Karen's Directory Printer:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp Very useful for keeping lists of what you have on discs, or in directories. There is a save to disc option, which creates a small text file, which you can then copy and paste into something more permanent. I have used this hundreds of times in the past few years. |
http://download.cnet.com/Image-Tuner...-10922184.html
Image Tuner is very good if you have whole sets of high res mega pixel pics and want them scaled down to 1280x format or 1024x for example, you can also custom size.I could see no loss in quality and you can soften images or improve scale or quality of reproduction, a great way to save space on your HD. I recommend doing testers first to find the size format you want as making a smaller copy, of a copy doesnt seem to help picture quality. |
Stickies 7.0a - Organiser/Reminder Tool - Windows OS
Small program that helps keep appointments and stores reminders and notes in the form of Post-It notes on your desktop/screen.
Stickies 7.0a Operating system: Windows All License: Freeware Filesize: 1MB / Memory use: 15/20MB (starts with Windows by adding itself to Start Up) Download: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-...Stickies.shtml http://download.cnet.com/Stickies/30...-10330903.html After install Stickies sets itself in the systemtray, from there you acces the program and its options with right mouseclick on the yellow icon: [IMG]http://i34.*******.com/20i82t2.jpg[/IMG] The options of the onscreen Stickies can be accessed by right clicking on the title bar of a note: [IMG]http://i35.*******.com/2i1doiv.jpg[/IMG] You then can set alarm and also set that the Stickie goes to sleep (hides itself) till a set time, when that time expires the note will come onscreen again. Via program options you can set and select a .wav file to give a alarm with sound. Message formatting can be accessed via a right click on the note. Double (left) clicking the programs yellow tray icon will add a new Stickie to your desktop. I find program realy usefull for short term reminders (you could use it as timer to cook your eggs ;)), long term and repeating reminders. Its also highly customizable and has plenty of options. More screens: http://www.softpedia.com/progScreens...hot-35349.html Info & Features: Quote:
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O.K., time for me to post some programs that proved so damned useful to me as limited shareware that I had to buy them. I realize that most of this thread was freeware, but I've not found freeware that will do the jobs in question.
First off is dealing with duplicate images in series. I've tried every dupe program out there in one form or another, and not one tops this one. ImageDupeless For Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98. Download link for 30 day limited trialware from Download.com at CNET. The full program costs $29.95. Here's my evaluation of the program: Scanning Images
Selecting/Deleting Duplicates
Handling Series of Duplicates
The author of this program hasn't updated the program in years -- and hasn't made the program Vista compatible either. This is unfortunate because the selection utilities and the series comparator, while unique to this program as far as I know, could use some more work. I suspect that it will fall by the wayside as users phase out of XP forever, but for those who still have a machine running XP this utility can really help sort out a messy folder of mismatched series. Oh, one last thing -- this program is great for consolidating new improved quality pictures with old series -- either by replacement or by merging. As soon as I get my hard drive restored and can start mining this place for larger/clearer versions of some of my classics, I'll be using the program extensively. |
While doing a complete reinstall on my primary PC, I made the mistake of using files from my backup external drive. Thanks to juggling space for the files from my main PC, I had only ONE copy of the files on that drive. Then I compounded that mistake by using files from that drive to clean up an errant Windows 2000 machine for a friend -- the clean-up worked fine, but not before a Windows 2000 glitch whacked my directory!
I tried all sorts of freeware, including:
I was able to recover files using...
Finally, I tried the shareware version of...
At $49.99, this is a pricey program. I managed to buy an installation disk, paperwork, and even the invoice for an old version of this program from a techie friend of mine for a song. It still worked just fine even if it was a bit less polished. I did, unfortunately, have to repeat a scan that had taken more than a day the first time. All of these programs are available on Download.com at CNET, I've included the product pages as the first link of each paragraph respectively. The second link in each is to the developer website. NOTE: All of these programs take forever to scan a large drive. All of these programs take forever to recover a large external drive. If you lose a hard drive this way, I'd start with the PC-Inspector because it promises to recover not only files but folder structure. Recuva recovers a little structure. If push comes to shove, use the trial ware of File Scavenger -- if the results of the scan look promising, you can decide if it's worth $49.99 to get your data back. |
Here's a really weird one.
