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IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-13 21:21:56
February 13 2009 06:13 GMT
#1
Valentine is near and Izzy is feeling the love. And the first person to say nice post should just burn in a ditch.

A lot of rude behavior has been displayed all over this just so you know maybe a censor heavy mod will bleep me out in some fun way if they want

I’m going to cover the shit I believe people steal the most although some shit is just not that the alternative you need to steal it's just that you should know this shit jackasses! If this gets dated fuck off in saying something is better than another. If you don't want to use the alternative get a college friend and spend 70 dollars on an os for Photoshop guess what the student version is the same as the pro version just like 500000 dollars cheaper. If it doesn't work for Mac who cares. I should include the "free" good security programs but then how will I enjoy myself when I see some tard get his computer infected with 1000 viruses.

-I have free time and insomnia so imma be rude if this is incoherent just read the bold at the replace and trust it's just fine for you bitches.

7-Zip
Replaces: Winrar/Winzip
It's not a beautiful ui or anything but it does cover all basic and advance functions and fully compatible with extracting all common files. Along with that its compression LMZA .7z format tends to do better then .rar can do with winrar. And yes winrar can open a .7z file it's a very compatible format. I prefer this over the next one I will suggest. Seriously if all you do is extract files with your stolen copy of winrar fucking stop and use 7zip. IZarc and Peazip have a better ui but scene I don't spend shitloads of time decompressing and compressing just use extract all to folder/ I prefer the smaller more effected 7-zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

GIMP
Replaces: Adobe Photoshop
Shut the fuck up you don't need Photoshop CS bleh. the UI is a little different a bit leaner but you'll find just about most things you can do in Photoshop you can do in GIMP unless you’re like some advance photo editing fool that spends way too much time doing photo editing and creation why the fuck haven't you bought Photoshop for once if you doing it for a living you should at least own a legal copy. Anyways spend an hour or 2 learning the new layout of what does what and you'll be satisfied with GIMP.
http://www.gimp.org/

OpenOffice
Replaces: Microsoft Office
Guess what don't want to buy Microsoft office afraid of viruses in your torrents well the nice people in sunmicro systems built a nice alternative for FREE. Although the word processor is not as good at the 2007 version of office it's better than the older 2003 version and everything comes with it alternatives Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentations), Base (databases), Draw (vector graphics editor) and Math (mathematical formulae editor, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor). Yes you won’t have outlook but come the fuck on if your using outlook you’re most likely a business man be a legit business person. If all you’re doing is typing up your paper for crappy high school English life this will do you fine.
http://www.openoffice.org/

Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema but really I mean to say CCCP
Replaces: the faggots with weak shit computers that can’t run wmp11 without crying also replaces VLC fuck VLC it's ugly and renders soft subs like shit on kengeeit face
CCCP will have MPC-HC with its install it's lightweight and if you go into the settings you will find you can play just about everything by turning on the FFshow codec on its lightweight and will run fine on a modern computer using WMP11 but also if you can't run that the filters are compatible with MPC-HC. You can't play real player shit on it but neither can VLC just get real alternative. Yes MPC HomeCinema is actually free and you Linux tards can install it on your computer if you have the balls. Else just stick to VLC I hate how bloated and gay the ppl at VLC have been doing things. I would suggest Mplayer but most of you wouldn't ever be able to get it to work for you
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
*CCCP : http://www.cccp-project.net/

Pidgin
Replaces: mIRC(guess what any irc client is good enough fuck opera is good enough),Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger
It's one of the mutli protocallll units it's not as lean as miranda im but it supports plug-ins like miranda and I don't like the look of miranda it's a lovely lean program but I like my im clients to have some actually pleasing attributes; you won’t be able to do shit like video chat on windows live messenger but that's what Skype if for upgrade bitches. In short Fuck trillian
http://www.pidgin.im/

InfraRecorder
Replaces: Nero Burning Rom
Before you go steal your NERO burning bull shit for your stolen game and music you want to burn consider infrarecroder it's not a pretty interface but shut up your probably the same person that complains vista aero makes your comp lag take 1 side and stick to it or suck it.
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Audacity!
Replaces: Adobe Audition
Need to edit audio fuck your torrent and just use audacity you should know about this by now it's a great little program be happy it exists. Now im just getting lazy on the summaries
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Notice something yet SOURCEFORGE is a good place to go get your free alternatives.

opera
Replaces: IE (unless you’re a business man then you’re stuck go upgrade to IE8 already or downgrade to IE6), crappy FF and chrome.
Opera is historally more secure and faster than FF stfu Firefox fan boys opera is the shit no does everything from torrents to irc learns to love it bitches and yes with some effort you can even get greesemonkey scripts to work on opera.
http://www.opera.com/

recuva
Replaces: the recovery feature on Norton system works or something like that
It's a recover my shit face mistaken deleted file program works just fine if you can't find your file with it your crappy computer skills probably had the indexer on and overwritten the part of the HD where that file was still stored. Got a Mac no problem your fuck faced either way it's a Mac get used to it.
http://www.recuva.com/

