[John Rogers]

Computer posts generally, on here at least, are asking for help or fix a problem which may or may not help. Sooooo I decided to list the programs I have used over the years and since I have Been retired I have a lot of time on my hands so here are my fun applications and why. Note most of these want a registration and a yearly or life time fee but they are small. Since the GREAT companies like Software City who used to give out a fantastic pocket protector with colored markers for marking up looooong code dot matrix print outs.

For work, when I worked as a Senior Oracle DBA, I came to really love Oracle Database software. Sure it was complicated and took years to learn the systems I managed NEVER had a crash or virus or other problems.

For fun, here is what I use to download YouTube videos and make movies out of them.
- 4K Video Downloader: Great little package and get updated couple times a year.
- Bulk Rename Utility: Best little app that allows rename of a whole directory of 25 or so files and will also get rid of Asian characters in file names.
- Use Net Explorer (UE.exe): which I have used for over 20 years to access "Usenet" to get things not readily available elseware.
- AVS Video Editor and associated suite of utilities: Click and copy to make a long (2 to 3 hrs) video of any format you wish. I usually create a MP4 movie out of my downloads.
- WINRAR: Great archive and unpack utility.
- Norton Utilities: This stuff has been keeping my computer(s) safe since that guy was in the liquor ads in Playboy!

For my home router I have TWO, the At&T connected to the incoming wires and on top of that the latest ASUS router. That is the main one keeping is safe and it has utility that tracks any incoming weirdness. Hope this will help someone.
John