Computer programs you can't live without

[Andystar]

Hi everyone,

I've been using Spotify for some time now & just thought I'd like to share it with anyone who has never used it. Here's the science part, concentrate..

"Financed by advertising, the free version of Spotify is the place where most people start. Simple to download and install, in no time at all you?ll enjoy having all the music in the world at your fingertips, instant access to whatever song you want with no restrictions, and the ability to create and share playlists with friends."

So, have you got any programs that you cant live without / recommend to everyone??

[mockney piers]

Oh, without. Misleading title.

Without: Internet browser. Business firefox, pleasure chrome or safari.

With: any offce 2007 program, horrible if it ain't broke Ffs

[bignumber5]

itunes

[Windom]

skynet

[Bleep]

Traktor

[PeckhamRose]

Word. (!)

[grecian girl]

At the moment it's AVG Free Ant-Virus - as someone (gullible and under age) in our house has been duped into clicking into the horrible Evony game. I have researched it a little but having read that its potentially a malware carrier and I have had to muster all the free software I already had on the machine and hope it finds anything nasty. Luckily borrowing an old Mac from neighbour and cranked it up to ask forumites if anyone knows anything more about Evony. Better get it back before she cold turkeys away from asos!

[OutOfFocus]

Mutt

JEdit

Perl

Dist (you won't have heard of that as I wrote it)

[woofmarkthedog]

OutOfFocus Wrote:

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> Mutt

> JEdit

> Perl

> Dist (you won't have heard of that as I wrote it)

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Expand, but beware do you know "Surimi ko...dooo daa" or whatever his name was?

Please be ........erm.......y'know!

[Alabama]

spotify = the death of the ipod

[Andystar]

JoJo09 Wrote:

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> spotify = the death of the ipod

Hope so.. :))

[Lewishamman]

Any one use bittorrent ? I heard that is a good way to get music .

[SeanMacGabhann]

Anyone use glass-cutters?

I hear that's quite a good way to get hold of household-goods

[Ian Kelly]

Bittorrent and Demonoid.com

[Sue]

Lewishamman Wrote:

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> Any one use bittorrent ? I heard that is a good

> way to get music .

xxxxxxx

Not bad knowledge for a 79-year-old :-S

[daizie]

so what, would you be happier if he used a gramaphone!

[Sue]

It might drown out the noise of the Russian-speaking visitors to his neighbour's brothel :))

[flapjackdavey]

fnarf :))

[Sue]

Boom boom

Edited to add: And the sound of all those condoms dropping on the ground outside his house :))

[flapjackdavey]

fnark fnark :))

[Lewishamman]

Sue

Maybe you would like to live next door to them instead? Maybe we can swop home's ?

Why do you think because I am old I am stupid ? You will be old one day , do you think you will become a idiot because you are over 70 ? NO ! Then we assume I am a idiot ? I have lived a long life and have forgotton more than you know.

[Huguenot]

What kind of music do you download on Bittorrent, Lewishamman? :)

[PeckhamRose]

Malware is great, AVG Antivirus did not catch the malware I had.

[Jeremy]

It doesn't seem out of the question that a 79 year-old could be a computer user, and curious about peer-to-peer downloads.

[macroban]

I have a copy of Pakman [sic] that I still run from time to time.

Many years ago I copied it from a mid-1980s IBM PC (an advanced model with a colour monitor and a 10MB HD).

The game is one COM file that is just short of 64K.

This game must have some of the tightest machine code ever written. Each time I run it I am filled with admiration of the programmer's skills.