[PL] Program Descriptions

[Susan Bugher]

Note: PL2005 links are listed on the ACF information page (at the bottom).

Program descriptions may be submitted now. Programs must have a complete
description to be *eligible* for nomination to PL2005. See:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Procedures.php

The PL2005 Nominations page lists eligible programs and links to the
program descriptions. See:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php

When nominations open eligible programs will be listed in the first post
in the nominations thread to facilitate nominations and seconds.

IMO your favorites will have a better chance of selection to PL2005 if
you submit your program descriptions *soon*.

Questions? Comments?

Susan

 

[Henk de Jong]

Let me be the first one to respond in this thread

Firstly a little remark to the list at
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php:
Aida32 is now Everest Home Edition and available from
http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en.

Hereunder you'll find a couple of descriptions of programs I'll
nominate:

CATEGORY: Graphics
SUBCATEGORY: Editor: Photo-Paint
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): matt AT ambientdesign.com

01 PROGRAM NAME: ArtRage
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Donationware
03 OS-WIN: Win 95/98/Me/2K/XP
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: ArtRage is a free painting package that lets
you play around with realistic painting tools in a simple, intuitive
environment. ArtRage lets you paint your own picture from a blank
canvas, or load an image to 'trace' using any of its painting tools,
letting you recreate your own images as paintings. ArtRage has a
different 'look' and graphics tablets can be used.
08 AUTHOR: Ambient Design Ltd
09 COMPANY: Ambient Design Ltd
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
11 LINK: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
12 FILE VERSION: 1.1
13 RELEASE DATE: -


CATEGORY: Internet
SUBCATEGORY: Browser: Shell
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): support AT flashpeak.com

01 PROGRAM NAME: Slimbrowser
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: Win95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP/2003
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: Lots. See
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/langcredit.htm
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: Slim Browser is a tabbed multiple-site
browser. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like
built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group,
quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and
scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist /
whitelist filtering, URL Alias.
08 AUTHOR: FlashPeak.com
09 COMPANY: FlashPeak.com
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.flashpeak.com
11 LINK: http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/
12 FILE VERSION: 4.00.002
13 RELEASE DATE: August 23, 2004


CATEGORY: Internet
SUBCATEGORY: Email Spam Tool
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): michel AT undercouch.de

01 PROGRAM NAME: Spamihilator
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: Windows 95 or higher
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: Lots. See
http://www.spamihilator.com/download/langpacks.php
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client
and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails
(Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the
background.
08 AUTHOR: Michel Krämer
09 COMPANY: -
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.spamihilator.com/
11 LINK: http://www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php
12 FILE VERSION: 0.9.8.4
13 RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2004


CATEGORY: Graphics
SUBCATEGORY: Editor: Photo-Paint
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): photofiltre AT free.fr

01 PROGRAM NAME: Photofiltre
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Donationware
03 OS-WIN: Win all
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: English, French, Portugues, Dutch, German, Russian,
Czech, Italian, Spanish
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching
program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments
to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and
intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.
08 AUTHOR: Antonio Da Cruz
09 COMPANY: -
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.photofiltre.com/
11 LINK: http://photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup-en.exe
12 FILE VERSION: 6.01
13 RELEASE DATE: August, 2004

With kind regards,

--
Henk de Jong
The Netherlands
(e-mail address removed) (Remove _NO_SPAM_)
'Links to Freeware'
http://www.linkstofreeware.nl/
http://www.linkstofreeware.vze.com/
http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/

 

[H.M.A. (Dick) Hazeleger]

Let me be the first one to respond in this thread

CATEGORY: Graphics
SUBCATEGORY: Editor: Photo-Paint
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): photofiltre AT free.fr

01 PROGRAM NAME: Photofiltre
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Donationware
03 OS-WIN: Win all
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: English, French, Portugues, Dutch, German, Russian,
Czech, Italian, Spanish 07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: PhotoFiltre is a
complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or
advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on
it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning
curve. 08 AUTHOR: Antonio Da Cruz 09 COMPANY: - 10 LINK DESCRIPTION:
http://www.photofiltre.com/ 11 LINK:
http://photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup-en.exe 12 FILE VERSION: 6.01
13 RELEASE DATE: August, 2004

Let me be the first to second this one then, I will post nominations
later!

