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Always
Virus Check your Downloads !
Architectural Design
Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6
From Aamazon with quite good reviews
ebuild (Self Build Book Shop) with customer reviews of software
from Amazon
Design CAD 3000 Express for £49.99 comes out best (but doesn't
have 3D rendering !)
http://www.ebuild.co.uk/designsoftware.shtml
Home Design Software Review - Features list table & ratings
(Since they sell them I'm not sure they are independent
reviews).
"Home Design Architectural Series 18" has the best rating.
http://home-design-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
IMSI Floorplan 3D 7 - Free on PCW DVD Jan 2005
IMSI Floorplan 3D 9 - £19.99
IMSI Floorplan 3D 9 Prof - £39.99
http://floorplan.tv/floorplan/floorplan9interiordesign.html
Free trials
http://www.imsisoft.com/free_trials.asp (only some seem to
work - maybe only with IE)
Floorplan Support:
http://www.imsisoft.com/support/floorplan/
Tips & Trick:
http://www.imsisoft.com/support/floorplan/tips.asp
Punch Software (Thanks NavyRet on my forum)
http://www.punchsoftware.com/index.htm
Available in the UK from
http://www.fasttrak.co.uk/default.php?manufacturers_id=7
Punch! Professional Home Design £19.99
From here , but
Poor Amazon Reviews
Punch! Home Design Platinum £39.99
From here This looks good, but
Poor Amazon Reviews
Punch! Home Design Architectural Series 3000
On Amazon with poor reviews
Audio
Programs for playing/recording
music.
Audacity - Audio recorder and player/converter
(2.84MB)
The guys who wrote this deserve a medal - it's
brilliant !
I use this to record what's coming out of my
computer. You can record anything
!
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/windows.php
Audacity
FAQ
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/faq.php
dBPowerAmp
Audio Player (1.9MB) – This has so much more than Windows
Media Player.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
wma
(CD format) codec
(5.7MB)
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-wma.htm
Various
Audio encoders/decoders etc including:
Lame mp3 codes for
audacity to process mp3
files
Untried.
http://mitiok.free.fr
ModPlug
www.modplug.com
Modplug
forum
http://pub124.ezboard.com
OggVorbis - Open Source encoder - I think !
http://www.vorbis.com/
Ultra
Player – Audio player with audio streaming recorder
(2.01MB)
http://www.ultraplayer.com
VanBasca
Kareoke Machine
http://www.vanbasco.com
WinAmp
5.02 (4.18MB)
Sophisticated audio
player.
http://www.winamp.com/
StreamRipper
Plugin – This enables you to record what WinAmp plays.
(Thanks Coxy on my
forum)
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/index.php
Tutorial
Page
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/tutorialplugin.php
Download
page
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6172
Audio & Video
Program that play music and
video.
Irfanview – Good picture/video viewer with
batch conversion. Excellent
program.
http://www.irfanview.com/
Help
file
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~avalos/stuff/download/irfanview/
Alphabetic
index
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~avalos/stuff/download/irfanview/alphidx1.html
JetAudio
Basic
(13.85MB)
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/jetaudio/
Quintessential
Player 4.5 (2.29MB)
http://www.quinnware.com/
VLC
Media Player (6.7MB) (Thanks Mutznuts1 on my
forum)
http://www.videolan.net/vlc/
Browsers
Internet
Explorer is not the only internet browser. Others are
better.
Avant Browser 9.02.026 (1MB)
This is very nice.
It remembers the pages you've viewed, has tabs for them.
The
trouble is it doesn't work very well with my dual monitors, and
takes over from internet explorer even though I said not to !
Would be great on one monitor
though.
http://www.avantbrowser.com/download.html
Maxthon
– An IE engine based
browser
http://www.maxthon.com/en/index.htm
The
original webpage
http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm
Mozilla
– Mozilla Firefox is very good. I use
it.
www.mozilla.org
Mozilla
1.5 (11.86MB) Browser, email, HTML editing for Windows &
Linux
Mozilla 1.6a Latest version for testers
Mozilla
Firebird 0.7 Next generation browser for Windows &
Linux
Mozilla Firefox (4.5MB)
Unlike the other browsers
I've tried, this one works happily with 2x monitors.
It
doesn't get the CSS layout right on all
sites.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Mozilla
Extensions – Yeh
!
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions
MozDev - More projects for Mozilla
http://www.mozdev.org/
Mozilla
Extensions:
Close
all Mozilla windows and open a new one to see the new
extension.
ColorZilla – You can use an eyedropper on
any webpage you're viewing.
Press shift-escape to reveal
ColorZilla icon.
Right-click on the eyedropper icon bottom
left.
http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/
HTML
Validator (based on Tidy)
Web Developer
IE View - View
pages with IE if they don't work right with Firefox (35KB)
http://ieview.mozdev.org/
Image Toolbar
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/imagetoolbar
Ver 0.5 from here
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=243
Ver 0.6 from here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=265893
Homepage
http://www.cusser.net/
Settings are controllable in Tools -> Extensions. Select Image
Toolbar and click on Options.
Status Bar
Clock – Puts a clock in the status bar (Pre
1.0)
http://www.cosmicat.com/extensions/timestatus/
SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=125
Venkman
JavaScript Debugger for Mozilla based browsers
Doh – You
have to use Mozilla to get it !!!!!! Don't be stupid like me and
look at this page with IE
!
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/
xyzproxy - Proxy switching
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1273
Try this search; "save image extensions mozilla incremental
filename"
Netscape
7.1 (click on “off-line installer”, then
“Windows(Full Version)”)
29.28MB
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp
or
from www.download.com
but this is via an
installation downloader so you don't get
to store the
download.
Opera 7.54 (3.5MB) This has better write up in
PCW than Firefox, so I'm going to try
it.
http://www.opera.com/
Opus
6.2 – Replaces Windows Explorer – Many more options.
(5.2MB)
http://www.gpsoft.com.au/DScripts/download.asp?type=old
Cleanup Tools
Registry Tools
Easy Cleaner
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=165
NTRegOpt - Registry compactor (5* rating)
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ntregopt.html
RegCleaner
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=49
RegSeeker (5* rating)
Includes registry cleaning. Use with care after backing up the
registry/partition.
Found 1043 registry items. Down to 314 after removing invalid
paths. Wow, that's much faster :)
BUT - I've now lost Incredimail and a few other things :( It
appears to find invlid paths that are valid.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html
Snapfiles - List of Registry cleanup/analysis tools
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwregtools.html
Startup Tools
Freeware4u - list of startup control tools
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=58
Compression Tools
Compress your files to make them
smaller.
RARLabs – For winRAR – I use this
one.
http://www.rarlabs.com
WinZip
http://www.winzip.com
Computer
Analysis & Tweaking
AutoRuns - Shows you what programs
are configured to run during system bootup or login (210kb)
What a huge list of things !
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
FreshDevices - You have to register and they send a download
link.
http://www.freshdevices.com/dvd.html
A list of things:
http://www.freshdevices.com/confirm.html?code=S02
Lavalys - Get lots of info about your
computer
http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en
RegMon - Registry monitoring utility that will show you which
applications are accessing your Registry (179kb)
http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/regmon.html
SequoiaView
- Find out what's using your disk space (554kb) (Thanks Mutz on
my forum)
This is a superb piece of software - if you haven't
got it - what's up with you ? Get it
!
