The Freeloader Topic

[Star-Lord]

Dang, that BumpTop is awesome. Installed it myself, I love the skins and it's so easy to organize stuff. Very good.

I installed it and I'm liking it. Pretty cool I must say.

[lordjubblydave]

****Still Updating*****

 

I have updated as far as page 12 now

 

We now have a Tech Tools Category, which i need some help with from any Tech proffesionals.

If you could PM me the pieces of software, from the Freeloader Topic that you always carry in your Toolkits.

I can add them to the new category, rather than System or System Tweaking

[Doc Rikowski]

Well, if u are a designer and need an online portfolio for free u can get a very good one after u sign up in:

 

deviantart.com

 

or (less space though)

 

carbonmade.com

[james227uk]

WinDirStat

 

I found this software a few months ago. Basically, I had 14gb of space gobbled up over night (weird huh?) and I wanted to see what file/folder was taking up all this space. And sure enough, it pointed it out

 

The higher the perecentage, the more disk space it's using.

 

http://windirstat.info/

 

Completely free and no nags

[GTArv]

calibre - eBook manager. Allows you to categorize your digital books and build an electronic library. Includes a basic eBook viewer.

 

Some sources of free ebooks (mostly only old titles due to copyrights):

- Project Gutenberg

- ePubBooks

[lordjubblydave]

29th April 2010, Not Long

 

 

Edited April 15, 2010 by lordjubblydave

[james227uk]

Meh, I need to fix my laptop's boot loader first. Ubuntu IS there but the Windows bootloader doesn't show it

 

 

 

No freeloads this time. DUe to my lack of a laptop I haven't been looking for software

[Bernard Jazz]

MuseScore - Free music composition software for Windows, OSX and Linux.

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Also, does anyone know of a decent drum machine?

Edited May 18, 2010 by Mealing

[apache249]

There's a program, called VOIPCheap which allows you to call poeple for free and certain areas for a a small fee.

[Tornado Rex]

There's a program, called VOIPCheap which allows you to call poeple for free and certain areas for a a small fee.

Next time provide a link.

 

Also I wouldn't exactly call any of the calls (except PC to PC) "free".

 

 

* Max 300 minutes per week of free calls, measured over the last 7 days and per unique IP address. Unused free minutes cannot be taken to the following week(s). If limit is exceeded the normal rates apply. With your FREE DAYS you can call for free to all the destinations listed as free! when you have no FREE DAYS left the normal rates apply. You can get extra Freedays by buying credit

 

And you can only get "Freedays" by buying credits.

[strokem]

thanks lordjubblydave!

really useful!

[lordjubblydave]

Not a problem.

Glad you got some use out of it.

I enjoy doing it, although it wouldn't work without all the contributions from forum members.

[SanAndreasManiac]

I'm looking for a software that works kinda of the opposite of Narrator, you feed it a recoreded voice, then the proggy transcripts it into text

is tehre anything like that?

[james227uk]

- UNetbootin -

 

This software can create a bootable installation and store in on a USB. You can install supported Linux distributions

 

 

 

 

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

 

 

- Nero Free -

 

What’s better than free? Free forever! Nero offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s world-renowned data disc burning and copying features for an unlimited time, absolutely FREE!

 

Enjoy basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs from the world’s most

trusted digital media brand, Nero.

 

 

 

 

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php

 

 

- Super AntiSpyware -

 

Free Spyware/Malware scanner. Has gave me good results previously. Would work well alongside Malwarebytes.

 

 

 

 

http://www.superantispyware.com/

[lordjubblydave]

Hey, all you mobile Freeloaders.

 

Are any of you fed up with carrying your Sat Nav and your phone around ?

Try this, it is a Turn by Turn, voice Navigation Software, available for Android phones (possibly other OS)

Google Navigation

Ditch your Sat Nav, you don't need it anymore, as long as you have a Data connection and a GPS enabled phone.

 

[Star-Lord]

Circle Dock

 

Screenshot

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Big Elllipse

 

What Circle Dock Allows You to Do:

 

    * Launch your programs from a circular dock.

    * Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can re-size.

    * Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.

    * Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)

    * The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey (default is F1) or your middle mouse button, other options available.

    * Tested on computers with multiple monitors, Windows XP/Vista/7, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only .Net Framework 2.0.

    * Automatically works on all Windows Vista and 7 computers and most Windows XP computers.

    * A new settings panel that allows you to customize many options. It updates your dock as you make changes. See it change in real time! No need to press an OK button.

    * Multi-language capable. Just translate the English.ini file to the language of your choice. 50+ Languages currently available

    * Change the image used for the dock icons with the easiest method out there: Just set the program to "Icon Replacement Mode" in the right-click menu of the center icon and you can change all the icon images by just dragging and dropping new PNG images onto them! Huge time saver when you are customizing your dock!

    * Built in support for Windows HD Icons. Vector and detailed PNG's come through with great clarity

    * toggle the visibility of the dock by moving your mouse to any edge of your screen. By default, the left and right edges are used for toggling. No need to press a button!

