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Dhimmi

29-04-2006, 19:07

Big linky list of freeware utils...

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

Bob

26-06-2006, 13:10

A question that gets asked quite a lot and in different forums is :

What program will save and convert Realplayer and other streaming media.

Here's the programs (http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_capture_tools/streambox_vcr_suite.cfm)

Here's how to copy and rename the .dll files (http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/65016)

Once you have fixed the programs they work brilliantly.
:)

Anyone able to track this down now? It seems to have been sued out of existence...

Lazy Llama

26-06-2006, 13:25

Anyone able to track this down now? It seems to have been sued out of existence...
Seems to be at http://www.geocities.com/streamboxripper/ (the download link on the left under Site Navigation).

StuPC

26-06-2006, 14:10

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Highly recommended - so good I even paid the £10 subscription fee for the full, unedited newsletter.

And has anyone mentioned Autostitcher (which is listed on the above site) -
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html -
a magical bit of freeware which automatically builds big, single panoramas out of a load of little snaphots of a view?

I was fucking amazed the first time I tried it! :cool:

Throbbing Angel

28-06-2006, 20:08

HDD Thermometer.
http://www.rsdsoft.com/hdd-thermometer/index.php

Addy

02-07-2006, 17:42

Saving and converting video files from YouTube / Google
Freeware (http://comunidad.uem.es/epuertas/post/2006/06/01/como-descargar-videos-youtube-google-video-y-grinvi)

redsnapper

22-09-2006, 15:50

The Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/)
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant.
Display and show my IP address and location (http://www.ip-adress.com/)
IP-adress.com shows you fast your own IP-address of your internet connection and locates your city or the city of your isp (shown with google maps).

Dead Cat Bounce

02-10-2006, 20:17

Sick and tired of Adobe crashing your PC everytime you open up a .pdf file?

Try this alternative , Foxit Reader , download from here :

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Loki

02-10-2006, 20:44

"I got this wicked programme but its on 30 day trial and it wont reinstall and work again."

this reg cleaner at www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/software.shtml will sort that out, plus let you do anything you want with the Registery
*note dont Fcuk about with your registery unless you have *some* idea what your doing.
^ This one now asks for money which is a shame, as it's against my religion. Is there an alternative anyone know of??

mr_eko

07-01-2007, 23:34

Album Art Screensaver (http://www.crayonroom.com/albumartscreensaver.htm) for Windows is a screen saver for Windows inspired by the iTunes album art screen saver that is bundled with Mac OS X.

tuesday's child

31-01-2007, 23:52

Ypops! (http://ypopsemail.com/) - enables you to hook up your free Yahoo! email accounts to your email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, whatever...), works well for me. :)

wishface

08-04-2007, 14:03

Emulators
Mac emulator Basilisk II http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html
Playstation Emulator Epsxe http://www.epsxe.com/
Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX 2 http://www.pcsx2.net/
Gamecube Emulator Dolwin http://dolwin.emulation64.com/
Xbox emulator cxbox http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/news.htm
MAME http://www.mame.net/

THis is intriguing; where do you get games to play on your ps2 (or whichever) emulator? Man, I'd l;ove to use my pc to play some of those old capcom 2d beatemups like darkstalkers again!

Addy

19-04-2007, 20:53

Sunray

23-04-2007, 18:21

Just download Synergy and use all your PC's with just the one one keyboard and mouse.

Bit strange to get working but once you do, might as well be a dual screen.

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Addy

26-04-2007, 19:01

Excellent video encoder. (http://rapidshare.com/files/28073620/XilisoftVideoConverter.ZIP.html)
converts any format to any format.

Throbbing Angel

28-04-2007, 05:55

can i just recommend the Portable Apps suite http://portableapps.com/ as recommended already in a few threads
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=2669976

very handy indeed

oake

08-05-2007, 16:29

Excellent video encoder. (http://rapidshare.com/files/28073620/XilisoftVideoConverter.ZIP.html)
converts any format to any format.

That link takes me to RapidShare.:confused:

Crispy

08-05-2007, 16:40

That link takes me to RapidShare.:confused:
So, clikc on the Free button to download the hosted file.

Why can't you just give the official site for that, Addy, whatever it is?

Lazy Llama

08-05-2007, 17:12

Why can't you just give the official site for that, Addy, whatever it is?
Here's a link to the official site for anyone interested:- XiliSoft Video Converter (http://xilisoft.com/video-converter.html)

oake

08-05-2007, 17:20

So, clikc on the Free button to download the hosted file.

