Good free software

[GregLocock]

http://windirstat.info/

very pretty disk space analyser

Crimson Editor - Industrial strength text editor

Editpad - another good text editor

WinMerge - graphical text file comparison

CSDiff - text output text file comparison

Foxit - pdf reader

Pdfcreator - you guess

Cheers

Greg Locock

SIGlease see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

 

[SomptingGuy]

Our guys tend to like nedit. Although it's a UNIX application, there are Windows ports. Given that editor choice is one of the most pervading arguments between uber-nerds of the software world, it's not surprising to find this mind boggling wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

- Steve

 

[GregLocock]

Yeah I like nedit on *nix. But it isn't on the approved load for Windows!

Oh, and for nix have a look at midnight commander, a very useable clone of the pre-insane Norton app

http://www.midnight-commander.org/

Cheers

Greg Locock

SIGlease see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

 

[SomptingGuy]

windirstat

Neat, thanks for the pointer.

(Committed emacs user)

- Steve

 

[Jabberwocky]

Seconding the love for Foxit.

To contribute:
Convert - very simple conversions for almost any units - including custom conversions!

http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows

 

[gearguru]

Collection of "home made" simple programs (it was mentioned in Eng-Tips before):

http://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz/

 

[Pressed]

good site for freeware

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http://mech.e.tripod.com

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Ddraig Breuddwydia....

http://www.tailofthedragon.com

 

[HDS]

FIREFOX
VMWARE SERVER
OPEN OFFICE
gadwin print screen

for others

http://www.download.com

is a good source.

 

[HDS]

one more that I can't live without. I've got it stuck on a hot key.

HP calculator emulator

http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/pc/emulators/

 

[Henneshoe]

Great tool for those of us with multiple monitors:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic21703.html

Hotkeys to throw windows from one screen to the other and resize windows to 1 quadrant or half of the screen.

 

[Allen]

Here are my bookmarks for freeware:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html

Some useful free utilities.

http://www.snapfiles.com/

Separated by freeware and shareware directory search.
I always find good freeware here.

 

[sdz]

How about good software for Linux (Ubuntu)?

 

[drawoh]

sdz,

xfig, galeon, khangman, vim, ...

What do you want to do with the software?

JHG

 

[SomptingGuy]

What do you want to do with the software?

Compute PI to 100+ dp's of course, which I found easy this week using Maxima.

- Steve

 

[SomptingGuy]

But more seriously...

As a near 20-year Matlab-aholic, we had a network outage this week that killed my licence server. I'm seeing how long I can use octave for my daily work (signal analysis mainly) before it runs out of steam. It's doing very well so far - I've not even thought about restarting the ML licence server.

- Steve

 

[GregLocock]

Don't you notice a HUGE speed difference? I can't remember what i was doing but for one built in function matlab was 20 times faster than octave.

That's a whinge, overall I am very impressed by Octave.

Cheers

Greg Locock

SIGlease see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

 

[SomptingGuy]

I haven't really compared speeds yet. Most of my stuff is blink-of-an-eye processing (diff/hilbert/cumsum/fft/logical/plot) of 1D signals. Octave (and ML of course) can provide answers faster than I can ask the questions.

I am impressed too.

- Steve

 

[SomptingGuy]

Octave has no (proper) equivalent of xlsread. Bummer, so I can't run some code created by a supplier. Of well, at least 3.2.0 (for Windoze) is now up on the sourceforge web site. Looks good so far.

- Steve

 

[FrenchCAD]

http://www.portableapps.com/

to get a good amount of free softwares (including firefox, thunderbird, notepad++, filezilla, gimp, openoffice, etc...) on a portable device such as an usb stick and use it everywhere whitout needing to install it.

Cyril Guichard
Defense Program Manager
Belgium

 

[truckcab]

Why not install Cygwin on your PC? Then its possible to run Nedit and Perl for example. I use it since I really miss the good old days with Unix



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