Useful Programs

[donnalangtonukmode]

Stumbled over this site last night AVS4YOU.com while looking for an flv joiner tool.
As you can see it converts, joins and edits video. Not sure if it's free or sharewear it was late on when I found this.
But It could solve some peoples problems.

http://avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Convert...FRvs1AodCS7X-g


AVS Video Converter
AVS Video Editor
AVS Video ReMaker
AVS Capture Wizard
AVS Video to GO
AVS DVD Player
AVS TV Box
AVS DV to DVD
AVS Video to iPod
AVS Video to PSP
AVS Video to Flash
AVS Video to BlackBerry
AVS Video to Archos
AVS Video to PlayStation
AVS Video to Xbox

[bsluub]

Here's a useful tool for cropping jpegs very quickly...get rid of those nasty water stains - lol

http://www.download.com/SpeeDoCrop/3...html?tag=lst-8

& users guide
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/3551

[Gemini37]

Collectorz DVD Database Catalog Software (shareware)

Sample of my film & tv library:



Sample of my adult film & clip library:



I can't believe that I failed to mention this totally awesome piece of software. Whether you use it for your Adult or Mainstream movie collection or both, you will wonder how you ever did without it.
Catalog your DVD/VHS collection automatically...Just enter movie title to download cast, crew, cover images and more !

Available Fields:

* Main movie details
o Title
o Release Date
o Running Time
o Genre
o Studio
o IMDb Number
o Audience Rating
o Format (DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, VHS, etc...)
o Barcode (UPC or EAN)

* DVD properties
o Subtitles
o Audio Tracks
o Screen Ratios
o Region
o Layers
o Special Features
o etc...

* Cast and Crew
o Actors and the Characters they play
o Director
o Producer
o Writer
o etc...

* Personal information
o Purchase information: Date, Store, etc...
o Your rating
o Location
o Owner
o etc...

* Collection Status
o Use the In Collection Status field to indicate whether an DVD is actually in your possession, on your wishlist, On Order or For Sale.
o Use the In Collection Status filter menu to quickly show your wishlist, your "on order" items, etc...

* Support for TV Series
o List the episodes, with their Title, Running Time, Plot and First Airdate
o Use the multi-disc support to specify which episodes are on which disc
o Download episode titles from the Collectorz.com Movie database

* Support for Box Sets
o Use the Box Set feature to create Box Sets containing multiple movies
o Enter all Box Set details in the Box Set screen, including Front and Back cover images.

Compatibility:

Microsoft Windows:
The Windows edition is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. It is available in the following languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Turkish, Polish, Croatian, Italian, Slovenian, Swedish, Greek, Russian, Danish.

Apple Mac OS X:
The Mac OS X edition is compatible with OS X 10.3 or higher, including Leopard. The Mac edition is available in English only.

[Leprechaun]

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

• Multiplatform - you can install AbiWord on most of operating systems out there e.g. Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS X, QNX and more. Best of all, AbiWord is tailored to take advantage of functionalities of the operating system it runs on, e.g. printing capabilities, image loading.
  
• Not bloated, can be run on low end computers - minimum requirements to launch AbiWord successfully is an IBM compatible 486-DX computer with 16 MB of RAM.
  
• Import, export, open, save and edit other industry standards word processing formats with ease - Microsoft Word (.doc) documents, Open Office (.sxw) documents, Rich Text Format (.rtf) documents, HTML web pages and many more.
  
• Dictionaries and spell checking support for more than 30 languages - you can choose which dictionaries to be added to AbiWord during installation.
  
• Supports text typed from left-to-right, right-to-left and mixed-mode - that means you can use AbiWord for typing texts in Arabic, Hebrew and more.
  
• Mail Merge - use this function to automate repetitive word processing tasks such as adding multiple addresses to the same letter. By adding special fields inside AbiWord documents, you can pull meaningful data from relational databases; comma separated value (.csv) files or tabbed text files to be added automatically to the document.
  
• Document processing capabilities via the command line - this feature can be useful if you are using AbiWord in a server environment where you have to generate form letters, print and convert documents formats.
  
