List of Useful and Free Software v2

[Mr.WorldWide]

Well with Firefox I get a "0" and with IE I get a Forbidden 403, so somethings screwy. I don't have trouble loading any other sites, any ideas?

 

[dutchfire]

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ says it is okay.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You can grab it from Softpedia, which is one of the few remaining decent download sites:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Viewers/FastStone-Image-Viewer.shtml

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

Ok that link works, thanks.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This is a decent program for editing PDF metadata if you don't have a proper PDF editor (or don't feel like loading one up to change a few things). Apparently it doesn't really work too well with XMP metadata but that's not a big issue for me. Been using it myself.
http://www.becyhome.de/becypdfmetaedit/description_eng.htm

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I found this site with useful programs. (They're written with AutoHotKey, which has been known to make false-positives, just saying that in advance). The ones I personally found useful were the file management ones, List Numberer, PlayTime, and Steam URL Converter. But theres lots of things there.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This is a standalone bookmark manager. It's very simple but does what exactly it says.

http://www.zqware.com/index.php/product/urlgather

I'm finally getting around to cleaning up my out-of-control Firefox bookmarks. The places.sqlite is getting bloated despite efforts to keep it defragged and all.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I was just wondering if anybody actually appreciates my software finds. I'm afraid I may be annoying people more than helping them. I just post here so much I wonder at times.

 

[Mise]

Post it if you want to, that's what this thread's for after all.

I read the post and it's not immediately useful to me so it goes in one ear out the other, but sometimes I need to do something and I think, "oh, hey, Aimee found a thing that'll do something like that didn't she? I'll go see what she used." Or just ask you in this thread. Like with the PDF stuff I was doing last year.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well that's good. I have a tendency to pull up software that can be tricky to find.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here's some more software, by the way:

KeyNote NF: This is a newer version of KeyNote, a notetaking program that's been around for years. It's quite useful; I prefer The Guide, but this is useful for other things.
http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/

FileSeek: Just a file search program. I find it runs quicker than dnGrep for certain types of files.
http://fileseek.ca/

Advanced Renamer: Good for batch renaming.
http://www.advancedrenamer.com

Chromium: Chrome without the Google branding, essentially. I use a slightly modified build as my secondary browser. I find it runs YouTube a little more smoothly than Firefox.
http://www.chromium.org/Home

Various wget frontends: As of lately, I'd been having trouble with WinHTTrack and decided to go with wget. As most of you probably know I'm terrible with command-line so I decided to try out several frontends. I actually haven't gotten time to check it out more fully but here's three I found that may be of some use to others:
wGetGUI
VisualWget (I couldn't find a proper site for this)
WinWGet

Stuff Organizer: Exactly what it sounds like. This is already quite usable, but it's also got great potential I believe... if they get to working on it again:
http://stufforganizer.sourceforge.net/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Remember that huge 40-gigabyte text file that I couldn't figure out how to use? I actually ended up splitting it into pieces, using this:
http://www.gdgsoft.com/gsplit/
(The instructions for splitting by lines are in the help file. I experimented a bit with the number of lines until I got files that were approximately 10 MB large)

Then I used this to split them into folders the size of a DVD:
http://bkprograms.weebly.com/folder-axe.html

Then I used this to compress each individual folder into it's own 7z file:
http://arcthemall.sourceforge.net/

Still a huge amount of data but at least now I can load without it immediately crashing on me.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Neat docking program:
http://app.etizer.org/

(I'm actually using it for programs that have no GUI, so you drop the file onto the exe or shortcut to process it, but dont want clutter up my desktop. This just stays in the system tray until I need it.)

Though my main compression program is 7-Zip, this has neat options (archive search, conversion without needing to repack the files) so I'll be keeping a hold of it. Watch out for the toolbar:
http://www.izarc.org/



I mentioned in the raves thread, sorta as a joke, about starting a freeware site. Overnight somehow the idea became serious. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Oxygen icons are nice.
http://www.oxygen-icons.org/
You can download them here. It's a big file because the scalable (svgz) files are still in there. Personally I delete everything except for the 256x256 folder and whenever I decide to use an icon out of it just run it through a converter.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/kde/oxygen-icons.html

This adds all sorts of useful little things to the context menu, including icons for some of the default options (cut/copy/paste, delete, etc). If you use the installer watch out for the toolbar.
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html

This can identify files, which is useful when you do something dumb like accidentally overwrite all the file extensions. There's an online version, but I use the GUI version (you can just drag and drop the file onto the shortcut). You need to download the definitions seperately, which is probably a good thing because otherwise you'd need to update the program a lot.
http://mark0.net/soft-trid.html

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I had a file that I needed to get onto DVDs but that didn't fit onto a single DVD and it wasn't really compressible. I tried several programs before deciding this one was the best for what I needed:
http://www.concadec.debug-pro.com/index.php?language=en

It was the best because it was a) very portable (just one .exe file), b) Generated rebuild files and c) Also generated checksums which is something I was wanting specifically.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

If you use Firefox this puts a lot of useful toolbar buttons:
http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/

If you only want a few look at this:
http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/toolbar_button_maker

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Nice file sync tool, though the giant buttons on the GUI are a little ugly. (Also, it works well with network and also allows scheduled batch jobs.) Watch out for the toolbar.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I remember a while ago I asked if there was an alternative to regedit with navigate/bookmark capabilities -- well, this isn't actually a regedit replacement (more like a frontend), but it works fine enough for me.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/RegTechy.shtml

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Could someone point me to a good, somewhat idiotproof sqlite editor? (No Firefox extensions, please; profile is big enough already.) There's about a dozen so I figured CFC's recommendation would work better than just picking one out at random.

Edit: I was pointed to SQLite Database Browser, which works for what I wanted to do.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Good tool:
http://dropit.sourceforge.net/index.php