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Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-20-2004 at 09:03 PM

If any of you have any cool programs, post them here, whether they are messenger related, plus related, or just messin' around

RE: Cool Programs! by reisyboy on 04-20-2004 at 09:04 PM

hmmm WinAmp

One of the best Audio programs in my opinion

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-20-2004 at 09:10 PM

Mp3tag - The best tagger (imo) for mp3's with aid of freedb
Firefox - Best browser (imo)

I'll post more when I recall them :grin:

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-20-2004 at 09:26 PM

I like Boost XP and Tweak Xp (probably because i mess my computer up so often)

RE: Cool Programs! by Jeronimo on 04-20-2004 at 09:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by KeyStorm
Mp3tag - The best tagger (imo) for mp3's with aid of freedb

I've been meaning to look for a decent tagger so I can sort out all my mp3's into something more uniform. I'll check this out, thanks (y)

Best programs for me:

Media Player Classic by Gabest - Fully featured media player with plenty of useful features - bonus is that its just one exe and not much over 1Mb in size

DVD-Lab - Excellent DVD authoring program. Easy to use, good results every time

WinRAR - Does the business when it comes to file archiving

AutoGK - Backing up DVD's made simple for monkeys

MSN Messenger 6.1 - A good Microsoft program??? Well yeah I think so. Runs solidly for me, and does the job very nicely.

Messenger Plus! - Makes the above piece of software really special

The first program I put on my machine after a reinstall

Firefox - Best software. Used about 50x more than anything else by me :gfdrin:

EDIT: Included URLs for the lazy amongst you

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-20-2004 at 10:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Jeronimo

quote:
Originally posted by KeyStorm
Mp3tag - The best tagger (imo) for mp3's with aid of freedb
I've been meaning to look for a decent tagger so I can sort out all my mp3's into something more uniform.

Me too

I think it's Open source, but i'm not sure :undecided:

... free, anyway.

Evillyrics - FREE - A magnific Lyrics/karaoke finder that works with most music players (it's not a plugin) (Still under dev, although stable enough)
Freemind - Open Source - Helps you to organize information and to structure ideas. Very original, try it (Still under dev)
XnView - FREE - This is a program to navigate through images in a huge number of formats, export them to another big number of formats, take screenshots in many ways, resize, crop, basic edition functions, scan, etc...

RE: Cool Programs! by zappy004 on 04-20-2004 at 10:20 PM

-MsgPlus (that makes my life sooooo better!)
-Power Tab Editor (so useful, can change MIDI in guitar or bass tabs)
-Winamp (well...)
-Fireworks ()

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-20-2004 at 10:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by zappy004
-MsgPlus (that makes my life sooooo better!)
-Power Tab Editor (so useful, can change MIDI in guitar or bass tabs)
-Winamp (well...)
-Fireworks ()

PowerTab is good (Y)

. I composed some things with it... it's neat.
Btw, don't post programs that were already said,

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-20-2004 at 10:26 PM

what's fireworks?

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-20-2004 at 10:30 PM

It's a picture editor by Macromedia (just like Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro). It's commercial and expensive, btw.

RE: Cool Programs! by Choli on 04-20-2004 at 10:32 PM

Messenger Plus! - of course
Rainlendar - a nice calendar on your desktop
WinRAR - the best compressor, imo
Avant browser - I dunno if it's the best browser, but it does and has what I want it to do and have.
eMule - a nice p2p program, easy to use
PaintShopPro - an image editor. quite complet program and easier to use than photoshop

mmm... and etc..

quote:
Originally posted by Jeronimo
Messenger Plus! - Makes the above piece of software really special The first program I put on my machine after a reinstall

the 2nd one, first you have to install msn msg

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-20-2004 at 10:34 PM

I prefer The Gimp, which is open source and powerful, although I rather use Photoshop.
I mean: it's a very good free alternative to all those :grin:

RE: Cool Programs! by Weyzza on 04-20-2004 at 10:42 PM

Avant
Ad-aware
Messenger Plus!
Spybot
ZoneAlarm (Y)

RE: Cool Programs! by Wabz on 04-20-2004 at 10:45 PM

Spywareguard
messenger plus!
winamp
mirc
polygamy

anything else i can live without

RE: Cool Programs! by ddunk on 04-20-2004 at 10:51 PM

Yz's Dock - A discontinued program but provides a dock bar such as Mac OS X's with auto hide option, so I don't have to worry about icons, makes the desktop look cleaner imo.

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-20-2004 at 10:56 PM

where's there a site to download that?

