nellie2 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 In our travels around the web I'm sure we have picked up some really good bit's of free software.. or some that is so good... we bought it.I was just wondering what your favourite 'little' apps are.. not the big programs like Word or MSN etc.Here are a couple of mineWhisper32 - A free password managerMailwasher - I couldn't live without this program now... the £13 it cost me is money very well spent.Hoversnap A screen capture utilityPHP designer A text editor if you like messing about with this sort of stuffPixie A colour picker, I've told you about this one before!Flashpaste A copy and paste toolEdit Pad Lite Another text editorOk I've shown you some of mine, now you show me yours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Hmmmm the only ones that I have [as the others are big and pricey] are...Paint.NETIrfanview :unsure:Errr PHP Editor nel? I think it does more than just edit text, does it highlight the 'code' :eh: ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 The best "program?" I have ever used:http://www.google.comYes, it's not a program, but it has helped me find everything I have ever needed. Best part? It's FREE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Powerless..... PHP designer does a lot more than just edit text, download it and have a play with it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 OpenOffice Free office suitepicasa Photo manipulatorOfotonow Photo manipulatorpaint.net Graphics programPrimopdf pdf converterAvery Wizard Templates for Avery labelsAvery Design Pro More templates, + designs and ideas for Avery productsMSGTAG Keeps track of sent emailsGoogle Earth Satellite based world atlasStartup Inspector Controls what starts up on your computerjetaudio Audio manipulatoraudacity Another audio manipulatoracdlabs chem drawing software Specialised graphic program for drawing chemical structures. Excellent free program if you're into that kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 http://www.puzzlex.co.uk/A great little program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Shortkeys LiteClipomaticVery useful to me for many years, but both apps are a bit old. I wonder if Flashpaste, mentioned in nellie2's original post, can handle multibyte (Unicode) clipboard contents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Same as pops, I like Ofotonow. I use it almost exclusively in preference to any other program for read eye removal, and cropping. It is so quick and easy. I also like Startup Inspector. Some of those that have already been mentioned are indispensable, eg Mailwasher. Another very useful program is Dan Elwells Broadband tester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Diskeeper Lite- A lot quicker than the defragger that XP comes with.DeepBurner Free- S/w for burning audio, data and iso. discs. Easy to use. Foxit Reader- This is a PDF reader/printer. If you find Adobe Reader a resource hog, this weighs in at a mere 1.1MB download. It doesn't even install, just click on the exec and it runs B) . FreshDownload- If you're on broadband and have a lot of bandwidth to play with, then this download manager is a must. When downloading a file, FreshDownload can be configured to establish multiple connections(up to 8)so as you can download at the maximum speed your connection can handle. Driver Cleaner Pro- After removing graphics drivers via Add/Remove, sometimes there are "bits" left over that can create problems when you install a new driver, especially when you change your graphics card that's uses a different chipset; i.e.move from a Radeon to an nVidia card. This piece of s/w cleans the dross up. It also cleans up some audio and motherboard drivers. Slim Browser- If you have to use Internet Explorer, then this is a great browser that enhances it. It's a tabbed browser with loads of options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 dagwoodI have just tried Fresh Download - awesome, kersplatz, zow, corblimey.Updated my GPS unit this morning from the Garmin site - without Fresh Download the 11.3 Mb file took 11 mins 16 seconds.With Fresh Download it took 2 mins 42 seconds.Thanks for the advice - but what I will do with all the time I will save in future I am not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Just tried it and straight away uninstalled it. It tried to alter Internet Explorer settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 andsomeIt's early yet - but the only effect I have found is that the programme only kicks in when you download a file to your hard drive - and the speed is truly amazing. It has not affected any other browsing activity.What I am not sure about is whether it will be activated when Windows or my anti virus programmes are updated automatically. Like you - I am always nervous about programmes interfering with my computer - but at present I am very happy with this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 It tried to change IE setting as soon as I double clicked on the icon. Luckily I have plenty of anti spyware etc installed and received a warning of a potential registry change. I nipped it in the bud and uninstalled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 It tried to change IE setting as soon as I double clicked on the icon. Luckily I have plenty of anti spyware etc installed and received a warning of a potential registry change. I nipped it in the bud and uninstalledAndsome, all it's doing is adding an entry to your IE context menu and changes how IE will handle a download(instead of the normal Run, Save, Cancel dialogue box opening when you click on a download link when using IE, FreshDownload opens instead and confirms where/if you want to download the file).I've had this on my system for a while now and it's never been picked up by any of my malware scanners or caused me any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Thanks for the info. I will leave things as they are though. My 2MB BB is being upgraded to 8MB soon anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Thanks for the info. I will leave things as they are though. My 2MB BB is being upgraded to 8MB soon anyway.When you're upgraded andsome, you'll reap the benefit of some sort of download manager. I don't think there'll be a server that will let you download at 8mb/s, some struggle to cope with 1Mb.I started to use FreshDownload when I upgraded to a 4Mb connection because no matter what site I downloaded from, it would never download at the speed my connection was capable of. Using a download manager means I can download at 500kB/s from most sites.Like you, I'm waiting for my speed to be upgraded(to 10Mb B) ), and when it is I'm hoping by changing a couple of values in FreshDownloads options I'll be able to download at close to 1MB a second. I'm paying for the bandwidth, so it makes sense to employ a tool like this to make use of it and download s/w quicker.Sorry nellie2 for straying off topic :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I installed Fresh download and after initialising it I could not access IE at all, when I uninstalled it everything was back to normal.The strange thing is it did not affect the Opera browser which I use 90% of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Dirms and BuzzsawA couple of defrag programs that run from the command prompt for NT4 NT2000 and XP, (Sorry 98 and ME users)Aimed as a freeware replacement for diskeeper etc.My drive is pretty well defragged normally, analysed it using XP defrag before and after running Dirms, defragged it better than I've ever seen this HD defragged before (using XP analysis), can't comment on any increase in speed tho.Been using the above since discovering it back then, however I've never tried a direct comparison against diskeeper as I've found them both reliable and lightweight on resources.Latest version with a GUI require registration every 30 days :( but the the individual (original) downloads Dirms1220 and buzzsaw exe are still available and don't require registration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Not necessarily little, but... Slackware Linux :wub:Mozilla FirefoxWget for Windows - An open-source console-based download programThe Gimp - Open-source professional-grade graphics editorCygwin - Porting GNU utilities (including Bash, X11, etc) to WindowsGraphCalc - Open-source graphing (2D and 3D) calculator for Windows and LinuxBloodshed Dev-C++ - Free C/C++ IDE, among other languages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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