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[DTSS]

By Kevin Rose

Alcohol 120%

When I purchased my first CD-R drive (1X speed), the standard for burning CD-Rs was Easy CD Creator. Somewhere between the launch of Windows 2000 and the launch of Windows XP, Easy CD's market share started to give way to Nero's market share.

Today, Nero is my CD-burning software of choice. It's rock-solid, it's easy-to-use, and it works great for burning and backing up data and music CDs. But it can't handling copy-protected data CDs such as games.

Most new games released in the United States have some form of copy protection. If you stick a new game in your CD-ROM drive, put a blank in your CD-R, and click copy, you'll likely get errors and the copied disc won't work. The solution: Alcohol 120%.

Copy protection

There are several CD copy protection solutions, including SafeDisc, StarForce, and SecuRom. Most of these solutions work by duplicating errors. When it's created, a copy-protected data disc is burned with unique errors or physical flaws. Under normal usage these errors are ignored. But when you try to copy the disc, the CD-burning software tries to correct these errors. After receiving the first few errors, the burning software decides the disc is damaged and aborts the burn.

Alcohol 120% can duplicate these errors on new CD-Rs using a different backup method for each type of copy protection. Backing up your games is a two-step process:

You must identify the type of copy protection used on your games. But how? Use the Internet.
Fire up Alcohol 120% and select Copy Wizard.
Under Datatype choose the copy protection of your game.
Click Next and begin your burn.

Hard Drive Backup

With Alcohol 120% you can also back up and run your games on your hard drive.


1.Choose the Image Making Wizard in Alcohol 120%.
2.Choose Datatype.
3.Select the copy protection of your game.
4.Click Backup. This will create a duplicate CD image on your hard drive.

Once you have the image on the hard drive, you can mount it as a virtual CD drive and run the game directly from your hard disk. Not only does this save you from swapping out CDs, but it also runs the game up to 200 times faster than a standard CD-ROM drive.

Learn more about Alcohol 120% and download a free trial copy.[

 

[faye]

i like

MemTurbo - Release physical memory by just one click
ACDSee32 - to view Pictures.

 

[Underclocked]

Check out www.javacoolsoftware.com for some nice freeware programs. I'm using three of them.

 

[Noid]

I use this tool that queries the NIST.

It sets your clock for you.

Click on the PC software link

GMT has a set clock tool

or

GMT time program

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: bleuiko
Hey guys! Like the title says, post all you little gadgets, gizmos, and all those cool little (or not so little) programs that you use and find useful!!! Better yet if they're freeware cuz they really deserve to be noticed!

btw, don't post microsoft word or anything like that... you know, post stuff that not everyone knows about but should!!

and BUMP me! EDITED: Thanks Mods for the sticky

I'll start!!

1. AIM+ : If you use AOL Instant Messenger... this little program is a MUST! =)
It can make chat, IM windows, and buddy list transparent... and it will keep a HISTORY of your IMs (so very useful if someone IMs you something important!) And more! oh, did i mention FREE??

2. PowerArchiver : Looks like WinZip but its oh SO MUCH more!!!
Dude, once you use this program, you'll never use WinZip again... it has a similar interface as winzip but it can extract and compress sooooo many more types (ACE, RAR being a few).. also, you can extract files by right clicking them or right dragging them and select "extract here" =) damn, that's a sweet function.

That's it for now! But I need more cool toys!! POST POST POST!!!

P.S. Excuse all the exclamation points; its late and i'm on a sugar high. =)!!!

bleu

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LINKIE to most if not all of the programs - GET it HERE!!! thanks to LiveLongAndProsper

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First link doesnt work.

 

[IamDavid]

Corporate Modboot


Create a MULTI PROGRAM BOOT CD!!!
Absolutely the most useful program I have found.. Perfect for people who work on many different systems... Put Ghost, Partition Magic, Memtest, an Anti V and anything else ya want on a single boot cd..

 

[vampster]

One cool multimedia program:

VAMP Media Center - http://www.imvamp.com

I am not so good in English so I will use their official description:

VAMP Media Center is a suite of multimedia tools and toys. It includes:
- Audio Player,
- Media Organizer for your images, videos & music files,
- Photo Album builder,
- Screen Saver maker,
- Wallpaper maker,
- Media Mixer for mixing music files with visual files (images & videos) that automatically creates dynamic multimedia clips,
- Greetings Card maker,
- Clip Editor for creating musical slideshows with many transitions and special effects,
- Calendar maker.

VAMP is fully integrated and Internet aware. You can send your creations to friends. They can enjoy them without having to download VAMP.

