List of Useful & Free Software Programs

[Zelig]

Thanks

Remember a while back I asked for a program that would stitch together panorama pics? I found one. Ironically, from Microsoft.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/

I'm reasonably certain you didn't ask that before on these forums.

If you had, I would have pointed out that Windows Live Photo Gallery has the capability.

Photo I stitched together with WL PG:

Spoiler :

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I did ask it, but it's a few pages back. Different wording too.

Didn't know that Windows Live Photo Gallery had that.

 

[El Koeno]

Ironically, from Microsoft.

For all the bad rep they get, MS actually does produce some pretty good programs if you ask me. Powertoys are generally pretty awesome, I don't really dislike messenger (though it's not awesome) and live photo gallery was quite useful for me.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Anyone know a working free app to find and delete orphaned shortcuts? Preferably no-install but will take otherwise. I've tried a few and they either don't work or all the shortcuts show up!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Vista will automatically tell you if a shortcut is orphaned.

 

[dcmort93]

Vista will automatically tell you if a shortcut is orphaned.

Two problems with that though

1) That only works with vista

2) What if you are too lazy to click the icon?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I was in CCleaner and I noticed that it can delete shortcuts.

Sometimes the thing you're looking for is right in front of you...

 

[dcmort93]

really i never noticed that

 

[cidknee]

I love CCleaner

 

[dcmort93]

i know its amazing

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm looking for a program -- I'm making screenshots of a full-screen app. And it doesn't like me alt+tabbing out of the Window to paste into Paint and save. (I know, it's a crappy game, thats why I'm making the screenshots). So I'm looking for one that when you press the Print Screen key, it automatically takes a screenie and saves it to a file for you.

Thanks.

Edit: This looks interesting. ScreenStamp!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Fraps can do it

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thanks. .

I found a cool program for editing MP3 tag. Haven't tested it. PicardTagger.

Anybody know a database program to organize games. For example, earlier on the thread I posted bookTome, which was for books. Any suggestions, thanks.

 

[againsttheflow]

So I'm looking for one that when you press the Print Screen key, it automatically takes a screenie and saves it to a file for you.

I started using Gadwin PrintScreen (not my first screenshot program) and never looked back. Well, except to add ScreenGrab for capturing full webpages.

There are tons of free options for this floating around though as you appear to have found.

 

[El Koeno]

Thanks. .

I found a cool program for editing MP3 tag. Haven't tested it. PicardTagger.

Is this better than the system Foobar2000 uses?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is this better than the system Foobar2000 uses?

I don't know. I think I read that its faster if you have a whole bunch of MP3s. But it may have been somehting else.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Not sure if it has been added or not.

Instantbird
- Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. Using it, you can connect to all your different IM accounts.
- It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks.
- Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Gadu-Gadu, QQ, XMPP, ICQ, and IRC

I was looking for an alternative to Pidgin, and this looks like an interesting Mozilla project.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I found something called KOffice, which is an office suite for Linux. More googling reveals there is/was a version for Windows but I can't find the download.

I also found this thing called Syncplicity (cool name!) but I don't know much about the company, so I'm not sure if I should try. Although the feature to sync Google Docs to your computer (not using a specific word processor) is something I would use, considering the built-in GDocs one sucks.

 

[Turner]

I'm pretty sure Koffice is OpenOffice.

 

[Padma]

I'm pretty sure Koffice is OpenOffice.

KOffice is an entirely different product from OpenOffice.

OpenOffice is a free/open version of Sun's StarOffice product. (Sun is the primary (only?) developer of OpenOffice. They still sell StarOffice, which is OOo with a few proprietary bells & whistles.)

KOffice is a KDE office suite, developed independently of OpenOffice. It is an excellent office suite, but not yet as compatible with MS formats as OOo is.

OOo has a Windows version that you can download and run. KOffice needs the KDE desktop to run. (KDE4 is available for installing on a Windows PC, I believe. At least, the libraries that are used by KDE products are available in Windows versions.)