Useful Programs
 

Useful Programs

please don't post uploads to cracks/hacks of commercial software or give serials/license keys

if you like to recommend a software, a helpful tool or any other good application, please add the location (URL) where people can download it and further information is available. also leave a brief description about the software's purpose. a note on the release type (freeware, shareware or commercial) is also helpful. For Firefox Plugins/Extensions please use the Firefox thread.

please do not post thanks-messages or questions related to a software. also don't ask for software here. please use the Software Discussion thread for questions and requests.

Keep this thread as clean as possible so the focus on the fine recommendations won't get lost.

Mediaplayer / Archiver
 

Hi Gemini37,

Will ad my favorite basic freeware Mediaplayer that plays (almost) all mediafiles without the need to install codecs:

GOM Player (4.51MB)

http://img37.imagevenue.com/loc771/t..._123_771lo.jpg http://img230.imagevenue.com/loc483/..._123_483lo.jpg http://img219.imagevenue.com/loc93/t...3_123_93lo.jpg

Freeware
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista
You can download it here:
http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

Give it a try when you have problems watching movies because you don't have the correct codecs installed.
You can drag and drop a movie on the screen of GOM Player to make it play.

*Small added note on GOM Player: also plays partional/damaged downloads as long as the beginning of the media file is complete, i myself use it to preview P2P downloads, you can use the VLC plugin but i use GOM Player for it.


For info with screens on how to unpack .rar files with:

7-Zip (840 KB)
Freeware
System Requirements
Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. (There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix)
You can download it here:
http://www.7-zip.org/
(you'll need the normal 32-bit version for a non x64 windows computer)

have a look at this thread:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t15...hare-work.html
use this link when the other fails:
http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...hare-work.html


(ps. µTorrent is currently at version 1.7.5 my avatar is a part from my customised µTorrent toolbar ;))

Hi guys cool thread.

Gemini37 Imagegrabber v1.3.5 (freeware)

This imagegrabber sounds good.
Tell me! if you click on an image & up pops one of those small galleries with 10 to 15 thumb nail images of the model you want to down load.

Does imagegrabber just grab the thumbnails or does it grab the larger image the thums lead to or even both?

Plus what if behide one of these wee thums is an .exe & some shits stuck in a virus, does it warn you.

Plus utorrent, are you not hiding your ip before using this with the likes of PeerGuardian 2 http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

Or are you usig something else
Thanks....

You get the full size pics and not the thumbs...check out this visual demo.

http://img168.imagevenue.com/loc936/..._123_936lo.jpghttp://img213.imagevenue.com/loc19/t...2_123_19lo.jpghttp://img194.imagevenue.com/loc395/..._123_395lo.jpg


Steganos Internet Anon (shareware)

It is what I use when I need it. ;)

And let's not forget the excellent free VLC Media Player, which will play pretty much everything there is, with a few minor exceptions. It will even play media files before they're completely downloaded:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Antivirus
 

Hi Gem here is one other favorite of me that i use on a daily basis.

Free top quality full featured antivirus program that i can advice to everybody:

avast! 4 Home Edition

Free for home users and non-commercial use.

You need to register to recieve a 12/14 months free licence registration key by e-mail, when that period has passed you have to reregister to recieve a new 12/14 months key. No spam or ads garanteed !!! top program i use it for years and it always served me well.


Features:

• Automatic updates (very regular almost updated on a daily basis, incremental updates)
• Antivirus kernel
• Resident real time protection
• E-mail SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 scanner
• System integration
• Web, Network, P2P* and Instant Messaging Shields
• Support for 64-bit Windows

* I disabled the P2P Shield because i had some difficulty with it using my P2P programs.


Platforms:

• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows Me
• Windows NT 4 (No Server)
• Windows 2000 (No Server)
• Windows XP (No Server)
• Windows Vista

Available in the following language versions:

• English version (length 17.64 MB)
• Arabic version (length 17.44 MB)
• Bulgarian version (length 17.48 MB)
• Catalan version (length 17.74 MB)
• Chinese (Simplified) version (length 17.29 MB)
• Chinese (Traditional) version (length 17.29 MB)
• Croatian version (length 17.45 MB)
• Czech version (length 17.49 MB)
• Danish version (length 17.47 MB)
• Dutch version (length 17.46 MB)
• Finnish version (length 17.46 MB)
• French version (length 17.76 MB)
• German version (length 17.46 MB)
• Greek version (length 17.47 MB)
• Hungarian version (length 17.49 MB)
• Italian version (length 17.47 MB)
• Japanese version (length 17.49 MB)
• Korean version (length 17.45 MB)
• Macedonian version (length 17.45 MB)
• Malay version (length 17.45 MB)
• Norwegian version (length 17.45 MB)
• Polish version (length 17.75 MB)
• Portuguese (Brazil) version (length 17.48 MB)
• Portuguese (Portugal) version (length 17.48 MB)
• Romanian version (length 17.47 MB)
• Russian version (length 17.67 MB)
• Serbian version (length 17.72 MB)
• Slovak version (length 17.49 MB)
• Slovenian version (length 17.45 MB)
• Spanish version (length 17.69 MB)
• Swedish version (length 17.45 MB)
• Turkish version (length 17.46 MB)

