Useful (freeware) apps - post them here

[CommanderJameson]

YouControl iTunes, from You software. Little gadget that sits in the menu bar.

www.yousoftware.com/tunes/

[MooSchmoo]

Free PDF generator which seems to run faster than acrobat:
www.primopdf.com/

If you've got multi-monitors this app is well handy:
www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/download.asp

Nice FTP client for windows:
www.smartftp.com/

[leorest]

Don't think anyone has mentioned skype.com
Free voice over Internet and cheap global "plain old telephone" calls.

[trevorw]

Free Backup Software, works well!

Cobian Backup v8

www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

[hiens1]

Here is a nice little site createdd by some guys from my school

www.remotedl.com

Gets you past download firewall blocks at school or work

Edited by hiens1 on Sunday 3rd December 13:49

[Tonsko]

http://didierstevens.wordpress.com/pr

[quote]USBVirusScan will launch any program you provide as a command line parameter each time a USB stick is inserted. I use it to start a full virus scan on the inserted USB drive, hence the name.[/quote]

[morningside]

Not freeware but a nice page of HTML reminders for those Monday morning's
http://cedesign.net/help2j.htm

[billb]

hiens1 said:

Here is a nice little site createdd by some guys from my school

www.remotedl.com

Gets you past download firewall blocks at school or work

Edited by hiens1 on Sunday 3rd December 13:49

thanks have just banned it

[morningside]

trevorw said:

Free Backup Software, works well!
Cobian Backup v8
www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

I installed a 160Gb external USB drive and the software that came with it was crap.If only I checked on here first it would have saved me a couple of hours.
This is a very good backup program with Incremental, timed backup and its also can create a .ZIP file with encrytion and can run in the background.

rating.

[leorest]

U3 launchpad the platform to run various portable versions of software from your USB memory stick like openoffice Skype Firefox etc etc etc....

http://software.u3.com/

[nickd01]

Control 2 pc's with one keyboard and mouse:

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Just uses IP; amazing bit of software if you run Development/Production boxes and want to avoid a KVM switch or multiple keyboards.

[morningside]

Media Player Classic. Plays all sorts including .VOB files.
www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm

[ajg31]

Ripitforme
www.softpedia.com/progDownload/RipItMe-Download-44816.html#download_locations

If you already use dvdshrink and dvddecrypter this tool is fantastic. It has not failed yet to allow me to backup anything i own. It uses Decrypter to take out all the nasty VOB files, can rip movie only if you wish etc. One click operation. Then automatically fires up shrink to compress the files.

[GhostyDog]

Everybody gets so hung up on GIMP as a free alternative to photoshop, but GIMP has never been that user friendly.

If you want a good Image Manipulation App on Windows you can;t go wrong with paint.net

www.getpaint.net/index2.html

Needs .net framework 2.0 but that's no biggie. Hope his helps someone.

[ThePassenger]

GhostyDog said:

Everybody gets so hung up on GIMP as a free alternative to photoshop, but GIMP has never been that user friendly.

Paint.NET is good, but is Windows only. Personally I find neither GIMP or Photoshop to be all that user friendly.

[Tonsko]

Keepass from sourceforge is a great password storage program.

http://keepass.info/

[R1 GTR]

hornet said:

anhamgrimmar said:

<a href="www.ccleaner.com/">www.ccleaner.com/</a>

clears out a hell of a lot of crud of your pc. took 1.9gb of temporary files that i didnt know i had, and gets rid.

pooter still works as well

Thumbs up for this - I'm pretty tight on keeping my PC lean and mean, but this found nearly a gig of junk!

Great piece of kit. Cleared 560MB from my system. Love this from the website: "CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner)"

[Silent1]

There's now two wikis for software

Freeware App Wiki
Freeware Mac App Wiki

[Who me ?]

Haven't been through so apps if repost -

www.tucows.com
www.download.com

and a nice little ip scanner - angry ip scanner from
http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/

although Norton says it's a problem - never had problems
enter in ip addresses and will scan your PC to see which addresses are used by etc modem.
Possibly others as good, found this one simple.


Also another site --usefull for drivers - www.driverguide.net --free registration needed.

Edited by Who me ? on Monday 2nd July 21:24

[tvrforever]

Good virtual drive secure folder :-
http://www.truecrypt.org/

Free good & simple PDF creation :-
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Loads of great utilities and password stuff :-
http://www.nirsoft.net/