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[Lars]

I just created a web site with a forum and used the following free software for it:

free forum software (burning board)
portal hack for the forum

The result is in my signature.

 

[AncientPC]

<< I just created a web site with a forum and used the following free software for it:

free forum software (burning board)
portal hack for the forum

The result is in my signature. >>



I've been looking for something like this awhile ago, finally deciding on perhaps learning PHP but this rocks! Thanks for the links.

 

[Lars]

<<

<< I just created a web site with a forum and used the following free software for it:

free forum software (burning board)
portal hack for the forum

The result is in my signature. >>



I've been looking for something like this awhile ago, finally deciding on perhaps learning PHP but this rocks! Thanks for the links. >>



Yes, this rocks indeed. There are numerous hacks for the forum at wbbhacks.com (free).

 

[Becks2k]

download accelerator thingy.....

2 ways they can improve your speed

1. your dling a file at 30k on your 768down dsl line. if you find mirrors of the file it'll "split" up the file and dl parts off each mirror and then put them together when its done. So if you get 30 to that one server and 20 to 2 other servers... 70k vs 30k

2. you'r dling a file at 20k on yer 768down dsl... its 20k cause the server limits connections to 20k. So the programmy will make a bunch of connections to the server each getting 20k and you end up with uyoru full ~90k down

only time i ever use this type of program is dling linux isos.... i can never find a server i get more than 30k to, but put the iso name in and it'll find 20 mirorrs and start dling off 10 of them and my ttal down then is = to my dsl's down and i save a few hours of dling

 

[ineedsleep]

Well 4 pages.... i'll just post mine and maybe i have some that the rest missed. Here are the programs that i love

FTP Clients/Servers:

• FlashFXP http://www.flashfxp.com
• SmartFTP http://www.smartftp.com
• RaidenFTPD http://www.raidenftpd.com/en

Multimedia:

• Winamp http://www.winamp.com
• VCDGear http://www.vcdgear.com
• Nimo All-in-One Pack http://users.chartertn.net/bpearson/ (It's a package containing every codec you'll ever need)
• WinDVD http://www.windvd.com

Burning Software:

• Nero http://www.nero.com
• FireBurner http://www.fireburner.com (supports both windows and linux)

Misc Utils:

• UltraEdit32 http://www.ultraedit.com (One of the most advanced text editors for windows)
• WinRar http://www.winrar.com (advanced compression)
• WinAce http://www.winace.com
• MD5summer http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~floydian/md5 (allows you to use md5 hashes)
• WinImage http://www.winimage.com
• BinChunker 1.70 (i can't remember where i downloaded it... but i have it on disk. Do a search on google)

 

[rbaibich]

TV Tool: Cool app to get total control over the TV-Out feature of nVidia's cards. Also features simultaneous TV/Monitor option.

 

[TP]

first off, thanks to whoever posted Miranda IM. I had seen that a long time ago, but it didnt work for me at the time and I forgot about it...
I'm gonna try out weather watcher. thanks for that link.

I second whoever posted WinKey. I am addicted to that program, and suffer when I am on a machine that doesnt have it.
JV16 Powertools is another great free proggie these days I think.
Powerdesk Pro is very useful.
Motherboard Monitor/CoolMon combo is real nice...
Total Recorder all the way.
Google Toolbar is great.

Ok, here are a few coolies I didnt see posted:

Meaya Popup Ad Filter - the best of those I have tried.
MAD - input plugin for Winamp. sweet.
DMC - excellent free music ripper/converter
Hot Media - free program to stream video from a web-based java applet.
IconXtractor
Scooby'sHosts - scooby has a great host file. get it direct here:
Scooby'sHost.zip
Kill Host - keep your host file updated easily
Yankee Clipper - clipboard utility
Aligner - custom wallpaper positioning
Shortkeys
SnagIt - screen capture utility
Yahoo Companion - gotta have it
E-Icons
IconShop
ID3 Tagit
Make PDF - free tool to make pdf files
Send To Toys
ZipCentral - free archiver
WebWasher - I hope they update it for XP someday
VOpt - I hope they update it for XP someday EDIT: They released it this week! Works great.
cd2html
PocoMail - my email browser of choice, despite it's stupid name.
Powerstrip
Jezzball - just gotta Jezz sometimes

 

[TheWart]

thanks for this thread! i've found so many useful programs here, my favs are Glass2k and AIM+ !!!!!

 

[DeadManPaul]

Opera is a great browser and it includes a very stable Pop Up Stopper.

 

[kduncan5]

Well, I'm all for clearing out the useless garbage left behind by a fresh OS install, and the junk that software installations & uninstallations leave behind, so here's my personal favorites:

Clean System Directory Clears all the useless DLLs from the system directory allowing for faster program access. NOT FOR WINDOWS ME, NT, 2000, OR NEWER! If it should choose to remove a DLL that was needed by any program, it's easy to restore, as long as you don't delete 'em!!!

Easy Cleaner v1.7f Clears out pointless registry entries and excess useless garbage. WinME users will need to take note that Easy Cleaner may remove a file it perhaps shouldn't have. If so, Toniarts provides a replacement.

