What's your favorite (lesser know) freeware?

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MystryClassmate

Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like Spybot, Open
Office, ect but something you use whether it be a game, screensaver, utility or
whatever that others may not be aware of.

I have to go with "Screen Saver Control." This is great if you need to start
your screensaver or powerdown your monitor immediately.

Also another small program called "shut down". Just set the timer and your
computer will shut down at that time. great for downloading and defrag.

both can be found at this freeware site under system utilities

http://www.webgrid.co.uk/
 
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Bjorn Simonsen

MystryClassmate wrote in
Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like Spybot, Open
Office, ect but something you use whether it be a game, screensaver, utility or
whatever that others may not be aware of.

Something I wrote back in october,
in <
##### <begin copy from older post> #####

Ben Cooper wrote in said:
I like using the 'Annotator' shell extension to keep descriptions of
everything I download.

My "survival alternative" is InjectURL by Marek Jedlinski from
<http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html>

When I download a program I usually also save the program web page
that contains a description, often the page I download from (and with
Opera I most often use "Frame - Save as" from the right-click menu).
Then use InjectURL to insert the URL into saved page. Thus I end up
with description page with URL embedded. Makes it easy to see what the
downloaded program is/does - and from where I got it.

Partial copy from: <http://www.tranglos.com/free/injecturl_main.html>

<quote>

InjectURL: Automatically "injects" URL address and last-visited date
into documents downloaded from the Web

This release of the program is frozen, and no longer supported. The
program is useful in its current state, but it is not being developed
and is unlikely to see any more updates.

InjectURL is a simple application designed to do only one task and do
it well: to help you keep a reference to the Web document you have
downloaded to your local computer.

What does it do?
You may find this program helpful if you often download articles from
the Internet (using a Web browser, such as Netscape or MS Internet
Explorer) and sometimes wish to return to online copies of those
documents later, when you may have already deleted or lost the URL
address. The task that InjectURL performs is automatically adding
("injecting") the URLs into HTML and plain-text documents you have
downloaded and saved, using the browser's "Save As..." feature. This
way you can always know where that particular document came from
without having to keep the URLs somewhere else or manually editing
the document.

</quote>

Two minor issues I've experienced with InjectURL:

1) First issue: It does not work in auto-mode with Opera. I solve it
this way: set it to monitor my download directory, copy the URL from
browser after saving the page, then right click the program icon in
task menu and select Inject URL Manually. So if the page was saved
as "somename.htm" and the URL is "http://someplace.com/somename.htm",
when i past the URL in the InjectURL window - it finds and suggests
the saved "somename.htm" page by it self. But sometimes the page name
in the URL does not match the saved file name, if so I simply open the
file dialog in InjectURL and type the first two or three letters of
the saved html file to quickly find it, select it and hit OK. Or - if
you please - name the html page your self when saving, say use same
name as downloaded program name, then copy the url from browser, then
chose Inject URL manually in Inject URL menu, past the URL into
InjectURL window, click browse for file name, type the first
characters of the filename to find it faster, select it, click OK -
OK.

Btw: I try to keep the download directory "tidy", that is simply move
everything to a another "holding" directory from time to time - to
avoid naming conflicts when saving pages and injecting URL. Also
notice that InjectURL can optionally rename the saved file when
Injecting, using the page title as a name, found inside the <TITLE>
</TITLE> tags in the page..

2) Second minor issue: It "crashes" on say 1 out of 25 pages. Probably
since program has not been updates in ages and thus can not
handle/parse some newer kinds of code/scripts. When this happens, the
program hangs during parsing/writing of html file, while html file
grows to several MB very fast - until you shout down the program. Not
a major issue (unless your are low on disk space) since it is always
obvious when this happens (program screen freeze instead of
disappearing after injecting url). What I do: Right click program tab
in taskbar and select close, Windows then pops up the end-it-now
dialog, OK. Delte "mangled" copy of html file and just skip this file
(or add the url to the original saved page "by hand" with text
editor).

##### <end copy from older post> #####

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
B

Bjorn Simonsen

Lister <http://www.ghisler.com/lister/>, a file viewer. Great for
viewing textual content of html files, as it strips html tags -
leaving only plain text and URLs (can also view raw source). I have
posted about this before, including some tips/ideas on use. This time,
instead of including previous posts here, I'll serve them to you with
the help of Google:

Lister, about/use of:
<http://google.com/[email protected]>
Lister as a source viewer for your browser, to get to text only:
<http://google.com/[email protected]>
<http://google.com/[email protected]>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
G

George Richards

MystryClassmate said:
Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like Spybot,
Open Office, ect but something you use whether it be a game,
screensaver, utility or whatever that others may not be aware of.

