Good Freeware Stuff

Frontier · Post by **Frontier** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:44 pm

This thread is AWESOME.
Many thanks to all of you who contributed.

My contribution:

Sandboxie:
http://www.sandboxie.com

Sandboxie creates a special contained "sandbox" environment on your PC. While browsing within the virtual sandbox, you are totally corralled off from other parts of your PC. So any files you download are isolated to the sandbox. Similarly, any programs that are executed only do so within the sandbox and have no access to your normal files, the Windows operating system or any other part of your PC.

BTW does anyone know any freeware report generator engine (with a report builder would be nice) that can be used with PureBasic (i.e run reports from inside a PureBasic application)?

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:51 pm

Frontier wrote:This thread is AWESOME.
Many thanks to all of you who contributed.

My contribution:

Sandboxie:
http://www.sanboxie.com

Sandboxie creates a special contained "sandbox" environment on your PC. While browsing within the virtual sandbox, you are totally corralled off from other parts of your PC. So any files you download are isolated to the sandbox. Similarly, any programs that are executed only do so within the sandbox and have no access to your normal files, the Windows operating system or any other part of your PC.

BTW does anyone know any freeware report generator engine (with a report builder would be nice) that can be used with PureBasic (i.e run reports from inside a PureBasic application)?

Perhaps you'd better link to http://www.sandboxie.com/

Frontier · Post by **Frontier** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:01 am

dell_jockey wrote: Perhaps you'd better link to http://www.sandboxie.com/

Fixed.
Thanks

Baslo · Post by **Baslo** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:45 am

Sandboxie sounds nice, is it stable/fast?

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:00 am

Baslo wrote:Sandboxie sounds nice, is it stable/fast?

Seems to be, at least I've never had it crash on me and I can barely tell the difference between a program running in SandBoxie and one that isn't.

I tried a similar product called Buffer Zone and noted that programs running in it were a lot slower.

Buffer Zone is also very bloated at multiple MB's while SandBoxie is less than 300k. (Download sizes)

The latest version of SandBoxie (3.20) won't run on computers that are part of a domain (you log in through a domain server) without a license.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:38 pm

I was looking for a good and freeware disk catalog program and I found little fantastic little gem:

WinCatalog Light

Main features:

FREEWARE
Ability to catalog any storage devices accessible from Windows environment.
Ability to catalog individual folders on disks.
Automatic extraction of archive file descriptions when scanning a disk.
Scanning archives contents and adding archives to the catalog as folders.
Automatic extraction of mp3, html file descriptions when scanning a disk.
Retrieval of Audio CD track names from Internet CD database.
Individual comments for each item: disk, folder or file.
Each item is associated with a set of keywords to increase the search relevancy.
The catalog can be searched by file name, comment and keywords.
Ability to search the entire catalog or an individual disk.
When the disk data is updated, the previously entered comments and keywords are preserved.
Ability to delete from the catalog the unnecessary files and folders.
Handy management of the lent disks.
Ability to export and import parts of collection and the list of contacts.
Ability to export any folder to .CSV file (comma separated values) for opening catalog in MS Excel or other applications.
Ability to automatically open the last catalog when the application is started.
Quick operation.
Multilingual interface.

http://www.wincatalog.com/light.html

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:20 pm

http://www.dedalo-3d.com/index.php?par1 ... 8bf9c6ae6e
A "Poser Like" Human modeler.

http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm : Wood textures

http://www.shapeshop3d.com/ Watch the video on the site! It's great!

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kand/caustics/ A caustics generator

http://www.geocities.com/starlinesinc/ : create explosions for sprites

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ : create skyboxes

http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/index.html : a tracker for making music

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:39 pm

Interesting links, thanks bembulak. Will check these out!

radar · Post by **radar** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:24 pm

The Shapeshop video makes it look fantastic and too good to be true.

I wish I had the time to play with it :roll:

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:53 pm

Someone asked about a report engine. ReportMan is pretty good - http://reportman.sourceforge.net

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:09 pm

ASP to PHP script conversion.

http://asp2php.naken.cc/

GPLed utility to convert asp (traditional, I think) to php.

Versions for Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Linux and MacOS. Linux version is recommended by the author.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:23 pm

RocketDivision Software has free versions of all their CD/DVD/Blue-Ray/HD-DVD burning software.

www.rocketdivision.com

Enoy!

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:27 pm

If you've played VALVe's new game called Portal and liked it, you will probably enjoy this game too. And it's free!

Narbacular Drop

It does have one small problem though, no save game.

Irene · Post by **Irene** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:41 pm

Lots of freeware stuff can be found here: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html

There you can find RegCleaner, which is really good for cleaning up your registry from unused or unwanted registry keys. Sometimes it has problems launching on Hyper Threading enabled processors and dual-core processors, but if you click enough times on its icon it will eventually start up ^_^

By the way nice thread!

superadnim · Post by **superadnim** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:25 am

This has been mentioned once or twice in the forums, but should really go in this thread:

Graphics Gale (2D Sprite / Tile Editor)
http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/

The free version doesn't save to GIF-animated, however it's very useful for sprite / tile artwork. I've been using it for years now. I must admit I can't go back to MS Paint now :p

What's good about it is the palette system and how you can access the tools very easily, the editor is also very fast (no .net nonsense). I specially like it for isometric work since its very easy to measure and draw with it. You also get a layer system and whatnot. Theres support for a few FFT-like filters, however I never really use those (pixel art != digital art).