Post Your Essential Notebook Software

Are there any small notebook freeware applications that you consider essential?

 

ad-aware
spybot: search & destroy
spyblaster
sygate personal firewall
tunexp
tweakui
firefox
thunderbird
sunbird

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

anything can be free if you know the right places

 

I think he wanted legal software.

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

I definitly have to go with:

Firefox
Thunderbird
Hijackthis
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner
LeechGet 1450
mp3ext

But I was more going on the lines of notebook specific freeware. Like temperature monitors.

 

Ad-Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Tune XP
SpeedFan
Zoom, Hare, Anti-crash, Battery Doubbler
Panicware popup stopper
Google toolbar
McAfee

Compaq Presario R3000z
AMD Athlon 64 3400 - 2.2gHz
1 Gig DDR
15.4BrightVew (1280x800)
100 Gig 4200Rpm
nVedia GeForce 4 440 - 64MB
8x Super Multi w/Multi-layer
802.11b/g, Bluetooth

 

Microsoft AntiSpyware beta
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
MobileMeter
WinPatrol (!!!)
Zone Alarm (!!!)
QuickGamma
DiskKeeper Lite
CCCleaner (!!!)
Everest Home Edition
noscript
DVD Decrypter
DVD Indentifier
DVD Shrink
vlc
Media player classic
Audacity

All free all small

 

bmhome1, where did you get your copy of diskeeper lite? ive gotten a few but they are all add supported, is it suposto be like that?

Compaq Presario R3000z
AMD Athlon 64 3400 - 2.2gHz
1 Gig DDR
15.4BrightVew (1280x800)
100 Gig 4200Rpm
nVedia GeForce 4 440 - 64MB
8x Super Multi w/Multi-layer
802.11b/g, Bluetooth

 

I couldn't find an original recent link (their website doesn't list it AFAIK). I posted the .zipped installer here for you:

http://homepage.mac.com/brucemillerphoto

My DKLite version only shows an upgrade nag screen when launched each time, nothing obtrusive.

 

ohhh ok, i was under the impresion that the Lite version of diskeeper had no nag screens at all, so i guess i have the good version anyway. thanks

Compaq Presario R3000z
AMD Athlon 64 3400 - 2.2gHz
1 Gig DDR
15.4BrightVew (1280x800)
100 Gig 4200Rpm
nVedia GeForce 4 440 - 64MB
8x Super Multi w/Multi-layer
802.11b/g, Bluetooth

 

Samwise

What is 'battery doubbler'? <My, Precious> Do you have a link? <Gollum! Gollum!> Is this shareware ? <Do not trust Hobbits!> or what?

Dell Inspiron 6000
1.6 GHZ Centrino (Sonoma)
WUXGA 15.4" WS
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
Wireless B/G
DVD/CD-RW
9 Cell Battery x 2
Mozilla Firefox Browser
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Palmone Tungsten C/WIFI

 

I like these sort of threads. I always find something new. Thanks. Here are my additions:

Opera
Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.info/)
Mike Lin's StartUp Control Panel and StartUp Monitor (http://www.mlin.net/)
Adobe Reader Speedup (http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php)
XP Anti-Spy (http://www.xp-antispy.org/)
PDF Creator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)
Network Stumbler (http://www.netstumbler.com/)
Airsnare (http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/)

The latter two are must haves if you have a home wireless network. They will help you check your security and see who else in your neighborhood may be interfering on your channel. Airsnare will even let you send a popup message to somebody who may be on your network! Of course, there are more insidious uses for these programs as well.

Proxomitron is no longer being developed but there is quite a community of people that support it still. One thing to do is to find one of the many forums and download somebody's "hosts" file to speed up blocking of ads. You could also try:

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm

http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

http://www.jd5000.net/index.php

Hope this helps!

--k

 

ahh battery doubbler, it works best if you have an ACPI battery, i find it alittle helpful since my battery is not, if it is however you can suck up to 8 hours of life out of a 4 hour battery (cool hunh) its from dashund software.

NOTE: dashund is not spelt right, as most of you know i will be notebookless until monday so as soon as i figure out how to spell it i will post here again with a link.

Compaq Presario R3000z
AMD Athlon 64 3400 - 2.2gHz
1 Gig DDR
15.4BrightVew (1280x800)
100 Gig 4200Rpm
nVedia GeForce 4 440 - 64MB
8x Super Multi w/Multi-layer
802.11b/g, Bluetooth

 

Thanks, Samwise.

How does it work to double battery life other than make the screen dimmer?

Dell Inspiron 6000
1.6 GHZ Centrino (Sonoma)
WUXGA 15.4" WS
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
Wireless B/G
DVD/CD-RW
9 Cell Battery x 2
Mozilla Firefox Browser
---
Palmone Tungsten C/WIFI

 

This sounds quite interesting. Please tell more.

