Common Apps

I find these little apps extremely helpful and they save A LOT of time and clicking PLUS they're free. I would strongly suggest getting the following nice little apps. I install them on every machine I have.

RjH Extensions - (freeware) simple utility that will add a number of useful functions to the context menu of Windows Explorer.

AIRoboform - (freeware)one-click web form filler and password manager with some serious Artificial Intelligence (AI) inside.

PathCopyEx - (freeware) A very simple shell extension that copies the text path of any file/folder in Explorer to the clipboard. Saves a bit of time on all those annoying Browse for Folder windows.

Panicware's Pop-up Stopper - (freeware) best pop-up stopper around.

I have a few others but those are the best I could think of off the top of my head. Take a look at Shell Extension City for more of these gems.

SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com

WinRAR - http://www.rarsoft.com

StyleXP - http://www.tgtsoft.com

Metapad

Best Text Editor (Notepad Style)

http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

CDex

Best CD -> MP3

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

Xteq X-Setup

Best Tweaker

http://www.xteq.com/products/xset/

PropertiesPlus

Change various setting of file in explorer

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cool/kish/pplusmain.htm

StatupCPL

Edit all programs that start on boot

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

DiskData

http://www.digallery.com/diskdata/

Glass2k(win2kXP only)

Transparent Windows

http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

PrcView

Good for win9x, gives more detail than task manager

http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm

United Devices

http://members.ud.com/home.htm

Distributed.net

Use your computer when not in use towards finding the RC5-64 key

http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

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Wizmo

Great app for advanced power savings

http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

IDServe

Find out what webserver that site is running on

http://grc.com/id/idserve.htm

Netstat Live

Info about your net connection

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/n...network/nsl.htm

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Zonealarm

Firewall (go for the free version)

http://www.zonelabs.com/

Tiny Personal Firewall Kerio Personal Firewall

Another Firewall, just more configurable

http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny?s=91...&pg=tpf_summary

http://www.kerio.com/parser/mainpage.php?id=204&lg=1

Anti Virus Guard

Free Antivirus

http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm

AdAware

AdwareSpyware on your system, see if there is any?

http://www.lsfileserv.com/aaw.html

WinVNCTightVNC

Run your computer from anywhere over the net.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html http://www.tightvnc.com/

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Foxserv

Test your website from your PC, without uploading and then testing.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/foxserv/

Apache

Apache Webserver :)

http://www.apache.org/

GuildFTPd

Free FTP server

http://www.nitrolic.com/

D2G

Never have to remember and fiddle with changing IP addresses again, just an address.

http://dns2go.deerfield.com/

1st Page

Best HTML code editor ever.

http://evrsoft.com/1stpage/

Movable Type

Ever wanted a [we]blog?

http://www.movabletype.org/

Articons

http://www.aha-soft.com/

Microangelo

http://www.impactsoft.com/

?????????

http://excursion.cjb.net

quicktime player

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/[Statbaratbar

http://www.statbar.nl[Irfanviewnview

Image editor

http://www.irfanview.com[/Dremples les

Active Wallpaper

http://www.geisswerks.com/drempels/index.html

Quintessential Player

Real player and Realone player

ieSpell

Spell checker for text boxes in IE (such as forum posts here)

YourCPL

Add any executable app to control pannel such as WinXP TweakUI

Shell Toys

Tons of tools for Context Menu!

Context Edit

Add, remove Context Menu options.

FolderBox

Surf multiple folders in Explorer (also works in IE) great for using the built in Windows FTP functionality.

Cursor XP Free (Formerly CursorEX)

For win 2k/XP only, better mouse cursors can load animated gifs, png files..check out the site. (Formerly CursorEX)

ICQ Plus

Skin your ICQ

TCP/IP Optimizer

Optimize TCP/IP registry values

Registry Explorer

Registry Editor Shell extension integrates directly into Explorer

Windows XP PowerToys

They have returned! Be sure to uninstall previous ones first though.

Refresher for IE

Adds window refreshing capabilities to IE, works great especially for windows I generally leave open

Invision for mIRC 6.01 Beta 2.0

SpaceMonger (hard drive space visualizer):

Have a Command Prompt window inside Explorer!!!!