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
SysInternals - This has lots of free detailed PC analysis tools
http://sysinternals.com/
System Information
http://www.sysinternals.com/SystemInformationUtilities.html
Autoruns for startup analysis: see above.
Forum:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Forum/
Power
Toys
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Defragmenters
DefragNT by Andrei Gaceff (61kb)
http://www.geocities.com/andreigaceff/DefragNT.html
Comprehensive description:
http://www.geocities.com/andreigaceff/indepth_DefragNT.html
Lists - A list of freeware & others, with descriptions
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Defragging_Tools.htm
PageDefrag by SysInternals
(4* on
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pagedefrag.html )
(4.8/5 on
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Pagedefrag.shtml
)
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html
Dial-up Simulators
If you are on broadband and want to
see what a website looks like for those on dial-up, then this is
what you need.
Search "simulate dial-up speeds"
Charles Web Debugging Proxy (Windows, Mac & Linux) (500 to
700kb) (Shareware apparently)
http://www.xk72.com/charles/
Review
http://freshmeat.net/projects/charles/
FiddlerTool
http://fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
Good page on it
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/IE_IntroFiddler.asp
Hookup info
http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp
Download
Accelerators
If you are on dial-up, especially
with a 2 hour cut-off, then you need a download manager, that
enables you to resume a download if it fails part way through.
These also make downloads faster.
Download Accelerator
Plus 7
This is the best download manager I've tried, but it
does have slightly annoying adverts, and is reported by SpyBot as
spyware, although it seems to be OK.
Download Accelerator
Plus 7 – Beware spyware on the online downloaded versions
!!!!
Download Accelerator Plus 7 – from PCW DVD April
2004 – I use this.
Download Accelerator Plus 7 –
from PCW DVD December 2004 (2.42MB)
In:
Software->Resources->Download Accelerator Plus
7->dap7.exe
How to transfer via a website:
Rename
dap7.exe to dap7.zip
FTP it to the website
Save target
as... it onto your machine
Rename back to dap7.exe
Free
Download Manager – This is the one I use now. It doesn't
seem quite so easy to use, but it does
work.
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
gozilla
http://www.gozilla.com/download_links.htm
Leechget
www.leechget.de
Mihov
Picture Downloader (900KB)
One click and it will download all
the pics of a web page (it says)
By Miha Pšenica. Does
what it says. Well done Miha.
There are other free utilities
on this site.
http://www.mihov.com/sw/en/pd.php
Picture
Ace Lite (461KB)
The free version does nothing useful ! Don't
bother !
The pay for version automatically names saved
files.
http://www.pictureace.com/lite.htm
ThumbBot
– Picture downloader (2.31MB)
http://www.thumbbot.com/
Download Sites
I have listed
the software I have tried. These sites list masses of software.
It may take time and your computer may suffer to find the one
that works for you.
Cnet
www.cnet.com
Download.com
Fabulous
source of lots of freeware/shareware/trial software, with user
comments.
http://www.download.com/
FileForum
http://fileforum.betanews.com/
Freeware4u - All freeware
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/
Here is a page with all the ratings - brilliant :)
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/topten.php?hit=1
MajorGeeks
http://majorgeeks.com
Network Techs - Useful maintenance type downloads and help
(Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://www.networktechs.com/
NoNags
-
Freeware
http://www.nonags.com/
Rentadabo
http://www.rentadabo.nl/~english/downloads.htm
SimTel
http://www.simtel.net/welcome.php
SnapFiles
– Lots of free software with ratings and descriptions. This
is very good.
http://www.snapfiles.com/
Freeware
list
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html
SysInternals - Loads of computer analysis tools
http://www.sysinternals.com/index.html
The
Free
Country - Nice lists of programs with good summaries. Good for
programmers.
Also good for webmasters, with PHP scripts etc.
http://www.thefreecountry.com/
TuCows
www.tucows.com
1000dictionaries
– A List of the most popular downloads for software
developers
http://www.1000dictionaries.com/aaa_news/most_popular_software_developer_downloads.html
DVD
For computers and stand-alone.
Doom9 - Various software (Thanks mikenmngie on my forum)
http://www.doom9.org/
EBay Tools
FatFingers - Finds all miss-spelt
adverts (Thanks Moggy on my forum)
http://www.fatfingers.com/
JustSnipe (Thanks Steph on my forum)
www.justsnipe.com
Eclipse
This is a programmers development
application – especially for creating Java
programs
Eclipse development
tool
http://www.eclipse.org/
Eclipse
Explanation
www.developer.com
Editors
Simple text editors or language
editors
BBEdit8 - Only for Mac
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml
ConTEXT Programmer's editor
http://www.context.cx/
EditPad Lite - A much improved version of notepad/wordpad for
Windows & Linux. (973KB)
No spell checker in the free version.
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HyperEdit - Only for Mac
http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/
Jarte 1.5MB (Thanks Apples on my forum)
With spell checker.
http://www.jarte.com/
Jedit - Java based editor (2MB)
This is looks rather good. 130 programming languages covered, and XML syntax
definitions. Well written website.
This does Script-fu syntax highlighting, and does bracket
matching.
Click on 'download', in the top right ! I've gone for the
Windows Installer.
http://jedit.sourceforge.net/
Download page, also with user guide
http://jedit.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download
Open Perl IDE - Perl editor and Integrated Development
Environment
http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/
TheFreeCountry - Good list of programmer's editors
http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/editors.shtml
Search & Replace
Try searching for "multiple file
search and replace"
Funduc Search & Replace for Windows (shareware)
http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm
Email
ERemove – Read just email
headers, remove the spam, and download what you
want
http://www.snipnet/help/eremove.htm
GMail
Shell Drive (Thanks Neil71 on my forum)
Use your GMail account
a an online storage drive of your computer.
This works very
well. I've used Steganos to create a 2MB safe and used this
software to upload it to a GMail account. Free secure backup of
your more sensitive
data.
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
Incredimail
– Fancy competition for Outlook Express
This has so many
good features that this is the one I use all the
time.
http://www.incredimail.com
Mozilla
Thunderbird
(5.8MB)
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Pegasus
Mail – Suggested by Ram on my forum (v4.21c for Windows
4.5MB)
I don't find this as good as
Incredimail.
http://www.pmail.com
PIMEX
MailExpress Ver3.1 Bulk Emailer (simple and effective)
This
lets you send an email to a list of addresses without each
addressee seeing who you've
emailed.
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=pimex+mailexpress&tg=dl-2001&search=+Go%2521+
An
alternative is to use an email application that has a “Blind
Carbon Copy” (Bcc) facility.
In Outlook Express &
Microsoft Outlook click on 'Cc:', then put the addresses in the
'Bcc:' section.
In Incredimail, click on 'Enable Bcc:', and
use the 'Bcc:' section.
Encryption
If you want to stop people nicking
your passwords etc from your computer, you need to encrypt the
data.
BCArchive 1.06 - For encrypting a folder before
archiving it. (2.8MB)
This one is much better than Steganos for dial-up emailing
backups :)
This is a brilliant little program for encrypting files or
folders into a .bca file. It also compresses.
