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Addy

01-01-2003, 08:26

Heres a list of Freeware/Shareware that i recomend, along with comments/reasons and download sites.
Feel free to add to this if its tried and tested freeware/shareware that you just cant live without.
Lets make this a topic worthy of being 'sticky' and let it be a help to new users.
I'll continue to add and hope you lot will too.

Firstly, now your on the internet, you need a firewall to stop the evil haXors.

ZoneAlarm from www.zonelabs.com is a great free firewall.
Take time to understand what it asks, and set permissions right and its not bad for a freebie.

Now do you have an Anti Virus programme?
AGV is pretty good for a freebie, but i'm sure theres beter for free.

Surfing can be dodgy at times and you can pick up spyware along the way, which isnt good for your personal privacy.
Some spyware is embeded into downloaded software/cd software and some can come via your web browser and active-x/java scripts in web pages.

Adaware from www.lavasoft.de will rid your computer of such spywares.

o.k now your safe and your surfing and you want to download files.
P2P is the only way to go (if you dont know your way around usenet and newsgroups)
My recomendations are WinMx from www.winmx.com and kazaa lite from cleanclients.sk or www.kazaalite.com

Why wont this ??divx?? file i just downloaded play the video?
You need CODECS..... available at www.geocities.com/addict1_uk

I wanna burn cd's?
I only ever use CloneCD and Nero
Nero came free with the writer (although its available on p2p)
and clone, well, <cough>, i'll send them a cheque one day. ;)
Along with clonecd, get Cloneyxxl from http://kickme.to/englishclony as it helps with copy protection issues ;)

Ripping dvd's?
I use: dvd2avi
smartripper
TmpgENC
all available from www.geocities.com/addict1_uk
all the help you need is at www.vcdhelp.com

"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.

Driver back-up..
need to format and re-install on your own or a friends pc?
This utility finds all the relevant drivers on a pc and saves the to wherever you want them.
Great for 'older' hardware and 'thoughtlesness' when doing a format.
www.jermar.com

Media players
I use Win media 6.1 plus all my added codecs.
Along with Winamp from www.winamp.com

seven

01-01-2003, 19:42

For free anti-virus software I use AVG 6.0 from www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm

FridgeMagnet

01-01-2003, 19:56

Shitload of passwords for lots of sites and programs, difficult to remember? Don't want to write them down?

Any Password is a Windows password safe, storing passwords etc in a convenient nested format, with a master password controlling the file. You can visit sites and paste in passwords with a couple of clicks. I find it really handy.

http://www.romanlab.com/apw/

Oh, and there's always Pegasus Mail which is free and extremely powerful for lots of mail: http://www.pmail.com/

Or Eudora, more user friendly (though ad supported): http://www.eudora.com/

Backatcha Bandit

01-01-2003, 23:29

If we're talking mail clients, Foxmail (http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm) is free, ad free, imports everything directly from the dreaded outlook and is (AFAIK) the only one that can handle Hotmail accounts (so you can download mail from a Hotmail account without going through the site).

For browsing, I go for Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org).

:)

Judge

01-01-2003, 23:51

Apart from those listed above already, I also use ICQ for chatting shite to random foreign people, DAB Bar to run my Wavefinder and Soulseek for top quality tunage.

But what I do need is something that can clock my upload/download speeds in real time - any ideas? I used to use NetPerSec, but accidently wiped it when I reformatted my drives. One of the finer pleasures in life is witnessing my broadband flying at full throttle, and it's something I just can't do without... :) :rolleyes: ;)

kfishy

02-01-2003, 01:04

This one is very nice:

Miranda ICQ (http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net/)

It's an opensource clone of the popular IM software ICQ, without all the ads and bloats of course ;)

Niubi

02-01-2003, 05:15

Originally posted by Judge
Apart from those listed above already, I also use ICQ for chatting shite to random foreign people, DAB Bar to run my Wavefinder and Soulseek for top quality tunage.

But what I do need is something that can clock my upload/download speeds in real time - any ideas? I used to use NetPerSec, but accidently wiped it when I reformatted my drives. One of the finer pleasures in life is witnessing my broadband flying at full throttle, and it's something I just can't do without... :) :rolleyes: ;)

DU Meter, it's shareware, pull a google for it, tis very good.

Buddy Bradley

02-01-2003, 07:53

For hand-coding websites, you can't beat the free First Page 2000 (http://www.evrsoft.com/) from Evrsoft. I've been using it for years.

jiggajagga

02-01-2003, 08:16

If you like watching movies ( and all the probs that come along with it!)another great little tool is called Gspot. This tool tells you everything you would want to know about a downloaded file and what codecs you need, along with much more info.

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/gspot.html

cuernos

02-01-2003, 09:21

doom9 (http://www.doom9.org) is also good for AVI and DVD rip software.

I've also found serials2000 most handy for serials and cracks. Updates come out every 2 weeks and can be found here (http://www.serialz.to)

fannypad

07-01-2003, 02:46

Freeware? All my bloody software has always been free ;) :D

But seriously... my all-time favourite and most-used piece of shareware has to be Paint Shop Pro.

Favourite freeware is BS Player (http://www.bsplayer.org/), as it's the simply best and most feature-rich DiVX/XVID/other media player there is. Oh, and when combined with ffdshow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow) it's a veritable DiVX-playing powerhouse.

As for best freeware in the history of computers EVER, well, that has to go to the Stair Dismount Simulator (http://taat.fi/taat/porrasturvat/). You get to shove a hapless dude off the top of some pretty steep stairs, with customiseable body part shoveage and shoving force, and you get more points according to how much damage is inflicted and what part of the body gets hit... plus he makes GROANING AND GRUNTING NOISES ON HIS WAY DOWN!!! QUALITY!!!!!!!!! :D :D :p

Edit: See if any of you can beat my top score of 732401 (no typo). HA!

editor

07-01-2003, 09:16

It's not exactly glamourous, but I've found the free Flash Renamer (http://in.tech.yahoo.com/020226/94/1heev.html) a fantastic tool for batch renaming files - great for sorting out billions of digital image files.

It's easy peasy to use too.

(Note only v3 is free)

Sunray

07-01-2003, 09:20

Network tools
Ping Plotter for a nice trace route display
SmartFTP for a very nice FTP tool

MP3
Dr Tag This is by far the best ID3 tag editor I have ever used. I have 26Gig of music and its been fantastic.

<edited to add>

Anti Browser Abuse
proxomitron - Been using it for quite some time. Great for stopping all those adds, pop-up, music and every other annoying thing people do to their web sites.

EastEnder

07-01-2003, 12:42

For superbly reliable downloading, you can't beat GoZilla (http://www.gozilla.com).

Want a nifty little, very lightweight proxy server??? Try AnalogX (http://www.analogx.com) - runs on Windows, works a treat connecting to other windows machines, Linux machines, etc. And, if like me you run XP on a 2nd machine, having a custom proxy allows you to control exactly what, and more importantly, exactly what not web resources XP is allowed to access.

:cool:

dervish

08-01-2003, 20:56

Doesn't GoZilla have spyware?

For music I recommend Musicmatch Jukebox (http://www.musicmatch.com). I've had it about as long as my computer and I still haven't found anything better.

Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org/) for downloading music. Wicked for getting full albums, uses a fair amount of processor time though.

Mailwasher (http://www.mailwasher.net/) is bloody good for stopping spam mail.

Trillian (http://www.trillian.cc/trillian/index.html) is a bloody wonderful instant messaging client. Combines AOL, ICQ, MSN, IRC and Yahoo in one. It is a jack of all trades, master of none but thats better than having four bloatware messenger clients hogging your systray.

BitTorrent (http://www.turok.info/index.shtml) is another P2P program, works in a quite interesting way. I've been using it to get all the firefly episodes.

UiCE (http://www.mediatexx.com/) is a remote control program, if you have a WinTV or a REALmagix board with a remote it can be extremely useful.

Window Washer (http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/windowwasher/index.php) is a privicy protection program, it also clears up a lot of crap left behind by (mostly sodding microsoft) programs.

This is a cool thread, can I second it being stickyfied?

Dimension Line

08-01-2003, 21:08

Avast (http://www.avast.com/avast4/upgrade.html) is an anti-virus package which is free for home users. If you install it it will ask for a registeration code which you can get by filling out this form. (http://www.avast.com/register.htm)

It has worked a treat for me and has detected loads of viruses in downloaded files. It has resident protection, which checks e-mail and your file system.

DL

Lazy Llama

08-01-2003, 22:14

For Windows:-

WinVNC (http://www.realvnc.com) - remote control for those who don't have Windows Terminal Services

Automachron (http://oneguycoding.com) - NTP (time sync) client for Windows

SpamPal (http://www.spampal.org.uk) - A local POP3 proxy that tags spam.