Regards
Dick

 

[Henk de Jong]

H.M.A. (Dick) Hazeleger wrote on 1-9-2004 :

Let me be the first to second this one then, I will post nominations
later!

Dick,

This thread is for program descriptions only. Nominations of programs
start after October 1st.

With kind regards,

--
Henk de Jong
The Netherlands
(e-mail address removed) (Remove _NO_SPAM_)
'Links to Freeware'
http://www.linkstofreeware.nl/
http://www.linkstofreeware.vze.com/
http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/

 

[H.M.A. (Dick) Hazeleger]

Dick,

This thread is for program descriptions only. Nominations of programs
start after October 1st.

With kind regards,

Oops.. apologies!

Dick

 

[Susan Bugher]

Let me be the first one to respond in this thread

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

FYI to all: Please submit program descriptions before the start of
nominations if you possibly can. It takes a lot of time to check and
input them. TIA

I think posting each program description separately would make it easier
for others to comment on the descriptions: suggest additional info,
corrections etc.

The files that are *listed* on the web pages are the files that will be
*downloaded* for the PL2005 CD (if the app is selected as PW and we have
the author's permission). If two files (Irfanview plugins etc.) or file
versions (WIN 9x/NE, WIN NT/2000/XP) are recommended please list both to
ensure they are included on the PL2005 CD.

Slim Browser comes in a lite (fits on a diskette) version too. Should
that be listed?

Firstly a little remark to the list at
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php:
Aida32 is now Everest Home Edition and available from
http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en.

Yah but - Everest Home Edition is considered a *new* program (it's more
than just a name change).

Hereunder you'll find a couple of descriptions of programs I'll nominate:

I guess the instructions were not *too* confusing - or perhaps only your
exceptional brilliance enabled you to decipher them - time will tell.
Very nice work Henk.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php

I've shown each web page decription below your description for
comparison (there are some additions and revisions).

CATEGORY: Graphics
SUBCATEGORY: Editor: Photo-Paint
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): matt AT ambientdesign.com

01 PROGRAM NAME: ArtRage
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Donationware
03 OS-WIN: Win 95/98/Me/2K/XP
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: ArtRage is a free painting package that lets
you play around with realistic painting tools in a simple, intuitive
environment. ArtRage lets you paint your own picture from a blank
canvas, or load an image to 'trace' using any of its painting tools,
letting you recreate your own images as paintings. ArtRage has a
different 'look' and graphics tablets can be used.
08 AUTHOR: Ambient Design Ltd
09 COMPANY: Ambient Design Ltd
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
11 LINK: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
12 FILE VERSION: 1.1
13 RELEASE DATE: -

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005GRAPHICS.php#1119

ArtRage
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP Author's note: 95/98/Me should work but are
unsupported.
Languages: English
Description: ArtRage is a painting package that lets you play around
with realistic painting tools in a simple, intuitive environment.
ArtRage lets you paint your own picture from a blank canvas, or load an
image to 'trace' using any of its painting tools, letting you recreate
your own images as paintings. ArtRage has a different 'look' and
graphics tablets can be used.
Company: Ambient Design Ltd
Home page:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/
Program description:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
download page v 1.1 (2004-08-05) (artrage_setup.msi) (1591 KB)
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

CATEGORY: Internet
SUBCATEGORY: Browser: Shell
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): support AT flashpeak.com

01 PROGRAM NAME: Slimbrowser
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: Win95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP/2003
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: Lots. See http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/langcredit.htm
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: Slim Browser is a tabbed multiple-site
browser. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like
built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group,
quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting,
online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist
filtering, URL Alias.
08 AUTHOR: FlashPeak.com
09 COMPANY: FlashPeak.com
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.flashpeak.com
11 LINK: http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/
12 FILE VERSION: 4.00.002
13 RELEASE DATE: August 23, 2004

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005INTERNET.php#0686-n

Slim Browser
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 Requires IE
4+. A few minor features may not be available under win95.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Slim Browser is a tabbed multiple-site browser. It
incorporates a large collection of powerful features like built-in popup
killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search,
auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online
translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering,
URL Alias.
Company: FlashPeak Inc.
Home Page:
http://www.flashpeak.com/
Program description:
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/
download page v 4.00.002 (2004-08-23) (sbsetup.exe) (1468 KB)
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/dlpage.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

