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Freespace2: its on the free games list and theres a torrent for it... currently playing it again and its freakin hard... gotta get used to the joystick again............... :( but its fun fun fun :) i havent changed my mind about it being the best spacesim combat ever....

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PuTTY: A free ssh/telnet client: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

 

Filezilla: A free FTP/SFTP client: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Portable Filezilla: Its cousin designed to be put on a USB thumb drive or similar: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/filezilla_portable

 

utorrent: Ultralightweight bittorrent client, also portable like Portable Filezilla: http://www.utorrent.com/

 

Gordian Knot: Movie encoder. http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/

Also see its easier-to-use cousin Auto Gordian Knot: http://www.autogk.me.uk/

 

Eclipse: Fully functional cross-platform Integrated Developing Environment (for programmers). Requires a Java run time. Out of the box, for Windows, anyway, it just has a Java compiler/debugger. However, it has dozens and dozens of plugins for all kinds of languages and tools. http://www.eclipse.org

 

EDIT: Be careful with Daemon Tools; when I installed it on my work laptop a couple of weeks ago it installed WhenU, a well-known adware program.

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Be careful with Daemon Tools; when I installed it on my work laptop a couple of weeks ago it installed WhenU, a well-known adware program.

 

Yeah, just be sure not to install the Daemon toolbar, I think thats what it's called.

 

I don't think I saw Skype on your list, good for talking to each other over the internet, apparently.

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EDIT: Be careful with Daemon Tools; when I installed it on my work laptop a couple of weeks ago it installed WhenU, a well-known ad-ware program.

Some antispy-ware programs don't even list WhenU as a threat anymore, since its business practices eventually has changed to the better. Some simply list it as a minor annoyance, which is very easy to detect and delete if someone so wishes. And as Technodavan said it's optional to install it or not; it doesn't affect the use of the program. What you choose to do is another thing, but at least there's no reason to panic.

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Couldn't resist to make a tip about this video/DVD player: Full Screen Player

 

Don't get scared if you click around and you see a strange alphabet; it's from a Russian site and the program has a Russian developer. It's a very good player with some innovative ideas and it will probably just get better. It's non-installation program in the sense that it's just a file to uncompress and you simply run it from the exe-file without any setup.

 

I recommend you to test if you're interested in freeware. I miss Xine when I'm using windows.

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Some antispy-ware programs don't even list WhenU as a threat anymore, since its business practices eventually has changed to the better. Some simply list it as a minor annoyance, which is very easy to detect and delete if someone so wishes. And as Technodavan said it's optional to install it or not; it doesn't affect the use of the program. What you choose to do is another thing, but at least there's no reason to panic.

 

 

Wasn't there a time as well, when Mozilla had some malicious software running around under it's name. I remember getting a lot of Spyware and other crap on my system back in my P2P days *ahem* kazaa *ahem*.

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