[PL] 2004 Program Descriptions

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[email protected] said:
IIRC the author didn't have the time to develop the program furher (that's
why it's still "beta"), so he shut down the site, but kept the download
available. The frontpage hasn't been available for almost 2 years...
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thanks JanC, I just noticed the only thing that loads on their front page
is F3PN ? in the IE title bar, did a search on F3PN, and found they were
hackers who had deface a few sites.. thats why I thought it was defaced
by them.

regards
stan
 
Susan Bugher wrote:
If you did not submit a complete program description with your
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note: this is NOT a discussion thread. Please hold your fire. Thank
you. :)

Susan
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Geez your drunk tests sure are hard!! :) (Steve Martin)

Program: Madotate v2.0
Ware Type: Freeware (As if I would submit anything else!)
OS: Win9x, NT, 2000, XP
Language: English, Japanese
Category: Desktop Customizer
Author: Takayuki Shinohara
e-mail: (e-mail address removed)


Description:
Madotate lets you add a new button to the left of the minimize button of
each open window, allowing you to flip a window up with its lower half
receding into the distance. Thus, you can store your windows flattened near
the top or the bottom or either side of the screen like stacked window
panes, each with its own title tab. The program runs as a convenient icon
in the System Tray area of the Windows taskbar.

Comment:
Puts autoarrange and cascade windows to shame so far as utility is
concerned and looks way cool besides :)

Homepage:
http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~seahorse/mtate2/

Download 1 English Version:
http://www.interq.or.jp/jupiter/philsci/iw-arc-10/mtate_en.zip ~400Kb
English Documentation:
http://www.interq.or.jp/jupiter/philsci/iw-html-10/en-madotate.html

Download 2 Japanese Version:
http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~seahorse/mtate2/file/mtate20202.exe ~383Kb

Screenshot:
http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~seahorse/mtate2/mtimage_20030217.jpg

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dansheen said:
This is the best screensaver I've found. Newer versions are not
freeware:

2Flyer Screensaver Builder is a Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP tool
which lets you make your own screensavers. Collects up to 1000
JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP or WMF, EMF images and 2flyer will merge them into
a Screensaver Adds MP3, WAV or MID sound and music files to your
screensavers to be played while the images are displayed Displays
images with 240 transition effects - as many as you can imagine
Creates a single .exe screen saver installation file - email and
share the screensaver with your friends at any time.

http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/MMedia.html
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May I nominate a tiny, no install "Mini Visio" type program

Diagram Designer 0.90
Graphics

Freeware for Win32
Download (654 kb)
Description
Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowchart and diagrams. "

Features
Customizable template object palette.
Import/export WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF and PCX images.
Simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions.
Advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver.
MeeSoft Image Analyzer integration for bitmap image editing and extende file
format support.
Uses compressed file format for minimizing drawing file size.

http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/DiagramDesigner/index1.php
 
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Can I suggest a new/updated nnCron LITE description (the shorter one)?

nnCron LITE (Freeware) OS: Win9*/ME, WinNT/2000/XP
English
Small, freeware, full-featured scheduler, that can launch applications
and open documents at specified time or with specified frequency. nnCron
LITE can be started as a system service or as a regular standalone
application. This is a UNIX Cron/Anacron ported to Windows. It is not
resource demanding, and it can run even on very older PCs without any
noticeable performance degradation. We have never seen it's service to
allocate more than 150k of operative memory.
Company: nnSoft ([email protected]), Home Page: http://www.nncron.ru/
#nncronlt
Download Link: http://www.nncron.ru/download.shtml (updated frequently,
~225k)
(desc. rev.: x)


Thanks!
 
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Splitter & Merger 5.0 for Windows

From the Readme file:

Splitter & Merger 5.0 for Windows
=================================

Author : Hector A. Maldonado Melgar
E-Mail : (e-mail address removed)
URL : http://www.splitter.vze.com

Plattform : Windows 95(OSR2)/98/NT/2000/XP
License : Freeware/Donationware

Size : 30Kb (exe).


============================================================================
====
Please visit http://www.splitter.vze.com to get the user's manual, the FAQs,
updates and newer versions of S&M.

Description :
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* Splitter & Merger is a tool whose function is to split large files into
maller
and easy to manage ones.

* Splitter & Merger is able to compress files before splitting them. With a
reduced file, fewer parts are generated and as a result the split file is
easier to transport.

* As opposed to many similar tools, Splitter & Merger splits the files at
very
high speed.

* Its reduced size of 29Kb makes it very easy to transport and compared to
similar products it doesn't depend on external files like DLLs, OCXs, etc.

