What's your favorite (lesser know) freeware?

V

Vrodok the Troll

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."
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Under which section/page is this app listed?
 
K

Keenan P.

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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Probably something installed and taken for granted is MailWasher which
enables me to manage my e-mails on the server before I download them.
With all the crap and corruption coming into our inboxes, this app is
required. It's on my page at:
http://manitoulinislandwebdesign.it-mate.co.uk/freeware.html
POKO
--
P. Keenan - Webmaster
Web Page Design
Manitoulin Island, Canada
http://manitoulinislandwebdesign.it-mate.co.uk/
(e-mail address removed)
 
T

Tiger

*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.
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url?
 
J

javalab

"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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i use and/or liked these.
ciao, j.

http://actor.loquendo.com/actordemo/default.asp (online)
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/
http://smb.sygate.com/support/documents/spf/default.htm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
http://users.pandora.be/eclypse/ ' xfonter
http://wordweb.info/free/
http://www.aclogic.com/
http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted/index.html
http://www.amtechdisc.com/Audio.Util.Html ' cdlabel
http://www.bsplayer.org/
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm
http://www.filzip.com/
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
http://www.httrack.com
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/
http://www.rkwest.com/downloads.shtml ' poetry generator
http://www.silveragesoftware.com/handytools.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/csdesigner.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
http://www.stintercorp.com/ ' resolution
http://www.tightvnc.com/
http://www.tucows.com/preview/213738.html
http://www.virtualdub.org/
 
R

REM

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.
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Here is a similar utility that I like: Pure Text

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

"Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document,
help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another
application without getting all the formatting from the original
source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to
the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any
application. Better yet, you can configure a Hot-Key to convert and
paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from
all formatting.

After running PureText.exe, you will see a "PT" tray icon appear near
the clock on your task bar. To convert the data currently in the
clipboard to pure text, simply click on the tray icon with the left
mouse button.

You can also configure a system-wide Hot-Key to be used to activate
PureText and convert the clipboard contents to pure text. To
configure, right-click on the tray icon and choose "Options" from the
pop-up menu. The default Hot-Key is WINDOWS+V. PureText can also
optionally paste the converted text into the window that currently has
the focus, which allows you to convert and paste in one keystroke."

Unicode support has been added since the last time I checked it.

Clean up some drive space though, the DL is 13k <G>.





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A

Anti_Freak_Machine

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.
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Not sure how many of these are well known but here goes:

Bulk rename utiltiy
(http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/BRU_Intro.php)- renames
files/folders.

Grab it (http://www.shemes.com/) grabs binaires from newsgroups.

MP3 trim (http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/) MP3 editor- trims
begining/end space/fades

Smart FTP (http://www.smartftp.com/)- Free FTP client. Simple.

Quick PAR (http://www.quickpar.org.uk/index.htm) rebuilds binaries
downloaded from Newsgroups/

...And finally..for MAME junkies:
clrMAME (http://www.clrmame.com) - manages and fixes thousands of ROMS.
 
C

Colonel Blip

ClassicClip is great. Use it all of the time and it has saved a BUNCH of
retyping or out of the way saving of clips.
 
M

Maureen Goldman

Winkey to make Windows Key shortcuts.

Although not something I use constantly, I like sendbk31.zip to send
Internet Explorer windows to the back by right-clicking the title bar.
 
U

Ulrich Neumann

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.
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http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/

Quote from website:
---
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between
multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own
display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple
computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off
the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the
systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore,
it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and,
if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to
unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL).
 
U

Ulrich Neumann

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.
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http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Quote from website:
---
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between
multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own
display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple
computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off
the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the
systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore,
it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and,
if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to
unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL).
 
M

ms

Bjorn said:
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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It does a very nice job of removing html coding from a file to leave
plain text.

Mike Sa
 
C

Chris Dubea

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.
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"Press the Freakin' Button" is my personal favorite. Have a piece of
software that you use all the time that has a bunch of useless pop up
dialog boxes? Slay them with PTFB. It doesn't work with app's
created with Visual Basic, but everything else I've tried it with work
fine.

Available at http://www.bobos.demon.co.uk/par/PTFB.htm

Chris
 

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