The awesome uncommon software thread

[panchoman]

At one point or another, many of us come across some software that is freaking awesome to us and we just want to look up to the sky and say THANK YOU.. but the software is oh soo unknown by most on the internet.

In this thread, we can share the software that we use that we think are very uncommon but very awesome and share them with other tpuers!

[spearman914]

I got one. PEPSI!!! http://www.pepsi.com/downloads/download.php?dlt=ssmac&dl=bhm2005_calendar_mac

[FatForester]

Got a couple, although one is actually a website.

Mediamonkey: Best music organizer / player / library app I've ever come across.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Pandora: An internet radio that uses the music genome project and helps introduce you to new music.
http://pandora.com/

[Dia01]

Got a couple, although one is actually a website.

Mediamonkey: Best music organizer / player / library app I've ever come across.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Pandora: An internet radio that uses the music genome project and helps introduce you to new music.
http://pandora.com/

No availability outside the US.:ohwell:

[panchoman]

I got one. PEPSI!!! http://www.pepsi.com/downloads/download.php?dlt=ssmac&dl=bhm2005_calendar_mac

what is that? btw im on windows...

[FatForester]

No availability outside the US.:ohwell:

Dang, that sucks. I'm not sure if there are any alternatives that use the music genome project, but in comparison slacker is a pretty decent internet radio as well. Is that one available in Aussie?

[Pyeti]

there were some work arounds for pandora because i used to use it before they put the restriction on it and was really pissed off when they did. by using a free proxy thats based in the us you could get around it. don't know if that works anymore though

[panchoman]

imeem.com is awesome for great music at great quality...

also, free flv converter is one of my software contributions to this thread: http://www.download.com/Free-FLV-Converter/3000-2194_4-10832044.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10832056

it lets you download things from so many places, including:
http://img.techpowerup.org/080505/Capture399.gif

and it'll download and convert the song into the loads of options it gives you for converting, as well as an audio only one, which is a great trick for getting music without having to do it illegally.

also, it does convert flv files as well

[panchoman]

Another one is the only and only tpucapture.. made of course by w1zzard. it's an amazing and very powerful screenshot utility, you hit print screen, select a particular part of the screen that you want to take a screenshot of (if you dont select it takes a shot of your whole screen) and then you have the option to : save as a file, copy to clipboard or upload to tpu in 5 seconds and get the link and img code for it.

[Silverel]

SCMPX (http://www.team-mp3.com/mp3/players/scmpx.htm)

TINY, mp3 player/ripper. Also, very much free, and resource light. I've been using this program for basic mp3 playback for years. Very low CPU and memory usage. Granted, nowadays that doesn't mean so much. However, being that it's as basic as it is, it can bypass a lot of copy-protection that has been released to date. Also has an ID3 tag editor, so you can make all those MP3's look even more legit.:rolleyes:

[panchoman]

SCMPX (http://www.team-mp3.com/mp3/players/scmpx.htm)

TINY, mp3 player/ripper. Also, very much free, and resource light. I've been using this program for basic mp3 playback for years. Very low CPU and memory usage. Granted, nowadays that doesn't mean so much. However, being that it's as basic as it is, it can bypass a lot of copy-protection that has been released to date. Also has an ID3 tag editor, so you can make all those MP3's look even more legit.:rolleyes:

now that sounds like a great product!

[PVTCaboose1337]

I'm gonna recommend SUPER. I use this to convert multiple files. It is free and cheap.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

[panchoman]

I'm gonna recommend SUPER. I use this to convert multiple files. It is free and cheap.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

OMG that looks awesome.. im dl'ing right now..

[PVTCaboose1337]

OMG that looks awesome.. im dl'ing right now..

Just FYI, there is a slight learning curve, and the program is sometimes overly complicated (right click on the "to do" list), but it's good.

[panchoman]

Just FYI, there is a slight learning curve, and the program is sometimes overly complicated (right click on the "to do" list), but it's good.

looks like it

the website had a learning curve too... made me go in loops till i found the damn download.

[PVTCaboose1337]

I am also going to recommend Cain and Abel, a very nice "tool" for the computer. I need not say more, just try it. It does so many things it is scary.

http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

[panchoman]

I am also going to recommend Cain and Abel, a very nice "tool" for the computer. I need not say more, just try it. It does so many things it is scary.

http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

is that i what i think it is? :D

[cdawall]

flashget 1.73

[panchoman]

@ pvt...

http://img.techpowerup.org/080506/Capture404.gif

that thing just like blew me away when it opened (besides the incompatible message)

[PVTCaboose1337]

@ pvt...

http://img.techpowerup.org/080506/Capture404.gif

that thing just like blew me away when it opened (besides the incompatible message)

Just ignore it all like I do and use it.

