[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals

[MLC]

CATEGORY: SYSTEM UTILITIES ?
SUBCATEGORY: ?
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged):
mail [at] brianapps [dot] co [dot] uk
01 (PROGRAM NAME)
Saver Starter
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION)
Freeware
03 (OS-WIN)
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP -> I suppose. I'm using it with XP.
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES) English
07 (DESCRIPTION)
Saver Starter is a small freeware program that: Allows a screen saver to be
started by moving the mouse over a corner of the screen. Prevents a screen
saver from starting when the mouse is in a corner of a screen. Starts the
current screen saver quickly. Gives easy access to the screen saver
configuration settings.
07a (NOTES)
Saver Starter has no automatic install process. The zip archive contains
two files, SaverStarter.exe and Readme.txt. To start the program simply run
SaverStarter.exe. /My note/: It writes into the Registry only three keys,
under HKCU/Software/Saver Starter.
08 (COMPANY)
Brian Apps
08a (AUTHOR)
Brian ?
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION)
Home Page
10 (LINK 1)
http://www.brianapps.net/
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION)
Download page (saverstarter150.zip) (8 KB)
12 (LINK 2)
http://www.brianapps.net/saverstarter/
13 (LINK 3 DESCRIPTION)
14 (LINK 3)
--
Maria Luisa C - 19/09/2005 18.52.49
When you say: "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people
just stare at you blankly and say:
"Hey, I got those with the system -- for free." (Linus Torvalds)
-

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

This thread is for the submittal of programs to be considered for the 2006 Pricelessware List.

Lister
<http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005FILEUTILITIES.php#0427-PW>

No change/revision required.

//quoting current description
File Viewer: Text

Lister
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (16-bit versions available in English and German)
Description: External version of Total Commander's built-in viewer.
Lister is a standalone viewer for text, binary, hex, html and unicode
files. It can also display bitmaps and multimedia, and other bitmap
formats through Irfanview as a filter. COMMENTS: Lister is very handy
for reading html files offline if you only want the text. It strips
the html tags (leaving only text and URLs) without "breaking" the page
layout much.
Company: C. Ghisler & Co. Author: Christian Ghisler
Home Page:
http://www.ghisler.com
Program description: download 32-bit version (lister32.zip) (196 KB)
http://www.ghisler.com/tools.htm

2005PL CD files: lister32.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-19)

//unquote

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Whirled Peas]

[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals -- AlZip

CATEGORY: File Utilities
SUBCATEGORY: File Compression: Zip-Unzip
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): n/a

01 (PROGRAM NAME) ALZip
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION) (Freeware)
03 (OS-WIN) Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES) English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasilian),
Russian, Spanish, Swedish
07 (DESCRIPTION) Free Zip/Unzip program. Opens 35 formats, creates in
8 formats. Self-extracting archives, Spanned (split) archives.
Password protection / Recovery. COmmand Line functionality.
No learning curve: If you know how to click on a file, you already
know how to use ALZip. It's that easy.
User-friendly: When you need to do more complex operations, ALZip's
user interface lets you do new tasks the first time.
Comprehensive: Unlike many archivers and zip programs that have need
plugins and extras, ALZip is all inclusive. One program. Because ALZip
is all you'll ever need.
07a (NOTES) (n.r.), n/a
08 (COMPANY) ALTools
08a (AUTHOR)
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION) Home Page
10 (LINK 1) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=47
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download page: v 6.1 (Installer 3.05
Megabytes)
12 (LINK 2) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=88

 

[Whirled Peas]

[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals -- ALPass

CATEGORY: Security
SUBCATEGORY: Viewer: Password: Manager
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): n/a

01 (PROGRAM NAME) ALPass
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION) (Freeware)
03 (OS-WIN) Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES) English
07 (DESCRIPTION) Make your life easier and make life easier for your
subordinates and users. Since ALPass is free for home users, and we
provide free support for everyone registered here at ALTools, you
spend less on training and support for your users, which means more
time for you.

If you run a company, and your employees use the internet for work,
then their logins and passwords for work-related sites is valuable
company property. ALPass can help you easily transition that
information as employees join or leave your company. Don't throw away
your online assets - protect them with ALPass.

