LURKMORE Compack
The LURKMORE Group has started a list of programs that are the best at their job. Below are the picks from three awesome people.
King_John's picks
- archiver - WinRAR or 7-Zip
- bulk file renamer - bulk rename utility
- comicreader - CDisplayEx
- desktop recorder - camstudio
- drive emu - VirtualCloneDrive
or DAEMON Tools - duplicate file finder - self titled free application
- dvd ripper - ImgBurn
and DVD Decrypter - ebooks or documents - Notepad2 / MS Office / Foxit Reader
- external file downloader - Free Download Manager
or GetRight - fan speed and hardware monitor - SpeedFan and HWMonitor
- ftp/sftp/scp - WinSCP
- fxp - FlashFXP
- hard drive encrypting - TrueCrypt
- hardware info - CPU-Z
- gfx card (gpu) info - GPU-Z
- http - Opera and IE
- image burning and image creating software - ImgBurn
- image viewer - Irfanview
- instant messaging - Pidgin
- irc - mIRC
- music - foobar2000
- newsgroup/news reader - NewsBin
- p2p - WASTE
- par and sfv/md5 management - QuickPar
- pdf viewer - Foxit Reader
- ssh - PuTTY
- startup manager - self titled sourceforge project
- torrents - uTorrent
- txt files - Notepad2 or Notepad++
- video - CCCP with CoreAVC
- video card tweaking - RivaTuner for NVIDIA, out of date
- vnc - the free one
- voicechat - Ventrilo or Skype
nd's picks
- comicreader - CDisplay
- desktop recorder - camstudio
- drive emu - DAEMON Tools
- dvd ripper - DVD Decrypter
- ebooks - ubook
- ftp - ws_ftp
- http - firefox
- image viewer - Irfanview
- irc - mIRC
- music - foobar2000
- ssh - Putty
- torrents - uTorrent
- txt files - crimsoneditor
- video - zplayer
- vnc - TightVNC
- voicechat - Ventrilo
whoreface's picks
- Audio Editing - Audacity
- CD and DVD Burning - CDBurnerXP
- CD Ripper - EAC
- Download Manager - wget and Flashget
- DVD Ripper - DVDFab HD Decrypter and DVDShrink (both work in WINE)
- FTP - Filezilla
- HTTP - Opera
- IM - Pidgin
- Image Editing - GIMP
- IRC - mIRC
- Music - foobar2000
- Shit don't work f5
- Torrents - uTorrent
- Video - K-Lite Codec Pack|Media Player Classic