Why can't you just give the official site for that, Addy, whatever it is?

Ah! It's not freeware, so Addy was trying to help us out by uploading it to Rapidshare.

Thanks, Addy.

Addy

08-05-2007, 17:26

;)

wishface

19-05-2007, 13:55

Anyone know of any free programs like system mechanic, which is limited to a 30 day trial?

stylus

30-05-2007, 23:13

THis is intriguing; where do you get games to play on your ps2 (or whichever) emulator? Man, I'd l;ove to use my pc to play some of those old capcom 2d beatemups like darkstalkers again!

http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms.html

I haven't used this site for donkeys years, but I assume it still does the job.

for mame ROMs, which are arcade games, you shouldn't have much problem getting hold of I reckon.

I see Darkstalkers is a hefty 25MB ROM....

cybershot

14-06-2007, 08:19

There's usually some torrents of complete set of MAME games. Comes in at about 9gb thou. Just try the usual bit-torrent search engines.

stylus

17-06-2007, 22:23

and to add... I recommend you go for Mame32 - it's much more user-friendly!

Badgers

19-06-2007, 12:16

Great thread

rhod

02-07-2007, 11:36

newharper

23-07-2007, 14:28

Sick and tired of Adobe crashing your PC everytime you open up a .pdf file?

Try this alternative , Foxit Reader , download from here :

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

hi saw this today and realised I'd not put Acrobat on this new computer.

They've version 2 now

Version 2.0 introduces many exciting new features, including interactive form filler, multi-language UI support, on-demand download of add-on, self upgrade, Javascript support, improved printing speed, streamlined UI and much more.

Seems fantastic so far and only 1.7 Mb thanks alot cheers.:)

roddes

12-08-2007, 01:40

the ultimate in freeware,open soucre work and sharwere

GENTOO linux

http://www.gentoo.org/

renegadechicken

27-09-2007, 19:13

renegadechicken

27-09-2007, 19:31

faster vista (http://www.xp-smoker.com/vistasmokerpro.html)

this is good for vista, first 50 goes/uses are free after that you have to pay.......

magneze

28-09-2007, 21:45

Great Firefox extension I just found: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446

Gets Firefox to play media the same way that IE does - by getting the player to stream it rather than download and then play.

Probably the *only* thing IE did better than Firefox ... now solved! :D

Addy

30-09-2007, 17:44

you could always search for 'tube_hunter_ultra' which will allow you to save embeded videos from the likes of utube and hundereds of others.

seven

04-11-2007, 21:30

I haven't been online for a while so these might have been posted before.

for 90% of all the software you'll ever need www.filehippo.com
c cleaner is a good program and if you want to d/l youtube videos ect easily d/l the free version off realplayer.then every time you watch a video you get the option to download it.

A free all in 1 program is Advanced WindowsCare
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html?Str=download

subversplat

04-11-2007, 23:26

the ultimate in freeware,open soucre work and sharwere

GENTOO linux

http://www.gentoo.org/
There's always one!

dlx1

16-11-2007, 18:06

freewarepocketpc.net/
Freeware for Pocket PC. Free Windows Mobile Pocket PC / PPC
url from a mate

Just got myself nice looking backgammon game :cool:

jodal

20-11-2007, 01:06

editor

20-11-2007, 01:31

LesNatrels

14-12-2007, 18:15

http://www.onlyfreewares.com/Audio-Video/Video-Converters/Free-FLV-to-AVI-Converter.php

seven

15-12-2007, 14:37

I use the free version of Download Accelerator Plus .when I was on dialup it's all I could use,because it allows you to switch off a d/l later.
http://www.speedbit.com/

dlx1

17-02-2008, 20:36

I asked about free ISO software

list from posters :)
DVD Decrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/) DVD only
poweriso.com (http://www.poweriso.com/) is shareware, gives you nag screens but doesn't ever seem to expire. Thanks
CDBurnerXP (http://cdburnerxp.se/)Looks nice

Search words: ISO_Image cd_clone ISO'S ISOS ISOISO Addy ISOMagic CDISO DVDISO

InviteLover

29-02-2008, 18:46

Personaly, i use orbitdownloader (to grab streaming file and to DL anything else), you can find it there : http://www.softpicks.net/blog/02/orbit-downloader-261-fast-download-manager.htm
And, trackerchecker2 (it check for private tracker that are open to sign up) and this one there : http://rapidshare.com/files/94282802/TrackerChecker203inst.exe.html
the mac version here :
http://digg.com/software/Mac_Version_of_the_Private_BitTorrent_Tracker_Checker_released
enjoy it...;)

dlx1

17-03-2008, 16:01

thanks gnoriac for this

RegSeeker from Hoverdesk.net is a rather tasty registry editor / cleaner.

dweller

24-03-2008, 12:04

Great bit of bling for XP, without the tediousness of an upgrade to Vista for some eye candy.

