Those Nice Little Programs
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Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">That Make Life That Much Better</div> You know, those programs that make your computer a nicer place to be? Maybe they spruce up your desktop, or customize your sounds, or make your games crash (alright, those ones are less useful)? Post your favorites! I'll start with a pretty popular one, but something that everyone should pick up if they don't have it: <a href='http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/' target='_blank'>Bit Torrent.</a> There are lots of different clients, but you'll definetly want one of them. If you don't know what it is, just picture downloading everything from everyone else. It's useful for mods and game demos, for which you can usually find torrent files everywhere. If I remember correctly, I downloaded NS much faster then I normally could have thanks to torrent.
Alrighty, post your programs! From CPU monitoring to BIOS bustin', let's get it kicking! Please? <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Alrighty, post your programs! From CPU monitoring to BIOS bustin', let's get it kicking! Please? <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Lots of other goodies to be found at <a href='http://www.sf.net' target='_blank'>Sourceforge</a>, its where I always look first.
<b><a href='http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html' target='_blank'>Bloodshed Dev-C++</a></b> :: Great free C++ software. It's not the best, but it's still a great help.
<b><a href='http://www.telefragged.com/wally/' target='_blank'>Wally</a></b> :: Handy .wad editing program for Quake / Half-Life. Totally essential to texture work. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Need I say more...
esuna, i second wally.
<a href='http://www.ceruleanstudios.com' target='_blank'>Trillian</a>: program combining tedious AIM, IRC, ICQ, MSN and YAHOO msgers into one smooth and functional msg program. i must confess, though, i haven't paid for it. oooh, w4r3z =\
<a href='http://www.irfanview.com' target='_blank'>IrfanView</a>: program making image converts quick and easy. emphasis on quick: i can open a file, convert it, and then save it to a selected folder in 3 keystrokes.
<a href='http://www.zsnes.com' target='_blank'>ZSNES</a>: simply the best you can do in an emulation program. the ZSNES team has worked since damn near the dawn of time on their beautiful machine, and it has provided me with the most long-lasting and genuine fun i have had on a computer, to date.
<a href='http://www.sonique.com' target='_blank'>Sonique</a>: my old faithful MP3 player. it's currently undergoing a transition to it's second major version. i'm predicting good things =D <b>edit:</b> SONIQUE 2 IS LIVE!!! everyone go try it XD!!! this is like a mutually-wombed baby being born!!!
My fav?
<a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/downloads/powertoys.asp' target='_blank'>TweakUI</a> God I love it. Cleans up windows quite nicely. Not as useful on XP as it was on older versions of Windows, but just the same, it's quite handy.
check these out. they're for sonique 2. =D
<a href='http://jacoby.res.wpi.net/13433.jpeg' target='_blank'>http://jacoby.res.wpi.net/13433.jpeg</a>
<a href='http://www.ninjaskin.com/skins/okeanus_ss.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.ninjaskin.com/skins/okeanus_ss.jpg</a>
God yeah, i second that.
Also Mozilla's Thunderbird mail program, it's a bloody godsend with it's intergrated junk filtering. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b><a href='http://www.tightvnc.com/' target='_blank'>TightVNC</a></b> :: Handy little program that allows you to control another computer remotely via a window that shows you the desktop of that machine. I use this because i'm too damned lazy to walk downstairs just to reconfigure my firewall or something.
Also, the <a href='http://toolbar.google.com' target='_blank'>Google Toolbar</a> is pretty useful.
I also use Irfanview, It's a great alternative to Window's clunky viewer.
--Scythe--
<a href='http://www.safer-networking.org/' target='_blank'>Spybot Search and Destory</a> is a great spyware scanning utility. Picks up lots of stuff that Adaware can miss.
<a href='http://www.omegacorner.com' target='_blank'>The Omega Drivers</a> are custom video drivers that often include extra little hacks and performance tweaks for your video card. The ATI drivers are excellent and I believe he just started making Nvidia drivers again.
I use <a href='http://www.opera.com' target='_blank'>Opera</a> and I love it.
Editpad... They have a lite version, it's a way better solution to wordpad or notepad.
<a href='http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html' target='_blank'>http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html</a>
Ventrilo is nice, and powerstrip is nice, and DUMeter is ncie but that aint free.
<a href='http://www.xymantix.com' target='_blank'>Sysmetrix</a> is an awesome metering utility that has a lot of possibilities and very easy to theme.
<a href='http://www.skype.com' target='_blank'>Skype</a> is a great voice communication program that is very useable and will lower your phone bills for sure <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.smartftp.com' target='_blank'>SmartFTP</a>, the best ftp client. ever.
<a href='http://www.neatimage.com/' target='_blank'>NeatImage</a> takes a few tries to get right but is an awesome filtering program for your noisy or jpeged pictures.
The aformentioned Media Player Classic can do that. Look under the Play pull-down menu or try Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down.
The aformentioned Media Player Classic can do that. Look under the Play pull-down menu or try Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Be careful with what videos you do this with though. I had my first BSOD in XP when I used this feature on certain movies.
I find <a href='http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/' target='_blank'>HJSplit</a> to be a great program for splitting files into smaller chunks. You can choose the ratio of each file chunk, and it rejoins all the pieces flawlessly. Great for spreading out big files.
BSPlayer offers MPEG, DivX, XviD etc. playback. A very compact, easy to use program, but also a very versatile one. BSPlayer also incorporates one very simple, yet life-enhancing feature that seems not to be available in either Media Player or DivX Player: brightness controls. MPG and DivX videos are usually intolerably dark on my computer, so being able to adjust the hue, saturation, brightness and contrast of the movie window itself is a big thing for me.
<a href='http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>DOSBox</a>
A DOS emulator for Windows. I love it because now I can play Gobliins 2 again, with emulated soundblaster support.
Hex/Text Editor. Lots of options.
<a href='http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/' target='_blank'>CursorXP</a>
Customize windows cursors. Makes them look really cool.
There is such an option in TweakUI
Last option under General
BSPlayer can slow down videos as well, but not without stability problems using some codecs =)
Oh, maybe I should add something as well
I have found the Windows keys to be extremely annoying when playing games =D
With Winkeykill they can easily be disabled and then used for other things. (for example the send key in Ventrilo)
Can be found <a href='http://chorus.inav.net/~bjackson/' target='_blank'>here</a>
Great program that I use for cleaning out the Temp files that Windows
creates and then pretends to forget about.
Also has a Reg Cleaner, and some TweakUI features.
Voice communication program.
Very useful for clanning or general <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> talk.
<a href='http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/' target='_blank'>Putty</a>
A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client.
Perfect to shutdown my bro's net when i feel like it.
With Winkeykill the can easily be disabled and then used for other things. (for example the send key in Ventrilo)
Can be found <a href='http://chorus.inav.net/~bjackson/' target='_blank'>here</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
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