I'll try to post some Mac stuff later.

Judge

08-01-2003, 22:35

Originally posted by Niubi
DU Meter, it's shareware, pull a google for it, tis very good. [/B] Yep, that did the trick, cheers Niubi, The Cows Cunt.

Niubi

08-01-2003, 23:59

Not a problem me old minge eater :D

boskysquelch

09-01-2003, 06:50

..the freebies at MediaChance (http://www.mediachance.com) can be quite useful for tweaking things about:)

Dubber Dan

10-01-2003, 19:27

How about Winzip... Pretty damn usefull I find

Dubber

ps. go with the sticky option Ed :)

Sacri Liege

11-01-2003, 01:20

XP-AntiSpy is another free little program that keeps windows xp from doing naughty things behind your back. http://www.xpantispy.de/

(make sure you click on the british flag to make the page readable)

EastEnder

11-01-2003, 01:56

Originally posted by Dubber Dan
How about Winzip... Pretty damn usefull I find

How could I forget about WinZip! Probably the one bit of s/ware I've used for longest - absolutely f'ing invaluable.

For many years I used to use the DOS version - PKZip - before there even was a Windows version.

Anyone want to play "remember the arcane command line switches to zip a directory, plus sub-directories, including paths, excluding older files, maxium compression, spanned acrossed multiple floppies" game??????

Thought not. :)

For a very capable, but lightweight, programmers text editor, you can do a hell of a lot worse than TextPad. Been using it for years - takes up 1 millionth of the memory of MicroShit editors, supports workspaces, syntax highlighting, macros, find/replace across multiple files, reg expressions, etc. It's the best "does what is says on the tin" text editor IMHO. It's so good, that after using it for 3 years, I'm actually considering paying the minimal registration fee....:)

FridgeMagnet

11-01-2003, 01:57

It might be best to keep this Windows only, then do separate threads for Mac and Linux (does anyone use any other OSes than these three?)

EastEnder

11-01-2003, 02:21

Originally posted by FridgeMagnet
(does anyone use any other OSes than these three?)

CP/M.

:p :D

FridgeMagnet

11-01-2003, 03:02

Got a big list of useful CP/M shareware, then, have you? :D

swampy

11-01-2003, 22:22

Streamer peer to pear radio :)

http://www.streamerp2p.net/download.html

Has kept me amused for a week now :)

boskysquelch

12-01-2003, 09:44

NetAnts (http://www.netants.com) ...this I use about two dozen times a day and am costantly thrilled about how easy and consistantly reliable it works...especially with the irregular connections I get at the end of line...methinx the longest time in one session was 4 days...20 mins max online b4 BT would screw up the line...the resume worked perfectly on auto-redial everytime...even when I relocated to other peeps houses and filched their lines whilst socializing to get the damned thing done...well chuffed with it! :D

Sore_Head

13-01-2003, 20:05

Filezilla FTP client

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

explore linux partitions from windows (Explore2fs)

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/

Radar

14-01-2003, 02:14

Originally posted by FridgeMagnet
Got a big list of useful CP/M shareware, then, have you? :D

Well it keeps my Apple IIe with Z80 card happy :)

Tricky Skills

14-01-2003, 10:27

whoops - wrong thread... :o

gnoriac

14-01-2003, 11:47

For amazing amounts of info about what's in your pc, try aida32 (http://www.aida32.hu). There are 3 editions, you may as well go for Enterprise, which does everything (they're all freeware). If your motherboard has a sensor it'll even tell you the current temperature inside and the DC voltages.
Icon studio and some other goodies at HTML helper (http://www.html-helper.com).
Somebody else recommended Analogx's Proxy, if you check out his website (http://www.analogx.com), there are loadsa other goodies too.

Addy

15-01-2003, 00:06

Keep them comming people, then i'll re-post this with just urls and comments and 'suggested by....'

Radar

15-01-2003, 01:49

Textpad (http://www.textpad.com), a well handy editor.

Since I failed to get on with Multi-Edit once it went Win32, Textpad has filled the void (and it's cheap to boot)

Sacri Liege

15-01-2003, 02:57

smartftp is a good solid ftp client that is completely free for personal use. i've been using it for about the last year and a half with no complaints. http://www.smartftp.com/

kabads

15-01-2003, 10:27

Seeing as my whole OS is open source, I could claim that that's the most useful bit of software I used - but apart from that, there's loads to mention.

emacs - jedit - mozilla - flightgear - nethack - foobillard - sylpheed claws - pan - foldingathome - gnupg - openoffice

to name but a few ;)

stupid kid

15-01-2003, 11:24

Trillian (find it at www.download.com ) is great if you use more than one IM program as it brings them all together and gets rid of the ads they give you.

tomas

15-01-2003, 11:38

either no-one posted a link and therfor i overlooked it or no-one have actulay posted up the (as fara as i know) best office suite availible. openoffice (http://www.openoffice.org). alternatelvy i would like to admit to being blind.
:o

tomas

15-01-2003, 11:55

i now see that kabads mentioned it.

also worth to check out for all your didgital misic is ogg vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com/), thats the open source equlent of mp3. it's better at compression and file size. better sound as well. lates winamp will play it and freerip (http://www.mgshareware.com/) will rip your tracks for you. :) alltogether a winning open soure solution to get around mp3s now redicoulos licensing policy.

DavetooldtoRave

15-01-2003, 20:14

Hi all

A free program i have found useful on a number of occations dbpoweramp (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm)
convert mp3 into differant formats and vice-vercer, change kbps rates and edit tags
lots off codec's for ogg vorbis, wmp etc :)
Uploads files onto hard drive in any format.
includes cd burner.
Proforms sexual favours cooks breakfast :D

Radar

15-01-2003, 21:31

Run keyfinder (http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html) on a windows system (NT, Win2K, WinXP) and it will retrieve the CD keys used for the original installations, both OS and Office.

Elpenor

27-01-2003, 20:56

Downloading a film? Don't want to download a fake?
www.fasttrackmovies.com (http://www.fasttrackmovies.com/) will tell you the file size of the genuine file for P2P programs such as Kazaa and E-Donkey.

Elpenor

08-02-2003, 11:12

Got a large movie file?

Want to split it up so it fits on a CD?

Get this (http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/) By far the simplest program I've ever used.

LDR

08-02-2003, 12:55

Want to be able to manage SPAM, blacklist senders, etc. Try this here. (http://www.mailwasher.net)

LDR

11-02-2003, 14:29

Also this (http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html) is the best piece of freeware auditing software I've seen.

It tells you everything you need to know about your machine from the exact hardware to where all your software is installed.

dervish

25-03-2003, 18:05

Hmmm, so you can reply to a saved thread!

Thought this deserved a bump as I keep having to use it.

:D

Spudhead

26-03-2003, 14:34

http://www.netreach.net/~gavin/gavsfreeware/csamp.htm

This little beauty gives you a crosshair to wave randomly about your screen. Click, and it'll tell you the color of whatever pixel it's currently on. Another click, and you've got it in hex. Invaluable for website designers wanting to emulate "windows grey", and other popular colors, in their creations.

tomas

26-03-2003, 15:19

apperantly (according to an article in a linux magasine) the most secure out-of-the-box fierwall availible and opensource can be found at http://www.smoothwall.org only that i haven't been able to install it due to a doggy nic :(

error911

30-03-2003, 07:48

<screams EDITPLUS>
brilliant software for coding

syntax highlighting many preference changes tbh i have not found much it cant do as editing goes

used for coding languages and viewing anything textual
www.editplus.com (http://www.editplus.com)
Rob

RaverDrew

08-04-2003, 21:11

Can this useful thread be made sticky perhaps? :confused:

onemonkey

09-04-2003, 16:32

Originally posted by FridgeMagnet
It might be best to keep this Windows only, then do separate threads for Mac and Linux (does anyone use any other OSes than these three?) linux users don't really need a thread.. ALL our cool software is free!

mellowmoose

09-04-2003, 17:19

anyone who's tried to use msn/yahoo/aol/icq chat at university and found that the system wont allow the software to be installed can get around that problem by using www.trillian.cc

plus its a hell of a lot more stable then the software from msn et al

Irrelevant fact: The world cheapest and most reliable source of pirate software CD's currently happens to be kuala lumpur, malaysia.
both (factory pressed) software and DVD's go for around £1 !!! with reliabilty around 85%

Addy

20-04-2003, 15:28

BUMP!