downloadpage: (with links to the free registration page)
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Give i a try when you want a good free anti-virus program thats not to heavy on the systems resources.


ps: they also have a very usefull and good free standalone tool: avast! Virus Cleaner for restoring infected systems.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html

Here's another useful free program:

http://www.copernic.com/

Works brilliantly well, and will enable you to find any file on your hard drive in a fraction of a second.

Fast – Easily search your entire hard drive in less than a second to pinpoint the right file, email, music or picture.

Fresh – New and updated files and new emails are indexed the instant they arrive on your hard drive.

Ultra-Light – Utilizes CPU, memory, and disk space efficiently to ensure continued high levels of system performance.

Easy to Use – Simply type words into the deskbar, and CDS finds all relevant documents in an instant.

Rock Solid – Fault-tolerant technology ensures that your PC is searchable at all times.

For (install) info about the Firefox ImageHost Grabber (v1.3.5) plugin see:

http://cybormatt.googlepages.com/

Later Dub.

Xnview:
Free multi-format and multilingual graphics viewer and converter.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

Features:
Import about 400 graphic file formats
Export about 50 graphic file formats
Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
EXIF auto rotation support
IPTC editing
Resize, rotate, crop support
Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
Adjust brightness, contrast...
Auto levels, contrast
Modify number of colors
Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
Fullscreen mode
Slide show with effects
Batch convert, batch rename
Create WEB page easily
Screen capture
Create contact Sheet
Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only)
Print support (Windows only)
Drag & Drop support (Windows only)
Compare image side by side
Filmstrip layout
44 languages support (Windows only)

Gimp:
Free professional image editor for Windows and Linux.

http://www.gimp.org/

Gimp forum with help, tutorials, plugins, art galleries:
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/

Features:
# Painting

* Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
* Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
* Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
* Supports custom brushes and patterns

# System

* Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
* Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

# Advanced Manipulation

* Full alpha channel support
* Layers and channels
* Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
* Editable text layers
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
* Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
* Foreground extraction tool
* Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
* Transformable paths, transformable selections.
* Quickmask to paint a selection.

# Extensible

* A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
* Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
* Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
* Over 100 plug-ins already available

# Animation

* Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
* MNG support
* Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
* Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
* Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

# File Handling

* File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
* Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
* SVG path import/export

NoScript

http://noscript.net/

The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and others mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser.

AdBlock Plus

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Firefox extension. Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.

Persistance Of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray)

http://www.povray.org/

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux.

LyX
Free professional document processor for windows and linux - the graphical version of LaTex.

http://www.lyx.org/

Features:
# Graphical User Interface that gives access to all functions via menus and mouse, as well as configurable keybindings
# Standard word processor operations, like cut/paste, multiple open documents, infinite undo/redo, spellchecking (uses ispell in the background)
# Different textclasses allow you to type letters, articles, books, movie scripts, LinuxDoc, slides. Also included are some textclasses for scientific societies, such as AMS, APS, IEEE, or specific journals like Astronomy and Astrophysics.
# Numbered section headings, table of contents (with hypertext functionality), nested lists (aka "outline mode")
# Interactive WYSIWYG math editor
# Support for writing documents in most European languages, as well as Right-to-Left languages like Hebrew and Arabic, including multi-lingual documents. CJK support is now also integrated.
# Postscript® figures, with rotation, scaling, and captions
# Interactive WYSIWYG tables
# Footnotes and margin notes
# Labels/references and bibliography (including BibTeX support)
# Access to all LaTeX functionality with plain-latex-style
# Import LaTeX. Export LaTeX, Postscript®, DVI, ASCII, HTML or send a fax
# Change tracking
# Branches for having more versions of the same document
# Unicode support
# Latex source code viewer
# Outliner mode, in which you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents dialog
# SGML-tools support (both LinuxDoc and DocBook DTDs)
# Literate programming support, via the "noweb" tool.
# Menus, error messages, and keybindings are available in many languages
# Extensive documentation, including a beginner's tutorial. Some docs have been translated from English.
# Quite fast and no memory hog at all.