CATEGORY: Internet
SUBCATEGORY: Email Spam Tool
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): michel AT undercouch.de

01 PROGRAM NAME: Spamihilator
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: Windows 95 or higher
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: Lots. See http://www.spamihilator.com/download/langpacks.php
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client
and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails
(Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the
background.
08 AUTHOR: Michel Krämer
09 COMPANY: -
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.spamihilator.com/
11 LINK: http://www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php
12 FILE VERSION: 0.9.8.4
13 RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2004

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005INTERNET.php#2560

Spamihilator
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95 or higher
Languages: English, language packs for many languages
Description: Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the
Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk)
will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.
Company: (Michel Krämer)
Home page:
http://www.spamihilator.com/
download page v 0.9.8.4 (2004-07-21) (spamihilator_0_9_8_4.exe) (909 KB)
http://www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

CATEGORY: Graphics
SUBCATEGORY: Editor: Photo-Paint
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): photofiltre AT free.fr

01 PROGRAM NAME: Photofiltre
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Donationware
03 OS-WIN: Win all
04 OS-NOTES: -
05 OS-OTHER: -
06 LANGUAGES: English, French, Portugues, Dutch, German, Russian, Czech,
Italian, Spanish
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching
program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments
to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and
intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.
08 AUTHOR: Antonio Da Cruz
09 COMPANY: -
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: http://www.photofiltre.com/
11 LINK: http://photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup-en.exe
12 FILE VERSION: 6.01
13 RELEASE DATE: August, 2004

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005GRAPHICS.php#2286

PhotoFiltre
(Donationware) (free for personal use)
Windows OS: Windows all
Languages: English, French, Dutch, Czech and files for additional languages
Description: PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It
allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a
vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has
an easy learning curve.
Company: (Antonio Da Cruz)
Home page:
http://www.photofiltre.com/
download page v 6.0.1 (2004-08 ) (English) (pf-setup-en.exe) (1.7 MB)
http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

Susan

 

[jo]

Program descriptions may be submitted now

CATEGORY: Desktop
SUBCATEGORY: Desktop Manager
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): heimburg AT thewonderfulicon.com

01 PROGRAM NAME: The Wonderful Icon
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: Win All
04 OS-NOTES:
05 OS-OTHER:
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES:

TWI has lots of wonderful features. With it, you can:
Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart
Windows, etc.
Automatically change your system's sound-effect files every few
minutes or every few seconds if you want!
Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the
taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a window's
Minimize button with your mouse
Configure a menu of easily-accessible commands
Increase or decrease speaker volume with the press of a button
Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them, minimize them
to the taskbar tray, etc.
Lots more!

08 AUTHOR: Eric Heimberg
09 COMPANY:
10 LINK DESCRIPTION
11 LINK
12 FILE VERSION: 2.2
13 RELEASE DATE:
14 LANGUAGE
15 FILE NAME: wondicon.exe
16 FILE SIZE: 282kb
17 LINK DESCRIPTION
18 LINK http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/pages/features.htm

 

[Henk de Jong]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

YW, YW, YW

Slim Browser comes in a lite (fits on a diskette) version too. Should that be
listed?

Haven't noticed this yet. But when somebody is interested, why not?

Yah but - Everest Home Edition is considered a *new* program (it's more than
just a name change).

There is no other conclusion possible than, that Aida32 is gone. In
this case Everest Home Edition is a doog successor. Do we have to
nominate this one, or can the name be changed? IMHO most functions of
Aida32 are also present in Everest HE.

I guess the instructions were not *too* confusing - or perhaps only your
exceptional brilliance enabled you to decipher them - time will tell. Very
nice work Henk.

Thanks. That's really good for my ego

Spamihilator
(Donationware)

Objection, your honour! According the website this is real freeware. As
far as I have seen he hasn't asked for any donation.

With kind regards,

--
Henk de Jong
The Netherlands
(e-mail address removed) (Remove _NO_SPAM_)
'Links to Freeware'
http://www.linkstofreeware.nl/
http://www.linkstofreeware.vze.com/
http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/

 

[Susan Bugher]

Haven't noticed this yet. But when somebody is interested, why not?
Okay.

