My Favourite Software
Not Complete yet !
I check betanews.com every day, visit download sites often and download a lot. Unfortunately not every program I download seems to do what it is supposed to do, or I realize the what it does is something I do not realy need, or the program really does what it says but it is so slow that I can do the same thing without it in shorter time...
On this page you will find software that I have tested and found to be the best in its class. If you know of any software that perfoms better than the ones presented here, please send me an e-mail and I may include it here.
Must Have Software
It is simply the best browser. Need anyhing else be said ?
Great download manager.
Compression utility.
Image wiever
Clipomatic is a tiny clipboard utility. It will cache the text pasted to the clipboard and make it available by clicking Ctrl+Alt+V or some other key combimnation you specify. You can save cached items as clipsets and load them whenever you want.
TraySaver is a System Tray Manager. It allows you to hide system tray icons, restores icons normally lost when Explorer crashes, and enables any window to be minimized to the tray. This gives you a more usable and manageable taskbar. It is more like a lifesaver sometimes.
Wintabs works with Opera, Word 97/2000, Excell 97/2000, Netscape Navigator, and Internet Explorer. It will cover the title bars of these programs with tabs, enabling you to switch between open documents. In unregistered version, only Word 97, Word 2000, and Opera plugins are fully functional. Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator plugins will display only up to three documents. Excel 97, and Excel 2000 plugins are disabled. To enable Excel plugins, and fully activate Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator plugins, you have to register WinTabs.
WRQ's AtGuard is software that runs on your PC
and monitors network traffic going in and out of your computer. Depending
on how you have AtGuard configured, it can also step in and intervene
in network connections and block data on your behalf. Specifically, it
can:
· Block images (usually advertisements) that you
don't want to see
· Speed up web page loading
· Block refer field and cookies to reduce the amount of targeted advertising
you receive
· Enhance your browsing privacy by blocking the User-agent and From fields
sent to the server by your browser
· Allow you to customize what is shown on web pages that you visit often
· Prevent web pages from running Java applets, JavaScript, and ActiveX
controls to reduce the number of advertising scripts that run and to increase
your protection from potentially invasive programs
· Stop animated GIFs from cycling endlessly,
reducing cache disk thrashing
· Keep track of various statistics as you surf the web, like how much
data you've downloaded and how many cookies you would have sent back to
web sites
· Prevent software from communicating with your computer or with remote
computers without your knowledge or permission
AtGuard is worth every cent you pay for it. As far as I know a demo is not available at the AtGuard site. Search Download.com or some other download site to download an older version of AtGuard.
Tweak UI
This is a tiny, but essential system utility from Microsoft. It enables you to tune many aspects of Windows. You can
- turn off animations
- adjust menu speed
- remove the microsoft splash screen shown at boot up
- diasble active dektop
- disable autorun
- Cover your tracks by automatically clearing run, internet explorer,find file, documents and etc history
- and much more
Cacheman is a utility which tweaks the disk cache
settings and prevents frequent swapping of the data to disk resulting
in an improved performance.
One of the biggest faults of Windows 9x
is the disk cache management strategy. After all the available physical
memory ( RAM ) is exhausted Windows 9x starts to use virtual memory instead
of flushing the disk caches which puts a drain on your system.
In order to correct this chaotic and weird behaviour you need to edit
the SYSTEM.INI file. Cacheman changes all that ! No more mucking about
in the SYSTEM.INI file manually.
You just need to run Cacheman and select your optimization method and
reboot your system after saving the changes. Some users have experienced
upto 25 % boost in their system performance.
Win-eXpose-I/O is a Windows 95 file I/O Tracing/Debugging
SHAREWARE utility that lets you examine in real time what files each running
application is using or trying to use.
Win-eXpose-I/O for Windows 95 traces all the file activities in all the
application and in all the different VM (even DOS boxes) and gives you
a clear picture on problems troubleshooting (like where and what the hell
is the help file / INI file that the application is using or complaining
that is missing).
Win-eXpose-I/O for Windows 95 is a MUST HAVE tool for anyone who is installing windows software on the computer or just trying to make sure the current software is working properly, Win-eXpose-I/O saves those HUGE amount of hours trying to configure new or existing software by letting you know in real time what files each application is using or seeking.
Filemon
Filemon is a freeware alternative to Win-eXpose-I/O. It does not require a setup and takes up little harddrive space.
Regmon is a freeware utilty that monitors registry activity of your system
GIF Movie Gear is a tool for building GIF animations. It does not take up much hardrive space. It is easy to use and powerful. I used it to create the 1023 frame animated gif and all other LCD related animations on this site.
Good text editor with many useful features such as block select mode, syntax highlighting, spell checkinng and everything else to be expected from an advanced text editor. Try it and you will like it.