Rocket Dock (http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock) is an animated application launcher. Highly configurable, and sexy looking. Makes your desktop look like an Apple.

Kinda.

http://www.punksoftware.com/assets/images/projects/RocketDock-Right.png

I tried RocketDock a couple of months back, but I much prefer this other
freeware option. the latest "leopard" version of "rk launcher" (http://windowsedge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2457&pid=14933&st=0&#entry14933)

it works for vista and xp,
but better with vista as some of the docklets are specially designed with vista in mind.

direct download (http://windowsedge.com/downloads/RKLauncher(x86).exe)

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/fd325b9aa51546284f4c3550d36c07092eb8c58.jpg

dlx1

06-06-2008, 18:32

no edit :rolleyes:

poweriso.com is shareware, gives you nag screens but doesn't ever seem to expire. Thank can make an iso bigger then 300m

Boczkowski

08-06-2008, 23:10

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/dupe.html

they say: 'Clean up Duplicate Files with Duplicate Cleaner!

Duplicate cleaner is a tool to assist anyone in cleaning up the contents of their personal hard drive or corporate network. You'd be surprised just how many redundant or duplicate files you could find forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Photos, music, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, videos - you name it, if it appears twice on your computer then Duplicate Cleaner will find it.'

I say v1.1 is great and saved me hours of twatting around with numerous folders looking at file names, creation dates & file sizes
This sorted out the job in 30 minutes tops.

hurrah

Final

18-06-2008, 13:57

If you get narked about the way Windows wont let you rearrange the window tabs at the bottom of the screen then this little app helps:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/TaskbarOrganizer.shtml

eta: shit, that link isn;t very useful.

The app is (was) freeware and called taskbarorganizer - will re-link when I can find a copy.

seven

18-06-2008, 21:53

Supermegaspoof is a free program and legal I think that allows you to access adult sites.
http://www.supermegaspoof.com/

dlx1

28-06-2008, 13:04

Quick Media Converter (www.cocoonsoftware.com)

Quick Media Converter to quiktime ipod flash didvx wmv dvd vcd mp3 wav 3gp
iphone xvid xbox psp ps3 wii

Mate told me about this one, after I said about Supper.

Search: Convert DLX1 divx mpeg

Hi-ASL

28-06-2008, 17:50

ok, here's where you all benefit from my umpteen years of software tryouts. I guarantee that all the following are the best you’ll find, possibly - if not let me know. Google the names, people. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll send you the link. Utterly free socialist software is in red. Nakedly capitalist shareware or commercial software is in blue. Please try not to steal the latter as it makes the little baby Jesus cry…

#1 choice: Windows Powerpro. Basically, it's a menu program/app launcher - but that's like calling Pele an ex-footballer. This program replaces about a 1000 different utilities that most tech-savvy people have clogging up their hard disks. The built-in scripting language means that you can programme it to do just about anything, and then assign that anything to a button, a menu item or a system-wide hotkey. I literally could not survive without it. Literally. It's absolutely bursting with so much functionality that I don't know where to begin - so I won't bother. Just download it and spend the next 12 months finding out for yourself. Top Tip: instead of spending hours configuring and reconfiguring all your favourite programs/folders, just create a folder of shortcuts for each and then link to the folders via a couple toolbar buttons. Saves a lot of time. ;)

Best note-keeper: Keynote. A treenote program like Treepad, TexNotes, etc., but also uses tabs. So you can have an unlimited number of tabbed notebooks, each with a tree-like structure, each with an article at each node... all within the one document. Amazing. The one real bugbear is that links like this (http://www.urban75.net/) where the url is magically embedded inside a highlighted word (I expect there's a name for it) aren't supported, you can only show links in the http://www.blahblahblah format. Which is delightfully old skool, I'm sure you'll agree. Tried a dozen other programs of this type. Always come back to this one for it's quick loading time and its efficient simplicity. If there's a better (I don't mean fancier) one out there, let me know.