* Automatic - Login to websites in 1 click
* Unlimited Logins - Add login IDs and passwords for unlimited
sites
* Consolidated - Add, edit, delete and manage logins in 1 easy
centralized place
* Safe & Secure - Strong encryption (3DES) keeps your information
safe
* Intuitive - Clean and easy to use intuitive interface
* Backups - Backup and restore encrypted login databases
* Portable - Export encrypted databases to use on other computers
* Customizable - Set browser integration preferences
* Unlimited Users - Secure for unlimited users on the same
computer, even with the same login
* Show or Hide Passwords - Mask passwords with asterisks (*) or
display them in plain text
* Intelligent - Auto prompts you to add new sites with
configurable settings
* Auto log out - Set auto log out time limits for added security
* 100% Free - Free from adware, free from spyware, and free for
personal and commercial use

07a (NOTES) (n.r.), n/a
08 (COMPANY) ALTools
08a (AUTHOR)
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION) Home Page
10 (LINK 1) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=62
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download page: v. 2.52 (Installer: 2.06
Megabytes)
12 (LINK 2) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=90

 

[Whirled Peas]

[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals -- ALFTP

CATEGORY: Internet
SUBCATEGORY: Viewer: FTP: Client/Server
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): n/a

01 (PROGRAM NAME) ALFTP
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION) (Freeware)
03 (OS-WIN) Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES) English
07 (DESCRIPTION) Need an FTP client that is easy enough for your
users, but powerful enough for you? ALFTP is the perfect solution.
Simple enough for children, and powerful enough for demanding users,
ALFTP is FREE for home users. That means less training and less user
support, and more time for you.

* Client and Server explorers
* Transfer Queue Manager
* Drag and Drop FIle Transfers
* Resume Transfers
* Direct Edit
* FTP Server
* Auto Transfer Type
* FTP Command Support
* Site Map
07a (NOTES) (n.r.), n/a
08 (COMPANY) ALTools
08a (AUTHOR)
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION) Home Page
10 (LINK 1) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=54
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download page: v. 4.0 (Installer: 2.10
Megabytes)
12 (LINK 2) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=89

 

[Whirled Peas]

[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals -- ALSee
CATEGORY: Graphics
SUBCATEGORY: Viewer: Multipurpose
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): n/a

01 (PROGRAM NAME) ALSee
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION) (Freeware)
03 (OS-WIN) Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES) English
07 (DESCRIPTION) ALSee is simply the best picture viewer for real
people. Everything you need to view and edit your

digital camera photos is in ALSee. There's no feature bloat with
things that nobody uses or understands. Opening,

viewing, editing, and saving pictures has never been faster or easier.

# View Any Picture - 24 picture file extensions
# Easy Browsing - Works just like Windows, so you already know how to
use ALSee!
# Zoom In / Out - Magnification from 7% to 5000% lets you view any
size picture perfectly
# Edit Pictures - Resize, rotate, convert, and save pictures
# Photo Editing - Add word balloons, text, picture overlays, effect,
picture frames, and make photo corrections
# Slide Shows - View slide shows with background music
# Powerful Batch Functions - Edit and manage 1,000's of photos at 1
time
# 100% Free - 100% Fully Functional with No Time Limits
07a (NOTES) (n.r.), n/a
08 (COMPANY) ALTools
08a (AUTHOR)
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION) Home Page
10 (LINK 1) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=48
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download page: v. 4 (Installer: 5.44
Megabytes)
12 (LINK 2) http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=91

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

This thread is for the submittal of programs to be considered for the 2006 Pricelessware List.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005FILEUTILITIES.php#0817-PW

No change/revision needed.