Ever worry about the data attached to those JPEG files you downloaded from usenet sources? I didn't except for one fellow who was a profligate ass in terms of at least attaching his screen name to files if not emblazoning it upon the face of the very images he posted (actually, it was the latter that really got under my skin). Well, thanks to techsupportalert.com, I've finally rid myself of at least his attached information -- though I still have to live with his stupid watermarks. JPEG and PNG Stripper by SteeleBytes (warning -- this guys site seems to be down a good bit, so you might end up having to use the Google Cache for the page) Unlimited Freeware Version: 1.5.1.53 Date: 7 October 2009 Windows: WinAll (Win95 to Win7) Download link. There is no review at techsupport, so all I can attest to is my own experience. The program allows you to drag and drop files or folders, handling apparently any number of subdirectories without complaint. The program strips out the data attached to the file without affecting image quality, leaving you the option of retaining data that's read only (which I didn't) and/or the file creation/modification dates (which I did). In a folder of almost 17,000 files amounting to about 8 GB total, this program stripped out almost 100 MB of data. I think the only potential downside of this will be searching for duplicates against recently downloaded material with a duplicate file checker. I'll also have to update my ImageDupeless (prior post) archives for duplicates, but I do that every time I make a significant addition to one of my major categories anyway. |
Here is a truly powerful shareware program: Total Commander from Christian Ghisler. You can find sites to download it by going to his website www.ghisler.com or searching your favorite D/L site like majorgeeks.com
I doubt this program will do everything everyone wants, but then again it might. Even though I've been using it for 9 years, I've yet to tap the full potential. It is small and simple to use but very powerful. It's the single best all around file management tool I've come across and will work on every version of Windows. When I say every version, I mean every version; there's even a version for Windows 3.1x. It has 2 side by screens to assist copy, move, delete, search and rename files in just about anyway you can imagine. It can search for files of the same name, size and content as well as files of different names but the same contents. It can synchronize directories, and the synchronization module is also a very hand file comparison tool. There are, naturally, other modules just for file search & compare. It can search for files equal to, less than, or greater than a given size. It can search for files for a certain date or between certain days; it can search for files not older than the last last x minutes, days, weeks, months. It can even do searches using regular expressions, something I've yet to learn. It's very powerful for file renaming. You can take a set of files, let's say 100 with those long unwieldy uninformative filenames from file hosts and rename them all (or a selected subset) in just about any way you can imagine. You can change the names,extensions. You can add counters to number them consecutively. So you start out with 100 files with long, nondescript, non-sequential names, plug in your custom starting name, add the counter, the date, time then with a click of the button, *poof* they are all renamed from names like 3647_blondebabez_054_12344lo.jpg etc to yourcustomname_001.jpg through yourcustomname_100.jpg. It also can do search and replace,and search for files containing a certain string. It zips and and unzips quite a few compression protocols, including tar and gz files, but frequently trips on cab files. I could go on and on. As I said, I've used it for 9 years and have yet to learn or tap its full capabilities. I paid $18 for it 9 years ago, but it might be a bit more than that by now, but worth every penny and more. Cheers! |
Thumbs Plus
I enjoy using this program for my pic collection;
Thumbs Plus ThumbsPlus is a graphic file viewer, locator and organizer which simplifies the process of finding and maintaining graphics, clip-art files, fonts and animations. It displays a small image (thumbnail) of each file. You can use ThumbsPlus to browse, view, edit, crop, launch external editors, and copy images to the clipboard. ;) |
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http://www.styopkin.com/duplicate_file_hunter.html Works very well for me. |
Not a program but a neat trick to download Youtube videos without the need for ANY add-ons/software or technical knowledge
Simply add "ok" to the youtube URL before the Y of Youtube and hit the "go" button or refresh the page :D So http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkD_rWUiIZI becomes http://www.okyoutube.com/watch?v=dkD_rWUiIZI Simple :D |
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