Yahoo Story On Free Software Available

[bri]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_techn...hnews/upgrade-your-life-amazing-free-software





Most of the techies probably know about this stuff, but thought some of the rest of you may be interested. Does anyone utilize any of these or have any other suggestions?

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

http://news.yahoo.co...g-free-software





Most of the techies probably know about this stuff, but thought some of the rest of you may be interested. Does anyone utilize any of these or have any other suggestions?

I use Dropbox. It's free to a point, but mega-huge files requires a pay service.

 

[MassHavoc]

I use Dropbox. It's free to a point, but mega-huge files requires a pay service.

What are you dropping that's more than 2 gig....



(you better knock this one out of the park)

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

What are you dropping that's more than 2 gig....



(you better knock this one out of the park)

Working with video will quickly eat up space (especially non-compressed).

1 hour of HD footage is about 16GB.

I was color correcting footage last night, and had to break it up in sections just to upload the 4 minutes I had. That was nearly 1GB.

 

[MassHavoc]

Working with video will quickly eat up space (especially non-compressed).

1 hour of HD footage is about 16GB.

I was color correcting footage last night, and had to break it up in sections just to upload the 4 minutes I had. That was nearly 1GB.

Wrong... the correct answer is I'M DROPPING A GIANT DEUCE.... I'm almost ashamed of you Paul.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

Wrong... the correct answer is I'M DROPPING A GIANT DEUCE.... I'm almost ashamed of you Paul.

Well, that too.

 

[Tater]

Wrong... the correct answer is I'M DROPPING A GIANT DEUCE.... I'm almost ashamed of you Paul.

You're not the lone ranger here.

 

[ginnie]

All of my software is "free"....



I haven't used Windows in five years - I'm currently using the Linux Ubuntu operating system.



My Office Suite is OpenOffice...

My media player is VLC and Movie Player... for music I use Rhythymbox or Banshee...

My paint program is The Gimp... and for vector graphics I used Inkscape

For burning CD's or DVD's I used K3b or Brasero...

For recording my music I use Audacity...

Plus lots of other great programs