    * Rotate the dock with your mouse wheel or arrow keys (customizable).

    * Reorder and Organize the dock items with new adjustment interface. Located via right click on an item

    * By default, clicking on the center button does not open the start menu. You can enable this in the settings panel.

    * New easy method of upgrading from older versions.

    * Access help files from almost every setting window. Get the help you need immediately without having to search

    * Standalone Stacks 2 are now integrate and access directly by left clicking and selecting a stack option (Additional Options added v1.5.)

    * Portability creation has never been easier. Now with an improved Circle Dock Portable Maker for Back up and distribution, and excellent Individual and corporate solution!

 

 

Download - Windows XP - Windows7 32/64

[Andrew]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but Logmeins remote desktop software, they do a few editon. https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/

 

It allows you to control your PC through a web browser, I've been currently using it to access my pc from work, it works really well.

 

 

- Remote Printing support (adds printers from the client pc to the host)

- Share files between the machines

- Multimonitor support

 

 

[lordjubblydave]

Wow, Mike !!

 

Welcome back, where have you been ?

 

That circle dock looks pretty darn cool.

 

Thanks for the link Gangsta Killa looks good to me

 

Kinda related, did any of you here about that awesome app Bumptop getting bought by Google ?

I guess it will stay free, although maybe they will want to use it in the Chrome OS ?

 

[james227uk]

I thought I'd give this game a shout out

 

Alien Swarm

 

 

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.

 

Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.

 

- Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective

- Complete game code and mod tools

- Unlock persistent items by gaining levels

- Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations

- 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters

- Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats

- 64 achievements

- Tile-based map generation tool

- Powered by Source and Steam

 

 

Downloaded it today and it's pretty awesome

 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

[Gramps]

Death Rally

 

In late 1996 this top-down racing game took all by surprise with it's addictive nature and excellent gameplay.

 

The basic idea behind Death Rally: win races, gather more money, buy upgrades to your vehicle. In between wreck your opponents, shoot your way through bystanders and keep the pedal to the metal!

 

In 2009, Remedy is proud to announce the free re-release, Death Rally for Windows. The original game, ported to run on modern PCs.

 

Command & Conquer Classics

This includes the original, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun + FireStorm expansion

 

NirSoft.net

For techtools, check out the website nirsoft.net. There are heaps and heaps of freeware portable tools

 

Ketarin

 

Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates setup packages. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date, but rather to maintain a compilation of all important setup packages which can then be burned to disc or put on a USB stick.

 

Basically, it monitors the content of web pages for changes and downloads files to a specified location. There is a tutorial explaining it all. Currently, you can either rely on a service based on FileHippo, or you can define your own rules, even using regular expressions (for advanced users). A similar application, for monitoring web pages, is Webmon and has sometimes served as guide.

I use this program religiously. One of my favourite timesavers. I have a database with around 150+ tech tools that I have on my 2GB USB. It took a while to set it up, but i can update 150 tools with one click It even supports custom commands before or after each download. So if the file you are downloading is rar or zip archive, then you can use a command to get 7zip to extract the files for you.

 

nLite

 

Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger...

How about not even to install them with Windows ?

 

nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.

With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.

 

Features

Service Pack Integration

Component Removal

Unattended Setup

Driver Integration *

Hotfixes Integration **

Tweaks

Services Configuration

Patches ***

Bootable ISO creation

 

* - Textmode (CD Boot) and normal PnP

** - hotfixes with white icons, *KB*.exe, including update packs

and Internet Explorer 7

***- supports generic SFC, Uxtheme, TcpIp and Usb Polling patching.

 

nLite supports Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 and 2003 x86/x64 in all languages.

It needs .NET Framework 2.0 in order to run... Check if you have it already, maybe on some of your CDs before downloading if your connection is slow.

 

I use this tool quit a bit too, so that I can slipstream latest Service Packs and hotfixes onto a CD, and remove all the crap that you don't need from XP Makes doin' re-installs in my job a breeze. Then set up OOBE to run at next startup for the user, so they are still getting that 'Out of the box' experience with XP. The alternative for Vista is vLite. I don't know about one for 7 yet though.

 

[Star-Lord]

 

Wow, Mike !!

 

Welcome back, where have you been ?

 

That circle dock looks pretty darn cool.

 

Thanks for the link Gangsta Killa looks good to me

 

Kinda related, did any of you here about that awesome app Bumptop getting bought by Google ?

I guess it will stay free, although maybe they will want to use it in the Chrome OS ?

Sorry for the late reply. Been a little busy lately with a project and moving into a new home.

 

Glad to see this topic is still kicking strong, I knew it would.

Thanks GK for the app that is just what I was looking for.

[james227uk]

Speccy

 

 

What's in your computer? If you're like most of us, you can probably name the processor (Intel or AMD, Celeron or Pentium), maybe how much RAM it has, and maybe how big the hard drive is.