• Plugins support - you can extend the functionalities of AbiWord by installing extra plugins like document importers, thesaurus, image importers, text summarizers and more
  
• Unlimited undo and redo function.

[retromike]

foxit reader If you want a faster pdf viewer try this, it's faster, it doesn't consume lots of memory (RAM) like Adobe Reader.
Sorry by my English I try my best, by the way, I'm native Spanish speaker.

[DubSalute]

Versatile file splitter/joiner its free, small, clean, good ... and French ...

Xremsplit (freeware, French/English, Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32 bits) and Linux 1.2)

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Download (Télécharger) Windows version (299 kB):
http://xtremsplit.fr/page-xtremsplit...n-windows.html

No install just double click the .exe to run the program. You can set it to English via 'Options'.

Compatible with:

Compatible avec 28 formats dont : Xtremsplit v1.1, Cutkiller, HJSplit, FileSpliter 4.5, UltraSplitter, D-Koup v2.5, Découpeur, KFK v3.8.0.30, EasySplit, Koup Koup, Koup Koup XP, File Splitter Deluxe, Splitter 4.0, MaxSplit Pro 3.1, Splitter 3.1, Chainsaw, Hacha, EasyFileCut, CoupeFichier v1.1, Wind 1.75, Yoyocut v2.50, Winfrag Lite v2.0, Cluster v1.0, Turbo Cut File v2.22, MaxSplitter 1.53, Splitteur v1.0, Scieber v2.1 et tout format générique inconnu en *.001.

[Leprechaun]

Another very useful Firefox plugin:

Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

Flashblock currently blocks the following content types:
* Macromedia Flash
* Macromedia Shockwave
* Macromedia Authorware

[DTravel]

I see that someone has already mentioned Bulk Rename Utility. I second the recommendation for that. I started using it a few months ago and its a wonderful program.

For duplicate image detection, someone mentioned VisiPics. I used that for a while but eventually switched to SimilarImages (homepage: http://celebnamer.celebworld.ws/similarimages/ ). I've found it to be easier and faster to use. The only issue I've had is it will occasionally hang if you're checking 50,000 or more pictures at one go. *whistles innocently* On the other hand, it has options for setting the level of similarity, prioritizing what criteria to use to flag for deletion (image resolution, file size, last modified date), limiting comparisons to only within same directory; only between different directories; or a standard "everything against everything" check. It will also build a "Not-A-Match" database. If you tell it that a given pair of pics are not duplicates, it will "remember" that and skip that pair in subsequent searches. This greatly speeds up future checks as you continue to build your picture collection.

[flateric]

anyone who uses the rapidshare manager to upload or download will find that an automatic update which gets automatically installed causes the program to stop working with message 'Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation'

I found the solution on yahooo answers - which is to download and use an old version. This does not need to be installed - just download it, save it and then run it from the saved directory

http://rapidshare.com/files/82747298...rv1.1_2008.rar

[spitalhouse]

Developer's description:

This allows URI texts written in webpages to be loaded by double clicks.

Without this extension, when you discover an URI text not linked, like "http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/", you have to do following steps to load the page:

1. Select the URI text completely. (It may be a hard work if the page is rendered with a propotional font. This operation always chafes me.)
2. Copy it. (press "Ctrl-C" or use "Copy" from the "Edit" menu)
3. Paste it to the location bar.
4. Press "Enter". Then, Firefox loads it.

or,

1. Select the URI text completely. (It chafes me again!)
2. Drag the selection string to the tab bar and drop it. Then, Firefox loads it.

With this extension, you can load the URI only following one step:

1. Double-click on the URI text. Then, Firefox loads it.

I know that the "Linkification" extension provides similar result. My advantages are:

* URIs which are split in multiple text-nodes, like "http://www.<em>mozilla</em>.org/".
* URIs written with multi-byte characters. In Japan, an website of a major news uses this rule.
* This doesn't defile appearance of webpages, because this doesn't modify webpages.

Find it here: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_textlink.html.en