More freeware stuff - Page 4

daedalus · 12-06-2005, 01:58 AM

Think of the kittens.

MrBigglesworth · 12-06-2005, 02:45 AM

I love this rastorbator thing. For those of you that have used it before, have you tried to fasten the pictures to a wall? What is the best method?

Antmeister · 12-06-2005, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrBigglesworth

I love this rastorbator thing. For those of you that have used it before, have you tried to fasten the pictures to a wall? What is the best method?

I just found out about it. It seems Pumpy is the resident expert since he says he has used it in the past. I don't want to try this until after my move.

Pumpy Tudors · 12-06-2005, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrBigglesworth

I love this rastorbator thing. For those of you that have used it before, have you tried to fasten the pictures to a wall? What is the best method?

Double-sided poster tape works well, in my experience.

Antmeister · 12-08-2005, 12:27 PM

For those of you who are looking for a CMS (Content management system) for managing your documents, design documents, etc, then this may be a good solution for you. It's open source and there seems to be a lot of support for it:
Plone
(Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris and BSD)

If you like OpenOffice and wanted to use it on another computer, then you can always download this portable version. This allows you to carry it on an external device (such as a thumb drive, iPod, etc.). And you can then use this on any Windows machine without installing it. Nice:
Portable OpenOffice
(Windows only)

This is another PDF converter, but this one is pretty unique. You can choose how the PDF will be used (Screen, Print, EBook or Prepress and you can password protect your files as well:
PrimoPDF
(Windows only)

Here is a nice multi-player game that I came across that is real nice. It is a gun combat/hack and slash type of game that is somewhat similar to Tribes. Except that you can customize you character and buy new items as you go up in level. Very unique and it is free to play at this time. However be aware that there are peak hours and only a limited amount of servers:
GunZ The Duel: International Edition
(Windows only)

Antmeister · 12-08-2005, 03:23 PM

Rename your files with ease:
Rename4u
(Windows only)

Here is a suite of application from FastStone that is free. It covers an image editor, photo resizer, screen capture and even a browser. Just choose the ones you may like to try out:
FastStone Suite
(Windows only)

This is a standalone application for the camera hobbyists that are looking for something that will get rid of that lens distortion that you see when using fish eye lenses or any other assortment of lenses that causes pin cushioning and barreling.
PTLens
(Windows and Macintosh - Macintosh users. There is a link for similar software on the site.)

Now have you ever seen this message:

If you have, this software program eliminates that problem:
Unlocker
(Windows only)

Lonnie · 12-08-2005, 07:07 PM

I can vouch for unlocker, it works great. I had a few files like that, they had been abandoned by the program that was using them, and even after a reboot they would not delete. Unlocker worked like a champ.

mooreadamc · 12-09-2005, 08:29 PM

Does anyone know of any freeware programs to create a daily/weekly/monthly schedule. Almsot like a day planner. I haven't been able to find one. I would also consider paying for one if anyone has any ideas. Thanks!

Antmeister · 12-09-2005, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mooreadamc

Does anyone know of any freeware programs to create a daily/weekly/monthly schedule. Almsot like a day planner. I haven't been able to find one. I would also consider paying for one if anyone has any ideas. Thanks!

Yes sir, go to post #124. It's called Mediabee.

Antmeister · 12-10-2005, 03:12 PM

Do you have a lot of black and white photos (old or new) that you wish you can colorize? Or maybe you just want to colorize portions of that image. Well try this out!:
Recolored
And if you want to see other examples of this software, here is a link:
http://www.devlobby.com/forums/showthread.php?p=599
(Windows only)

samifan24 · 12-19-2006, 11:50 PM

Don't look now or blame me for thread necromancy but I came across this great list of 30 absolutely free, open source Windows programs at the Simple Dollar blog the other day and thought it'd be worthwhile to share.

I've used a couple of the programs already posted in this thread and several more from this list as well. I hope we can get this thread going again! What programs are you using?

hoosierdude · 12-20-2006, 01:41 AM

Actually I check Ant's site weekly. He has some nice stuff, some of which I even recommended.

Peregrine · 01-01-2007, 10:20 AM

If anyone has been playing Battle for Wesnoth, I noticed they just came out with version 1.2 with a lot of improvements. I've just been getting into it a little bit but I think others have been playing more.

Peregrine · 01-01-2007, 10:25 AM

dola - Also as shareware games I have to recommend the following two, both of which I have purchased and enjoyed:

Ancient Empires Lux - Lux is a risk-variant but this version is a single player game based on various ancient empires, where there are a variety of starting positions ranging from easy to hard for each map. Good stuff, and gets really hard at the higher levels.

http://sillysoft.net/ael/

Virtual Villagers - Like a lot of indie games, the excellent site Gametunnel turned me on to this one. It's a sim game where you start with a few villagers stranded on an island, and you have to get them gathering food, building huts, researching new technologies, and breeding. What's neat is the game goes in real-time, even when you're not playing it, so if you're gone for a day, you can log in and see what's going on, make some adjustments, then check back in a few hours later, it's a great setup for casual gamers and it's fun to get your village going, there are various challenges or puzzles you have to solve also as you develop. Good stuff.

http://www.virtualvillagers.com/

Antmeister · 01-01-2007, 10:40 AM

Nice I didn't know about Ancient Empires Lux.

