Greeware again

J

John Hood

Hey all.

On Friday I needed a VERY small audio player for my computer at work (to
drown out the giant sucking sound coming from the executive department),
and of course, stopped off at alt.Comp.Freeware to see what people here
thought. I checked out CoolPlayer and went WOW!. To all who recommended
it, thank you.

Which brings me to my second point, and my freeware task for this
weekend: Greenware. I issues a challenge to myself:

Put a salesman (by name "Chris Sells") on the road, making sales calls
and presentations all across the U.S. and Europe - without a laptop and
no budget for software. The only thing Chris has is two 256 meg thumb
drives, one for data, one for applications. Assume that Chris has
access to a Windows 32bit computer with web access in every hotel
(software loaded - unknown), and further assume that the home office
provides web mail capability for Chris to use . What would I put on the
first thumb drive?
Here is what I found so far:

Schedule and Contacts - Essential PIM
Word Processor - Abiword for ThumbDrives.
Audio player (gotta have tunes) - Coolplayer.
Spreadsheet - Spread32 (nagware, but livable) or xSpread.
Presenter or graphics software - ??? (may not be necessary of
presentations are canned).
Zip util - 100zipper

That's as far as I;ve gotten. One thing would be a PDF reader, but I
don't think Adobe has a no-install version of Reader so we can only hope
the hotel computers have it.

PowerPoint, Wink and OOo Presenter can create presentations that
self-execute, so a presenter isn't essential.

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."
 
M

MightyKitten

John said:
Hey all.

On Friday I needed a VERY small audio player for my computer at work
(to drown out the giant sucking sound coming from the executive
department), and of course, stopped off at alt.Comp.Freeware to see
what people here thought. I checked out CoolPlayer and went WOW!. To
all who recommended it, thank you.

Which brings me to my second point, and my freeware task for this
weekend: Greenware. I issues a challenge to myself:

Put a salesman (by name "Chris Sells") on the road, making sales calls
and presentations all across the U.S. and Europe - without a laptop
and no budget for software. The only thing Chris has is two 256 meg
thumb drives, one for data, one for applications. Assume that Chris
has access to a Windows 32bit computer with web access in every hotel
(software loaded - unknown), and further assume that the home office
provides web mail capability for Chris to use . What would I put on
the first thumb drive?
Here is what I found so far:

Schedule and Contacts - Essential PIM
Word Processor - Abiword for ThumbDrives.
Audio player (gotta have tunes) - Coolplayer.
Spreadsheet - Spread32 (nagware, but livable) or xSpread.
Presenter or graphics software - ??? (may not be necessary of
presentations are canned).
Zip util - 100zipper

That's as far as I;ve gotten. One thing would be a PDF reader, but I
don't think Adobe has a no-install version of Reader so we can only
hope the hotel computers have it.

PowerPoint, Wink and OOo Presenter can create presentations that
self-execute, so a presenter isn't essential.

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."
Click to expand...

Let's see...
I've only a 128 MB USB Drive (For general purposes) with the next items:
Tomahawk
http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html
Can write to PDF, RTF or TXT files, export to HTML, WorksSuite and word
files
CAD-KAs pdf reader
http://www.cadkas.de/downengpdf5.php
Not realy my favorite, but after installation, the containing folder can
be copied to a usb drive without problems
MyDBF3
http://www.jansfreeware.com/
Simple DBas compatible database
Treepad Lite
http://www.treepad.com/
For a treelike Database
Diagrams
http://www.jansfreeware.com/
For simple diagrams
Abykus
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Enhanced_Calculators/Abykus.html
Works different as Excel, but is capable of doing most of the math stuff
you want.
IZArc
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/
(Zip/7zip/ARJ/RAR, ect) compression tool
Micros Burner
http://www.silentnight2004.com/
If you got lukcy and find a cd burner (and have some blank CDs)
iOpusSEA
http://www.iopus.com/freeware/secure-email/
To encrypt data into exe files for Sending
Snowbird
http://www.geocities.com/casablanca2000in/msp/
Harddisk search
Stinger
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
Basic virus cleansing software
SamSpade
(TCP/IP & internet troubleshooting
Eraser
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
To grealy shred files you wan to delete (A must if you use public PCs)
Free Undelete
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
To recover the accidently deleted files (No way you can get files back
that are deleted withEraser)
Antipol
http://www.angryziber.com/tools/
Probably not needed, but this gem can breack trough any windows 9x
poilcies active on the system.
Can be usefull in some rare cases, and with a 10kb size it does not hurt
to add it to the usb drive
xmplay
http://www.un4seen.com/
Audio player Low in CPU and memory needs, still being quite good
svrecorder10be
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=downloadfile&ID=2739
Record sounds to MP3
Irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com/
To view photo's
PhotoFiltre
http://www.photofiltre.com
To edit photo's


