at the mine until they blocked every site known to man
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