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[rudeguy]

didnt scroll through the whole thread, but here is a good system monitoring tool. sysmetrix is a lot easier to use than yz dock or coolmon, and it has easily upgraded skins...its freeware too...enjoy!

 

[SoylentGreen]

Looked through the threads and automatic wallpaper changer links all seem to be defunct.

Found this good FREEWARE version. It's a german site but the app is in english.

http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/

 

[MarcoPon]

It's my first messagge, so Hi to all!

Here's a little freeware command line tool I'm developing: TrID.
It can recognize a file type without looking at his name or extension, but searching for some binary signatures/patterns.
I think it could be handy when you download a mis-named file from somewhere, or don't know what application procuded some file, and so on.

The Data Base of file types is XML based and extensible, so I'm looking for someone's efforts to contribute and expanding it (credits will be given on the following URL). Here's the actual list of supported/knowed files: http://mark0.ngi.it/soft-trid-deflist.html
And here's the home page for TrID: http://mark0.ngi.it/soft-trid-e.html

Any comment welcomed!

Bye!

 

[gizbug]

popupcop so when I look at pr0n, i don't have all that pop-up bu||sh|t

 

[TP]

good freeware wallpaper changer app called WinWall: http://www.desktopchanger.com

 

[WolverineGator]

QCD Player 4.0 The player that is better than WinAmp.


QCD has full support for most audio formats, includes crossfading, gapless CD Audio playback, a powerful batch tag editor, and excellent CDDBv2 integration.

QCD has a fully skinnable interface that covers a powerful plug-in architecture. QCD's flexibility allows it to be as simple or as feature rich as you like.

QCD is FREEware. It contains NO spyware, adware, or crippleware.

CD ripping, FREE MP3 encoding, mp3PRO support, and a bunch of enhancements to make your music playing days a little brighter.

 

[Blain]

Photocopier 2.26 - It turns your PC/scanner/printer into a copier, and it's free.

Another vote for Irfanview. I use it almost exclusively for my regular image editing.

 

[chansen]

AllSnap - AllSnap is a small system tray app that makes every window snap like they do in programs such as Winamp or Photoshop.

 

[modestninja]

Originally posted by: breathe

BearShare: An excellent software, with a stupid name. Downloading music & music from the Gnutella network is better than Napster ever was... If you don't agree - then you might be using the using the wrong Gnutella client. Check out BearShare and you'll never look back...

You do know BearShare has spyware imbedded into it, right?? It did last time I checked it out.

I dont know if anybody has posted this:

Kazaa One of the best file sharing systems Ive found lately...

-Kazaa has spyware, Morpheus is the same thing without the spyware.

When installing kazaa you can disable it....I read it wasn't the same in bearshare. Morpheus had bugs last time i tried it, it wouldnt search right, but kazaa worked fine.

Not sure if this was mentioned or not as I haven't read through the whole thing but Kazaa lite ( Kazaalite ) has no spyware and plenty of features that make it much better than kazaa or morpehus.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned.

 

[lchyi]

I'm sure this has been posted somewhere in this gigantic thread.

Go to Download.com and search for TrueSpace3. It's a free 3d rendering program, huzzah!

 

[Schnieds]

----> FREE ANTI-VIRUS <-----

Go to www.grisoft.com and get AVG anti-virus.

Features:
-Up to date virus definition updates.
-Scans real-time, web, and e-mails.
-Small footprint and very fast.

I have been using this anti-virus app for a while now. I can't believe they offer such a nice anti-virus program with updates for all the latest viruses for free. AWESOME app!

 

[eriqesque]

Nifty little proggie for laptop usersmonitors cpu speed and battery for XPSpeedswithXP

 

[Sabredan]

A few of my fav apps:
- TextPad: Great text editor, syntax highlighting, DOS/Unix ASCII support and MUCH more
- HideOE: Hides Outlook Express to the systray and pops up a message box when you get new email
- Treesize: See graphically the disc usage of any drive or folder
- WinISO: Manage ISO images

Cheers!

 

[WolverineGator]

mp3Gain - Lossless normalization of mp3 audio files.

The changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.

 

[thorin]

Thought I'd post the list here too since I just posted it on another board.

Updated: Aug. 29th 2003 Update(s) will be colored red until the next update.
Note: 90% of the software on my list is Free or OpenSource.

Media
? WinAmp 2
- Audio Media Player
http://www.winamp.com
? MilkDrop
- Excellent Visualization Plugin for WinAmp
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/milkdrop/
? Resumer
- General Purpose plugin for WinAmp, remembers your play location between WinAmp sessions
http://classic.winamp.com/plugins/detail.jhtml?componentId=27878
? M3U2SB
- Wonderful NetMD application that automates Nero Drive Image/Daemon Tools to Simple Burner method of avoiding crappy check-in/check-out (OpenMG method....ick)
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/paolose/index.htm
? EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
- CD Audio > WAV or MP3 ripper
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
? WinLame
- Audio Encoder/Converter
http://winlame.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=archive

Utility
? SpeedFan
- MBM Alternative that uses ALOT less resources
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
? ProcessExplorer
- TaskManager replacement, allows you to see what registry entries, dlls, etc a process has hooks into
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
? TweakUI
- OS Tweaker
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
? MemTest86
- RAM Tester
http://www.memtest86.com/
? DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke)
- HD Data Destruction (great for when you sell things or move an old system to the "curb")
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
? Ranish Partition Manager
- DOS based partition manager (create, resize, delete), NTFS, FAT16/32, etc...
http://www.ranish.com/part/

