[waggonerwheel]

Hello everyone.

I'm looking into acquiring some software that's good for everyday use. I'm not quite in the loop of the popular applications these days.What are some applications that you find useful and can't live without? I happened to stumble upon IncrediMail just recently and am looking into software similar to that, whether it's an email client or in the utilities category or a good tool in general. What are some of your favorite ones at the moment?

[waggonerwheel]

Just wanted to bump this thread. Anyone have any good recommendations?

[DimplesAkaKaren]

waggonerwheel, on 21 December 2011 - 12:16 PM, said:

Just wanted to bump this thread. Anyone have any good recommendations?

My Bro introduced me to Dropbox. I've been hooked ever since. We send pics, etc to each other all the time. It's so easy to use. I would highly recommend it.

[waggonerwheel]

DimplesAkaKaren, on 21 December 2011 - 12:30 PM, said:

waggonerwheel, on 21 December 2011 - 12:16 PM, said:

Just wanted to bump this thread. Anyone have any good recommendations?

My Bro introduced me to Dropbox. I've been hooked ever since. We send pics, etc to each other all the time. It's so easy to use. I would highly recommend it.

Thanks DimplesAkaKaren! I'll be sure to take a look at it.

[DimplesAkaKaren]

waggonerwheel, on 22 December 2011 - 10:32 AM, said:

DimplesAkaKaren, on 21 December 2011 - 12:30 PM, said:

waggonerwheel, on 21 December 2011 - 12:16 PM, said:

Just wanted to bump this thread. Anyone have any good recommendations?

My Bro introduced me to Dropbox. I've been hooked ever since. We send pics, etc to each other all the time. It's so easy to use. I would highly recommend it.

Thanks DimplesAkaKaren! I'll be sure to take a look at it.

You're so welcome!

[DimplesAkaKaren]

"Freecorder 5"

Another cool thing to check out...Freecorder 5 adds powerful video downloading and audio recording functions to your browser. Just play a video or audio clip, and save it to your PC in one click. Ya can Download, Record & Convert Video and MP3s from Youtube and more. Another plus is....It's Free!

[douglasdunyan]

Ease US to do backup...

I do a weekly full backup (partition based) and daily incremental (partition based) of MBR and C drive.

I do a weekly full backup (file based) and daily incremental (file based) of my 'data' drive.

Using this strategy, I was able to recover after a total hard drive failure !

Beats the heck out of a system restore, hundreds of 'patches', and re-installing applications!

Other software utils exist, this one is free...

Peace be with you.

[Szczecinianin]

Hi, my choice is PDFCreator (PDFs are now de facto a web standard) and some packer, such as 7-Zip. I know now that you have webmails with gigabyte accounts packers are not essential but I find SFX files quite useful. It's tiring to attach 40 files one by one, a single SFX is much better and faster.

[dansimon]

I would like to advise you to keep a google software for PDF, its a must, and without it , I dont think one can use the documentation stuff easily. Its a standard for the documentation on computers nowadays. You can get an adobe, but i am not sure if you will have this much of the budget for this purpose, so I will instead propose adobe alternatives to you for this purpose, you should try the ClassicPDF, it will help all your problems about PDF documentation. You can not only read PDF files, but you can convert nearly every format to PDF, and you can do editing in the PDF files, as well as you can create a PDF right from the scratch.
I hope this will be an addition to your software list, and you would like it. And ofcourse, Google Chrome as your browser should be in the first few lines of your list.

[Szczecinianin]

dansimon, on 16 February 2012 - 12:26 AM, said:

I would like to advise you to keep a google software for PDF, its a must, and without it , I dont think one can use the documentation stuff easily. Its a standard for the documentation on computers nowadays. You can get an adobe, but i am not sure if you will have this much of the budget for this purpose, so I will instead propose adobe alternatives to you for this purpose, you should try the ClassicPDF, it will help all your problems about PDF documentation. You can not only read PDF files, but you can convert nearly every format to PDF, and you can do editing in the PDF files, as well as you can create a PDF right from the scratch.
I hope this will be an addition to your software list, and you would like it. And ofcourse, Google Chrome as your browser should be in the first few lines of your list.

Speaking of Adobe PDF alternatives you could use PDFXchange Viewer freeware. And IrfanView, now ver. 4.32, is also on your short list. I use IView 4.25 and it has lots of interesting stuff such as OCR and Paint plugins. Also RIOT compression and FTP plugins. It's growing and it's now a Swiss army knife of a kind. Its current version supports Google's webp format, too.