What free software are you still missing?

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MightyKitten scribebat:
3) I support John Corliss cry for a TTF editor
(The link given by onno Tasler gave me a corrupt exe file)
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Ahhh... That link wasn't from me. I do not know any TTF editors.
Thus, it would be strange if you had found a working TTF editor on any
link I gave. ;) (Perhaps it was the other Onno, here are two of us)

bye,

Onno
 
Guyon Morée said:
I am a developer waiting to get my hands on a nice project to do and
preferably release it as free. (given it is useful ofcourse)

So I was wondering, what freeware are you missing. Where are you still
using 'commercial'-software because there is no decent freeware
alternative?
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Something like Quicken or MS Money.
The existing freewares are very limited, and not as easy to use.
And none have auto-reconcile.
 
Bob Adkins said:
Thanks MK, but 3.xxx and above are bloated. I use Firegraphic for now,
and it's actually a pretty good graphics viewer.

Bob

Remove "kins" from address to reply.
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Why do you class ACDSEe 3.x as bloated?? Thats reserved for 5.x and 6.x/
2.43 might be the fastest.
 
What would be really nice would be a .pdf viewer which could also fill out (and
save!) form information in a .pdf, as well as allowing one to do annotations.
One could start that by porting xpdf.

Alternately, if you're interested in Objective C, take a look at the recently
updated Windows install for the base parts of GNUstep, install that and see if
you could get the GNUstep pdf viewing utility working.

I'd dearly love to see a replacement for Creature House Expression,
http://www.creaturehouse.com --- Microsoft bought them out and despite a
promise to have downloads / purchasing working again in November of _2003_, no
joy.

Or, a replacement for Adobe's (formerly Right Brain's) TouchType.app for
NeXTstep. Take a look at http://www.rightbrain.com which has a brief mention of
it, as well as a link to my page on it:

http://www.members.aol.com/willadams/gnustep/apps/type/touchtype.html

William
 
ok-NOSPAMww1 said:
A decent stand alone spreadsheet program. I don't want to install an entire
office suite just for the spreadsheet.
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An e-mail program (similar to Outlook) that supports multiple accounts
(not identities), has calendaring and scheduling and minimizes to the
system tray. Or is there one already?
 
I am a developer waiting to get my hands on a nice project to do and
preferably release it as free. (given it is useful ofcourse)
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So I was wondering, what freeware are you missing. Where are you still using
'commercial'-software because there is no decent freeware alternative?
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Three programs.

(1) A freeware version of ;

http://www.funduc.com/app_inv.htm

(2) A similar one would be able to search a directory and tell which
..exe files were extracted and which were not. Perhaps being able to
do a "compressed" and an "extracted" list ?

(3) Another would be able to search a list of compressed .exe and .zip
files and list the application, name, version etc. of each.

AFAIK neither of the last two exist in freeware OR as commercialware.

Regards, John.
 
(3) Another would be able to search a list of compressed .exe and .zip
files and list the application, name, version etc. of each.
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Hi John,

Have you tried SoftCat? I don't think it does ZIP files, but it does EXE's.
It's pretty good at extracting basic program and version information, and
building a little database on your files.

Bob

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Bjorn Simonsen wrote in <[email protected]>:

[about: file-renamers that can shorten very long filenames,
if needed prior to CD-burning for example]
But to keep this on topic, I haven't had the time to look at the
various renamers for said feature/option, but if I where to look I
guess The Rename would be among the first on my list.
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Just had a quick look and can confirm that "The Rename"
(a very flexible file renamer IMHO)
<http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.htm#FileRenamer>
can do this.

Another candidate with such capabilities is "1-4a Rename"
<http://www.1-4a.com/rename/> (not as flexible as The Rename it seems,
but perhaps - and maybe for this reason - easier to use for some).
See: <http://www.1-4a.com/rename/rename-examples.htm>
just below middle of page - under the heading;
"Some file names are longer than 64 chars. I cannot write them on
my CD-Rs"

I am sure there are other renamers that can do the same (never felt
the need to look closer at the various the alternatives as I am quite
happy with the flexible renamer offered by my copy of Total Commander
(shareware)).

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Hi Bob,
Have you tried SoftCat? I don't think it does ZIP files, but it does EXE's.
It's pretty good at extracting basic program and version information, and
building a little database on your files.
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Does it give that information without extracting compressed .exe
files ? I didn't think it did. I also want the above info from the
executable in .zip files.

Thanks for the suggestion however. :-)

Regards, John.
 
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:34:24 +0100, "Andreas Kaestner"

o A program which logs all downloads (date, time, website),
and issues a warning when a file already has been downloaded
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< snip >

Don't most download managers do that ? FlashGet (adware/spyware ?)
certainly does.