What else is there...

blender
Replaces: Autodesk Maya
For those who want to mess around with Maya like program this is for you see how hard it is and give up boy!
http://www.blender.org/

Taski
Replaces: FRAPS I think...
Ohkay never used it but it runs on the same principles on how fraps records so yeah...
http://taksi.sourceforge.net/

xvidcap and camstudio
Replaces: Camtasia
Guess what im even lazier now imma just copy paste this description although it lacks my colorful language
"xvidcap is a small tool to capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual frames or an MPEG video. On Windows machines there are commercial tools like Lotus ScreenCam or Camtasia which do a very good job esp. for the purpose I was needing such a tool for: Software documentation, esp. installation procedures and such.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)"
http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
http://camstudio.org/

*not yet ready for general use*
Reactos
Replaces windows XP
Fuck Linux it's not friendly for most people so I will not suggest it I will instead suggest you wait like a year for the nice ppl at reactos to finish their from starch rebuild of windows so guess what it will run everything windows xp/2000 once they reach 100% compatibly. Unfortunally they are still in alpha and aren’t suggested for everyday use just for computer people who want to help the development of this OS
http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

staxRip
Replaces: the thing people steal to transcode(convert one non-raw format to another non raw format) videos
I prefer MeGUI but most people can’t use it but MeGUI allows more editing features staxrip is just a lazy alternative that I know you people that couldn’t find a free alternative in the first place would want
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/

Now that I think about it I probably should have made links into the name but that's too much work time to run this though open office spell check and post. This is too much typing for this to be another one of my rant posts that I never acutlly post.

Scene you bitches can't take the balls out of your mouth long enough to look out for proprietary software in which you need not to make any payments. I’ll fill you guys in with some shit I saw ppl wanted to know about
I saw plenty of IPod replacements but none as lightweight and portable as
Floola
replaces: ITunes (unless you have an iphone or iPod touch) I don’t have an iPod so suck it.
It’s lightweight and portable things I like in my programs and not iTunes something else I like.
http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=WiwiHome

other iTunes replacements
http://www.junauza.com/2008/09/5-great-itunes-replacements-for.html
SECURITY NI^^A wow you raciest bastard though of the other word that I didn’t even type.
You idiots I don’t even use security software just good practices like not torrenting and visiting sites with fly in ads and other gay shit.

Anyways if you want security you need to do it right GET NORTON SECURITY SUIET THE FULL SHABAM NOT JUST ANTI VIRUS YOU DUMB SHIT
Or if you can stand the more technical get the kaspersky suite this is shit if you really worry you should buy you cock sucking bastards

Anyways you need ALL of these at least one in each category
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/compare-products.php
http://store.norton.com/v2.0-img/operations/symantus/site/promo/pd/pt_navnis09_360_us_16.html
You see the internet security suites NOT THE SHIT FACED ANTI VIRUS that is the shit you need to cover ingrates!

You crap flingers probably get lost finding the free editions so imam use filehippo links and if you don’t trust that you can go and click on the developers website and get it straight from the lions mouth

Zonealarm get the free one it’s going to cover your ass a bit better then the native windows firewall
http://www.filehippo.com/download_zonealarm_free/

Commando the common alternative
http://www.filehippo.com/download_comodo/

“ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003.ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features: high detection rates for viruses and spyware; scanning Scheduler; automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database; standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library. There is a windows verison just have to look

Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus. Winpooch uses the API Hooking method. It spies programs when they are running and gives to the user a powerful control of their activity.For example, you can forbide a program to write in a system directory or in the registry, or else to connect to internet. That makes the difference between others anti spywares using a database of known signatures.
“



Hijackthis covers just general oversights of settings among scanning for everything it’s a good blanket program
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis

Ad-Aware 2009
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ad-aware/

AVG Anti-Spyware
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antispyware/

AVG Free Edition
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/

BitDefender 10 Free Edition
http://www.filehippo.com/download_bitdefender/

Avast! Home Edition
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/

AntiVir Personal
http://www.filehippo.com/download_antivir/

Windows Defender
http://www.filehippo.com/download_windows_defender/


Izzy’s recommended set up based off nothing but the shit that comes out of his head

Windows Defender OMFG IT’s FROM MICRO$OFT it must be shit… hey hey hey watch what you’re saying to the people who made your os it’s free and it works just fine for spyware and messed up user settings it’s also good to see what actually runs on your computer
http://www.filehippo.com/download_windows_defender/

ClamWin
http://www.clamwin.com/
Winpooch
http://winpooch.free.fr/page/home.php?lang=en&page=home
Just cuz I quoted it although open source programs fail the protection via obscurity AVG is more likely to fail you and I hated the layout on my friend’s comp it looks like shit and I judge you by your cover so live it.

