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Can you recommend any excellent software ???

For me the bests are:

AutoHotkey - for automation
Total Commander - for file management

What are your favorites ?
Do you know info/download URLs for them ?

garry · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 968 Location: switzerland

Video / Audio
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm

engunneer · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

file compare: WinMerge (winmerge.sf.net)
Synergy (synergy2.sf.net)
Editor: PSPad (PSPad.com)
Archives: 7-zip (7-zip.org)

between those, AHK, and Firefox (with choice plugins), I don't use much other software on a daily basis!
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Rhys · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 701 Location: Florida

I really like SciTE as an AHK editor / Notepad replacement.
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Thalon · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 640

I'm using the following:

Type: Diagnostic, Security & Safety:
HD-Tune for finding disc-errors
TrueImage for Images of my HD (50€)
VMWare for testing viruses, testing programmes before installing them on my "real" system or for only temporary use and similar. Use the 30 day evaluation-version for installing a system and use the free VMWare Player to work with it.
Sandboxie to install tools I'll only use one time, because I can delete it completely with minimum afford (registry-entries are saved to a dat-file). Is also usefull for browsing.
HD-Graph to find big amounts of space if my HD get's full Smile

Unlocker to find the process using a file that can't be deleted. It can unconnect the process or kill it.
Netmeter to have my traffic always in a little window onscreen.
TrueCrypt to crypt parts of my HD.

Type: Internet
Hamachi to play LAN-Games via I-Net.

Type: Multimedia
MP3Tag to (multi) change the tags of my mp3-collection.
PVAStrumento and Cuttermaran to cut my TV-recordings.
Camstudio for recording screen-vids.
DVBViewer to watch TV.
VLC-Player for most of my videos.
Mediaplayer Classic for ogm-Files (VLC doesn't handle them that well).

Type: Programming
APIViewer 2004 to find values of constants.
DebugView for debug-output.
OllyDbg for debugging-purposes (foreign applications).
HxD as hexeditor for RAM and Files.
PSPad for AHK-Programming and other file-types-editing.
Winmerge to merge files.

Type: Management
TotalCommander for FTP and other file-managment.
FoxitReader for PDF-Viewing.
Kompozer for HTML-Editing.

Type: Others
Chainsaw to split files in smaller pieces. Does provide a batch-file to reassamble the file without any software installed.
Trillian for ICQ, MSN, IRC.
FastStoneCapture for screenshots (I've version 5.3. which was freeware, it's now shareware).
MWSnap as alternative.

And many many more. Some are german-only. For the others I was too lazy Smile

Thalon
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Jon · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 373

DVB Web Scheduler Pro (PayWare - Old freeware version available if you can find it) - Brilliant for scheduling recordings via your TV tuner card.

ProgDVB - Watching TV via your TV tuner card.

gbpvr.com - Free media centre

QT Breadcrumb Address Bar - Breadcrumb address bar (like vista) for XP

JkDefrag v3.29

CDEX - CD Ripping

Registrar Lite 2.0 - much better that windows built-in registry editor

AVS DVD Player - Free DVD player

Treesize - see where Hard disk space is going.

Super DragAndGo :: Firefox Add-ons - Drag a link (even text links) anywhere on the page and it will load in a new tab. Drag a word and it will search for it (e.g. in google).

Make Link :: Firefox Add-ons - Make HTML or ForumCode links via the context menu.

BBCodeXtra :: Firefox Add-ons - adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in

Deller · Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 162 Location: 0x01101110

Google "Resource Hacker" for changing icons and resources for already compiled exe programs.

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned uTorrent or PeerGuardian (how else could the world spread linux distros!!).
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Guest · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject:

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

Why do you think I mentioned PeerGuardian straight afterwards?
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JDN · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

I love Resize_Enable and can't imagine getting along without it.

I am often presented with small windows that cannot be resized by dragging their borders with the mouse.

Resize_Enable - http://www.digitallis.co.uk/pc/downloads.html

To install Resize_Enable, just unzip it and put a link into your Startup folder. It only needs to be run once - at startup time and that's exactly what happens to executables in the Startup folder.

http://www.autohotkey.net/~JDN/fw.htm

John W · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 148

Opera internet browser - even better and more secure than Firefox.
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PhiLho · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

JDN · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

At one time, I created a web page that contained a list of my favorite freeware. Unfortunately, it is now defunct but I still have the HTML file that
listed the freeware and helped people download it.

Note: I have recently revived it and uploaded the freeware to www.AutoHotkey.net. See the link below.

My most favorite product on this list is Resize_Enable. I use it all the time. I can't believe how often I use it and how much it helps me out.

http://www.autohotkey.net/~JDN/PD/FREEWARE.HTM

By the way, I think maybe this topic might be of interest to other people here. Maybe it might be worth making more well-known? For example, I'm currently looking for a way to make myself more anonymous when I travel on the web. I got a tip on the Tech Support Guy site about a product named Tor:

Tech Support Guy: http://forums.techguy.org/general-security/654753-please-help-me-proxy-server.html

Tor Project: http://www.torproject.org/

Does anyone use this product? If anyone has any good tips for me on making myself more anonymous, I'd surely appreciate your advice. Thanks.

Also, I would love to break free from Windows IE. I've heard FireFox is supposedly much better than IE and I've tried to use FireFox, but couldn't seem to stick with it. I guess I need something really simple to use and simple to learn. If it gets complicated, I find that I just can't stand spending my time trying to figure out how something works when I need to be spending my time working on stuff. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: