“It’s a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone’s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I’m talking about. Just recently, I was helping a friend set up his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It’s a very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the crap, (wich took a significant amount of time) it booted much faster and performed like it should. I kept thinking it would be nice to have an automated way to remove all this stuff. Thus was born the Dell De-Crapifier script.”
http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38
Steve Jobs is a genius with a vision.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A
Another “Free Fonts For Download” easy to use and nicely designed site.
http://www.abstractfonts.com
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
Recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing, tweaks many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay, blocks popups initiated by Flash plug-ins.
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org
Yet another website with free fonts from Japan…
http://www.flop.jp.org
Free fonts (TrueType) for Mac and Windows from Japanese designers. You can never have enough fonts, right?
http://www.643dpc.com/down.html
Bill Gates loves the Macintosh.
http://doiop.com/think/different
Collaboration software to share files securely with your own network (friends, family, business network…). Includes secure instant messaging and secure screen sharing. Runs on Windows 2000 and XP, Mac OS X “Panther”, Linux, and FreeBSD.
http://www.shinkuro.com/products.php
Free web photo album software and image gallery software. This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free! Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and others and speaks 18 languages.
http://jalbum.net
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.
http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org
Cross-platform media player and streaming server, VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Thanks Jul
http://videolan.org/vlc
Wondering why that video file you just downloaded won’t play on your computer ?
It’s because you didn’t install the Defiler Pak, a package of codecs that should play all those weird new video format.
http://hellninjacommando.com/defilerpak
Back up software for damaged or precious DVD’s.
http://www.dvddecrypter.com
If you ever received an email with an attachment called winmail.dat and didn’t know how to open it, here is the solution. Features links to softwares allowing you to view the winmail.dat file original content (on a Macintosh too). Also has steps on how to configure Outlook not to send winmail.dat attachments.
http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
