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Two of my favorite alternative programs to run are Mozilla Firefox and Trillian messenger service.

http://www.trillian.cc
Basically, lets you talk to people using AIM, MSN, ICQ, Y!, and IRC

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
An alternative browser to Internet Explorer (for you Windows people out there)








   Fri Sep 17, 2004    Reply         

QUOTE (chronogamer28)

Two of my favorite alternative programs to run are Mozilla Firefox and Trillian messenger service.

http://www.trillian.cc
Basically, lets you talk to people using AIM, MSN, ICQ, Y!, and IRC

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
An alternative browser to Internet Explorer (for you Windows people out there)
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There are some Great Open Source Free alternativs to Triliian....
Gaim and Kopete are great multi-protocal chat clients that support all the usual MSN YAHOO ICQ JABBER IRC and a load more ive never heard of...

Gaim is available at gaim.sourceforge.net.. its FREE, and OPEN SOURCE... source code, and pre-compiled versions exist for download for Windows and Linux.

Kopete is a much better client in my opinion, and comes as part of the KDE-Network package from Kde.org
(only available for Every operating system except windows :))

Firefox is also my Favorite Web Browser....
Also Thunderbird for email CLient.

I Hear that Firefox is Growing in use and popularity even faster than Microsotfs IE is being droped.

   Sat Sep 18, 2004    Reply         

Yeah, I think that the reason being is that IE has many potential weaknesses that are fixed in SP2. But since many people do not want to install SP2, they are switching to an alternative browser.

   Sat Sep 18, 2004    Reply         


QUOTE (chronogamer28)

Yeah, I think that the reason being is that IE has many potential weaknesses that are fixed in SP2. But since many people do not want to install SP2, they are switching to an alternative browser.
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I have a dual boot machine.... Linux for me, WIndows for the family.
i use IE when im performaing the usual maintenence on XP, but i dont like it.

its not so much the security, its the adware... osmehow, 5 diffeerent pieces of adware have atached themselves to IE !

ive got the normal URL bar, then a google Search Bar, a Yahoo Search Bar... a Bargin Summthing Search Bar !

its mad !

a while ago i needed to un-bluck popups... so i turned it off in IE... but still the site wasnt working... i eventoually found out each searchbar had its own as blocker !

also... i just cant work without tabbed broswing... im always using several sites at once..
and having serveral Ie's running at once just grinds the system to a hault... not to menton the clutter factor.

   Sat Sep 18, 2004    Reply         

Yeah, that's the same with me. I upgrade my computer, and then one day, I find these random toolbars on IE. Terrible! Also, I read in PCWorld that the Department of Homeland Security has declared that IE is potentially unsafe to run on your computers. What a blow to Microsoft!

   Sat Sep 18, 2004    Reply         

QUOTE (chronogamer28)

Yeah, that's the same with me. I upgrade my computer, and then one day, I find these random toolbars on IE. Terrible! Also, I read in PCWorld that the Department of Homeland Security has declared that IE is potentially unsafe to run on your computers. What a blow to Microsoft!
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Yeah... Firefox got a great Kick in populariity when slashdot reported that many security advisors switched there advice from keeping the firewall on, and keep automatic update on, and all the usual to Stop using IE, and download and use firefox...

There was a quote of one systems admin putting stickers on all montors saying "Dont Touch the Blue E"

which got passed around alot, and even made the subject of a few a wallpapers on kde-look.org.

i actually find all this quite funny !!!
a good example of irony !

a long time ago, there was the broser wars... MSIE vs Netscape Navigator... and Just like the Old VHS vs BETAMAX, the superior product lost the war...

in the VHS case, i dont know why, im too young... but with the browsers, it all ended for Netscape when MS started integrating IE into Widnows...

anyways.. in the death throws of Netscape, it relased its source code as open source, and began the development of a few open source browsers...

Years later.... Netscapes great great granddaughter.... firefox, is back with avengence and kicking ass !

they should make a spoof movie about it !

no.. I SHOULD make a spoof flash animation about it !

somthing like DIE HARD ! or well.. i dunno.. surgestons ?

   Sat Sep 18, 2004    Reply         


Open Source Alternatives, Baby!

FTP: Filezilla
Browser: Firefox, got this since Mozilla is too "heavy". I've been using this since version 0.6 or something. I'm trying to remember the names. Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox.
Office: Openoffice or StarOffice, microsoft office costs too much. I should just download it from suprnova though.

   Sun Sep 19, 2004    Reply         

Yes, Bit Torrent is our friend >-)

   Mon Sep 20, 2004    Reply         

Errrr...

Alternatives for Downloading:

Flashget(Latest) [Registered]
Modified BitTorrent [rocks!]
Kazaa Gold Premium [Registered]

Alternative for Browsing:

MSN Explorer (although it is still using internet explorer's core)

   Mon Sep 20, 2004    Reply         

Browser: Maxthon GREAT!
FTP: SmartFTP GREAT!
Firewall: McAffe Personal Firewall GREAT!
Research: MSN Encarta GREAT!
Antivirus: AVG GREAT!