Emiliano · 01-17-2007, 06:25 AM

Online application that converts YouTube videos in other formats, very useful.

Yellow5 · 01-17-2007, 10:03 AM

My new favorite media player:

GOM Player

Many built-in codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more). If you have videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download open source version of the codec.

samifan24 · 01-17-2007, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yellow5

My new favorite media player:

GOM Player

Many built-in codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more). If you have videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download open source version of the codec.

Have you tried VLC?

Antmeister · 01-17-2007, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yellow5

My new favorite media player:

GOM Player

Many built-in codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more). If you have videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download open source version of the codec.

Nice...nice...nice.

Vinatieri for Prez · 01-17-2007, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emiliano

Online application that converts YouTube videos in other formats, very useful.

YES! This kick ass!

Antmeister · 01-17-2007, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vinatieri for Prez

YES! This kick ass!

+1

Just got a look at this one. Very cool. No software required to install.

Izulde · 01-18-2007, 08:28 PM

http://www.virtualapple.org has a lot of old Apple IIGS and IIe games on it, playable through Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox through IE. Ironically enough, you have to have Windows.

Still, lots of awesome oldies on there, including the IIGS version of Balance of Power, which is a better version than the PC one.

DaddyTorgo · 01-18-2007, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Izulde

http://www.virtualapple.org has a lot of old Apple IIGS and IIe games on it, playable through Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox through IE. Ironically enough, you have to have Windows.

Still, lots of awesome oldies on there, including the IIGS version of Balance of Power, which is a better version than the PC one.

Balance of Power is HOT SHIT. i've been trying for years to find a DLable PC copy of it.

sterlingice · 01-18-2007, 08:38 PM

Woo! Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. That's all I need

SI

Yellow5 · 01-22-2007, 09:00 AM

Bloodmasters

Play with friends on your LAN or online and experience this oldschool top-down shooter. The game supports Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag and Scavenger game modes.

I set this up on our LAN this weekend and it was silly fun. Not many online servers available, but this is perfect for LAN play.

Antmeister · 01-23-2007, 06:29 PM

Since this thread has resurrected, I am just going to contribute here (as well as my link directory, of course):

Recuva - A file recovery utility from the makers of Crap Cleaner. If you deleted anything from the recycle bin or even memory cards, there is a chance you can recover it with this utility.

Web Desinger/Developer Add-Ons for Firefox
Firebug - A kick ass web that allows you to edit and debug HTML, CSS, javascript and even the DOM.
IE Tab - This allows you to switch between Internet Explorer and Firefox in the same browser. I can't live without this tool.

12-08-2005, 12:27 PM	#155
Antmeister Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue	For those of you who are looking for a CMS (Content management system) for managing your documents, design documents, etc, then this may be a good solution for you. It's open source and there seems to be a lot of support for it: Plone (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris and BSD) If you like OpenOffice and wanted to use it on another computer, then you can always download this portable version. This allows you to carry it on an external device (such as a thumb drive, iPod, etc.). And you can then use this on any Windows machine without installing it. Nice: Portable OpenOffice (Windows only) This is another PDF converter, but this one is pretty unique. You can choose how the PDF will be used (Screen, Print, EBook or Prepress and you can password protect your files as well: PrimoPDF (Windows only) Here is a nice multi-player game that I came across that is real nice. It is a gun combat/hack and slash type of game that is somewhat similar to Tribes. Except that you can customize you character and buy new items as you go up in level. Very unique and it is free to play at this time. However be aware that there are peak hours and only a limited amount of servers: GunZ The Duel: International Edition (Windows only) Last edited by Antmeister : 12-08-2005 at 01:17 PM.

12-08-2005, 07:07 PM	#157
Lonnie High School Varsity Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Midlothian, TX	I can vouch for unlocker, it works great. I had a few files like that, they had been abandoned by the program that was using them, and even after a reboot they would not delete. Unlocker worked like a champ. __________________ Lonnie

12-19-2006, 11:50 PM	#161
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	Don't look now or blame me for thread necromancy but I came across this great list of 30 absolutely free, open source Windows programs at the Simple Dollar blog the other day and thought it'd be worthwhile to share. I've used a couple of the programs already posted in this thread and several more from this list as well. I hope we can get this thread going again! What programs are you using? __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

12-20-2006, 01:41 AM	#162
hoosierdude High School Varsity Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Indiana	Actually I check Ant's site weekly. He has some nice stuff, some of which I even recommended. __________________ TC Dale "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud - Sophocles"

01-01-2007, 10:40 AM	#165
Antmeister Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue	Nice I didn't know about Ancient Empires Lux. __________________ "I'm ready to bury the hatchet, but don't fuck with me" - Schmidty "Box me once, shame on Skydog. Box me twice. Shame on me. Box me 3 times, just fucking ban my ass...." - stevew

12-06-2005, 01:58 AM	#151
daedalus Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000	Think of the kittens.