When you go to a computer store and see all the bright shiny PCs laid out next to each other, most will have tags or stickers indicating the:

Processor brand and model

Hard drive size and speed

Amount of memory (RAM)

Graphics card

Operating system

Two or three years later, when it comes time to upgrade your computer, that tag or sticker may be long gone. Speccy was designed as a free electronic "what's inside" sticker for your PC.

 

 

 

http://www.piriform.com/speccy

[Vasilyrud]

A virtual image utility:

Gizmo Drive

 

      •    Mount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive

      •    Mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC

      •    Mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive

      •    Encrypt HD images using a passphrase

      •    Protect vital files from hackers using encrypted HD images

      •    Mount IMG files to a virtual drive

      •    Mount and unmount files from the Windows Shell

      •    Mount and unmount files from the command line

      •    Support for compression and sparse HD images

Download

 

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Partition manager:

EASEUS Partition Master

 

Includes "Partition Manager", "Disk & Partition Copy Wizard", and "Partition Recovery Wizard"

Download

 

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System information/Process manager:

System Explorer

 

    *  Detailed informations about Tasks, Processes, Modules, Startups, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files.

    * Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal or Jotti service.

    * Easy search details about file/process via online databases.

    * Launcher ("New Task..." dialog) with integrated AutoSearch and AutoCompletion.

    * Action History for monitoring processes activities.

    * Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time.

    * System Snapshots for easy finding of system changes.

    * System Report builds rich text report containing major informations about your System.

    * Multilanguage and Plugins Support.

    * Security feature with online File Reviews.

    * WMI Browser and System Additional Info

    * **NEW** Brand New Tray Hint with detailed System and Battery status

Download

[james227uk]

How the f*ck did I forget this,

 

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

 

There's those times where USB's are unreadable to Windows, and windows cannot format it. Sometimes you use Windows to format a USB, and find some of the space isn't usable anymore (Like a 2GB USB and only 500mb is now usable)

 

This can fix that. Just select the device (Which will be the USB), and click start. (Tick the quick format box first, and if that doesn't do the trick, untick it and try it without Quick Format)

 

 

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-D...rmat-Tool.shtml

[ghost of delete key]

 

MuseScore - Free music composition software for Windows, OSX and Linux.

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Also, does anyone know of a decent drum machine?

MuseScore looks pretty decent, but from what I gather you need some 3rd-party tools like JackMIDI and MiniHost to run VST instruments.

(I'll stick with native-host environments, ACID and Cakewalk. Why backtrack? )

 

Speaking of which, try Minimal for a free VST drum synth.

<edit> forgot this one too - Zapkit: http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=Zapkit&id=169

 

Tons of free and shareware VSTi at http://www.vst4free.com/.

 

Get MiniHost at http://www.tobybear.de/p_minihost.html to run VST instruments on ASIO.

Edited August 13, 2010 by ghost of delete key

[oldage]

Gyazo - http://gyazo.com/en

 

words cannot describe how handy this tool is, you click it, drag the box around to screencap something and it'll open a new tab with that image uploaded.

if you're on 7, you can attach it to your taskbar so it's even easier.

example:

http://gyazo.com/7af499b590439c507a8eaad47a43af02.png

[The-King]

 

Gyazo - http://gyazo.com/en

 

words cannot describe how handy this tool is, you click it, drag the box around to screencap something and it'll open a new tab with that image uploaded.

if you're on 7, you can attach it to your taskbar so it's even easier.

example:

http://gyazo.com/7af499b590439c507a8eaad47a43af02.png

Uhh...

 

Is there a program that can alter the color and such of my monitor, like add tints and filter effects? I'm on a laptop and my only real option is the nVidia control panel which doesn't really give me as many options as I'd like.

 

Or at least something that can help me boost the color quality of a sh*tty laptop screen.

[james227uk]

Uhhhh,

 

According to the description, the tool will automatically upload the image to the web for you. Snipping Tool does not do that.

[GritEngine]

Want to contribute one for the 3d modelers and learning out there:

 

http://www.pullin-shapes.co.uk/page8.htm

 

This does *not* require these apps, it works fine with blender and others - OBJ format is the norm:

 

 

Roadkill

If a good proportion of your life is spent texture mapping polygon meshes, then you should probably install Roadkill. The latest version (currently rc3) is a standalone application that can be called from Maya, 3DS Max and now Softimage XSI.

 

Have a look at the first Roadkill example movie to get a good idea of it's usage. If you find this software useful please tell us and provide links to example images. You could also mirror some of our example movies. Roadkill is free software released under the GNU license. Roadkill 1.1 rc3 (tested on Windows 2000 and XP only) Maya and 3DS Max integrated.

[Minus the Boom]

Gyazo - http://gyazo.com/en

 

words cannot describe how handy this tool is, you click it, drag the box around to screencap something and it'll open a new tab with that image uploaded.

if you're on 7, you can attach it to your taskbar so it's even easier.

example:

http://gyazo.com/7af499b590439c507a8eaad47a43af02.png

Incredible tool.

 

Does it save the stuff you upload on your PC though?