Most Essential (to you) Freeware
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From: Dave on 11 Jul 2010 12:04 On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:04:12 +0200, Taf® wrote: > > My last discover: a collection manager (flexible database) *GCstar* > http://www.gcstar.org/ > > IMHO very useful, because also tested in portable mode, and it works > like a charm! > http://www.winpenpack.com/main/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php? 44524 I've used GCStar for a long time in Linux/Windows.Very easy to switch to or try out with it's wide variety of import capabilities. Dave -- Registered Linux User #444770 Fedora 13 Goddard
From: Aaron on 11 Jul 2010 13:29
On 07/08/2010 10:56 AM, M.L. wrote: > > >> I knew this was going to be along thread when I first saw it. >> Don't people just love to post lists of their favorit programs! >> >> The OP may just as well have grabbed the 2009 Pricelessware list, >> cut it in half and posted it, It would have been as much use as yet >> another list of peoples' favorites, which serves little useful purpose. >> >> What is "essential" to one person is easily replaceable by another. > > Essential means indispensable. Something that one can't do without. If > an app is replaceable it can't be indispensable. I think we'd have a > more honest list of "essential" apps if all apps cost at least $5000 > each :-) > > Most of the lists were of the uninteresting "my freeware favorites" > variety since most of the apps had easy-to-find freeware replacements. Keep it strict, eh? I'm just going to say Pidgin. It's seriously top of the line software. The functionality can be replicated with other software, but not as well suited to my taste. Frankly, if a piece of software is not replaceable at all, that could imply some bad things. A lot of people want to replace, but have significant trouble replacing, various MS products, due to protocol/format compatibility breakage and so forth. I'll cut that off right there, as it's been discussed ad nauseum, but on the flip side, a good piece of software is often much-imitated, or even forked if it's open source. Being easy and desirable to imitate seems good to me. For a package that I do admire, and which would be extremely difficult to duplicate, I'll point to OpenOffice. One could fork it, give it a different name and a paint job, and call it a replacement, but duplicating the work already done would be almost unthinkable. (See closed format complaint above.) Oh, and hello. :) Aaron |