[panchoman]

what is playable/unplayable on qt? quicktime? btw is the divx codec the lastest one? i love divx 5 its so much faster then divx 4

[PVTCaboose1337]

Dude I'm not sure. Just try it out and see. All I know is it does the job for me.

[Braveheart]

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ great disk cleaner, registry fixer.

http://www.jact.com/ very cool.

http://www.openoffice.org/ MS office suite for free, and IMO it's better.

http://www.gimp.org/ it's not photoshop but it's plenty close for free.

[panchoman]

of course theres http://www.defraggler.com/ and http://www.recuva.com/ from the same company that brought us the amazing ccleaner.

[Wile E]

Hmmm, gonna have to give Super a Try. Mediacoder is what I've been using. It's complicated, so I think Super should be easy for me to handle.

[cdawall]

i 2nd openoffice as being better and add overclockix which is a knoppix based distro it has overlcoking built in for ati/nv and a copy of memtest

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=overclockix

[panchoman]

http://showmypc.com/

excellent program, lets you easily and painlessly remotely view(and control if the user wants) your computer. i've used it for many purposes (including remote ocing). one time, i convinced this random noob to run it so that he could show me some awesome trick in WoW.. i took over his computer and started fucking around with it.. by the time he got back from where he had brb'ed to.. i was into his porn folder and fucking with stuff in there.. was so freaking hilarious..

[cdawall]

http://showmypc.com/

excellent program, lets you easily and painlessly remotely view(and control if the user wants) your computer. i've used it for many purposes (including remote ocing). one time, i convinced this random noob to run it so that he could show me some awesome trick in WoW.. i took over his computer and started fucking around with it.. by the time he got back from where he had brb'ed to.. i was into his porn folder and fucking with stuff in there.. was so freaking hilarious..

hell yea now i will be able to bypass school blocks

[panchoman]

http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/21/accessing-blocked-websites-use-your-own-proxy-server-at-home/

that might be easier and work better because showmypc needs to make ssh connections etc and it needs to downloaded, which might be blocked probably.

just follow that and use the no-ip duc method to make your server like

wikipedia.mooo.com or something.. dont put proxy or something similiar in the domain name.. as a lot of times it'll get auto blocked like that.

[spearman914]

http://tweakvi.en.softonic.com/download

Thats the Vista version of Tweak. TweakUI was mainly used for XP while the new one TweakVI is for Vista, :D

Also this one:

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

[mrw1986]

Got a couple, although one is actually a website.

Mediamonkey: Best music organizer / player / library app I've ever come across.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Pandora: An internet radio that uses the music genome project and helps introduce you to new music.
http://pandora.com/

Been using MediaMonkey for years, great app!

[oily_17]

An alternative to TPUCapture

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html

Quite handy tool and can save images in different formats .jpeg .bmp etc


Maybe not quite software but a good addon for Firefox

http://rip.mozdev.org/


be it unwanted forms, text based ads or just areas of a page (or website) you don't want to see anymore, RIP is for you.

Can remove all those unwanted things from web pages permanently.

EDIT: +1 on MediaMonkey,luv that app

[spud107]

http://www.mtvoid.com/
i use this to control winamp, and the pc lol

[mikek75]

I managed to lose my Partition table on my IDE media storage drive, I could see the drive in Disk Management but it showed it as unallocated space. Being a twat I didn't have a backup, and stood to lose 70+gb of pictures, music etc.

Had a google and found " Testdisk 6.9 ". Bloody brilliant, it rebuilt the partition table in a second and then told me to reboot. Lo and behold all my data was still intact! It also has a data recovery app in the download, though I haven't had to try it out yet. Best of all, its free!

[spud107]

xmplay, very small music player, but very functional,
http://www.un4seen.com/

[niko084]

Good thread, downloading lots of stuff now! :)

[Error 404]

not a program, but lots of them!

www.tinyapps.org

There are some really great apps there. Here's some that I recommend:
TinyResMeter, which shows what resources are being used, such as pagefile, RAM, CPU, and will also show the IP address and heaps of other stuff.

JRes: Ever been on a PC that has a bad screen resolution, but you're blocked from changing it? JRes will open in the taskbar and show you every possible resolution that the screen will support, and change it instantly. (it doesn't need admin privileges either!)

OffByOne internet browser: it is a tiny, tiny browser that will display most webpages.

