Any good "Free Downloads" you want to share?
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Some of these aren't FREE (some are!), but I found them so useful I got to tell you about them.
Essentially they do similar things (give you multiple simultaneous virtual desktops), so get the one you like.
http://winfiles.cnet.com/apps/nt/desktop-virtual.html
I have both 4screens and DesksAtWill registered and like them both. I haven't evaluated any of the others yet.
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Essentially they do similar things (give you multiple simultaneous virtual desktops), so get the one you like.
http://winfiles.cnet.com/apps/nt/desktop-virtual.html
I have both 4screens and DesksAtWill registered and like them both. I haven't evaluated any of the others yet.
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For a fantastic search "tool" that uses all of the top search engines automatically for you, you gotta try,
www.dogpile.com
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Free Agent from www.forteinc.com is a great little news client. Email is hobbled, IIRC, but I cannot recall just how. The full version, Agent 1.7 is well worth the cost. Spam (email) and ******** (news) filtering options are extremely powerful and easy to implement.
SpamEater www.hms.com is a free spam filter that scrubs spam from your POP3 mailbox before you download it. Set it up correctly and spam doesn't even get to Agent to be filtered! SpamEater Pro is the commercial version, and again worth the very reasonable cost.
Feline, I love World Time http://pawprint.net/wt/ too! My better half is Canadian and we have friends and family all over North America. She is always wanting to know "What time is it in ....?". World Time clocks are permanently set up, automatically accounting for summer time as needed. Time at any place on the globe is just a mouse-click away. It also syncs your puter's clock every time you log on, so if your on-board clock is crappy and inaccurate, it will get reset every Internet session
OzMateBugSmasher, after reading your wrap of Webwasher I downloaded and installed it. Superb - thanks a million for the pointer. I have it working through a secure shell (SSH) and port forwarding, which compresses text-based traffic between my ISP and me on the fly, considerably accelerating the downloading of any text-based stuff - news, email and in particular the text (HTML) component of web pages. With Webwasher cutting out the crap, things now fly pretty well on my steam-driven 28.8 connection. I found a good description of how to set up SSH port forwarding at www.zipworld.com.au/~frankp. Links there to download required software.
Set up Webwasher as per instructions (thanks OMBS for your help) and set up TeraTerm to forward local port 80 to proxy address port 8080. (See frankp's screenshot of setting up TeraTERM's port forwarding and change the first 8080 to 80.) IE5 talks to Webwasher talks to SSH prog talks to ISP's proxy. Amazing thing is it all works!
PS Not all ISP's provide secure shell (SSH). Those that cater to techies and fiddlers tend to - they seem to be the smaller independents, big mainstream ones like Bigpond and Ozemail (both downunder) seem not to
Don't know what it's like elsewhere on the globe.
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SpamEater www.hms.com is a free spam filter that scrubs spam from your POP3 mailbox before you download it. Set it up correctly and spam doesn't even get to Agent to be filtered! SpamEater Pro is the commercial version, and again worth the very reasonable cost.
Feline, I love World Time http://pawprint.net/wt/ too! My better half is Canadian and we have friends and family all over North America. She is always wanting to know "What time is it in ....?". World Time clocks are permanently set up, automatically accounting for summer time as needed. Time at any place on the globe is just a mouse-click away. It also syncs your puter's clock every time you log on, so if your on-board clock is crappy and inaccurate, it will get reset every Internet session
OzMateBugSmasher, after reading your wrap of Webwasher I downloaded and installed it. Superb - thanks a million for the pointer. I have it working through a secure shell (SSH) and port forwarding, which compresses text-based traffic between my ISP and me on the fly, considerably accelerating the downloading of any text-based stuff - news, email and in particular the text (HTML) component of web pages. With Webwasher cutting out the crap, things now fly pretty well on my steam-driven 28.8 connection. I found a good description of how to set up SSH port forwarding at www.zipworld.com.au/~frankp. Links there to download required software.
Set up Webwasher as per instructions (thanks OMBS for your help) and set up TeraTerm to forward local port 80 to proxy address port 8080. (See frankp's screenshot of setting up TeraTERM's port forwarding and change the first 8080 to 80.) IE5 talks to Webwasher talks to SSH prog talks to ISP's proxy. Amazing thing is it all works!
