{"id":42,"date":"2012-06-04T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mirageglobe.com\/wp\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-06-04T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T06:44:00","slug":"reviewing-applications-on-my-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/reviewing-applications-on-my-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing Applications on My Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Updated July 2012. A quick compliation on what applications I use and recommend for windows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">AdobePDF<\/a>\u00a0Reader &#8211; PDF Reader<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piriform.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CCleaner<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; PC\u00a0Maintenance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piriform.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defragger<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; PC Maintenance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Internet Browser<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/zh-CN\/ime\/pinyin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Pinyin<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Chinese IME<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">LibreOffice<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Office Suite<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/products\/security-essentials\" target=\"_blank\">MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials)<\/a> &#8211; Antivirus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peazip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PeaZip<\/a> &#8211; Unarchiver<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfforge.org\/pdfcreator\" target=\"_blank\">PDFcreator<\/a> &#8211; PDF creation software<\/li>\n<li>SublimeText2 &#8211; Code Editor \/ Text File opener<\/li>\n<li>Teamviewer<\/li>\n<li>VirtualBox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Here we present the top most must have tools for windows 2000, XP and Vista.<br \/>\nThe software categories must be Cost Efficient (Open Source, Free software) user friendly and purpose built. Please remember to contribute to the developers either by support, donations or just sending them a thank you note. All tools reviewed and ranked have been considered for Cost, Efficiency, Simplicity and User Friendliness.<br \/>\nWhy are these software free or opensourced? Most software in this category can be legally used for personal functions. The software are still written by professionals and i mean many professionals. They all contribute to develop softwares for the public. These softwares as software written for the public by the public. What you can do to help the development can be many ranging from testing, hands on programming, distributing, promoting it or money donations to the development consortium.<\/p>\n<h3>Office Products<\/h3>\n<div align=\"left\">Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/\">Google Docs<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Alternatives:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">Open Office<\/a>, Microsoft Office, Sun office<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfforge.org\/products\/pdfcreator\" target=\"_blank\">PDFcreator<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Easy to use, free pdf creation software. Just install it and print to the virtual printer and you can save the result as a pdf. You can print from your web browser, word or anything software that prints.<\/div>\n<h3>Movie Players<\/h3>\n<p>Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\" target=\"_blank\">VLC Player<\/a>\u00a0\/ MediaPlayerClassic<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\na movie player, plays most major movie files out there. if its Real or Quicktime. You should refer to quickalternative or realalternative from freecodecs [\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-codecs.com\/\">http:\/\/www.free-codecs.com\/<\/a>\u00a0] website.<\/p>\n<h3>Zip Tools<\/h3>\n<p>Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peazip.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peazip<\/a><br \/>\nan zip archiving software that supports all major zip files like rar, zip, 7z and many more.<br \/>\nAlternatives: Tugzip, 7-zip, Winzip, Winrar, Winace<\/p>\n<h3>Antivirus \/ Protection<\/h3>\n<p>Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\/eng\/avast_4_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Avast Antivirus Home Edition<\/a><br \/>\nFree personal edition of antivirus which provides decent protection.<br \/>\nAlternatives:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/free.grisoft.com\/doc\/2\/us\/frt\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Avg Antivirus<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Music Players<\/h3>\n<p>Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songbirdnest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SongBird<\/a><br \/>\nA good mp3 music player by the developers of GPL Firefox Mozilla<br \/>\nAlternatives: ITunes, Winamp<\/p>\n<h3>CD \/ Dvd Burners<\/h3>\n<div align=\"left\">Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imgburn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMGburn<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Alternatives :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdburnerxp.se\/\">CDBurnerXP<\/a>, Burnit, Alcohol, Nero, IMGBurn<\/div>\n<h3>Misc Others<\/h3>\n<p>Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tools.google.com\/pinyin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Chinese Input<\/a>\u00a0Chinese input method from google. Its like MS pinyin but more cleverer.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slysoft.com\/en\/virtual-clonedrive.html\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Clone Drive<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Clone virtual drive so you can mount CDs and DvDs without burning them to disks<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Recommended &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsadventures.com\/software\/backgroundswitcher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Johns Background Switcher<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated July 2012. A quick compliation on what applications I use and recommend for windows. AdobePDF\u00a0Reader &#8211; PDF Reader CCleaner\u00a0&#8211; PC\u00a0Maintenance Defragger\u00a0&#8211; PC Maintenance Firefox\u00a0&#8211; Internet Browser Google Pinyin\u00a0&#8211; Chinese IME LibreOffice\u00a0&#8211; Office Suite MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) &#8211; Antivirus PeaZip &#8211; Unarchiver PDFcreator &#8211; PDF creation software SublimeText2 &#8211; Code Editor \/ Text File [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}