Slick Run
http://bayden.com/SlickRun/

AleJenJes Countdown Timer
http://www.gonebowlin.com/freeware.html

mp3 pack for Windows Media Player
http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=877

Popup Popper
http://bayden.com/Popper/default.asp

Week Scheduler
http://programming.de/index.php?download.php
 
L

Lord Whiz

Bjorn Simonsen said:
Lister <http://www.ghisler.com/lister/>, a file viewer. Great for
viewing textual content of html files, as it strips html tags -
==================

Right on! I discovered Lister, and am able to call on its service by
entering it in the context menu, by using ContextEdit. Lister will
open *anything* to permit viewing the ascii makeup of such file.
Probably one of my most-appreciated.
 
L

Lord Whiz

Another favorite of mine is: Classic Clip

Available freeware from:
http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/download/clcl110_eng.zip

This thingie captures screen shots normally; text, graphics, whatever ...
and
keeps them archived in a folder in the ClassicClip main folder. And, not
just
full window pictures, either. You can highlight any text and capture it
with
CTRL-C, and it also will be placed in the archive folder. There are
other freeware programs available, but this one is far and away the simplest
to use.
 
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Bjorn Simonsen

Right on! I discovered Lister, and am able to call on its service by
entering it in the context menu, by using ContextEdit. Lister will
open *anything* to permit viewing the ascii makeup of such file.
Probably one of my most-appreciated.

Ditto. Have used it for years, although not as a standalone though,
but as an integrated part of Total Commander, a shareware filemanager
by same author. It is not that long ago I became aware he offers
Lister as a standalone freeware app as well.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
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badgolferman

MystryClassmate said:
Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like Spybot,
Open Office, ect but something you use whether it be a game,
screensaver, utility or whatever that others may not be aware of.

I have to go with "Screen Saver Control." This is great if you need
to start your screensaver or powerdown your monitor immediately.

Also another small program called "shut down". Just set the timer and
your computer will shut down at that time. great for downloading and
defrag.

both can be found at this freeware site under system utilities

http://www.webgrid.co.uk/



Neutron
http://keir.net/neutron.html

Showcalc
http://familyeducation.com/software/0,1745,34-8043,00.html
 
H

Harvey Van Sickle

On 14 Mar 2004, MystryClassmate wrote
Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like
Spybot, Open Office, ect but something you use whether it be a
game, screensaver, utility or whatever that others may not be
aware of.

FTP Pie. A simple, not-installed-to-the-registry utility that reads
how much space you've used on your website. (If you specify your MB
allowance, it sets it out in a pie graph.)

http://www.satsignal.net/ -- under "Net Tools>FTPpie.
 
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Ben Cooper

MystryClassmate said:
Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like Spybot, Open
Office, ect but something you use whether it be a game, screensaver, utility
or whatever that others may not be aware of.

1st Impression (2.5M)-
Only works with Windows 95/98, though.
http://www.gromada.com/1stImpression.html

"1st Impression automatically replaces Windows startup and
shut down logos each time your system restarts.

Features:
20 or more interesting logos included in the package. You
can extend the collection by adding more pictures from
various sources. Almost anything from digital photos,
computer generated pictures, screenshots and logo galleries
to pictures from the Web and News groups can be converted
and displayed as a logo.
Supported formats include JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PCX, TGA,
XPM and more.
Animation effects can make startup screens even more
attractive.
Virtually unlimited number of multi-line messages that can
be displayed during startup or shut down.
Configurable font, text style, foreground and border colors.
Several resize modes that automatically prevent distortions.
Selected pictures can be compressed into a logo gallery to
make it available to other users of 1st Impression.
Logos can be changed automatically or you can do that
manually with Set and Shuffle functions.
Real-time preview of all available logo pictures
Preview of current Windows logos
Full install / uninstall support.
On-line manual included in the package.
It's absolutely FREE. Use it free of charge for your pleasue
or business."
 
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Bjorn Simonsen

Andale Mono - a very nice mono spaced True Type font.

Andale Mono is the one I use for my Win2k CMD console (aka DOS box),
love it. Also use it for various where I need a mono space font,
say like in Keynote when I need (want:) it there.

Was - but no longer is - distributed by MS I think(?).
Link below should take you to a list of download
locations (sourceforge mirrors):
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe?download>

Another good alternative for the DOS box is

DOSFon - Better fonts for the DOS-Box and editors
<http://www.uwe-sieber.de/dosfon_e.html> by Uwe Sieber

PS:
Installing fonts in Windows is usually straight forward, like
Control Panel -> Fonts -> File, Install New Font.

In WinNT/Win2k (don't know about XP, could be same)
making fonts available for (visible in) the console is not
straight forward. For how-to see:
"Necessary Criteria for Fonts to Be Available in a Command
Window" <http://support.microsoft.com/?id=247815>
(and/or:
<http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2004/02/03/66552.aspx>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
B

Bob Adkins

Don't name a freeware that most of us are familiar with like Spybot, Open
Office, ect but something you use whether it be a game, screensaver, utility or
whatever that others may not be aware of.

Hey, this is going to be fun!

Just a few I seldom or never hear about on this group, though some of us may
use them. All are "I File Wonders".