//quoting current description

File Manager Tool

WAssociate
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (documentation available in French)
Description: WAssociate manages the associations between file name
extensions and file types stored in the Windows registry. These stored
file types determine the appearance and actions supported for a file
by Windows. WAssociate is about being in control when double or right
clicking a file, quickly editing context menus, associated commands
and changing icons and descriptions. Control freaks have easy access
to the Windows registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and more... NOTES: NT,
2000 and XP users must have the proper rights to edit the registry.
Company: -- Author: Wilbert Hengst
Home Page:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/
Program description; download version 3.4.2 (2005-08-27)
(setup_wassociate.exe) (592 KB)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html


//unquote

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[miskairal]

CATEGORY:
Organizer
SUBCATEGORY:
Notes - Text
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged):

Tombo version 1.13
(Freeware)(open source: GNU GPL)
03 (OS-WIN) - Can't find this info but works on XPHome
PDA, PocketPC
Languages: English/Japanese
DESCRIPTION:
View contents of all the text files in a directory with ease. Start new
text files. Provides a tree like structure around the text files in a
given directory so that all you have to do is click the text file on the
left and it's contents will appear on the right. Great for storing notes
without the risk of being unable to access them again which can occur
with a proprietary file format. Encryption and password protection
available and search feature.
Notes:
Standalone - no install
Author: Tomohisa Hirami
Homepage:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/thirami/indexe.html
Sourceforge Homepage:
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/index.html
Download Link:
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/download.html

 

[miskairal]

From pricelesswarehome

eCleaner
(Freeware) (discontinued)
Windows OS:
Languages: English
Description: Cleaner is a simple text editor which allows you to make
your e-mail messages more readable by removing the symbols that
accumulate when an e-mail is forwarded several times. eCleaner lets you
remove any HTML code and obscure headers, removing the > > symbols, and
fix fragmented sentences that are caused by word wrapping. In addition,
you can open and edit RTF files, customize fonts and colors, and print
your files.
Company: -- Author: Steve Chin
Home Page: download v 2.02 (clean202.zip) (446 KB)
http://ecleaner.tripod.com/

 

[Susan Bugher]

[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals -- LAME

CATEGORY: MULTIMEDIA
SUBCATEGORY: Audio: Encoder
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): n/a

Information as is up to field 08:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005MULTIMEDIA.php#0416-PW

\beginquote

LAME
(Freeware) (open source: GNU LGPL)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally
stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch
against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of
producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May
2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now
LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and
quality to rival all commercial competitors.
Company: --

\endquote

I suggest the following for the rest (Dmitry Kutsanov is not the author
of LAME):

08a (AUTHOR) LAME developers
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION) Project Page (This page has the source code and
information about the LAME project, but not ready-to-use LAME encoders
for programs like CDex, EAC, or Winamp. For ready-to-use encoders, use
any of the two download links.)
10 (LINK 1) http://lame.sourceforge.net/
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download v 3.96.1 encoders/decoders (2004-07-24)
(601 KB)
12 (LINK 2) http://mitiok.maresweb.org/
13 (LINK 3 DESCRIPTION) download v 3.96.1 encoders/decoders (2004-09-14)
(575KB)
14 (LINK 3) http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html

Hi Demetris,

Are you objecting to the use of the LAME name to describe a subset of LAME files? If Dmitry Kutsanov
is the author of the files that are listed in the PL2005 LAME description then it seems to me you
are coming at this from the wrong direction. . .

I can't use the description you posted. Pricelessware = specific software files that can be
downloaded. Pricelessware is not best source code or best group of related programs or best program
ideas - it's ACF participants' favorite software FILES - the ones that they download and use.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/2006PL-Procedures.php

"The Pricelessware List is a compilation of the favorite Freeware programs of the readers of
alt.comp.freeware." "The software must be available for download."

The files that are listed in the program description are the basis for selecting Pricelessware apps.
When you submit a program description you need to include the file version, the date the file was
released, the file name(s) and the file size(s). FYI - PL2005 selections include earlier versions of
Winamp and Free Agent (not the current versions). There are a number of "last freeware versions" on
PL2005 etc. etc. etc. File information must be specific.

Susan
--
Posted to alt.comp.freeware
Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online):
http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=+group:alt.comp.freeware
Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org
Pricelessware: http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained)

 

[miskairal]

CATEGORY: File Utilities
SUBCATEGORY: File Notes
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): support [at] moonsoftware [dot] [com]

FileNote 1.1.0
(Freeware)
Win OS: 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT4
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
Languages: English
Description:
FileNote is a little shell extension that allows you to add textual
descriptions to your files. It adds one command to the shell context
menu of a file object. This command lets you easily edit or create a
text file that has the same name as the initial file, but with the
extension TXT.
For example, if you have a file, MyImage.jpg, you right-click on that
file and choose the FileNote command from the context menu. A new text
file called MyImage.txt is created and Notepad is opened to edit that
text file. If a text file with that name already exists, it will be
opened for viewing/editing.)

