Pixel Power: June 2012

Updated desktop apps loaded on my pc – ‘cause it’s time to upgrade, yay! It’s a mix of freeware, shareware and commercial applications.

Anti-Twin (freeware) – File duplicate seeker and deleter. Searches on a byte-by-byte basis.
Trimble Sketchup (freeware) – 3D modelling app for when I want to build something – difficult as all hell but satisfying when your brilliant concept is visualized.
Polaroid (freeware) – Cool polaroideninizer effect for pics.
Windows Live Photo Gallery (freeware) – Photo gallery viewer to attempt to sort through years of pics.
Amp Font Viewer (freeware) — Font viewer and installer/unistaller.
Faststone Image Viewer (freeware) — Image viewer with an excellent lossless image tilt feature amongst others.
IrfanView (freeware) — I use it to view tiffs and quick play of MP3s.
Freehand (commercial) — Raster image creation and page layout. No longer supported — way cheaper than Illustrator.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (commercial) — Photoshop lite. Perfect for my amateur digital photo manipulation.

Filezilla FTP Client (freeware) -– Finally an FTP client which works with server side proxy servers.
Firefox (freeware) — I love add-ons.
Thunderbird (freeware) – Email client, hooked up with Wunderlist and Google Calendar.
Free Download Manager (freeware) — Downloader for those massive files which keep hanging half way through.
Internet Explorer — Can’t get rid of the damn thing.
Windows Live Writer (freeware) – Used to write blog entries to Blogger.

AudioGrabber (freeware) — Great CD ripper I use to create high-fidelity MP3s for serving on TVersity and play thru my D-Link 520 media server. Use the latest version of lame.
SPlayer (freeware) – Video viewer.
MusicBee (freeware) – Audio organiser. Finally a replacement that works to replace the crappy bloatware that is Itunes.
MP3Tag (freeware) – Cleans up MP3 tags.

PDF-XChange (freeware) – Pdf reader, replaces Adobe Reader nicely.
AVG 12 (freeware) — Antivirus.
Bullzip (freeware) — Creates PDFs from any program’s print option.
Everything (freeware) — Local file/folder search app to replace Windows’ poor search functionality.
Fences Pro (Shareware) – Creates virtual fences on the desktop to create zones for certain icons.
Imaging Pro (shareware) — Imaging app. Ours is an ancient version — very handy for scanning faxes to be sent via email. Overkill at its current price.
jZip (freeware) — Zip/Unzipper.
Vista Switcher (freeware) – great replacement with additional functionality for the ALT-Tab windows function to switch between running apps.
Eaton PSP (hardware) — UPS software interface.
Roboform (shareware) — Username/Password and form filler inner.
MenuApp (freeware) — App launcher, great way to untie oneself from the start menu, also great for launching frequently used folders.
TED Notepad (freeware) — Notepad replacement.
tinySpell (freeware) — Memory resident spell checker, works in any app. Love it, gotten used to constant pinging as it bitches.
TrueCrypt (freeware) — Data encryption app. Great way to hide your ~~porn~~ multimedia collection from prying eyes.
UltraVNC (freeware) — Allows remote use of the server from my desktop. Handy to reboot the server with.
VistaSwitcher (freeware) – Speed Up Windows Alt-Tab

Darkroom (freeware) – Simple writing application without any distractions (green screen).
OpenOffice (freeware) — MS Office replacement.
Lotus Smartsuite (commercial) — Desktop Database app .
The Sage (freeware) — English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Anti-Twin (freeware) – Search and action duplicate files.
CDBurnerXP (freeware) — CD\DVD authoring.
CCleaner (freeware) — Crap Cleaner, deletes unwanted files etc. Useful to cleanup the registry.
Cobian Backup (freeware) — Backup app. Should use it more frequently.
SyncBackFree (freeware) – Backup app. More updated than Cobian.
Revo Uninstaller (freeware) — App uninstaller. Cleans out the registry after unistallation as well.
GetDataBack (shareware) — Brilliant! Saved my butt when my harddrive crashed, despite being hooked to a UPS. Recovered almost all the files on a seriously stuffed harddrive.
Winstep SMO (freeware) — Start menu organiser. Excellent app for keeping installed apps in the categorisation I’ve used above. Cannot get rid of its default categories though.
PC-Wizard 2012 (freeware) – System/hardware info app, also used to test the performance of a PC.
Ampps (freeware) – Linux like webserver for windows, used to develop websites using Joomla and OpenCart.
FileSeek (freeware) – File searching by specific text strings within files, used for OpenCart searches.
WinMerge (freeware) – Differencing and merging tool. Compare folders and files, shows differences between text files.
MyPhoneExplorer (freeware) – backs up contacts and texts on cellphones.
Partition Wizard (freeware) – disk and partition copying between harddrives.

Adblock Plus — Ads were yesterday!
Add Bookmark Here 2 — Add a menuitem “Add Bookmark Here…” to Bookmarks Menu.
AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox — Allows the use of Roboform in Firefox.
Bookmark Duplicate Detector — Helps you find, move and remove duplicate bookmarks. It also notifies you when you are adding a duplicate bookmark.
Bookmarks Menu – View toolbar bookmarks in a button drop-down menu.
Brief — A RSS feed reading extension.
CheckPlaces – Checks whether bookmarks still exists.
CsFire – Prevents cros-domain requests
deskCut — Create desktop shortcuts from the context-menu.
Enter Selects — Press enter in the AwesomeBar to select the first result.
Firebug – Web development tool.
FireGestures — Executes various commands with mouse gestures.
Flash Video Dowloader – Downloads videos.
Fuzzy Time — Displays the time in a fuzzy way in the status-bar.
Menu Editor — Customize application menus.
Navigate Up – Navigates up one or more URL levels.
NoSquint – Site specific resizing of pages for tired eyes.
nURL Suffix — Change the suffixes which are used to complete a URL.
Sort Places – Sorts bookmarks.
Stop Youtube Autoplay – jip, that’s what it does.
Tab Mix Plus — Tab browsing with an added boost.
Text2Link – open URLs that aren’t in HTML format.
TinyURL Generator – generates a TinyURL .
Turn off the Lights – darkens page to hide all content except for video playing.
UI Fixer – changes location of Menu button.

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