<cause its my thread and i can> :p

mains

20-04-2003, 20:35

should be a sticky anyway if ever there should be one in this forum:)

Wilbur Nutsack

20-04-2003, 20:50

Encrypted messenger for those moments where MSN is a bit dodgy. Doesn't use a central server and you generate the key yourself.

http://netforth.sourceforge.net/psst/

Sexy Bang & Olufsen MP3 player.

http://www.bang-olufsen.com/sw1040.asp

Taskbar To-Do list - Does what it says on the tin

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Misc__Applications/CyberTask.html

Wilbur

Addy

21-04-2003, 11:52

Thanks for the sticky Ed. :)

mains

21-04-2003, 12:25

yep, cheers Mike

punkyfish

21-04-2003, 19:48

Fire is similar to Trillian but for the Mac. It allows instant messenging to hotmail, yahoo, AIM, ICQ, irc, Jabber

http://fire.sourceforge.net/

swelegant

22-04-2003, 13:59

I often use 3C to 'capture' a particular colour on the screen so i can use it in my computer art. I find it to be really handy.
http://user.tninet.se/~ddb786p/program/

Ellis.D

22-04-2003, 23:38

SpyBot Search&Destroy (http://security.kolla.de) Adware/Spyware & More besides

I prefer this to Lavasofts ADAWARE and I've found it's picked up stuff that Adaware has missed (you could always use both if you felt the need). However, be warned, it's brutal. Make sure its configured the way you want it to work.

It removes adware,spyware,dialers, keyloggers, usage tracks, trojans and other baddies. (Threats are dealt with by shredding but you have the option of backing up).
It has a User-extendable database, Detailed information about problems found and an Exclude option to ignore specific problems.
It can permanently block threatening ActiveX downloads, known tracking cookies and threating downloads in Internet Explorer.

Send the guy a donation!

IESPELL (http://www.iespell.com) Internut Explurer Spel Chekur

Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a web-page. Particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs). The program installs as a new button in the IE tool-bar (as well as a new menu item under "Tools") - after filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check.

AIDA32 (http://www.aida32.hu) . I know its been mentioned before (Gnoriac :) but (IMHO) Aida32 for System Auditing (more like hardcore Interrogation) really is the Mutz and is well worth a second mention for those of you that need such a tool.

It's a pro system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms (There's also a 16 bit version for DOS). It extracts details of all components of the PC and its very thorough. It can display information on the screen (with links to sites for drivers etc), print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML.It comes in 3 different flavours... Personal, Network and Corporate. (For pro users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network management).
I think you can just about squeeze the latest version onto a floppy if you dump the additional language files).

End PopUps (http://www.endpopups.com) . POPUP Stopper

A popup stopping program that works very well. It stops popup ads. It doesn't block pages that you want to see. If it blocks a popup, it tell's you, unobtrusively, that it's holding something back and will let you know what. Its hassle free. It ONLY works with Internet Explorer.
.....pity about that eh :(

gnoriac

24-04-2003, 15:51

If you wanna know what's eaten all your disc space try
sequoiaview (http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/) which displays your dir's and files as 'cushion treemaps', clever way to visualise it.

Lazy Llama

24-04-2003, 16:53

Some Mac OS X bits that I've found useful:-

Hydra http://hydra.globalse.org Great little text editor with syntax highlighting and a unique Rendezvous feature so that multiple Hydra users can work on the same document. Free!

MyMind http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/software/ Mind mapping tool for those who use the technique. Free!

OmniGraffle http://www.omnigroup.com Nice diagramming tool, free demo but about $70 for the standard version.

QuickImageCM http://www.pixture.com/macosx.php Context Menu plugin to allow viewing of images (including size info etc). Free!

Fugu http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ Useful SSH/SCP/SFTP GUI tool. Free!

BigTom

25-04-2003, 09:34

For video editing (PC) Virtualdub (http://www.virtualdub.com/) can't be beat. Editing and processing is not as powerful as adobes products, but very useful anyway. Certainly the best bit of freeware that I've used.
To go with it is virtualdub batcher (http://brightonart.org/VDubBatchAssistant.shtml) which lets you batch process files.

teqniq

06-05-2003, 14:45

For those of us who may have had problems with importing different address book formats try Dawn (http://www.webattack.com/get/dawn.shtml). It got me out of a load of problems, hope someone else finds it useful :)

Slash

09-05-2003, 09:21

Originally posted by EastEnder
Want a nifty little, very lightweight proxy server???

Yeah, but use Proxy Plus if you want a real proxy. It's a lot more secure and powerful and even proxies realplayer and other streaming technologies. It's freeware for up to 3 computers.

Web site (http://www.proxyplus.cz/)

Edit to add it also has a funky web-based management interface and can be even managed from the Internet if you want.

Slash

09-05-2003, 09:36

Editor, can this thread be archived?

Callavera

09-05-2003, 19:43

Nice list there addict but shame on you for not including the superb XviD codec on your site.

Here's a small list from me:

Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) (1,232 KB) The only CD-ripper that properly supports secure ripping, ie will deal perfectly with scratched CDs and give an exact 1:1 copy of your CD. Can be used with external encoders (eg lame, Vorbis...).

AC3 DirectShow Filter (http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/) (245 KB) A filter which lets you play files with ac3 audio, including downmixing, and DRC support. There's now also a winamp plugin. (http://users.skynet.be/bk231049/sp/software/in_vac3_0_5b.zip)

(for Windows 2000/XP (519 KB) or for Windows 98/Me (520 KB)). A player with the same layout as Windows Media Player 6.4, but with loads of extra features including aspect ratio adjustment, DVD playback (requires a DVD decoder installed), a playlist, and playback of rm files (requires Real Player to be installed) amoungst other things).
Media Player Classic (http://vobsub.edensrising.com/)

Powerstrip (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm) (628 KB) A very useful tool for adjusting everything you could possibly want to adjust about your dislpay settings (including custom resolutions, refresh rates, colour settings, etc...)

RealMedia 9 Codecs (http://users.skynet.be/bk231049/sp/software/RealMedia%209%20Codecs.exe) If you install these you'll be able to play rm files through Media Player Classic without the need to even have RealPlayer or RealOne installed on your system at all.

XviD (http://www.xvid.org/) (412 KB) The open source Mpeg4 alternative to DivX. A must have for every serious encoder and also for you users since more and more crews are using XviD to encode these days.

that#s it for now hope it helps someone

Addy

10-05-2003, 08:19

I have been meaning to put this WEBSITE (http://www.goldenpi.no-ip.org/drm/toolkit.shtml) up here.
Lots of usefull tools including XviD and Streambox VCR.
;)

sufilala

10-05-2003, 20:48

anyone know a batch html editor?

congrachoolations on stickiness!

Polter53

12-05-2003, 06:55

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, when I started reading it I was thinking about what I could add to it. Zonealarm, Avg, Aida32........e.t.c. They were all covered and then some........thanks again, got a lot of checking out to do now.

gnoriac

12-05-2003, 09:59

Another spyware killer I don't think has been mentioned yet:
Spywareblaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html)
This one flags CLSID's in your registry to prevent those that use dodgy ActiveX's getting installed in the first place. Works fairly invisibly so I'm not sure it's done me any good!

John Headstrong

12-05-2003, 20:09

Originally posted by sufilala
anyone know a batch html editor?

congrachoolations on stickiness!

not sure if this is what you are after, but it turns basic text files into basic HTML files.

http://www.siliconglen.com/software/q-html.html

Lazy Llama

12-05-2003, 23:14

Originally posted by sufilala
anyone know a batch html editor?

There are batch add-ons for HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/features/ ). It's a very good HTML/CSS editor with preview, FTP integration etc and it's free for personal use.
Batch actions :- http://www.chamisplace.com/asp/hkp.asp?c=Tools&s=Batch%5FActions

At least one of those is a multi-file search and replace.

TinyCrendon

15-05-2003, 12:48

www.webattack.com is really good for collections of freeware security stuff and other things...

I use AVG... www.grisoft.com

and EE...www.evidence-eliminator.com

and ANTS...er...by Andreas Harck

and Kill Popup (very good and small)

and Sygate personal firewall thingy...

and i cant do that URl linky thing on bbs's sorry...

teecee

16-05-2003, 10:25

always wanted to know exactly how wide something is on your screen or web page... you need these handy CALIPERS

http://www.iconico.com/caliper/v21upgrade.asp

and they also have the amazing WEBTOOL , still the best thing since sliced bread for debugging any web page

http://www.iconico.com/webtool/

sufilala

16-05-2003, 10:32

...for advice, i'll dl those things and try them out soon as i get a chance to do a bit of webbing....

