Free usefull programs

system · February 8, 2007, 8:01am

Here’s one I didn’t get to use yet but i’ll bet many will want…

Very nice

Paul

giraffe · February 9, 2007, 5:29pm

Don’t know if you’ve got this, but Universal Extractor is v. useful if you download much. It does almost any zip, rar etc. and the choices are handy.

http://legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Open_Source&file=index&page=software&app=uniextract

Peter.

maxqnz · February 10, 2007, 11:22am

I don’t know how many here will have a need for this, but if you do need to write in Indian languages, I strongly recommend Baraha. It now has excellent Unicode functionality, and lets you easily switch between any of around 20 Indian languages, and now even offers Braille support.

justin1278 · February 10, 2007, 4:44pm

The collection has been updated now including Baraha.

system · February 10, 2007, 8:43pm

Hi Justin, sorry to contact you here, but I can’t PM you, everyone else yes, not you. I emailed you a few days ago explaining, I just tried again, nothing, 90 sec delay only with you though! :o I will ask Nick about it.

Paul

justin1278 · February 10, 2007, 11:57pm

No problem, I never received the e-mail, I hope you didn’t send it to my hotmail account (i never check it).

Justin

EDIT
Just checked my hotmail account, got your e-mail and replied. I gave you an alternative e-mail to use as well, this way I can reply quicker.

system · February 11, 2007, 12:04am

Ok Justin, thanks

Paul

UGnee · February 13, 2007, 4:51am

http://www.lavalys.com/

Lavalys provides integrated management and monitoring solutions for Windows-based systems which addresses the growing needs for organizations to protect their IT network investments without breaking their budgets.

justin1278 · February 13, 2007, 10:46pm

I have updated the Free Usefull Programs collection, it now includes Lavalys.

JJasper · February 13, 2007, 11:36pm

After reading through this list I haven’t seen my favorite little program listed. It is “starter” from http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/ . With this you can start and stop any of your start-up programs; you can see all your running processes and the amount of resources they are using, and can terminate any processes right from there; you can also see all your services listed and can edit them, start them, or stop them whenever you choose. I find it so handy it is always the first utility that I install.
John

justin1278 · February 14, 2007, 3:07am

I’ve updated the Free Useful Program’s Collection, it now includes “Starter”.

anderow · February 20, 2007, 1:26pm

This is not a program but rather a handy online storage place. Great for backing up files and you can get 1 gigabyte of storage for free. Max upload size per file is 10 MB but still pretty useful:

:SMLR

Little_Mac · February 20, 2007, 3:13pm

The Collection has been updated.

Box has been added under the freeware sites section.

I also added StartRight in utilities, and a² Hijack Free in security-related.

LM

justin1278 · February 22, 2007, 3:51am

Thanks Little Mac, you saved me the time, especially since I have been busy and haven’t been able to do much online lately

system · February 27, 2007, 1:52am

VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/ - “InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).”
VMware competition, similar functions to VMware Server.

Little_Mac · February 27, 2007, 3:28pm

VirtualBox has been added to the “Collection” under the Utilities section.

LM

system · February 27, 2007, 9:42pm

I didn’t see these here.

MBM 5 - A utility to monitor various sensors on your motherboard. Once configured it displays temperature related and fan speed related information in a number of ways. It can also be use as a plugin for Samurize.

Bluk Rename Utility (IMHO the best)

Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders…plus loads more!

SIV ( System Information Viewer)

A comprehensive collection of tools to find out what’s in your PC

http://siv.mysite.orange.co.uk/index.html

EasyCleaner

A nice registry (and other things) cleaner.

http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/

SamSpade A comprehensive set of Internet tools. A little old but still good.

Info here: http://www.petri.co.il/sam_spade_tools.htm

Get it here: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,4709-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

All for now.

Toggie

system · March 1, 2007, 1:14am

By the way, this is a success. I get lost in the collection. The list is HUGE!

justin1278 · March 1, 2007, 1:30am

The Collection has been updated, all of the suggestions posted by Toggie have been added under the “Utilities” section.

Good to hear, unless you mean that the way we setup the collection is sloppy (lol) ;D.

Justin

system · March 1, 2007, 1:32am

Maybe if we’re lucky a kind volunteer will sort all the links by type in alphabetical order 88)