Dell Inspiron 8600:
* 1.6 Ghz Pentium M * 1024 MB DDR SDRAM * 100 Gb Seagate Momentus 5400 Rpm HD * 15.4" WSXGA+ * Internal Bluetooth * Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 * 4x CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) * ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 128 MB * Win XP Pro SP2 *

* Apple 17" PowerBook G4 * 14" Toshiba Tecra 8000 * Apple 14" iBook G4 *

 

Here are Frequently Asked Questions:

http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/bdoubler/bfaq.html

Through searching for it I found more Serial Codes/Cracks than actual vendors for it. It appears that it hasn't been updated in 3 years....Does it still work for XP?

Dell Inspiron 6000
1.6 GHZ Centrino (Sonoma)
WUXGA 15.4" WS
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
Wireless B/G
DVD/CD-RW
9 Cell Battery x 2
Mozilla Firefox Browser
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Palmone Tungsten C/WIFI

 

Found it after Samwise gave the brand name.

http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/bdoubler/

Dell Inspiron 6000
1.6 GHZ Centrino (Sonoma)
WUXGA 15.4" WS
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
Wireless B/G
DVD/CD-RW
9 Cell Battery x 2
Mozilla Firefox Browser
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Palmone Tungsten C/WIFI

 

Seems to be an interesting piece of software. I'm going to try it. Hope it works.

 

Firefox
Ad Aware SE Personal
iTunes
Microsoft Works
Photoshop CS
MSN Messenger
Trillian
ImTOO DVD Ripper

I love ImTOO DVD Ripper. Instead of hauling a ton of DVDs with you, you can copy them to your harddrive in AVI format. Instead of being nearly 5 gigabytes, you can have the whole movie in about 1.5 gigs. The quality is great and it's very good software. I think it's free, I can't remember. I either have a free version or it was only a trial.

MSN Messenger is great for communication. It's the best messenger out there. Trillian is great if you use more than one client, but I usualyl stick with only MSN.

Photoshop CS: the best image editing program out there. At least get the free trial.

iTunes: the best media player and the best music store all in one.

AdAware SE: the best solution to adaware, and it's free!

Firefox: the best web browser available.

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I checked out that battery life doubler and a few of the other programs that run together and I am quite pleased. I haven't done much away from the outlet yet, but I did notice my battery life almost at 6 hours. I am particulary fond of Anti-Crash, as it included Mem Doubler which does a decent job (better than nothing) at freeing up some memory.

I also dig that LeechGet. Thanks for the suggestion. I've been using Download Mage, which I do like a lot, but it never included support (or I just never got a plugin) for Mozilla, which led me to use the download manager built into Firefox.

 

How could I forget one of the most impressive peices of free software: Open Office. Those unwilling to pay for MS Office should really consider this suite. Version 1.1 is the current revision but 2.0 is coming and is supposed to be even better, especially in the Word to OpenOffice conversion filters.

Check it out at www.openoffice.org .

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by gecko

 

I unplugged my i9200 earlier today and, to my surprise, saw that the battery meter estimated it to last 7 hours and 30 minutes. It went down after I started doing more stuff, but when it went idle for a while, it would start to rise again. It's pretty nifty.

I just downloaded that Image Resizer which is one of the Powertoys for Windows XP. It's very nifty. No longer do I have to open Photoshop to do a simple resizing. I recommend it.

 

I haven'tried the battery software yet.

But I have another to add to the list:

Windows Remote Desktop

 

elisa, you could use star downloader free, it got a 5/5 from PC mag for download accleration, and it integrates itself into IE/Firefox nifty little tool, downloads almost everything at 600+ Kbps

Compaq Presario R3000z
AMD Athlon 64 3400 - 2.2gHz
1 Gig DDR
15.4BrightVew (1280x800)
100 Gig 4200Rpm
nVedia GeForce 4 440 - 64MB
8x Super Multi w/Multi-layer
802.11b/g, Bluetooth

 

I have another to add to the list too, though technically I don't keep it on my computer ... just a CD [ ]

The Ultimage Boot CD - www.ultimatebootcd.com

 

