Useful Free Programs

[LonelyDragon]

CCleaner and NTregoptimizer

For cleaning up temporary, unnecessary files, Windows Registry optimization and so on
Using these programs you get a remarkable better Windows performance. Ccleaner first to be run, then NTregoptimizer.

@SilentThinker: YouTube Downloader - very handy,useful program
@LonelyDragon: I got it today from http://youtubedownload.altervista.org

Cool, thanks.

I did a search for youtube downloader and got thousands of results. lol That was the first one that came up though. I just wanted to confirm it.

 

[Caesium]

Weatherget
"A command line based weather reporting tool written in python. View current weather conditions, extended day forecasts, and station id lookups as reported from weather.com. Customize output via weathergetrc configuration file. Platform independent."
source: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/weatherget/


Screenshot:

[wolfrat@magnesium:~ ] $ weatherget -m -s SZXX0004
Basel, Switzerland (7.58, 47.57)
Basel, France 1/2/09 12:00 AM Local Time
 Temperature : 1 C
 Feels Like : -1 C
 Conditions : Cloudy
 Wind : 8 km/h, 0 km/h gusts, E
 Visibility : 10.0 km
 Humidity : 87 %
 Barometer : 1024.0 mb, falling
 Dewpoint : -1 C
 UV : Low, 0
 Sunrise : 8:18 AM
 Sunset : 4:49 PM
 Moon : Waxing Crescent
 Time Zone : 1 GMT

Note: To get the station id, go to weather.com, and search for your city. Go to it's page, and the URL will look something like: http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/UKXX0085?from=enhsearch_loc. In this case, the station id is UKXX0085.

To install:
wget http://bsd.cenkes.org/myports/weatherget-0.4.0.1.tar.bz2;
tar jxf weatherget-0.4.0.1.tar.bz2;
cd weatherget-0.4.0.1;
python setup.py install;

 

[Terminus]

I really like IrfanView. It's an image viewer that is very easy to use, it's excellent for quickly editing photos (size, colors etc). I use it all the time.

 

[Caesium]

I really like IrfanView. It's an image viewer that is very easy to use, it's excellent for quickly editing photos (size, colors etc). I use it all the time.

This is a really great program, I used to use it a lot much better than the included viewer in Windows


(note to unix users, gwenview offers similar functionality as irfanview)

 

[Pasha Selim]

Everest

A good multi-language dictionary made available through the generosity and self-denial of a guy from Romania.
This program and other interesting stuff at http://www.free-soft.ro

 

[Minus]

I really like IrfanView. It's an image viewer that is very easy to use, it's excellent for quickly editing photos (size, colors etc). I use it all the time.

I have heard people speak well of it though between Gimp and Paintshop Pro i haven't had the need to look at it yet.

 

[Minus]

mp3DirectCut

mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files.

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

 

[samba101]

wow from what I see you have to be brainy to use this stuff I have no idea what it is even though there are explanations.

 

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