FilZip
FilZip is an archiving utility for Windows platforms.
It now supports about 15 archive types, like arj, cab, rar, tar, lha and many more.

http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Utilit...on/Filzip.html

ArtRage Starter Edition
ArtRage is the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. ArtRage 2.5 Starter Edition gives you 8 painting tools and lets you create, save, and print as many pictures as you like and doesn't limit their size.

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html

Graphics
 

Paint.NET

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html


Small free open source graphics program. (1.6 MB)
Little brother of Gimp but got some nice features, enough for all your basic and bit more advanced image editing needs.

Runs on Windows XP SP2+/Server 2003 SP1+/Vista
You will need .NET Framework 2.0 but that is probably already installed, if not you can get it at the Windows update website in the Custom updates/Optional section.
http://www.update.microsoft.com/
or on this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/r...DisplayLang=en


Latest stable version: Paint.NET 3.22

You can download it here:
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

(Yahoogle free as all my above posts)

Here's another one - NetMeter:

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

http://lifehacker.com/software/bandw...ows-244938.php

Great, simple program that measures how much data you're downloading/uploading and keeps a daily/monthy etc record. Useful if your ISP limits your bandwidth. Works very well - have been using it for months without problem.

More freeware
 

A few months ago I changed from Framemaker to LyX because of its more intuitive handling. LyX is great, especially for longer documents.

More Freeware:

http://www.sandboxie.com/ -> Sandboxie allows you to run your browser, or any other program, so that all changes that result from the usage are kept in a sandbox environment, which can then be deleted later. Free for personal use. Win2K and later.

http://www.freecommander.com/ -> FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4, 2000, XP.

http://www.inkscape.org/?lang=en&css=css/base.css -> Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux, OS X.

http://www.virtualdub.org/ -> VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

*new 12-31-2007* ftp://77.236.37.130/windows/microsof...v9VCMsetup.exe -> VCM based version of the Windows Media Video 9 encoder/decoder. Brings WMV9-Support to VirtualDub.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/ -> Daemon Tools, The free Virtual CD/DVD-ROM-Emulator. Works with nearly all common imagetypes. Emulates nearly all known protections. Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/ -> Microplanet Gravity is a popular full-featured Usenet news client for Win32 platforms. It is adept at pure reading as well as decoding binaries. Gravity has a rules system, scoring and is highly customizable. Compiles with VisualC++ 6.0 and MFC.

http://red.planetarena.org/ -> Alien Arena 2007 is a freeware online/offline deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern game attributes such as real-time lighting and shadows, shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and smart single player bots. The game includes a built in, as well as external server browser and chat client. Players can look up their stats online and chat with other players. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux.

http://www.darkarts.co.za/project/vultures -> Vulture's Eye is a graphical version of the popular free single-player roguelike computer game NetHack. Windows, Linux, Mac OSX.

http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1 -> eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublaster.html -> MRU-Blaster detects and deletes over 30000 MRUs, leaving you with a cleaner and more private PC. Win 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP.

http://www.webbedfeetuk.com/a-simple-diary.html -> A Simple Diary works on Windows '95, '98, '98 SE, ME, 2000, NT & XP. It allows users to schedule their appointments years in advance, manage multiple diaries, set configurable alarms, and it even has a built in to-do list. Of course it can also be used as a basic diary.

http://moonphase.softjournal.com/moon_phase_calculator/ -> Moon Phase Calculator is simple and easy to use tool that allows you to calculate the phase of the Moon for any time in the past or future and to search for the next or previous full moon, new moon or first or last quarter.

http://www.openoffice.org/index.html -> OpenOffice is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite. It includes Writer (word processor similar to Word), Calc (spreadsheet similar to Excel), Impress (presentation program similar to PowerPoint), Base (database program similar to Access), Draw (vector graphics editor comparable in features to CorelDRAW), Math (tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor) and a Macro Recorder.

http://www.pdfcreator.de.vu/ -> PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

http://www.blender.org/ -> Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems

*new 12-28-2007* http://www.aignes.com/lwa.htm -> Local Website Archive offers a fast and easy way to store information from the web on your hard disk. Archived web pages and documents are stored in their original file format and can also be opened with associated applications or found by desktop search engines. Win9x/Me/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista.

