Your favorite freeware?

[five]

I've been looking for some new software to play with. What is your
favorite freeware? Mine is Firefox and AVG.

Since you're using Outlook Express, how about OE-QuoteFix?

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
Sits in the background, does exactly what it says it will, never crashes,
never fails.


regards
five

 

[Bob Adkins]

I've been looking for some new software to play with. What is your favorite
freeware? Mine is Firefox and AVG.

Here are my personal favorites in each category:

http://webpages.charter.net/bobad/best.htm



Bob

Remove "kins" from address to reply.

 

[MightyKitten]

I've been looking for some new software to play with. What is your
favorite freeware? Mine is Firefox and AVG.

Depends on what you're looking for:

Office
Office: Open Office 1.1 http://www.openoffice.org
Flowcharter: Dia http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/
Database: WinDBF
http://www.buchenwald.de/software/windbf-e.html
P.I.M: Tree DB Notes http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/
ProjectPlanner: Gantt Project http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/
Time Tracker: TimeCore http://www.back2front.co.uk/timecore/
DTP: RagTime Solo http://www.ragtime-online.com/

Desktop:
Dekstop Clock: Through Clock http://www2.odn.ne.jp/hamataro/
Calculator: Graph Calc http://www.graphcalc.com/

Image:
Photo Editor: Photofiltre http://www.photofiltre.com
Paint Program: Pixia http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
CAD Program: TurboCAD http://www.imsisoft.com/
CAD Viewer: Volo View Express
http://www.softlookup.com/preview/dis23382.html
Cartographing: AutoRealm http://www.gryc.ws/autorealm.htm
Landscape: Terragen www.planetside.co.uk
Buttons: Buttons & Tiles http://www.b-zone.de/software/bt.htm

Audio
CD Ripper: CDex http://www.cdex.n3.net/
MP3-Player: Cool Player http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
MP3-Recorder: Stepvoice Recorder http://stepvoice.com/
MP3-Editor: MP3DirectCut
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/#mp3dc
Midi-Player: vanBosco Midi player http://www.vanbasco.com/
Audio Editor: Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Track editor Buzz Machines http://www.buzzmachines.com/

Video
Editing: DDClip Free 2.23
http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html
Morphing: SmartMorph http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/SmartMorph/
Video 2 Photo Video 2 Photo http://www.pixelchain.com/video2photo/

I just skipped internet, games and programming, edutainment and utilities. I
think it is about time I created a page for it...


MightyKitten

 

[Michael]

I've been looking for some new software to play with. What is your favorite
freeware? Mine is Firefox and AVG.

 

[Guest]

#1 Choice
PowerPro : General purpose Windows enhancement tool
- create general purpose or file / program specific toolbars that can appear
however and wherever you like on screen
- alarm and reminder program
- sticky notes with hyperlink capability
- wallpaper / screensaver manager
- multiple virtual desktops
- macro capability
- enhanced file open / file save dialogues
- clipboard enhancer
- small footprint
- start multiple programs with one click
- scripting capability
And on an on. . .

Once I started using this proggie, I tossed out about a dozen small freeware
utilities as I no longer needed them. . . Still can't believe that the
author doesn't charge for this one.
www.windowspowerpro.com

 

[Roger Johansson]

Midi-Player: vanBosco Midi player http://www.vanbasco.com/

vanBasco is good, but it is not the best freeware midi player.

Megamid 166 is the best.

Disadvantages: It is a DOS program, so you cannot do anything else
simultaneously on your computer.
It needs some manual ini file setting up for your sound card.
You may want to change the background picture to something more neutral, I
use a plain gray background.

So, what are the advantages, after all these disadvantages?

Well, it is simply beautiful, and gives you more visual information than
any other midi player.
It lets you _see_ music instead of just hearing it.

The main part of the display are 16 keyboards which show every tone played
on every instrument, with the volume of each tone shown as different color
intensity. You can see visually how the music is built up with chords and
harmonies. You can even see pitch bending if you switch that on.
The color bars are bending like this ( ) to show pitch bending downwards
and upwards.

If it is a midi karaoke file you are playing the text scrolls by below the
keyboards, with a little jumping ball telling you exactly when to sing each
part of each word.

You can also see all the pedals and switches the player is using on each
keyboard, moving in real time.

You can slow down or speed up the music, or change the key up and down.
You can change each instrument while it is playing.

There are more nice stuff too, but those are the main features.

Most download sites are down now, and even google has lost the memory of
it, but megamid 166 for DOS is still available here:

http://www.bits.bris.ac.uk/tom/megamid/download.htm

Other links: http://www.neutrio.com/megamid_dos/index.htm
http://megamid.cjb.net/

There are also newer versions, for windows, versions 0.23 and 0.24 but they
are only partially converted from the real Megamid for DOS.
I was in contact with the programmer, Chee Keat, and he hoped we would one
day have time to complete the conversion to windows, but I haven't heard
from him for years now.

It is too bad if this masterpiece of programming is lost and forgotten.

 

[MightyKitten]

"Roger Johansson" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht

I certainly gonna trie that one.

But for the main part, all I needed was a midi player who allowed me to
change whitch wavetables are used. There are others, I know, but I found
VanBosco fitting my overall purposes the best.

I recently rediscovered the (imho best) mod file "12th warrior from Dr
Awesome (Bjorn Lynne) and I wanted to play it. So I downloaded VanBosco, as
I remembered the name from my first time download, 6 or 7 years ago).
Unfortunately, VanBosco does not play MOD or ST3 tracks. Maybe anybody
around here knows a decent mod playe (No, Winamp Plugins are not decent
enough for me. - I just dont like them)

MigthyKitten

 

[Tiger]

"Roger Johansson" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht

I certainly gonna trie that one.

But for the main part, all I needed was a midi player who allowed
me to change whitch wavetables are used. There are others, I know,
but I found VanBosco fitting my overall purposes the best.

I recently rediscovered the (imho best) mod file "12th warrior
from Dr Awesome (Bjorn Lynne) and I wanted to play it. So I
downloaded VanBosco, as I remembered the name from my first time
download, 6 or 7 years ago). Unfortunately, VanBosco does not play
MOD or ST3 tracks. Maybe anybody around here knows a decent mod
playe (No, Winamp Plugins are not decent enough for me. - I just
dont like them)

http://www.modplug.com/modplug/download.php3

 

[MightyKitten]

Thanks, Striped cousin!

Mrrrrraaaauw!

MightyKitten

 

[Roy Coorne]

I've been looking for some new software to play with. What is your favorite
freeware? Mine is Firefox and AVG.

What about Mozilla Calendar? It's 'hidden' at www.mozilla.org > downloads.

Roy