Everything on this site is smaller than 1.44 MBs, which means you aren't clogging up your hard drive or wasting your downloads!

[Braveheart]

www.jact.com Oh my gosh! i am so hooked on TF2 now.

[Squirrely]

http://taskix.robustit.com/

It's one of my favorite programs. They have one for x64 based Windows, since the x86 versions do not work. :P

[hat]

www.jact.com Oh my gosh! i am so hooked on TF2 now.

this isn't a scam is it?

[Joshmcmillan]

This site has a bunch of video converters and tools that are all free. It's especially useful for converting stuff too put on a phone, PSP, mp4 player etc..

http://dvdvideosoft.com/

[psyko12]

That jact website seems interesting hehe hope it ain't scam, playing to get points and spending em, I think the concept was from AD sites where you click to earn cents and more u click the more you earn, but here it's gaming hours heheh...

BTW heres something I use to convert stuff...

Total Video Converter (http://www.effectmatrix.com/)

[farlex85]

The only one's I have to offer probably won't be of interest to many here, and context specific, but hey.
Sharepod (http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=IPod+Programs&Page=SharePod) nifty tool for those w/ a pod

Ruckus (http://www.ruckus.com/ruckus/home.do) You'll need access to an active college e-mail account for this, and its become a tad bloated w/ advertisements. But free and legal music, you can't argue w/ that.

Audicy (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) Requires you to play an instrument (or like mixing on your own), but free recording software thats solid is pretty hard to come by.

Fair Use (http://www.undrm.info/remove-DRM-protection/FairUse4WM-freeware-DRM-removal-Windows-software-Strip-copy-protection-from-WMV-ASF-WMA-Windows-Media-Player.htm) Down with DRM.:rockout:

Oh and DVD shrink (http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/). Backs up DVDs and compresses them w/o removing the quality.

[Rebo&Zooty]

http://www.abisource.com/

when you download get the current version from their ftp not the one linked on the main download page.

http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.6.3/Windows/

latist windows version from THIS MONTH.

abiwords a uber small word prosessor thats VERY ms word like, i persoaly prefer it to openoffice as a word prosessor :)

[Triprift]

http://showmypc.com/

excellent program, lets you easily and painlessly remotely view(and control if the user wants) your computer. i've used it for many purposes (including remote ocing). one time, i convinced this random noob to run it so that he could show me some awesome trick in WoW.. i took over his computer and started fucking around with it.. by the time he got back from where he had brb'ed to.. i was into his porn folder and fucking with stuff in there.. was
so freaking hilarious..

Yeah great little proggy i found out about it from u panch if i remembered correctly woot :toast:

And my contribution http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp

A number of great little proggys at that site :D

[Azazel]

http://www.gimp.org/ far from unknown..but still great

[pbmaster]

Free, easy, and really cool. I much prefer this over the built in Windows one.

http://www.izarc.org/

[Rebo&Zooty]

http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=4

best little nfo/diz/text viewer around, i LOVE IT, also suposedly has native x64 support( the version i have installed is the x64 version...think they are both in the installer or something)

[Triprift]

Vista shortcut manager (http://www.frameworkx.com/download.aspx)Handy little proggy for gettin rid of the arrows with desktop shortcuts under Vista.

[Rebo&Zooty]

Vista shortcut manager (http://www.frameworkx.com/download.aspx)Handy little proggy for gettin rid of the arrows with desktop shortcuts under Vista.

i got a handy little way to get rid of those, you boot from a cd/dvd and format C: ;)

[Triprift]

System info for windows (SIW) (http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html) like device manager but better in my view

[hat]

but if you do that, you risk having a gigabytes leak...

[wolf2009]

Hmmm, gonna have to give Super a Try. Mediacoder is what I've been using. It's complicated, so I think Super should be easy for me to handle.

i like AVIDEMUX (http://www.razorbyte.com.au/avidemux/) better than those .

[hat]

[pagE=Introduction]
[page=Making a bootable USB stick]
Making a bootable USB stick
The easiest way is to use the HP USB Stick format tool (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/34/images/SP27213.exe). It will work with any USB stick from any manufacturer.

Use the settings "FAT" and "Create a DOS startup disk":
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/34/images/hpusb.gif

Extract this ZIP file (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/34/images/USBImage.zip) and point the "using system files" location to it.

When the format is complete copy all files from that ZIP file onto the USB stick.

Additionally you need your flashing tools, just copy them onto the USB stick as well.

