Computer essentials: Stuff you really might want for your PC

[MackTheHunter]

Oopdated.

[Ad Bot]

[Marcem]

Also, add that 7zip is completely free, and it never nags you to upgrade anything.

[Private McDoggy]

WinRAR

Much more useful than WinZIP, but it has flaws. Sometimes the demo doesn't run out :o

I still have my demo.

[General Nick]

VistaGlazz (Vista Only)

Ensures transparency for the Aero theme on Vista at all times, as well as the ability to patch your shell to allow custom themes.

http://www.codegazer.com/vistaglazz/

No offense but whoever suggested this is an idiot. Aero automatically disables itself for a reason, so people won't complain about how half of their 512MB of memory is being eaten up by a theme.

[pocketrocket300]

ive had my demo for almost a year now lol.

[Chrono]

iTunes

The most popular music player on the web.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Most popular doesn't mean good.

[General Nick]

Most popular doesn't mean good.

I agree, I only use iTunes to put stuff on my iPod, that's it.

[XaMMaX211]

I agree, I only use iTunes to put stuff on my iPod, that's it.

songbird works for that

[Chrono]

I agree, I only use iTunes to put stuff on my iPod, that's it.

Major reason I don't want an iPod.
I would rather not sync everything my brother and I have listened to, infact not sync at all.
Drag and drop works fine and I plan to stick to that.

[DrMobius]

For those on XP:
I give you Royale Noir

[TapeDeck]

OpenOffice

www.openoffice.org

[Dapizzanator]

Try Personal Brain. It's basically a pretty cool thought organizer. I'll het a link in a sec, and it's somewhat hard to explain, but I love it!
Edit: here: www.thebrain.com

[Digmaster]

1. Songbird is not by mozillia. if it was thent here would be no problem with it and it would be in theuniverse repositiory, but sadly there is a problem with the permissions I believe, so its not :( Bottom line is its not by Mozilla.

2. VLC-Plays any type of music or video, comes with a ton of options to keep you happy

3. For linux
-compiz-Desktop composer! Makes everything look nice, makes the cube effect, and makes transparancy work well
-Wine-Allows things from windows to work on Linux
-Wine Doors-Even better capability for things from windows, needs wine.
-amarok-loveah music players, very good for making playlists in two seconds.
-WICD-Best network manager out there that I can find.
-Openbox-Doesn't work with compiz, but its one lovey windows navigator. Try it out!

4. DropBox-Allows you to easily sycronize files between two computers. Its a life saver.

[MackTheHunter]

1. Songbird is not by mozillia.

[Justin K.]

Photoshop?