(u75 does know everything)

ecadre

28-05-2003, 21:21

The Opera web browser from;

http://www.opera.com

I like it so much that I paid for it :)

tomas

29-05-2003, 08:21

had a bit of a reread of this thread and i find sourceforge mentiond several times but no-one have said what it is.

http://sourceforge.net/ is a good place to start if you're looking for something open source. it's a network of founderies building software and well worth a look.

bosco

29-05-2003, 15:44

Originally posted by FridgeMagnet
It might be best to keep this Windows only, then do separate threads for Mac and Linux (does anyone use any other OSes than these three?)

yeah, i think seperate threads for different OS's is a good idea. :)

does anyone know of free chat software for macs that can be used on OS9? Fire seems to use OSX only technology.

edited to add: i'm using the classic OS9 on OSX (due to server problems when using OSX). is there some way i can get OS9 to recognise dmg files? if i switch back to OSX temporarily and install the software from there will it still be available when i switch back to OS9?

thanks.

:)

editor

09-06-2003, 14:40

Here's an absolutely free Windows dictionary/thesaurus: www.wordweb.info

Simply highlight a word on a page, click on the wordweb icon in your taskbar and it'll come up with an explanation, offering synonyms and other clever stuff. Respect!

Horseshoe

10-06-2003, 09:43

There is only 1 decent HTML editor out there that's free and it's HTML KIT (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/). If you don't have this, get it now.

Horseshoe

10-06-2003, 09:45

btw, i've tawled the internet, but i cannot find a free copy of NetPerSec.... does anyone know where it's free? If so please lemmie know! :D

editor

10-06-2003, 09:55

Originally posted by Horseshoe
There is only 1 decent HTML editor out Let's not get carried away!

The free FirstPage and Arachnophilia are also both excellent HTML editors, but the best I've ever used (and I've tried a lot ) remains the mighty Homesite.

ion

10-06-2003, 22:38

Depends what you mean by HTML editor, for a big project Homesite rocks, but for quick editing of pages I simply want a quick, fast text editor with good configurable syntax highlighting (i like low contrst things, too much staring at my screen) - And here is where EditPlus comes in. Its great for everything and comes with lots of languages already set, and you can eaily create your own. You at least owe it to yourself to give it a go. Even has spellchecking etc etc.

Love it so much, I actually PAID for it. (The only piece of shareware that springs to mind that I actually did buy)

http://www.editplus.com/

It owns NoteTab+ or whatever that expensive piece of crap is called.

mellowmoose

11-06-2003, 15:15

id second the editor and say that arachnophilia is by far the best HTML editor. virtually no learning curve and very simple to use for basic html'ing.
The author's done a java based version as well so it'll work on any platform tho i prefer the older one meself.

Editplus i found to be a bit crap ... sorry. I've used it a fair bit for prolog and never liked it

ICB

12-06-2003, 11:57

These are largely very technical and I can't be bothered to link, you'll have to look for them yourself :)

MRTG - freeware SNMP/RMON traffic probe and grapher, requires Perl
SuperScan - freeware; the most evil port scanner ever and a superb bit of multi-threaded programming
WUG, Whats Up Gold, - 30 day trial - great network discovery and monitoring tool
SMS Gate - shareware SMS gateway, made by a nice lad in Manchester

If you know your onions you can combine MRTG, WUG and SMS Gate to build your own HP Openview/Unicentre type management environment for 1% of the cost. Hah! :cool:

Also...

Tiny Personal Firewall - the best personal firewall, less nannying and commercial than Zone Alarm, etc.

The Web Leacher - very hard to find now, basically a freeware web leacher that is very fast and multi-threaded. If you're so inclined you can build a vast porn collection in a few hours with some of the sample settings on this. Alternatively you can use it to pull loads of .WAV files down if you're into music making, or MP3s if you just like to listen, etc. etc.

editor

12-06-2003, 13:51

Can anyone recommend a good notepad replacement, preferably with some kind of file and folder management interface, selectable word count and basic spell checker?

I tend to use Notepad for most of my writing, and it would be handy to be able to track of all my notes via a single interface.

I gave TexNotes a go and while there's no denying it's a mighty impressive piece of kit, the price is a little steep...

NoteTab Light comes close but there's no dictionary and the interface is a little basic for my tastes...

FridgeMagnet

12-06-2003, 14:00

EditPlus has a spell checker and a selectable word count. I'm not quite sure what you mean by file and folder interface, but it has a file & directory sidebar, "open recent documents" section and so on.

I use it as a notepad replacement all the time. Best $25 of the company's money I ever spent.

tomas

12-06-2003, 14:26

i tend to use textpad. it's shareware and i find it exelent. you can create your own syntaxing/highlighting of whatever code you like or download them from there site (most syntaxes are availible since it is a verry widley used app). there is some file stuff as in a side bar with a list of files and such but i've never tested the usability for it. ther is allso added suport for compiling and testing java, a quick launce/preview for web browser and some other nice fetures. license is £17 if you fancy paying.

http://www.textpad.com

editor

12-06-2003, 14:27

Originally posted by FridgeMagnet
I use it as a notepad replacement all the time. Best $25 of the company's money I ever spent. Sounds good!

Are there any extended evaluation copies knocking around your office?

Addy

12-06-2003, 17:37

Must agree with ICB about SUPERSCAN (http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/freetools.htm)
Its a wicked little port scanner.
I'v been using it for years (originaly programmed by Robin Kier and took over by Foundstone.com when they signed up his forensic abilities..... all of Rob Kier's utils are small and do what they say on the tin)

joe bloggs

13-06-2003, 17:44

Feeling adventurous?
Want to ditch Micro$oft?

http://www.linuxhelp.net/distributions/

File deletion or encrypting

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

http://www.pgpi.org/

Registry cleaner

http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/software.shtml

Klaatu

16-06-2003, 00:14

Fer chrissakes! Got a lot of shite in your system tray (just to the left of your clock on the taskbar) that gets in the freaking way sometimes? E.G., you keep getting "Scandisk (or De-frag) has re-started 10 times and I keep getting f***ing interrupted by another program f***ing with the disk while I'm trying to do my work"? Try ENDITALL! Shuts down all that worrisome shite in the tray. I'd be LOST without it! Allows you to selectively exclude certain programs (allowing certain stuff to continue running in the background), and it only shuts them down for *this session.* Everything's back after next re-boot. Check it out!

http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/

(thanks to Addict for the link--I couldn't remember where in hell I'd got it from!)

spikey_r

17-06-2003, 10:46

i use speedfan (http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php) temperature monitoring app... it sits in systray and gives a constant display of either: cpu temp, hd1 temp, or mainboard temp, and allows full control over system fans...
startup manager (http://new.jtsoft2001.com/windows/startup.php) is what i use to control application's starting at bootup...

ecadre

17-06-2003, 11:23

Originally posted by ICB
These are largely very technical and I can't be bothered to link, you'll have to look for them yourself :)

MRTG - freeware SNMP/RMON traffic probe and grapher, requires Perl
SuperScan - freeware; the most evil port scanner ever and a superb bit of multi-threaded programming
WUG, Whats Up Gold, - 30 day trial - great network discovery and monitoring tool
SMS Gate - shareware SMS gateway, made by a nice lad in Manchester

If you know your onions you can combine MRTG, WUG and SMS Gate to build your own HP Openview/Unicentre type management environment for 1% of the cost. Hah! :cool:

Also...

Tiny Personal Firewall - the best personal firewall, less nannying and commercial than Zone Alarm, etc.

An interesting use of the word "commercial."

You have to pay for the Tiny Personal Firewall whilst the basic (but very good) version of Zone alarm is free.

The Web Leacher - very hard to find now, basically a freeware web leacher that is very fast and multi-threaded. If you're so inclined you can build a vast porn collection in a few hours with some of the sample settings on this. Alternatively you can use it to pull loads of .WAV files down if you're into music making, or MP3s if you just like to listen, etc. etc.

thundersqueak

24-06-2003, 19:31

has to be PuTTY and Superscan just bang these names in google and voila!
PuTTY is a telnet client 4 win 32
and superscan is the dog's 'nads from foundstone it's a port scanner.banner grabber etc. a great tool 4 the truly paranoid.

***SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISING COMPANY********************
Dont give in to Bill

mains

27-06-2003, 16:45

yeah I use PuTTY at work for accessing a SuSE box from windows - nice and neat that app:)

thundersqueak

27-06-2003, 19:22

maybe i've been livin under a rock or something but i've just started using mailwasher it's anti spam and it works!i think it's just gone commercial but the version i have is still roaming FREE on the net-somebody should give this guy a medal(or something more useful like employment!)

seven

04-07-2003, 23:35

This is a pretty old site,but worth a look :
http://www.stilllistener.com/index.shtml

Klaatu

05-07-2003, 05:33

Just discovered this one tonight. It's probably the worst-named site I've seen. It's called bootdisk.com, but bootdisk software is just the BEGINNING of what this guy has. I won't begin to try to describe it, just go there!

www.bootdisk.com

enjoy! :D

mellowmoose

07-07-2003, 11:11

if your workplace have blocked p2p (kazaa et al) and instant mesaaging then You need to download and install http://www.http-tunnel.com/

With a simple bit of configuration it hooks you upto p2p, IM etc even if its blocked by uni/work firewall

The basic service is free but if you want to take advantage of high bandwiths then its about $4 a month

mrmule

07-07-2003, 11:19

Introduction

A privacy 'bug/feature' in Internet Explorer3/4/5 (for important information about IE6, see history): IE stores the visited URLs in some hidden files and whenyou clean your cache and history, this information is notdeleted! I wrote a software program to scan these hidden filesfor URLs and to put those URLs in a file. So the user's privacy is at stake because anyone with this program, can go to the PC ofsomebody else and see the URLs he has visited!

