[PL] 2004 Program Descriptions

[Susan Bugher]

Nominations are now open for the the 2004 Pricelessware list.

The Nominations page is here:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/2004nominationsPL.php

The election schedule and procedures are here:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/2004proceduresPL.htm

Please nominate new programs in the New Nominations thread.

If you did not submit a complete program description with your
nomination please use this thread to post the program description.
Please use this thread to post program description reviews.

note: this is NOT a discussion thread. Please hold your fire. Thank you.

Susan


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[Susan Bugher]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your
nomination please use this thread to post the program description.
Please use this thread to post program description reviews.

Apologies for not being clearer on what was needed. See PL2003 program
descriptions for examples. Please furnish descriptions for *new*
nominations that include similar information and are in a similar
format. That will save me a great deal of time. TIA

NOTE: The PL2004 nominations list includes many wares that are *not*
*pure* freeware. Please note all pertinent information.

*Ware* informations should include: Free for personal use only etc. If
it is registerware note the information that has to be supplied: email
address, name, or whatever. *Ware* is also the place to note such things
as last freeware version (this saves a lot of confusion), free version
of a commercial program (ditto), open source or *no install*. IOW
whatever someone is most likely to want to know.

Just FYI:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/about2003PL.htm

<quote>
The alt.comp.freeware definition of freeware is: legally obtainable
software that you may use at no cost, monetary or otherwise, for as long
as you wish. When a program does not completely conform to the above
definition the program description will have a special notation. The
program may be liteware, registerware etc. See this page for
definitions of ware types. Other notes such as "Last available freeware
version" may also be present.

There are NO Adware/Spyware programs in the Pricelessware List.
</quote>

OS: should also include special requirements (IE 5 or better) (etc.)

If you furnish program information in this thread please send a separate
post for each program - to facilitate further comment.

Limited discussion of a program's category or description is fine -
please avoid discussion of the merits of the program.

Susan
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[Randy Bard]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:51:01 -0500, Susan Bugher

Please use this thread to post program description reviews.

note: this is NOT a discussion thread. Please hold your fire. Thank you.

Susan

Hi Susan - I wanted to nominate WinPatrol. Upon checking, I found it
had already been nominated and seconded, but the program description
was lacking. HTH - and thanks for all you do!

WinPatrol 6.0
ware type: Free version of commercial program, WinPatrol PLUS, which
is exactly the same except it also provides access to an online
database.

OS: Supports Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP
language(s)? English, German
description? WinPatrol with Scotty the Windows Watch Dog will sniff
out Worms, Adware, Spyware, Cookies, Trojan horses and other virus
type, malicious, nasty programs that may attack your computer.
WinPatrol puts you back in control of your computer with no need for
constant updates. WinPatrol's goal is to help you better understand
what programs are running on your computer, and alert you to any new
programs added without your permission. Scotty lets you confirm any
new programs set up to run on your computer.
Author: , Home Page: Bill P Studios http://www.winpatrol.com/
Download Link: http://www.winpatrol.com/winpatrol.html
version 6.0 (Oct. 2003) 768kb

 

[Susan Bugher]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:51:01 -0500, Susan Bugher

Hi Susan - I wanted to nominate WinPatrol. Upon checking, I found it
had already been nominated and seconded, but the program description
was lacking. HTH - and thanks for all you do!

WinPatrol 6.0
ware type: Free version of commercial program, WinPatrol PLUS, which
is exactly the same except it also provides access to an online
database.

OS: Supports Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP
language(s)? English, German
description? WinPatrol with Scotty the Windows Watch Dog will sniff
out Worms, Adware, Spyware, Cookies, Trojan horses and other virus
type, malicious, nasty programs that may attack your computer.
WinPatrol puts you back in control of your computer with no need for
constant updates. WinPatrol's goal is to help you better understand
what programs are running on your computer, and alert you to any new
programs added without your permission. Scotty lets you confirm any
new programs set up to run on your computer.
Author: , Home Page: Bill P Studios http://www.winpatrol.com/
Download Link: http://www.winpatrol.com/winpatrol.html
version 6.0 (Oct. 2003) 768kb

Super - thank you so much for helping.

Susan
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[DAN]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your

nomination please use this thread to post the program description.
Please use this thread to post program description reviews.

From the app's readme file:


POP Peeper v2.2

Jeff Meier - Mortal Universe Software Entertainment
http://www.poppeeper.com

POP Peeper is an email notifier -- it lets you know when you have new
email on any of your accounts. You can view the headers, a preview of
the message, or the entire message. You can also open and save
attachments, delete messages from the server, view messages with HTML,
and most users will be up and running with all their accounts in a
matter of seconds.


SUPPORTED SERVER TYPES: POP3, Hotmail\MSN, Yahoo

 

[DAN]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your

nomination please use this thread to post the program description.

(Adapted from the readme file)

Clippy 1.2.0 - Way Out There Software
URL: http://wots.coolfreepage.com/
_________________________________________________________

Clippy is a clipboard extender with many text formatting functions:

Remove '>' characters and reformat your text with a single click of a button.
Strip HTML tags; Convert the case of letters; Remove line breaks; Count the
number of lines and words; And more.