Though you can make both thunderbird and Firefox functinal on a USB drive, I
prefer the next ones, because they are significant smaller in size

Pimmy
http://www.geminisoft.com/it/
Mail check & read client
Off By one
Webbrowser
http://www.offbyone.com/
simple selfcontaining webbrowser
miranda-im-0.3.2
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Messenger for MSN Yahoo, ICQ
Filezilla
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
IMHO best freeware FTP client

I did not name everything, as some software should not be of interest for
your cause,

Also 2 notes:

#1 Some software may not be freeware for commercial use
#2 Somesoftware does have an installer, but can be copied in the containing
map to the USB Drive

Sugestion:

Create a html file with links to all the programs, to have a sort of start
centre.


That's all

Jeroen de Bruijn
 
J

John Hood

MightyKitten said:
John Hood wrote:



Let's see...
I've only a 128 MB USB Drive (For general purposes) with the next items:
Tomahawk
http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html
Can write to PDF, RTF or TXT files, export to HTML, WorksSuite and word
files
CAD-KAs pdf reader
http://www.cadkas.de/downengpdf5.php
Not realy my favorite, but after installation, the containing folder can
be copied to a usb drive without problems
MyDBF3
http://www.jansfreeware.com/
Simple DBas compatible database
Treepad Lite
http://www.treepad.com/
For a treelike Database
Diagrams
http://www.jansfreeware.com/
For simple diagrams
Abykus
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Enhanced_Calculators/Abykus.html
Works different as Excel, but is capable of doing most of the math stuff
you want.
IZArc
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/
(Zip/7zip/ARJ/RAR, ect) compression tool
Micros Burner
http://www.silentnight2004.com/
If you got lukcy and find a cd burner (and have some blank CDs)
iOpusSEA
http://www.iopus.com/freeware/secure-email/
To encrypt data into exe files for Sending
Snowbird
http://www.geocities.com/casablanca2000in/msp/
Harddisk search
Stinger
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
Basic virus cleansing software
SamSpade
(TCP/IP & internet troubleshooting
Eraser
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
To grealy shred files you wan to delete (A must if you use public PCs)
Free Undelete
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
To recover the accidently deleted files (No way you can get files back
that are deleted withEraser)
Antipol
http://www.angryziber.com/tools/
Probably not needed, but this gem can breack trough any windows 9x
poilcies active on the system.
Can be usefull in some rare cases, and with a 10kb size it does not hurt
to add it to the usb drive
xmplay
http://www.un4seen.com/
Audio player Low in CPU and memory needs, still being quite good
svrecorder10be
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=downloadfile&ID=2739
Record sounds to MP3
Irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com/
To view photo's
PhotoFiltre
http://www.photofiltre.com
To edit photo's


Though you can make both thunderbird and Firefox functinal on a USB drive, I
prefer the next ones, because they are significant smaller in size

Pimmy
http://www.geminisoft.com/it/
Mail check & read client
Off By one
Webbrowser
http://www.offbyone.com/
simple selfcontaining webbrowser
miranda-im-0.3.2
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Messenger for MSN Yahoo, ICQ
Filezilla
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
IMHO best freeware FTP client

I did not name everything, as some software should not be of interest for
your cause,

Also 2 notes:

#1 Some software may not be freeware for commercial use
#2 Somesoftware does have an installer, but can be copied in the containing
map to the USB Drive

Sugestion:

Create a html file with links to all the programs, to have a sort of start
centre.


That's all

Jeroen de Bruijn
Click to expand...

Holy cow, what a list! Anyone else?

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."
 
K

Klaatu

Holy cow, what a list! Anyone else?
Click to expand...


Here's what I've got "installed" on my 1Gb thumbdrive:

1by1 - http://www.mpesch3.de1.cc/#1by1
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
AutoIt3 - http://www.autoitscript.com
CDCheck - http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/
LCISOCreator - http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php
CSVdb - no longer available?
DirKey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
GammaPanel - http://www.stars.benchmark.pl/index.php?show=gapa
GenControl - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
IconShop - http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
IZArc - http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm
Junction Link Magic - http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetPing - http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/index.aspx
Neutron - http://keir.net/neutron.html
OpenTTD - http://www.openttd.com
Oubiette - http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html
Portable Firefox - http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html
Serene Sound - http://serenesound.com/serenesound/
VNC Neighborhood - http://www.sysworksoft.net/products/vncnbhood.html
VNC Viewer - http://www.ultravnc.com
Xcalc - http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/

I'm pretty sure all of the above are freeware. And I'm always looking for
other freeware programs to add to the list. Thanks for starting this
thread, John.
 