This program allows you to exploit the 'bug' and scan your PCsto find all the URLs stored in these hidden files. Choose wiselywhich version you want:

http://www.fsm.nl/ward/

thundersqueak

08-07-2003, 12:13

AHHH mr mule says doubt everything! the source code for his spider is no longer available (old bsd proverb say if you didn't read and compile it dont trust it) an even more valid statement on windoze methinks

socialist

13-07-2003, 14:58

No! Flash

Disables and enables Macromedia Shockwave Flash, Popups, animated ads etc v6 via in-tray icon. Small 64K zipped file of freeware.

http://www.geocities.jp/baryonlee/noflash/

Horseshoe

31-07-2003, 12:47

Spam Fighter... Spam Figher (http://download.com.com/redir?pid=10212661&merid=116967&mfgid=116967&edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3000-2382-10212661&ontId=2382&ltype=dl_dlnow&lop=link&destUrl=%2F3001-2382-10212661.html)

Or if that doesn't work search for it on Dowloads.com (http://www.downloads.com) - search for "spam fighter"... it's free and works by users voting for what they think is spam.... one of the most useful programs I have!! :D

A downside - only works in MS Outlook :(

Lazy Llama

31-07-2003, 13:17

It's only free for the first 3 months, then you have to pay for it.

Slash

13-08-2003, 09:19

RSI-rest

just found this yesterday... very configurable and allows you to keep working through a break (but notes it). It can also display a slide show of images while you micropause, and or play a sound (.WAV/.MP3) also.

I've had RSI for about 8 years now and software like this makes a huge difference - might stop you getting it or help it heal.

best of all it's freeware:

Get it here (http://home.planet.nl/~moermans/rsi-rest.htm)

ViolentPanda

17-08-2003, 20:02

Is there any good freeware audio cleanup software out there?

I'm wanting to put some of my vinyl onto CD, and as an impecunious member of the underclass I can't really afford loads of quid for a copy of "Clean" or the like.:(

Lord Hugh

17-08-2003, 21:36

File- & Regmon (http://www.sysinternals.com/) are both very useful little tools when it comes to finding out exactly what a certain program is doing.

nuffsaid

19-08-2003, 10:52

For extracting .ace .rar .zip I use this little Extract utility.

http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/2/2-13.shtml

Very simple drag and drop to extract and no trial period.

The favourite piece of shareware on my kit by far is my Sygate firewall. I have had absolutely no problems with this and running file-sharing software. Free and safe - love it.

http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

Cacheman for automatically optimising your memory and being able to see what's taking up all that RAM if you get a lot of crashing. You can also use it to recover lost memory, and set it to check for this at regular intervals.

http://www.5star-shareware.com/Utilities/Optimisers/cacheman.html

pinkychukkles

07-09-2003, 19:18

Cor blimey, I've just been through this thread, downloading and installing some stuff and saving some stuff to disk.

Thanks for all the info. Been a massive help to a beginner.

eemurfee

11-09-2003, 01:49

The excellent jv16 registry-tweaking software that's been mentioned a few times is no longer a freebie; the latest version 1.4 costs. However, there's still a copy of the very useful, and free, v1.3 at: http://www.thecaretakers.net/tweak.shtml

Slash

22-09-2003, 15:52

Free online virus checker (http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/scanpc.php)

Runs in your web browser

For non-broadband, I'm sure the virus defs take a wee while to download but after initial download shouldn't be a problem.

Sunray

23-09-2003, 11:05

Advant Browser

This is great.

Its like Opera with its tabbed MDI interface but its just a new wrapper to IE which means all the websites work as they did, which sadly is not the case, esp for sites that have plugins.

Anti-popup that works quite well and anti flash which speeds up many a site.

Highly recommended.

Sunray

MightyAphrodite

28-09-2003, 23:24

.......................

Sacri Liege

29-09-2003, 01:17

A handy free utility called Eraser that does just that. Not only is it free but it's open source. Even after overwriting or reformatting multiple times, data can still be recovered from your hard drive because of residual magnetic charge. This program overwrites the platters dozens of times with special magnetic patterns to make recovery of data virtually impossible.

http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/

John Headstrong

29-09-2003, 17:53

ok, this just saved me a lot of hassle

Easily recover forgotten FTP passwords stored in any FTP client program.
http://www.zzee.com/?r=ffp

I used a cracked version (use google), but it has recoverd the password for a very old ftp account I have.

sir_roughdiamond

16-10-2003, 21:57

nice video player - The Core Media Player (http://www.corecoded.com/)

Want to see whats happening on your network?
Ethereal Network Analyzer (http://www.ethereal.com/)

marts69

08-11-2003, 16:47

Buzz mate isn't this about free as in no charge rather than freely available things that we should pay for,thanks for the other link though (pcpitstop)quite good fun for a while.;)

Schmeegal

13-11-2003, 13:55

Buzz.

I write all my music with it.

So does James Holden, and many other successful electronic artists.

Schmeegal

14-11-2003, 16:21

ha ha. very hamusing.

www.buzzmachines.com

Benneh

22-11-2003, 10:52

RenamerFairy http://www.olliholliday.co.uk/renamerfairy/

Mooncat

24-11-2003, 11:00

Fantom (fantomcd.copystar.com.tw/enu/) lets you to copy CD image files (such as MDS, CCD, CUE, ISO and BWT) onto a virtual CD-Drive and use them as if it was the real CD in there.

*cough cough* :D

PS - you have to get it from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1695 now

grubby local

09-12-2003, 15:26

this thread has changed my computing life. thanks top tippers!

mac users:

amazing 3D walkthrough gallery for your pics (shareware):
http://www.davidahmed.com/
nb check out the rest of this dude's site, all well-made stuff.

save yourself arsing about naming a freshly downloaded batch of dig pix with picture namer:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13101

added thumbs up for the aforementioned:
www.macupdate.com for, erm, all mac updates
www.limewire.com for mac p2p

still searching for a skype equivalent for a mac (Voip) and a good version of William's defender. anyone?
gx

kenny g

02-01-2004, 14:01

Winamp 5 is out and it seems to be a cool little media player. Also features loads of very nice broadband TV streams with all kinds of content . ;)

www.winamp.com

kropotkin

26-01-2004, 13:08

Wicked links all.
The latest excellent freeware that I have found has been GhostZilla (http://www.ghostzilla.com). This was recommended by some wicked person on U75 last week, and since then I have been encouraging all my freinds to check it out. It is a stealthed Mozilla-based browser, that camouflages web pages into whatever programs you are using (Outlook, Word, Lots Notes, Notepad) by stripping all images out of a page, taking the background and displaying the page as grey text on a white background.

The program doesn't show up in the bar on the bottom of the screen, and is accesed by moving your muse in a special way. As soon as someone comes near your desk, simply moving the mouse away from the window makes it revert back to whatever work you were doing!

Work has never been so safely filled with time-wasting Urban 75 browsing...

The actual file can be found here (http://www.officeslacker.com/download/ghostzilla-1.0-plus-install.exe)....

Addy

27-01-2004, 17:27

Heres a few goodies for audio/video/dvd stuff
Afterdawn (http://www.afterdawn.com/software/)

marts

29-01-2004, 14:26

Didn't someone offer to edit this board to just links? Its getting massive.. (i'm not volunteering btw)

gnoriac

30-01-2004, 07:41

RegSeeker from Hoverdesk (http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm) is a rather tasty registry editor / cleaner. If you visit their site with Opera, you might want to turn pictures off as there's a 100K graphic at the top of the page!

stdPikachu

11-02-2004, 14:21

I can't believe no-one has mentioned Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358).

Free, open source, plays AVI, WMV, MPEG, DVD's, Quicktime, RealMedia (audio, video), OGM, Matroska, the absolute works. In combination with ffdshow (http://cutka.szm.sk/ffdshow/) (which will decode divx's et al), it's unbeatable.

Uninstall RealOne, uninstall Quicktime, uninstall Windows Media Player. This app will do it all for you with a nice, clean, easy to use interface to boot.

Short review here (http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Jan/13/media_player_classic.html).

jon

11-02-2004, 15:31

stdPikachu

11-02-2004, 16:02

Useful tool for emailing large files. say you need to email a friend a 10MB file but their rubbish mail account has a max size of 1Mb per mail.