This is ideal for emailing for online backup.
http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcarchive.htm
Gets 5 stars from
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bcarchive.html
Gets 4 cows from
http://www.tucows.com/preview/379730
Gets 4 stars from
http://www.download.com/BCArchive/3000-2092_4-10412994.html
There's a long list
here:
http://download-ecke.de/nonags/security.html
MaxCrypt
by KinoCode sounds good - The webpage no longer has any links on
it !
http://www.kinocode.com/
Steganos
Security Suite 5 (free with PCW DVD June 2004)
This is an
extensive and very professional looking piece of
software
http://www.steganos.com
Registration
(requires email, zipcode &
country)
http://www.steganos.com/magazine/pcwmagazine/sss5
Support
http://www.steganos.com/?layout=default&content=support_sde_misc&language=en#u2
TheFreeCountry
- A long list of encryption/cryptographic software (Thanks Apples
on my
forum)
http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/encryption.shtml
File Utilites
Compare files
Good list:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/filecomparison.shtml
WinMerge - Visual comparison and editing (2.5MB) - Brilliant.
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
Misc
Batch
Find & Replace for Strings in
Files
http://www.inforapid.de/html/english.htm
Batch
File Renaming (250KB)
http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/
Batch
Renaming Utility for
Images
http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/
Rename
Master (from Jackass JoeJoe's) – Renaming Utility (512KB)
A
very powerful renaming
utility.
http://jackass.arsware.org/rm.php
Online
help file
http://jackass.arsware.org/rm-help.php
Folder Utilities
Search for "print folder structure
windows"
Konradp - Exports a directory
structure to an HTML file, or for printing (780KB)
This is a simple, and brilliant little program. You can create
your own profile for the output that you want to see.
A very quick simple way to create a
printout of your directory structure.
http://www.konradp.com/products/sitemap_creator/
O'Reilly Description of how to do it in DOS !
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/611
FTP (File
Transfer Protocol)
If you have a website, you need to be
able to transfer the files from your computer onto your wesbites
server. This is done with a file transfer program.
AceFTP
(2.35MB)
This brilliant program cured my FTP woes due to using
a firewall (ZoneAlarm)
that was preventing the return
communications from being
received.
http://freeware.aceftp.com
WS-FTP
This
didn't work for me, because of ZoneAlarm firewall.
From the
Tesco.net ISP CD
A interesting article on using LeapFTP
with
ZoneAlarm
http://www.opinionsandmore.com/html/internet_tips/net_tips_zoneftp.html
Gigabyte
Gigabyte motherboard
updates
http://uk.giga-byte.com/
Gigabyte
motherboard technical services
http://gts.gigabyte.com.tw
Graphics Tools
Tools for manipulating photos
&creating images.
Canon PhotoStitch 3.1 - comes with a
Canon A70 digital camera
Excellent stitching program
Canon
Utilities Viewer - comes with a Canon A70 digital
camera
C:\Program Files\Canon\PhotoStitch\viewer.exe
Much
better viewer for panoramic pictures than “Windows Picture
& Fax Viewer”
It scrolls smoothly, and is
quicker.
There is also 360view.exe in the same folder, that's
very good for panoramic pictures. It wraps them into a full 360
deg image.
Cartouche Maker v1.0 (1.73MB)
Fairly simple
results, but fun (paste the result into
Irfanview)
http://www.tontin.co.uk/
Fireworks
(Free trial
only)
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/
Fractal
Forge 2.8 (770K)
Wow, wow, wow – This creates fantastic
fractal images in no time at all – beautiful
!
http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10105177.html?tag=lst-0-16
GIMP
– Open source graphics manipulation tool.
This is a very powerful graphics editor. Not obvious for beginners,
but masses in it.
I think it is the
free program that competes with PhotoShop Pro.
For
download & installation help, visit my Installation
Log and search for GIMP.
http://gimp.org/
There is now an 'automated installer' for Windows
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
Download
from here for Windows:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
which
leads to here for the stable
version:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
and
was:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html
the
following:
GTK+ 2 for Windows (ver 2.4.14) (3.292MB)
The
Gimp for Windows (ver 2.2.1) (6.991MB)
Help 2 (ver 0.6) –
optional (9.569MB)
Gimp Animation Package (ver 2.0.2) –
optional (749KB)
The last version I downloaded:
GTK+ 2
for Windows (ver 2.2.4) (3.53MB)
The Gimp for Windows (ver
2.0.1) (7.48MB)
Help 2 (ver 0.2) – optional
(4.34MB)
Gimp Animation Package (ver 2.0.0) –
optional
GIMP News
http://www.gimp.org/#news
Help in using GIMP
GIMP Talk - Superb :)
Various articles and a forum :)
http://gimptalk.com/index.html
Documentation:
http://www.gimp.org/docs/
Introduction to the GIMP user interface:
http://members.home.nl/m.weisbeek/gimp/
Manual:
http://manual.gimp.org/
Gimp
tutorials: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
GIMP FAQ & Stuff - Loads of useful info on setting up and using
GIMP in here.
Including some good links in the FAQ section, and a tutorial.
http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/
Books
List
of books: http://www.gimp.org/books/
including websites
Books from Amazon on GIMP The
list
Grokking
the GIMP by Carey Bunks 450 pages Dec 1999 £24.49
24
hours delivery – 5 stars
Online
version This is very good
I think this is the best
one
The
GIMP Pocket Reference by Sven Neumann 104 pages Oct 2000 £5.56
5
to 7 days
GIMP
User's Manual: Learn Ins and Outs of GIMP from the Masters Who
Write the
Official Manual on the Web by O.Kylander, Karin
Kylander 700 pages Nov 1999 £34.99
A very
comprehensive looking book (700 pages)
1 to 2 days
The
Artist Guide to the GIMP by Micheal J Hammel 340 pages Dec 1998
£24.95
4 to 6 weeks !
Essential
Gimp for Web Professionals by Micheal J Hammel 275 pages Mar 2001
£32.22
1 to 2 days – 5 stars
Online
version
The
GIMP (Visual QuickStart Guides) by Phyllis Davis 304 pages Mar
2000 £47.95
1 to 2 days – 5 stars
The
GIMP Essential Reference by Alex Harford 350 pages Dec 1999
£12.59
3 to 5 weeks
Teach
Yourself Gimp in 24 hours by Pruitt 334 pages Apr 1999 £28.95
1
to 2 days Used ? - 3.5 stars
Great
Graphics with GIMP by D Busch 450 pages Oct 1999 £25.89
4
to 6 weeks (£2.89 used !)
GIMP Extensions
GIMP Plug-in Registry - Where to
find plug-ins
http://registry.gimp.org/index.jsp
winicon
– Supports loading and saving ico files (address bar icons)
(670KB)
WindowsGimp Deweirdifyer – Collects all the
separate windows into one for the taskbar. (78KB)
A brilliant
plug-in. Thanks Joe. Having updated I can't get this to work :(
Installation: After extracting them, just
copy the .exe and the .dll file into your gimp plugins directory.
This is usually c:\program files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
GIMP Scripts
Install the .scm file to C:\Program
Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts
Then go to Script-Fu -> Refresh to get GIMP to updates it's list
of known scripts.
webotene - cuts up an image using the guidelines put on the
image (by dragging from the rulers), and created HTML which
recombines the smaller images. File: webotine.scm
Docs:
http://www.gimp.org/docs/scheme_plugin/
Script-Fu Help
lithwww - Script-Fu & Scheme
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/teaching/rdf/support99/SchemeTut.html
Mike Terry's Black Belt School of ScriptFu - Oh, this looks
extremely good !