S

Susan Bugher

Klaatu said:
Here's what I've got "installed" on my 1Gb thumbdrive:

1by1 - http://www.mpesch3.de1.cc/#1by1
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
AutoIt3 - http://www.autoitscript.com
CDCheck - http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/
LCISOCreator - http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php
CSVdb - no longer available?
DirKey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
GammaPanel - http://www.stars.benchmark.pl/index.php?show=gapa
GenControl - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
IconShop - http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
IZArc - http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm
Junction Link Magic - http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetPing - http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/index.aspx
Neutron - http://keir.net/neutron.html
OpenTTD - http://www.openttd.com
Oubiette - http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html
Portable Firefox - http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html
Serene Sound - http://serenesound.com/serenesound/
VNC Neighborhood - http://www.sysworksoft.net/products/vncnbhood.html
VNC Viewer - http://www.ultravnc.com
Xcalc - http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/

I'm pretty sure all of the above are freeware. And I'm always looking for
other freeware programs to add to the list. Thanks for starting this
thread, John.
Click to expand...

Perhaps you'll find something if you scroll down the list of ACF
programs. Sorted on the I (install) column:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_ProgramIndex.php?sortby=I

I haven't seen Convert mentioned yet. ISTM that might come in handy:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005BUSINESS-HOME.php#0156-PW

Susan
 
J

John Hood

Susan said:
Perhaps you'll find something if you scroll down the list of ACF
programs. Sorted on the I (install) column:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_ProgramIndex.php?sortby=I

I haven't seen Convert mentioned yet. ISTM that might come in handy:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005BUSINESS-HOME.php#0156-PW

Susan
Click to expand...

Sure will. I'm marking this thread as a keeper for a possible
"Greenware" page on my site.

On a side note. Anyone know how to get a thumb drive back from the
dead? I have one I can read from, but not save to. Took me five times
to get the computer to read it.

Is this an entry in the circular hall of fame? or can I get some life
out of it. Less than 6 months old.

John H.
 
M

MightyKitten

John Hood wrote:
Sure will. I'm marking this thread as a keeper for a possible
"Greenware" page on my site.

On a side note. Anyone know how to get a thumb drive back from the
dead? I have one I can read from, but not save to. Took me five
times to get the computer to read it.

Is this an entry in the circular hall of fame? or can I get some life
out of it. Less than 6 months old.

John H.
Click to expand...

Hmm, no waarranty you can fall back on?
Well, I've once succesfully resrored a photo memory card by
Sealing is in airtight plasic and then Freeze it for 48 hours in a 5 star
freezer.

but a thumbdrive might be something different. Maybe a simple format can
help, using windos 2000 or better?

Jeroen de Bruijn
 
S

Susan Bugher

John said:
I'm marking this thread as a keeper for a possible
"Greenware" page on my site.
Click to expand...

Good idea. :) You might consider suggesting some Webware - on-line
bookmarks for instance. I think that might be a good choice for your
traveling salesman - probably easier than constantly updating a bookmark
file on the thumb drive.

Susan
 
J

John Hood

Susan said:
Good idea. :) You might consider suggesting some Webware - on-line
bookmarks for instance. I think that might be a good choice for your
traveling salesman - probably easier than constantly updating a
bookmark file on the thumb drive.

Susan
Click to expand...

Susan: Sure will. Do you have a specific one in mind?

All: I am now testing my theory using a 128 meg thumb drive and
suggestions from the group.

Word Processor: AbiWord-Thumb
Spreadsheet - Spread32
Browser - Portable Firefox
Schedule Contacts and notes - EssentialPIM
FTP client - IFTP
To Do list - DoToo
Search Tool - Snowbird Search
Games - Cube, WinPiano
Audio Player- Coolplayer
ZipTool- Zip100
File Comp Tool - ExamDiff
White noise Generator - serene sound

Someone suggested Tomahawk - but mine kept erroring out.

Keep suggestions coming. It is very cool to be able to carry a full
suite of apps and data from work to home - around my neck!

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."
 
J

juliuslr

This is really cool. Could you also post the "executable" size of the
apps? That way as the list grows we can pick/substitue what we have in
our thumb drives at a glance. Just to confirm, these are standalone
apps without DLLs and registry stuff, right?

Susan, are you compiling these apps so we can all download at a "one
stop shopping" place? Thanks.
 
S

Susan Bugher

Susan: Sure will. Do you have a specific one in mind?
Click to expand...