This will zip and compress the files and from here you can create an archive of 10 files ehich can be rejoined at the end of their journey when collected from the seperate mails.

nice :)

The completely free 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) will do all of this and more (except the archive spanning, which is coming Real Soon Now). But RAR (http://www.rarlabs.com) is the daddy of compression formats.

alco

23-02-2004, 11:39

Well I just searched the thread for "getright" and (much to me surprise) nowt came up so...

If you're on 56k like me :rolleyes: and wanna download big stuff without internet explorer screwing it up or your ISP disconnecting you 90% of the way through, you need getright (http://www.getright.com/).

It's a download manager. The biggest file I ever d/l'd on 56k was a 210Mb game demo, took about a day or summat. :eek:

Slash

23-02-2004, 13:19

...you need getright (http://www.getright.com/).

Or if you'd prefer a lightweight, open-source version (installer is 180KB!) with no spyware/adware :D , get WackGet from here (http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/)

alco

23-02-2004, 20:24

with no spyware/adware ... get WackGet

Well thanks for that link. I've tried it and tested it and yes, it's better than getright. However, I reckon you're bein' a bit mean cos getright doesn't really have adware or spyware afaik ... just annoying 'buy me' reminders.

Anyway ... wackget wins. :)

Slash

23-02-2004, 20:49

Aw, sorry Alco! :)

I haven't seen GetRight for a while, and thought it had all that nasty stuff in it, and I also did remember it being somewhat larger than it needed to be, but maybe I was a bit harsh.

:cool:

Sore_Head

23-02-2004, 22:12

For simple cd burning needs.... http://www.burnatonce.com/

alco

25-02-2004, 19:15

Anyway ... wackget wins.

After using this wackget business for a couple of days I'd add actually that it ain't so hot at "catching" links compared to getright which is kinda annoying ...

Slash

20-03-2004, 08:44

Freeware data recovery tools (http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html).

Has anyone used any of these? can recommend?

Feederdude

30-03-2004, 11:04

:p I know this is a bit off the subject but i found a program thats very similar to VIS Basic 6! I mention this to all other students alike who dont have the money to shell out for yet another microsoft overhyped and priced package, i hope this is useful,, www.Realbasic.com

feedeydudey

jms

03-05-2004, 16:06

http://www.irfanview.com/

Irfan View (if its not already on this thread)

is possibly the most useful graphics package ever
you cant edit images in it as such, but it does open just about anything, and save as just about anything, and has some very useful functions

plus it has a cool icon
and loads images almost instantaneously

jesi

05-05-2004, 00:05

stdPikachu

05-05-2004, 19:58

Don't know MPC but I bet mplayer is better... ;-)

Hmm... yes and no!

There's some things mPlayer can do that MPC can't, especially relating to piping input from your TV card straight into mEncoder and then straight into an XviD file or whatever. But...

I still have issues with mPlayers DVD playback - it doesn't handle menus very well
mPLayer still has issues with some OGM files and streams
mPlayers default interface is a bit sucky for desktop users

Generally I find Xine nicer - but don't get me wrong, mPlayer is a heck of a nice program!

Sunray

16-06-2004, 12:19

MP3 Tagging software

PsychicMP3

www.medic.dk

Uses CDDB and the dir name and stuff to accurately set the ID3 tags and seems to work really well.

Jo/Joe

25-07-2004, 15:44

www.freshdevices.com

freshdownload is a good, spyware free d/l manager. Other stuff there too.

yyz

16-08-2004, 01:52

http://www.irfanview.com/

Irfan View (if its not already on this thread)

is possibly the most useful graphics package ever
you cant edit images in it as such, but it does open just about anything, and save as just about anything, and has some very useful functions

It also has a lossless rotate plugin available, which is very good news indeed for when you want to rotate jpegs without murdering the quality.

consumer135

22-08-2004, 16:45

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Many sites e.g. news sites require you to fill in annoying registration forms before viewing their content. Bug me not automaticaly fills them in based on a shared database of passwords.

Divisive Cotton

24-08-2004, 00:46

Read through the thread and as far as I'm aware nobody has posted up about the following spyware protectors. Although Spybot is very effective at removing existing spyware, these two products act as a firewall to prevent anything creeping into your pc in the first place. I use both of these and would recommend them -

Spyguard (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html)

Spyware Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html)

stdPikachu

24-08-2004, 00:51

Spybot has an "Immunise" function as well ;)

yyz

24-08-2004, 00:55

Spyware Blaster's is better, in fact S&D recommend Blaster if you read the info on the immunize section.

mhendo

24-08-2004, 07:13

It's amazing the depths i will sink to when i'm trying to avoid doing some real work. I decided, in a fit of procrastination, to compile all the links in this thread and put them on a single, very basic webpage for convenience.

You can view the page here (http://myweb.jhu.edu/hendo/urban75.html).

I thought it was easier to make a separate webpage, rather than to make a long post in this thread. I'll keep an eye out for more suggestions in the thread, and will post them to the page periodically.

Some of the categories might be a bit off. In particular, the "System Hardware and Software Monitoring; Privacy/Security Tools; Auditing Tools" section turned into a bit of a catch-all for a whole bunch of stuff. If you have any suggestions for improving the layout, i'd be happy to hear them.

Some of the suggestions from this thread didn't make it onto the page, mainly because some of the links appeared to be broken, or to lead to non-existent pages. If i've missed one of your suggestions, and you think it needs to be up there, please let me know.

The page is currently hosted on my free university webspace. If the editor thinks that this page would be useful, he's free to copy the source code and create a page on the Urban 75 website.

bristle-krs

24-08-2004, 07:26

nice one!

Divisive Cotton

24-08-2004, 11:27

'Spybot has an "Immunise" function as well'

Together with Spyware Blaster and Spyguard you should be able to block 99.9% of adware - you will only need to do a Spybot search once in a while.

bang

26-08-2004, 14:11

mhendo nice one two three

sumimasen

27-08-2004, 09:06

Bob Marleys Dad

27-08-2004, 09:22

kiyut

27-08-2004, 16:36

Vector Drawing aka Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand
- Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor. http://www.kiyut.com/products/sketsa/index.html

ResistanceMP3

28-08-2004, 18:39

Use this link below to convert your dvd's to xvid in one very easy to use programme no crazy settings

Auto GordianKnot DVD2Avi (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64266) Converter Get stable release v1.0

Tutorial for above app very very simple to use

AutoGK Tutorial (C:\Program Files\AutoGK\help\AutoGK.html)
You will also need DVD decrypter http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

AutoGK will convert to Divx or Xvid in various sizes eg
1CD 700MB rip,
2CD 1400MB rip,
3CD 2100MB rip,
1/4 of a cd 175MB
1/3 of a cd 233MB,
1/2 of a cd 350MB,
All with either MP3 VBR or AC3 audio. And it splits the files automatically for you if it's a 2 or 3 CD Rip and it never makes an oversized rip that wont burn to CDR eg 703MB wont burn to cdr this never happens with this app

Oh and it makes all the settings for u including bitrate and resolution hence the name AutoGK it's a dream for DVD2AVI conversion. Basicalyy u can convert from DVD to a 2CD AC3 Xvid rip in honestly about 5 clicks of your mouse. Now thats quality And so are the copies it makes give it a go guys You will not regret it and never look back.

Not sure wheter resulting cd's can be played on your TV DVD player, but 1cd made an excellent xvid backup that worked on the PC.

Addy

29-08-2004, 15:33

Operating Systems

Red Hat Linux http://www.redhat.com/
Mandrake Linux http://www.mandrake.com/

Software

Must have tools
Adobe Reader http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Office
Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/

DVD tools
DVD decrypter http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
DVD shrink http://www.dvdshrink.org/
Dvd2avi http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/
Nero burning rom http://www.nero.com
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

FTP tools
AceFTP http://freeware.aceftp.com/

P2P tools
Azureus Bit Torrent Client http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/

Media players
Real Player Alternative http://www.free-codecs.com/download...Alternative.htm
Quick Time player http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

Internet Browsers
MyIE2 http://www.myie2.com/
Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Math Graphing Tool
Graphmatica http://www8.pair.com/ksoft/

Firewalls/Anti Virus
Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/

Benchmark tools
3d mark 2001 / 3dmark 2003 http://www.futuremark.com/
Aquamark http://www.aquamark3.com/
Sandra http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/

Games
America’s Army http://www.americasarmy.com/
Runescape MMORPG http://www.runescape.com

Tweak tools
tweakUI http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...s/powertoys.asp
memtest http://www.memtest86.com/

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/

3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-s...ple/index.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cu...p/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

Download managers:
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
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ripped from another forum ;)

kained&able

02-09-2004, 14:58

http://www.free-av.com/

deceent virus checker also protects from dialers.

dave

Divisive Cotton

05-09-2004, 12:31

KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/

Downloaded the above free software and with it came Dropper.Small.5.J. trojan horse - not difficult to remove, but not very nice all the same.

kained&able

05-09-2004, 13:00

umm why woudl we want to downlaod it then????

ahh shit i see you mean its off the list and don't. ooops

dave

spudulike

06-09-2004, 12:38

For WIndows 2000 & XP only, found the link on "The Register"

prevx (https://www.prevx.com/homeoffice/homeoffice_homedownload.htm)

nostrilhead

09-09-2004, 11:37

The provided link on the page compiled by your forum: -

http://myweb.jhu.edu/hendo/urban75.html

is incorrect, where it provides a link for soulseek in the p2p section.