And, you can download the whole lot. Well done Mike :)
http://www.klaban.torun.pl/help/script-fu-tutorial/
Script-Fu Tutorial - Good explanation of how to get started with
Script-fu
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/gimp/script-fu/script-fu-tut.html
weizmann - Another summary of Script-Fu
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/scheme-tut.html
xcf Berkley Script-fu
http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp/script-fu/script-fu.html
Yahoo Discussion on Script-Fu and things
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/script-fu/message/6
Script-Fu Scripts & Resources
Alans Scripts
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/gnome/gimp/script-fu/script-fu.html
Scheme (SIOD)
rru - SIOD explanation - This is very useful as a reference
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/imp/siod.html
The Internet Scheme Repository
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/
Perl & GIMP
weizmann - A tutorial on using Perl with GIMP
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/perl-tut.html
IconEdit32 – For creating
icons, like the favorites icons
This is a fab little tools
that is ideal for creating favicon.ico
files
http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com/program.asp?program_id=135
ImageMagick
(7.35MB executable)
A suite of image manipulation software. I
haven't tried this but it looks
good.
http://www.imagemagick.org/
Irfanview
– (851kb) - Great for resizing, clipping, changing file
type etc
http://www.irfanview.com/
Plug-ins
(4.48MB)
http://www.tucows.com/adnload/194967_75078.html
MicroSoft
Photo Editor
Morph Buster v2.2 (900KB)
Get the free
license key from the site (MB-lkmmke)
This program generates
morphing sequences from a start & end image.
This program
is superb. Wow !
http://www.softbusters.com/
Paint
Buster 6.0 (2.97MB) ?
Get the free license key from the site
(PB-Embla)
I've only used this for a bit, but I get the
impression it's easy to use and rather good.
I will
investigate more !
http://www.softbusters.com/
Paint
Shop Pro (Free trial
only)
http://www.jasc.com/products/paintshoppro/
PhotoImpressions
(with Canon camera)
Project Dogwaffle ?
SlowView –
File conversion of images (free availability expires Dec 2004)
(862KB)
GET THIS – Don't mess about with other picture
viewing programs. This one is incredibly fast, and you can run
more than one at a time.
A picture editor/viewer & video
player
This is very impressive
http://www.slowview.at
UnFREEz
by WhitSoftDev – Convert a number of GIF files into an
animated GIF file (19.5KB !)
Very simple – does what it
says.
Excellent.
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/
Forum
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=8adc08ec3dca8dc757133c3675e76dfa
VCW
VicMan's Photo Editor 7.6 (4.87MB)
I haven't tried this –
some negative reviews have put me off for the moment.
Hard Drives
Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/
5 year warranty:
http://5yrwarranty.seagatestorage.com/
Download page (with installation software: DiscWizard):
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html
HTML Editors
(WYSIWYG)
Web Page Creation tools that enable
you to see what you will get as you edit.
None of the free
software seems to support HTML & CSS properly.
Currently I
think Open Office is the best free HTML editor, and Amaya is the
best free HTML/CSS editor, but it doesn't measure up to OO for
features.
AMAYA (6.62MB)
WYSIWYG HTML, CSS and various
other
things.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Documentation:
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Overview.html
User
Manual:
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Manual.html
You
can download the whole user manual. Run Amaya, and browse to the
page above. Click on Special.Make Book. This will download every
page with links from the top. This takes several minutes on
dial-up. When it's finished save the whole document with save-as.
It's 100 pages.
Macromedia Dreamweaver (Free 30 day trial
only) (98.56MB) (resume becomes NOT supported)
£339 to
buy
You just need to register with an email address to
download the
trials.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/
Quick
and easy resources to help you evaluate Dreamweaver
This page
has the getting started tutorials
listed.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/evaluation/eval_tdrc.html
Macromedia
DevNet – Tools &
tutorials
www.macromedia.com/go/devnet/
Microsoft
Frontpage 5.0 (NOT FREE !)
Bolse State University User
Guide/Tutorial
http://english.boisestate.edu/frontpageinfo/user_guide.html
http://english.boisestate.edu/frontpageinfo/tutorial.html
Morphon
CSS Editor (Thanks Netchicken on his
forum)
http://www.morphon.com/csseditor/
Netscape
Run
the Netscape browser, then click on Windows.Composer.
Quite a
nice WYSIWYG HTML editor.
NVU 1.0 (6.89MB for Windows,
and Linux, Mac, Linspire)
A
WYSIWYG HTML editor. It works with CSS, so you see the final
layout as you edit.
http://www.nvu.com/
NVU
Review
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6781
Open
Office (see the Open Office section)
HTML Editor
(not WYSIWYG)
Web Page Creation tools that don't
let you to see what you will get as you edit.
AceHTML 5
Freeware (3.47MB) ver 5.08.5
You need to register to get the
registration code. Just email address.
Has an excellent HTML
command summary window with compatibility with browsers &
standards.
http://www.visicommedia.com/
Cascade
DTP Ver 4.0 (2.04MB)
Starts with the use of
CSS.
http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk
HTML
Kit – A non-WYSIWYG HTML editor
This has excellent
reviews, and loads of plug-ins and help files.
Also CSS
support with the hkDivStart
plug-in.
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
TSW
WebCoder 4.0 (2.57MB)
TSW Webcode 5.0
(2.9MB)
http://www.tsware.net/
This
is the best CSS editor I've found. Well done Kasper.
If you
register the start-up is quicker.
Forum:
http://www.tsw.dk/forum/
msxml.msi
(5.3MB)
Quick edit doesn't work due to MS security update with
ActiveX (15th Apr 2005)
W3C List of CSS Authoring
Tools
Also What's New, CSS Browsers & CSS Specifications
on the same page.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/#editors
EvrSoft - 1st Page 2000 free edition (5.2MB) (Thanks Gungrog on
my forum)
http://www.evrsoft.com/
Forum - 5000 members and quite a few website development areas
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/
International
Time Clocks
If you want to know what the time is
is another country you need one of these.
From
www.download.com
H9KTimer
http://www.h9k.com
Simple
clock. If you switch off all the lines except local time &
say New Zealand
time you get a simple dual 24 hour time zone
clock with date.
H9KTimer 2.01 (See my installation log &
application guide pages)
You can get other skins from
http://www.h9k.com/skin.html
Sources for Time Zone and Daylight
Saving Time Data
http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
Sun
Clock (suggested by Ram –
thanks)
http://www.mapmaker.com/shadowfacts/index.htm
SunClock
ver 6 (the free “Map Maker Edition”
(7.4MB)
http://www.mapmaker.com/shadowfacts/sunClock6.asp
Time
Zone Converter - Really good world clock
(See my installation
log page)
http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/
World
Time Explorer
This is very good. It displays 9 countries, with
24 hour times. It includes daylight saving.
The display is
configurable.
http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/
World
Time Server – Can set your PC time to that of the atomic
clock (I've not tried this)
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
Internet
Communications
With this software you can use the
internet to chat or for free phone calls, with/without
video.
Cerulean Studios (Thanks Mutz on my forum)
Works
with loads of the other systems, so you only need this
one.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
Download
from here
(9.19MB)
http://www.download.com/Trillian/3000-2150-10047473.html
Trillian
– Loads of features.
http://www.trillian.cc
Forum.
Lots of discussion.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums
MSN
Messenger
http://messenger.msn.com/
Skype
– For free phone calls between computers(6.5MB)
This
works quite well even on dial-up. It's just like having a phone
on your computer. You select the person you want to call and pick
up the handset. They get a ringing, and pick up to
answer.
http://www.skype.com/
Video program that integrates with Skype (Thanks Neilw71 on my
forum)
http://www.video4im.com/
Useful forum (Thanks Neilw71 on my forum)
http://forum.skype.com/bb/
Yahoo
Messenger
http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index2.html
Help
http://help.yahoo.com/
Yahoo!Messenger
Tour &
Tutorial
http://messenger.yahoo.com/downloadsuccess.php#
Java
A programming language.