There is no other conclusion possible than, that Aida32 is gone. In this
case Everest Home Edition is a doog successor. Do we have to nominate
this one, or can the name be changed? IMHO most functions of Aida32 are
also present in Everest HE.

"Da rules" this year say all programs have to be nominated and seconded
(last year most PL2003 programs received at least two seconds and the
change makes the rules simpler). Aida32 is still available in a LFW
version. IMO we need to show the two programs separately on the list of
programs that *may* be nominated.

IMO there is one PL program that should be changed now: Hosts File

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004INTERNET.php#0351-PW

ISTM we should be showing this URL - the one we list isn't being updated:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I'd better do a separate post about that.

Objection, your honour! According the website this is real freeware. As
far as I have seen he hasn't asked for any donation.

Objection overruled.

http://www.spamihilator.com/
<q>
Donate
Make a donation today to support the Spamihilator project. Thanks!
</q>

Susan

 

[Susan Bugher]

CATEGORY: Desktop
SUBCATEGORY: Desktop Manager
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): heimburg AT thewonderfulicon.com

01 PROGRAM NAME: The Wonderful Icon
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: Win All
04 OS-NOTES:
05 OS-OTHER:
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES:

TWI has lots of wonderful features. With it, you can:
Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart
Windows, etc.
Automatically change your system's sound-effect files every few
minutes or every few seconds if you want!
Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the
taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a window's
Minimize button with your mouse
Configure a menu of easily-accessible commands
Increase or decrease speaker volume with the press of a button
Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them, minimize them
to the taskbar tray, etc.
Lots more!

08 AUTHOR: Eric Heimberg
09 COMPANY:
10 LINK DESCRIPTION
11 LINK
12 FILE VERSION: 2.2
13 RELEASE DATE:
14 LANGUAGE
15 FILE NAME: wondicon.exe
16 FILE SIZE: 282kb
17 LINK DESCRIPTION
18 LINK http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/pages/features.htm

Thank you. Done- see:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005DESKTOP.php#2671

The Wonderful Icon (TWI)
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Win All
Languages: English
Description: The Wonderful Icon is a small Windows utility that resides
in your PC's taskbar tray. With it, you can: Assign hotkeys for common
tasks such as minimize windows, restart Windows, etc. Automatically
change your system's sound-effect files every few minutes or every few
seconds if you want! Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of
just onto the taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a
window's Minimize button with your mouse Configure a menu of
easily-accessible commands Increase or decrease speaker volume with the
press of a button Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them,
minimize them to the taskbar tray, etc. Lots more!
Author: (Eric Heimberg)
Home page:
http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/
Program description; download v 2.2 (2003-04-15) (wondicon.exe) (282 KB)
http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/pages/features.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

Susan

 

[jo]

Note: PL2005 links are listed on the ACF information page (at the bottom).

Program descriptions may be submitted now. Programs must have a complete
description to be *eligible* for nomination to PL2005. See:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Procedures.php

The PL2005 Nominations page lists eligible programs and links to the
program descriptions. See:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php

When nominations open eligible programs will be listed in the first post
in the nominations thread to facilitate nominations and seconds.

IMO your favorites will have a better chance of selection to PL2005 if
you submit your program descriptions *soon*.

Questions? Comments?

How has it been decided what the current nominations are? Do last
year's nominations simply carry forward?

An entirely new nomination presumably has to be submitted here using
the c+p form?

Apologies for ignorance; I've tended to ignore this stuff in the past.

 

[Susan Bugher]

How has it been decided what the current nominations are?

There are *no* current nominations -> nominations start next month. The
Nominations page lists programs that have *qualified* fot nomination
(the slate of candidates).

If a program is *not* listed on the PL2005 Nominations page submit a
description if you want to qualify it for nomination to PL2005.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php

Do last year's nominations simply carry forward?

No - but *PL2004* programs are "prequalified" for nomination to PL2005
and they are listed on the Nominations page. I'm adding other programs
as they are submitted.

Apologies for ignorance; I've tended to ignore this stuff in the past.

