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September 2005
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This month's episode: Roger demonstrates essential freeware and shareware programs for Windows.
Multimedia Software:
- Irfanview - Outstanding graphic viewer and manipulator.
- Pixie - Color picker program.
- PhotoPlus 6 - Free image and photo editing software.
- Winamp - MP3 player.
- CDex - Free CD ripper and converter.
- Audacity - Multi-platform sound recorder and editor.
Text and Document Software:
- Programmer's File Editor - Roger's favorite text editor.
- Page Plus - Free desktop publishing software. Used by Del Severy, our very own newsletter editor.
- Font Glancer - Font previewer.
- PDF Creator - Creates PDF documents from output of most Windows programs. Works like virtual printer.
- OpenOffice - Full-featured MS-Office-like software suite. Spreadsheet, word processor, database manager, drawing, presentations, brews coffee, removes unsightly dandruff. Open source.
Telecommunications Software:
- PuTTY - Free Telnet and SSH client.
- WS_FTP LE - File transfer software.
- Trillian - Instant messaging client.
- Firefox - Popular free Web browser. MS Internet Explorer's nemesis.
- Eudora - E-mail program. Available in free and pay versions.
Utilities:
Development Tools:
- RXTest - Free regular expression checker.
- DbVisualizer - Multi-platform data base tools.
- Eclipse - Open source integrated development environment.
- ExamDiff - Finds differences between two files.
- Folder View - Folder browser. Works with Windows Explorer.
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