Handy Computing Applications

Some people may use Software tools that make every day computing just that little bit easier.

Here's the place to share those tools

What do you use??


What is it used for??

For example, i use a small application called Pixel Picker for finding the colour value codes of particular colours. In a nutshell, you hover a crosshair over a pixel and it tells you what colour that pixel is in 3 different colour coding formats. Its a very handy tool.

i use a program called jpgvideo

it takes a series of jpeg images and stitches them together into an avi video file. i now render most of my stuff as hi quality jpegs then stitch teh video together using the program. its free too just punch "jpgvideo" into google

Thats the shit! More things.. more more MORE!

What is the program?
Firefox.

What is it used for?
Surfing the internet in the most efficient and productive manner. It shits all over Internet Explorer. Constantly being updated with new add-ons and so forth to make your internet time easier, etc etc.

You can also pimp your firefox mine is pink you can also get blue and all of those other funky colours

Because a fashionable browser is so important.

Ad-Aware SE Pro for spyware, good for getting rid of spyware when you may not even know you have it

Another 1 is DVD Shrink 3.2 which can rip most DVD's which Nero fails to do, it bypasses copyright shit

DVD Shrink is free.

This post has been edited by overdose: Mar 20 2007, 05:27 PM

yes DVD shrink is the bollocks!

Daemon
Getright
Ulead GIF Animator
Alive Video Converter
IrfanView
Cool Edit Pro
Clone DVD
Clone CD
VLC MediaPlayer


No time to explain them all... I'm sure there's more aswell, cant be bother right now though.

my parents have clone CD and clone DVD... they are pretty good!

WinXP Manager

A tool that optimises and cleans up sections of XP that most other programs fail to do (such as registry defrag, registry cleanup, duplicate file cleanup, etc etc).

I swear.. I thought my PC was lightning fast before - after running this program it's like Flash Gordon up in this mother

Alcohol 120% or Alcohol 52% - CD and DVD/Image writing program, I think Alcohol 52% is the free version

"Alcohol 120% and its brother Alcohol 52% are disc writing and management software created by Alcohol Soft of the Fubra Group. Similar to Nero Burning ROM, it can write CD and DVDs, burn image files and so on. What makes it differ the most from Nero is that it uses the latest technology to constantly develop and improve by adding new features to maintain its performance and stability. ..."

Alcohol 120% is free, i got that the other week it rocks your mothers socks!

It's a free 30 day trial - otherwise you have to pay for it.

Unless you mean it's free when you download it and then get a crack illegally.. in which case; EVERY piece of software is free

thats the part i meant

Serious Samurize

Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!

Motherboard Monitor (monitors temperature of pc, good for those hot summer days)

Fraps (capture video/stills from any directdraw or direct3d environment, eg. games)

Streamripper (this is a great tool for downloading live streamed sets from winamp radio)

uTorrent (pronounced microTorrent, best torrent application i can find, and doesn't need to be installed on your system!)

This post has been edited by Fulcrum: Mar 20 2007, 08:30 PM

yep i use utorrent too

Azureus

Peppa lead me on to it back in the day... when I didn't know what torrents were. Basically it's like uTorrent but does need to be installed on you PC... let's you download .torrent files for um... full version stuff, lol

I use Azureus as well .. and it's by far my favorite torrent application.

I've used a good 6 or 7 of them too; and Azureus has got it all

Hmm might give it a go.

I use StyleXP to pimp Windows XP, can make start menu and windows transparent, change your boot up screen, change your logon screen, change your start menu skin, change your taskbar etc

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edit forgot you can also download custom made ones from other users and so on

This post has been edited by SPiDER: Mar 21 2007, 05:28 PM

imma get that and geek up my computer

Dav is my handy computer application!

i know its not THE best app around, but windows side bar on vista. i never click on my start bar any more cus i have all my "usual" programs @ a click on the sidebar. it also tells me the weather today and for the next few days, CPU and RAM usage. clock and scratch pad.

its got more things u can get it 2 do but thats all i need really..

oh and another good program is LCD smartie, outputting ALL my system information to a home built backlit LCD screen that site @ the side of my monitors.. and LCD smartie gets some of its info from motherboard monitor..

This post has been edited by morpheus: Mar 21 2007, 06:16 PM

yeh i loved the sidebar when i had vista installed, especially the rss feeds, i should put them on samurize

and a handy one to have no doubt!!! I've used that application a couple of times myself

I came across one called DVD Decrypter, it copies DVDs that have copy protect on them and removes the country region code, I don't think websites have them anymore, but if you download torrents, it's on Torrentspy.com!

This post has been edited by overdose: Jun 30 2007, 12:51 AM

DVD decrypter is badass, its THE dvd ripping program.

Ive been using Handbrake to convert dvds to ipod format and winavi mp4 converter to put tv episodes on. so easy to use, and quick.

does anyone use vista? im thinking of upgrading later on to play vista-only games, but im too comfortable with xp at the moment...does it have many bugs and crap?

'whats running' is a wicked program if your computer is going a bit slow. An easy way to configre what programs run at start up, and what little applications to close like stupid autoupdates for something like itunes etc..

I have to reduce CPU for when i run my MBOX with ProTools cause you need as much as you can get! This helped me out heaps

K-Lite Codec Pack is great!

Comes with a whole bunch of codecs for video playing on your PC

Basically it fixes 99% of videos that don't play on your PC!