Java
(object oriented programming language)
http://java.sun.com/
Test
your Java installation
http://javatester.org
Manual page:
http://java.sun.com/docs/
Microsoft Updates
Microsoft – main
page
http://www.microsoft.com/
Microsoft
– Windows
Update
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
To
download updates which you can store and use later, go here.
If
under 'See Also' there is no 'Windows Update Catalog', then you
need to enable that option.
Do that by clicking on
'Personalise Windows Update' in the left pane. Then tick 'Display
the link to the windows update catalog under see also' option on
the right pane. Click on save settings.
Miscellaneous
Things
Bullfighter – Stripping the
Bull Out of Business
This program runs in Microsoft Word &
Powerpoint
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/section_node/0,2332,sid%253D27383,00.html
Character Map - Creates a bigger window than the standard
Windows version (Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/desktop/fonts/extended.zip
Folder
Redirector (10.5KB)
Allows you to simply move folders like 'My
Documents'
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/folderredirector.htm
GhostScript
– A postscript
viewer
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/AFPL/get811.htm
or
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Naviscope
Pop-up Blocker
http://www.naviscope.com
NVidia
Forceware NView 3.0
http://www.nvidia.com
PowerDesk
(Express version) – Improved Windows
Explorer
http://www.v-com.com/product/pd_ind.html
PathCopy - Allows you to copy a files path into the clipboard
http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/
SpywareInfo
– Various startup managers and
monitors
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=startup#startup
Windows
startup managers
A good list of
programs
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwstartup.html
StartRight
(373KB) – This allows you to control the timing of when
things start.
http://www.joejoesoft.com/sr.php
Test
your computers defences by visiting this
website
http://grc.com/
Trillian
– Remote control a PC (useful for controlling a non-techies
computer to maintain it)
http://www.trillian.cc
Recover
data from floppies & CDs
www.jufsoft.com/badcopy
Star
Watcher – Look at the stars & planets at
home
http://www.winstars.net/english/
Zipping
Utility
http://www.speedproject.de/enu/zipstar/index.html
Miscellaneous
www.techimo.com/forums.viaarena
www.undercoverdesign.com
for Caldera DRDOS7.03
www.f-prot.com
www.binarycode.org/eclipse
http://radified.com/
a useful info site
www.nero.com/en
for InCD updates
www.rarlab.com
for WinRAR compression/decompression
www.blogger.com
for free web log creation and hosting
Music
Composing Applications
If you want to compose music, look
here.
Anvil Studio 2002.05.03 (3.4MB)
Sample
music.
http://www.anvilstudio.com/
Evolution
Audio Lite
“Route Finder Europe” CD 1997
The
company that created it are here, but it's no longer available
from them.
http://www.evolution.co.uk
Quartz
AudioMaster Freeware 4.6
(2.48MB)
http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/SoftwareHouse/index.html
Online Radio
Listen to music & speech over the
internet.
From www.download.com
StationRipper 1.10 by Ratajik
Software (358k)
Sophisticated online radio recorder.
Viddi
Player 1.6 by Vidar Grasdal
(452k)
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/
Simple
player with preset stations
With forum.
Apple – iTunes music player
with radio stations (19.68MB)
http://www.apple.com
BOOMBox
Internet Radio Player 1.0 (2.0
MB)
http://www.jajsoft.com/products.html
RealPlayer
10 Beta (9.58MB)
Main page for online radio player
here
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/media_players.html
that
leads to the download page
here
http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk
Open Office
This is a multi-platform competition
for MS Word etc.
You can use this large piece of software like
you would Microsoft Office.
It includes a normal word
processor, and also a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
I think this is
the best free HTML editor I've found.
It does not currently
support CSS properly.
Main
site
http://www.openoffice.org/
CSS
– Under construction, so currently
empty
http://website.openoffice.org/support/it/index.html
FAQ
on Word
Processor
http://documentation.openoffice.org/user_faq/word_processing/index.html
Guide
to new
features
http://marketing.openoffice.org/2.0/featureguide.html
Download
the online help from here (“English Source XML file for OO
1.1)
http://documentation.openoffice.org/online_help/index.html
OooDocs
Forum
http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index&sid=
92579113ea7d6366ba3144698d3a5a70
List
of Links to Docs
http://www.openoffice-support.net/
OOo
Forum – More active
forum
http://www.oooforum.org/
http://www.openofficesupport.com/tutorials.html
Optical Drive
Utilities
Lite-on download page with Smartburn on it (750kb)
http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/English/e_downloads/e_utility.asp
Partitioning
See My Partitioning Page
where I've covered various topics of partitioning, and I list
interesting places and programs.
RPM - Ranish Partition Manager - This is the one I use. It's
free, and completely independent of all operating systems, and
so will work quite nicely with a multi-boot system
http://www.ranish.com/part/
See my My Partitioning Page for
how to create RPM on a CD.
Other Sites
You may be surprised to discover that
mine is not the only site of it's kind !
Boards.IE –
Thread with a good list of free
software
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=231147
Freeware
Guide – Good list of categorised free software with
descriptions.
http://www.freeware-guide.com/dir/internet/dlman.html
Golden's
Webwatchers – Loads of free
software
http://freehomepages1.tripod.com/freewaremain.html
Janim
– Main page
http://janim.net/index.php
Janim
– Freeware
page
http://janim.net/web-freeware/webmaster-freeware.php
Janim
– CSS
page
http://www.janim.net/web-freeware/free-css-editors.php
Jody
Mitoma with GamersRiot– (Thanks pleccy2000 on my forum)
A
great looking site with lists of free and affordable services,
like web hosting.
Also links to tutorials for programming and
graphics
etc.
http://www.gamersriot.com/internets_best.php
OnlyTheBestFreeware
– A nice clean site with lists of useful
software
http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com
RentaDabo
– Gadgets, free software with cracks
etc
http://www.rentadabo.nl/~english/
PC Remote Control
If you want to see & control
another PC on the Internet, then you either need Windows XP
Professional on the PC you want to control, or one of these
programs.
Encryption – Adding encryption to VNC
using
tunnelling
http://www.evidentdata.com/2003/EvidentData
%20Remote%20Desktop%20with%20Secure%20Tunnel%20V1.pdf
LogMeIn
– This is recommended by people who've looked at VNC
3.3.7
Register, click 'add computer', and download the Java
program.
When I tried it it seemed to take a long time before
the dialler was usable. That may be the slow Java
startup.
http://logmein.com
FAQ
https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=support_faq#remote-01
MyWebexPC
You have to register and confirm your email address.
You have to run an online wizard to setup your remote computer
or follow the instructions here (4.5MB)
https://pc.mywebexpc.com/pc/mywebex/tool/ra/helpfaq.php?Rnd=515397528#agent
http://www.mywebexpc.com
RealVNC
?
TightVNC 1.2.5 (757KB) – I'm using this one to
maintain someone's computer.
Improved version of VNC. Very
good comments.
Use OpenSSH with SSH tunnelling for
security.
Getting started
documentation
http://www.tightvnc.com/winst.html
http://www.tightvnc.com/
Download.com
page with
comments.
http://www.download.com/TightVNC/3000-7240_4-10140454.html?tag=lst-0-8
Related
software (including IP address
finders)
http://www.tightvnc.com/related.html
See
below for extra information on using VNC.