* Splitter & Merger can generate the first part as an executable module
(SFX).
As a result S&M can rejoin the parts again in another computer without S&M
installed.

* Splitter & Merger can integrate with the Windows shell. Now users can
split
any file by right-clicking on it and choosing "Split with Splitter &
Merger".
In a similar way the parts can be rejoined easily by right-clicking the
appropriate .SPL file and choosing "Merge" from the Windows context menu.

* Splitter & Merger can split files easily by dragging any file and dropping
it
over S&M icon (and rejoin files by dragging the appropriate .SPL file).

* Splitter & Merger can generate the parts directly to a removable unit
(like
diskettes) and also make disk spanning. To do this you must select
?autodetect" as the part size. (Read the manual for more details.)

* Splitter & Merger has no limit to the size of the file to split. It can
split
files bigger than 4.2 GB without problems.

* Many other features. Please take a look! :)
 
Susan Bugher said:
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Quick Favorites Search

From the Developer's Website:
Quick Favorites Search

Quick Favorites Search (QFS) is a tiny Visual Basic program that fast
searches on the "Favorites" directory for a string in the name (or in the
URL) of your Internet's shortcut files. It can also read Netscape Navigator
and Opera bookmark files.

The program was written because the fact that, although one maintains a
structured and sorted favorites folder, it's lots faster to search for a
favorite than navigating the long structured favorites tree.

If you have hundreds or thousands of favorites, try QFS! It's is worth
downloading and trying! The download is only 30 KB.

Quick Favorites Search was written by Kikerl and updated by Chris Harris.
 
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dBpowerAMP Music Converter:

From the developer's web site (http://www.dbpoweramp.com) :

dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC), is one of those must have utilities,
indispensable for converting audio files from one format to another:
a.. Rip (record) from Audio CDs,
b.. Edit ID Tags & Display Track Info,
c.. Preserve ID Tags on Conversion,
d.. Huge range of Codecs - mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg
Vorbis, aac, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others,
e.. Record from LPs or anything,
f.. 100% Free, no nags, popups, hidden spy or bundleware.
 
I noticed that I did nominate JB Cat but I do not see it in the
nominations list, is this because the authors link is down at the
moment. His domain is still there just no index page, so it should be
back soon as it was so recently ago, and the author is still working on
the program. for those interest though heres the info about it:

JBCat v.2.0.0.11 FW 1616 Kb 03.02.03
By Jan van den Borst Software Development. JBCat is a powerfull disk and
file catalog application. It stores information of CDROM's , drives and
other devices in (regular text format) catalog files. The format of
these files is compatible with (Windows Commander's diskdir plugin). The
catalog files can be searched using a algorithme that supports regular
expression.
Version 2 highlights:
Improved speed
ZIP file support
Drag/Drop support
Print support
Configurable "double click" action
Customizable export facility
WinXP theme support.


Fully functional
Source: None
Download: ME NT4 W2K W95 W98 XP

Can be found and downloaded here:
http://www.torry.net/apps_filecatalog.htm

Also gets a mention here but that then points to the authors page:
http://www.ghisler.com/tools.htm


Kingtut1
 
kalynuik1 said:
I noticed that I did nominate JB Cat but I do not see it in the
nominations list, is this because the authors link is down at the
moment. His domain is still there just no index page, so it should be
back soon as it was so recently ago, and the author is still working
on the program. for those interest though heres the info about it:

JBCat v.2.0.0.11 FW 1616 Kb 03.02.03
By Jan van den Borst Software Development. JBCat is a powerfull disk
and file catalog application. It stores information of CDROM's ,
drives and other devices in (regular text format) catalog files. The
format of these files is compatible with (Windows Commander's diskdir
plugin). The catalog files can be searched using a algorithme that
supports regular expression.
Version 2 highlights:
Improved speed
ZIP file support
Drag/Drop support
Print support
Configurable "double click" action
Customizable export facility
WinXP theme support.


Fully functional
Source: None
Download: ME NT4 W2K W95 W98 XP

Can be found and downloaded here:
http://www.torry.net/apps_filecatalog.htm

Also gets a mention here but that then points to the authors page:
http://www.ghisler.com/tools.htm


Kingtut1
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The homepage that you gave in an earlier post:
http://www.jbsoft.myweb.nl/
will no longer function, as MyWeb.nl has been taken over by Wanadoo.nl

The homepage that Omega gave is the right one:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jbsoft/jbcat.html

There is also a history page:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jbsoft/jbcathistory.htm
FWIW: it seems to show that:
the latest "release" version is:
JBCat 1.0.0.25 dated: 2001-05-17
Newer beta versions are:
JBCat 1.5.0.2 dated: 2002-01-27
JBCat 2.0.0.11 b1 dated: 2003-01-27
 
kalynuik1 said:
I noticed that I did nominate JB Cat but I do not see it in the
nominations list, is this because the authors link is down at the
moment. His domain is still there just no index page, so it should be
back soon as it was so recently ago, and the author is still working on
the program. for those interest though heres the info about it:
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It's on the Nominations page. You *should* be able to see it. Would you
take another look and let me know if you're still having a problem.