MP3-Info Extension

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June 3, 2003

http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?threadid=2400

RAS --- Montiors bandwidth usage. Can check daily, monthly, yearly info. Best of all its FREE :)

July 14, 2003

Overlord Quickshot

Overlord? Quickshot is a handy tool to enable those who do not have Photoshop and such-like to quickly create screenshots with a range of configurable options, such as filetype, image size of outputted image, etc. Also has brilliant PNG support, allowing for lossless super-compressed PNGs - even better than Photoshop!

http://dessimat0r.myftp.org/Quickshot/

July 19, 2003

Sorry guys havent updated the page in almost forever.. haha.. Ill get around to updating it soon... hopefully categorized with an automated subit via PHP ... it would be easier if someone helped me though.. considering i dont have much time anymore...

July 23, 2003

XPlayer 2.2.4!

File Description:

XPlayer is a powerful but easy to use media player. It uses much less memory and CPU Resources than other player. XPlayer fully supports DirectX 9 VMR9, improved playback quality and speed. and It also supports subtitle.

Changes in Recent Version:

1. Drag& Drop support.

2. Right click main menu popup.

3. Tooltips for all buttons.

4. Add a addition new Default skin - Metal Red.

5. Add function to switch between different skins.

6. Support subtitle,

7. Support VMR9.

8. Tweak the performance.

Download

August 2, 2003

foobar - FooBar

here is a picture of foobar .7 which is in beta, the latest is .667 though :)

September 5, 2003

United Devices (Cancer Research Project, similar to seti@home)

Mozilla (best damm web browser ever)

IrfanView (best damm image viewer ever, http://www.irfanview.com)

Borland C# Builder Personal / JBuilder 9 Personal (Free development IDE for C# and Java)

DC++ (Good DirectConnent client)

Eraser (Excellent File Eraser)

September 11, 2003

It would probably help if the first post was more organised and clear, and that there wasn't dead links all over the place.

September 18, 2003

I have to add Mailwasher Pro as a useful program combatting spam emails.

September 18, 2003

Are shells considered Apps too?

Geoshell :D

October 8, 2003

Installation Creators and Packages

I usually use IndigoRose Setup Factory Six for deploying my Delphi applications for school projects etc. But if you're after freeware deployment, these programs offer great flexible features that don't require hard work :yes:.

Paquet Builder 2.8

Create packages in minutes in the easy-to-use, XP-like interface or directly package your files from Windows Explorer thanks to the shell context menu. Distribute your document and program files easily, safely and with style! Self-Extracting packages are more appealing than standard file archives and can impress your customers.

http://www.gdgsoft.com/pb/index.asp

GSfx Wizard 1.1

Basically, it's a elite version of Paquet Builder 2.8 that doesn't lack any functionality.

http://www.gdgsoft.com/gsfx/index.asp

:D :bounce:

Edited October 8, 2003 by kizzaaa

October 9, 2003

gAIM: a beter free open sorce GNU alternative to trillian allowing u to login into JABBER, MSN, aim, Y!, ICQ, IRC and many more

http://gaim.sourceforge.net

when u add gAIM also fix the bug

Please see this thread : https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=20976

it is not /bboard/ it is /forum/

Edited October 9, 2003 by dewy

November 2, 2003

miranda IM ... better than Trillian & gAIM

http://www.miranda-im.org/

Foobar ... a better music player

http://foobar2000.org/

GetBackData for NTFS ... waddya know it actually works

http://www.runtime.org

MonkeysAudio ... best option for lossless encoding

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

Daemon Tools ... virtual cdrom

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/index.php

oDC ... dc++ on crank

http://gempond.com/odc/

Crazy Browser ... IE shell replacement with a built in pop-up stopper

http://www.crazybrowser.com/

Xnews ... best newsreader for binary groups

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

Active ports ... monitor all open TCP and UDP ports on the local computer. Active Ports maps ports to the owning application so you can watch which process has opened which port. It also displays a local and remote IP address for each connection and allows you to terminate the owning process. Active Ports can help you to detect trojans and other malicious programs.

http://www.ntutility.com/freeware.html

Treepad ... text doc handler

http://www.treepad.com/

s'all for now. :)

November 7, 2003

HTML-Kit

A full-featured editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Newcomers to web page design can benefit from letting it point out errors and provide suggestions on how to create standards compliant pages. Experts can save time spent on common tasks using the highly customizable and extensible integrated development environment while maintaining full control over multiple file types.

Iceows

Iceows is written to compress or extract archive files easier. With ICEOWS you can extract, test, read properties and comments or view files stored in ICE, ARJ, ZIP, GunZip, TAR, Microsoft CAB, RAR, ACE, MIME, Mac HQX, UUEncode, XXEncode, Base64, JAR, EAR, WAR, LHA, IMP, BZ2 files without an external program. If the archive is an ICE, ARJ or ZIP, you also can add, update and delete files stored within the archive. It integrates all of these functions in the same explorer interface that Windows 9x, Me, NT or XP has.