Network / Communications
? TightVNC
- Virtual Desktop application for remote system administration, etc...
http://www.tightvnc.com/
? CryptCat
- Network discovery app (encrypted version of netcat)
http://farm9.org/Cryptcat/
? FileZilla
- FTP Client & Server [seperate packages]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
? Miranda
- Multi-Network IM Client (ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, etc....)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq
? Putty
- Telnet/ssh client
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Distributed Computing
? UD Agent
- Cancer research in idle cycles
http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm
? UD Mon
- Allows WU spooling for UD Agent, etc
http://distributed.org.ru/?udmon

Application
? WinGIMP
- OpenSource graphics editing package with at least 85% of the functionality of Photoshop
http://www.wingimp.org/
http://www.gimp.org/
? ACDSee Classic
- Multi-Format image viewer
http://www.acdsystems.com/English/Products/ACDSee/index

Thorin

 

[Muse]

Brightness Controller - Free download.

I just made a very interesting discovery. One of the neat features of my NEC FP2141 22" aperture grille CRT is a free download called Brightness Controller. I just discovered to my surprise and delight that it also works with my new Planar PX191 LCD, and I presume with other monitors too. What it does is allow you to run your video applications (such as movies or TV from a TV card, etc.) at full brightness and at the same time have your other applications run at any brightness level you want. I like to turn up the brightness when watching video but have my applications dimmer, and it was just such a preference that Brightness Controller was created for. It's very easy to use. It creates an icon in your tray. You click it and either check a checkbox or uncheck it to enable or disable Brightness Controller. When enabled, you adjust a slider with your mouse to boost or diminish the brightness of your non-video applications. The brightness of the video applications remains the same.

You OWE it to yourself to try this utility !!!

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
didnt scroll through the whole thread, but here is ... snip.

Hey, people, there's no need to scroll through a thread to find things. Just click the icon at the top right to create a printable version of the thread and then search THAT. That way you avoid having to search each page of posts in the thread for an exhaustive search. IOW, Control+F (Find) in the printable version. This makes it a complete snap to find out if something has already been mentioned in a thread.

 

[bleuiko]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: rudeguy
didnt scroll through the whole thread, but here is ... snip.

Hey, people, there's no need to scroll through a thread to find things. Just click the icon at the top right to create a printable version of the thread and then search THAT. That way you avoid having to search each page of posts in the thread for an exhaustive search. IOW, Control+F (Find) in the printable version. This makes it a complete snap to find out if something has already been mentioned in a thread.

HAHA! wow.. didn't know that =)

 

[thatsright]

ieSpell

Man, what a time saver!! This Internet Explorer add-on applet is akin to the Spell check in MS Office, and many other Windows Applications. I use it every time, right after I'm done entering in text into the 'Message Text' box of the endless # of web forums I will write in. Before I found this program, I would have to first type my rant into MS-Word, then run the Grammar/Spell check function, and then cut>paste it into the forum reply field on that web site.

Of course its not as high-powered as whats available in the MS-Office suite, but it has a custom dictionary and does a good deal of the other MS-word features, so thats good enough for me. Now I don't have to have MS-Word open at the same time when I want to post stuff online.



Get the ieSpell program here. Its freeware. Can't get any better than that!

 

[lucky9]

i've used this and it's great with the old one on 98 thru 98se, don't know about 98me. the new version soesn't work on my system running 98se. the old one won't work on winxp. both are great progs.

 

[asdren]

http://www.poppeeper.com/

Check your POP emails in your system tray.
You can delete unwanted ones - so they never get to your actual e-mail client.
Plus if you have multiple email accounts you can color code the incoming messages.

 

[Relayer]

Radmin Like VNC but does file transfers and more. Much better than PCAnywhere.

Dameware is a remote tool that you can install remotely and has lots of other features.

 

[kloostec]

Free
Mozilla (Firebird) (Win/Lin) - better browser than IE - popup blocking, tabs
OpenOffice.org (Win/Lin) - Replacement for MSOffice
Winamp (Win) - Music
XMMS (Lin) - Music
PuTTY SSH (Win) - SSH client
AVG Antivirus (Win) - Free antivirus
ZoneAlarm (Win) - Firewall
A proper IPTables script (Lin) - Firewall
Bootvis (WinXP) - Speed up boot
EtherApe (Lin) - promiscuous traffic monitor
Kazaa Lite K++ edition (Win) - better Kazaa Lite
Vim (Lin) - A good text editor (not trying to start flamewar)
VNC (Win/Lin) - Control GUI of another machine
rdesktop (Lin) - Control Win Remote Desktop in Lin

Worth It
VMMare (Win/Lin) - Boot other OSes inside current one

 

[DOSfan]

Thanks to the wonderful suggestion by Muse, I know these have not been mentioned.

MusicMatch Jukebox - one of the best Music Players I have ever seen.

Find it here

Zip Central - again one of the best Zip programs I have found.

Direct download here

Or if you would rather go through a website.....

Both of these are completely free.

 

[TAandy]

Anyone mentioned MSGTAG yet.
It notifies you when someone opens an email you send them.