UltraVNC
?
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) 3.3.7 (on Download.com
page) (563KB)
They say this isn't secure, but it has a very
good rating. The login system is secure. but the data transferred
isn't.
http://www.download.com/Virtual-Network-Computing/3000-7240_4-10187948.html?tag=lst-0-2
VNC
Documentation
OrganizeNow – Basic how to use it
guide
http://organizenow.net/odb/odbremote.pdf
More
setup
guide
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/doc/software/vnc/winvnc.html
FAQ
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/doc/software/vnc/faq.html
Finding the IP address of the server
machine
Find out the Mac address so you can
recognise the machine
Angry IP Scanner
forum
http://www.angryziber.com/forum/forum.php?forum=0
Bozteck
– MDAC 2.7 – IP address scanner
?
http://www.vncscan.com/en/Default.aspx?tabid=31
Dynamic
Domain Name from DYNDNS.com ?
From an email – if you
look at the properties of the email, the senders IP address is
displayed.
GotoMyVNC – “What's my IP
address?” - Short explanation of how to make your IP
address
available
http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/98.html
iPost
(221KB) – FTPs your IP address to a
website.
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/network/fwip.html
Developer
http://www.r2.com.au/
IPUpdater
– Good ratings on SnapFiles (824KB)
Requires .NET
Framework Download from the link on the update download page
(23.1MB) !!!!!
http://www.ipupdater.com/
NetLimiter
?
NoIP – Get a domain name which viewers can use to
connect to you.
Each time you connect to the Internet your IP
address sent to No-IP.
http://www.no-ip.com
The
client program needed to update your IP address
automatically
http://www.no-ip.com/downloads.php?page=win
(619KB)
Getting started
guide
http://www.no-ip.com/getting_started.php
netZeye
– A detailed explanation of setting up no-ip
This is
connected with setting up a webcam system fro your
PC.
http://www.netzeye.com/netZeye/Knowledge%20base/Internet/Issue%20No-IP/index.htm
Use
the no-ip name in the TightVNC browser window. eg instead of
putting 34.1.456.234 use fred.no-ip.info
SnapFiles –
IP Address Tools – A list with comments and rating of tools
for IP
addresses
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/network/fwip.html
WhatIsMyIPAddress
– Visit this site and it will tell you your IP
address.
http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/
VNC Setup
TightVNC won't work with Zone Alarm
if it starts too soon. The solution is to install a startup
manager, that allows programs to be started at specified
intervals. I've found StartRight works well. Just put Zone Alarm
near the top, and TightVNC at the bottom with a 10000ms
delay.
StartRight (373KB) – This allows you to control
the timing of when things start.
http://www.joejoesoft.com/sr.php
Odd things I've found about
it:
http://www.issociate.de/board/post/128124/disabling_zonealarm??.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6122-0.html?forumID=44&threadID=46794&messageID=554599
put
.exe call in a .bat file and put a shortcut to it in startup
???
Look for VNC Server in
Start -> Control Panel ->
Performance and Maintanance -> Administrative Tools ->
Services
Don't set VNC up as a server. Start it manually.
PCW DVD Index
Feb 2005:
Steganos Security Suite 6 -
Encryption (This now has One Click Destruction)
Get serial code from:
http://www.steganos.com/magazine/pcw/sss6/
Paragon Drive Backup 2004
EasySync for Files 1.07 - For syncing Desktop/laptop
Jun 2004:
Steganos Security Suite 5 -
Encryption
Dec 2004:
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9 trial version
Jan 2005
IMSC Floorplan 3D - For designing
houses
Mar 2005
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 trial
version
Adobe Elements commercial trial version
Ulead
PhotoImpact 10 commercial trail version
May 2005
Macromedia ColdFusion MX v7 trial
version
Picture Tools
Picasa photo manager – (3.5MB)
– A brilliant program for managing thousands of pictures.
Get it.
This will scan your entire hard disk and allow easier
management of your
pictures
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/picasa.html
Getting
started manual
etc
http://www.picasa.com/support/welcome.php
Forum
http://forums.picasa.com/
Programming
Borland
C free
compilers
http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html
Satellite Images
These two systems allow you to view the Earth from space, and
zoom in to anywhere on Earth, and tilt the view to look from the
side, showing the landscape. Superb.
Google Earth - Satellite images (11.8MB) (It does work (slowly) on
dial-up).
http://earth.google.com/
DigitalSpy - good forum thread on it
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=242530&page=1&pp=25
Worldwind - NASA satellite images (180MB)
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
Screenshots
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/screenshots.html
Scientific
& Educational
Chemware - Windows Educational
Software & Shareware
http://chemware.co.nz/
Search Engines
You can install your own personal
search engine on your computer, that will allow you to do
searches just like you do on the
web.
BareMetalSoft - BareGrep (Thanks MikeandAngie on my
forum)
This one covers the things Copernic fails on (files with no
types)
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep/index.php
Blinkx
http://www2.blinkx.com/overview.php
Copernic Desktop Search 1.6 (gets by far the best review on
Slate (se below)) (2.7MB)
I use this one most of the time.
http://www.copernic.com/
Google
desktop (1.3MB)
http://desktop.google.com/
Google Poodle - Shows you how Google sees your site
Explanation
http://www.sensiblesoftware.com/articles/a/What-Is-Google-Poodle-How-It-Will-Help-You.html
SearchTools - A list of search tools
http://www.searchtools.com/tools/desktop-search.html
Slate - 5x search tools reviewed and listed from worst to best
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111643/
Security
Your computer needs three things:
Anti-virus, Firewall & SpyWare killers.
I recommend
the following: AVG for anti-virus, ZoneAlarm for a firewall, and
SpyBot + Ad-Aware + CWShredder + HijackThis + SpywareBlaster +
Spyware Doctor for
spyware prevention & killing.
None of these will be
very effective if they are not updated daily. Doing so less
regularly would be like driving a car and only putting a seat
belt on on some journeys !!!
Read this first. It has a
very good
description.
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=132
Anti-Virus
AVG
7.0 Free Edition – This is what I
use.
FREE version:
http://free.grisoft.com
Main Grisoft page for pay for versions: www.grisoft.com
Pay for download
page
Avast
4.0 Home Edition
www.avast.com
Firewalls
Agnitum
http://www.agnitum.com
Personal
Firewall 5.0
www.sygate.com
www.download.com
ZoneAlarm
3.7 – This is what I use.
www.zonelabs.com
Free
version download
page:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
Forum
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs
ZoneAlarm Gripes - A good place to find ZA problems
http://www.computergripes.com/ZoneAlarm.html
Other
Phishing toolbar (Thanks Apples on my
forum)
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/
Tutorial
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/help/tutorials/index.html
Spyware Killers
You have to be careful to download the real one, and not one
from a copy of the real site.
The download.com site is the most secure option.
SpyBot
Search & Destroy 1.2 – This is what I
use.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html is
this a real site ???
http://security.kolla.de/
www.download.com
(search for spybot)
www.spybot.safer-networking.de
I've used this one OK, and is the one linked from download.com.
http://spybot.eon.net.au
A useful list of clean/infected applications:
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/en/articles/infected_and_clean.html
You can check the MD5 hash code with this (for Windows):
http://www.fastsum.com/press/md5-hash.php
Ad-Aware
6.0 Standard Edition
www.lavasoft.de
www.download.com
Bazooka (thanks Stephen on
uk2nz)
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder
http://www.short-media.com/files/downloads/
Tweaking%20and%20Tuning/General%20Utilities/CWShredder.exe
HijackThis
http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=245
Microsoft
Antispyware (6.6MB) (Thanks Mutz on my forum) - This gets the
best review of all of them.
