Usefull tools.

BadBoy · Post by **BadBoy** » December 22, 2005, 8:36 am

here is/will be a one stop shop for all the cool utils u need to make your windows experience happy

we will start with
http://www.mlin.net/
My fave here is startup monitor and startup control panel ( a ust for people who don<b>[I AM TOO STUPID TO USE AN APOSTROPHE]</b>t have / belive in virus protection software)

so you wanna copy a DVD ?
http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html

so you wanna rip music CD's
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Lame_Encoder.htm
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
http://flac.sourceforge.net/

so you wanna zip stuff
http://www.ultimatezip.com/
or the older free version

Microsoft Power toys CMD here and tweak UI are the best
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

m@ pls make this a sticky

Ceek · Post by **Ceek** » December 22, 2005, 8:56 am

This is a great idea. Thanks for the tools Reg!! I am taking that dvd copying thing right now!

Post by **Tenacious B** » December 22, 2005, 11:36 am

stickied. great idea reg.

dvdshrink is an incredible program, and highly useful.

another excellent zip program is 7zip. massive compression and an easy interface. here's the link.

if you need a really good free audio editor, there's audacity. clean interface and really fast.

if you ever read rss feeds and want an easy, good looking feed aggregator, there's rssowl. it really does make the whole job of reading feeds a million times easier.

obviously, everyone needs a bittorrent program - and the absolute best is azureus. constantly updated, it looks good and is easy to use.

i also cannot live without irfanview image viewer and picasa photo organiser.

more to come!

BadBoy · Post by **BadBoy** » December 22, 2005, 2:00 pm

how much space does each directory takes up?

process wont die Kill it

lots of codecs for WMP

and for the hardcore peeps sysinternals free and paid tools
http://www.sysinternals.com/

If you do work with databases you will need
http://www.lumigent.com/

If you use MSsql server you will want this it is better then sp_who and sp_who2

BadBoy · Post by **BadBoy** » February 22, 2006, 11:14 am

Tag your MP3's this is an older version but then its FREE

MacDaddy · Post by **MacDaddy** » February 22, 2006, 12:39 pm

THese are great tools. I love TweakUI, it makes Windows much less irritating.

Reg, all software is free. Provided you are willing to download cracks that potentially have viruses that destroy your machine.

MacDaddy · Post by **MacDaddy** » February 22, 2006, 12:40 pm

which reminds me, for a great crack database that has non-virused files (still be careful though) is http://www.lomalka.ru

Dunno if the link's been posted before but this is my crack site of choice. And I steal lots of software

Ceek · Post by **Ceek** » February 22, 2006, 12:49 pm

Russia is doing so much for the pirate community!!!

root · Post by **root** » August 15, 2006, 2:23 pm

VLC - Who needs Media Player / RealPlayer / QuickTime / ETC when this can run everything for you... (Features)

DAEMON Tools (come on you pirates)

ISO Recorder - essential for those quick ISO burns, it now also features the ability to make your own custom ISO images on your HDD (adds it to the context menu for folders)

µtorrent - I find it better than Azureas, that Java-based son of a memory whore. Azureas is pretty complicated for novice Torrent users, and is only really good for power-users that don't intend on doing much else with their PC's while downloading torrents unless they have excessive amounts of RAM. µtorrent supports most of the stuff that Azureas supports anyways, is written in C++ (so its fast) and has a minute memory footprint (so it doesn't suck your RAM). Best of all, you don't need to install it, you can download a single .exe and just run that. Seriously, you torrent users, have a look at this...

torrent site: mininova.org - for when I can't find stuff on Demonoid.

FastStone Image Viewer

Also, not sure if you guys are aware you can download Microsoft Office 2007 (beta) from the Microsoft site for free (or at least were able to when I registered and downloaded it myself).

VMPlayer - VMWares Virtual Machine. Remember to read this article and download this file

Virtual PC 2004 - Microsoft's Virtual Machine (its free)

I can't really think of anything else at the moment, I know of a few programming tools (snippet compiler, .NET Refractor etc) if you want the links...

Edit:

Game Fixes / No CD: megagames
Serials: serials.ws - warning: NSFW banners on the top of the page, I suggest you disable images in your browser if you want to use the site at work (although it don't stop those damn ALT tags from coming through).

Post by **Tenacious B** » August 15, 2006, 3:00 pm

i'm gonna try µtorrent out, mainly because azureus has become serious bloatware.

great post.

tetrahc · Post by **tetrahc** » August 15, 2006, 4:50 pm

µtorrent is not open source
no *nix version
i hate wine
so i'll stick with azureus for now (even tho i hate java almost as much as wine)

MacDaddy · Post by **MacDaddy** » August 16, 2006, 1:45 pm

I use µtorrent and I find it lovely. It is so little but it does big things. Sort of like my penis except that it is massively huge.

I need to make avi files into a DVD which plays on normal DVD (non-pc) players. What software do I need and where do I get the crack for it?

Post by **Tenacious B** » August 16, 2006, 2:10 pm

i suggest ulead dvd workshop 2 - you can get the trial from the ulead website and the crack from just about anywhere.

i also remember someone saying you could do this with nero, although i don't trust nero as far as i can ejaculate onto it.

BadBoy · Post by **BadBoy** » October 10, 2006, 8:48 am

The DVD making people have now come up with a way to "protect" DVD's it basicaly entails adding faults to the disk intentionaly that a player will overlook but a copier will not (CRC type errors) i have found this type of protection on Narnia and 8 below

never fear there is a solution

download the below install the 3 packages set up and use RipIt4Me

RipIt4Me is just a nice UI / Parser for the other 2 pgms and DVD shrink

also here is THE site for technical DVD info http://www.doom9.org/

Post by **Tenacious B** » October 10, 2006, 9:00 am

awesome.

theonetheonly · Post by **theonetheonly** » October 10, 2006, 12:15 pm

thanx

MacDaddy · Post by **MacDaddy** » October 10, 2006, 12:31 pm

Good skillZ Reg!

root · Post by **root** » November 4, 2006, 5:10 pm

This looks like a nifty Javascript / CSS / HTML Editor (PHP plugin coming along sometime I think): Aptana: The Web IDE. It shows you the browser-compatability of what ever you're using in the code complete - making your coding choice much easier. I'm still busy downloading it (along with the rest of the Internet) so will update this post once I've tried it out. Oh yeah, it's x-platform too.

Post by **Tenacious B** » November 6, 2006, 9:31 am

if this does what it says it does then it is wonderful.

good find.

tetrahc · Post by **tetrahc** » November 6, 2006, 1:26 pm

I installed the eclipse plugin, looks quite nifty. Must say I don't usually use IDE's (a combination of vim, gcc, gdb and handcrafted makefiles is more my style) but I used eclipse for a programming assignment recently (implementing a raytracer in java

) and it was actually less horrible than I'd imagined.

Post by **Tenacious B** » November 7, 2006, 10:43 am

BadBoy · Post by **BadBoy** » November 12, 2006, 5:39 pm

make your own ringtones

http://lifehacker.com/software/ringtone ... 212232.php

M@ can we clean this up? (delete non tool posts)

Post by **Tenacious B** » November 13, 2006, 8:51 am

yeah, i'll split it into tool posts and commentary posts.

later.

tetrahc · Post by **tetrahc** » November 23, 2006, 10:06 pm

http://www.koders.com/

open source code search engine...

BadBoy · Post by **BadBoy** » November 27, 2006, 7:22 pm

back your shit up to google

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Post by **Tenacious B** » November 28, 2006, 7:56 am

GREAT link.