Best internet password-manager: Roboform Pro. Integrates directly into your browser as a toolbar. One click on a menu item takes you to the site, fills in your username/password and logs you in. Never forget a password again because there’s no need to bother remembering one in the first place. Built-in password generator. Print password lists or save as HTML. Also has a built-in form-filling assistant. Works beautifully. Not recommended for novices as it requires quite a bit of setting up. Easy to make a mess of things if you don’t know what you’re doing. :rolleyes: Not recommended for Opera users either – you are not supported.

Audio programs: for plying ur choonz, Winamp. Though I’ve just installed foobar and like it so far – especially its speed. For format conversion, dbPoweramp. For audio ripping, it can only be Exact Audio Copy (resign yourself to buying a new DVD drive every six months :)). For audio editing: GoldWave. Much more intuitive than Audacity, with loads of really cool functions. Best audio tagger: MP3Tag. For creating compilations and a lot more: Nero Burning ROM. You need version 6, mind – version 7 is just useless, awful bloatware.

DVD stuff: DVDShrink for ripping retail DVDs, DVDDecrypter for ripping/burning copies. Also old skool, also free, see no need for anything else. For image mounting, Daemon Tools. For creating, viewing and extracting ISO files, PowerISO. For flawless video-to-DVD conversion, TMPGEnc Xpress - and then DVDLab Pro for adding chapters, menus, subtitles and everything else you need to make pro-standard DVDs. Subtitle Workshop for subtitle editing.

Best text editor: Textpad. So intuitive to use, configurable keystrokes (including MS-Office compatible ones), effortlessly handles massive files, supports regular expressions, has automatic syntax highlighting for HTML and other programming languages, macro support, etc., etc., etc., and so on. Nothing else I’ve tried comes close.

Best file manager: Directory Opus. Like, wow. Just… wow. Had this for ages but I’m still discovering new, faster ways to do things. Absolutely phenomenal.

For mass file renaming: not sure. Magic File Renamer is the one I use and it works well, but it’s awfully slow to load. Supports regular expressions though, rename from lists, script support and loads of other handy stuff. I’d like something just as comprehensive but that loads quicker. Anyone?

For graphics editing: Paint Shop Pro. Photoshop is undoubtedly loads better:rolleyes: but I haven’t got a spare lifetime to learn it. RealDRAW Pro is worth a look too for its unique approach. IrfanView for quick and dirty stuff.

Best clipboard extender: ClipCache Pro. Everything you copy to the clipboard whilst ClipCache is running gets added to its database (or you can add new items manually). Press a configurable hotkey and you get a menu of all your saved items which can then be pasted back into any program. So very handy for keeping a database of re-usable text clippings that you can paste anywhere more or less instantly. Handles images as well, though these tend to swell the database somewhat (easily deleteable though). It’s one of those programs that no-one should be without.

Best bookmark manager: LinkStash. Stores 1000s of website addresses in a treelike folder structure. Hit tab a couple of times to jump to a search box and find any address based on the URL, the configurable title or a keyword in an instant (lightning fast – in fact, instantaneous – searching). Hotkeys can be used to show/hide the window and to add new links from your browser.

Best font manager: FontExpert.View fonts (whether they’re installed or not), print lists or generate image thumbnails, install/uninstall at a whim. Create worklists and favourites lists, install/uninstall as a group. Previewing facility is excellent. Best font manager by far. For a superb custom, utterly unique font collection, have a look for the FontFreak collection on one of those ‘torrent’ sites that you all visit.

That’s all for now. More later when I’ve dug through what I’ve got and sorted out the wheat from the chaff.

Geek? Me? Nah. I'm just smart as f*** and like getting stuff done fast and well.

seven

30-06-2008, 21:49

can anyone post a link to a good free registry cleaner?
plenty of freeware at this site;
http://www.onlyfreewares.com/

treelover

29-08-2008, 12:17

Got Vista, moving files incredible slow, try TeraCopy from Code Sector, genuinely free for home use, I use it all the time , much faster.

http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

stowpirate

29-08-2008, 13:14

http://www.ccleaner.com/

stylus

03-11-2008, 16:19

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

that's the one I use, and was recommended it - I'm quite happy with it.

Addy

22-11-2008, 22:27

Need to identify a bad .rar or .par file from a corrupt download?
QuickPar (http://www.quickpar.org.uk/) is what you need.
It identifies where the corrupt / incomplete file is, and can fix the file to save re-downloading.
F.O.C. and worth having to hand if your downloading large binaries.

Thanks to Ruffneck23 for heads up on this.

Addy

30-11-2008, 22:56

Grabit (http://www.shemes.com/)
A fantastic news reader that will fix and compile files without prompt.