*BHODemon - Finds Browser Helper Objects used by spyware and browser
highjackers.

*Yankee Clipper III - Clipboard manager and clip organizer.

*DupeLocater - A very fast and nifty duplicate finder that compares bit for
bit. Great for weeding photo and music collections.

*NetMeter - A great little Internet speed graph and online statistics
collector. Has daily, weekly, and monthly reports at a glance. Beautiful
interface, too.

*PhotoFiltre - A little known but great little graphics editor.

*MicroWav - World's smallest and quickest WAV file player. Coded in Assembly
language. No GUI needed! Great for toggling through a large collections of
sounds to find just the right one.

*WordWeb - A wonderful thesaurus.

All are linked on my site, http://webpages.charter.net/bobad/best.htm

Just kidding about PhotoFiltre. :)

Bob

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omega

Bjorn Simonsen said:
Andale Mono - a very nice mono spaced True Type font.

Andale Mono is the one I use for my Win2k CMD console (aka DOS box),
love it. Also use it for various where I need a mono space font,
say like in Keynote when I need (want:) it there.
[...]

I have it installed (maybe from Office), but never really looked at
it until now. The peculiar thing is that it sorta has a variable pitch
look to it.

I also feel inclined to say it reminds me of childhood experiences in
the early 70s -- on a terminal to a main frame. Although in truth I don't
actually have any recall of seeing text in that situation, cannot now
even guess how it looked.... (My interaction with that machine always
pivoted on playing a game with missionaries and hungry cannibals trying
to get across the river in a canoe.)

Speaking of mono spaced fonts, if anyone knows where I can download a
whole pack altogether, I'd appreciate the tip.
 
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omega

Bob Adkins said:
Just a few I seldom or never hear about on this group, though some of us may
use them. All are "I File Wonders". [...]
*Yankee Clipper III - Clipboard manager and clip organizer. http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004DESKTOP.htm#ClipboardExtender

[...]
*WordWeb - A wonderful thesaurus.
http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004BUSINESS-HOME.htm#Dictionary

PL2004 winners do not qualify as lesser known - so I get to say that counts
as a bust! ACF regulars are expected to know the list by heart. (Or at least
cheat and do a lookup on the PL2004.chm.) Quiz next Friday, bring the number
2 pencil.
 
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Bob Adkins

Just a few I seldom or never hear about on this group, though some of us may
use them. All are "I File Wonders". [...]
*Yankee Clipper III - Clipboard manager and clip organizer. http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004DESKTOP.htm#ClipboardExtender

[...]
*WordWeb - A wonderful thesaurus.
http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004BUSINESS-HOME.htm#Dictionary

PL2004 winners do not qualify as lesser known - so I get to say that counts

What if I'm new to the group, and/or pricelessware is not one of my regular
hangouts? (it isn't)

Anyway, thanks for the nice links. I will store them away in case I lose my
own. ;)

Bob

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Bjorn Simonsen

omega wrote in said:
Bjorn Simonsen said:
Andale Mono - a very nice mono spaced True Type font.
Andale Mono is the one I use for my Win2k CMD console (aka DOS box),
love it. Also use it for various where I need a mono space font,
say like in Keynote when I need (want:) it there.
[...]
I have it installed (maybe from Office), but never really looked at
it until now. The peculiar thing is that it sorta has a variable pitch
look to it.

If in doubt, you could check with
X-fonter: <http://users.pandora.be/eclypse/>
- so there, now I got to mention that one too!
(yes I know, on the PL, even so - not that often mentioned here:)

(in another parenthesis:Font properties extension, version 2.1
I also feel inclined to say it reminds me of childhood experiences in
the early 70s -- on a terminal to a main frame. Although in truth I don't
actually have any recall of seeing text in that situation, cannot now
even guess how it looked.... (My interaction with that machine always
pivoted on playing a game with missionaries and hungry cannibals trying
to get across the river in a canoe.)

When working at the commandline, anything but a mono spaced font is
confusing IMHO. For the same reason, I prefer to read certain
manuals/faqs related to CLI and batch/script examples same way
(thus using Andale in Keynote/TreePad for when collecting such
notes there).
Speaking of mono spaced fonts, if anyone knows where I can download a
whole pack altogether, I'd appreciate the tip.

Not me, but I will be watching this space to see if you catch any :)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
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omega

Bjorn Simonsen said:
When working at the commandline, anything but a mono spaced font is
confusing IMHO. For the same reason, I prefer to read certain
manuals/faqs related to CLI and batch/script examples same way
(thus using Andale in Keynote/TreePad for when collecting such
notes there).

I tend to use mono-spaced a great majority of the time. Log viewing, it's
much more natural. Columnar data. Really, started the habit of that pref
from having spent so much time reading usenet (and mailing lists, in the
old days). My font choices are pretty cliche. For variable, my favorite
is Verdana (or sometimes I use close relatives of it). For fixed, nearly
always Courier New, and it's this one I've thought to give a rest...
 

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