Preview maker
 

File / File Info tools
 

Made the thread sticky hope everybody agrees with that. Will add a few more technical programs all freeware:

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HashCalc 2.02 (Hash, CRC and HMAC calculator) (Size: 468 KB)

http://img129.imagevenue.com/loc837/..._123_837lo.jpg http://img227.imagevenue.com/loc205/..._123_205lo.jpg

Freeware
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

A fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations. Note that you can drag and drop files on the program to get the selected hash and checksum algorithms calculated

http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/index.htm

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MediaInfo version 0.7.6.0 (Size: 1,3 MB)

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Freeware
Runs on Windows 32bit (x86) and integrates with MS-Windows shell so you can right click on a file to open it in MediaInfo.

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

What information can I get from MediaInfo?

• General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
• Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
• Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
• Text: language of subtitle
• Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
• DivX, XviD, H263, H.263, H264, x264, ASP, AVC, iTunes, MPEG-1, MPEG1, MPEG-2, MPEG2, MPEG-4, MPEG4, MP4, M4A, M4V, QuickTime, RealVideo, RealAudio, RA, RM, MSMPEG4v1, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v3, VOB, DVD, WMA,

VMW, ASF, 3GP, 3GPP, 3GP2
What format (container) does MediaInfo support?

• Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
• (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
• Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
• multiplexer, demuxer, mixer, muxer, video decoder, audio decoder, PAL, NTSC

What can I do with it?

• Read many video and audio file formats
• Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
• You can customise these views
• Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
• Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
• Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
• Internationalisation: any language display on any version of your Operating System

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SysExporter v1.35 (to make a.o. txt lists of what is inside a windows directory) (Size: 40 KB/70 KB)

http://img14.imagevenue.com/loc1064/...123_1064lo.jpg http://img166.imagevenue.com/loc668/..._123_668lo.jpg

Freeware
Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista (works also but limited on 9x/ME)

SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html

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GSpot v2.70a (Size: 402 KB)

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GSpot is a video codec identification utility - identifies which video codec and audio compression method is used on media files, whether the matching codec is installed, and more.

Freeware
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP/Vista Compatible (tested on 32-bit version only)

http://gspot.headbands.com/


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Thumbnail image downloader
 

If you use Firefox, you can also use the following extensions:

-Downthemall: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/201
Downthemall will download linked pics and other files and direct pics from websites. I also found out that it's a great tool for downloading from paysites.

-Imagegrabber: http://cybormatt.googlepages.com/
A truly great tool for downloading thumbnailed pics from imagehosts like Imagevenue etc.

-Getpictureslist: http://gpl.tracking-celebs.info/
Also for downloading thumbnailed pics from imagehost, but with a different feature set. Works in other browsers too.

I have been replacing my bookmarks that I lost and found this really cool prog for downloading Youtube vids which can be played with VLC Player in .flv format.

YouTube Downloader v2.1 (freeware)

It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube and many others and convert them to other video formats.
The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!
It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.
You can use YouTube Downloader to download the videos of your choice from home, at the office or in school.
Download YouTube Downloader now and get started downloading your favorite videos from YouTube.

Gordian Knot
 

To backup/encode a DVD to .avi you can also use Gordian Knot a freeware all inn one solution, but i can asure you that you will also get the headaches for free to get familiar with it. When you want to give it a go here are some usefull links:


Sytem Requirements:
Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003
minimum 1 GHz Processor 512 MB RAM (you will also need +5/10 GB of free diskspace for the encoding)

Auto Gordian Knot (the most user friendly)

http://www.doom9.org/autogk.htm
+: high quality, designed specifically for beginners
-: If you want to play with every switch XviD has to offer, this tool is obviously not for you
second tutorial Auto Gordian Knot:
http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=TutorialEN

Gordian Knot - XviD 1.x

http://www.doom9.org/gknot-main4.htm
+: High quality, rather easy to use unless you want to configure every parameter
-: Not quite a one click solution as AutoGK

Gordian Knot / Virtualdub (the one i use, includes a.o. Virtual Dub (VirtualDubMod1.5.10.2))

http://www.doom9.org/xvid.htm
+: High quality, detailed explanation of each codec setting
-: relatively complicated

You can find more related info, free programs and tools here:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/secti...-avi-divx-xvid

Mac OS X Preview maker
 

Found the link to this Mac OS X preview maker posted by jenny48549.
Might be usefull for the Mac users to create previewscreens.

Screen Grabber - 2.0.2 (Freeware)(220KB)

Screen Grabber 2.0 is a Mac OS X application for grabbing screen shots at even timeintervals from a movie. Very useful for creating previews, and thumbnails.

Operating System Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel/PPC or later.
Additional Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required to run; this application is a Universal Binary. The application is a quick hack using the QuickTime API, so proper codecs for QuickTime for the media files you want to work with is also required.

Download:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30613

.rar acrhive extraction
 

Picked this one up from a tip Leprechaun made.

