Best/Useful Free software

b33r

List updated with additions, feel free to post more or if you think any should be removed or have dead links then let me know.

Cheers

The_JinJ

MAy be worth merging this thread that I started ages ago - probably some duplicates in there
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=345806

Aiadi

b33r wrote: »

List updated with additions, feel free to post more or if you think any should be removed or have dead links then let me know.

Cheers

Nice and neat little list. Well worth a sticky me thinks.:beer:

HoofeHearted

Just found this link http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/ which has links to 480+ Open Source Applications.:beer: . Quite a few of them are new to me, so, hopefully, they will be of some use to forum members.

System

Is this appropriate ?, if not shoot me!.

I am searching for freeware, in particular a photo editing site that will allow me, simply to reduce/crop/frame etc, and then drag and drop onto a sheet, so that I can print off an A4 sheet with the varying chosen pics.

I did have a suite once, but afetr a mad clear up ages ago, I deleted it and left myself with Picasa 2. Of late I've found a disc with Photoshop Elements, and downloaded FxFoto, and Irfanview, Photofiltre, Paint.net, but although each of these have their good points, I cannot get them to do what I want. I do feel that U lead may be the one I'm after, but haven't been able to successfully find a link that will download.

Red_Rose_Exile

Various Powertoys for XP esp TweakUI

edit island man, have you tried the gimp

b33r

Yeh islandman, thegimp is what you need, taking a bit of learning but you can acheive similiar results to Photoshop/Paint shop pro with it.

Cheers HoofeHearted, have added it to the list of places.

Oh by the way every open source fan out there, remember the new release of Ubuntu is out tomorrow, Gutsy Gibbon.

f1charlie

islandman wrote: »

Is this appropriate ?, if not shoot me!.

I am searching for freeware, in particular a photo editing site that will allow me, simply to reduce/crop/frame etc, and then drag and drop onto a sheet, so that I can print off an A4 sheet with the varying chosen pics.

Faststone Image Viewer is a neat and easy to use little program and can do the first bits (and plenty of others).

Once you've done your editing, why not copy your images into a document in a DTP program to satisfy the second requirement?

spud17

Just found this link http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/ which has links to 480+ Open Source Applications.:beer: . Quite a few of them are new to me, so, hopefully, they will be of some use to forum members.

Me too, it was on Gizmo's Support Alert Newsletter, which I received today. This is a monthly newsletter connected to the excellent site often mentioned here.

i.e. http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

Seems a coincidence you coming across the site the day it was in the news letter.
Hope you're not trying to pass it off as your own find.

Apologies if it was pure coincidence.