RegClean 4.1a Microsoft's registry cleaner, will also repair invalid entries (limited).

AdAware v5.62 Spyware removal tool. And don't forget the RefUpdate (auto referencefile updater for AdAware) located on the same page.

Xteq's X-Setup Tweak your heart out!

TweakUI v1.33 More tweaks!!

Adenix's S.M.A.R.T. Indicator Enables Windows S.M.A.R.T. display capabilities, to see how your drives are doing.....

Ultimate Boot Disk Diagnosing boot problems + all-purpose boot tool

Power Defrag v2.10 beta 2 for everyone with an older OS, where defrag takes FOREVER!!!!! WindowsME defrag tool is fast enough, IMO.....


Those are just a few that I really like -kd5-

 

[kduncan5]

Ooops....I forgot a couple:

CNet's Catchup! Updates! Updates! Updates!

PC Pitstop Find out how your PC is doing!!!


-kd5-

 

[Alternex]

I'll second the recommendation for FinePrint. I'm a college student and thus I'm always printing stuff for classes. This program lets me print 2 pages on each side of a page (it can do up to 8 per side if you want). With double sided printing I have 4 pages for every sheet, which is really great for keeping my binders from getting too thick. Lots of printer drivers do this already but FinePrint gives you more control so the pages look clean and readable.

Another cool program is BreezeBrowser which a lot of photographers recommend to automatically create HTML photo albums from pictures.

 

[stef]

<< Google Toolbaris indispensible. CookieWall works well. (cant get it to link) >>



Google toolbar is great but, Dave's Quick Search Toolbar Desktop is better does what google bar does and:

[*]Look up phone numbers and email by using # or @ ("Piper Smith (Ithaca, NY)#", "Bob Jones@").
[*]Translate between English and other languages (en, zh, fr, de, it, ja, ko, pt, es) by saying "some words en-es".
[*]Convert between currencies by saying "100 usd>gbp".
[*]Calculate math expressions by just typing them in <NOBR>("4*(pi-3)", <WBR>"pow(1.06,30)").</NOBR>
[*]A clock shows after a few seconds. Right-click to see a calendar.

and is GPL and easy to modify/update, try it!

 

[TheWart]

Thx for the link Stef!

 

[randomlinh]

slowview is a good freeware acdsee replacement.. it's filebrowsing is a bit primative, but it gets the job done. I can't get the webpage working, but you can download from webattack. they have a lot of good stuff there....

 

[RVN]

This guy, Jouni Vuorio, brought us RegCleaner which is a fabulous startup and cleanup program for Win2K and now this, his long awaited refined version of PowerTools 03 Mar 2002!

Download jv16 PowerTools 1.0.0.124

Website JV16.org


Great Thread!
RVN

 

[NicColt]

I just installed a free program called Down2Home 1.1 it calculates bandwidth usage directly from the adapter. It's able to give you MB/Day, GB/Week, GB/Month readout. Very usefull if you want to knwo your bandwidth usage.

 

[ThePresence]

Surprised no1 mentioned StartupCop.

When Windows starts up, it automatically launches a number of programs for you. Some of these come from the Startup folder. Windows also looks in six other locations for files that should be launched at startup. Startup Cop helps you handle problems with programs that are automatically launched at startup by listing them and letting you disable, enable, or delete them. You can save the list of programs that are currently enabled or disabled as a profile that can be restored at a later time. Startup Cop was written by Neil J. Rubenking, and first appeared in PC Magazine April 20, 1999.

StartupCop

 

[Turkey22]

What happened to the Sticky?!?!?!??!?!

 

[gsaldivar]

We lost our sticky!

noooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[TheWart]

We can fix that by constant bumppage

 

[starwarsdad]

We must keep this one at the top.

Before bed bump

 

[EagleKeeper]

Sticky has worn off - needs a bump

 

[TP]

Excellent freeware appage: Star Downloader.

Quote from a respected user:
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Accelerated Downloads

By splitting the files into several parts and downloading them at the same time you save time. In some cases the acceleration can be several hundreds per cent.


Dynamic Mirror Search

Alternative servers for your requested files are found and the fastest ones for your location are selected.


Built in Learning Process

The more you use the program, the faster it will download! This is made possible thanks to advanced algorithms using previous statistics.


Browser Integration

If you want, the program can detect clicks on certain file types in the most common browsers and automatically handle the downloads for you.


Advanced Scheduler

For modem users it can be very useful to have your downloads started and stopped at certain times. No problem - you decide when and what will be downloaded!


Virus Checking

Just specify the path to your virus checker and everything downloaded will pass through it to weed out any nasty virus...


All of this in a ~900KB dl, free, no ads, no spyware programme.
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[Packy]

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<< Google Toolbaris indispensible. >>



You've got that right! I can't even count how many times I use that a day. >>



heh.. I usually install it on other people's computers.

I finally snagged StarDownloader.. very nice! And of course everyone uses it, but Winamp rocks, especially with shoutcast (streaming music for those who haven't tried it... whoot!)