Very simple but powerfull .rar archives extraction tool that can extract password encrypted .rar files.
You can start the extraction simply double clicking on the rar file or by dragging and dropping the .rar file on the program, also supports spanned archives.

RarZilla Free Unrar 2.52 (1.2MB)
Freeware
Runs on: Windows 9x/2000/ME/2003/XP/Vista
Download:
http://www.philipp-winterberg.com/so...free_unrar.php

Free RAR Extract Frog 1.00 (1.2MB)
Freeware
Runs on: Windows 9x/2000/ME/2003/XP/Vista
"Skinable" version of RarZilla Free Unrar see info how to on download page.
Download:
http://www.philipp-winterberg.com/so...tract_frog.php


Info about extracting .rar files and what you need to do can be found here. (use this link when the other fails).

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You could give Blaze Media Pro a try, granted it is not freeware but you get to use a fully functioning program during your trial period. I have been using this ultra cool prog for about 3 years now and I know once you try it you will wanna buy it. One of it's many audio/video editing featues is called decompile video which can break down a video into a jpeg screenshot of either every frame or you can select a start and stop point. You can also convert many audio/video formats and edit mp3s & videos.

http://www.blazemp.com/

i found a pretty good tool now
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/imagegrab_en.htm
it has more settings than "Image Grabber" and you don´t even need to install it
the only disadvantage is that it has no integrated pic joiner

I noticed no one has mentiond AVG anti virus http://free.grisoft.com/
At 12.45p mine kicks in and updates it's self.
Plus I've never had any problems and any nasties trying to get in get caught & what It can't heel it sends to the vault,
so when I close down the site i'm in. I goto the vault and get rid of it from there.

A programmer friend recomened it.

Another also free and recomende is (http://www.pctools.com/en/ Spyware Doctor is a top-rated malware & spyware removal utility that detects,
removes and protects your PC from thousands of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots and tracking threats. Now with AntiVirus!)

I use this after going into all those huge galliery site, Where you always get all sorts of crap.
So a quick INTELLI SCAN gets rid of most crap plus it's set to do a full scan every couple of days.
So both programs together work well for this XP user.

Be safe

RefControl (An Add-On for Firefox)
 

RefControl

Current Version: 0.8.9 (Firefox Versions 1.0 – 3.0b2)

Status: Complete

Homepage: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953

Author: James Abbatiello

Size: 28 KB

Description: RefControl allows you to forge the referrer sent by a website...On a site that has a shitload of ImageShak pictures that has since been banned by ImageShak..? No problem...Install RefControl, and in the lower right hand corner of your Firefox Window, right click and choose 'RefControl Options for This Site'...It will pull up this window:

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Simply put the site you're visiting in the top location, choose your options like so, click OK, and then restart Firefox...

Now, when you click links from within that site, your referrer is masked and you can see images as normal...

Cheers..!

avi: Peck's Power Join (old, no longer updated) or Virtualdub (recent, still updated)
mpeg 1: Tmpgenc or Camel's mpeg joiner (old, no longer updated)
mpeg 2: Tmpgenc 12a, Mpg2cut2 (my favourite) or Vobmerge
Asf/Wmv: Asfbingui or Asftools

all freeware, most available on www.videohelp.com

MAC OS .rar acrhive extraction
 

UnRarX 2.2 (715 kB)

Drag and drop .rar extraction tool for MAC OS. Can handle password protected .rar files don't know if it can handle password encrypted ones.

Freeware
Download:
http://www.unrarx.com/

Anyone notice the flaw between the excellent wee program
Bulk Image Downloader 1.27 and VEF new image host.

http://image.pimpandhost.com/guest/285233_x.html

It doesn't grab there images, it just grabs non relaited wee thumb nails.
Anyone know of a way round this problem since more of us are using
pimpandhost now. Thanks

System Info Tool: EVEREST Home Edition
 

EVEREST Home Edition 2.20 is a freeware system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.

New features:
- Advanced hardware monitor with OSD panel and cooling fans monitoring
- Real-time alerting for hot-plug devices
- Portable Computer page to display mobile PC related information
- Bluetooth PAN support
- File Scanner filtering
- User benchmark results manager
- Sharpness test (Monitor Diagnostics)

Requires: Win All
Limitations: Lavalys has discontinued the free edition. This is unsupported.

