Christmas Tree 4821 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 What's your favourite free software. I'll start with spybot search and destroy. Excellent for getting rid of lots of random crap that infects your system as you are surfing from less harmful cookies to nastier stiff that changes your search engine. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7169 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 AVG, VLC Player, Google Chrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 What's your favourite free software. I'll start with spybot search and destroy. Can imagine you getting in a huff after doing a manual scan cos you won't get to use it for another month. Probably Itunes for me. Used it daily for a decade or so and paid for 1 song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4856 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 VLC as j69 said, Firefox and chrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20712 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 VLC, Safari & iTunes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 VLC as j69 said, Firefox and chrome Why would you have two browsers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14013 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Sopcast, VLC, Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4856 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Why would you have two browsers? I use a lot of different computers in my day to day. which one Im using depends on the machine Im on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4856 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 oh aye, sopcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrysteve 0 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 MPEG Streamclip - obviously useless unless you want to transcode some videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 On the subject of videos what do people do. Basically you can capture them on a phone, Camera or camcorder. They are usually in different formats. Do people just keep them in one format or transfer them all to the same etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 VLC is a cracking little player like. Stopped using firefox. It became too heavy for me so now use Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46021 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Chrome. Handbrake. Sopcast. Microsoft Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 Chrome. Handbrake. Sopcast. Microsoft Office. What do you use handbrake to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4856 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 On the subject of videos what do people do. Basically you can capture them on a phone, Camera or camcorder. They are usually in different formats. Do people just keep them in one format or transfer them all to the same etc. I tend to leave them as they are if im playing them on my comp VLC can play owt anyway if Im putting them on a disc then making it a playable DVD encodes it differently anyway (i think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46021 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 It's a video conversion thing that has presets installed for popular devices. So if you want to turn a video you download into the perfect file for an iPod touch, you just select the iPod touch preset, select the file, and away it goes. It's actually less necessary these days now that Apple allow apps that play non Apple formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrysteve 0 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I tend to leave them as they are if im playing them on my comp VLC can play owt anyway if Im putting them on a disc then making it a playable DVD encodes it differently anyway (i think) It does, DVD's are encoded as MPEG-2. Not technically a piece of standalone software but Video Download Helper plug-in for firefox is great, you can basically download any video/audio from pretty much any website (or at least any website the general public are likely to be visiting) also suggests websites with video content for you to peruse including the dorty stuff if you are so inclined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 It's a video conversion thing that has presets installed for popular devices. So if you want to turn a video you download into the perfect file for an iPod touch, you just select the iPod touch preset, select the file, and away it goes. It's actually less necessary these days now that Apple allow apps that play non Apple formats. Si if I was to come across a film that was in an mkv or flv format that dont play on my TV, this should convert if to AVI? and its free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46021 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Try mkv 2vob converter. It's designed for PS3 format files, but it's mpg, which might be fine for what you want it for. It's free and takes no time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrysteve 0 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Si if I was to come across a film that was in an mkv or flv format that dont play on my TV, this should convert if to AVI? and its free? Yep it will do just that, I regularly transcode FLV's to MPEG-4 in it. You can get it here: http://www.squared5.com/ It may depend on what codecs you have installed on your system, but codecs can be easily downloaded if you haven't already got them. Alternatively, Subler will transcode an MKV into an MPEG-4 and allow you to edit the metadata (so you can label TV series as such and they don't pop-up in your movies folder in I-Tunes, and let you add/remove subtitle streams) may be a mac only jobby though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10963 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Firefox, iTunes, VLC, uTorrent, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 43063 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Anyone used the IE9 yet? Meant to pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleeToonFan 1 Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Safari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Firefox, Spotify, sopcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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