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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+30It's an OK list, but..............
NO MENTION OF OPERA?!?!?!?!?!? - cfleshman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20foxit is a dream come true for people who need to copy/paste from pdf
- thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24where is Opera? thats free and honestly i like it more than firefox.
- bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21FoxIt is a dream for anyone who has to deal with PDFs, period.
Acrobat load time: 40s
FoxIt load time: 4s - z0iid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"BitTorrent is useful for downloading legitimate content quickly or for sharing your own files."
yeah, i know that is what it was created for - but it is far more useful for downloading illegitimate content. - wtfunkymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16This makes me wonder; Is heathuff ignorant or just lazy?
I realize that people today are busy, and don't have a lot of time to do all the things they want to do. But is it really so hard to type 'you' instead of 'u'? It's another two keystrokes, that couldn't take more than a half second to type.
It's not as if digg is an IRC channel or a message board, this place is a very well known news resource. Digg has gotten a lot of media attention over the last few months, everything from other websites, to print media, to television.
Now ask yourself, what does a front page submission with such a low quality summary say about this place? - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19You know there is a reply button, right? Just checking mate.
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Only if you know how to spell mnemonics and know what it actually means.
- maxkelley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Of course, it would always be nice to have a readable english story description......
- norris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16wtf? no gaim?
- xboxhacker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+157-zip and winrar are the best i agree
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What are you talking about? Spybot has always been free, and is recognized as one of the best anti-spyware apps around. Maybe you're thinking about a lookalike product that's trying to capitalize on the Spybot name?
- battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You dont know what you are talking about. The AutoUpdate feature is the ONLY part of SS&D that costs anything (15$ per year), and "helps promote" with its (non-existant) "affilate" (?) programs. (?)
Name one affiliate program. - pegas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Not only is WinRAR not free, the format itself is proprietary. I agree, sometimes rar compression can be quite nice, but I prefer to use open-source tools to saving a few kilobytes.
- ComputerWiz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I really like Google Desktop Search. It is much faster than Microsoft's search on my computer, but that may just be here. I like their sidebar idea, but I think they could have done better.
I would love to see a great widget program that would allow you to use Yahoo Widgets, Google Widgets, Dashboard Widgets, and widgets from other programs like Samurize all in one "Widget Adapter" that would work in Windows without the large memory usage that some have. It would be great to not have to choose between widget programs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7apparently you've been looking at the wrong software - it's always been free, easy to use and rock solid.
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
Or do you work at a competing software firm... - GotoDengo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7HUGE glaring omission - Daemon Tools. Instead of carrying 5 CD's, burn 5 CD images to one DVD and mount them with Daemon Tools. With HD/BlueRay discs you'll be able to have 30/50 CD's on one disc!!
Should be on the top10 of any freeware list.
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php - darthmdh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10the reply button doesn't appear if you sort by most diggs. I assume most of these comments that appear like a typical Outlook email thread (ie, completely disjointed) are due to diggers using that sort method.
- haxx4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"MySpace lets you store an unlimited number of small images, and makes uploading music and images easy."
wtf? That description doesn't *begin* to cover what that crappy site is *really* used for. - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've no idea what you're talking about, its free and it works pretty well for a free service. Until spyware scanning gets about as good as virus scanning is these days, you usually need more than one.
- TheOtherGuy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8MSN Hotmail?
You've got to be kidding me... - zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5ya.... wheres the hamachi? its amazing
www.hamachi.cc - will-rom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Tell me you've never had a Hotmail account. OK then.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't like how they list some websites as applications, but the list is pretty good.
- doctabu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8u can use full english sentences, 2. I meen, y not? u will look a bit smarter and people will think gr8er of u. r periods just not tite enuff 4 u?
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Because it's not easy and convenient on Windows as it is on Linux.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4right half that list were websites not software and they missed out a couple brilliant bits of freeware
gaim, paint.NET, opera, any of the torrent clients, avg the list goes on :P
no digg! - Pogue_Mahone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Since when has WinRar been free?
Just because they don't enforce the fact that its shareware/trialware doesn't make it actually free. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's freeware, not free software (most of it at least).
- airjrdn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I run a freeware site ( http://www.missingbytes.net ) Dugg here - http://www.digg.com/software/Direct_Downloads_of_Freeware_with_No_Ads,_No_Spyware_ with many of these utilities. It's a one-top-shop for good open source software & freeware with no download lines or registering required.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Neither one allows me to create datasets so I'll keep looking.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5myspace is an amazing free software utility
/sarcasm - thegsa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Myspace??????????
WTF???? - BeserkerNJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Shareware isnt FREE, 30 day trials dont count grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....no digg
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Err... well, I wouldn't call it top free software utilities, considering LiveJournal, MySpace, and PLENTY other websites are on it. Its actually a list of things that are free. Hell, I saw AIM Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail on there too.
- m00nmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31300+ Diggs say otherwise.
- JTMON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Myspace was originally a site for photos before it was the social networking site. Should give you an idea how old that list is :)
- rincebrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Reported as lame because the poster couldn't even be arsed to write proper English.
Also, some of the things on there are just stupid advertisements for blog sites - I'd really like to think that LiveJournal, MySpace, and Xanga aren't some of the best free things on the web. - martynda, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Are you implying that such complex websites are not software?
They use object oriented programming concepts, have variables, loops, interact with the user, etc. Just a different medium of display/output.
Whoops, wrong parent. This is in reply to bennyboy371 a few posts above. - haxx4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2GAIM and VLC aren't in there either. But they included 2 Firefox extensions: FlashGot and Hyperwords. If they're gonna have any then they should have Tab Mix Plus or Adblock Plus, but FF extensions really deserve their own list...there are so many essentials.
- duodave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No digg. This list should be called "40 of the top free software utilities, 40 so-so ones, and 21 that plain suck."
- tytanium0503, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4szembek speaks the truth
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Half of this stuff is bloatware from websites, not really a good list, LOTS of very good UNBLOATED apps are missing.
- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Humorously unprofessional story description.
++Digg. - kloud213, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3AVG is in my opinion the best anti-virus ever.
- Yenly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just tried out foxit... how the heck have I ever lived without it?
What is wrong with adobe acrobat and why can't it load like this? - andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No love for IZArc on the list? I use both IZArc and 7-Zip. There are some compressed executables that IZArc can't extract and that's when 7-Zip saves the day. But I like the IZArc GUI better for working with regular RAR's and compressing files.
- keymastr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No VMWare Server? Most of the list does suck... it reminds me of a list I would have seen about 5 years ago, with a few exceptions.
- KDPRoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well, except that free beer doesn't require that you drink from over-priced, proprietary glasses ... and some of these need windows or os x.
- lunarship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good list, but I think almost everyone could compile their own list like this. For example, I agree about FoxitReader and OOo, but I don't about NVU - I don't like the way it rewrites all your code every time you go out of HTML view, and it doesn't know about ASP or even attempt to ignore it, just stomps all over it with big boots.
If you want to pick further holes, well it's not limited to open source (otherwise why Google Earth?) so why no Opera? No Hamachi? Even Eudora - still a popular email client, even if Thunderbird is getting the glory these days... Also, why no archive.org for the free movies?
It has given me a few interesting ideas to check out though, and I shall be looking for them there. -
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