Your Favorite Little-Known Freeware?

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ggdbr01

I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I will hold off on my favorites for now until others have had a chance
to contribute.

Thanks again!

Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
 
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Obbop

I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I will hold off on my favorites for now until others have had a chance
to contribute.

Thanks again!

Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
Click to expand...

I shoukda' book marked the site to place here since it is rather buried
amongst similarly named programs:

Spry ImageView

A handy dandy nifty keen itty bitty picture manipulating thingy. Crop,
brighten, darken, change format, etc. Works great for basic photo
manipulations. Intuitive, easy to learn and free. Works on Win98, don't know
about XP.
 
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Richard Steinfeld

I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Click to expand...

ECCO. It's abandonware.

This is a Personal Information Manager that was the reviewed as the best
in its class -- it has a devoted following. I've used it nicely on
Windows 98se and Windows Me. I understand that it runs well on XP.

Development by Netmanage mysteriously halted before Windows 98. Despite
success, the publisher hung it out to dry and that was that. The
corporate behavior was almost bizarre, but they may have shelved it due
to some unusual contractual constraints relative to the purchase. It can
be downloaded free from the Netmanage web site.

The main functions are the usual: calendar, notepads, phonebook. It's
almost infinitely customizable; everything can be turned into an
outline. It even makes GANTT charts. It can be interfaced with certain
Palm-system palmtops, although there is a custom routine to make this
work properly. I'm using it improperly with my Handspring Visor Deluxe;
and it's working fine.

I've been using this for almost 10 years, and I still don't know all the
bells and whistles. Printer control is strange, but persistance makes
settings work out.

This is a large program with extensive capabilities. Try it; you'll be
blown away. You can also download the manual off the web site; it's
about 200 pages or so. Sorry; I don't have the exact link at my
fingertips. You can download it from the Netmanage web site, although
you'll probably need the URL in advance.

Richard
 
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Grzegorz Rumatowski

Dnia 7 Jul 2005 18:56:25 -0700, (e-mail address removed) napisa³(a):
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Click to expand...

7-zip
k-meleon
vim
 
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The Six Million Dollar Man

I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I will hold off on my favorites for now until others have had a chance
to contribute.

Thanks again!

Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
Click to expand...
Cash Manager

http://www.kreatives.org/platform/index.php?section=cashmanager

The Cash Manager is a simple financial accounting application,
designed for home and small business use. The idea is to manage incoming
and outgoing money in separate virtual "accounts", in order to keep the
overview about how much money is spent or taken in total or per category.
The program is free for personal, educational and non-commercial use.


Features:

* Manage your money in separate accounts
* Schedule automatic transactions
* Create Reports and Statistics
* Multiple Language and Currency support
* Compatible with Microsoft® Money®, Excel® and Quicken®

System Requirements:

* Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP
* Minimum screen resolution 800x600
* A properly installed HTML browser application (e.g. Internet
Explorer®, Netscape® etc.)
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Sequentialize

http://polybytes.com/download.htm
Sequentialize is a utility that can help manage large image collections
by renaming entire folders of files to a sequential numbering scheme.
Sequentialize also helps to maintain the numbering scheme when files are
added or removed from the collection.
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Tune XP

http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about

TuneXP is the official DriverHeaven.net Windows Tweaking software.
All development of TuneXP is therefore endorsed by DriverHeaven, and all
donations must be given to them.

TuneXP is freeware, and the 1.5 source is proprietary software. This
will change in version 2.0, as non-open tweaks are being removed!.

TuneXP is the single most easy and featured XP tweaker, you'll ever
find. Designed with easy-to-use dropdown menus, it will make your
Windows installation go from its sluggish state to a red-blooded,
optimized mode. All for free.
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ESCO Wallpaper Changer

http://egorov.ruslang.com/indexen.htm

Wallpaper Changer inserts a new page into the Display properties Control
Panel.
From here you can manage your wallpaper images: add or remove
individual pictures or whole directories filtered by image type.
Individual pictures can also be downloaded from the Internet or aquired
from any TWAIN source (like scanner or digital camera).
Wallpaper can be changed on Windows startup, on user logon, or according
to your own schedule.
Wallpaper Changer understands over 12 graphic file formats (including
BMP, ICO, WMF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, Photoshop PSD, Kodak PCD, PNM and
Sun RAS). It supports very high quality image resampling (fine resizing)
and colour quantization (colour depth reduction), greyscale conversion,
ability to display a one-month to one-year background calendar and
drawing text or comments of your choice on wallpaper images.