Ad-Aware 2009
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ad-aware/
spybot snd is very free but it gives me too many headaches for it’s flase postivies get that one over this one idk not my life

Anyways you can use the windows firewall if you want it’s easy to work with and if updated works well with windows defender else imam say

Zonealarm
http://www.filehippo.com/download_zonealarm_free/


I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
February 13 2009 06:17 GMT
#2
Despite the massive amount of foul language this is one of the best OPs I can recall seeing in general for a long time, thanks for this.
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
February 13 2009 06:20 GMT
#3
That was fuckin' awesome.

Fucker.
Shitposting
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
February 13 2009 06:22 GMT
#4
Paint.net - a free photoshop with basic functionality. 100x better than standard paint.

Notepad++ - say goodbye to regular shitty notepad. Has tabbed documents, word wrap, etc.

There's others like Slypheen and stuff but i dont actively use them so I cant really comment on them.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
February 13 2009 06:24 GMT
#5
MediaMonkey
Replaces: iTunes/Winamp
It's not a lightweight player like Foobar, but if you want a serious player for organizing/syncing/etc., it is basically the best available. It runs quickly, even with large libraries, and has a ton of built-in tools and downloadable mods/scripts.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
SteveStyle
Profile Joined December 2008
United States27 Posts
February 13 2009 06:24 GMT
#6
The foul language makes it even better!
Realpenguin
Profile Joined December 2006
8253 Posts
February 13 2009 06:40 GMT
#7
Great thread idea!
Can't really name some programs off the top of my head, but here are some blogs about freeware/tweaks that are updated frequently that some people might be interested in.

http://appaholic.co.uk/
http://thefreewarejunkie.com/
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/
<Wolfpox> i remember when MVP beat that one guy, and everyone was like 'whoa' except that penguin dude.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
February 13 2009 06:47 GMT
#8
I need to find those 2chan threads where pple list useful free apps... god I've no idea where they are anymore lol
PlutoNZ
Profile Joined February 2008
New Zealand410 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-21 11:31:44
February 13 2009 06:48 GMT
#9
xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
February 13 2009 06:49 GMT
#10
IrfanView
Replaces: Windows Photo Viewer
Loads quickly, pretty much every image format supported, and the slideshow function works great.
I guess it also can play video files and shit but I only use it for pictures.
http://www.irfanview.com/
bias-
Profile Joined October 2004
United States410 Posts
February 13 2009 06:54 GMT
#11
swearing schmearing. great post =)
For serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
guga31bb
Profile Joined April 2008
United States23 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-13 06:55:56
February 13 2009 06:55 GMT
#12
vlc player is awesome
Abydos1
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States832 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-13 06:57:47
February 13 2009 06:57 GMT
#13
LINUX replaces WINDOWS
"...perhaps the greatest joy possible in Starcraft, being accused of being a maphacker" - Day[9]
LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
February 13 2009 06:59 GMT
#14
Any free security program?

Norton costs too much...
feathers
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States236 Posts
February 13 2009 07:01 GMT
#15
AVG is pretty good so is spybot search and destroy.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
February 13 2009 07:01 GMT
#16
Add to the list

Blender
Replaces: any expensive 3D graphics software
I haven't really used it much but its what we are using in our advanced computer graphics. Totally free and totally powerful. http://www.vimeo.com/1132937 <-movie made using blender and some other free programs
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
Tadzio
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
3340 Posts
February 13 2009 08:23 GMT
#17
Anyone have any luck recording starcraft with camstudio? Any particular codec I need?

I use AVG for virus protection, lunardestiny
Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-13 08:28:27
February 13 2009 08:28 GMT
#18
I like Opera I really do but it does have some compatibility issues with a few websites. I use Opera mainly and Firefox as backup when something just doesn't work with Opera. I highly recommend Opera though, it's really nice.
Python is garbage, number 1 advocate of getting rid of it.
MarklarMarklar
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Fiji1823 Posts
February 13 2009 08:35 GMT
#19
izzy sounds pissed off in every description

angry nerd rage bro

chill
hello there
falls
Profile Joined November 2008
United States168 Posts
February 13 2009 08:43 GMT
#20
I use Avast for anti virus protection and Search and Destroy for spyware.

Avast and AVG are just as good and both are free. The only real different is the look of the program lol.
Go SaviOr and Stork!
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