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General Software Discussion / Autobahn

« on: January 10, 2010, 12:40 AM »

Autobahn is a lightweight application that provides accelerated downloads and more reliable streaming video for popular applications and websites.

Autobahn will improve and optimize  your internet connection to improve your online experiance. Autobahn handles download requests from your web browser and applications and automatically improves downloads and streaming video.

Autobahn is currently accelerating all of your downloads through iTunes. With Autobahn for iTunes, you get the fastest downloads of music and videos through the iTunes store.

Autobahn does not use peer-to-peer transfers and does not use any upstream bandwidth.

Homepage - http://www.getautobahn.com
Download - http://updates.swarm...celeratorInstall.exe
Size: 6.69 MB

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General Software Discussion / Hamana

« on: November 30, 2009, 12:04 AM »

Features:

- Direct Graphics by fast zoom and various effects (required DirectX 9.0c)
- Read ahead by a comfortable slideshow file
- 2-screen mode
- Susie corresponding plug-ins
- Zip (cbz) / 7z / rar (cbr) / cab / arj / decompression without lzh Browsable
- Pdf support
- Powerful Key customization
- Unicode support

Screenshot:



Homepage: http://miyano.s53.xrea.com/
Download: http://miyano.s53.xr...c/Hamana20060619.zip
License: Freeware
Size: 1826 KB

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General Software Discussion / VirtualProtect

« on: July 11, 2009, 01:30 AM »

VirtualProtect is a free program similar to Retunil, etc. Here are links that can help you find more info about it and download it:

Homepage - http://www.vpcache.com
Download - http://www.vpcache.com/dl/vp/vp2.2.1.rar
Manual - http://vprotect.meib...帮助.rar
Thread about it on Wilders Security Forums - http://www.wildersse...thread.php?p=1500706

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: The Wii Remote and Gaming Devices plugins for RMX Automation

« on: April 18, 2009, 12:27 PM »

It would be nice if someone were to improve them so they can do the following:

Gaming Devices plugin:

1. It should emulate the Wii Remote as a gamepad.

Wii Remote plugin:

1. It should automatically connect the WiiMote if its not already connected.
2. It should display the remaining battery life in its Configuration.
3. It should warn the user when the battery is almost empty via a tray balloon.

You can find the source for them at http://rmx.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rmx/plugins/. RMX Automation's homepage is http://wiki.darkain.com/wiki/Main_Page.

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General Software Discussion / Bywifi Video Accelerator

« on: February 05, 2009, 03:33 PM »

Bywifi (Video Streaming Downloader) is a free program for downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating video streaming. It supports downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating videos from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. Lots of advanced network technologies like P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), multiple tasks, web sensitive, intelligence caching are used in the software. The bitrate of video streaming is 3-5 times faster with bywifi than without it. Moreover, it can transcode videos into mobile formats for mobile phones and PDA.
The download url is http://www.bywifi.co...oad/bywifi_setup.exe

Software Features
1. P2P Accelerate Video Streaming:With P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), it speeds up downloading of video streaming. Its better algorithms have accelerated video downloading by more than 3--5 times.
2. Downloading Video: With automatically flash stream detection, video contents on many websites can be downloaded easily and free. The feature supports IE browser.
3. Transcoding Video: Videos can be transcoded into many formats supporting any mobile phones and PDAs, such as Nokia, iPhone, SamSung, iPad, iPod, and PSP.
4. Resume Video Automatically: For the same video, it does not need to buffer again when you close the Web Browser.
5. Search Hot Video: You can search video with bywifi. It is easy for u to watch the new, hot and cool video.
6. The software supports Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista.

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General Software Discussion / WideStream

« on: October 27, 2008, 11:22 PM »

WideStream is a graphical download manager and FTP manager for the Microsoft Windows platform. WideStream was created using .NET Framework 3.5 and runs on any version of Microsoft Windows (both 32 bit and 64 bit) starting from Windows 2000. WideStream is an open source software released under Artistic License 2.0. Also, WideStream is freeware.

Homepage - http://widestream.sourceforge.net
Screenshots - http://widestream.so....net/screenshots.php
Forums - https://sourceforge....rum/?group_id=231599
Tracker - https://sourceforge....er2/?group_id=231599
Download - http://internap.dl.s...idestream-beta-1.zip
Download (Latest Build) - http://widestream.sv...aries/WideStream.exe

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General Software Discussion / Wivi - Stream movies, etc. over a P2P network

« on: October 12, 2008, 12:39 AM »

Wivi (http://www.wivi.com) is a new p2p application through which you can broadcast live video to an unlimited audience.

Wivi is now in open beta and is unique in that it is completely decentralized (there are no servers and no filtering or regulating of content) and in the simplicity a user can broadcast his own live TV (all a user needs is a regular internet home connection).

You can download the Wivi Beta at http://www.wivi.com

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General Software Discussion / DragonBlast

« on: July 28, 2008, 09:23 PM »

DragonBlast is a newish freeware japanese fighting game. Its graphics are in 3D but its played like a 2D game.

