Personal Computer

Hardware, software and accessories that are used on personal computers.

Hardware

Intel DX48BT2 motherboard support site

Monitors on my gaming machine:

HP 2311x 23" LED HD (left) S/N:CNT11992TL Product#:XP598A
HP 2311x 23" LED HD (right)

Software

Office Suite

Open Office

CD / DVD Burning software

To burn data and audio CD / DVDs I use CD BurnerXP.

To create personal copies of protected DVDs that I have purchased I use 1ClickDVDCopy Pro ($79 fee) and DVD43, a free decrypter.

Multimedia software

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Video Capture

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software
Screen Capture Software
Realtime Video Capture Software

Video Editing

Freemake offers freeware in the truest sense of the word: no feature or time limitations, no hidden costs. Download and use our free Video Converter, Video Downloader, Audio Converter and Free Music Box! Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, FLV, 3GP, MPEG, DVD, Blu-ray, MP3, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Android, Nokia, Samsung, BlackBerry with Free Video Converter. Convert audio free to MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, convert audio to MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, and more with our Free Audio Converter.

I like FreeMake products as the software is simple to use & their site provides video tutorials.
Their products work, have lots of features, & no hidden spyware or adware.

TMPGEnc converts *.AVI files to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCDs. Using a variety of options in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.

TMPGEnc enables you to adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, interlacing and many other parameters so that you can create the most appropriate movie file depending on your needs.

Virtualdubis a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

Communications Software

Browser and E-mail

Firefox and Thunderbird

Firefox add-ons

FireFTP

Download Status Bar

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

Java

SSHv2 & SFTP

Putty is a free SSHv2 program. You can also get SecureFTP program from same site.

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. mRemoteNG adds bug fixes and new features to mRemote.

eRemoteNG allows you to view all of your remote connections in a simple yet powerful tabbed interface.

mRemoteNG supports the following protocols:

RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
SSH (Secure Shell version 1 & 2)
Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
rlogin
Raw Socket Connections

Tunnelier

Bitvise Tunnelier

Utilities

PDF Viewer & Printer

Foxit Reader Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

PDF Printer

BullZip

BullZip PDF Printer Introduction

The BullZip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

This program is FREEWARE which means that it is FREE for personal and commercial use. It does not contain any advertising or popups (Really!). Features

   * Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
   * Supports 64-bit operatings systems.
   * Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for destination.
   * Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the resulting PDF document.
   * Control output and prompts programmatically.
   * Setup can run unattended.
   * Graphical user interface.
   * Password protect PDF documents.
   * 128/40 bit encryption.
   * Quality settings (screen, printer, ebook, prepress).
   * Set document properties.
   * Watermark text, size, rotation, and transparency.
   * Supreimpose/background documents.
   * Appending/prepending documents.
   * User interface control.
   * Command line interface to all settings.
   * COM/ActiveX interface for programmatic control.
   * Support for Citrix MetaFrame
   * Support for Windows Terminal Server

System Requirements

   * Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003/2003 x64/Vista/Vista x64
   * GPL Ghostscript 8.54 or later

Compression

WinRAR

Backup

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird and Netscape profiles.

MozBackup

Hardware Monitor

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.

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