bump for this rockin' thread, here's something I use all the time: Webshots in combination with any picture at Desktop Girls. Makes for a very entertaining desktop wallpaper system. 
swapnut- filesharing program that can acces several other networks i.e bearshare, limewire. Best source of movies
Winace- best compression software I have ever come accross(shareware)
powertoys calulator- pretty good calculater, kind of like a basic grapher
convert - best units conversion tool, excellent for engineers. I have it shared on swapnut
Banshee screamer alarm- never fails to wake me up
Divfix104- fixes corrputed divx movies i.e sound continues but video stops
thats all I have for now
Winace- best compression software I have ever come accross(shareware)
powertoys calulator- pretty good calculater, kind of like a basic grapher
convert - best units conversion tool, excellent for engineers. I have it shared on swapnut
Banshee screamer alarm- never fails to wake me up
Divfix104- fixes corrputed divx movies i.e sound continues but video stops
thats all I have for now
<< I second that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>
Glad to know that there are others who use this program. Surprisingly it's not very well known<< genius 3 all around multi tool. >>
awesome proggie . . . a damn pity it crashed my system after a short while. never could get it
to work. i'm gonna check out this latest version anyway. tanx.
aws weather bug
the free version is ad supported (spy). small downside, imho. pro version costs 19.99
the free version is ad supported (spy). small downside, imho. pro version costs 19.99
<< Can't believe I have not seen this one listed yet...OPERA!!! Small, quick browser and for anyone who does a lot of browsing and searching, the mouse gestures are wonderful. Version 6 adds a nice Netscapeish personal toolbar which I find useful.
Get it here and you will not be sorry. >>
A bit of support here. It is cross platform too!
eplebnista
Lifer
- Dec 3, 2001
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Quick Phrase-Keeps commonly used phrases available via KB shortcuts or the system tray for pasting into text documents or boxes.
CZroe
Lifer
- Jun 24, 2001
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DaemonTools:
Daemon Tools is the most AWESOME virtual CD drive utility EVER. DO NOT GET CAUGHT USING ANYTHING ELSE (Except Nero Image drive, because an agreement between the authors means that Daemon Tools only supports *.NRG images if Image Drive is installed too). It was the first virttual CD-ROM to PERFECTLY emulate images well enough for commercial PSX emulators to see the images as real PSX discs, and is still the best today. It not only lets people with inadequate burners run copy-protected games from perfect images (Just burn the image as a file too the disc or run from the hard drive), but it also defeats protection for non-perfecct images in regular drives (Go ahead and burn the SafeDisc protected image in a drive that doesn't support SafeDisc, and as long as Daemon Tools is running, IT WORKS!). I know it was already mentioned, but it deserves more than just that! Now it supports virtual DVD drives and allows you to customize the device name (Being the best VCDROM means the virtual hardware name gets black-listed and detected by newer games, just more proof that it's the best)
Tray Manager:
I also saw Tray Manager listed. I'm DISGUSTED when I see someone that lets their Quick Launch and Tray area fill up with crappy useless icons! All QuickLaunch icons can be put on the start menu, (so that's only one extra click for tidyness you lazy lard-asses!) and all Tray icons (I hope you seriously don't leave more than three enabled to begin with!) can be hidden as one. Both left and right click events work on the icons in the menu, so nothing is disabled, plus (UNLIKE WinXP!) it can restore icons to the tray if Explorer crashes! Too bad it doesn't work with XP, since it IS a better Tray management utility than XP's own!
TrayKiller is another AWESOME companion. Ever installed Easy CD Creator / DirectCD? (Don't, it messes with your ASPI layer) Well, then you're familiar with the DirectCD icon that WILL NOT GO AWAY AND SERVES NO PURPOSE OTHER THAN TO BOOST ADAPTEC'S EGO! The DirectCD program must remain running for packet-writing to CDs in 9X & ME systems, but who wants something running CONSTANTLY for something you don't use constantly? Well, DCD won't even end task nicely (It times out and you have to click "End Task" again), so it's bothersome enough just to forget about it and leave it running, but NO MORE! TrayKiller gives you 1 or more customizable Tray buttons (Mine shows a checked and Xed DCD icon) that can toggle on or off multiple programs and terminate them with no complaints! I removed DCD from startup, added it to Tray Killer, and set the icons and I'm done. Now it doesn't start unless *I* tell it to and it quits with no problem. Also, it has a handy way of finding the processes to toggle on or off with a built-in function that works like a GameShark Pro: Scan while the program's open, scan after it closes, look at the possibilities and you've got it.