Some entertaining Open Source games for Windows
 

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* At its lowest level, Scorched 3D is just an artillery game with two+ tanks taking turns to destroy opponents in an arena. Choose the angle, direction and power of each shot, launch your weapon, and try to blow up other tanks.
But Scorched 3D can be a lot more complex than that, if you want it to be. You can earn money from successful battles and use it to invest in additional weapons and accessories. You can play with up to twenty four other players at a time, mixing computer players with humans. There's a variety of changing environmental conditions and terrains to be dealt with. (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)

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* C-evo is a freeware empire building game for Windows. With a time scope of several thousand years, it covers aspects of exploration and expansion, industry and agriculture, warfare and diplomacy, science and administration. C-evo follows the spirit of popular turn-based strategy games from the mid 90s, but with more emphasis on powerful AI and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge. The game is based on Microprose's famous Sid Meier's Civilization.

* Another good Civilization-like is FreeCiv.

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* The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

- Build up a formidable fighting force, starting from a single leader and a small amount of gold.
- Over 200 unit types in six major factions, all with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
- Experienced units gain powerful new abilities as they advance.
- Several multi-player options available, including internet play.
- Scores of different custom-designed maps, and unlimited random maps.
- Hundreds of campaign scenarios available for download via a simple in-game procedure.
- 'Fog of war' feature available for a true test of generalship.
- Sophisticated mark-up language lets advanced users make their own maps, factions or campaigns.
- Excellent language support – 35 different languages currently available.
- GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2 & eComStation compatible.

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* Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. Simple? Yes. Easy? Certainly not! Hidden traps, vast mazes, laser beams, and, most of all, countless hairy puzzles usually block your direct way to the Oxyd stones.

- Non violent - a game for young and old.
- More than 1000 different levels guarantee longtime entertainment.
- Translated to many languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian.
- High-resolution 2D graphics.
- Realistic physics simulation.
- More than 500 different game objects.
- Available for all Windows versions, Mac OSX, most Linux distributions, many other Unix versions.

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* GNU Backgammon is for playing and analysing backgammon positions, games and matches. It's based on a neural network. In the past twelve months it has made enormous progress. It currently plays at about the level of a championship flight tournament player. (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

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* Trackballs is a marble game inspired by the 80s Atari classic Marble Madness. By steering a marble ball through a labyrinth filled with sharp objecs, pools of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the destination is reached you continue on to the next, more difficult level. - unless the time runs out. (Windows, Linux)

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* Daimonin is a free online role playing game (MMORPG). In the game you will meet many other people in our big, persistent virtual heroic fantasy world! Explore, fight, meet friends and enemies. Over 160 000 registered Members. (Windows, Linux)

After Nitewalker listed Vulture's Eye and Alien Arena and Umbra mentioned Nexuiz without Moderators' complaints I guessed it could be useful to introduce more fine free full version games. Maybe this thread should be named 'useful software' to involve all genres of recommendable free bits and bytes. ;)

Something for YouTube fans.
 

http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
Orbit Downloader is devoted to new generation web application downloading and provides a total solution to download music and video. So you can download streaming media, social music, social video, movie, flash and file from anywhere include Pandora, YouTube, Yahoo, Myspace and Rapidshare more simple and easy.

http://www.download.com/Free-FLV-Con...-10744177.html
Search and download movies from YouTube, DailyMotion and Google for free. Free FLV Converter will let you search youTube, dailyMotion, Metacafe, Google videos, Stage6, Spyke without opening your browser and you can even watch the videos using the built-in video player. This software can convert the videos to Avi, Ipod, iphone, 3GP or Psp format (MPEG4 and H.264). This software can also convert all your videos (divx, xvid, mpeg, dvd, avi) to FLV video.

File rename tool
 

Password Corral is a popular freeware password manager. With a clean, easy to use interface, strong encryption and all the features you would expect from a program you'd have to pay for, it's no wonder thousands of people have made it their choice for password management!

• Clean, easy to use, standard Windows interface
• Secure Blowfish or Diamond2 encryption
• Multiple password accounts on a single PC
• Create detailed descriptions, usernames, URL, e-mail and comments for each password entry
• Group password data into custom groups you define
• Customizable random password generator
• Hyperlinks in the comments field will launch your web browser
• Password expiration notices
• Create encrypted export files of your password data for backup or import to another PC
• Customizable "time-out" feature to secure the program and your data after a period of system inactivity
• Print hard copies of your password information
• Many Customizable interface elements and security parameters

MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web, and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. It includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated playlist editors for creating music mixes. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don't have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player. It also includes portable audio device synchronization that allows you to quickly synch tracks and playlists with iPods, MP3 Phones, and other portable audio devices.

The Wonderful Icon is a small Windows utility that resides in your PC's taskbar tray.

• Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart Windows, etc.
• Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the taskbar, either by a keystroke or by right-clicking a window's Minimize button with your mouse
• Configure a menu of easily-accessible commands
• Increase or decrease speaker volume with the press of a button
• Automatically run programs at start-up, and hide them, minimize them to the taskbar tray, etc.

MacroMaker allows you to create macros or recordings to automate most anything that you already do by hand. MacroMaker was written more for the use of people who regularly use computers and programmers rather than the casual PC user. Most anything you know how to do by hand can be translated into a macro or recording in MacroMaker. If you are having to perform repetitive tasks, this program will help you out tremendiously. The user can simulate a series of keystrokes, mouse events, play back previous recordings of keystrokes and mouse events or execute some built-in functions with just a keystroke. You can even store content from the clipboard in internal MacroMaker buffers for later use.

PSPad - editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems. The universal freeware editor, useful for people who:

• work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker
• create web pages - as a web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools that save your time
• want to use a good IDE for their compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more...

The editor supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion... these are just some of the many features that PSPad offers.

Scanner uses a unique concentric pie chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once.

Multi OS Video editor
 

Avidemux 2.4 Final

It has two different looks (in the Windows non install .zip version i use) so two previews: (GTK (left) and QT4 (right))

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Simular to VirtualDub but works on more platforms. Like VirtualDub it is also not easy, needs some getting used to.
Freeware
Operating Systems: 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), Mac OS, Linux and Ubuntu
Comes with build in video and audio encoding codecs like: XviD, x264, mpeg2enc, MPEG-2, LAME, AC3, etc. and several filters.
To convert VOB files you will first have to copy them to your HD.

Avidemux homepage: (with link to the download page)
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/


Some manuals:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/Avidemux/
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/inde...itle=Main_Page
Guide to encoding types:
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/inde...encoding_types

(added info and screens from the reply below)

When you run Windows you can try the 2.4.1 ZIP (non install) version you can unzip it to a folder and run both the GTK and the QT4 version by clicking on avidemux2_gtk.exe or avidemux2_qt4.exe. When the program doesn't suit you can remove it otherwise you can give it a location and some (desktop) shortcuts.

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Image uploader
 

This one is nice: IIIUploader - v.1.7.7 (was already linked by Gemini37 but with less info)

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Freeware
Windows XP (32bit (x86)) (don't know if it will also run on other Windows versions)
No install just unrar and double click exe to run.
You will need to have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed.
When needed you can find and download it via Windows update website from the Custom updates > Optional section:
http://www.update.microsoft.com
or on this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/r...DisplayLang=en
Download IIIUploader - v.1.7.7 (229kB):
http://www.hqcity.ru/soft/IIIU.rar
(http://hqcity.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=20949)

Uploads to: (will enable to upload large sets in one go (use .jpg))
- imagevenue.com
- shareavenue.com
- radikal.ru
- largeimagehost.com
- allyoucanupload.com
- pixhosting.info
- **********.us
- imagepile.net
- freeimagehost.eu
- imagehigh.com
- supload.com
- pictiger.com
- *******.com
- pixup.info
- hqcity.com
- hqcity.net
- heyimage.com
- xs.to

You can drag and drop imagefiles or complete folders on the program window to add and queque the images to upload, when a folder is dropped it will automaticly give the set the name of the folder.

Note: use .jpg files, make sure to uncheck 'Save for work ...' when uploading nude content to ImageVenue (or set that to default in 'Settings') also note it will sort all uploaded images in a set by filename when you upload more the one set of images then create a new set with a different name when adding them otherwise they will get mixed up.
It will add this Uploaded with IIIUploader link to every uploaded set but you can take that out, best to do that IMHO cause it will only give the download of the rar archive without any info.

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The same set twice both uploaded with IIIUploader - v.1.7.7 one to ImageVenue one to FreeImageHost.eu.

ImageVenue:

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http://img222.imagevenue.com/loc452/..._123_452lo.JPG http://img136.imagevenue.com/loc796/..._123_796lo.JPG http://img17.imagevenue.com/loc630/t..._122_630lo.JPG http://img204.imagevenue.com/loc437/..._123_437lo.JPG
http://img108.imagevenue.com/loc1017...123_1017lo.JPG http://img194.imagevenue.com/loc507/..._123_507lo.JPG http://img163.imagevenue.com/loc622/..._123_622lo.JPG http://img208.imagevenue.com/loc464/..._123_464lo.JPG
http://img205.imagevenue.com/loc394/..._123_394lo.JPG http://img174.imagevenue.com/loc661/..._123_661lo.JPG http://img171.imagevenue.com/loc1122...123_1122lo.JPG http://img111.imagevenue.com/loc767/..._123_767lo.JPG
http://img186.imagevenue.com/loc425/..._123_425lo.JPG http://img232.imagevenue.com/loc578/..._123_578lo.JPG http://img127.imagevenue.com/loc1108...123_1108lo.JPG http://img169.imagevenue.com/loc891/..._123_891lo.JPG

Uploaded with IIIUploader < better to take this out.