Those are just the FREE! programs I use (well encarta is online)

   Wed Sep 22, 2004    Reply         

If wea re talking the best programs.... :
Browser : Opera
FTP : AceFTP PRO
Firewall : ZoneAlarm
Antivirus : Kaspersky Personal 5
Research : Microsoft Reference Library
Graphic design: Photoshop CS 8

   Wed Sep 22, 2004    Reply         

firefox is crazy good, i love it to death, and its just....faster in every aspect of it than IE is

   Wed Sep 29, 2004    Reply         

QUOTE (chronogamer28)

Two of my favorite alternative programs to run are Mozilla Firefox and Trillian messenger service.

http://www.trillian.cc
Basically, lets you talk to people using AIM, MSN, ICQ, Y!, and IRC

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
An alternative browser to Internet Explorer (for you Windows people out there)
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I myself have been using both programs, Mozilla Firefox & Trillian for about 2 years now and lately i switched my mail client from Netscape to Mozilla Thunderbird. If you're using Firefox, Thunderbird is a great "sidekick". It has very good filtering against junk mail and it also has Themes & Extensions that you can download to customize it. =)

   Sat Oct 2, 2004    Reply         

Unless of course, I got an invitation to Gmail, and I've switched to that and I love it.

   Mon Oct 4, 2004    Reply         

may favorite programs are "Maya" in 3d design and "Mcafee fire wall" in protection and "netscape" in in browsing and "adobe premiere" for movie editing.....................

   Tue Oct 5, 2004    Reply         

I use Firefox whenever I can. Sometimes I run into things that cannot be viewed with Firefox, but they usually aren't worth seeing if they don't work with Firefox. I have not tried Thunder Bird yet, but I will.
Flash MX is also fun. On my Mac, I love iTunes. It's the best music programme I have ever used.
For ftp I will use EFtp. For telnet, SSH, and Rlogin I use Putty. I love that programme.
-Julien

   Tue Oct 5, 2004    Reply         

QUOTE (julien)

I use Firefox whenever I can. Sometimes I run into things that cannot be viewed with Firefox, but they usually aren't worth seeing if they don't work with Firefox. I have not tried Thunder Bird yet, but I will.
Flash MX is also fun. On my Mac, I love iTunes. It's the best music programme I have ever used.
For ftp I will use EFtp. For telnet, SSH, and Rlogin I use Putty. I love that programme.
-Julien
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I also have problems viewing some websites, but this is because the web programmers made that site to comply with IE's standards and not with the W3 (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. Mozilla Firefox conformes to W3 standards. You should try Thunderbird, its a very good program to compliment your Firefox. Thunderbird has a very good and intelligent junk mail filter. :)

   Tue Oct 5, 2004    Reply         

My favory programs to run are Mplayer and K3B because this prograams are ease and powerful. You can see everyting of the codecs of movies exist in mplayer and the movies which have bad sectors and you can't play in windows, in mplayer played better and never stop it.
same as nero is K3B you write data cd's ease or dvd's and you can ripp dvd to avi, and make your clon capy for the disk's. try it and tell me is better or bad.

   Wed Oct 6, 2004    Reply         

My favorite programs to run are iTunes and Photoshop. I think without either of those programs, I would have gone insane. Whenever I'm bored, I just open up iTunes and put on some music thats on my computer. And alot of times, if I'm bored, ill just mess around with photoshop. I can't live without either of them!!!!

   Thu Oct 7, 2004    Reply         

Does Thunderbird accept POP3 mail servers?

   Sun Oct 10, 2004    Reply         

QUOTE (chronogamer28)

Does Thunderbird accept POP3 mail servers?
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what ! are you joking !!! ???
ofcourse it does... POP3 and IMAP. and with libgmain installed it will work with gmail too.

   Sun Oct 10, 2004    Reply         

Mine? BIT TORRENT! or maybe i shld say BIT TORNADO! second is msn messenger... i can't surf the net without it... i just hope gmail come out with a messenger like program so that i can switch to gmail permanently... currently still using hotmail becuz of msn messenger and becuz its have a long history with me! i can't bear to leave it... :) lolz...

   Sun Oct 10, 2004    Reply         

Does anyone know how to config Thunderbird so that it receives from the Gmail server?

   Tue Oct 12, 2004    Reply         

Windows Ie is really starting to go down the drain in my point of view. I mean we got hackers trying to get into it everyday, its not very secure and theres alot of technical issues. I have been experimenting with mozilla and it seems like it might be a winner. Right now im still using IE and i hate it.

   Tue Oct 12, 2004    Reply         

My favorite browser is Netcaptor . I bought it and have never looked back. They do have a free one as well.. As for messenger programs, I am currently using Trillian. Does anyone know of any other icq-like programs that can do chat the way it used to be before messenger came to it?

   Sat Nov 13, 2004    Reply         

hmmm
I think trillian is good than the other programs because it is helpful and has other services like msn,yahoo etc

Browser
I like firefox because it is the best and i have no words to say.
ok :P

   Thu Nov 18, 2004    Reply         

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