PS Not all ISP's provide secure shell (SSH). Those that cater to techies and fiddlers tend to - they seem to be the smaller independents, big mainstream ones like Bigpond and Ozemail (both downunder) seem not to
Don't know what it's like elsewhere on the globe.[This message has been edited by Ausatco (edited 12 February 2000).]
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Psst, you aint seen me right!
Try http://nachopage.freeservers.com/utilidades.htm
look for oscar 2k and download that at the bottom of the site.
little proggie that contains all the serial number for about 12000 apps plus has key generators for another couple of hundred.
oh and even supplies urls to download the apps from
ALLEGEDLY!
Try http://nachopage.freeservers.com/utilidades.htm
look for oscar 2k and download that at the bottom of the site.
little proggie that contains all the serial number for about 12000 apps plus has key generators for another couple of hundred.
oh and even supplies urls to download the apps from
ALLEGEDLY!
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If you want a search engine that beat the crap out of all other search engines get
Copernic 2000 for free. Just go to www.copernic.com and you got it. It's brilliant, finds anything. Makes your eyes water!
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For all you UK residents here's a beuty. www.Freewin.co.uk
It's not really a download, it's a quiz where you can win a prize every hour, 24 hours a day. It's Free though. Unfortunately I don't reside in the UK but best of luck to those who are eligible!
It's not really a download, it's a quiz where you can win a prize every hour, 24 hours a day. It's Free though. Unfortunately I don't reside in the UK but best of luck to those who are eligible!
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InFin - strictly speaking Copernic doesn't beat the crap out of all the other search engines... it *is* all the other search engines
Still, great download... cheers
Now for my recommendation - I downloaded Copernic from a total of six web sites in the same download. One of the ftp sites in the Netherlands started dropping off below 5k/sec so I switched to a German site, then back to a UK one.
How ? Gozilla...
www.gozilla.com
Sits there in the background, monitors your downloads and recommends the best site to download them from. If the server starts to slow down at any point, click a button, and it switches to another one, picking up at the same point in the download.
You can also pick up 'broken' downloads or disconnect and pick it up at some other time with out the server running any particular software.
The pooches plumbs
Still, great download... cheers
Now for my recommendation - I downloaded Copernic from a total of six web sites in the same download. One of the ftp sites in the Netherlands started dropping off below 5k/sec so I switched to a German site, then back to a UK one.
How ? Gozilla...
www.gozilla.com
Sits there in the background, monitors your downloads and recommends the best site to download them from. If the server starts to slow down at any point, click a button, and it switches to another one, picking up at the same point in the download.
You can also pick up 'broken' downloads or disconnect and pick it up at some other time with out the server running any particular software.
The pooches plumbs
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Ref my earlier post re "Zurf Rider", from zurf.com, this too is much like copernic 2000, it is a combination of all the other search engines and you can configure it so that it doesn't waste time looking into search engines that are irrelevant. i.e. if looking for 'needlework' you can delete, say, 'Dutch Sex Clubs' etc. or other engines that are topic specific.
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Blatent Plug alert!!
Free Flight and Duty software.
Made for us ozmates, but will probably be suitable for other windswept and interesting places. (If not, let me know what needs changing)
Does lots of groovy things to make the chore of entering/working out F&D's heaps easier.
Go grab it at:
www.users.bigpond.com/stevepole
Free Flight and Duty software.
Made for us ozmates, but will probably be suitable for other windswept and interesting places. (If not, let me know what needs changing)
Does lots of groovy things to make the chore of entering/working out F&D's heaps easier.
Go grab it at:
www.users.bigpond.com/stevepole
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A very useful program is Window Washer, a.o. to be found on the www.anonymiser.com page. It annuls everything that leaves traces on your computer after visiting a web page such as cookies, history files etc.
The program is free for 30 days but once one removes the entries the program makes in the win.ini file, it works forever. So make a back up of the win.ini file before installing the program and rename the back up win.ini after installation!
The program is free for 30 days but once one removes the entries the program makes in the win.ini file, it works forever. So make a back up of the win.ini file before installing the program and rename the back up win.ini after installation!
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"Tweakui" (ie Tweak the User Interface) downloadable from Microsoft was a developer's tool that has loads of twiddly bits, one of which is called "paranoia" by which you can delete histories, and all traces of where you've been - why anybody should want such a utility I can't imagine. 