Because of the "Genuine Windows" test, it seems to only work
with Internet Explorer !
Microsoft
download page
PCTools Spyware Doctor - This gets the
2nd best review.
www.pctools.com
SpyBlaster
(2.14MB)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard2.2
(Thanks Apples on my forum)
A real-time protection solution –
good addition to
SpywareBlaster.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Note
to self:
C:/Documents and Settings/username/Start
Menu/Programs/Startup
C:/Documents and Settings/All
Users/Start Menu/Programs/Startup
Spell Checkers
Internet Explorer & Firefox
extensions for spell
checking
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/09/06/browserbased_spell_checking_of_web.htm
This
leads to the following:
ieSpell – A spell checker
for Internet Explorer
http://www.iespell.com/
Download
it from here
(2.5MB)
http://www.iespell.com/download.php
SpellBound
– A spell checker for Mozilla
Firefox
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
Spice
Analogue simulation of electronic
circuits.
Cadence
PCB
www.cadencepcb.com/products/downloads/pspicestudent
SPICE
www.linear.com/software
Things to get
Things I need to investigate but
haven't had time yet !
MyAlbum – Picture
Management
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/myalbum/MyAlbum.html
File
Renaming
Tools
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwfilerename.html
An
interesting site <- CHECK THIS OUT
!!!!
http://www.rentadabo.nl/~english/
Panorama
Factory
http://www.panoguide.com/products/smokycitydesign/panorama_factory/prices/
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/daily/bldd020400.htm
Loads
here
http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/%257Edersch/
http://www.bakhter.com/html/3d/stiching_tools.htm
Toolbars
These can provide search facilities
(saving you the trouble of going to google or whatever).
Also
other facilities like pop-up blockers.
Google – I
use this
one
http://toolbar.google.com/
Yahoo!
http://toolbar.yahoo.com/
TV
HolerSoft – Free internet TV
programmes (1.65MB) (Thanks Mutz on my forum)
Only a 14 day
trial period !
http://www.holersoft.net/tv.htm
Video Applications
Play videos. There are many different
formats, each requiring the correct codec.
Codecs
AviCodec – By Philippe
Duby
Find out what codec was used to create a video file
Also
other mainly codec/player related
info
http://avicodec.duby.info
DivX
Player & Codec
April 2003 PCW DVD
DivX - DivX 5.1.1
codec.
Make sure you choose the standard free codec, not the
pro one with adverts !
http://www.divx.com/divx/
DivX
Movies - DivX download & Info Site (This one works
fine)
http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
FourCC
- Huge list of codecs
http://www.fourcc.org
Webatrz
- Site suggested by Irfanview when it can't play a
file
www.webatrz.com/fourcc/indexcod.htm
Applications
Macromedia
www.macromedia.com
VideoLan
– I haven't looked at this, but it was recommended to me as
better than Quicktime !
www.videolan.org/vlc/
VirtualDub
1.5.10 (664k)
Video editor
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Windows
Movie Maker (11.9MB)
Video editing
Comes with Windows
XP
http://www.microsoft.com/
Video Information
Marcpeters – Digital Director
Video Editing Guide
http://www.marcpeters.co.uk/index.html
Video Conferencing
EyeballChat
http://www.eyeballchat.com/
Viewers
There are a number of applications
that cost quite a bit to buy, but that have free viewers so that
surfers can still see the information.
Excel
97/2000 Spreadsheet Viewer (3.8MB)
Unix
cygwin - A Linux-like environment
for Windows
To download just download setup.exe and read the blurb on how to
get it on the main page.
http://www.cygwin.com/
FAQ - Including how to uninstall (which you have to do by hand)
http://cygwin.com/faq.html
Wikipedia on Cygwin - Including good setup tips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
Webcams
WebCamNow – Either chat with
friends or broadcast your webcam (Thanks Mutz on my
forum)
http://www.webcamnow.com/
Web
Design/Utilities
Art Directors Toolkit v3.1 (2MB) (15x
60 minute Trial
only)
http://www.code-line.com/software/artdirectorstoolkit3.html
Screen
Ruler 1.3 (39k) – Measure things on your screen with this
ruler (30 day / 100 use trial
only)
http://www.microfox.com/
Visibones
ColorLab – Online interactive swatch
card
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab
Visibone
Swatches
Includes text files that can be used with GIMP to
create a new colour palette.
Put the files into
c:\ProgramFiles\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\palettes
Guess what –
I've already got it in GIMP !
http://visibone.com/swatches/
Web
Developers Virtual Library - Guides &
programs
http://www.wdvl.com/
Website Copying Tools
HTTrack Website Copier - Can't get username/password form to
work.
Use WinHTTrack for Windows (3.7MB)
http://www.httrack.com/
FAQ
http://www.httrack.com/html/faq.html
Support forum
http://forum.httrack.com/
Download page
http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
Spiderzilla Mozilla frontend for HTTrack (848KB)
http://spiderzilla.mozdev.org/
SuperBot 3.1 - Looks good, but I don't think it has form
username/password support
http://www.sparkleware.com/superbot/
SurfOffline - 30 day trial ($40 to buy). This looks very
comprehensive.
http://www.surfoffline.com/
How to - Including login forms
http://www.surfoffline.com/help/how-to.php
Couldn't download it from their website, so I used this one
(1.1MB)
http://www.download.com/SurfOffline/3000-2377_4-10235649.html
Web Site
Creation Tools
General
w3 - A huge list of all sorts of odd
utility programmes
http://www.w3.org/Tools
HTML Photo Gallery Generator (Free
Lite version)
(761KB)
http://www.vandog.com/htmlphotogallery.html
JAlbum
– Create photo albums & upload them to the web
(2.64MB)
(use “downloading Jalbum without installer”
under “No installer/simple updates”)
A Java
program written by David Ekholm, so it'll run on any operating
system with a Java Runtime Environment. This is an easy to use,
brilliant program. Well done David !
Select a folder with the
pictures you want to put into an album, select the appearance of
the album, and click 'Make
Album'.
http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum
Xara
Website 3 – Design graphics for your
website
http://www.xara.com
Content Management Systems (CMS)
These allow you to manage the
content of your website. I think they are split into static and
dynamic forms.
Keywords: "publishing engine"
Download.com List of CMS for Windows
CMS for Windows
FreeGuppy - This is a very easy to read website. How to run on
PC & Server explained.
Only needs PHP to run, not a database (ie no MySQL)
http://www.freeguppy.org
Mambo - Top rated Content Management System (CMS)
http://www.mamboserver.com/
Forum
http://forum.mamboserver.com/
OpenSourceCMS (if it doesn't load, try again in a few minutes)
http://www.opensourcecms.com
A page giving ratings for a whole list of CMS programs (This
looks extremely useful)
There are links to demo pages and the source for the program.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=143
PHP
Nuke – (Thanks IainW on my
forum)
http://phpnuke.org/
Forums
http://phpnuke-uk.net/
http://phpnuke-uk.com/
Short simple installation instructions
http://www.netfirms.com/support/faq/web/how-do-i-install-postnuke.html
PostNuke
– (Thanks IainW on my forum)
http://www.postnuke.com/
Short simple installation instructions
http://www.netfirms.com/support/faq/web/how-do-i-install-postnuke.html
Installation instructions by Iris Smith
http://www.irarichardsmith.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9
SourceForge - Search for cms on this page to get a list of
CMS (Content Management Systems).