Open Office

OpenOffice.org is both an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites?. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Pixie

Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.

Shareaza

Shareaza is a multi-protocol peer-to-peer client available for Windows that allows you to manage and obtain files of any format from the most popular P2P networks. At the momment the client supports the eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella 2 networks with support to handle BitTorrent files. With a slender user interface and extensive tools provided, Shareaza is perhaps one of the most efficient and influential clients available.

SpyBoy ? Search & Destroy

Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, :)o :)

VLC Media Player

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

I'm amazed some of these haven't been mention:huh:huh:

November 19, 2003

howcome no software which are english dictionaries .. not computer jargon programs but ordinary dictionaries without the need of connecting to dictionary.com

??

November 21, 2003

what like WordWeb? http://wordweb.info/free/

December 5, 2003

cool, nice work guy but sorry I have nothing to add :(

December 20, 2003

Mine are :)

ACDSee v32 2.4 The Best Version !!!!!!!!!!!

Winamp 2.95

System Mechanic 3.f ( or something)

Bsplay

TuneUp Utilities

Winrar

Ad- Aware

:D :D :D :laugh: :) :) :rolleyes: :blink:

thats my list

January 13, 2004

I think it would be much easier for us to follow and benifit if you post a brief description for each program.

Thanks anyway..

February 10, 2004

Someone else made this list, but, it pretty much fits me... :)

Acronis True Image 7 - Backup your entire system.

Ad-aware - Remove Spyware from your system.

Adobe Photoshop - Best app for graphics.

Adobe Reader - If you want to view pdf files, download this program.

Ahead Nero Burning ROM - Make a CD or DVD if you have the hardware.

AOL Instant Messenger - Chat with people using AOL. If you do not like AOL Instant Messenger, a good alternative is Gaim.

Diskeeper - A more efficient way of defragmenting your hard drive.

EndItAll - Makes more sense than the task manager.

HiDownload - A good download manager.

ieSpell - A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer.

ISO Buster - The Ultimate CD and DVD data recovery tool.

Java Technology - Might be good to have if you wanna run java content online.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 - Great tool for web designers and developers.

Microsoft Office - Get productive with this office suite.

MSN Messenger - Communicate with others using the MSN Instant Messaging Client.

Norton Internet Security - Keep your PC Secure.

Quicktime or Quicktime Alternative - View Apple multimedia files.

Real One Player or Real Alternative - View Real multimedia files.

SmartFTP or FileZilla - Great FTP clients.

SnagIt - The Leader in Screen Capture.

Sound Forge - Edit and Record Audio.

SpyBot Search and Destroy - A better tool to remove spyware.

Startup Control Panel - Control what starts up with windows.

Startup Monitor - Monitor what changes are made that effect startup.

TuneUp Utilities 2003 - An excellent tweaking program for Windows.

WinAmp - An excellent MP3 player.

WinRAR - Excellent compression utility.

Yahoo Messenger - Chat with others using Yahoo Messenger.

February 10, 2004

Hmm... well, my most used app is Winamp 5, followed closely by Trillian and Firefox. Outlook 2003 and Adobe Photoshop CS are pretty close seconds.

February 10, 2004

foobar - FooBar
http://www.mistical.com/tyler/gui.jpg

here is a picture of foobar .7 which is in beta, the latest is .667 though :)

How do you get the slider in the bottom of Foobar??? I tried draggin it to the bottom, but it refuses to move :(.

Btw, using Foobar 0.8 beta.

February 10, 2004

Well, I have looked through most (99%) of the links here, and re-mastered them into the "Links" page on my website.

Someone should do this here, as there were a lot of dead links :rolleyes:

February 10, 2004

Crappies, posted it twice

Edited February 10, 2004 by wizzer

March 2, 2004

hmm.. i should prolly finally redo this... too bad i havent had the time lately :(

April 4, 2004

Little RGB Color Picker v2.0

Select a color from the palette and this handy little utility displays the html hex code and the RGB values for that color. Fine tune the color using the sliding controls. Also shows a color sample. Copying the codes to the clipboard is just a click away. Great for programmers or graphic and web designers.

Requirements: Win9X/ME/XP

FreeWare - 1.2 MB

New in v2.0: Now you can fine tune the colors with sliding controls.

http://highdesertsoftware.com/rgb_picker.html

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