Handy software got something you can recommend or use

[Bluey]

We like to take the odd screen shot from time to time and also like to date and add coments to it for later use and recall. Have had and use this little app for years and it comes in handy and easy to use with our desktop's, OS, XP pro SP2.

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# JotSmart.
JotSmart is a multimedia enhanced screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture any information from your desktop or any software, annotate this information with graphic highlights, text notes and even add voice messages. Then, with one button click, send this annotated information to your e-mail program. Your marked-up information will appear directly embedded (optional as attachment) in a new message. You can add additional text messages, specify recipients and send the message on it's way. JotSmart creates files that can be viewed, played and edited with most standard graphics and audio software.

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[MrEMan]

In no particular order a list of my favorites :)

Firefox
http://www.getfirefox.com/
If you haven’t switched to Firefox for your web browsing needs, do it now. It stops annoying popups and it has tons of amazing plugins that can make surfing the web even better. I could evangelize all day about Firefox, but one thing’s for sure: the first thing I do on any new Windows machine is run Internet Explorer just long enough to download Firefox.

Pidgin
http://www.pidgin.om/
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. ICQ, MSN and Yahoo are just a few.

uTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/
“BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means of distributing, discovering, and consuming large, high-quality files on the Web. Our mission is simple: to deliver the content that entertains and informs the digital world.” In other words, BitTorrent allows you to download large media files and also use your bandwidth to help others download these files. Search for media files you want and download them.

GIMPShop
http://www.gimpshop.net/
Replaces Adobe Photoshop
This is a version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program that does a pretty solid job of imitating Adobe Photoshop - a regular user of Photoshop can adapt to it quite quickly. It’s very richly featured and runs quite well - in fact, I see no reason to ever go back, even if Photoshop were free.

VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Replaces Windows Media Player, Quicktime, RealPlayer, etc.
If you get tired of having tons of media players on your computer, get this package that runs pretty much every media type you’ll run across without breaking a sweat.

Filezilla
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.

MusikCube
http://www.musikcube.com/
musikCube is an mp3 player for the modern generation. It helps you just listen to what you want to hear, while offering innovative features not seen elsewhere. Its fast. Really fast. "Dynamic playlists" allow fully automatic, randomized playback of songs based on your observed listening habits. The more you listen, the smarter it gets. It also features browsable, user reorderable playlists.

Handbrake
http://handbrake.m0k.org/
Unique but essential
Handbrake enables you to stick a DVD in your DVD drive and have the contents of that film stored to your hard drive in a form that can be read by pretty much any media player.

Foxit Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

PDFCreator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Replaces Adobe Acrobat
PDFCreator creates a virtual printer on your computer that, if you print a document to it from any program, creates a PDF of that document that can be read on any computer with FoxIT Reader (Acrobat Reader) on it. After installing PDFCreator, all you have to do is print like normal and out comes a PDF!

Media Coder
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices.

[Bluey]

Free Full commercial app.

Creating a simple web site. Point and Click.

Serif WebPlus 7
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/download/serif-webplus-7.aspx
Platform: Windows 98,Windows NT,Windows 2000,Windows XP
Size: 38.8MB

Download
ftp://Serif:WebPlus7@ftp.vnudownloads.org/webplus7.zip

Verdict: Ignore the ‘time limited demo’ reference on this page. You need to obtain a serial code to turn Serif WebPlus 7 in to a full application. To do this, install the software and follow the instructions provided at the Serif website under support, free reg and receive a code.

Creating a simple web site doesn't have to involve mastering a complex development environment, learning CSS or XML, or ploughing your way through a manual that's the same size as your head. WebPlus 7 takes a different approach, closer to Serifs desktop publishing packages, which ensures you'll get an attractive site online with the minimum of effort.

Choose the Web Wizard option from the splash screen, for instance, and you'll be presented with a range of different templates for both business and personal sites. Pick your favourite, and customise it with details like your name, email address, titles for various pages, then complete the customisation by choosing a colour scheme.

when you're finished, WebPlus automatically generates the site, which will include several common pages ("About", "Photo Gallery" and "Links" for a personal site, say). If you don't need anything else, then completing the site is simply a matter of replacing the default text and images with your own.

If you'd like to get more creative, though, WebPlus has plenty of tools to help. There's LogoPlus, for instance, for designing fancy headings and text effects (similar to WordArt in Microsoft Office). You get libraries of graphical logos, flashes and backgrounds. And you can apply different colours, a range of gradient fills or transparencies just by one or two mouse clicks.

WebPlus is all about the visuals, so it's no surprise that there's a distinct lack of web development tools. It's mainly aimed at creating simple static HTML sites only. But if you have slightly more advanced needs, then click Insert > Web Object for some assistance: here you can add Java applets, or custom HTML code and Javascript for a little added interactivity.

This software could help someone build a website that does not know very much about HTML and design. It is just about all point and click and upload to ones server.

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[RageCash-Ben]

Type It In (http://www.wavget.com/typeitin.html) One of the first things I install after a format.

Has a little floating window that has buttons you can load with whatever you cut and paste regularly.

[TPG]

Well here’s my list of favorite/most used utilities.

Firefox
http://www.getfirefox.com/
A great browser with excellent extensions and add-ons – I can’t live without!

Spyware Terminator
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
Very easy to use and reliable free virus scanner.

CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
An excellent freeware system optimizer.

uTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/
A great and reliable Torrent client.

BitLord
http://www.bitlord.com/
Another great client I use daily – damn I miss demonoid!

WinAmp Mp3 Player
http://www.winamp.com/
A reliable, free, mp3 player.

Fraps
http://www.fraps.com/
Great real-time video capture utility.

CoffeeCup FTP
http://www.coffeecup.com/free-ftp/
An awesome free FTP program.

itags
http://www.itagsoftware.com/
A good free photo tagging software – aussie made mind you!

Rename Wiz
http://www.renamewiz.com/
An old-school but very reliable renaming tool.

EditPlus 2
http://www.editplus.com/
A great text/html editor – gav actually put me onto a while back.

AVS Video Converter
http://www.avsmedia.com/VideoTools/index.aspx
A great file clip converter – very useful.

Sony Vegas 8
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/product.asp?pid=457
Can’t live without my editing suite.


Then of course there are my games:

BattleField 2
http://www.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield/bf2/
An action packed, online multiplayer war game – which I play at least twice a day.

Rome Total War
http://www.totalwar.com/
A stunning RTS game – you command over 3000 troops at a time, enough said! lol.