Being the interweb nerd I am, over the years I've found a few good freeware programs to use that make my computing life easier. They are in no particular order:
IrfanView: Very fast graphics viewer. Not for editing, just for looking at pictures. What types of pictures? Um....
Daemon-Tools: CD Rom emulator. If you download an .ISO it creates a virtual CD rom drive that you can load the .ISO onto (and then look at the contents as if it were a burned disk). Quite useful.
Winwall: Desktop changer. Not too bad, but not as good as quickchanger.
Quickchanger (!): Hmm, seems they got the site working again...all summer any time I tried to connect it would transfer me to a pron site (to be use with above irfanview
). Quickchanger is great (skinnable, showed mini-pics you could choose from). Download doesn't seem to work right now, but this really is the best desktop wallchanger I've found.
Trillian: ICQ, AIM, MSN IRC all rolled into one. Very useful.
SSH Secure Shell Client: Get from SSH.com. Hard to find but it's the best SSH tool out there for windows. Sorry, this one is a pain in the ass to get the url for.
College Alarm Clock: Turn my $1000 computer into a $10 alarm clock. I'm gonna try and write a nicer looking one over the christmas break.
Winamp: Whatever you all know about this. You all probably have this so fuck the link. 2x is the faster version, but 3.x has support for freeform skinning and some REALLY cool modules.
TortiseCVS: For Win32 developers. CVS progra integrated into windows shell. You right click on files, and there is an option to commit to CVS. Just the simplest version out there.
Phoenix: Mozilla based browser. Faster loading time. Similar to Opera, only it's free plus I dunno, I just like it better. Can't use my back botton on my mouse tho. :\
7-zip: Freeware, fast archiver(i.e. winzip clone, winrar clone). Supports a bunch of different formats. It's not the greatest yet but it has potential plus it's free with no annoying popups.
Ad-Aware: removes spyware.
FastTrack Accelerator: Comes with Kazaa Lite. Basically every minute runs the command "Search for other sources". Speeds up my downloads like 10-20x.
MyORgBook: Project I work on. Basically a personal organizer...similar to hotmail but for address', events, etc. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Helios: Cool screensaver. Model of electrical fields, graphically intense.
LyrisAMP: Plugin for winamp3. Whenever a new song starts playing ti connects to several databases and downloads the lyris to that song. Very good pattern matching.
SciTE: Nice Freeware text editor. Good for those codemonkeys out there. Text highlighting, auto-tab other nice things. Prob Not the best but best I can find.
Anyhow, those are as many as I could remember. Does anyone have some good ones to add to the list? Sorry that alot are OFN. Hopefully some of you guys will have some that I've never heard of.
Peace.
IrfanView: Very fast graphics viewer. Not for editing, just for looking at pictures. What types of pictures? Um....
Daemon-Tools: CD Rom emulator. If you download an .ISO it creates a virtual CD rom drive that you can load the .ISO onto (and then look at the contents as if it were a burned disk). Quite useful.
Winwall: Desktop changer. Not too bad, but not as good as quickchanger.
Quickchanger (!): Hmm, seems they got the site working again...all summer any time I tried to connect it would transfer me to a pron site (to be use with above irfanview
). Quickchanger is great (skinnable, showed mini-pics you could choose from). Download doesn't seem to work right now, but this really is the best desktop wallchanger I've found.Trillian: ICQ, AIM, MSN IRC all rolled into one. Very useful.
SSH Secure Shell Client: Get from SSH.com. Hard to find but it's the best SSH tool out there for windows. Sorry, this one is a pain in the ass to get the url for.
College Alarm Clock: Turn my $1000 computer into a $10 alarm clock. I'm gonna try and write a nicer looking one over the christmas break.
Winamp: Whatever you all know about this. You all probably have this so fuck the link. 2x is the faster version, but 3.x has support for freeform skinning and some REALLY cool modules.
TortiseCVS: For Win32 developers. CVS progra integrated into windows shell. You right click on files, and there is an option to commit to CVS. Just the simplest version out there.
Phoenix: Mozilla based browser. Faster loading time. Similar to Opera, only it's free plus I dunno, I just like it better. Can't use my back botton on my mouse tho. :\
7-zip: Freeware, fast archiver(i.e. winzip clone, winrar clone). Supports a bunch of different formats. It's not the greatest yet but it has potential plus it's free with no annoying popups.
Ad-Aware: removes spyware.
FastTrack Accelerator: Comes with Kazaa Lite. Basically every minute runs the command "Search for other sources". Speeds up my downloads like 10-20x.
MyORgBook: Project I work on. Basically a personal organizer...similar to hotmail but for address', events, etc. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Helios: Cool screensaver. Model of electrical fields, graphically intense.
LyrisAMP: Plugin for winamp3. Whenever a new song starts playing ti connects to several databases and downloads the lyris to that song. Very good pattern matching.
SciTE: Nice Freeware text editor. Good for those codemonkeys out there. Text highlighting, auto-tab other nice things. Prob Not the best but best I can find.
Anyhow, those are as many as I could remember. Does anyone have some good ones to add to the list? Sorry that alot are OFN. Hopefully some of you guys will have some that I've never heard of.
Peace.
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