12-06-2005, 02:45 AM	#152
MrBigglesworth College Starter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: PA	I love this rastorbator thing. For those of you that have used it before, have you tried to fasten the pictures to a wall? What is the best method?

12-08-2005, 03:23 PM	#156
Antmeister Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue	Rename your files with ease: Rename4u (Windows only) Here is a suite of application from FastStone that is free. It covers an image editor, photo resizer, screen capture and even a browser. Just choose the ones you may like to try out: FastStone Suite (Windows only) This is a standalone application for the camera hobbyists that are looking for something that will get rid of that lens distortion that you see when using fish eye lenses or any other assortment of lenses that causes pin cushioning and barreling. PTLens (Windows and Macintosh - Macintosh users. There is a link for similar software on the site.) Now have you ever seen this message: If you have, this software program eliminates that problem: Unlocker (Windows only)

12-09-2005, 08:29 PM	#158
mooreadamc Mascot Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Canada	Does anyone know of any freeware programs to create a daily/weekly/monthly schedule. Almsot like a day planner. I haven't been able to find one. I would also consider paying for one if anyone has any ideas. Thanks!

12-10-2005, 03:12 PM	#160
Antmeister Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue	Do you have a lot of black and white photos (old or new) that you wish you can colorize? Or maybe you just want to colorize portions of that image. Well try this out!: Recolored And if you want to see other examples of this software, here is a link: http://www.devlobby.com/forums/showthread.php?p=599 (Windows only)

01-01-2007, 10:20 AM	#163
Peregrine Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cary, NC	If anyone has been playing Battle for Wesnoth, I noticed they just came out with version 1.2 with a lot of improvements. I've just been getting into it a little bit but I think others have been playing more.

01-01-2007, 10:25 AM	#164
Peregrine Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cary, NC	dola - Also as shareware games I have to recommend the following two, both of which I have purchased and enjoyed: Ancient Empires Lux - Lux is a risk-variant but this version is a single player game based on various ancient empires, where there are a variety of starting positions ranging from easy to hard for each map. Good stuff, and gets really hard at the higher levels. http://sillysoft.net/ael/ Virtual Villagers - Like a lot of indie games, the excellent site Gametunnel turned me on to this one. It's a sim game where you start with a few villagers stranded on an island, and you have to get them gathering food, building huts, researching new technologies, and breeding. What's neat is the game goes in real-time, even when you're not playing it, so if you're gone for a day, you can log in and see what's going on, make some adjustments, then check back in a few hours later, it's a great setup for casual gamers and it's fun to get your village going, there are various challenges or puzzles you have to solve also as you develop. Good stuff. http://www.virtualvillagers.com/

01-17-2007, 06:25 AM	#166
Emiliano College Prospect Join Date: May 2004 Location: Nuremberg, Germany	Online application that converts YouTube videos in other formats, very useful. __________________ Xbox Live&PSN: Emiliano81 GM of the Rome Gladiators in the WOOF

01-17-2007, 10:03 AM	#167
Yellow5 High School Varsity Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tacoma, Wa.	My new favorite media player: GOM Player Many built-in codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more). If you have videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download open source version of the codec. __________________ Xbox Gamertag: m0nk3y b0t

01-18-2007, 08:28 PM	#172
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	http://www.virtualapple.org has a lot of old Apple IIGS and IIe games on it, playable through Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox through IE. Ironically enough, you have to have Windows. Still, lots of awesome oldies on there, including the IIGS version of Balance of Power, which is a better version than the PC one. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

01-18-2007, 08:38 PM	#174
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	Woo! Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. That's all I need SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

01-22-2007, 09:00 AM	#175
Yellow5 High School Varsity Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tacoma, Wa.	Bloodmasters Play with friends on your LAN or online and experience this oldschool top-down shooter. The game supports Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag and Scavenger game modes. I set this up on our LAN this weekend and it was silly fun. Not many online servers available, but this is perfect for LAN play. __________________ Xbox Gamertag: m0nk3y b0t

01-23-2007, 06:29 PM	#176
Antmeister Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue	Since this thread has resurrected, I am just going to contribute here (as well as my link directory, of course): Recuva - A file recovery utility from the makers of Crap Cleaner. If you deleted anything from the recycle bin or even memory cards, there is a chance you can recover it with this utility. Web Desinger/Developer Add-Ons for Firefox Firebug - A kick ass web that allows you to edit and debug HTML, CSS, javascript and even the DOM. IE Tab - This allows you to switch between Internet Explorer and Firefox in the same browser. I can't live without this tool. __________________ "I'm ready to bury the hatchet, but don't fuck with me" - Schmidty "Box me once, shame on Skydog. Box me twice. Shame on me. Box me 3 times, just fucking ban my ass...." - stevew Last edited by Antmeister : 01-23-2007 at 06:30 PM.

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