First Freeware Friday!
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Okay, if I’m going to do this every week, I’m going to need y’all to send me your favorite new freeware finds whenever you find them. Please? I mean, the Internet gets bigger by the day - and there’s only so much this single Gnome can do. Assuming you can help me, let me give you our first “Freeware Friday” roundup!
Snippy - “How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and copied it to an email message? Snippy makes this a snap! Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy — that’s it, you’re done! The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.”
CD Art Display - “CD Art Display (formerly Winamp CD Case) is a free desktop program that shows the current song cover in a skinnable display. Winamp 5, AlbumPlayer 4.6, iTunes 6, foobar2000 (with Winamp API Emulator plugin), MediaMonkey, MP3Toys and QMP.”
The Sitter Downers SoundBoard - “The SoundBoard loads up to twelve .wav files, and allows you to play them at the click of a button. Each sound clips can be renamed have its volume set, and a position chosen. This configuration can be saved, and loaded so that your SFX are always instantly available and at the correct volume and position. Six
‘favourite’ sound schemes can be chosen so that they can be quickly retrieved.”
Pandora’s Box - “The problem I found with Pandora is that even with a minimal window, it meant there was another Internet Explorer / Firefox window open cluttering up my screen and I accidently either close the browser or refresh the window! I always thought it would be cool to have it run in the tasktray like Winamp and so took an hour off this evening to develop what I am calling Pandoras Box.”
2hotspot - “2hotspot is a service that enables you to create wireless hotspots for different purposes. Since 2hotspot software can run on any PC, your laptop is potentially a portable hotspot. 2 hotspot software supports all wireless routers and access points. Don’t have an access point? You can start with just a WiFi card.”
Got any classic clicks - or new faves you’ve just found?
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Wanda
October 11th, 2006
at 5:52am
ASAP Utilities is an add-in for Excel that does all sorts of neat things for you. Two of my favorites are putting all sheets in a workbook in alphabetical order and making a clickable index for you. Love it!
Gerry Vrbensky
January 15th, 2007
at 12:11pm
Autostitch(TM) - Freeware - is world’s first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. The user simply selects a set of images using the windows interface, and the software automatically stitches them into a panorama. This program has been tested under Windows XP/2000/98. The program automatically discovers and ’stitches’ together overlapping photos from a group of photos, and creates a panoramic output file. It can combine photos horizontally and vertically. There seems to be only two major requirements in taking the photos - they must overlap and they must be taken from a single point of view. The process will even work if some of the photos were taken with slightly different zoom settings! It requires no installation, and the single executable is quite small (~700kb), considering what it does. It’s small but powerful; amazingly incredible. It’s a must have for any camera buff.