Regards, John.

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What I want is a program that reads the subject and will remove all spaces,
dots etc. Then "nailfungus" or "Viagra" etc, could be targeted and would
bounce. That would be easy to write. What I need is a tie-in to OE.
Challenge?
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PopFile or K9 would easily find those examples and set them as spam if
that is what you wanted :

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

http://keir.net/k9.html

Regards, John.

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Earlier today I tried a renamer program called Siren, which was
announced here a few days before. It didn't solve the problem
either, it would need a specially created filter, if at all
possible.
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I'd say this can be done with Siren. Let's say you want to shorten file
names to 8 characters long. Type
%b(1,8).%e
in Siren's expression field. Change the number (8) to your liking. "%e"
means the extension.
 
Anne said:
I'd say this can be done with Siren. Let's say you want to shorten file
names to 8 characters long. Type
%b(1,8).%e
in Siren's expression field. Change the number (8) to your liking. "%e"
means the extension.
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I found another solution using Total Commander, but thanks anyway.
I suspected it could be done in Siren too, but didn't have time to learn
its expressions.

There is a third alternative, something else could happen :-)
 
John Fitzsimons ([email protected]) schrieb/wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:34:24 +0100, "Andreas Kaestner"



< snip >

Don't most download managers do that ? FlashGet (adware/spyware ?)
certainly does.
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Sorry for being unclear. Should read "... issues a warning when a file
already has been downloaded but resides anywhere else than the
download folder to prevent multiple downloads of the same file"
 
Anne wrote in said:
I'd say this can be done with Siren.
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Thank you Anne, good to know. To summarize so far, File Renamers we
know can handle shortening (truncation) of very long filenames:

1-4a Rename <http://www.1-4a.com/rename/>

Siren <http://www.scarabee-software.net/>

The Rename <http://www.herve-thouzard.com/therename.phtml>

<http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.htm#FileRenamer>

And a finder that can help you find long file names,
but where you must do the renaming file by file your self:
Long Filename Finder
Let's say you want to shorten file names to 8 characters long.
Type %b(1,8).%e in Siren's expression field. Change the number
(8) to tyour liking. "%e" means the extension.
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The syntax in The Rename is slightly different, but follows the same
logic, so if 8 is the number then:
<PRLeft,8>.<curext>

Some other nice features I have noticed about The Rename program,
regarding very long file names: It has configurable options (under
View, Options menu) like:

under "General":
Find Long Names
[x] Check Path + Filename (default)
[ ] Filename Only
[ ] Path Only
[ ] Prefix Only

under "Monitor Long Names"
[ ] Monitor Long Names
Maximum Lenth of Name [255] (default)
When a filename is to long:
[ ] Ask confirmation before renaming it
[X] Don't rename it (default)
[ ] Ask me the name
[ ] Truncate the name with given length
Length [___]

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Roger Johansson wrote in said:
There is a third alternative, something else could happen :-)
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Nope, if "something else" implies "a thing" will not happen, then said
thing will not happen. If not, it happens. :)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
John Fitzsimons said:
PopFile or K9 would easily find those examples and set them as spam if
that is what you wanted :

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

http://keir.net/k9.html

Regards, John.
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Thanks but as near as I can tell from the write up, it is restrictive to
what you put into it.

The illustration I used of nail fungus comes as n.ail fungus, na il fung
us, and at least 30 more variations that I have seen. The last one even
spelled the last word wrong but recognizable. I suppose nothing could
combat that short of a bomb at the source. The body of the ad is a picture
so a word there can't be targeted either. (I did find a short line in the
body not in the picture to act on that I added to my filters that may have
worked because I haven't gotten one for a whole day.)

A program that would sort and remove *all* punctuation would let you target
particular phrases in filters like K9, etc. My isp has an add-to filter we
can extend with personal wants but these spellings have to be reduced down
to a common denominator to target. The sort I refer to would do that.

Sorry for getting so wordy but at least I think my wants are plain as well
as should be simple to program.

Glenn
 
Roger Johansson qoted and replied:
and Bjorn Simonsen replied:
Nope, if "something else" implies "a thing" will not happen, then said
thing will not happen. If not, it happens. :)
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I'm with Roger. Let's use the classical example of the coin flip onto a flat
surface:

- heads ~50%
- tails ~50%
(but see recent research on a slight bias towards the coin favouring the side
which was up)

A remote possibility is that the coin will land on its edge, or it might miss
the surface, go down an air vent &c.

There's even the astronomically remote possibility it might strick something in
its trajectory (say a micro meteorite) which destroys it.

William
 
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