What free software are you still missing?

[Chief Suspect]

I use Firegraphic for now, and it's actually a pretty good graphics viewer.

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Just curious, Bob ... have you checked how many entries in the registry for
Firegraphic?

 

[dadiOH]

Reading the web page about this program it sounds like you have to
manually rename every one of the files it finds.
That could take a long time if there are many such files.
What is needed is a program which renames such files automatically.

Or a burning program - such as CDExtreme - which allows file names up to 212
characters. And if you exceed the alloted number, it tells you. Pretty
hard to exceed, though...

Info and d/l links in my dandies below.

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[Chief Suspect]

I have been targeted lately for spam on "nail fungus". I added the 2 words
to my filter but they are smarter than that. The last ones were variations
of "na il fung us" and each with different "froms". The body is a picture
so a word in it can't be targeted.

What I want is a program that reads the subject and will remove all spaces,
dots etc. Then "nailfungus" or "Viagra" etc, could be targeted and would
bounce. That would be easy to write. What I need is a tie-in to OE.

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What I think would be better than that is ... a program to work with the
most
popular email clients, especially OEX, and would permit creating message
filters that would work on strings found *anywhere* in the headers. For
instance, I have found a lot of spam coming from places that might read:

Received: from imo-d08.mx.aol.com (imo-d08.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.40])

Currently, you can deal only with From, To, Subj, Body ... but, with ability
to
home in on some data from one of the specific IP addresses in the chain ...

Chief Suspect

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

I tried the renamer in TC, it needs a specially written filter.
I do not know enough to write such a filter expression, and I doubt that it
can recursively go through all subdirectories.

Don't doubt, just do it <g>. Just to show you it can done very simply:
search for *.* from where you want to start,recursively so, then feed
the results to list box, then select all and choose Muli Rename...you
take it from there .

But to keep this on topic, I haven't had the time to look at the
various renamers for said feature/option, but if I where to look I
guess The Rename would be among the first on my list.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Roger Johansson]

Or a burning program - such as CDExtreme - which allows file names up to 212
characters. And if you exceed the alloted number, it tells you. Pretty
hard to exceed, though...

Info and d/l links in my dandies below.

Reading it now, nice helpfile, thanks.

A comment to Bob Adkins: Many burner programs have automatic renaming of
too long file names, so it doesn't have to be such a bad surprise at burn
time, it just takes extra time when burning.

But it would be better to fix these problems on the hard disk once and for
all, so these problems can be avoided.

I don't want to have any files with really long file names on my hard disk.

I understand that some people want to cram in a lot of information into the
file name, like title of the song, performer, recording date, etc..

They need to use a burner program like CDExtreme, which can handle such
extremely long file names.

 

[monkeyman]

Guyon Morée scribebat:

There are a lot of programs I would like to have...
Here are some of them:

<snip>

3) A program that let me include/exclude plugins from the Acrobat Reader,
so that I can choose for specific functions that are necessary for a PDF
without having to load the whole bloated stuff.

bye,

Onno

This one already exists:

Adobe Reader SpeedUp
http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

 

[Roger Johansson]

Don't doubt, just do it <g>. Just to show you it can done very simply:
search for *.* from where you want to start,recursively so, then feed
the results to list box, then select all and choose Muli Rename...you
take it from there .

But there is where I lose it
How to tell multirename to shorten filenames to say 60 characters?

But thanks for the idea to start with a search and feed to listbox, that is
a good way to select all files recursively in all subdirectories.
I didn't think about that before.

 

[John Corliss]

Done google-search and found this
http://www.interq.or.jp/www1/anzawa/tte410.exe

After translating the page, I discovered the following:
"Price * 3,000 Yen (including tax)"

Look also here for other "TrueType" utilities:
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/ttsoftware.html (not all freeware though, but
usefull list)

Thanks, but I've had that site bookmarked for years. Even been in
contact with Luc about this. There's a freeware Truetype editor
(PFAEdit) listed there, but it requires that Cygwin be installed, and
that's a real pain in the a**. Other than that, the page has no other
links to a freeware truetype font editor for Windows.