Company: Moon Software
08a (AUTHOR)
Homepage:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp
Download:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/getfile.asp?filenote (206kb)

 

[miskairal]

Convert
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Convert is an easy to use unit conversion program that will
convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time,
speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including
the ability to create custom conversions! NOTES: registration requested,
but not required (name and email) COMMENTS: Small, easy to use,
comprehensive, a wonderful program.
Company: -- Author: Joshua F. Madison
Home Page:
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/
download page v 4.10 (1999-10-30) (convertsetup.exe) (780 KB);
(convert.zip) (152 KB)
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/download.asp

 

[miskairal]

From pricelesswarehome. description and version number updated.

POP Peeper
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP Requires IE 4+ for certain features
(Webmail and for viewing HTML).
Languages: English, many other kanguages (separate downloads).
Description:
[Updated from Homepage]
POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and
alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN,
Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, or RediffMail accounts. Send
mail using your SMTP server or through your webmail account directly
from POP Peeper. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your
email the same way as you would in your email client. Several options
are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your
email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). If you share your computer,
you can password-protect your accounts or password-protect access to POP
Peeper.
Company: Mortal Universe Software Entertainment: Author: Jeff Meier
Home Page:
http://www.poppeeper.com
[Updated]
download page v 2.4.1.0 (814 KB)
http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: )

 

[miskairal]

Taken from
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004nSYSTEMUTILITIES.php
Updated for version 7

Cobian Backup
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program you can use to
backup your files and directories from their original location to other
directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your
network. Now you can altso backup to a FTP server. Cobian Backup exists
in two different versions: application and service. The program uses
very few resources and can be running on the background on your system,
checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary.
Author: Luis Cobian Company: --
Home Page:
http://www2.educ.umu.se/~cobian/
[Next part Updated]
Program description:
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
Download v 7.0.1.275
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/programz/Cb7Setup.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-02)

 

[miskairal]

Taken from
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005MULTIMEDIA.php

Not sure how I should do this as the newer version 11 is payware.
Version 10.1 can still be downloaded directly via the link below but I
cannot find a page for the download, only the direct link. Would it be
preferred to have a download link to a page rather than a direct download?


dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)
(Freeware) (v 10.1)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux (using Wine)
Languages: English
Description: Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dMC is able to:
Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats,
dMC is the Fastest CD Ripper and now AccurateRip Compatible. Convert
from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported:
mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio,
FLAC and many others [Codec downloads], whilst preserving ID Tags.
Volume Normalize audio files, Windows Explorer Integration - right click
Convert To & popup useful information on audio files (such as bitrate,
length). ID tag editing [Power Pack Option], Record from LPs or anything
[optional Auxiliary Input install], NOTES: v 10.1 is the last version
with a free mp3 encoder
Company: -- Author: Illustrate
Home Page:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com
download v 10.1 (2004-01) (dMC-r10.exe) (1484 KB)
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/bin/dMC-r10.exe

2005PL CD files: dMC-r10.exe
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)

 

[miskairal]

Taken from
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004SECURITY.htm
Updated to version 4.6.691

avast!
(Liteware) (free for personal non-commercial use) (Registerware (see
notes): email; name; address; phone)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Spanish, Turkish
Description: avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package
designed exclusively for home users. New version of avast! antivirus
kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high
performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (the
ones what are really spreading amongst people) and very good detection
of Trojan horses, all that with only a minimum number of false alarms.
avast! Home Edition contains resident protection of the computer file
system and resident module for e-mails. NOTES: The trial version is
fully functional for sixty days. You may register at any time during
that period. After one year you must reregister to obtain a new license key
Company: ALWIL Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.avast.com/
[Updated version]
download page v 4.6.691 (9th July 2005) (English) (setupeng.exe) (9.27 MB)
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)