*Everybody* ignores this stuff (until their ox is gored).

FWIW "da rules" are here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Procedures.php

Susan

 

[Susan Bugher]

IMO your favorites will have a better chance of selection to PL2005 if
you submit your program descriptions *soon*.

Well. . . that didn't work

guess I better try something else. . .


*** SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER ***

*** ACT NOW! This offer will expire soon. ***

Submit the names and URLs for the programs you plan to nominate in
October *now* and I will prepare the program descriptions. I will *not*
have time to do that after nominations begin.

and remember. . .

Programs *must* have a complete description to be *eligible* for
nomination to PL2005. See:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Procedures.php

Susan

 

[REM]

CATEGORY: System
SUBCATEGORY: Boot Utility
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): ben(munge)@windowsubcd.com
01 PROGRAM NAME: Windows Ultimate Boot CD
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: XP
04 OS-NOTES: Requires XP install CD and SP1 or SP2
05 OS-OTHER: Should work on Win 2000
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: Create your own XP boot CD with utilities to
recover from disaster.

08 AUTHOR: Benjamin Burrows
09 COMPANY: none
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: Homepage (requested: no direct dl link)
(check and read the homepage before condsidering the program)
11 LINK: http://www.windowsubcd.com/index.htm
12 FILE VERSION: v2.1
13 RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, 2004
14 LANGUAGE : English
15 FILE NAME: WinUBCDv21.exe
16 FILE SIZE: 58,529,000 bytes (~58 megs)
17 LINK DESCRIPTION
18 LINK

17 and 18 I'm unsure of...10 and 11?

Special note: This requires Barts PE Builder also.

http://www.nu2.nu/

pebuilder3032.zip 3,062k

Barts provides a critical part of the installation program. It
instaklls some shareware utilities, but WUBCD instructions tell how to
delete these and use the freeware tools included in that package.

 

[MLC]

_Susan Bugher_, mercoledì 15/set/2004:

*** SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER ***

*** ACT NOW! This offer will expire soon. ***

LOL! In the hurry to act, I've written this description and _after_ I've
discovered that it was already PLware 2004 :-/
I post it nevertheless, so you can grab the data about the *latest* (not
*last* ) version.

CATEGORY: File Utilities
SUBCATEGORY: File Manager
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): support2 at trackerv3 dot com

01 PROGRAM NAME: TrackerV3
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: freeware for home, non-commercial use
03 OS-WIN: Win98/NT/Me/2000/XP
04 OS-NOTES:
05 OS-OTHER:
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: An Advanced File System Explorer, a real
alternative to the Windows Explorer. High end find files engine with
tremendous power and amazing speed. Instant preview of image, audio, video,
HTML, MHT, PHP files. Installing and running the program does not change
your system or registry.
08 AUTHOR: Donald Lessau
09 COMPANY:
10 LINK DESCRIPTION
11 LINK: http://www.trackerv3.com/
12 FILE VERSION: 3.60.0030
13 RELEASE DATE: 08-Sep-2004
14 LANGUAGE: English
15 FILE NAME: trkv360.zip
16 FILE SIZE: 602 KB
17 LINK DESCRIPTION
18 LINK: http://www.trackerv3.com/download/trkv360.zip

 

[Susan Bugher]

_Susan Bugher_, mercoledì 15/set/2004:




LOL! In the hurry to act, I've written this description and _after_ I've
discovered that it was already PLware 2004 :-/
I post it nevertheless, so you can grab the data about the *latest* (not
*last* ) version.

Thank you Maria.

For the benefit of others -

The list of programs that *have* descriptions is here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php

All I need is the program name and URL - *if* you submit it now - if you
wait until nominations are open you will have to submit a complete
description.

Susan

 

[Susan Bugher]

CATEGORY: System
SUBCATEGORY: Boot Utility
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): ben(munge)@windowsubcd.com
01 PROGRAM NAME: Windows Ultimate Boot CD
02 WARE DESCRIPTION: Freeware
03 OS-WIN: XP
04 OS-NOTES: Requires XP install CD and SP1 or SP2
05 OS-OTHER: Should work on Win 2000
06 LANGUAGES: English
07 DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: Create your own XP boot CD with utilities to
recover from disaster.