RE: Cool Programs! by kingboy on 04-20-2004 at 11:07 PM

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1037167525

i found it there its a beta though....is there a final or somfin?

RE: Cool Programs! by ddunk on 04-20-2004 at 11:08 PM

It never got out of beta, so that's probably your best bet.

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-21-2004 at 01:01 AM

Nice Looking, Any More Guys???

EDIT: or Girls??

RE: Cool Programs! by Chop on 04-21-2004 at 02:41 AM

The Dreamweaver and Fireworks
Nero Burning 6
Winamp 5

RE: Cool Programs! by Eric on 04-21-2004 at 04:58 AM

Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3 - File sharing client.
Macromedia Dreamweaver - Ummm...like Microsoft Frontpage, but I like this better.
Adobe Photoshop - Cool photo editor.
Macromedia Fireworks - Same as above, a little better.
Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition 8.0.9345 - Best AV.
Lavasoft Ad-Aware - Cool adware killer, doesn't serve my needs though.
Webroot Spy Sweeper - Another spyware/adware/malware/etc killer .
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 - I make flash movies with this.
Macromedia Director - I make shockwave files with this, but its rare to find shockwave files on the web.
Macromedia Flash Communication Server - This is used to make Flash MMORPGs and to make Flash-based chatting systems and stuff...lol
Mozilla Firefox - Cool browser...don't use it though..
Sun Java Console - The best java applet viewer
MS Java Console - Used to be the best java applet viewer
Visual J++/MS Java SDK - Currently unavailable except illegally, but these were THE best programs to make java applications.
VC++/VB/Delphi 7 - Best programming languages.

RE: Cool Programs! by chungster on 04-21-2004 at 05:16 AM

style xp-good for changing windows themes and other stuff
divx player-good for playing .avi files
leechget 2004-cool download manager
google toolbar-good for blocking pop ups and auto filler
stardock cursor xp-it has cool cursors

RE: Cool Programs! by azn angel on 04-21-2004 at 10:31 AM

Corel Draw
WinMX

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-21-2004 at 03:39 PM

i Prefer Morpheus or Kazaa (cracked ad-free)SHHHHH.......

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-21-2004 at 03:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by atownjoe2004
i Prefer Morpheus or Kazaa (cracked ad-free)SHHHHH.......

@ loads of ads and sypware

eMule is free, open scourced, with more than 20 actively developing mod-communities (so you have your best emule to choose) and no ads, no spam and no bullshit. (Y)

RE: Cool Programs! by Eric on 04-21-2004 at 04:46 PM

lol Keystorm, yeah e-Mule has its advantages it can connect to every single one of the networks and one of its own, but Shareaza is also cool

RE: Cool Programs! by Stigmata on 04-21-2004 at 05:06 PM

visual basic 6 (compared to say 4, its just plane great )
winamp 5.3 ......whistle
kazza lite (why get a cracked kazaa?)
msn messenger 6.2
ad-adware
mozilla firefox
mirc

RE: Cool Programs! by The_One_Is_Here on 04-21-2004 at 07:44 PM

- Incredimail Xe cool e-mail program (H)
-Window blinds Nice XP skinner
- And of course MSN Messenger 6.1 and Plus!

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-22-2004 at 12:34 AM

I'd probably rather have kazaa lite than kazaa with ad-ware......

Any More Programs
(good feedback so far)

RE: Cool Programs! by bach_m on 04-22-2004 at 02:02 AM

mine:
FIreFox,
iTunes,
MSN messenger and plus!
CuteFTP
Emule,
mirc
Fireworks.
notepad or emacs for coding

RE: Cool Programs! by dotNorma on 04-22-2004 at 02:05 AM

A flooder I just finished
Get It Here :tongue:

RE: Cool Programs! by Joe on 04-22-2004 at 04:27 AM

pretty cool NoName

Any More People?

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-23-2004 at 04:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Jeronimo
I've been meaning to look for a decent tagger so I can sort out all my mp3's into something more uniform. I'll check this out, thanks

How did you like it

RE: Cool Programs! by Jeronimo on 04-23-2004 at 05:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by KeyStorm

quote:
Originally posted by Jeronimo
I've been meaning to look for a decent tagger so I can sort out all my mp3's into something more uniform. I'll check this out, thanks
How did you like it

Not managed to try it out yet. Tonight I am planning a mad re-install of Windows, so I have a nice clean system to start from

I'll report back to you later hopefully with good news (yn)

RE: Cool Programs! by Smethead on 04-23-2004 at 08:58 PM

Azureus --> very good p2p .torrent downloader
CEDP Stealer --> Steal other peoples Custom Emoticons and display pictures
Cool Edit Pro--> sound editor

RE: Cool Programs! by CodeChaos on 04-24-2004 at 01:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Smethead
Azureus --> very good p2p .torrent downloader
CEDP Stealer --> Steal other peoples Custom Emoticons and display pictures
Cool Edit Pro--> sound editor

Cool Edit Pro is now known as Adobe Auditon

BTW...

