81 Cool progs

This page was inspired by this post in the SA Forums

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I didn't find this site till about page 20 argg... much nicer than mine not sure if they update it I am going to try and get this page up to par and I will keep adding progs as I find them!!

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1Click DVD to AVI - is the most amazing, simple DVD recompression solution I've used. Give it a dir on a disc or hard drive with VOBs and an IFO to work from, pick a codec, framerate, resolution, aspect ratio, and goal filesize-- and you have a result AVI in that size with those settings at the max possible quality. It's such a time-saver over guessing bitrates and praying it comes out <700 mb for CD-R backup.

Angry IP Scanner - IP scanner for network admins

ATITool - will find your maximum gpu/mem clock speeds and has a 3d detection feature that will allow you to clock your card down when you're on the desktop and then ramp up the speeds when you load a game. Runs nicely in your tray.

Autoruns - great way to remove annoying startup programs

Badcopy Pro - recovers files off corrupted floppies worked for me full version cost $39

bbLean - Blackbox for Windows generation, windows shell

Beyond Compare - Compare two text files (or hex, pictures, mp3s and stuff with plugins) side by side and lets you move changes from one to the other. Think windiff but 10000 times better. Also works on groups of files and directories, this makes it far more useful then you might think.

BGInfo - Put this in startup and your system information is laid over your
background. Great for server!!

Burnatonce - fast efficient ISO burner

CCleaner - cleaned something like 500 mb of crap off my hard drive

CD-DA Extractor - good audio ripper

Clickie - Adds "Copy Path Name" and "Open MS-DOS Prompt" to the right click context menu.

ClockGen - I use these in combination to pick my CPU/Bus/RAM clocks and CPU voltage in realtime as I use Windows,

CoolMon - recently, and wrote a quick PHP script to grab the most 5 most recent threads from SH/SC with links, updated every minute. I'm loving it.

Copernic Desktop Search - Like google desktop search but better

Centericq - multi instant messenger client supports ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols.

Citrus alarmclock - it loads with my winamp..so set winamp to repeat and your set..

Daily Alarm Clock - Awesome little app that is free, wakes you up with a looping WAV of your choice, of slowly increasing volume. So you can gradually wake up instead of waking up to a loud shrieking sound and bash your speakers into submission. It also has 2 alarms so you can sleep in a bit.

DVD-Decrypter - for the times I need to just decrypt the disc-- but it's ALSO the best ISO Reader/Writer I have used. I can give it a disc and have an ISO in no time, then rewrite it. And often when Nero, Easy CD Creator, etc. don't find my drive-- DVD Decrypter does. Just used this for burning the Project Gutenberg DVD iso , sometimes the website is down you can get it at Betanews.

Entbloess - An alternative task switcher with a stupid name is

ELinks - text-based browser with support for HTML tables and frames, for the few 56ks left

eConsole - Allows me to pin a transparent console to the desktop. Every program running is always setup so I can always type directly to the console to run some random program quickly. Most of the time, I just use start to open a new console, but its nice having one pinned to the desktop.

FileZilla - good FTP client - added thanks Joe!

Firefox - Alternative to Internet Explorer Browser

Free CD-DA Extractor - is a free 2-app suite. A CD ripper utility that encodes into any format that's common, e.g. WAV, MP3, OGG, and (I think) AAC at any bitrate, CBR or VBR. The second tool converts between any of those formats TO any of those formats at your bitrate of choice. It even does batch conversion, is fast and efficient as hell. Godsend.

Foobar - Because I don't actually look at my playlist very often, and it with

Girder - and my IR remote work great together.

ieSpell - ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

Instant File Finder - Search on steriods. Ava Find speeds up your daily computing experience by letting you find any file on your computer instantly

IRMan - a while ago, and just used random remote controls from friend's old VCRs that no longer work. I'm still even using their old batteries in some of the remote controls, though the one I use the most, I have to smack it every so often, otherwise it sends corrupted IR signals.

Konfabulator - I only use this just to see the current phase of the moon.

Lftp - solid ftp client

Logon Loader - is a program that changes your Windows logon screen. I haven't noticed it (the program, not the logon screen) since I installed it.

Mozilla Sunbird - Basically a barebones scheduler. Been looking for one for a while.

MultiRes - A very small app (61k) that sits in your systray, that you can right-click on and choose a screen resolution. Very handy when designing webpages and needing a fast way to see if your website still looks decent at a lower resolution.

MS XP PowerToys - that does pretty much the same thing, although it seems a bit buggy. I might try out yours sometime, perhaps I'll like it better.

MS GIF Animator - Old school win95 freeware to turn avi into animated gifs still works with Windows XP.

Rainlendar - Nice little desktop calendar app. Because nothing else yet does a small calendar nicely.

Rainmeter - Developed by the same person who made Rainlender (see above). It's a computer hardware information tool, and can fetch information from some sites, too. It can display: Memory usage, Temperatures, CPU usage, storage, upstream and downstream bandwidth usage, temperatures, and it has a clock. There are also tons of skins for it... here's how mine looks:

Roboform - IE pluging password manager

SIMPLE OCR - Free Optical Character Recognition, it works but not as good as the one that comes with Office 2003

Stumbleupon - browser plug to find and rate intresting sites

Slrn - cool newsreader

TestDisk - I used version 5.6 and is saved my ass!! recovered a corupt partition for me.

Trillian - Multiple IM network and IRC prog now hit version 3.1 and has a free version.

TCPview - Like netstat with GUI, plus it shows what process is assosiated with any given connection.

URLSnooper - helps find urls in streaming media and other websites that hide urls