Anybody remember GlobalScape's CuteMX (From themakers of CuteFTP)? It died way back when Napster was first sued but it incorporated EVERYTHING Napster lacked and was probably the first non-music oriented P2P app. Well, the closest thing there is to it is Filetopia, and it makes everything out there feel like a piece of crap! It's IRC style channels sort content like nobody's business (Go to a #Movies channel to trade movies. that simple), and was my idea before I ever even heard of Napster! Too bad it's community is still so small compared to the others, except you will quickly notice how much more of a community it really is (Like CMX)! Hopefully, this little bit of exposure will help that aspect a bit Truely the techies filetrading app, and believe it or not, but it predates all the "BearShare, Limewire, iMesh, and Morpheus" crap. I HATE MORPHEUS! (Though I have no choice but to use it because of the droves of popularity idiotic print magazines give it).
A request:
Is there a utility that can capture text from full-screen (ALT + ENTER) DOS boxes? I remember wanting to make a NESticle "HOWTO" back in the day, but it would show garbled graphics or crash in a DOS window and Prnt Scrn doesn't work in normal DOS mode
I'll be adding links later today (No time now). Awesome thread BTW!
Daemon Tools is the most AWESOME virtual CD drive utility EVER. DO NOT GET CAUGHT USING ANYTHING ELSE (Except Nero Image drive, because an agreement between the authors means that Daemon Tools only supports *.NRG images if Image Drive is installed too). It was the first virttual CD-ROM to PERFECTLY emulate images well enough for commercial PSX emulators to see the images as real PSX discs, and is still the best today. It not only lets people with inadequate burners run copy-protected games from perfect images (Just burn the image as a file too the disc or run from the hard drive), but it also defeats protection for non-perfecct images in regular drives (Go ahead and burn the SafeDisc protected image in a drive that doesn't support SafeDisc, and as long as Daemon Tools is running, IT WORKS!). I know it was already mentioned, but it deserves more than just that! Now it supports virtual DVD drives and allows you to customize the device name (Being the best VCDROM means the virtual hardware name gets black-listed and detected by newer games, just more proof that it's the best)
Tray Manager:
I also saw Tray Manager listed. I'm DISGUSTED when I see someone that lets their Quick Launch and Tray area fill up with crappy useless icons! All QuickLaunch icons can be put on the start menu, (so that's only one extra click for tidyness you lazy lard-asses!
) and all Tray icons (I hope you seriously don't leave more than three enabled to begin with!) can be hidden as one. Both left and right click events work on the icons in the menu, so nothing is disabled, plus (UNLIKE WinXP!) it can restore icons to the tray if Explorer crashes! Too bad it doesn't work with XP, since it IS a better Tray management utility than XP's own!TrayKiller is another AWESOME companion. Ever installed Easy CD Creator / DirectCD? (Don't, it messes with your ASPI layer) Well, then you're familiar with the DirectCD icon that WILL NOT GO AWAY AND SERVES NO PURPOSE OTHER THAN TO BOOST ADAPTEC'S EGO! The DirectCD program must remain running for packet-writing to CDs in 9X & ME systems, but who wants something running CONSTANTLY for something you don't use constantly? Well, DCD won't even end task nicely (It times out and you have to click "End Task" again), so it's bothersome enough just to forget about it and leave it running, but NO MORE! TrayKiller gives you 1 or more customizable Tray buttons (Mine shows a checked and Xed DCD icon) that can toggle on or off multiple programs and terminate them with no complaints! I removed DCD from startup, added it to Tray Killer, and set the icons and I'm done. Now it doesn't start unless *I* tell it to and it quits with no problem. Also, it has a handy way of finding the processes to toggle on or off with a built-in function that works like a GameShark Pro: Scan while the program's open, scan after it closes, look at the possibilities and you've got it.