This is a very useful list, with a summary of what each does.
http://sourceforge.net/search/
SSR - This creates both static & dynamic pages.
The manual and download are here though. The user manual is
excellent.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssrtech/
English version:
http://www.ssrtech.com/eng/
Xtreme - PC based, creates static pages for uploading.
I've tried this. It seems to break everything down into tags.
I'm not keen.
http://www.xtreeme.com/websmill/
HTML PreProcessors
These allow you to separate a web
page into a number of files, and create static web pages from
those files. They will also allow the use of variables to create
different content on each page. They may also remove comments
and other unnecessary text to make your HTML smaller.
Search for "html preprocessors"
General Interesting places
Here's an excellent article on what
Dreamweaver does with templates, and the open source alternative
pre-processor options:
http://osdir.com/slash3344.html
Here's a great forum discussion on it (scroll down to see it):
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/01/08/2129250.shtml?tid=185&tid=8
CASM
Only runs on Unix systems. Written in Perl5. Looks quite
extensive, and quite good simple text documentation.
http://casm.portologic.hu/
CHPP (Chakotay PreProcessor)
Only Unix based..
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/chpp/
fmpp - Written in Java <<<<< This looks good so far.
Excellent manual. Easy to follow.
http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/
Manual:
http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/manual.html
The API (explanation of source code):
http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/api/index.html
htmlpp
Written in Perl 4.
A quick summary of it here:
http://www.w3.org/Tools/htmlpp.html
Downloadable from here:
http://www.imatix.com/products.htm
htmlhelp - A list of HTML PrePropcessors
http://www.htmlhelp.com/links/preprocessors.html
HTML PLAIN
Written in
Perl. Extensive documentation and explanation.
This sounds like it does a lot of stuff.
http://artho.com/webtools/
hsc (Html Suck Completely :) )
This is written in C, and runs in the command line.
A summary:
http://www.w3.org/Tools/hsc.html
Support page:
http://www.giga.or.at/~agi/hsc/index.html
This is such funny reading. I love the author for his wit. As an
example, look at the bottom of this page:
http://www.giga.or.at/~agi/hsc/docs/about.html
Development taken over here:
Software:
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~msbethke/software.html
Documentation:
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~msbethke/hsc/index.html
Another possible source:
http://www.dlhoffman.com/publiclibrary/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/hsc-0.916-1.i386.html
Also listed here:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/hsc/?topic_id=243%2C867
MB Stevens' Website PreProcessor Suite
Two simple Perl scripts for concatenating and filtering. Well
written explanations.
http://www.mbstevens.com/preprocessor/
Orb
This is written in C++ and seems simpler & better organised than
hsc.
http://www.cine.net/~cberry/orbinfo.html
Template Toolkit
Written mainly in Perl with some C. Says it can create static &
dynamic pages.
The documentation is extensive and very good.
There are also related projects that are based on this tool.
http://template-toolkit.org/
Download it from CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)
This has all the extra Modules and Docs.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Toolkit/ (the case
matters !)
There's a book about it as well (List price £28.50, £19.95 from
Amazon.co.uk)
I've bought the book for £19.73 including p&p from
http://books2door.com/ via
Amazon.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/
Amazon Book page
The book online:
http://lib.hutech.edu.vn/ebookonline/ebook1/0596004761/main.html
Errata would be on this page:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/
Andy Wardley's website (he wrote it) - He lives near Guildford !
http://www.andywardley.com/
The PPM referred to on the download page and on Chris Winters
page is now here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Modules/ (in the menu on
the left)
Magnum Solutions - An Introduction to using Template Toolkit by
Dave Cross
http://www.mag-sol.com/Articles/article.cgi?art=tt2
The online documentation
http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/
Documentation of the modules
http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Modules/index.html
XML::XPath doc
http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Modules/Template/Plugin/XML/XPath.html
Open Bugs forum
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Template-Toolkit
XML::LibXML
http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-LibXML/
Apache Download Mirrors with Win32 PPM packages
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/perl/win32-bin/
Win32 files
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/perl/win32-bin/
Win32 .ppd file for Template-Toolkit from here <<<< Finally got
it from here !!!!
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/perl/win32-bin/ppms/
TT2Site Builder - A framework for creating websites using
Template Toolkit.
It uses chapter 11 of the 'Badger Book' as inspiration.
http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/tt2site/
Visual HTML Preprocessor (not yet released)
http://lukemurphey.net/Visual_HTML.html
Webdesign - A list of HTML Preprocessors and articles
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/preprocessors/
w3 - List of misc filters
http://www.w3.org/Tools/Misc_filters.html
Perl
ActiveState - You can download
ActivePerl here.
For Windows use the Windows MSI package if you can. (12.4MB)
http://www.activestate.com/Perl.plex?hdr=1
Website Gizmos
General Sites
HotScripts - Huge lists with ratings
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/
Calendars
ActiveCalendar - Just creates HTML calendars
http://www.micronetwork.de/activecalendar/
CaLogic - Installable PHP package - Uses a MySQL database - Can't apparently
integrate it into an existing webpage. It creates a whole HTML page)
http://www.calogic.de/
Calendrix - The Basic version is free, and might be good enough.
Does allow embedding into a webpage.
http://www.calendarix.com/index.php
Flat Calendar - Uses a simple text file for the data. Very simple.
http://www.circulargenius.com/flatcalendar/
ITW Calender
http://calendar.codewalkers.com/
Forum:
http://codewalkers.com/forum/index.php?forum=ltwcalendar&realm=default
Jax Calendar - Simple PHP script that can work with MySQL or a simple file.
http://www.jtr.de/scripting/php/calendar/index_eng.html
PHP Schedule - Reservation system
http://www.php.brickhost.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpscheduleit/
RentCalendar - Uses their website, so no database or script to install.
http://www.rentcalendar.com/
WebCalendar - PHP script - Extensive site with lots of information.
It's supposed to be a stand-alone application, but you can embed the
'upcoming events' page, and customise the appearance of it.
http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
Competitors (other possibilities):
http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?topic=Competitors
Possible easier way to install it:
DirectAdmin Forum Thread
Forums:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=3870
Help/Troubleshooting forum:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=11588
Website Search
Facility
It's convenient for surfers to be
able to search for something on your website.
The following is
what I've found with “"site search" how good are
they”
FreeFind – I've used this one on the
NZIS site.
http://www.freefind.com/
FreeFind
FAQ
http://www.freefind.com/library/#faq
FreeFind
–
FAQ
http://www.freefind.com/library/#faq
Google
http://www.google.com/searchcode.html#both
PicoSearch
http://www.picosearch.com/index.html
Windows
Installation
Things that will make setting up your
computer easier/better.
Nufi – Download a
SlipStreaming CD creating program called nLite from here (Thanks
Pleccy2000 on my forum)
http://nuhi.msfn.org/
Software to Avoid
!!!
Or
at least beware of.
www.divx.com/divx
for divx codec – contains what many would consider to be
spyware and viruses. This may apply only to the advert version
?!
www.divxplayer.org
for radlight3.03SE divx codec – contains what many would
consider to be spyware.
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