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| Master of the Freeware Universe: 20+ |
  
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10 | 20.83% |
| Lord of the Freeware: 15 - 19 |
  
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1 | 2.08% |
| Give me freeware or give me death: 10-14 |
  
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2 | 4.17% |
| Freeware player: 5-10 |
  
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20 | 41.67% |
| Freeware virgin: 1-4 |
  
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11 | 22.92% |
| I would rather have a trout up my rectum than to own some crappy freeware: 0 |
  
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4 | 8.33% |
| Voters: 48. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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02-01-2006, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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How many freeware/open source applications do you use?
After I abandoned Outlook for the latest build of Thunderbird, I began to realize I have a number of open source/freeware applications on my computer that I use frequently.
This includes:
So my question is where do you rank as a freeware/open source user? Last edited by Antmeister : 02-01-2006 at 09:04 PM. |
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02-01-2006, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edmond, OK
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Yeah, I use a lot as well. In fact, I can't remember the last time I bought any software because there are so many great free programs available (although I have donated to developers on multiple occasions).
On that list alone, I use OpenOffice, Thunderbird, FF, ZA and Irfanview. I also use AVG anti-virus and many others including some video and audio software. |
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02-01-2006, 05:27 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Nice. I am liking this trend that is happening lately. There are a number of freeware programs (especially in the open source realm) that have competed well with commercial applications. |
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02-01-2006, 05:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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I pretty much guessed; Antmeister constantly updates my computer so I'm out of the loop on what we bought and what's actually free.
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02-01-2006, 05:34 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edmond, OK
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Just out of curiosity, I went and counted them. There are 26 that I either use all the time (those mentioned above) or on a fairly regular basis (those like AdAware or Spybot).
I may have missed some, but it seems I'm certainly a Master.  |
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02-01-2006, 05:35 PM
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Unregistered
Join Date: May 2004
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But are you the master of your own domain? |
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02-01-2006, 05:39 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edmond, OK
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Oh no, Oh no. I've been married for quite a while, which always necessitates early exit from any such contests... |
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02-01-2006, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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This should have been a checklist poll
 There are a lot of things we tend to take for granted which really are freeware, tho I'm not counting "parts of the OS" in Windows Media Player or IE. Firefox Opera Trillian mIRC (sysreset) Eudora (tho it's "sponsored" to be free) Open Office Edit Pad Lite Acrobat Reader DivX Player Real Player Quicktime (well, they are all freeware for the basic versions) Smart FTP FTP Genius Zip Genius AVG AntiVirus Zone Alarm Adaware Spybot Hijack This CCleaner I guess the final tally is 20. Of course, this doesn't include my Linux partition. This is just in Windows. SI
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02-01-2006, 07:28 PM
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I want to use all the software you link me to, Antmeister.
luv u man 
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02-01-2006, 07:35 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Hog Country
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Just going through my IconBox plugins in bblean:
FileZilla Konfabulator MirandaIM Firefox Thunderbird Opera Pine RealVNC ePrompter Skype SmartFTP A43 Nexus File Manager Audacity CDex DeepBurner iTunes Quintessential Player Winamp Open Office Eclipse IDE Blackbox 4 Windows (bblean) Antivir Apache AutoHotkey Azureus Diagram Designer Gimp IrfanView AdAware Lexpert Litestep Real Alternative RocketDock SpeedFan Spybot Sygate Personal Firewall TaskSwitchXP TreeSize VideoLAN WinHTTrack XnView XNews ZipGenius QMixer SFPack I actually have more that I use regularly, but these are only the ones that people besides me might use, too. |
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02-01-2006, 07:48 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkeley
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I voted 1-4 because the only ones I use regulary are Firefox, Thunderbird, and Irfanview, but I use a lot of freeware for irregular or one off things like divxtodvd and dvdshrink for converting AVIs from my digital video camera to DVD files.
I'm also not counting things like iTunes, Quicktime, and Acrobat, etc that are provided at no charge, but only because they make their money off you using it other areas... Also not counting my linux boxes... only Windows. Last edited by Daimyo : 02-01-2006 at 07:49 PM. |
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02-01-2006, 08:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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how is avast virus scan? does it slow your system down? thanks |
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02-01-2006, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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I have noticed no significant slowdown, but I also haven't compared the speed with AVG. I just recently started using it after learning about it from OldGiants. What I like about it is that is updates automatically without intervention and it also does a complete scan of your system before it activates Windows. There is no need to update the engine as AVG does once in a while, but you do have to re-register once a year. Not too bad. Have it on two computers at this time as it doesn't appear to interfere with the daily routines. Played games with it on, designed a few things and no slow down that I am seeing. |
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02-01-2006, 08:41 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Nice list. You have a few programs I haven't seen before. RocketDock, QMixer, XNews, ePrompter and SFPack and foreign to me. |
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02-01-2006, 08:50 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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is open office better to use than microsoft office if you have it?
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02-01-2006, 08:58 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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I can't say Open Office is better. Especially if you have become accustomed to using Microsoft applications on a daily basis. But for home use, it is great because it is safer. Microsoft products get targeted for more attacks than any other. Plus the other big advantage is that it is free and it has more than enough functions to do things for home, school and work. What is also nice about this software is that the interface is very similar. You can even open up Microsoft documents in it as well. The only difference is that is doesn't include its own email software in the package, but you can always download Thunderbird if you are looking for an alternative to this as well. Last edited by Antmeister : 02-01-2006 at 08:59 PM. |
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02-01-2006, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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I had no idea that this was an addon to ZipGenius. Now I am going to try it out. It looks promising. |
