Useful Programs

This is a collection of links and recommendations posted by other users.. I've only combined them to help clean up the stickies section. Thank you very much to andri12 for their original "List of Useful Programs" thread. Please, feel free to reply with your own recommendations... however, please try to only recommend programs that are free of charge. I will add to the list your recommendations whenever I have the chance.


Archiving (used for opening .rar and .zip files)
Winrar (how-to here)
7zip

Web Browsers
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera
Safari

AntiVirus Software
avast!
AVG
Avira
Microsoft Security Essentials

Mediaplayers
Windows Classic MediaPlayer
VideoLan (VLC)
KMPlayer
Winamp (best for MP3 and FLAC)

Video Codecs
K-lite (comes with Windows Classic Mediaplayer)
CCCP
Shark007's Win7Codecs
Koepi's XVID Codec

Image Editing
The Gimp
Paint.net

Word Processing
OpenOffice
AbiWord

Image Mounting
DAEMONtools Lite (tutorial here)

Other
Japanese Language Pack (Windows XP)
File Sharing Sites Downloader Cheat (more info here)
CDisplay (comic book/manga reader)
Picasa (image organizer and viewer)
NitroPDF (alternative to Adobe Acrobat)
Sandboxie (isolate potentially harmful files for safe removal)
DomDom Manga Downloader

KMPlayer

I often use this to watch some Animes. It can play almost every format. It can also capture frames so that you can make GIFs from (your downloaded) anime easier (with the help of Photoshop, I think).

sumopaint.com has an in-browser image editing software that's nearly as good as photoshop. You can download a free version or you can go to their site and click the "open program" link in the upper right corner and open the software right into a browser window. It has low over head and doesn't eat up a lot of resources. Supports png and jpg, and layers.

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Originally Posted by AikoMori

sumopaint.com has an in-browser image editing software that's nearly as good as photoshop. You can download a free version or you can go to their site and click the "open program" link in the upper right corner and open the software right into a browser window. It has low over head and doesn't eat up a lot of resources. Supports png and jpg, and layers.

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Thanks for the rec. ^^ Their site doesn't seem to be working atm, so I'll add it after I can take a look.

Thank you for this list! A video codec pack I'd recommend is CCCP, I've used it for a long time and it's always worked for me :)

er.... I don't have any cool stuff but Nitro PDF is much more nicer to use than Adobe Acrobat to open PDF files. There are functions like extract text and pictures, highlight text, etc.

Sandboxie is a good software for security measure. It isolate any harmful stuff like malware etc... in one place and you can just delete them without worry of changing any program or important data permanently.

DomDom Manga Downloader is neat. I use it download multiple manga files from listed manga websites in the program list.


All software that I've mentioned can be downloaded for free.

For codecs I once use a lot until I found Shark007's Win7Codecs. All in one codecs that let you play everything in Windows Media Player. I love it since it make WMP support .MKV and able to display text style for subtitle. Recommend!

I remember when I had trouble watching AVI videos on Windows Media Player and none of the above mentioned codecs really worked for me. Then I found Koepi's Media Development's XVID codec, and it worked perfectly, with no effort at all on my part. So for those who still have trouble, I recommend to download this one.

The VLC video player is good and used it to rip my dvds. You know the windows 10 has no more a windows media player so the vlc you shared is a good alternative.

Hello ^^ Here are some of the freeware I use.

Photofiltre
You will find all version of the freeware but I use the Studio X version. It's the most complete one.
It may ask you for a key to use it once the time is up, just ask me or search on the web, it's easy to find and free.


VSDC Free Video Editor
For those who like making AMV ^^ It can even convert videos to a lot of different format.

QGifer
To make gif from video

Hope it helps some people ^^

I'd like to suggest Foxit Reader for creating/reading pdf. The free version is absolutely sufficient.
You can also "print" websites as pdf (-->for storage on your PC for example instead of accessing the information online over and over again). It's super useful and I use it every day.

Hi-There everyone ... I would like to recommend this handy little program for downloading manga ,,it is called Free Manga Downloader or FMD for short ....there was another program out and about with the same name,,,this was picked up from that bit of abandoned programming ,which then was revamped ,,expanded and many bug fixes, new sites list added went on to a new home at Sourceforge ,,,it is now updated regularly and is kept up to date as sites change their format ...so please enjoy using this handy little program !!
just go to the downloads tab and you'll get the link to save the program ...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmd/

EDIT :: sorry just click on the link ....I had already went to the tab to get the link page for you ...my bad ..XD

There is an open source image to text (OCR) program called Capture2Text (Capture2Text).
It has a built in function to translate text with Google Translate and it also has a text to speech function.

Capture2Text is ideal for manga and visual novels. By changing certain settings, you can also log the captured text if you want to translate it as a batch later.

Hello! Since PokeDora is starting to have a lot of newer content and doesn't allow for actual file downloads like DLSite, etc., I found this workaround to get the audio from the PokeDora player. I thought it would be appropriate to add here bc it expands on the usage of VLC beyond just a video player.

1. Downloaded PokeDora app on my iPad
2. Used built-in Apple screen recorder so that I could capture the internal audio w/out having to download any new apps (also, my Android phone's built-in recorder wasn't capturing the internal audio and just what came out of the speakers) (unfortunately, having an iPad is not free, but I believe the feature is standard on any Apple device)
3. Export those mp4 video files to my computer and use VLC to rip the audio (Media->Convert/Save->Add File->Select Destination + Change wtv desired audio settings->Save as mp3)