Anybody remember GlobalScape's CuteMX (From themakers of CuteFTP)? It died way back when Napster was first sued but it incorporated EVERYTHING Napster lacked and was probably the first non-music oriented P2P app. Well, the closest thing there is to it is Filetopia, and it makes everything out there feel like a piece of crap! It's IRC style channels sort content like nobody's business (Go to a #Movies channel to trade movies. that simple), and was my idea before I ever even heard of Napster! Too bad it's community is still so small compared to the others, except you will quickly notice how much more of a community it really is (Like CMX)! Hopefully, this little bit of exposure will help that aspect a bit
Truely the techies filetrading app, and believe it or not, but it predates all the "BearShare, Limewire, iMesh, and Morpheus" crap. I HATE MORPHEUS! (Though I have no choice but to use it because of the droves of popularity idiotic print magazines give it).A request:
Is there a utility that can capture text from full-screen (ALT + ENTER) DOS boxes? I remember wanting to make a NESticle "HOWTO" back in the day, but it would show garbled graphics or crash in a DOS window and Prnt Scrn doesn't work in normal DOS mode
I'll be adding links later today (No time now). Awesome thread BTW!
There are a bunch of good ones out there but 2 that are free and totally blow me away are.
PC Suite 2001
Great FREE MS Office compatible free office, I use it when I don't HAVE to use Office XP at work.
and
DVD Profiler
This program really is unreal, try it and see, I have entered all 50 of my DVDs into it in about 10 minutes with the UPC code, this is not just an Access database (which is what I did use) and I can upload them onto the net and access my library from there, now if I could just find a similar one for CDs and games.
PC Suite 2001
Great FREE MS Office compatible free office, I use it when I don't HAVE to use Office XP at work.
and
DVD Profiler
This program really is unreal, try it and see, I have entered all 50 of my DVDs into it in about 10 minutes with the UPC code, this is not just an Access database (which is what I did use) and I can upload them onto the net and access my library from there, now if I could just find a similar one for CDs and games.
adlep
Diamond Member
- Mar 25, 2001
- 5,287
- 6
- 81
bump for the usefull topic, good idea!!!!
hmm, you might try this, its sharware, but its working without any limitations for 30 days.
It allows you to change all the icons for taskbar, drives, IE settings etc, etc. So you can make you windows 95, 98 look like win XP without installing any kind of third party programs. It works also with win 2000 and winXP. I am using it and I could never be happier + my win98 looks cool...
Use on your own risk though, because it plays with the registy settings,
good luck
linky
hmm, you might try this, its sharware, but its working without any limitations for 30 days.
It allows you to change all the icons for taskbar, drives, IE settings etc, etc. So you can make you windows 95, 98 look like win XP without installing any kind of third party programs. It works also with win 2000 and winXP. I am using it and I could never be happier + my win98 looks cool...
Use on your own risk though, because it plays with the registy settings,
good luck
linky
Equation Grapher
This is an excellent graphing program and is small.
I use it all the time when doing Calc. homework, but don't want to wait for lengthy graphs.
This is an excellent graphing program and is small.
I use it all the time when doing Calc. homework, but don't want to wait for lengthy graphs.
bump for a great thread, too bad I don't have anything new to post.
Edit: Found some great software that I'm using right now (I was too dumb to even look at my desktop earlier)
DU Meter: monitors bandwith graphically / numerically. Has the option to be transparent as well.
JS Pager: multiple virtual desktops similar to Unix / Linux. Much faster than MS's VDM (given that you're using the same wallpaper for all desktops) and can be hotkeyed.
Edit: Found some great software that I'm using right now (I was too dumb to even look at my desktop earlier)
DU Meter: monitors bandwith graphically / numerically. Has the option to be transparent as well.
JS Pager: multiple virtual desktops similar to Unix / Linux. Much faster than MS's VDM (given that you're using the same wallpaper for all desktops) and can be hotkeyed.
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