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Roger Johansson wrote in

But there is where I lose it
How to tell multirename to shorten filenames to say 60 characters?

use the range feature when you select a rename mask. Fx [N1-62] will
only use character 1 through 62 from the existing file base names. Any
names shorter than that will simply be renamed back to their original
name, any names longer will be truncated at 62. See?

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Alexei and Cory Panshin]

I am a developer waiting to get my hands on a nice project to do and
preferably release it as free. (given it is useful ofcourse)

So I was wondering, what freeware are you missing. Where are you still using
'commercial'-software because there is no decent freeware alternative?

Household-related software seems to be the biggest gap, maybe because
most freeware is produced by college-age geek guys.

I've never found a free recipe program that wasn't crude and limited.
I've even paid for a couple of shareware programs, and I'm still not
completely satisfied. What I'm looking for is something that (1) has
tree-style organization, so I don't have to scroll through hundreds of
recipes in a single huge database and (2) isn't bloated with a million
side functions (recipe planners, shopping lists, nutritional analyses.)

I've also never found a comprehensive free program for maintaining lists
of auto repairs -- one that allows for multiple cars, information on
warranties, reminders of when you're due for an oil change, etc.

A household maintenance organizer would also be great -- something that
could include a maintenance history of your house, a list of local
repairmen, plumbers, etc. with notes on who did what work (and how you
liked it and whether they overcharged), and a reminder/budgeting function
to show when major jobs or inspections will come due and how much you
should expect to pay for them.

Cory Panshin

 

[Bob Adkins]

A comment to Bob Adkins: Many burner programs have automatic renaming of
too long file names, so it doesn't have to be such a bad surprise at burn

Yea, I like my file names short and in a certain format. Sometimes I forget
to check, and start burning. Automatic renaming does not always create file
names I am happy with.

It would be nice if all burning programs had a button for "Check File Name
Compatibility" that you press before burning. I guess that really shows how
lazy I am!

Bob

Remove "kins" from address to reply.

 

[MightyKitten]

Lazy? what do you mean? you are willing to press a whole compleete seperate
button to check? I call that hyper-active! ;-) Auto check at the start of
the burning process and give a suggested name (and stting the default -
enter- button on [OK] )

MightyKitten

 

[Bob Adkins]

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Just curious, Bob ... have you checked how many entries in the registry for
Firegraphic?

I just did. Somewhere around 250! Thanks for the heads up.

In all fairness, most of the entries are for file associations, icons, and
undo. But that's still a lot of entries!

I may decide to uninstall it and just keep the EXE file. That should reduce
the registry bloat quite a bit.

Bob

Remove "kins" from address to reply.

 

[DanN]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:41:00 -0800, John Corliss
| How about a freeware truetype font editor?

This is also at the top of my wish list.




(don't live at a com or net - address listed is altered)

 

[Andreas Kaestner]

Guyon Morée ([email protected]) schrieb/wrote:

I am a developer waiting to get my hands on a nice project to do and
preferably release it as free. (given it is useful ofcourse)

So I was wondering, what freeware are you missing.

o Hard disk activity indicator "LED" in the tray notification area
(should be easy to do based on some sources from sysinternals.com)

o A program which asks for confirmation when any program
tries to access the registry (filters for read, write, keys, ...)

o A FAST registry search tool
(features as in REGDET, speed like RegShot)

o A program which logs all downloads (date, time, website),
and issues a warning when a file already has been downloaded

o A favourites (bookmarks)link checker which also
manages/maintains favicons (like FavOrg)

o A program which does the following upon a right-click
on an .exe- or .dll.file:
- extract all icons from the file
- ask to select one of the icons
- copy the icon to a default folder
- set the current folder's sys-attribute
- create a desktop.ini file which references the selected icon
RESULT: individual icons for folders

o A program which does the following:
- ask for a drive
- remove all r-, s-, h-attributes from all files on that drive
- invoke DEFRAG
- restore all attributes

o A Program which displays all used, partially used, and free
clusters on a harddrive, and which also shows all files in
a specific cluster