Dreamweaver MX 2004 (for webmasters)

Fireworks MX 2004 (for designers)

RE: RE: Cool Programs! by .blade// on 04-24-2004 at 01:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by TotalKaos
Dreamweaver MX 2004 (for webmasters)

You mean for n00bs, don't you?

Webmasters use raw code, Dreamweaver is a n00b tool for creating easy websites.

RE: Cool Programs! by bach_m on 04-24-2004 at 02:05 AM

no, frontpage is

dreamweaver provides a slightly more advanced work environment.

but GNU emacs is the best

RE: Cool Programs! by lizard.boy on 04-24-2004 at 02:55 AM

actually i think dreamweaver is for noobs and pros. sure a noob can use it but only a pro who knows the code can get the full html goodness out of it

RE: Cool Programs! by Menthix on 04-24-2004 at 11:19 AM

Pro's use a text editor for writing HTML, PHP etc. Well, many of them.

I use UltraEdit, it's basicly a very advanced text editor with all kinds of feature like syntax highlighting and more.

http://www.ultraedit.com/

RE: Cool Programs! by TedoDude on 04-24-2004 at 03:08 PM

Simply,

notepad

RE: Cool Programs! by dotNorma on 04-24-2004 at 03:19 PM

quote:
Originally posted by TedoDude
Simply,

notepad

Yep , Thats what I use and always have :tongue:

All the fancy html editors are harder for me because they have to many features like Office 2003 :mipdodgy:

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-24-2004 at 03:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by gigablade77
You mean for n00bs, don't you? Webmasters use raw code, Dreamweaver is a n00b tool for creating easy websites.

Dreamweaver has code highlighting and code helpers, so it's very useful for pros and n00bs (pro's have better things to do than remember all arguments of a any PHP function :refuck:

).
Obviously if you used the WYSIWYG feature you saw it's as simple as using MSWord and getting very good results, so it's perfect for n00bs who don't want to know anything about code.

I used to use the notepad... but the problem is that you have to manually upload it to the server and you can't find things easily in a long file (tabs, colors, and code navigatos help very much and make you work quicklier).

Frontpage is crap. It's resulting WYSIWYG pages are 3 or 4 times the size it would be if written by hand and most times results are not as good (browser incompatibility, etc). But it's easy to use and as many learning centres have Office installed they tend to teach to use Frontpage than Dreamweaver.

There's absolutely no point in saying DW is for noobs.

RE: Cool Programs! by Anubis on 04-24-2004 at 03:42 PM

Mainly when I'm putting a webpage together I'll use notepad and then tidy it up in FrontPage if necessary...1st Page 2000 is good as well

RE: Cool Programs! by lizard.boy on 04-24-2004 at 03:48 PM

i use dreamweaver for everything i do the only thing is i hardly use the wysiwyg anymore because recently i've been doing dynamic templates.

RE: Cool Programs! by Patchou on 04-24-2004 at 04:35 PM

quote:
Webmasters use raw code

lol... "and Linux was then created". You can't do any serious work with notepad guys, get real for 2 seconds

. I personally think that the best thing is a mix of both. Use a WYSIWYG program to create the cool look of your site, then use a text editor to program some of the technical features of your page.

RE: Cool Programs! by Mippo on 04-24-2004 at 04:48 PM

I created my whole website using Notepad, and the images with Adobe Photoshop... It's not too bad, imho. I made all my websites with those 2 programs. Still good enough for me!

RE: Cool Programs! by Tochjo on 04-24-2004 at 07:41 PM

While we're advertising HTML editors, let me advertise the good one I use: http://webwriter.dk/english/index.htm. It's simple, I agree, but you can register it for free, it's understandable and it does the job, so I'm happy

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RE: Cool Programs! by Stigmata on 04-24-2004 at 07:49 PM

html - kit....

i only use it for php its very good

RE: Cool Programs! by KeyStorm on 04-24-2004 at 08:14 PM

html-kit is very powerful indeed (Y)

RE: Cool Programs! by bach_m on 04-24-2004 at 08:23 PM

GNU EMACS!!!

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