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02-01-2006, 09:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
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Freeware I use:
Firebird Thunderbird AVG Avast Spybot Ad-Aware Microsoft Anti-Spyware (technically free) Ubuntu Linux Flock Ewido CCleaner EasyCleaner Diskeeper Lite Sunbird Kerio GBPVR MLSM CacheMan FoxItReader PDFCreator Miranda Gizmo Solecismic FTP Skype AutoGK DVD Decrypter DVD Shrink Audacity VLC Itunes Winamp Xvid Aida32 7-Zip AC3 Filter Cutterman Folder Share Orb Irfanview MusicBrainz Peer Guardian 2 Picasa Paint.Net Opera |
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02-01-2006, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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it is recommended not to use more than one virus program on the same system. |
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02-01-2006, 10:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
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02-02-2006, 02:23 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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SI
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02-02-2006, 02:39 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Thanks for some great app suggestions guys. Just installed Thunderbird - looking like a good replacement thus far!
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02-02-2006, 04:51 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Yeah, just had a look at it and I will stick with Filezilla. But SmartFTP does look tempting. However that need isn't here quite yet for that software. |
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02-02-2006, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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what better to use 7-zip or ZipGenius?
does filezilla do resume ? |
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02-02-2006, 11:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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I prefer and use ZipGenius since it can even save to the 7-zip format. So in my opinion, I would use ZipGenius and also for the fact that it can open up other compression formats. And yes, Filezilla does have an ability to resume. |
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02-03-2006, 02:04 AM
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College Prospect
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
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My list:
-Firefox -Thunderbird -Juice (podcast receiver) -Videora (converts videos in the iPod format) -Audiograbber -Autodown -DeepBurner -Google Talk -Skype -Mp3gain -Mp3tag -Picasa2 -Trillian -Winamp -Avast -Kerio Personal Firewall -Azureus -ZipGenius -xp-Antispy -Acrobat Reader -Quicktime -Real player -iTunes -Ad-aware and, well, a big one: -Mandriva Linux 2006 Last edited by Emiliano : 02-03-2006 at 02:07 AM. |
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02-03-2006, 12:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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"The case of Great Britain is the most astonishing in this matter of inequality of rights in world soccer championships. The way they explained it to me as a child, God is one but He's three: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I could never understand it. And I still don't understand why Great Britain is one but she's four....while [others] continue to be no more than one despite the diverse nationalities that make them up." Eduardo Galeano, SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW |
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02-03-2006, 12:27 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Stuff I use regularly:
1) Firefox 2) Thunderbird 3) Avast! 4) Crap Cleaner 5) Irfanview 6) Ace FTP 7) IZ Arc (file compression) That's what's on my desk top. There's more I futz with like Open Office.
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"The case of Great Britain is the most astonishing in this matter of inequality of rights in world soccer championships. The way they explained it to me as a child, God is one but He's three: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I could never understand it. And I still don't understand why Great Britain is one but she's four....while [others] continue to be no more than one despite the diverse nationalities that make them up." Eduardo Galeano, SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW |
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02-03-2006, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Just checked this one out and I still don't know what it is or what it does. I thought it may be a desktop enhancement, but it looks like something much more. What is this bblean? |
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02-03-2006, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Thanks Emiliano, I think I will add these to the freeware list. |
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02-03-2006, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Good point. I never thought about the slowdown with the update. And yes, I agree this a terrific virus scanner. |
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02-03-2006, 01:36 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Bloomington, IN
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I used Avast until I recently acquired the ZoneAlarm security suite. Avast was far and away the best anti-virus software I'd ever used (especially after using that crappy Norton Corporate garbage, which I'd used for years because I got it free from work).
I still haven't fully decided to trust ZoneAlarm over an Avast/Kerio mix. |
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02-03-2006, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Now that I have Avast, I am going to try out this Kerio. I currently use ZoneAlarm as my firewall, but I noticed that a number of people are using Kerio. |
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02-03-2006, 06:06 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
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This site has lots of freeware links, many of which have been pointed out by Antmeister already, but a few are new names to me:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best..._utilities.htm I found this while using StumbleUpon, a cool extention for Firefox. Its the best time-waster I've found, and, unlike Mine Sweeper, you will have links to come back to, and much to download.
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"The case of Great Britain is the most astonishing in this matter of inequality of rights in world soccer championships. The way they explained it to me as a child, God is one but He's three: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I could never understand it. And I still don't understand why Great Britain is one but she's four....while [others] continue to be no more than one despite the diverse nationalities that make them up." Eduardo Galeano, SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW |
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02-04-2006, 03:38 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
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 Really, great job on the freeware page Ant. For the iPod users, I got 2 more links: -iTunes XHTML Playlist (export your iTunes library into an XHTML page) -ml_ipod (use your iPod with Winamp) I thought about making "the iPod thread" or something to collect everything, but I'm too lazy at the moment... |
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02-04-2006, 03:44 AM
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Yeah, I am a StumbleUpon fanatic on certain times of the month. As far as your link, terpkristin already gave me the heads up on this one and I added it on the freeware list a while back. It is on the other section, I think.
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02-04-2006, 03:46 AM
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Nice....I gotta look more into that mlipod. I like WinAmp.
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02-04-2006, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Antmeister71:
another free ipod software is called Sharepod. http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?...&Page=SharePod and Pod Player is a freeware application to be used with your iPod. It allows you to play music from your iPod while it is connected to your PC. ... http://www.ipodsoft.com/index.php?/software/podplayer |
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