Good Freeware Stuff

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:14 pm

PhraseExpress

PhraseExpress will save hours of your valuable time and is the ideal solution for office workers, editors, translators, technical support and help desk staff, call centers and developers.
Fewer typing errors

PhraseExpress also minimizes typing errors. Less typing - fewer typos! The AutoCorrect feature corrects misspellings while you type in any program. This works for all common misspellings you have defined.
Consistent communcation

PhraseExpress enables all employees to use the same letter templates and common terminology for customer communication. This helps large scale organizations to maintain a consistent corporate identity.

Link: http://www.phraseexpress.com/
Only 1.3 MB

oldBear · Post by **oldBear** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:52 pm

Not sure if this is "off topic" or not, but since it's tools related. I'll post here.

http://clipguru.com

I'm always looking around for tools and came across this a few days back. Not sure how it compares to all the others (the author admits it's not Clipmate), but since the only clipboard program I saw mentioned in this thread was hamsin I thought I'd mention this one, especially since it's apparently written in PureBasic.

It seems OK so far, but I have only been using it a few days and according the the site, it's still in beta.

Looks like it's windows only too. Nothing to get too excited about. I'm just mentioning 'cause it appears to be PureBasic. So far, it seems decent to me. I have encountered a bug, which was fixed after I notified support. He (or she) is right, it is still beta.

Just don't blame me if you lose all your data

oB

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:22 am

Nice one, oldBear. It is really good and inspiring to see it is written in PureBasic and gives credit to Pure and the community!

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:37 pm

To download YouTube/Google/MetaCafe etc, videos and images from the web use this firefox extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3006/

Then to convert these flash (or any) type of video to any other type of video including DVD VOB, MPG, AVI, etc use this tool:

Super

For those of you who have a frustrating time converting video types, this is the best tool I have come across so far.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:12 pm

WinSnap has been updated
http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap/download.html

Changelog

Version 1.1 build 6 (August 24, 2006)

New option to include mouse cursor.
New option to keep WinSnap minimized in auto-save mode.
New option to clear image on minimize (to safe memory).
Added ability to capture XP Start Menu in 'Menu' mode.
Escape minimizes the main window.
New command line parameters were added.
Minimize/restore animation now depend on system settings.
Some default program settings were changed.
Some issues with wide-screens were fixed.
Many other small bugfixes and improvements.
Status 'beta' was removed - it is first mature release!

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:34 am

I like WinSnap

Pity that it is not able to save TIFF images with a transparent color.
Irfanview does it but only for .ICO and .PNG.
I dont want to have installed any Adobe product only to do that. Does someboy know how i can save tiff images with transparent color with some simple program?

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:38 pm

Psychophanta wrote:I like WinSnap
Pity that it is not able to save TIFF images with a transparent color.
Irfanview does it but only for .ICO and .PNG.
I dont want to have installed any Adobe product only to do that. Does someboy know how i can save tiff images with transparent color with some simple program?

You could write one..

You could make a command line version, then
it would be quick to make a windows version.

- np

dna · Post by **dna** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:35 pm

Thanks for the freeware links everyone.

Also, you all should know that DAZ is now giving away BRYCE 5 free for a limited time.

I do not know the link but the software is the full version of 5 and the offer ends shortly.

Enjoy It.

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:15 pm

Hi dna,

Thanks for the heads-up.

Link is:
http://www.daz3d.com/program/bryce/bryce5free.php

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:54 am

RoboForm, fills internet forms, remembers login user names and passwords, I couldn't live without it.
http://www.roboform.com
They have both a free and pro version

Poppy for Windows POP3 e-mail notifier.
http://www.yoursurfice.com/Content/Poppy/Poppy.htm

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtua ... s/sp1.mspx
Yes it is now free!

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:43 am

I used RoboForm myself, but after a week I found out the limitation. You can only have 100 passcards on the freeversion, so I stopped using it. Now I use KeyPass opensource.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:16 am

GeoTrail wrote:I used RoboForm myself, but after a week I found out the limitation. You can only have 100 passcards on the freeversion, so I stopped using it. Now I use KeyPass opensource.

100? Used to be only 35 or 50, either way its free if you don't need that many passcards, I found it too useful in so many ways that I bought the Pro version before I maxed out the free one.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:46 pm

Yeah I'm pretty sure it was 100.
Anyways, been thinking about buying it myself, never got that far. It is a really good program, no doubt about that

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:05 pm

GeoTrail wrote:Yeah I'm pretty sure it was 100. Anyways, been thinking about buying it myself, never got that far. It is a really good program, no doubt about that

Yup, even though there are probably free programs similar to it, I've never regretted buying the Pro version. Interesting marketing trick though... They give away the free version knowing that eventually you'll max it out and by then you'll be so used to it, that it'll be a "no-brainer" to buy the Pro version when you need to....

There is another web site that has a bunch of various utilities that are all free and all writen by the web site owner, but can't for the life of me, remember the name or URL to the site. The only things I can remember is that he had an orphaned DLL finder, a search engine submitter, some network/internet related utilities, and because he's a musician, some music utilities too. I can't even find the files I downloaded from his site years ago...

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:26 pm

Yeah that is pretty slick marketing.
Others might have given 10 free entries, or even 20, but a 100 is so much that you don't think about it as a limitation, you just use it, till one day you see that is actually has a limitation.

Right now I'm using Google Sync, so I really don't need to remember my passwords hehehe.
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/bro ... index.html