An additional feature of Wallpaper Changer is the ability to make the
Windows 2000/XP taskbar partially transparent.

For the best performance on Intel® processors and processors with MMX
technology, it is also recommended downloading highly optimized Intel
JPEG library (just extract the contents in your %WINDOWS% or %SYSTEM%
directory).

Requirements*: Windows 95 OSR2/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, Pentium-class
processor, 1.2 MB disk space.
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Fire Tune

http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

FireTune - the very first automated optimizer for Firefox
- used by more than 850.000 Firefox users -
.... and still counting ...

FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast
optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a
collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and
tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually,
which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune
helps you here - it includes all the performance optimizations. The only
thing you must do is: make your selection. FireTune does the work for you.
FireTune - The easy optimizer and tuner for Firefox v1.x

What does FireTune do?

According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed,
FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better
performance. FireTune does NOT modify the Firefox executable, or any
other Firefox binary file. Everything can be undone easily provided you
saved your original profile configuration file with FireTune's profile
backup feature before.

In most of all cases you'll notice an improved browsing speed after
optimizing Firefox with FireTune. Click here for some independant
reviews on FireTune. Or connect to the free FireTune user forum where
you can read other users experiences, or share your own with other
FireTune users.

FireTune is available for free. A free download link can be found
further below on the bottom of this page. Please note that we do not
offer product support for this product. Please read the included
helpfile for further information.
 
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Livewire

I shoukda' book marked the site to place here since it is rather buried
amongst similarly named programs:

Spry ImageView

A handy dandy nifty keen itty bitty picture manipulating thingy. Crop,
brighten, darken, change format, etc. Works great for basic photo
manipulations. Intuitive, easy to learn and free. Works on Win98, don't know
about XP.
Click to expand...
Another one which does the same and definitely will work o n XP

Photofiltre, from www.photofiltre.com
 
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Mel

ECCO. It's abandonware.

This is a Personal Information Manager that was the reviewed as the best
in its class -- it has a devoted following. I've used it nicely on
Windows 98se and Windows Me. I understand that it runs well on XP.

Development by Netmanage mysteriously halted before Windows 98. Despite
success, the publisher hung it out to dry and that was that. The
corporate behavior was almost bizarre, but they may have shelved it due
to some unusual contractual constraints relative to the purchase. It can
be downloaded free from the Netmanage web site.

The main functions are the usual: calendar, notepads, phonebook. It's
almost infinitely customizable; everything can be turned into an
outline. It even makes GANTT charts. It can be interfaced with certain
Palm-system palmtops, although there is a custom routine to make this
work properly. I'm using it improperly with my Handspring Visor Deluxe;
and it's working fine.

I've been using this for almost 10 years, and I still don't know all the
bells and whistles. Printer control is strange, but persistance makes
settings work out.

This is a large program with extensive capabilities. Try it; you'll be
blown away. You can also download the manual off the web site; it's
about 200 pages or so. Sorry; I don't have the exact link at my
fingertips. You can download it from the Netmanage web site, although
you'll probably need the URL in advance.

Richard
Click to expand...
http://www.eccorocks.com/
 
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Vegard Krog Petersen

Obbop skrev:
I shoukda' book marked the site to place here since it is rather buried
amongst similarly named programs:

Spry ImageView

A handy dandy nifty keen itty bitty picture manipulating thingy. Crop,
brighten, darken, change format, etc. Works great for basic photo
manipulations. Intuitive, easy to learn and free. Works on Win98, don't know
about XP.
Click to expand...

