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Old 28th Oct 2006, 08:30
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Amateur Radio logging, satellite tracking & rig control

Last one from me for today - honest

Completely free - the guy doesn't actively seek any payment or donation. A saint.

Ham Radio Deluxe is an integrated suite of programs that will cover a lot of a radio ham's hobby needs for software.

It allows real time tracking of satellites and even corrects the tx and rx frequencies on rigs that allow external control so that Doppler effect is negated.

This is another one that is being constantly developed, and the author responds pro-actively to any request for additional features or improvements.

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http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/...order_free.htm

Free screen capture recorder.
Works well to record anything on the computer screen.
Save Youtube videos (Any streaming video) and similiar.(i.e. TV card output as seen on screen).
Can even save whole screen.

The above company offers this free...so what do they get out of it??
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AVG

Just love this product. Downloaded it for free a copule of years ago. Received word today, via the normal daily download process of fixes to new viruses, that starting in January 2007, the current version will expire and I will have to buy the new version if I want to keep using it.

Anybody else receive this notification?

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Just download AVG Free 7.5 and continue as normal.
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This is surprising. But then, maybe not. http://www.grisoft.com/doc/39275/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
All else fails, try Avast or Avira.
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Try here to get the free version.
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Old 3rd Dec 2006, 23:11
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Thumbs down

Regarding the Free Screen Capture program mentioned by BigEndBob I went to the site and McAfee SiteAdvisor flashed RED as a warning that the site was a definite risk.
Did not proceed any further, so unable to comment on the actual program.
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Site advisor score for auto recorder

I've found SiteAdvisor pretty good, in a "master caution light" sort of way, but just because a site is red or amber flagged doesn't necessarily mean the download of a particular program is fraught.
Here are the SiteAdvisor resulkts, for the program concerned (AutoScreenRecorder) http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/wis...nloads/488007/ Came up clean.
And for the site generally http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/wisdom-soft.com
Many links to "red" sites.
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Thank you for your enlightened comments Markjoy.
Very useful indeed.
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More than welcome, HR.
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May as well give my secret away.

If you wish to backup your DVD's, Dvdycrypter is now owned by macromedia and has been withdrawn from the public domain. However, if you download 'ripitforme' and the the other programs that are needed (it tells you where and what to get) you can backup all your DVD's. ALL these programs are free, don't be fooled into buying them.

This works everytime.

Then ccdcovers : - www.cdcovers.cc/covers.php

Stick it through NERO (might have to buy this one) and away you go.

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Old 8th Dec 2006, 23:08
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Thanks for sharing that with us; ripitforme is found here:

http://www.ripit4me.org/guide.html#installation

I followed the guide carefully and was able to manage a DVD backup after some time.

The process is lengthy however.


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If a TV card fails to work with your OS, there's a brilliant piece of free software that is almost guaranteed to work.

It's called DScaler and you can get it from http://www.dscaler.org
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Huge quantity of excellent stuff at

The Free Country.

Including Winmerge - http://winmerge.org/ - mentioned in a recent thread.

Also extremely valuable is the GNU FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory at http://directory.fsf.org/. Lots of excellent stuff ported to Windows as well as Unix.

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Old 15th Feb 2007, 10:19
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Convert between formats

This is a great thread, and has given me lots of valuable tips. Thanks to all.

In return here is one I just stumbled across: http://media-convert.com/ This site allows you to upload an amazing variety of different file types from different applications, and it converts it to a file type you require. It converts documents, audio, picture and movies (although there is a limit on file size) and spits it back as a either a download file, zip file or just a link.

I know it's not really "Free Software" as such, but could be a bit useful (and still free to use) for any of us wanting to use our free files in paid applications or vice versa. Took about 30 seconds to convert an old Star Office .sxw file to a Microsoft Word .doc so I could e-mail it to someone else.
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Talking Free TV anybody - and that on your PC

For those of you with a fairly good broadband connection - free TV on your PC. At present I can certainly recommend this link as getting around 40 channels with acceptable picture quality - it does depend on what you are doing with the PC besides just watching TV.

Thanks for a great thread guys.... I guess soon it will be time to consolidate the data into a new front end sticky - hint

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Gofer, like the post. Have you tried -

www.alluc.org ??

This is a website that links to thousands of sites that host TV programs. Every kind imaginable, from TV Soaps to Documentaries.

No more downloading your favourite American shows!!!!

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Old 16th Feb 2007, 18:33
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I guess soon it will be time to consolidate the data into a new front end sticky
Gofer - feel free to do the collating, I'll happily sticky the result!

Quick everyone, take one step back! Gofer, where do you think you are going?



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Devil Dastardly to the core

Was expecting that - but at least it was nicely asked / challenged. Now that I have a tame moderator....

OK will do ..... but - as we all are - am up to my ears in muck and bullets at present. So no promises as to timeframes for the finished product (sorry not finished product - just next version )

Do you want the 340 version or the 2K version

Cheers Gofer

P.S.: If U people out there want to give me any help - happy to accept also - mail me !
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Screen recorder - CamStudio.
Free.
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