1.5GB for 1 dvd? thats a little too much, reencode the DVD to XVID and you get it to 700MB = 1CD-R

microsoft works is useless, it cant even open some MS word/excel files lol, you dont need msn messenger if you have trillian, and you lose half the functionality if you use trillian so if you have an MSN account only i recommend msn 7 + mess.be to remove anoying garbage in the msn program

currently on my quick launch i have

Calculator
Character map
IE 6
Firefox
Opera
Outlook 2003
Outlook Express (for news groups)
Word 2003
Excel 2003
Visio pro 2003
ACDSEE 7 (fastest picture program viewer/editor avalible)
Foto canvas (part of acdsee)
Power DVD 6
WMP10
Winamp
Quicktime (deleted icon cuz quicktime blows for anything but since its required to play mov files i have to have it)
DVD Decrypter
VOB Blanker
DVD Shrink
Nero
Clone CD 4.2.0.2 (i think this is ilegal since it works so good)
Easy CDDA Extractor 6? 7? cant remember, one of thebest audio rippers out there
Registry Mechanic 4.0 (great program, needed for both desktops and laptop)
MSN 7 Hacked
Process Viewer (more powerful than task manager, also useful if task manager is disabled by spyware/virus/trojan/etc)
Simple File Shredder (free, files deleted by this are UNRECOVERABLE!)
Spyware blaster
Spysweeper (IS the best antispyware software)
VNC to remote control my desktop
Sonic Stage 2.3(required by Net MD players, this software is a peice of crap but i need it for my md player)


-->Asus M6BNe | Pentium M 1.6GHz Dothan | 1024MB PC2700 Micron Ram | Radeon 9700 Pro 64MB | 80GB Samsung 5400 RPM 8MB Cache | Gigabit LAN | CDRW + DVD Combo |
-->Compal CL56 | Pentium M 1.6GHz Dothan | 1024MB Ram | Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB | 60GB HDD | 10/100 LAN | DVDRW |

 

I got that Star Downloader but it didn't download as fast for me. I'm on a very poor DSL connection. I'll have to give it a try next time I'm at my sister's apartment. She's got cable.

I can't quite figure out the integration with Firefox. I downloaded the extension but I don't know how to get the file to downloaded with Star Downloader instead of the default download manager.

That's a cool piece of software to have. Thanks for the recomendation.

MP3-Library is an awesome tool for editing ID3 tags of MP3s. I am reformatting my MP3 player soon, once I edit all of the tags. I am getting annoyed by the weird file names, it's hard to navigate. If you are in need of an ID3 tag editor, I recommend MP3-Library.

http://www.jumpingcholla.com/jce_trapper.htm

 

I am really suprised,
No one is using
AVAST
Gotta Have
Nero
Partition Magic





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Isnt' today the day after yesterday and the day before tommorrow?

 

My list would be like this,

Opera 8, coz firefox sucks.
Copernic Search,
KAV,
Speedswitch,
Gmail Notifier,
Battery Doubler,
3M Post-it,
YzDocks,
TweakUI,
TuneXP
Radmin,
MS Outlook 2003,
Netstumbler,
TCPView,
Ad-aware,
Adobe Acrobat Pro,
Diskeeper,
Azureus,
MSN Messenger,
WinRAR

That should do it.


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S7011 - *1.6mHZ*, *512MB DDR 333*, *Hitachi Travelstar 60G 7200RPM*, *Toshiba CDRW Combo Drive*, *14.1' SuperFine*, *Fingerprint Scanner*, *Intel Pro 2200 B/G*, *Logitec Black Optical Mouse*

 

My list would be

Freeware:
Kerio Personal Firewall
Ad-Aware
Adobe Acrobat Reader
OpenOffice
SharpDevelop (for programming)
MySQL (Database for my programs)
Sunnto Dive Manager (for my dive logbooks)
FFDShow (for DivX/Xvid movies/shows)
GSpot (for determining any wierd Codec needs)
Quicktime

As recommended shareware

DvDIdlePro
Zoomplayer


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I love SharpDeveloper! Dev-C++ and SharpDevelop are all I use for programming, though I'm just getting started. I've got Visual Basic .NET 2003 or whatever it is that Microsoft was giving away to people who watched and rated five movies.

 

I have to add
foobar
winamp
and
daemon tools.

By the way how did u get visual basic .net for free?

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
My advice is based on personal experience. Effectiveness will vary.

 

A few months ago Microsoft had this promotion going on. If you watched, rated, and commented on 5 movies about Visual Basic.NET, they'd send you VB.NET 2003 for free.

I did it, and sure enough, I got my free software. I installed it on my laptop, but I lost it when I reformatted the drive. I haven't reinstalled it because I use SharpDevelop more now. I might install it again later, but I don't feel like wasting the time when I don't need it.

 

Arla, get media classic player, google it, should be on sourceforge, it plays everything from wmv to quicktime to real

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S7011 - *1.6mHZ*, *512MB DDR 333*, *Hitachi Travelstar 60G 7200RPM*, *Toshiba CDRW Combo Drive*, *14.1' SuperFine*, *Fingerprint Scanner*, *Intel Pro 2200 B/G*, *Logitec Black Optical Mouse*