What are your favourite free computer apps? Media Players, Office ...

kwintestal

I just got a new computer and am setting it up and wondering what suggestions/reviews anyone can give for computer applications other then the traditional Microsoft ones that come with the computer. I have a ton more RAM now (going from 256 to 2GB) and can do a few more things then I could before (like something other then running the OS).

Has anyone tried the openoffice.org suite? I'd also like a media player other then Windows Media Player, any suggestions? Any other favourite programs that you have?

Kwin

tall penguin

Hi Kwin!

I've used the open office suite and liked it. I also think Mozilla Firefox is a great web browser.

Have fun,
tall penguin

kwintestal

I like firefox as well, but Mrs. Kwin doesn't. I think I'll download it anyway and let her get used to it!

Love the new avatar! Is is from your last vacation?

Kwin

fullofdoubtnow

My boyfriend downloaded RealPlayer a few weeks ago, in addition to Windows Media Player, and is very happy with it, so you might try that.

fullofdoubtnow

sorry double post

Chameleon

Firefox has that memory leak problem, I mean, "feature." I use it anyway. for media players, I use winamp for music, and vlc media player for videos.

cyrus

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Fatfreek

Google Earth

Cute PDF Writer

Avira classic anti virus program

Simple OCR (optical character recognition)

SirNose586

Firefox has that memory leak problem, I mean, "feature." I use it anyway. for media players, I use winamp for music, and vlc media player for videos.

As much as I love FF, you've got me there. I need to figure out if FF 2.0 doesn't have a memory leak problem. If it doesn't, then I'll upgrade, but otherwise I will stick with 1.5 Winamp owns. VLC player will play anything. I use BSPlayer because it's got a low memory footprint.

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