SHINY SHINY SHINY: May 2007

Saturday, May 19, 2007

The more people I meet, the more I like my cat...

Mmmmmm, Shiny....

: Name: monkeyboy

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Feed the fark addiction
Feed the software addiction

You really should have these things installed:

Sygate Personal Firewall very secure, uses less resources. Now owned by Symantec, ~~we'll see how THAT turns out...~~The Bastages discontinued it! My link goes to the old version, though... Install, right click > options > updates > uncheck auto update!
FireFox Internet browser, faster and more secure than InternetExplorer
ClamWin Anti-virus Seems to work better than AVG, Not so centered on getting you to upgrade to their $$$ verion, plus free updates.
AVG Anti-virus Catches WAY more virii than Norton or Mcafee, plus free updates. Stay away frome their firewall, it uses WAY too many resources.
LavaSoft AdAware checks for and removes spyware / malware.
ToniArts EasyCleaner Cleans all the unused entries out of the registry.

Productivity Software:

OpenOffice, The free, Open Source office suite, does presentations, word processor, spreadsheet, 3D illustrator & database program.
AbiWord, use with OpenOffice as the word Processor - opens & saves MS files!
FreeAccounting small to medium business accounting package
Free cad program

Editing/creating software:

EditPadLite - replaces notepad - tabbed plain text text editor
Nvu Web authoring solution
Easy Gallery Generator creates html pages from a directory of pictures, complete with thumbnails, backwards & forwards buttons.

Multimedia stuff:

FastStone image viewer has some real good image manipulation / viewing tools.
AutoGK free DVD ripping solution
Get MediaPlayerClassic here! a replacement for Windows Media Player, less system invasive, less Digital Rights Management centric.
Audacity multitrack audio editor
OpenFx 3D modeling / redering tool
FoxIt! A replacement for Adobe Acrobat, or as I like to call it MudDancer™.
Real_Alternative For use with Media Player Classic, so it can play Real media files
QuickTime_Alternative For use with Media Player Classic, so it can play QuickTime files

Internet:

EmulePLUS P2P application
cFossThis is the only one that's not free! Windows traffic shaping application, controls the speed of p2p / ftp applications, so that your web browsing is speedier.
Internet Radio Tuner, for listening to the thousands of radio stations on the net
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
SUN Java If, for no other reason than MS is BAD
UtilKit DLUL meter I love this litle bandwidth monitor, the company seems to be out of business. Working download links are hard to find for this file

Utilities:

7Zip Nice little archive program, love the right click "extract to" command, handles zips, rars & several others.
FinePrint prints multiple pages per sheet, thinks it's a printer driver Trial version prints a small banner on each page.
BartPE Windows XP pre-installation environment iso builder, the absolute best troubleshooting tool.
EasyCleaner Cleans up the registry, after installing / uninstalling software.
Serials 2000 Lost your registration number?
ISOBuster Looks inside ISO images
TrackerV3 A replacement for Windows Explorer with some advanced tools.
BurnatOnce for burning ISO images.

A human being should
be able to change a diaper,
plan an invasion,
butcher a hog,
conn a ship,
design a building,
write a sonnet,
balance accounts,
build a wall,
set a bone,
comfort the dying,
take orders,
give orders,
cooperate,
act alone,
solve equations,
analyze a new problem,
pitch manure,
program a computer,
cook a tasty meal,
fight efficiently,
die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A Heinlein.
-Starship Troopers.

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Saturday, May 19, 2007

The more people I meet, the more I like my cat...

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