The old url www.slsk.org , is now owned by someone trying to make money from the unsuspecting, by charging for the software.

The correct site address is now www.slsknet.org , where soulseek is of course freeware.

Thanks.

stdPikachu

09-09-2004, 13:11

For WIndows 2000 & XP only, found the link on "The Register"

prevx (https://www.prevx.com/homeoffice/homeoffice_homedownload.htm)

I thought the definition of a 0-day was an exploit that practically no-one knows about. How can this software patch windows faster than Microsoft can? I smell the sweet aroma of snake oil...

kained&able

13-09-2004, 12:56

a great little programme

http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

it stops any unknown BHO type files being enabled it also investiagtes new ones and does loads of cool things.

very impressive, although slighly annoying that it refuses to upgarde unless your logged in as admin.

dave

Divisive Cotton

18-09-2004, 11:12

Hello, I don't know if this has been posted before, but AdFree seems to work particularly well if you use dial-up - blocking commercial banner ads it makes download time faster. Only just installed it a couple of days ago, but it can be downloaded here (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22475,tk,hsx,00.asp).

stdPikachu

18-09-2004, 16:45

You could just use the AdBlock FireFox extension, or Opera's filter.ini, or your hosts file...

Divisive Cotton

18-09-2004, 16:59

I've just gone and 'borrowed' a serial key for ZoneAlarm in order to upgrade to the Pro version - AdFree works fine but it seems necessary to manually turn it on before you use the internet.

Mr Retro

14-10-2004, 19:32

mhendo

14-10-2004, 20:25

Just noticed this - Brilliant stuff. Thanks.Thanks for the kind words.

Since i posted, people have made other suggestions, and a couple of corrections, and i haven't yet had time to update the page. I'll do it as soon as i can.

cheers.

ska invita

06-11-2004, 10:25

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Allows you to translate into, or out of, any of the worlds major languages.
particular favourite for negotiating Russian and Chinese crack-software sites, but handy tool all round.

CAn translate a whole page if required...check it>>>
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

maomao

12-11-2004, 15:54

After formatting my c drive by mistake and having to start from scratch I have just repopulated my computer with just about everything I need thanks to this thread. :D

But no-one's mentioned videolan (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) :eek:
For all those dodgy films that just won't play with anything else. ;)

mhendo

15-11-2004, 05:15

Just what we need—a fucking spamming cunt. :mad: :mad: :mad:

stdPikachu

15-11-2004, 15:03

Just what we need—a fucking spamming cunt. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Huh?

tomas

15-11-2004, 15:11

Huh?
been removed now

mhendo

15-11-2004, 15:20

Huh?There was a long spam post right above mine. The editor must have deleted it, and now i look like a tosser.
:)

easy g

15-11-2004, 15:25

try this...

http://urban75.net/vbulletin/images/buttons/edit.gif

:p

stdPikachu

15-11-2004, 16:01

Phew, that's a relief. I thought you were angry at maomao for advocating VLC over the One True Media Player To Bind Them All (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) ;)

maomao

19-11-2004, 09:29

Phew, that's a relief. I thought you were angry at maomao for advocating VLC over the One True Media Player To Bind Them All (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) ;)

So will media player classic play a preview of a file I'm downloading when it's on ly 2 mbs in. Will it? Will it?

Ok, so it's got a shit interface (though it's got much better, still can't pull up controls on full screen) but it's still good to have as a backup.

And it does look like mhendo's calling me a cunt :D Hey! Fuck you too!

sumimasen

19-11-2004, 14:15

Want to fall asleep to a film? Downloading something big but you have to go to work and don't want to leave your PC on all day?

http://yasoft.km.ru/eng/switchoff/

Taking from the website:
"Switch Off is a tiny easy-to-use tray-based system utility that can automatically perform various frequently used operations like shutdown or restart your computer, disconnect your current dialup connection, lock workstation, etc. It also provides fast access to this operations through system tray icon. Utility has fully customizeable Web interface, that allows you to initiate operations mentioned above remotely from any computer with web browser installed. Web interface includes WAP support, so you can control your computer from mobile phone."

COBALT_Blue

25-11-2004, 13:29

Here is a UK site which is very new and which lists a lot of freebies and programs etc. Might be useful

http://www.conky.co.uk

:)

easy g

25-11-2004, 16:20

mhendo

25-11-2004, 16:25

getting a 404 on this now????Oops, sorry.

I was messing with my web space and accidentally deleted it. It's back up now.

Sometime in the next week, i'm going to update it with the suggestions that people have posted since i first put it up.

easy g

25-11-2004, 17:03

nice fast resonse :D

cheers mush!!

anyone got good recommendations for usenet readers?

tomas

26-11-2004, 08:42

mozilla works nicley in my experiance.

nellyphant

03-12-2004, 13:53

Anyone know of a good mp3 splitter? :D

stdPikachu

03-12-2004, 15:27

Audacity

Tricky Mickey

07-12-2004, 01:57

for a 20k download, this seems to work a treat
http://www.enigmarelle.com/sw/download/BroadbandOptimizer.dmg.gz

just put in on my office 256kb shared adsl and it works nicely.

tmx

BollyCake

19-01-2005, 20:52

just wundrd if anybody knew of any program i can download so that i can copy dvd's that are copy protected. :eek:

stdPikachu

19-01-2005, 21:00

just wundrd if anybody knew of any program i can download so that i can copy dvd's that are copy protected. :eek:

SmartRipper and DVDdecrypter will both do this.

BollyCake

19-01-2005, 21:06

exxxxxxxxxcellent. :)
any links? :rolleyes:

mhendo

19-01-2005, 21:15

exxxxxxxxxcellent. :)
any links? :rolleyes:Two things:

1. These programs have already been linked multiple times in this thread, and on the webpage (http://myweb.jhu.edu/hendo/urban75.html) i made that contains all the software from this thread.

2. There's this really amazing thing on the internet. It's brand new and very secret, so you may not have heard of it. It's called Google (http://www.google.com), and if you place your terms in the search bar, it can find all sorts of stuff for you.

And what do you know? If you put "dvd decrypter" in Google, the first link you get is—wait for it—the DVDdecrypter home page. Amazing, huh?

And if you put "smartripper" into Google, the first link you get is a place where you can download SmartRipper.

Whodathunk?

BollyCake

19-01-2005, 21:33

...sooooo, have ye gotta link for this goggles thingy then??? :p

heh heh, kiddin.
thanks for help.
(didnt mean to raise yer blood pressure)
:)

mhendo

19-01-2005, 21:39

No problem. I was just funnin'.

Once you've ripped your DVDs to your hard-drive using DVD Decrypter or ShartRipper, you might need to shrink and/or edit them to burn them back to a regular DVD (unbless you have a new-fangled dual-layer DVD burner).

If you need to do this, DVD Shrink (http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html).

BollyCake

19-01-2005, 21:45

;) and ;)
even exxxxxxellenter :cool:

thanks again :)

ch750536

10-02-2005, 21:47

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/

& this

http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=fileinfo&parent=folder&filecatid=1871

=this :) ;) :D :eek: :)

mickskyvitch

19-02-2005, 16:24

Satellite zoomerinner (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4499.html) This is very big(175 meg) but free and very cool :cool: :)

BollyCake

19-02-2005, 23:29

Satellite zoomerinner (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4499.html) This is very big(175 meg) but free and very cool :cool: :)

nice un micky.

are there any more satellite sites that give super high definition when zooming in??

Xanadu

21-02-2005, 00:10

I'm surprised noone's mentioned cygwin here!

http://www.cygwin.com

It basically gives you a linux shell environment in windows.

You'll even be able to take certain linux programs (the ones that have source code available) and recompile for use under windows. If you fancy trying out some funky shell scripting, it's a good way to start, without having to install linux. You can get perl, php, and all manner of other scripting/programming environments running on it. I use the ssh server included to great effect, especially since it includes an sftp server.