Screenshots:




Homepage: http://urakata.org/framepage2.htm
Download (70 MB): http://my.vector.co....t/DragonBlast.lzh?ds
Game launcher: http://urakata.org/Booster.exe (its updated every now and then)

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Virtual drive for DivShare

« on: July 28, 2008, 08:42 PM »

It would be nice if someone could make one for it since its API is available. The homepage for it is http://www.divshare.com.

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Coding Snacks / Mailto Forwarder

« on: July 07, 2008, 05:16 PM »

I would like it if someone could make a program that forwards Mailto: links to another program (such as Espresso).

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General Software Discussion / Mailto Forwarder

« on: July 07, 2008, 12:22 AM »

Is there a program that can forward mailto: links to another program? I know there's wsendto.exe, but it only works for Pegasus Mail.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Mini Review: Espresso

« on: July 06, 2008, 09:54 PM »

Basic Info

App Name	Espresso
App URL	http://www.kidmoses..../espresso/index.html
App Version Reviewed	1.12.68
Test System Specs	3 GBs RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.20 GHz, 500 GB Hard Drive, Windows Vista Business Edition SP1
Supported OSes	Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista
Support Methods	Email
Upgrade Policy	All updates are free
Trial Version Available?	Yes, 14 day trial, a signature is automatically added to outgoing e-mails that tells the receiver of the message that you use Espresso, and a splash screen that has to be clicked on in order to continue loading it
Pricing Scheme	Full Version - $24.95
Relationship with Developer	None

Intro:

Espresso is a powerful permissions-based email client designed to completely eliminate spam as you define it from your Inbox.

Espresso's unique email filtering system is based on common sense. Everyone knows from whom they want to receive email. Anyone else who sends you messages is sending you junk, otherwise known as spam. Espresso does not filter junk. It only looks for messages you want to receive based on simple, yet powerful rules. Using a number of options available, you decide how to handle messages from unknown senders.

Who is this app designed for:

It is designed for anyone that wants an e-mail client that won't bog the system down and still have most of the features found in others that are bigger than it.

The Good

• Lightweight and portable email client
• Powerful junk mail filtering based on permissions
• Filter messages using regular expressions
• Ability to add notes to individual messages
• Hide private messages from prying eyes
• Automatic blind copy on all outgoing mail
• Easily flag important messages
• Supports POP3, IMAP4, HTTP protocols
• Preconfigured for easy setup of Hotmail and GMail
• Built-in ability to backup and restore mailbox
• Powerful spell-checker for outgoing messages
• Choose to save or delete messages when you send them
• Automatically mark messages as read when moved to trash
• Fast searching for text in the selected folder's/all messages

The needs improvement section

• Has some non-standard keyboard shortcuts
• Doesn't catch mailto: links in Vista unless you modify the Registry (EDIT: I fixed it by reinstalling Vista)
• Doesn't allow you to sync its local folders with IMAP folders
• Doesn't automatically add outgoing e-mails addresses to the address book (even with the option checked)
• Can't disable the dialog that appears when closing the "add contact"/"compose" dialog
• An additional Re: is added to the beginning of the subject of each reply you make to a message
• Unicode isn't fully supported (characters used in other languages look weird)
• There should be a space between the user's reply and the quoted message

Why I think you should use this product

I think that you should use this product because its light on RAM/HD usage, is fast when launching it/viewing messages, and is still feature-packed.

How does it compare to similar apps

It comes with most of the features that they have. Such as Spell Checking and Flagging/Labeling messages.

Conclusions

In conclusion, its a really good e-mail client that is lightweight and is still being worked on (the developer stated that he would update it later this year). My rating for it is a 4.5/5.
 
Links to other reviews of this application

http://www.snapfiles...et/espressomail.html
http://www.shareware.../06zwd5/espresso.htm

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Coding Snacks / IDEA: Hack the XBOX 360 Accessories driver to allow a maximum of 8 buttons

« on: March 09, 2008, 05:36 PM »

*subject*

You can get the driver from http://download.micr...75/Xbox360_32Eng.exe.

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Best Archive Tool / Has anyone tried jZip?

« on: March 06, 2008, 10:00 PM »

I like it since its basically 7-Zip but with a better UI. You can find more info about it at http://www.jzip.com.

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General Software Discussion / Imagine

« on: February 29, 2008, 12:40 PM »

Features
- Views/Saves Image/Animation files with the fastest speed
- Numerous image formats supported
- Shows information of image/animation files
- Shows EXIF(JPEG) information
- Shows transparency
- Extracts a frame(or whole frame) from Animation file
- Saves Animation file to Animated GIF file/AVI/Flic/Pro Motion Animation
- Manipulates image
(Flip,Grayscale,Negative,Change color depth,Swap colors,Rotate,
Resize,Effect filter,Edit palette,Transparency set, etc.)
- Tiny & Fast & Pure & Neat executable
- Fully customizable
- Plugin add-on available
- Multilingual support
- Unicode support
- Shell extension support
- Provides Total Commander lister plugin

Screenshot:



Homepage - http://www.nyam.pe.kr
Download - http://www.nyam.pe.k...beta_10_20080113.zip

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Coding Snacks / IDEA: RAR Plugin for Pismo File Mount Audit Package

« on: February 26, 2008, 04:34 PM »

Description from its website:

Pismo File Mount Audit Package is a Windows application that allows users to mount the contents of ZIP, ISO, and Private Folder files to the file system as virtual folders.