VAMP also has a Photo Sharing online service. It allows you to start or join photo groups and share pictures. You can upload images for other to view and they can be delivered automatically to other group members' PC.

What else could you want ?

 

[demonhalo]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: bleuiko
Hey guys! Like the title says, post all you little gadgets, gizmos, and all those cool little (or not so little) programs that you use and find useful!!! Better yet if they're freeware cuz they really deserve to be noticed!

btw, don't post microsoft word or anything like that... you know, post stuff that not everyone knows about but should!!

and BUMP me! EDITED: Thanks Mods for the sticky

I'll start!!

1. AIM+ : If you use AOL Instant Messenger... this little program is a MUST! =)
It can make chat, IM windows, and buddy list transparent... and it will keep a HISTORY of your IMs (so very useful if someone IMs you something important!) And more! oh, did i mention FREE??

2. PowerArchiver : Looks like WinZip but its oh SO MUCH more!!!
Dude, once you use this program, you'll never use WinZip again... it has a similar interface as winzip but it can extract and compress sooooo many more types (ACE, RAR being a few).. also, you can extract files by right clicking them or right dragging them and select "extract here" =) damn, that's a sweet function.

That's it for now! But I need more cool toys!! POST POST POST!!!

P.S. Excuse all the exclamation points; its late and i'm on a sugar high. =)!!!

bleu

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LINKIE to most if not all of the programs - GET it HERE!!! thanks to LiveLongAndProsper

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First link doesnt work.

aim+ no longer exists. i would suggest deadaim but you have to download that at a cost of 1.50$ trillian is the best alternative.

 

[darktubbly]

Scanner...a graphical pie chart depicting all the files on your drives. You know...to see which folder is taking up the most space (*cough* My Shared Files *cough*). Very nice tool that has served me well over the years.

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

 

[globemonkey]

Hide your files in genuine looking images :
Zip/JPEG Mask

 

[NicColt]

does anyone know of a cpu utility that will only monitor the cpu usage and that stays in the systray.

 

[Underclocked]

TClockEx has provision for monitoring cpu usage and it's displayed as a line above the system clock. I think it has already been mentioned as a nice clock program.

Internet Remote Control from Bysoft.com is a pretty nice little program if you have a network and a dial-up connection. Bysoft Downloads

 

[NicColt]

Yea I've been using TClockEx for a while but the cpu monitoring doesn't work under win2k.

BTW I found what I was looking for over at 2morrow.com it's a plain little systray cpu mon program that stays in the systray. and it's free.

 

[JayPatel]

http://www.xymantix.com/sysmetrix/

wicked skinnable metering program. lots of skins available on the net.

 

[AEB]

i havent read all of these so sorry if repeat

www.analogx.com rocks

get POW http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm
the best pop up stopper in the world! you get to choose which windows to add to the list and once you add them they dont return! great for warez sitess

 

[Texun]

Did a search for WINSITE and didn't see it posted. About 30 pages of tools\apps and freeware gizmoes to check out if you're got the time.

 

[TAandy]

Would Bullfighter be of use to anyone ??

From their site

"So, we call it our online conscience. Bullfighter is software that runs in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, within Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP. It works a lot like the spelling and grammar checker in those applications, but focuses on jargon and readability. Download it for free, or order a CD-ROM/book package. Then install it."

 

[DukeN]

I duno about all the guys dissing Win Media Player..but you have to try out Windows Media Player 9..it is by far the best IMO (the only thing is its not light like winamp memory wise). How it pullsup images and album information for your mp3s, the various fx plugins sound better than winamp and the minibar mode just RULES !!!! (you have to try this..if you have win XP and MP 9, right click on windows toolbar, go toolbars and select - Windows Media Player, and when you open up Win Media Player and minimize it..the result is the BEST)!

 

[Underclocked]

New version 2.60 of Spyware Blaster is out.

 

[anomaly]

For me
Phoenix Browser, mozilla.org
Putty SSH, downloads.com this little guy is AWESOME for telnet/ssh/ssh2 etc

 

[drquest]

Here's a nice FTP server for Windows.... http://www.cerberusftp.com/

mrpeabody

 

[randomlinh]

i was just looking for one, and found that. it's a pretty nice ftp server... but is there anything freeware out there that will do bandwidth throttling?

 

[dighn]

autorefresher for ie

ie plugin that lets you automatically refresh a web page on any time interval

 

[TP]

heres a good freeware ftp server.. has throttling.. http://www.eftp.org/download.html

 

[Trenchent]

LeapFTP

Strong FTP Client with easy interface and powerful options been using it for years over anything else
BTW it's trial period is based off the windows clock you can change on your start bar heh