 

[miskairal]

Taken from
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005ORGANIZERS.php#0865-PW
Unable to find further info on OS but I use it with XPHome
Appears to have no newer versions

WorldTime
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: Dubbed "The 'Swiss Army Knife' of world clocks" with
unlimited configurable clocks, each with it's own time zone,
configurable Daylight Saving Time, Lat Long, and description in a 12 or
24 hour analog/digital user configurable display, that minimizes to the
system tray; 2D/3D World Map with day/night display and ability to plot
any/all locations. SwatchBeat support, unlimited time zone savvy alarms
with AutoSnooze, and repeat for display, Sync, Dial, and Launch App;
Uses NTP to synchronize your computers system time (UTC) to a time
server; Allows user configurable optional chimes every 60, 30 and/or 15
minutes. Calculates and displays the Julian Date, Sun Rise, Sun Set,
Moon phase, Hours of Daylight, Provides unlimited count up/down
stopwatches accurate to 1/100 sec with unlimited lap times and lap
average - hidden until used, and a module that tracks the amount of time
since or until an unlimited number of events specified date down to the
second at any location.
Company: PawPrint Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/
download page v 6.0.0.941 (beta) (2004-02-10) (wt600941.exe) (2364 KB)
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/beta.php
download page v 5.5.2.748 (2000-03-24) (wt552748.zip) (4451 KB)
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/download.php

2005PL CD files: wt600941.exe wt552748.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)

 

[miskairal]

CATEGORY:
Security
SUBCATEGORY:
Firewall
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged):

01 (PROGRAM NAME)
Sygate Personal Firewall
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION)
Liteware/ Registerware
03 (OS-WIN)
Windows OS: 95/98/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003 server
04 (OS-NOTES)
Requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES)
Languages: English
07 (DESCRIPTION)
Built on Sygate Personal Firewall Pro's award-winning technology, is the
most user-friendly PC firewall and personal desktop security solution.
It is the first bi-directional intrusion defense system designed for
home users while with advanced protocol driver-level protection and
code-insertion prevention. It ensures your personal computer is
completely protected from malicious hackers and other intruders while
preventing unauthorized access from your computer to a network. In
essence, it makes your protected machines invisible to the outside world.
Delivers unobtrusive, highly configurable, enforceable rule-based
security policy by constantly operating in the background of your PC.
Policies regarding applications, trusted IP addresses, ports, protocols
and scheduling can be customized to support and secure any network
configurations or requirements.
If an intrusion attempt occurs, it detects it in real-time and blocks it
by default. You are immediately notified and, with your approval, your
Internet connection is adjusted to prohibit further attacks. Likewise,
if an unauthorized application on your system attempts to access the
Internet, Sygate Personal Firewall blocks it by default, advises you of
the situation and waits for your approval before proceeding further.
07a (NOTES)
08 (COMPANY)
Company: Sygate Technologies
08a (AUTHOR)
Homepage:
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/spf_ov.htm
Download
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/summary_spf.htm (version 5.6) (8.8MB)

 

[miskairal]

CATEGORY:
Multimedia
SUBCATEGORY:
Audio Player
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged):
info [at] sheepproductions [dot] [com]

01 (PROGRAM NAME)
Billy
02 (WARE DESCRIPTION)
Freeware
03 (OS-WIN)
95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003
04 (OS-NOTES)
05 (OS-OTHER)
06 (LANGUAGES)
English
07 (DESCRIPTION)
Description: Billy is a lightweighted no nonsense audio player that
allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files. No skins,
no mp3 tags, no equalizer, no nonsense - pure audio
Supported formats: MP3, WAV, OGG. Directory based or playlist based.
Queueing your next songs. Find a specific song quickly. Sleep timer.
Drag & drop
07a (NOTES)
08 (COMPANY)
Sheep Productions
08a (AUTHOR)
Sanne Schaap
Home Page and download:
http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
version 1.03 (665kb) (June 20 2004)
version 1.04b beta (456kb) (May 2 2005)

 

[Demetris]

[PL] PL2006 Program Submittals -- LAME

CATEGORY: MULTIMEDIA
SUBCATEGORY: Audio: Encoder
AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS (munged): n/a