Booting from the USB stick
To actually boot from the USB stick you have to tell your motherboard BIOS to use it.
In your BIOS you will find an option which controls in which order boot devices are tried, or which lets you select what to try 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

We created our USB stick in HDD mode, that's why you have to select Hard Disk for the device and make sure it tries your USB "Harddisk" before your regular HDD (look for "Hard Disk Boot Priority").
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/34/images/boothdd.jpg

On some strange motherboards the USB stick is detected as floppy so if the Hard Disk setting does not work, try the other USB- settings and ultimately try disconnecting your HDD and selecting 'Hard Disk' as first boot device.

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/34/images/bootusbfdd.jpg



This is just badass awesome for getting into DOS... I use it for BIOS flashing my video card and motherboard.

[Rebo&Zooty]

acctualy most boards i have tested that on dont see the usb stick as an fdd, its seen as an HDD and as such is ignored by that setting, but the boot device menu works

[Braveheart]

this isn't a scam is it?

nope, go to google video and search "jact", watch the videos, read the comments, then go to their forums, read how happy people are with it, then try it.

[videospot]

That jact website seems interesting hehe hope it ain't scam, playing to get points and spending em, I think the concept was from AD sites where you click to earn cents and more u click the more you earn, but here it's gaming hours heheh...

BTW heres something I use to convert stuff...

Total Video Converter (http://www.effectmatrix.com/)

I also use this tool ,far better than other video converter software

[Triprift]

Z-Anaglyph (http://rosset.org/graphix/anaglyph/zanag_en.htm) cool proggy that turns ur photos in to 3d pictures.

[Rebo&Zooty]

BlueTack Host manager (http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=9240)

great little app that lets you easly download and update your host file to block adds and redirect sites as you wish, also lets you enable/dissable the hosts file quickly if you need to for some reasion.

better then any other method of blocking adds :)

[xmountainxlionx]

i found this last night. and i thought it was incredibly awesome and original
http://andrewrudson.com/drummachine/main.php

[das müffin mann]

so...much...cool...stuff...cant...control...myself *starts clicking the download button*

very useful thread btw never knew there was so many cool small apps laying around

[antzen]

i use CCleaner for years, but 1 month ago i heard for the first time that there are 2 other builds out : a slim-version and a portable-version .

to find here : http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds

[Triprift]

Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/)been out for a while in my view the best picture viewer period.

[Steevo]

I use the encoder for the ATI cards, works wonders and it is quick too.



X-Setup Pro is awesome.

[Black Panther]

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/k_lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm) - the only set of codecs which play all my files and dvd's without any problems and which do not interfere with games either.

DVD-Region + CSS Free (http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm) to watch dvd's from any region... but it costs $39.95
;)

[Rebo&Zooty]

Hmmm, gonna have to give Super a Try. Mediacoder is what I've been using. It's complicated, so I think Super should be easy for me to handle.

media coder does have a simple mode, it just defaults to complicated :P

i tryed simple, im to much of a setting tweaker to use it tho :/

[antzen]

another free video-converter, -downloader, -player ....

Internet Video Converter

import :
flv,mov,mpg,mpeg,vob,asf,divx,wmv,avi,mkv,mp4,3gp, ogm,ogg,qt,rm,ram,rmvb,dat,mod,dpg

export :
AVI (DivX, Xvid, DV, Direct Stream Copy, Uncompressed, Mjpeg)
MOV (Quicktime)
WMV (Zune, Windows Media)
MPG (Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Mpeg4, Mpeg VCD/SVCD/DVD)
MP4 (H264, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, PSP)
3GP (Mobile phone)
FLV (Streaming Flash)
SWF (Flash Animation)

http://ivcsoft.free.fr/index.php?2008/04/01/38--download-ivc-15218-standard-english-version-telecharger-ivc-15218-standard-version-francaise-portable-usb-key-cle-usb-u3-usb-key-cle-usb#eng

you can find there also a version without installer.

[antzen]

Startup Delayer

http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay

"Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program."

works also under Vista ...

[Mussels]

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/k_lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm) - the only set of codecs which play all my files and dvd's without any problems and which do not interfere with games either.

DVD-Region + CSS Free (http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm) to watch dvd's from any region... but it costs $39.95
;)

i am from the opposing group who claim Klite is a pain in the butt and bloated. i use CCCP, which is aimed to be a lot more lightweight and less chance of going wrong. (CCCP gets it first hit in google)

Startup Delayer

http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay

"Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program."

works also under Vista ...
Helllooooo

[Triprift]

Worldwide Telescope (http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx)sort of like google earth but shows outerspace major awesome :toast: 20 meg dl but worth it.