This has probably been mentioned, but if you want free open-source software, take a peek at http://www.sourceforge.net

Sunray

25-02-2005, 15:48

I was looking for a batch MP3 bitrate converter. Posted and searched and nothing.

Discovered a new searching technique on Download.com , order the search by the number of downloads. The top 3-4 programs are usually free and do what you want.

I found dbPowerAmpMusicConverter. Fantastic. Was free but the encoder has become shareware, but you get 30 days and your unlikely to need more than that.

clownhabits

03-03-2005, 04:17

I was looking for a batch MP3 bitrate converter. Posted and searched and nothing.

when you say batch, you mean you pick some files, pick your settings and leave it do all the files?

and when you say bitrate converter you mean just to convert mp3 from one bitrate to another?

if so then Switch (direct download link) (http://www.nch.com.au/switch/switchsetup.exe) is freeware. it's a direct download because their site asks you for email to get install instructions and i don't know if that suits you. anyway i think it'll do what you want and it's very easy to use. best audio converter i've used. if i remember it does have some thing about popping up a little box to tell you to buy the pro version or whatever.

ecadre

03-03-2005, 15:58

The Opera web browser from;

http://www.opera.com

I like it so much that I paid for it :)

Gosh, how things change!

My present recommendation........... GNU/Linux

I use Suse 9.2, free as in freedom and free speech!

stdPikachu

04-03-2005, 08:32

My current recommendation: Linux and Opera :p

As my current broswer tags will verify:
User-Agent: Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en]

LostNotFound

02-04-2005, 14:26

Cant delete a file cause its in use?

Find out whats locking it!

http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/

Genius!

Addy

03-05-2005, 16:24

Need a serial, keygen, crack or cd/dvd cover?
You need Craagle (http://www.geocities.com/addict2_uk/)

ecadre

29-05-2005, 20:03

My current recommendation: Linux and Opera :p

As my current broswer tags will verify:
User-Agent: Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en]

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux 2.6.8-24.14-default) (KHTML, like Gecko)

:p

Tricky Mickey

07-06-2005, 21:27

Cabos, OSX file-sharing app based on Aquisition and Limewire. Not too flashy, and seems to get better search results than Limewire/Aquisition. Free, no nags/ads.

mhendo

16-06-2005, 05:12

As a couple of people have already worked out, the webpage i put up with links from this thread is now at a new web address.

https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/myweb/hendo/urban75.html

I'll try to get around to updating it sometime in the next few weeks.

firky

08-07-2005, 16:09

Need a serial, keygen, crack or cd/dvd cover?
You need Craagle (http://www.geocities.com/addict2_uk/)

cdcovers.cc
astalavista.box.sk
cracks.ws
kickme.to/fosi

Addy

12-07-2005, 09:04

But Cr@@gle spiders those sites plus many more, displays the results for you to download from, all without experiencing a single pop-up ;)

Structaural

12-07-2005, 09:54

Can anyone recommend a CD/DVD cataloging (sp?) application? - I haven't been too impressed with the ones found on Download.com.

I have about 200 DVDs without any info written on them to sort out...

Structaural

12-07-2005, 09:56

But Cr@@gle spiders those sites plus many more, displays the results for you to download from, all without experiencing a single pop-up ;)

or spyware installation - I got a really persistant adware fucker from a altavista code once - hooked itself into the registry. I hadn't even allowed anything to run...

Bob

20-07-2005, 09:40

Google desktop search - does what it says on the tin - it searches your hard drive using google. If you have tens of thousands of files on your hard drive accumulated over years then this is often the only way to find things...

Structaural

20-07-2005, 09:45

easy g

20-07-2005, 09:57

does it? good job I haven't put it on...anyone recommend a good desktop search..I've tried coperic but didn't like it..

kained&able

20-07-2005, 10:21

Structaural

20-07-2005, 10:29

does it? good job I haven't put it on...anyone recommend a good desktop search..I've tried coperic but didn't like it..

the other annoying thing about googledesktop search is if you disable it - it doesn't update itself - so anything you changed/added when it was down is ignored.
Haven't found anything that works as well though - I still kind of use it, Blink is shit.

Celt

24-07-2005, 02:50

mhendo

24-07-2005, 05:09

that link appears to be dead :confused: Sorry.

My university migrated my old web pages over to a new server. The new url for the page is:

https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/myweb/hendo/urban75.html

easy g

24-07-2005, 08:14

crackin' job mhendo :)

Bob

24-07-2005, 14:08

bear in mind that it interferes with BitTorrents...

Aargh. I've just got a new computer so hadn't actually got round to installing it - that's really annoying - a choice between two really useful things. Oh well there goes using Google desktop. Anyone else got a good alternative?

LostNotFound

24-07-2005, 16:35

this is a really good bit of software. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4176.html

basicly it puts an extra task bar on the top of your windows screen like a mac.

shit descritption danm useful.

dave

http://www.majorgeeks.com/screenshots/a/aquadock.gif

when your windows desktop looks like that, i think it's about time you admit defeat and buy a mac ;)

Drarok

05-08-2005, 13:12

http://www.majorgeeks.com/screenshots/a/aquadock.gif

when your windows desktop looks like that, i think it's about time you admit defeat and buy a mac ;)

You think that's bad?!

Looky here: Click Me (http://www.poddle.net/~strych/pictures/screens/osxp.jpg)

Now THAT is serious effort.

ricbake

09-08-2005, 22:11

The internet man BBC 2 now

Addy

28-08-2005, 19:27

End a process that is in use....

Try this utility (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.7.1.exe)

Website (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/)

mb1

09-09-2005, 22:24

Addy

14-09-2005, 19:06

Depends on OS, Uni security policy/software and your understanding.
First trial is to to use a proxy.

badly drawn cat

27-10-2005, 08:07

anonymiser - Tor
http://tor.eff.org/

and a proxy to go with it
privoxy
www.privoxy.org

_pH_

30-10-2005, 18:13

I've been using the free 30 day trial of TuneUp Utilities (http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/) and it's excellent. Really simple GUI and very comprehensive. I may buy it after the trial is up, but then again it's done what I wanted it to so I may not bother :p

StuPC

10-11-2005, 09:12

Opera Mini (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/)
A bit like the Opera browser on your PC...but on your mobile! Any Java mobile!

It's not 100% perfect yet, but it's getting pretty close!
Great thing is the trick of "streamlining" websites before you download them to your mobile, thus saving money on data charges. :cool:

twister

27-11-2005, 16:14

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

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Addy

10-12-2005, 07:51

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.
:)

Divisive Cotton

12-12-2005, 12:07

Anybody else here having trouble with Craggle? Downloaded a new copy but it doesn't seem to work :confused:

Structaural

14-12-2005, 14:34

I've never had much luck with it - seems to freeze alot.

Addy

16-12-2005, 16:19

I use Cr@@gle 1.91 with no problems.
You do have to be patient though if you hit ESC to stop a search.

rhod

21-12-2005, 15:13

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

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Thanks for that link, twister - very informative.

Also anybody tried Yahoo Widgets (http://widgets.yahoo.com/)? Some rather nifty desktop enhancements.

huckster6

28-12-2005, 16:34

CP/M.

:p :D
I got a couple of Acorn Archimedes machines running early versions of RISCOS...but, as Marjorie Dawes told her sister, "that's not for here..." I hardly ever turn them on, but they're a sad reminder of what might have been for the British computer industry.

FREEWARE:
This much I know, which I hope helps.... I regularly use "STUMBLEUPON" for fun...it's free and fabulous. There's even a free advice role model in London, who I tried to emulate in the recyclestuff forum-- till I encountered ms grumpy!
See link below:

http://mr-helpful.stumbleupon.com/

I got stumbling from a mention on BBC World Service's Kate Russell on the ClickOnline show. That's a fabulous bit of 'freeware' you can access from your computer:

http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonline.asp?pageid=666

GoDigital also has interesting stuff:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm

Slightly off the point, but there is also another altruistic site here, that proposes doing stuff for free:

http://www.actsofkindness.org/

A man calling himself Gizmo Richards does a brilliant free freeware/shareware newsletter at this link:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/

I find the non-commercial side of the www really inspiring. I don't have any original contributions but I hope the above might interest somebody.
Yo!
Huckster, Balham SW12

moon

28-01-2006, 16:12

http://www.mixmeister.com/download_freestuff.html
his is a free program you can use to determine the exact BPM (beats per minute) of any song. BPM Analyzer allows you to:

* Calculate extremely accurate BPM counts for any song.
* Drag and drop music files from Windows Explorer.
* Display and sort files by Title, Artist, or BPM.
* Update ID3 tags in your music files with exact BPM information.
* Easily print BPM reports for your entire music collection.
* Export BPM counts for use in other programs.
* Free to use and distribute for non-commercial purposes.

redsnapp