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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free Directory Opus 6, Paragon Drive Image, etc.

« on: November 14, 2006, 06:49 PM »

As well as Paragon Partition Manager 2005
Full commercial download, worth £35

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2167398/paragon-partition-manager-2005

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE URL Lock

« on: October 23, 2006, 06:45 PM »

I should add that this solution is suitable for novice user web access management.

178

General Software Discussion / IE URL Lock

« on: October 23, 2006, 06:41 PM »

IE URL Lock
http://ieurllock.sourceforge.net/

Rambling...
While Opera has been my browser of choice since about version version 3, it's handling of certain sites has always been less than stellar - often because of poor (or deliberate) coding on the web site itself. Yahoo webmail is an example of this and Opera's masking feature does not always cut it either.

Over the years, I've messed around with various schemes/free tools to restrict sites that IE can access. However none, including IE's Content Advisor, worked to my satisfaction.

Tonight I came across IE URL Lock on Sourceforge, installed it and within 5 minutes my problems with Yahoo, Gmail and others was over. Well, so it appears anyway. We'll see over the next few days.

Any current users of  IE URL Lock, please comment.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Registry Mechanic 5.0 - FREE

« on: October 16, 2006, 09:16 PM »

Also:

Ashampoo Burning Studio 5 (nice CD burning app)
Ashampoo Photo Commander 3.5

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Registry Mechanic 5.0 - FREE

« on: October 16, 2006, 09:06 PM »

There are a few more on VNuNet

Directory Opus 6.2
Floorplan 3d V8
Expert PDF

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Found Deals and Discounts / Registry Mechanic 5.0 - FREE

« on: October 16, 2006, 07:48 PM »

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2164197/registry-mechanic50
Note: "This full download offer will be taken offline on or after 16th of October 2006."

This is from the same site as the Paragon apps listed for free in this thread by AdIyhc, so
Kudos to him.
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=5781.0

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Official Announcements / Re: --> SEPTEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« on: October 08, 2006, 08:35 PM »

I received my key for EssentialPim Pro today, though I did have to contact the company to get it.

Thomthowolf, you may need to do the same.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?

« on: October 06, 2006, 06:13 PM »

I've been using Ashampoo firewall for a few weeks on my test machine.
http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?session_langid=2&idstring=0050
It seems to be very lightweight and has really been trouble free. I've yet to do some leak tests though.
Seems like a reasonalble beginner's alternative to XP's firewall.
Prior to this, I was using the last released version of ZoneAlarm Pro  Version 5 - but it is a resource hog.

Btw, 5/5 stars for Perfect Disk!!

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Official Announcements / Re: --> SEPTEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« on: October 02, 2006, 06:46 PM »

No success yet either with 'EssentialPIM Pro'.
I emailed the company last Friday as well.

Any of you other winners have any success?


Winners of 'EssentialPIM Pro' (5):
 NigelH
 pfflyer
 Redhat
 thomthowolf
 donzonion

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Official Announcements / Re: --> SEPTEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« on: September 26, 2006, 08:48 PM »

Mouser thanks.
Ditto to the rest of you...

186

Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

« on: September 09, 2006, 02:45 PM »

Well, I think I'm going back to ZoneAlarm Pro (the very last V5 build).
I tried both the Ashampoo and Comodo firewalls (Comodo definitely being the fuller featured) and had no problem with any of them.
However, neither have one essential requirement from my point of view (nor does any other free firewall, afaik).
That requrement? Password based access to application/rule management (and shutdown etc..).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Poser 5 - free from Sept 1st to Sept 4th

« on: September 04, 2006, 01:02 PM »

For those of you wondering ....
Register for the serial number if you're even vaguely interested.

The download (650mb) can, according to ContentParadise, be made later at any time.

Regards...

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General Software Discussion / Poser 5 - free from Sept 1st to Sept 4th

« on: September 03, 2006, 07:06 PM »

Basically, 1 more day...

http://www.contentparadise.com

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Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

« on: August 30, 2006, 06:02 PM »

This thread is pretty old, but I thought I'd revive it with a new entry
Ashampoo FireWall - It's FREE for all

Has anyone tried it?
I will do so in a few days - just don't have the time right now.


http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?session_langid=2&idstring=0050
http://www.ashampoo-root03.com/webcache/html/1/product_2_0050_.htm

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What's the Best? / Re: Anti-Virus Package

« on: February 28, 2006, 06:33 PM »

I've been using CA ezAntivirus for more than a year. It's rock solid and low on resources.
If you follow the Computer Associates link from the Microsoft page, you can get a free full years trial from CA.
They also offer a 2 year license for $19-95,  which is pretty impressive.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windows2000/antivirus.mspx

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Developer's Corner / Downloadable Bruce Perens' Open Source books

« on: February 22, 2006, 06:07 PM »

Quite a few of Bruce Perens' Open Source books available for download
from Prentice Hall
http://www.phptr.com/promotions/promotion.asp?promo=1484&redir=1&rl=1

I wasn't sure where to put this, so move it elsewhere if appropriate.

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General Software Discussion / VMware Introduces Free VMware Server

« on: February 12, 2006, 08:27 AM »

This is successor to VMware GSX Server
www.vmware.com/products/server

PS: I searched the forums and saw no previous reference to this...

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: nice and small screensaver

« on: February 11, 2006, 10:59 AM »

For some pretyy artistic screensavers, check out these
http://www.reallyslick.com/

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Living Room / Re: Is this offesive?

« on: February 05, 2006, 07:47 PM »

Rover, deal with this stuff like this.
http://www.k9webprotection.com/

I've been using it for 1-2 months now and probably will indefinitely, as long as it's free.
All the other filtering options caused my connection to slow down. I have not noticed K9 affecting bandwidth at all.
Not sure what it's like on dial-up though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Spy Sweeper Half price

« on: January 16, 2006, 06:42 PM »

Picked one up - thanks Carol 

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General Software Discussion / Re: software i love

« on: January 04, 2006, 09:10 PM »

Cam2PC - image viewer and more.
See http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/overview.php

Handsdown the best freeware image viewer I've found to date.

Available in both freeware version + shareware (more features) versions.
No spyware etc, etc, etc...

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Windows system tray clock replacement

« on: December 31, 2005, 05:10 PM »

Another suggestion to try - DS Clock.
I'm currently using it on XP Pro sp1
http://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/

They also sell a great calendar tool called Calendarscope which, obviously, is not free.
http://www.calendarscope.com/

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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy

« on: December 22, 2005, 01:29 PM »

Personally I feel that we should keep things the way they are or, perhaps,  let the s/w run without a key for 6 months. After that a free, one year license key is needed. When that key expires, then a permanent key may be obtained.

I used to "hang out" a bunch on alt.comp.freeware, but eventually (about 18 months ago) got sick and tired of the whiney attitude there.

Mouser, you really have started a great thing with DC and I hope it continues to flourish.
Regards...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Courier Email - free for a limited time

« on: November 11, 2005, 04:57 PM »

Courier is great. Very fast, exceptionally stable. I replaced Calypso with it as soon as it was released.
One of the best features - single file mailbox containers (as many as you want) and each can manage multiple accounts.
A steal (if it suits your needs) for $0