Freeware alternatives to commercial software

I'm seeking a freeware alternative to DivX Converter. I plan to record "video journal entries" with my webcam and upload them to my personal site, but need a quality codec (read: NOT .WMV format) that will maintain video quality while keeping the output file size small. I'd also like to be able to archive the videos and play them back on a DivX-certified DVD player.
 
Blender is good, but two years ago I found something better: POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer. You can make

1. Awful stuff
2. Stuff your mother would put on the fridge
3. Mindblowingly amazing stuff

with it. And it's free. In case you're wondering, I have only made stuff that fits in the first category.
 
Thanks to whoever posted CDBurnerXP Pro 3. This program is really cool so far :D


While were talking open-source/free. I'm tempting to install linux again. I was looking into Debian. Also I recently checked out Transgamer Technologies again and they seem to be progressing. Under the supported games section it has that you can play GW, WoW, HL2, CS:S, WC3 and more. I'm seriously thinking of giving that a try. I believe lasttime I did all this they worked but it was so buggy and the fps was so bad it wasn't worth it. Maybe things are better now? O.o

Oh yeah and Crossover Office is made by a company called Codeweavers (I think it was something else before)

Transgaming
Codeweavers
 
SirThom said:
* Microsoft Word 2003 -OpenOffice.org
* Microsoft Outlook 2003 - Mozilla/Thunderbird
* Microsoft Excel 2003 -OpenOffice.org
* Microsoft Frontpage 2003 -
* Adobe Photoshop CS2 - The Gimp
* Alcohol 120% - Mounting ISOs, etc.? Daemon Tools. Burning CDs? CDBurnerXP
* Jasc Animation Shop 3 - Not sure!
* Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9 [particularly PSP's "Browse" feature] - Not sure!
* Microsoft Money 2004 - Money Manager or AceMoney
* mIRC - Trillian
* WinRAR - QuickZip
* WinZip 9.0 SR-1 - QuickZip

Good enough?? Thought so! =D
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For a photoshop lover, the gimp really feels hard to work with.

I ran across this the other night that might take care of that.

It's basically a hack for gimp to make it feel/look like photoshop.

I loved it just for the fact that it puts the three windows in one. Enjoy.
 
For an antivirus app, I recommend AVG. It's free, there's updates just about every day, and it doesn't use much of your system resources. Check it out here.
 
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