Nope - I never felt the need *before* - now you've got me thinking about
it. :) There are several listed on the Webware page that were
suggested by other ACF participants:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/Webware.php
Keep suggestions coming. It is very cool to be able to carry a full
suite of apps and data from work to home - around my neck!
Click to expand...

I think your idea can be extended to those of us who *don't* have thumb
drives too.

I just got a Gmail account - I could upload apps there and download them
when I'm away from home and want to use them. ISTM this would work with
Gmail or *any* kind of on-line storage that's easily accessible. . .

When I'm on vacation or visiting a friend etc. etc. it would be pretty
handy to be able to do that. Make that *will* be pretty handy. ;)

Thanks for starting this thread.

Susan
 
S

Susan Bugher

This is really cool. Could you also post the "executable" size of the
apps? That way as the list grows we can pick/substitue what we have in
our thumb drives at a glance. Just to confirm, these are standalone
apps without DLLs and registry stuff, right?

Susan, are you compiling these apps so we can all download at a "one
stop shopping" place? Thanks.
Click to expand...

Heavens no. This is John Hood's project. I'm just standing on the
sidelines offering suggestions and watching John work. ;)

If John does decide to create a web page it will probably have detailed
information and recommendations. The ACF program pages don't aspire to
that. . .

I do add (n.i.) (n.r.) notations to the programs listed on the ACF
program pages when I'm *aware* that an app qualifies. (There are likely
many that qualify that haven't been marked as yet.)

and. . .

You *can* sort any of the ACF program pages on the "I" column to group
the "no install", "no registry entries" apps but that's far from one
stop shopping/downloading (there's no detailed description and most
links are to the home page for the app).

Susan
 
J

John Hood

This is really cool. Could you also post the "executable" size of the
apps? That way as the list grows we can pick/substitue what we have in
our thumb drives at a glance. Just to confirm, these are standalone
apps without DLLs and registry stuff, right?

Susan, are you compiling these apps so we can all download at a "one
stop shopping" place? Thanks.
Click to expand...
Julius:

Most of them are stand-alone single files. Some of them are not and
have dll's BUT those DLLs are usually in the same folder as the
executable, and therefore, do not need to be registered. I'm working on
putting the Greenware page together. If anyone would like to find what
they think of as the "Best" application in a category, please review it
and post the following and I'll include the review on the web page (make
you famous).

App name, Website link. Brief intro of what it does, A few sentences
about what sets it above the rest, a few sentences of what you didn't
like about it. Score of 1(low)-10(High).
I'm off to type.

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."
 
J

john.hood

Susan. I don't see where to do this. Can you point me to a URL.

Prob user error.

Also, who maintains the ACFWiki and what criteria for info to get
posted there?


John
 
S

Susan Bugher

Susan. I don't see where to do this. Can you point me to a URL.

Prob user error.
Click to expand...

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_ProgramIndex.php
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_BUSINESS-HOME.php
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_DESKTOP.php

etc. etc. (connecting links to the other pages are at the top of each page)

Sort on the "I" column for no install etc. apps (key to the
abbreviations is at the bottom of each page).

I hope that's what you were asking about. ;)
Also, who maintains the ACFWiki and what criteria for info to get
posted there?
Click to expand...

Mark Carter furnishes and maintains the wiki. Anyone can create web
pages or add to the existing pages.

Criteria? IIRC Mark just said "here it is" and there hasn't been any
discussion since.

The criteria I use: if info is suitable for posting in ACF it's suitable
for the wiki.

Susan
 
J

john.hood

Yup that's the one, thanks.

I don't know about the wiki, What do you think about someone (me) going
in there and organizing it a little bit? Try to make it more like a
knowledgebase? Categoy and sub-page.

John
 
J

john.hood

Yup that's the one, thanks.


I don't know about the wiki, What do you think about someone (me) going

in there and organizing it a little bit? Try to make it more like a
knowledgebase? Categoy and sub-page.


John
 
J

john.hood

Yup that's the one, thanks.


I don't know about the wiki, What do you think about someone (me) going

in there and organizing it a little bit? Try to make it more like a
knowledgebase? Categoy and sub-page.


John
 
S

Susan Bugher

Yup that's the one, thanks.
Click to expand...

YW. :) If some of the ACF program info would be useful for your web page
let me know what you're after (content and formatting) and I'll make a
file for you.
I don't know about the wiki, What do you think about someone (me) going
in there and organizing it a little bit? Try to make it more like a
knowledgebase? Categoy and sub-page.
Click to expand...

My first thought is that you probably looked at the wrong page (ATM
there's more organization than content). Did you look at the *ACF* start
page in the wiki?

http://www.markcarter.me.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AcfWiki

My second thought is that that page could sure do with some
reorganization and beautification. Thanks for volunteering. :)

Susan
 

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