Clippy works by taking the text that you have copied to the clipboard,
sending the text through it's conversion engine and pushing the
reformatted text to the clipboard.

 

[DAN]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your

nomination please use this thread to post the program description.

Adapted from the site:


DirGraph 1.3.4 - by David James Spillett
http://www.spillett.net/dirgraph

DirGraph provides a graphical view of the space used by files and directories.
It allows you to navigate around this view - zooming in to see greater detail
and zooming out to see the bigger picture.

It also supports colour coding by file dates, to see at a glance how much of the
space used is occupied by files that haven't been access for some time [and that
should therefore be committed to back-up storage].

 

[DAN]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your

nomination please use this thread to post the program description.

Octopus Category: Internet/Download mgr
FTP and HTTP file downloader.
http://redrival.com/mak/octopus ; http://members.xoom.com/Moskalyuk/Octopus

FTP and HTTP multi-threaded file downloader. Auto-retry, schedule,
PASV mode, proxy, redirection, post processing of received files.

One file, no install, no registry, no muss no fuss.

 

[DAN]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your

nomination please use this thread to post the program description.

PDFexplorer Category: Business-Home + Graphics (?)
http://planeta.clix.pt/rtt

Meant for management of libraries of PDF files. But the key feature is the
Automatic extraction of all the images contained in a pdf for better
manipulation or export, using an internal viewer.

 

[Bjorn Abelli]

PTBSync (freeware)

OS: Win95B/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Language: (English, German)

Description from author's website (should be trimmed,
but I think that can wait to after the voting):
--------------------------------------------------------------

-Atomic Clock Synchronization

Adjusting the clock invisible in the background or with a hint.
Date and time are fetched from an Atomic clock via the internet.
Adjusting the clock between once per hour up to once per month.
Adjusts the PC clock with an accuracy of 1/50 second!
156 Time servers (NTP) worldwide selectable from a list!
Highly precise Windows clock by drift compensation.
Analysis of clock deviations by detailed observation of the Windows clock.
On Windows NT / 2000 / XP PTBSync can run as service, which also adjusts the
clock if no user is logged on.
Additional display of the international UTC time.
The deviation when adjusting the clock can be written to a logfile.

-Trayclock

Replacement for the Windows Trayclock.
The taskbar clock may display the time with seconds and the date and
weekday.
Completely customizable.
Tooltip with the detailed date.
Weekday display in all languages (Unicode support).
On Windows 2000 and XP the taskbar can be switched to transparent mode.
Display of Islam, Jewish, Iran, Coptic Calendar.
Display of Moon state.

-Organizer / Scheduler

Multiple hints before an event and reminders afterwards.
On a multi-user PC every user has his own events.
Events can be saved to an HTML file.
Repetition interval at special days of week possible.
Automatic calculation of the age at birthdays / anniversaries.
A sound may be played with an alarm.
Scheduler / Alarm Clock: Starting a file or shutting down at a certain time.
Automatic calculation of all Holidays of any year and for any country.
Creation of a HTML calendar for printing.
Calendar calculator for Islamic, jewish, Iran and coptic Calendars, Moon
Calendar.
Coloured display of different types of holidays:

- Desktop Calendar

You can put it anywhere on the desktop.
Transparent Desktop Icon Text.

--------------------------------------------------------------

Author/Home Page: http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/ElmueSoft-en.htm

Download v 4.3b (350kb):
English: http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/AtomicClockSynchronization.zip
German: http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/AtomuhrSynchronisation.zip

 

[Mel]

Re Newsproxy unfortunately www.nfilter.org is still 404

Sorry forgot 'ware' type - GNU licence (open source) freeware

OS Windows '95, '98 or NT + I understand from other users it is also XP compatible.


Here's the official description from google's cache -

Latest beta version: 1.2.1, April 1st 2001


What is nfilter?
Nfilter is a supplemental filtering program to your existing newsreader. It is designed to run transparently alongside any client
for Windows such as Outlook Express, Agent, Netscape, etc.

It is a 32-bit windows console application which will run on Windows '95, '98 or NT. It is especially useful if your newsreader
doesn't have any filtering capabilities (eg. Netscape). Even if your news reader has filtering capabilities (eg. Agent), the filter
can perform more advanced filtering on fields that are not normally available to your newsreader.

Nfilter is capable of filtering on any fields that appear in the header of a news article, not just fields in the overview (normally
news clients can only filter on author, subject, etc). For example, it can filter on path (eg. all posts from news.foo.net),
newsgroups (eg. all posts cross-posted to alt.foo), nntp-posting-host, etc, etc.

Nfilter does this by acting as a local news proxy. It takes commands from your news client and passes them on to your news server.
It analyses the list of message headers returned by your news server and, based on the filter rules that you write, either drops the
headers so that you don't see them or marks them with a flag to let you know they are filtered.

