Good freeware tools

[willawake]

I have been looking for a JPG batch resizer which not only allows you to specify the size of the resized image in pixels (most do only that for the web) but instead to specify the size of the image in cm and change the dpi.

For instance when the office is doing reports which have many digital photographs in, we dont need the full size digital file, we just need them at 15cm print width at 300dpi.

Finally i found a software to do this : IrfanView.
http://www.irfanview.com/
And the batch process is easy to set up so dumb users can just click a few buttons to get the source and destination folders right.

Not only that but it looks like it will replace my Acdsee image viewer as it has all the functions i need, is fast and very customisable.

Another great freeware solution. Anybody got other freeware progs to recommend?

[Rainbow]

Re: Good image viewer IrfanView

http://www.xnview.com

[willawake]

Re: Good freeware tools

another good tool - freeware networkscanner Angry IP

shows IP, ping (ms), Hostname, Computer Name, Workgroup Name, Username, MAC Address, TTL

exports to csv as well. damn fine tool
http://www.angryziber.com

[Topcat]

Re: Good freeware tools

Speaking of cool freewares........... If you're running a windows box as a web server and using IIS, and wish to have .htaccess available to it, check this out... Works like a charm!

http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/

[bushytails]

Re: Good freeware tools

ImageMagick does batch resizing and just about everything else imaginable...

or use GIMP. gimp really does about everything imaginable.

--Randy

[willawake]

Re: Good freeware tools

another good one, this time for the webmasters
Xenu's Link Sleuth

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

checks for broken links and makes a site map. excellent.

[arneson]

Re: Good freeware tools

http://www.toniarts.com

EasyCleaner documentation by ToniArts
v 2.0
Very good free cleaner.

[arneson]

Re: Good freeware tools

NetStumbler,
I don't go hunting with it but I know of two networks next door, mine, and two more in this neighborhood.

[arneson]

Re: Good freeware tools

Some of you remember Ziff Davis in NY as the company to publish
Popular Electronics.
Ahh, it's all coming back now. I couldn't wait to get each issue.

They review freeware at this site.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1864515,00.asp

Cnet is another of many as well.
http://www.download.com/2001-20_4-0.html?tag=hd

[willawake]

Re: Good freeware tools

Winmail Opener - the best tool for opening tnef winmail.dat files you receive from outlook/exchange users. You can try also fentun or wmdecode but this one is the best.

http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/winmail_opener/

Word 2003 XML viewer. Oh great another format people are sending now. Word 2003 WordprocessingML files which have the extension .xml
Now .xml is an internet format, you should be able to read it with a browser i guess? not in this case. You can download the following tool and then the .xml file can be seen in IE.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[willawake]

Re: Good freeware tools

http://www.stellarium.org/
free open source planetarium

[willawake]

Re: Good freeware tools

7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/

Its an open sauce compressed file handling program. does rar, zip, iso, gzip, tar...all that stuff. Its very good. actually i find some rars dont open with winrar and this is much better.

[WNG]

Re: Good freeware tools

http://www.astaro.com/

their security gateway package v.7 is free licensed to home users.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html

these guys have some nice useful utilities like EncryptOnClick and SyncBack.

http://www.comodo.com
Free firewall app that's as good as the paid apps.

Irfanview is great! Small and fast and powerful. It also replaced my Acdsee usage when Acdsee got so bloated and slow.

[WNG]

Re: Good freeware tools

Video related:

http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://www.doom9.org/

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html



SysAdmin related:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/default.mspx

[shadow]

Re: Good freeware tools

There are some great free tools out there!

DVD Shrink: Free DVD Ripping, Shrinking and Backup application.
http://www.dvdshrink.org

Audacity: Open source sound recorder and editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

VLC media player: Free portable media player, will play just about anything you throw at it. Uses its own codecs rather than relying on Windows.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VirtualDubMod: Similar to the original VirtualDub, however it supports MPEG files as well as AVI.
http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

AVISynth: Video frameserver, works with AVI natively, does support MPEG and others with plugins. Brilliant tool for me.
http://avisynth.org/

DGMPGDec: MPEG 1 and 2 decoder for AVISynth.
http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec.html

PDFCreator: Open Source PDF Printer that seems to work very well.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Daemon Tools: Free Virtual DVD-ROM program. Can circumvent various copy protection measures with help from other applications (mainly due to the fact that most protected applications black list the virtual DVD-ROM drive).
http://www.daemon-tools.cc

Hamachi: Zero-configuration virtual private networking. Free version has some small limitations. I use it all the time to play games over the VPN connection with friends. Of course it has many other uses.
http://www.hamachi.cc/

Hope some of these are useful to the board members.

[bgavin]

Re: Good freeware tools

CmdAsSys.Exe from the author's package "localsystem.rar".

http://assarbad.net/en/stuff

This utility comes with Delphi 3/4 source, and lets the user open a CMD window using the SYSTEM context. This is useful for overcoming rights issues on directories and files.

One example is remote user profiles under Citrix or Terminal Server. By default, the default Group Policy allows creation of redirected folders as Exclusive Rights to user. This quite effectively bars administrators from accessing these directories. In many cases this is not acceptable, such as pending lawsuits, etc.

The administrator can launch a command window in the SYSTEM context, then execute CACLS to grant Administrator:Full rights to the top level share, and all child directories and files. It is non-destructive to user profiles.

[willawake]

Re: Good freeware tools

open sauce DTP

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. site

open sauce web site editor

Nvu (pronounced N-view)
Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. site

[grss1982]

Re: Good freeware tools

I have been looking for a JPG batch resizer which not only allows you to specify the size of the resized image in pixels (most do only that for the web) but instead to specify the size of the image in cm and change the dpi.

For instance when the office is doing reports which have many digital photographs in, we dont need the full size digital file, we just need them at 15cm print width at 300dpi.

Finally i found a software to do this : IrfanView.
http://www.irfanview.com/
And the batch process is easy to set up so dumb users can just click a few buttons to get the source and destination folders right.

Not only that but it looks like it will replace my Acdsee image viewer as it has all the functions i need, is fast and very customisable.

Another great freeware solution. Anybody got other freeware progs to recommend?

Used that same program as well. :-)

For extracting images from web sites this freeware came in pretty handy for me:

http://www.mihov.com/eng/pd.html

I also use download managers like:

NetAnts
http://www.netants.com/

Free Download Manager
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

[kc8adu]

Re: Good freeware tools

ad sponsered isnt freeware.
adserver=spyware.
since the publisher often has no control over the adware ad sponsred = spyware.
be carefull.

[grss1982]

Re: Good freeware tools

Thanks for the heads up kc8adu. :-)

A REAL NooB here.