[xubidoo]

SequoiaView

program that shows a graphical picture of files on hard drive ,click on the block that is a file and it tells you what it is and where it is.
ever wondered wtf happened to all my space ? ,this program is v helpfull in tracking those large files u never knew you had :)

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoe...on/sequoiaview/

[Ben Clarke]

imeem.com is awesome for great music at great quality...

also, free flv converter is one of my software contributions to this thread: http://www.download.com/Free-FLV-Converter/3000-2194_4-10832044.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10832056

it lets you download things from so many places, including:
http://img.techpowerup.org/080505/Capture399.gif

and it'll download and convert the song into the loads of options it gives you for converting, as well as an audio only one, which is a great trick for getting music without having to do it illegally.

also, it does convert flv files as well

that site covered by the TPU logo... Nice try in hiding it lol

[lemonadesoda]

hwinfo32 http://www.hwinfo.com/

lightsmark http://dee.cz/lightsmark/

paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/

tclock http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/index.html

tpucapture http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1083/TPUCapture_Screenshot_Utility_v1.8.html

windows 2003 optimise tool http://www.kood.org/win-2003-optimize-tool-v146/

wireshark http://www.wireshark.org/

wordweb http://wordweb.info/

[a111087]

I don't know if it has already been mention but here it is....
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
free soft that lets you download videos, music, or flash content from ANY website (just right click in your Firefox and choose to grab video)!!!!!
this is so awesome, plus this is also serves as download manager.

[Wile E]

media coder does have a simple mode, it just defaults to complicated :P

i tryed simple, im to much of a setting tweaker to use it tho :/

I wasn't bitching about the complexity. lol.

i am from the opposing group who claim Klite is a pain in the butt and bloated. i use CCCP, which is aimed to be a lot more lightweight and less chance of going wrong. (CCCP gets it first hit in google)Agree x 1000000000000000000000. Klite is crap in comparison. It's shameful when a codec pack can have filter conflicts from a clean default install.

[hat]

CCCP? Whoa, you can download Russia?!

[Mussels]

CCCP? Whoa, you can download Russia?!

http://www.cccp-project.net/

it has the russian theme as a joke. according to the faq, we need to blame someone called movax for that.

http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Blame_Movax

[jonmcc33]

VirtualBox, link is in my signature and it's also my avatar. Most people are aware of Microsoft's VirtualPC, VMware and Parallels for virtual machines. After using Linux I stumbled upon VirtualBox and of course it also supports Apple Mac and Windows as well, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It is completely free and by far the most user friendly VM software that I have ever used. Tons of configuration options as well.

I use it for testing all the time and highly recommend it!

Reviews -

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3656503933.html

http://www.mangoorange.com/2007/07/05/5-reasons-why-you-should-use-virtualbox-instead-of-virtualpc-or-vmware/

http://lifehacker.com/367714/run-windows-apps-seamlessly-inside-linux

5 Million Downloads! http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-9955324-62.html

[antzen]

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=en

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

i use this program for recording music from turntable to pc (via usb) and editing.

[Mussels]

i've been using VMware workstation for a while, i'll try this free virtualbox...

[B1gg3stN00b]

For FLV converter, how do you get it to search from more sites?

[v-zero]

The Gimp - not quite photoshop, but as close as it gets for free... http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape - a great vector graphics illustrator.... http://www.inkscape.org/

[Triprift]

Yeah the gimps pretty good i rekon Paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net/)is also pretty cool

[xfire]

Image walker
www.imagewalker.com

[Guttboy]

I really like WinDirStat.....IMO an excellent program for showing your HDD contents!!!

http://windirstat.info/

I also LOVE TrueCrypt for hiding things from prying eyes!:D

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Great program for combining MP3's....I use this for audiobooks so I can combine chapters into one large MP3 for my Ipod.....

http://www.makeitone.net/index.htm

Hope you like these programs...I sure do!

[panchoman]

piclens.com !!!!!!!

works on tpu! sweet stuff!

[rangerone766]

I'm gonna recommend SUPER. I use this to convert multiple files. It is free and cheap.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

it is a bit complicated, but an awsome prog. i use it to shrink down vids i put on my zen vision w. takes a 350mb avi file and shrink it down to 85megs or so and still looks decent on the small 4.3 inch screen.

[oli_ramsay]

http://www.dvdflick.net/

the best program for burning DVDs from almost any file format, multithreaded too :toast:

[Triprift]

piclens.com !!!!!!!

works on tpu! sweet stuff!


Whats that dude? cant quite say ive heard of it. :o