Share good programs that aren't well known

I thought that it might be a good idea to start a thread for good programs that a lot of people might not know about. I'm constantly trying out new stuff and I always like to hear about good software. So here's my recommendation to you all.

Slickrun get it here http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ In my opinion this should come bundled with the Windows operating system. I'm amazed that more people haven't heard of this program. Very rarely do I even need to navigate through folders to access a file. I can use slickrun to launch any program, directory, song, the control panel, etc. from slickrun. It floats wherever you want it to on your screen and can be hid in the tray. It is very easy to configure and there is also a support forum where people share various tricks to use. One example of what it can do.. I can type in "google meatballs" into slickrun. Then slickrun will open up my default browser, navigate to google, search for meatballs, and display the results all on it's own.

Okay..I suppose I wrote a little too much about slickrun. Please share the great programs that you've ran across but know most people probably don't know about. Please don't name off any commonly used programs though.

 

Inkscape is pretty cool. It's a vector graphics program.. And then of course Blender is a great program, best free 3D app out there. I'll probably think of some more later.

 

Here's a few more...These were only made available to certain members at a forum that I go to, so I'm almost positive that none of you would have heard of them.

Cataclysm http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=118903 is a search tool for finding torrents. It searches through the following sites for torrents.
BOGAA.org
BT.etree.org
BTEfnet.net
mininova.org
Novatina.com
ThePirateBay.org
TorrentBox.com
TorrentKube.org
Torrentreactor.Net
torrentreactor.to
TorrentSpy.com

Here's two more...these are crack and serial finders that work very well. It saves me a lot of time from actually having to visit crack sites. 99% of the time I am able to find the crack or serial that I am looking for with these two programs.

Cracksearcher
http://users.skynet.be/jossie/downloads/CrackSearcher.exe searches through cracks.am
mirror:
http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/CrackSearcher.exe

Crackdownloader
http://www.hostultra.com/~spager/cd.zip



Downloading Tip

If you keep getting 404 then the following often helps:

Using your browser Log on to:
http://www.hostultra.com/~spager

When you are at the main welcome window add your crack download name ie cd.zip (NOTE CASE IS IMPORTANT) on to that address (so that the address reads EXACTLY like the one given in the Download link) and press return.

With luck your download should start.

 

There is ONE called "RGBtoHEX". It is a MUST have for php programmers. You can visually selct your colors and it GIVES you the correct color code. Just don't include the # sign. It is FREEWARE and available through ANY search engine under that exact name.

 

Photoshop and Flash will do that for you, btw.

 

Maybe. But THIS sucker can RUN from a 3.5 Floppy! And, I can HOST the D/L.

 

slick run is nice, I've already converted ie to firefox and added 16 new words

Cataclysm is very nice too, kicks the shit out of torrentspys firefox plugin

 

What are torrents?

 

basically, little text files [close enough] that describe where a file is at for a bittorrent client program, like ABC or Azerous.

you have to dl the .torrent file, then 'load' it with your client program.

great for dl'ing large files, such as movies or full albums

 

I run Windows XP. I like another one called "FreeRam Pro". Unless you go P2P, it ain't free. But, it free's up your RAM anytime something isn't being used.
Great for avoiding Lockups!
What does THAT tell you about Windows XP?

 

that it has a process called System idle Process that fills all the space you aren't using, ctrl+alt+del and go to the processes tab look through the list for it and look at it's usage

 

Is that Winblows doing that? Or "FreeRam"?

 

he's talking about memory man, not processor cycles.

system idle process does grab those unused cycles, but it's memory usage is practically nothing.

quick check on my box...system idle process has 99% of my processor, but only 20k of memory.

 

These programs (ram optimizers) are generally not good to use. As a matter of fact all they will do is degrade performance as all RAM optimizers do is force many other things out of memory. For people that do not iunderstand how windows manages memory this may seem benefitial, but it is not.

For example what if you were running Photoshop. The RAM optimzer will force all the code that was a apart of Photoshop out of memory and this will have to be paged from disk again.

You have to understand how Windows manages memory though. Windows will always try to find use for all of your RAM. If you have left over RAM code from programs that were closed will retain in memory for faster operation if you plan on using the application again during your session. Also if you ahve plenty of RAM available Windows will increase the file cache to help performance. So the fact of the matter is Windows will try to use all RAM available. If another use comes along old non-used code will be paged to disk to make room for w/e is needed. If you don't want to believe me here is an article on the subject. http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/41095/41095.html?Ad=1a
Let's try to keep this thread clean though. Please just post the programs that you would like to share.

 

Please keep them coming...Here's another great app

AnalogX's NetStat Live
get it here
http://www.analogx.com/contents/dow...etwork/nsl.html

This Program tells you:
Local Machine: Name/IP/Device
Remote Machine: Name/IP/Trace/Ping
Amount Downloaded: today/this month/last month
Download Speed: Current/Average/Max
Amount Uploaded: today/this month/last month
Upload Speed: Current/Average/Max
Threads: Current/Average/Max
CPU use: Current/Average/Max

It does more also.. just check out the homepage

 

And a few more...

DriverGuide Toolkit http://www.driverguidetoolkit.com
allows you to backup your currently installed drivers to a directory of your choice.

DLL Archive http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/dllarch.htm
finds dll files that don't have references in your system. Archive them in case you need to restore them later, or delete them.

ERUNT and NTREGOPT http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt
ERUNT is a registry backup and restore utility
NTREGOPT is a registry optimization utility

OffBYOne Browser http://www.offbyone.com
may be the world's smallest and fastest web browser with full HTML support. It is a completely self-containted standalone 1.2 MB application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component.

WAssociate http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/
for viewing/editing associations between file name extensions and file types stored in the registry, especially useful as a recovery tool if some application's setup procedure takes over associations
that it should have left alone.

SimpleOCR http://www.simpleocr.com/Info.asp
allows you to convert paper documents such as books into editable electronic text for use in any application. (requires that you have a scanner)

 

I'm asking, Which of the two is taking all the unused clock cycles.
I do a LOT of DVD work, so the FreeRam program keeps me from maxing out my "Page File". Doesn't it take clock cycles to refresh that?
(I haven't learned how to "Overclock" this sucker yet.)
I'm willing to try Linux if I can get a copy.

 

your unused clock cycles go to your "system idle process" which is part of windows.

 

lol that program is pretty simple, i know a little C++ and that would be no sweat..hell i will even add transparency =P

 

I believe it does take a little more cpu to write to the page file rather then the actual physican memory on your ram. And writing to the page file is alot slower then writing to the memory of ram...