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List of 3rd Party/Replacement/Alternative Software

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  • 08-08-2003 5:21pm
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    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭


    List of 3rd Party/Replacement/Alternative Software
    Browsers:
    Opera
    Mozilla
    Firebird
    Amaya - Official W3C Browser
    HotJava - Pure Java Browser


    Email Clients:
    PocoMail
    Munite
    Calypso

    Office Applications:
    OpenOffice - echomadman

    General:
    TheOpenCD - Lots of stuff, but app versions are *slightly* out of date
    GNU Win II - lots more apps then OpenCD but again, slightly out of date re:versions

    Please suggest more catagories and programs that you've found useful or just plain different. Windows versions of *n*x apps are fine too.


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I'll merge this into the Apps, Hacks, Fixes, Links, etc sticky later.

    adam


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    echomadman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭echomadman


    its probably in the Apps, Hacks, Fixes, Links, etc thread but openoffice 1.1 is an excellent free alternative to M$ Office.


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    pdogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭pdogs


    Couple more mail clients:- (foxmail is my favorite and popcorn fits on a floppy and thus handy if you are moving around and don't want to use webmail).

    Foxmail 2.3MB
    Eudora 6.4MB
    Popcorn 184KB

    Couple more small, fast functional browsers:- (OB1 will also run off a floppy and can be a lifesaver for downloading stuff if your normal browser breaks down for some reason).

    OffByOne
    Kmeleon


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    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Originally posted by pdogs
    Couple more mail clients:- (foxmail is my favorite and popcorn fits on a floppy and thus handy if you are moving around and don't want to use webmail).

    Foxmail 2.3MB
    Eudora 6.4MB
    Popcorn 184KB

    Couple more small, fast functional browsers:- (OB1 will also run off a floppy and can be a lifesaver for downloading stuff if your normal browser breaks down for some reason).

    OffByOne
    Kmeleon

    That's tje kind of stuff that I'd like to see more of, small and functional apps. V. handy for using in college/anywhere with roaming profiles and network drives with limited space.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    EditPlus - as an alternative to a lot of text editors

    Blog | Tweets



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    BigEejit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    I use poppeeper to monitor all my email addresses (5 of them, and yes there are good reasons for that) ... very handy for keeping track of them all.... runs in the taskbar and a small 621K installation file


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    Jaden
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    Irfanview 822K.
    Great Image viewer, and handy for Browsing, or batch renames.

    All Plugins come in a single seperate download. Will do Movies too.


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    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Aye, IrfanView rocks.

    Wget For Windows - nevermind those other download/leeching apps. This is the daddy.

    Also, anyone know of any freeware apps for defragmenting your hard drive?

    One thing I've found quite handy is Onlineye.
    Very handy program for viewing/recording/alerting you to your bandwidth usage plus a good few other features.
    Can also be remotely viewed from another PC if setup in server mode. Afaik it's free/shareware.


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