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Geek Culture / Favourite free/open source programs

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Wehtam_
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 23:00
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We all know Gimp and Inkscape, but is there another freebie you use for your creative projects?

What's your favourite HTML editor? A seamless texture generator perhaps? What about software to plan and organise your ideas ?

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 23:05
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I use Notepad for everything. It's got a great GUI for photo editing.

Also the UDK, Paint.net, and Blender. And Open office, for my fic writing hobby.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 23:49
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Audacity is invaluable for sound work. And I concour with blender.

Oh, and now that it's free, DBPro!

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Dar13
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 00:03
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Notepad++ is great. Has syntax highlighting for 20+ languages(HTML, JS, CSS, C/C++, Lua, Obj-C, Lisp, PHP, etc).


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DJ Almix
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 00:38
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^ dang, you beat me to it.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 00:44
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Context is also good. I mainly used that for UDK's scripting though.

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budokaiman
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 01:13
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Already mentioned:
Notepad++
Blender
Paint.net
Open Office
Audacity

Not mentioned:
Speedcrunch
Assault Cube
VLC Media
7Zip
Teamviewer
SIW


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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 01:19
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Yes VLC is also good!

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bruce3371
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 01:22
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Yeah, I'd pretty much agree with everyting mentioned so far, especially;

Audacity, for editing the sounds/music I've used in my game.
Paint.net, for converting images to DDs format.
Gimp, for all other texture/image creation.
VLC Media, for music and movie file playback.
7Zip, for archiving files.
Blender, finally found a decent tutorial to learn it, once I've mastered Milkshape!

And not forgetting the main ones I use all the time;
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, for web browsing and emails.
Ubuntu Linux, no explanation necessary!!!

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Doomster
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 01:23 Edited at: 23rd Jul 2011 01:24
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Foxit Reader
CCleaner
Notepad++
Unlocker
RocketDock
IcoFX
Audacity

Most important ones:

VLC Media Player
Avast AntiVirus
Paint.NET
7Zip

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_Pauli_
AGK Developer
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 04:45
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WINGS 3D!
My favorite free tool for sure. Just fits my modelling habits perfectly.

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Eminent
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 05:24
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Agree with:
VLC
Notepad++
UDK
7ZIP
Audacity
Blender
And OFC DBPro.


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Phaelax
DBPro Master
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 07:34
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Windows!


Notepad++
Netbeans
Comodo & Avira
Audacity
Chrome
Thunderbird

VLC, but every update seems buggier than before and I'm starting to like WMP in Win7 more than VLC.

I'm sure I have a ton of other random tools that I just can't recall.

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DevilLiger
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 23:44
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my choice would be:
- Wings 3D
- Character FX (since they ran out of business and gave it away for free)
- PSP Video 9
- 7 Zip ( Hands down for best zip program and free too)

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 07:38 Edited at: 24th Jul 2011 07:39
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- xnormal - Completely free, can bake over 15 kinds of maps and has a killer model viewer.

Link: Here

- Unity 3D - Now that it's free, it's one of the best free engines out there, built in LODs, Terrain, particles, shaders, lights, and great physics.

Link: Here

- Rendermonkey - Great for DBP Compatible shaders. Very Powerful.

Link: Here

- Cartography Shop - Advanced Features, built in lightmapping. Sort of hard to use though

Link: well... just look in the 3D modeling section of this site

- Sculptris - Great for fine detailed models. Has Dynamic Tesselation. Very feature rich and easy to use. Very Recommended

Link: Here

- Camstudio - Great for screen recording, exports to several widely used formats

Link: Here

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crispex
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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 07:46
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Notepad++ is the only real one that comes to mind.

I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
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SageTech
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Location: Orlando, Florida
Posted: 24th Jul 2011 08:05
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I haven't used a lot of content creation tools in a while, but working in IT I find the following tools invaluable:

Notepad++ - Awesome notepad like program with syntax highlighting.
IETester - Check if your website works in IE all the way back to 5.5(It seldom does )
UltraVNC - Remote desktop viewer/server alternative to RDP
CCLeaner - Registry/General purpose cleaner
PuTTY - SSH/Telnet Client
Microsoft Security Essentials - AntiVirus...not the best...but it gets the job done.
Spiceworks - Network Analyzer, Inventory System, Ticketing system...It does everything
VirtualBox - Virtualization Software
CentOS - Makes a great development or production server
Apache2 - Most popular Web Server out there
HijackThis - Great Program to help track down malware
CloneZilla - Open source alternative to Norton Ghost.
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MrValentine
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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 11:52
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TGC FORUMS >.<

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