[dba-Tech] Recommended free software: was Re: Office security issue CVE-2023-23397

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 16:17:34 CDT 2023


Classic Shell
Firefox
Veracrypt

SQLite studio
Visual Studio Code
Geany
VNC Viewer
Kindle
Libre Office
Virtual Box
Python 3.11
Bitwarden
7zip
Davinci Resolve
OBS Studio
Touch Portal
Reaper (although I paid for this after awhile)
Transcribe!
Winamp
Open Morrowind
Tunnel Bear



On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:22 PM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> VLC Media Player? I find it able to play just about anything.
>
> I used to use PrimoPDF but I find that the Windows PDF printer is just
> fine.
>
> I use Everything almost every day (that I'm working).
>
> I use the free edition of Musescore for writing and playing music for
> practice. It's also good for transposing the key and printing out a new
> lead sheet.
>
> Lightshot for screen captures - very flexible.
>
> MicroTorrent
>
> BitDefender
>
> Spybot
>
> CCleaner
>
> Team Viewer
>
> MDBDiff
>
> There's probably more.
>
> r
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:22 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> wrote:
>
> > On 22 Mar 2023 at 4:40, John Bartow wrote:
> >
> > > I have a large list of open
> > > source and free apps that I can install - update - remove with a click
> > > of my RMM scripts for friends. Of those apps there have been very few
> > > that have impressed me to the point of qualifying for a post here.
> > >
> > > John B
> >
> > I guess an interesting thread here would be something like:  the top
> 10(?)
> > recommended
> > open source and free apps that I regularly recommend to friends.  :)
> >
> > I'll start - off the top of my head:
> >
> > For general use, I'd start with
> > Irfanview
> > Foxit PDF Reader
> > Bullzip PDF printer
> > Notepad++
> > Everything
> > Terracopy
> > VideoLan
> >
> > Then there are the more specific ones which depend on their interests and
> > tasks.
> >
> > --
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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