Information as is up to field 08:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005MULTIMEDIA.php#0416-PW

\beginquote

LAME
(Freeware) (open source: GNU LGPL)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME
originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a
GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was
incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself.
But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were
replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3
encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors.
Company: --

\endquote

I suggest the following for the rest (Dmitry Kutsanov is not the
author of LAME):

08a (AUTHOR) LAME developers
09 (LINK 1 DESCRIPTION) Project Page (This page has the source code
and information about the LAME project, but not ready-to-use LAME
encoders for programs like CDex, EAC, or Winamp. For ready-to-use
encoders, use any of the two download links.)
10 (LINK 1) http://lame.sourceforge.net/
11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download v 3.96.1 encoders/decoders
(2004-07-24) (601 KB)
12 (LINK 2) http://mitiok.maresweb.org/
13 (LINK 3 DESCRIPTION) download v 3.96.1 encoders/decoders
(2004-09-14) (575KB)
14 (LINK 3) http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html

Hi Demetris,

Are you objecting to the use of the LAME name to describe a subset of
LAME files? If Dmitry Kutsanov is the author of the files that are
listed in the PL2005 LAME description then it seems to me you are coming
at this from the wrong direction. . .

Hello, Susan,

LAME is wider than the sets compiled by mitiok, and the presentation
does not do justice to the team of LAME developers. mitiok has probably
done more than anyone else to make known the LAME codec (I, as many
other people, learned about LAME from his site and I use his sets to
this day), but mitiok's sets and LAME are *not* the same thing.

Also, in my eyes, the description now is not clear (and it wouldn't be
much clearer even if the name changed to something more specific, like
"mitiok's LAME set"): Does it say that acf members consider LAME the
best MP3 encoder, and that mitiok's compile is just their favourite
among the best LAME compiles? Or does it say that they only care about
mitiok's set and that, if mitiok stopped compiling, they would stay at
his last set of LAME, considering this the last version of LAME?

(The question is not hypothetical: earlier this year mitiok took his
site down, and was finally persuaded by the people at Hydrogen Audio,
where most LAME developers are members, to bring it back:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=35118)

(And I believe that, if mitiok persisted in his decision, the second
download site I suggested to add, rarewares, would host his latest LAME
set, along with the other sets they host: they are the people who
persuaded him to bring back his site.)

I can't use the description you posted. Pricelessware = specific
software files that can be downloaded. Pricelessware is not best source
code or best group of related programs or best program ideas - it's ACF
participants' favorite software FILES - the ones that they download and
use.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/2006PL-Procedures.php

"The Pricelessware List is a compilation of the favorite Freeware
programs of the readers of alt.comp.freeware." "The software must be
available for download."

The files that are listed in the program description are the basis for
selecting Pricelessware apps. When you submit a program description you
need to include the file version, the date the file was released, the
file name(s) and the file size(s). FYI - PL2005 selections include
earlier versions of Winamp and Free Agent (not the current versions).
There are a number of "last freeware versions" on PL2005 etc. etc. etc.
File information must be specific.

My information *was* specific: "11 (LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download v
3.96.1 encoders/decoders (2004-07-24) (601 KB)". Only the file name is
missing.

To conclude:

In my opinion, either the program name has to change to something that
specifies that it is mitiok's LAME set, or, if it stays, mention must be
made of the LAME project. If the second, I'm sure there are better ways
than the one I suggested.

Greetings,
Demetris

PS

About source code: I never said anything about "best source code". I
mentioned source code in my suggested revision and note only to make
clear what the project page is and is not.

Also, about source code again, in your reply to another description I
submitted (FreeMind), you wrote:

"Standard practice has been to show only Windows downloads on the PL
pages (no source files) - that's open to discussion if you think the
standard should be changed."

I never mentioned source code there (or anywhere else in my submittals):

"(LINK 2 DESCRIPTION) download page: v 0.8.0 (2005-09-06) Installer
(3MB), Installer w/ SVG export (8MB), Zipped binaries (3MB), Zipped
binaries w/ SVG export (8MB)" (Again, file names are missing from my
description.)