I googled, but could not find this.
Spry Image View is a viewing/drawing/painting program. It is very similar to many other minor programming attempts such as Microsoft's Draw/Paint programs.
System requirements: 386 CPU, 4Megs of RAM, Windows 3.1 or 3.11 and at least a 9600 bps modem.
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From the dead spry.com who made SPRY Mosaic (I used that browser once
upon a time!)

Maybe you could make it available for download?

regards from vegard
 
R

Recluseman35

Richard said:
ECCO. It's abandonware.
Click to expand...
Richard
Click to expand...


NETMANAGE has decided to open source ECCO. The ECCO community is
awaiting the 'delivery' of the source code - due any time. The ECCO
group at Yahoo is quite active and a good source of support for those
new (and not so new) to the program.
 
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ggdbr01

SmartFTP is a wonderful FTP program. Though free, it does toss up a
nag screen after awhile. But this can easily be dispelled with any
automatic button-pusher:

http://www.download.com/SmartFTP/3000-2160_4-10412966.html?tag=lst-6-6

TweakNow Registry cleaner keeps your Windows registry clean and helps
keep your machine up to speed. Very useful:

http://www.download.com/TweakNow-RegCleaner/3000-2094_4-10410044.html?tag=lst-6-10

Atomic Clock Sync keeps your system clock accurate to the second, with
automatic corrections:

http://www.download.com/Atomic-Clock-Sync/3000-2350_4-10316305.html?tag=lst-0-1

The full Merriam Webster dictionary is available for free download,
with a good interface:

http://www.download.com/Merriam-Webster-s-Concise-Dictionary/3000-2279_4-10247580.html?tag=lst-4-3

Audacity is a magnificent sound editing tool! Convert between audio
formats, call up the waveform of your soundfile and chop out parts of
it, do all sorts of editing: it's amazing that this is free!

http://www.download.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10325373.html?tag=lst-0-1

KeyNote is an outstanding free-form rich text editor that can be made
to function as a PIM or a snippet tree. Highly configurable:

http://www.download.com/KeyNote/3000-2074_4-10322928.html?tag=lst-6-14

Pixie is a great color tool for web developers: just position your
pointer over ANY color on your screen, and Pixie will tell you what the
hex code is for that color:

http://www.download.com/Pixie/3000-2068_4-10265597.html?tag=lst-0-1

More to come later...

Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
"Pan for freeware gold on the World Wide Web!"
 
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Mark Carter

I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs.
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OK, maybe not my favourite, but it is little known and very useful on
odd occasions:

PathCopy - Path Copy is a shell extension for Windows that enables to
copy the path of a file or directory to the Clipboard. You can then
paste the path in to your document, e-mail, etc. You copy the path of a
file or directory by right-clicking it in the Windows Explorer and
choosing Copy Path from the context menu. The context menu then offers
nine standard ways of copying the path, in addition to the user defined
copying methods that you create yourself: - Short Name: File/folder name
converted to 8.3 characters - Long Name: File/folder name - Short
Folder: Parent folder name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Folder:
Parent folder name - Short Path: Full path name converted to 8.3
characters - Long Path: Full path name - Short UNC Path: Full UNC path
name converted to 8.3 characters (only enabled in network environment) -
Long UNC Path: Full UNC path name (only enabled in network environment)
- Internet Path: Full UNC path name converted to Internet path (only
enabled in network

http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm

It's listed on Pricelessware:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.htm
 
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Vic Dura

Hi Richard:

I see from the website http://www.eccorocks.com/ that the program has
some impressive features. They recommend this download site:

ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/support/pub/utilities/EC401/Ecco32/

I may give it a test drive as soon as I get a chance.
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If you try it, how about posting a report? That would be interesting.
 
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badgolferman

(e-mail address removed), 7/7/2005, 9:56:25 PM,
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as
you'd like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can
probably find those easily enough.
Click to expand...

It would be hard to get any freeware past this community.

I like Neutron, use it everytime I boot up my computer.
http://keir.net/neutron.html

Nail It

Fraction Converter 1.0

Flash Saving Plugin
http://www.browsertools.net/Flash-Saving-Plugin/

Convert
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/
 

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