Homepage - http://www.pismotechnic.com/pfm/ap/
Download - http://www.pismotech...wnload/pfmap-041.exe

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General Software Discussion / NTFSearch

« on: January 22, 2008, 04:25 PM »

Description of it from its webpage:

Normal program searchs directory for directory, that needs a lot of time. Some programs create an index, but then they work in the background and need system resources.
NTFSearch searchs in partition datas to get the file information within several seconds. A typical search request then takes about 15-35 seconds!!!. On fast hard discs a query can also go down to 5 seconds!!
NTFSearch is designed extra lean to provide a fast and easy usage.

Screenshot:

Homepage - http://www.nollsen.d...arch&language=en
E-Mail - [email protected]
Download - http://www.stud.uni-.../NTFSearch_Setup.exe
Filesize - 228 KBs
License - Shareware
Price - $5

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Coding Snacks / REQUEST: Program that deletes all files/subdirectories in a directory...

« on: October 16, 2007, 10:07 PM »

...or directories that are older than a certain amount of time without displaying any windows. The only freeware program I know that does some of what I'm requesting is e.Purge (unfortunately, it seems that the developer of it gave up on developing it further).

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General Software Discussion / UpdateStar

« on: October 02, 2007, 03:49 PM »

Description from the SnapFiles listing:

UpdateStar scans your computer for installed software products and produces a list of your inventory and available updates, along with download link and additional information. The program not only works with widely used commercial products, but also with many freeware and shareware programs available from the web. UpdateStar runs in the system tray and can automatically check for updates on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. You can customize the list of products and choose to ignore updates from certain products. The update database is maintained by the developer and accepts input from users to help improve the accuracy. The current version recognized about half of the 50 products we had installed, so there is definitely room for improvement. Overall, however, this is a very promising product.

Screenshot:



Homepage - http://www.updatestar.com
Download - http://www.updatestar.com/en/download/

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Firefox extension to play ShoutCast streams

« on: May 03, 2007, 08:53 PM »

*subject*

It would be nice to have because there aren't any good ones out for it.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Make a GUI for a program called Dustbin

« on: December 18, 2006, 08:44 PM »

Its a pretty good and actively maintained automated temp file remover.

Homepage: http://www.geocities...warecentral/micp.htm
Download: http://www.geocities...recentral/d129en.zip

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General Software Discussion / MooPlayer

« on: November 30, 2006, 07:34 AM »

Description from the FileForum listing:

MooPlayer was designed to replace Windows Media Player 6 (mplayer2). It uses a similar style where the player is only the actual video, menu and window frame. It is DirectShow based which means it supports all formats that Windows Media Player does (MPEG, DivX, XviD, etc.). The interface is meant to be as minimal as possible. All controls are overlayed on the video so you can easily access them even in full screen mode. This also means they don't clutter up the view as much. It is released under the GPL and source is available for all releases.

Screenshot:

Homepage - http://projects.drzeus.cx/mooplayer/
Download - http://projects.drze.../mooplayer-1.3.0.zip
Source Code - http://projects.drze...player-1.3.0.src.zip

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General Software Discussion / FortiClient

« on: October 20, 2006, 09:18 PM »

Description from the Download.com listing:

Fortinet introduces FortiClient, the first Unified Threat Management (UTM) end-point protection solution that provides the most comprehensive security via a lightweight software agent. Instead of relying on several software vendors for anti-virus, anti-spyware, personal firewall, IPSEC VPN, anti-spam and Web content filtering security capabilities, FortiClient provides a comprehensive proactive and responsive security capability powered by Fortinet's global FortiGuard service, which delivers the industry's quickest security subscription service updates.

Screenshot:

Homepage: http://www.fortinet....cts/forticlient.html
Forum: http://support.forti...orum/tt.asp?appid=51
Download: http://www.fortinet....FortiClientSetup.zip
Size: 30 MBs
License: Shareware (90 day trial)
Price: $69.95

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General Software Discussion / PSP Multimedia Extender

« on: August 04, 2006, 10:08 PM »

Screenshot:

Description: A media manager for the PSP (Playstation Portable)

Homepage: http://sonypsp.sourceforge.net/

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General Software Discussion / SopCast

« on: June 22, 2006, 09:10 PM »

Description from the FileForum listing:

SopCast is a simple, easy to use system to watch streaming media on the Internet. It is a Network Media Broadcasting system based on P2P Technology. It could make any node in the network to act as a retransmitter, and slowdown the media server’s workloads when audiences quantity grows. The SopCast Streaming Over P2P technology is more resilient in case nodes quit and connection fail, it is suitable for broadcasting over the Internet. You can use SopCast to watch TV, furthermore you can use it to build your own channel. Anyone can build his own personal media on the Internet.

Screenshot:

Homepage: http://www.sopcast.com
Forum: http://forum.sopcast.org/forum/index.php
Download: http://download.free...om/files/SopCast.zip
License: Freeware