FreeImageHost.eu:

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http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...b072810281.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...a402810274.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...69e2810275.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...5cb2810277.gif
http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...3752810276.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...1482810284.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...7ab2810282.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...b542810278.gif
http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...6672810280.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...1772810279.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...cb12810285.gif http://thumbnails.freeimagehost.eu/2...43c2810286.gif

Uploaded with IIIUploader < better to take this out.

More useful programs
 

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.

StickyPad is an invaluable, easy-to-use tool that lets you place sticky notes on your desktop. You can type notes to yourself, set meeting and appointment reminders, keep track of a to-do list, and anything else you would do with paper notes. Your notes can be printed, pasted into other applications, or emailed to coworkers. You can even make notes translucent and have them float above your other windows, so you can see both your note and what you are working on. When you log off, StickyPad remembers all of your notes, and when you log back on, your notes are still there.

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Thunderbird is a modern email client with features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, a range of themes and customisable layout. Thunderbird provides IMAP/POP support, HTML e-mail composing, quick search, address book, advanced message filtering, address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts. You can add a wide variety of extensions to Thunderbird to add additional features or tweak its behavior to suit your own preferences.

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TightVNC is a remote control software that lets you see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. Ideal for remote administration, remote customer support, education, and for many other purposes, and because it works across different operating systems you can use almost any computer, from any computer.

Sumatra PDF is a flexible and lightweight PDF reader, with a minimalistic design that allows fast browsing and even faster loading times. It also remembers the last page of every PDF you read, so you can resume reading at any time in the future.

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PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

* Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
* Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
* Send generated files via eMail
* Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
* AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
* Merge multiple files into one PDF

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TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Main Features:

* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

* Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.

* Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).

* Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.

* Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).

2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).

* Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS.

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Xenu's Link Sleuth checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

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Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, it also provides the option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. The program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards.

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Useful Firefox extensions
 

Adblock Plus:
Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.

Remove It Permanently - useful addon to AdBlock. Permanently hide content from web pages using the Context Menu. Simply, click and &quot;Remove it Permanently&quot;. Now includes previewing of items before removal, support for IFrame as well as lots of advanced features to make it easy for anyone to remove annoying content from web pages.

NoScript provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and others mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser.

Mouse Gestures are a fast way to execute commands without using the keyboard, menus or toolbars. Instead, the user holds down a mouse button (usually the right one), moves the mouse in a certain way to form a gesture, then releases the mouse button.

Nuke Anything Enhanced allow hiding of almost anything via context menu 'Remove Object' or 'Remove Selection' with possibility of multiple undo of 'Remove Object'. You can also make a selection and chose "Remove everything else" to clear the page and only leave the selected text.

Reload Every reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes. The function is accessible via the context menu (menu you get when you right click on a web page) or via a drop down menu on the reload button.

Linkification
Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

Cooliris Previews gives you the power to browse and share Web links and rich media faster. Just mouse over any link, and the Cooliris preview window immediately appears to show you the content. To email it, just click.

* Preview web links, images, and videos without even clicking.
* NEW! View Google & Yahoo Image Search in ultra slideshow mode
* “Stack” previewed items into temporary bookmarks to quickly preview later.
* Instantly send links to friends and family with just a click.
* Automatically subsearch Google, Wikipedia, and many others by right-clicking on any phrase
* Customize preferences to control preview window activation, time delay, size & position, etc.

TorrentBar is a BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files.

FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.

Translator is a web translation extension that allows you to translate any web page into nearly any language at the click of a button.

Currently supports the following online translation services:
* Google Translation
* Yahoo! Babelfish
* PROMT
* freetranslation.com
* Altavista
* Im translator

Web Developer adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Useful for testing created webpages.

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

for bulk file re-naming :
'Rename Master'
http://www.joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?cid=108

for image duplication detection :
'VisiPics'
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...oad-73331.html

for bulk file extension conversions :
'XnView'
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

One more should be mentioned - DownloadHelper.
Its by far not as powerful as Bulk Image Downloader and I tought of unistaling it, but I realized its still quite useful. Its a small FireFox extension and is handy for quick download of galleries of anything _directly_ linked from page you are visiting. Thats good when you come across several mpg files forming one big movie, for example.
Consider using it. Its free, no limits or anything.

http://www.downloadhelper.net/