08 AUTHOR: Benjamin Burrows
09 COMPANY: none
10 LINK DESCRIPTION: Homepage (requested: no direct dl link)
(check and read the homepage before condsidering the program)
11 LINK: http://www.windowsubcd.com/index.htm
12 FILE VERSION: v2.1
13 RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, 2004
14 LANGUAGE : English
15 FILE NAME: WinUBCDv21.exe
16 FILE SIZE: 58,529,000 bytes (~58 megs)
17 LINK DESCRIPTION
18 LINK

17 and 18 I'm unsure of...10 and 11?

Descriptions *usually* show two URLs - home page (10&11) and download
page (17&18).

Special note: This requires Barts PE Builder also.

http://www.nu2.nu/

pebuilder3032.zip 3,062k

Barts provides a critical part of the installation program. It
instaklls some shareware utilities, but WUBCD instructions tell how to
delete these and use the freeware tools included in that package.

Thanks REM. Perhaps this should be on the "Ware ballot" because of the
shareware utilities.

Susan

 

[REM]

Susan Bugher <[email protected]> wrote:

Descriptions *usually* show two URLs - home page (10&11) and download
page (17&18).

I got you now. The author requests that home page links be given.
There are several steps required to build the CD and just grabbing the
file from a direct link would inevitably lead to frustration for those
who have not read the tutorial, which is not included in the file.

Thanks REM. Perhaps this should be on the "Ware ballot" because of the
shareware utilities.

For clarity:

Bart's PE Builder is the portion that actually extracts the Windows
boot files. The file is a self extracting file that creates a 'Plugin'
subdirectory, along with the working files. Once extracted, the
'Plugin' directory can be deleted, along with all the shareware
programs. Very easy!

The WUBCD file is also self extracting and replaces the deleted
"Plugin' directory with a slew of freeware tools. The last updated
image was from Sept. 12. New tools were added and AdAware and the AV
tool dat files were updated to this point.

Then, Bart's us used to create a bootable image with the freeware
tools from WUBCD.

From Bart's license:

"3. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any
person obtaining a copy of the Software to use, copy,
publish and distribute the Software, subject to the
conditions of this License."

I don't see a license for WUBCD, but the author states, "This is not a
product it is a PROJECT, a freeware tool.." in the forum.

The only connection to shareware is the utilities Bart's places by
default, that are easily removed and replaced.

CATEGORY: System
SUBCATEGORY: Boot Utility

I'm not so sure now that "Boot Utility" is the proper term.

"XP Rescue\Restore CD?"

It makes so many things possible I'm having a tough time defining it
briefly.

After scanning clean in AntiVir for a couple of months I caught a
bugger hiding in System Restore when booting from the CD and scanning.
It's not possible to scan in a normal boot and this is a prime hiding
place. I can now disable system restore, as the CD makes this
dangerous option moot.

Full access to NTFS volumns is provided. Spyware tools, file tools,
cmos tools, defrag tools that really defrag, linux partition browsers,
hard disk utilities, drive image and cloning tools, Win tweakers,
undelete partition, ... it's got so much that has been lacking I'm
still exploring all of the stuff on the created CD.

Anyway, this is the most outstanding project and combo of programs
I've seen. I submit it for discussion as to whether it fits in to the
realm of Pricelessware.

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

"XP Rescue\Restore CD?"

Rescue-CD/Utility-CD

or if you use "disk" you can add floppies under the same category
heading.

Rescue-disk/Utility-disk.

(note, drop XP in name, this leaves room for Linux disks under the
same heading/category. Some of those can be useful for WIN users too,
like for partitioning, formatting, disk/partition imaging etc.)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[REM]

or if you use "disk" you can add floppies under the same category
heading.

(note, drop XP in name, this leaves room for Linux disks under the
same heading/category. Some of those can be useful for WIN users too,
like for partitioning, formatting, disk/partition imaging etc.)

Very true.

System Utilities
Rescue\Restore
Boot Utility
Win
XP
9x-ME
Linux
...
Image Util
...
...

Something like this possibly?

I'm not sure if nesting that deeply is necessary. It might just be
added to the existing System Utilities page.

There might be issues with the shareware utilities Bart's PE contains
though. I hope not. This is truly priceless!