Talkie Toaster

20-12-2008, 09:53

Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper

Gets rid of those in-page adverts that facebook in particular like to display. :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364

mb1

10-01-2009, 18:57

Best proxy bypass...?

dlx1

15-02-2009, 19:58

privacyeraser (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Privacy-Eraser-Pro.shtml)

Free Killing data but don't know how good, killing data external drive.

Aquamarine

21-03-2009, 13:04

hi, would any of you smarties be able to suggest some initial steps for me to take - i want to start a website. The domain name is available. Otherwise i know nowt. Where is the best place to register this and where to learn how to develop & manage the site myself.
Your advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.

editor

21-03-2009, 13:28

ResistanceMP3

05-04-2009, 12:35

Find your favourites, in Internet explorer. http://www.markwell.btinternet.co.uk/findfav/

rollinder

23-04-2009, 04:39

Winhex is a life saver for finding deleted and overwritten files.
http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/

just managed to recover most of a text file that I accedently saved an old version over:rolleyes: It lets you search your harddrive sectors/blocks content like they were a large text file:cool:

newharper

19-05-2009, 18:09

I need to burn a couple of DVD's every now and again, one or two a month so I'm looking for a freeware burner. Any suggestions/warnings?

Google threw up these three, any comments?

CDBurnerXP

InfraRecorder

DeepBurner (Free Edition)

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-free-alternatives-to-nero-cddvd-burner/

Thanks.

rhod

19-05-2009, 20:06

Deepburner works fine.

newharper

19-05-2009, 21:00

Deepburner works fine.

Thanks.

miniGMgoit

27-05-2009, 03:42

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but I've just moved across from Zome Alarm to Comodo (free version).
Zone Alarm had been getting worse and worse as they released newer versions. Comodo seems to be doing the job very well, Zone Alarm appeared to be a resource hog and I nolonger get glitches when tinkering in Cubase.

dweller

29-05-2009, 17:00

this looks like a great source of all sorts of stuff
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html
Tools Directory
This Directory contains nearly 3,000 (freeware/open source and commercial) tools for learning in 25 main categories.

insomnia

29-05-2009, 18:10

Don't know if its been mentioned www.filehippo.com i used to waste countless cd/dvd's saving all the apps i needed.
Now i don't bother, reformat then head to hippo and get all the latested loveliness, i still use it everyday for latest releases.
It really is awesome.

dlx1

04-08-2009, 11:45

Was looking for multitude screenshots software I posted looking
Found Quick Screen Capture Here (http://www.etrusoft.com/)

It does auto save after capture can add base name Image001
hot key & hi light an rectangle of what to capture.

30 free goes

tags:multitude screenshots number images screen cap

editor

10-08-2009, 20:46

Great article here covering free word processors, image, photo and video editors:
The beginner's guide to free online apps http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/the-beginner-s-guide-to-free-online-apps-622805

6_6

10-08-2009, 20:48

Little Snitch saves me from Adobe.

dlx1

29-11-2009, 14:12

From question I had on Rapidshear Manger ChirsF said jDownloader :cool: thanks

Replacement to Rapidshear Manger - jDownloader (http://jdownloader.org/home/index) not just RS long list of other host sites

Absolute Beginner's guide to downloading Rapidshare files, with jDownloader (http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=2541)

Knowledgebase (http://jdownloader.org/knowledge/wiki/start)

Using Java open source

Search words: Torrent Rapid Shear Rapidshear Manger download open source

dlx1

10-12-2009, 13:13

KDE Partition Manager Live cd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Partition_Manager

Didn't like Fdisk like clicky interface

Search words: like Partition magic but free partishion dlx1

thriller

05-01-2010, 22:34

Anyone know where I can download Photoshop?

Had C4 portable version that I downloaded a few months ago-cracked. But unforntnately, deleted it.

weltweit

06-01-2010, 00:47

TextPad a text application which can open and work with massive log files quickly and easily. Also fine for html editing.

Nylock

27-01-2010, 11:33

For those of you who edit your HTML, PHP, C++, CONF etc files in notepad, here's an alternative:

Winvi (http://www.winvi.de/en/)

It's a cross between the UNIX Vi editor and Notepad. Very simple, very nice to use and with a search/replace function as well :)

Structaural

27-01-2010, 14:23

Anyone know where I can download Photoshop?

Had C4 portable version that I downloaded a few months ago-cracked. But unforntnately, deleted it.

are you new to the internet or something?