This would be heaven for Win9x )

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Andreas Kaestner wrote in

o Hard disk activity indicator "LED" in the tray notification area
(should be easy to do based on some sources from sysinternals.com)

Will this do:
<http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodl/index.html>
(registerware, that is: freeware but they require you to fill in their
registration to download)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Le Loup]

Le 17/03/2004, MightyKitten a supposé :

Software without current replacement:
1) MS Access! (I'currently trying Alpha Five as a possible cheaper
alternative)

I want it too !

2) Dreamweaver
(NVu and others are nice, but still have a long way to go)

Oh yes pleeeeeease !

3) I support John Corliss cry for a TTF editor
(The link given by onno Tasler gave me a corrupt exe file)

My wish too !

1) A real Small, quick and easy to use PDF Reader

Well, let's say : a good PDF creator !

And :
- a good and real replacement for MS Publisher or -better- Quark Xpress
!
(I tried some freewares, but the result was poor)
- a SWF creator
- a good SoundForge-like

That's all for the moment...
Just ship me all that stuff on a cd when it's done.
Thanks ;-)

--
Cordialement,
Hervé LOTH

LE LOUP THEATRE
2, rue Flatters 80000 AMIENS (F)
http://lelouptheatre.free.fr
nouveau spectacle : http://lelouptheatre.free.fr/TERMOR

 

[Deb]

I've never found a free recipe program that wasn't crude and limited.
I've even paid for a couple of shareware programs, and I'm still not
completely satisfied. What I'm looking for is something that (1) has
tree-style organization, so I don't have to scroll through hundreds of
recipes in a single huge database and (2) isn't bloated with a million
side functions (recipe planners, shopping lists, nutritional analyses.)

Have you looked at Accuchef (www.accuchef.com)? There's now an Express
version which is freeware. It does contain a recipe planner & shopping
list, but you can easily ignore them . It's good software, with good
support, & easy to use. And you can have as many different "cookbooks" as
you want, so no need to have all your recipes in one database.

 

[Roger Johansson]

How to tell multirename to shorten filenames to say 60 characters?

use the range feature when you select a rename mask. Fx [N1-62] will
only use character 1 through 62 from the existing file base names. Any
names shorter than that will simply be renamed back to their original
name, any names longer will be truncated at 62. See?

Yes, now I got it, thanks.

 

[cHris]

How about a freeware truetype font editor?

Ditto.

Also:

a) a free alternative for TracksEraser (http://www.acesoft.net/).
Important here, apart form the configurability, is erasing securely.

b) A good database manager (not some piece of bloatware). More than
dbEdit (Windows version), simpler and smaller than MS Access. I guess
I want a free and up to date PC File.

c) A free alternative for the file and archive manager TotalCommander
(http://www.ghisler.com/). No freeware "alternative" comes anywhere
near it in terms of features and versatility.

d) Programmer's editor. There are a number of "almost good" ones, but
no freeware "alternative" is quite like UltraEdit in terms of features
and flexibility (http://www.idmcomp.com/).

e) A programme like XDesk95. This was freeware but is payware under a
diferent name now. It's a calendar, appointments scheduler and simple,
but very handy (does tabels, goed for address books etc., even adds
columsn and multiplies rows), version of a treepad-like notes manager,
with dialing. It's certainly not bloatware, like so many PIMs. It's
the "almost perfect" PIM for me.

1) A combination of WordPad and TreePad. While having basic text editing
skills (and can use free available spell checker), it also has
additional windows to store information. [...]
Ditto

2) A program to convert any text format into any other text format.

Ditto

cHris