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PhilB66

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Small Apps
« on: March 23, 2008, 07:26 AM »
Did absolutely nothing today but surfing the WWW... anyways found a few interesting links for small, useful freeware applications:

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 12:58 PM »
Here's some I found on one of those surfing days.
They are not as small of a download but not large either.

http://www.creativedocs.net/

http://www.fiastarta...PrtScr/Download.html

http://www.nicekit.c...st-free-snapshot.htm

That first screencapture was kindof cool so I kept it.

The other one would be good to send to someone who needs a simple one and don't know anything about installing programs.
No install required, just download to desktop and it's ready to go.

I still think our mouser's screencapture beats all I've seen but these were unique imo.

Creative docs is a bit different but the same sortof.
And unique too.

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2008, 02:00 PM »
The other one would be good to send to someone who needs a simple one and don't know anything about installing programs. No install required, just download to desktop and it's ready to go.

Capture Master falls under the same free, little, portable application category.

2008-03-24_023609.jpg

More screenshots

How to use:

- Move the red box over the area you would like to capture (Hold CTRL key down and put the mouse cursor on the red border to start dragging).

- Resize the red box to fit the image (Click on the small black bit at lower right hand corner and move (in)outwards)

-Click on "capture" in the main Window and then on "save to file" (Bitmap, jpeg etc).

« Last Edit: March 23, 2008, 02:28 PM by PhilB66 »

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2008, 02:13 PM »
http://www.fiastarta...PrtScr/Download.html

NAPALM is a fun tool for the desktop vandals (from the maker of Ptr Scr).

2008-03-24_031311.jpg

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2008, 03:06 PM »
Aurionix FileUsage Tool gave these size and usage measurements:

screenshot2.gif

The Aurionix folder itself is 739 KB which still is pretty small, I think
and Aurionix works better than the other two of the kind I have tested.

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2008, 03:45 PM »
Mempad is often mentioned around these parts, but Horst Schaeffer also has a number of other excellent portable utilities:

http://home.mnet-onl...de/horst.muc/win.htm

I use QSel to launch portable programs on every computer I use (it's a portable program used to launch portable programs  :-*).

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2008, 11:53 AM »
I can't believe nobody mentioned TinyApps here...

Welcome to TinyApps.Org, a guide to very small software for your PC.


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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2008, 12:17 PM »
I can't believe nobody mentioned TinyApps here...

Maybe because it was already mentioned in other threads on DC ;) .

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2008, 12:17 PM »
Capture/Capture-Master.shtml]Capture Master[/url] falls under the same free, little, portable application category.

interesting colour combination there Phil (is that yours?)
Tom

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2008, 09:22 PM »
interesting colour combination there Phil (is that yours?)

No, the screenshot is from this page.

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2008, 10:54 PM »
http://www.fiastarta...PrtScr/Download.html

NAPALM is a fun tool for the desktop vandals (from the maker of Ptr Scr).
 (see attachment in previous post)

The video there is kind of cool. They use "Firestarter" by the Prodigy for background music. :)
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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2008, 12:10 AM »
I really love DM2 - Must-have tools  :Thmbsup:
http://dm2.sourceforge.net/
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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2008, 12:26 AM »
http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php

Makes graphics even smaller with png and more.

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2008, 12:58 AM »
http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php

Makes graphics even smaller with png and more.

JPEG & PNG Stripper is my tool of choice (only 71.5 KB and portable).

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2008, 01:23 AM »
Cool, I'll check them out.
Thanks Phil.

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2008, 01:50 AM »
oh these could be quite useful indeed when wanting to quickly share a photo over im - a hassle for me at the moment

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2008, 01:54 AM »
here's another that could be of use.
Hopefully we'll get some more!

http://www.optinsoft...m/listmanager/tg.htm

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2008, 06:17 AM »
@cmpm

Nirsoft has a similar utility - SiteShoter.

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Re: Small Apps
« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2008, 03:43 PM »
interesting,

When I first grab it all the links work in Thumbnail Grabber.

But if I close it and open it with Thumbnail Grabber then the links don't work.

So in the preview or right after the shot the links work in Thumbnail Grabber. Till you close it.
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Now in SiteShooter the links don't work either way.
Because for one it won't open in SiteShooter.

Unless I'm missing something.

Cuz I just can't leave Thumbnail Grabber up all the time after shooting just for the links to work.

Both nifty programs imo.

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