This is the link to the description:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004ORGANIZERS.htm#J105

Susan
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An aside: http://pricelessware.org/2001/ is missing?
How about a PL Archives link in the main menu?
Now back to the regularly scheduled programming...

Below the programs I nominated which were seconded:

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Category: Internet
Sub-Cat: Email and News Client

Pimmy (Freeware)
OS: Win98/Me, WinNT 4.0/2000/XP, Win95 with IE 4.0 or higher
(English, French, Indonesian, Italian)
Geminisoft Pimmy is an email and newsgroup client that allows you to
manage multiple email accounts and newsgroups. You can check your mail,
save it locally, send replies, preview messages, delete selected items
and more. It also comes with a built-in address book and support for
custom signatures and templates. Pimmy can automatically download your
mail, notify you when new mail arrives and more. See the site for the
full set of features. Zip file to download is less than 300KB !!!
Authors: Angelo & Antonio Donatiello
HomePage: http://www.geminisoft.com/
English Homepage: http://www.geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/
Download: http://www.geminisoft.com/pimmy.eng/download.htm

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Category: File Utilities
Sub-Cat: Empty Recycle Bin

RecycleNOW (Freeware) OS: Windows 9*/ME/NT/XP
(English)
RecycleNOW is a small utility that, when triggered, immediately empties
the Recycle Bin. It is meant to be a time-saver as, especially on slower
computers, emptying the Bin can take a while. There is no interface,
just run it and it will automatically empty the recycle bin. You can use
a scheduler to run it, run it from the command line etc. Very simple,
but may be useful for some.
Author: David De Groot, Hard worker, geek. Also: genius, may not be
disturbed. Always busy, fine-tuning things, making the world a better
place to live in. [Picture removed to protect the ugly]
HomePage: http://bluefive.pair.com/recyclenow.htm
Download: http://bluefive.pair.com/RecycleNOW.zip

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Category: Internet
Sub-Cat: Current Version System

ToirtoiseCVS (Open Source)
TortoiseCVS lets you work with files under CVS version control directly
from Windows Explorer. It's freely available under the GPL.
With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and
see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer.
You can see the state of a file with overlays on top of the normal icons
within Explorer. It even works from within the file open dialog.
You can perform tagging, branching, merging and importing, and you can
go directly to a browser web log (using ViewCVS or CVSWeb) on a
particular file.
Contributers: http://www.tortoisecvs.org/contributors.shtml
HomePage: http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
Download: http://www.tortoisecvs.org/download.shtml

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Description revision submission

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Program Name: RegMagik
Description: Registry Editor
Category: System Utilities
Sub-Category: System Utilities > Registry Tools > Editors
Ware Type: Pure Freeware
OS: Win 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Special Requirements: none
Author: Boris Guzner
Homepage: http://members.aol.com/BGuzner/software/
Download (v3.23): http://members.aol.com/BGuzner/software/rm.setup.exe
Screenshot: http://www.freewarefiles.com/scrnshot/regmagik.gif

RegMagik is a fast and quick registry editor with a number of nice advantages.
It provides an excellent in-pane search results display, with sortable columns.
It has a convenient bookmarks system, with drag & drop support to your desktop.
Its forward and back keys make navigation quick; and the whole registry editing
process is simplified by its display of only those sub-branches accessed during
a current session. Its most special feature, found nowhere else, is its GUID
jump capability. When a value contains a GUID, RegMagik can auto-jump to its
correspondent definition key. This editor is light, polite, and happy to serve.

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comments

When doing my initial nomination post for this software, in being
most concerned about best pimping it up, I went for a list format
of its features. I realize that the format looks terribly awful when
compressed to a paragraph, as seen on the PL web page. So here is
a revision, which I hope will be accepted, although I'm pretty tardy
to get to it.

You might notice that I changed the URL. Both URLs - the one given
initially, or the one above - they come out with the same result.
It's this new URL I slightly prefer, as it's shorter, and less
odd-looking, compared to <members.aol.com/_ht_a/bguzner/software/>.
 
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