 

[dansheen]

This is the best screensaver I've found. Newer versions are not freeware:

2Flyer Screensaver Builder is a Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP tool which lets
you make your own screensavers. Collects up to 1000 JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP or
WMF, EMF images and 2flyer will merge them into a Screensaver Adds MP3, WAV
or MID sound and music files to your screensavers to be played while the
images are displayed Displays images with 240 transition effects - as many
as you can imagine Creates a single .exe screen saver installation file -
email and share the screensaver with your friends at any time.

http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/MMedia.html

 

[BillR]

If you did not submit a complete program description with your
nomination please use this thread to post the program description.
Please use this thread to post program description reviews.

My apologies for not including this information originally.

GFI LANguard System Integrity Monitor

Platform: Windows 2000/XP/2003

Type: Registerware (No key issued but registration requires name,
company, phone, email, country, ZIP) "No license fees are due ...."

Site: http://www.gfi.com/lansim/

Download: Follow links. English user manual (PDF) or installation
instructions: no registration. Exe: after registering presented with
links for US/European mirrors; FTP/HTTP)

Brief Description: Automatically validates file or directory integrity
(via MD5) at predefined interval (hourly to monthly or on request).
Default install scans core system files daily. User defines
(schedules) each scan: files, directories, and frequency. Runs as a
service. Results are recorded as system events (under GFI SIM) and
errors can automatically generate email.

Comment: Easy way to monitor system or other critical files for
changes. Set service priority to low to minimize any performance
issue. Automatic email notification is especially useful on servers
or websites. Requires administrator privileges to install.

Extended Description in original nomination.

BillR

 

[stan]

a correction to cyberkit3 beta..
a program that I nominated.

the program is "Postcardware"

also I can't access the front page, seems to be defaced by hackers
called F3PN ? maybe im wrong? looks like it anyway?

http://www.cyberkit.net

the zip is still available on the site with this link..

http://www.cyberkit.net/archives/cyber30.zip

--------------------------
corrected

Program: cyberkit3 beta
Category: INTERNET
Sub-Cat: 5 Network Tool
Ware Type: postcardware
Home Page: http://www.cyberkit.net/
Download: http://www.cyberkit.net/archives/cyber30.zip

CyberKit is a collection of network tools.
Ping, TraceRoute, Finger, WhoIs, QoD, NSLookUp, Time, PortScanner,
MailChecker, NetInfo, WindowList, Scheduler.

 

[JanC]

a correction to cyberkit3 beta..
a program that I nominated.

the program is "Postcardware"

also I can't access the front page, seems to be defaced by hackers
called F3PN ? maybe im wrong? looks like it anyway?

http://www.cyberkit.net

the zip is still available on the site with this link..

http://www.cyberkit.net/archives/cyber30.zip

IIRC the author didn't have the time to develop the program furher (that's
why it's still "beta"), so he shut down the site, but kept the download
available. The frontpage hasn't been available for almost 2 years...

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

IIRC the author didn't have the time to develop the program furher (that's
why it's still "beta"), so he shut down the site, but kept the download
available. The frontpage hasn't been available for almost 2 years..

To access a copy of the old homepage, if it is required for copying
descriptions etc, try the wayback machine at
<http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cyberkit.net>

<http://www.archive.org/> can be useful for other programs/similar
cases also of course ... bookmark!

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Susan Bugher]

a correction to cyberkit3 beta..
a program that I nominated.

the program is "Postcardware"

also I can't access the front page, seems to be defaced by hackers
called F3PN ? maybe im wrong? looks like it anyway?

http://www.cyberkit.net

the zip is still available on the site with this link..

http://www.cyberkit.net/archives/cyber30.zip

--------------------------
corrected

Program: cyberkit3 beta
Category: INTERNET
Sub-Cat: 5 Network Tool
Ware Type: postcardware
Home Page: http://www.cyberkit.net/
Download: http://www.cyberkit.net/archives/cyber30.zip

CyberKit is a collection of network tools.
Ping, TraceRoute, Finger, WhoIs, QoD, NSLookUp, Time, PortScanner,
MailChecker, NetInfo, WindowList, Scheduler.

Stan - Is this okay with you?

Program description:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/cyberkit_30.html

Download v3.0 beta 1 (1,524,674 bytes)

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/cyberkit_30.zip

Susan
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[Rick Friedline]

File Targets ware type = freeware

 

[Susan Bugher]

[REPOST of Nov. 2 message]

Nominations are now open for the the 2004 Pricelessware list.

The Nominations page is here:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/2004nominationsPL.php

The election schedule and procedures are here:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/2004proceduresPL.htm

Please nominate new programs in the New Nominations thread.

If you did not submit a complete program description with your
nomination please use this thread to post the program description.
Please use this thread to post program description reviews.

note: this is NOT a discussion thread. Please hold your fire. Thank
you.

Susan

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[stan]

Stan - Is this okay with you?

Program description:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/cyberkit_30.html

Download v3.0 beta 1 (1,524,674 bytes)

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/cyberkit_30.zip

Susan

thanks susan, yes it seems all ok, I will bookmark this site,
I notice other interesting programs there also, good work..

regards
stan