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 Posted: May 02, 2006 - 12:39 PM |
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Location: Trondheim, Norway
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Freaks,
I thought i'd take the time to share a few of the best Freeware i've found for my computer. Feel free to add your comments or post your own freeware links. Most of these are open source projects, a few are cross-platform and all lack nag-screens and the like.
System Utilities
WinRoll - Neat little utility. Right click a window to "roll" it up into it's titlebar, or middle-click the title bar to make the window semi-transparent. Written in ASM for the best possible speed and the lowest resource requirements. GET IT.
PowerMenu - Another nano-sized utility which adds transparency and process priority menu items to any open window on the taskbar. Site is dead so please PM me for the EXE.
Samurize - Remotely monitor other computer's stats, or monitor any aspect of your own computer. Fully customisable, the data can be shown on the desktop (meters act like part of the wallpaper). GET IT.
Microsoft Defender - Currently BETA, but works well against unauthorised system changes and spyware. GET IT
Multiple Monitor/Desktop/Computer Management
VirtuaWin - Open source Virtual Desktops utility. Number of desktops is user definable - i've got my desktops mapped to WIN+1 and WIN+2 shortcuts. GET IT.
Synergy - Seamlessly shift keyboard and mouse input across several LANed computers by moving your master system's mouse. Cross platform. GET IT.
Bling 
UberIcon - Esentially useless little utility which just adds a small animation to each icon double-clicked in Explorer. I've got mine set to "iZoom", so opened folders and files have their icon stretch and dissolve. GET IT.
File Management, Viewing and Browsing
Firefox - Open source, fast and extention-friendly webbrowser. Shame on you if you still use Microsoft Internet Explorer. GET IT.
7-Zip - Free compression utility. Can open any compressed archive format known to man, and has options to use it's own crazy compression algorithms. Managed to compress about 100mb of my files into a handy 20mb file. GET IT.
Foxit Reader - Hate how much memory Adobe Reader takes up? Hate how long it takes for it to load up? Try this free alternative which is incredibly fast and lightweight. A must for all those AVR datasheets. GET IT.
Multimedia
Audacity - Free audio editor. Quite powerful. GET IT.
CoolPlayer - Tiny, basic and also incredibly fast loading audio player for many audio formats. Can be minimised to a tray icon. This is fantasic for unobtrusive music listening. GET IT.
K-Lite Codec Pack - Installer containing almost every common codec being used today. Also includes the free "Media Player Classic", powerful yet non-bloated media player similar to the original medial player for Windows. GET IT.
I'll add more to this list as I go along.
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 01:56 PM |
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What a good idea, Dean !!
My contribution:
Clip-O-Matic: multiple Copy and Paste ... great ! Once you have it, you don't wanna be without it anymore: http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml
(Mike Lin wrote more, very usefull utils: small, fast, and with the user in mind ... very good stuff)
http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml
Skype: free internet phone, conferencing, video, chat, file-exchange ....
http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html
What's so good about it? There is MSN, IRC etc. These are the reasons I use it: 1. it always works 2. no need to do settings in router etc. 3. it does it all ...
Visual Analyzer: an oscilloscope and waveform-generator, using the soundcard in your PC. Limited to the audio-spectrum, but still great to use.
http://www.sillanumsoft.com/
About two of Dean's suggestions:
7-zip : I love it. It can even get past the "upload-protection" of this forum without it's files being damaged (WinZip's are ...  )
Audacity: indeed, .... great program
And his other tip's: I'll defenitely have a closer look at them. Thanks Dean
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 05:57 PM |
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Ok, here it is:
WinAMP: best mp3 player ever (but not only mp3...):
www.winamp.com
Trillian: the REAL ALL IN ONE:
- Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ
- chat, voice, video, file transfer, etc.
www.ceruleanstudios.com
Skype: already mentioned above...
LimeWire: P2P file sharing program
www.limewire.com
AntiVir: reliable antivirus
www.free-av.com
AdAware: antispyware program
www.lavasoft.com
Crimson Editor: professional source editor
- search the Internet to download it.
Servant Salamander: two-panels file manager (I hate Windows Exploder  )
www.altap.cz/download.html#salrel
Free Hex Editor: HEX / binary file editor
www.hhdsoftware.com/free-hex-editor.html |
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 06:37 PM |
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Image (Picture) Viewer: IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com
This is a freeware image viewer. Small, Fast and Free.
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Simple File Editor: PFE32
No longer supported but is available if search for it. Not as powerful as a lot of other editors but it is free and does not need an install program. Just copy the file PFE32.EXE somewhere and run it. |
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 06:39 PM |
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Location: Great Smokey Mountains.
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| Pour la PIC, le AVR est la parfaite incarnation du Mal |
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FREE TUTORIAL: 'Quick Start Guide for Using the WinAVR C Compiler with ATMEL's AVR Butterfly' AVAILABLE AT: http://www.smileymicros.com
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 07:22 PM |
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smileymicros wrote:
Pour la PIC, le AVR est la parfaite incarnation du Mal
Hi Smiley!
Haha!!! That was really funny! 
SUPER ! |
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 07:27 PM |
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 10:31 PM |
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Posted: May 02, 2006 - 11:43 PM |
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Posted: May 03, 2006 - 12:00 AM |
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| Nice thing about Samurize is rss-feed, small screenshot |
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Posted: May 03, 2006 - 12:14 AM |
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Posted: May 03, 2006 - 09:21 AM |
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Hijackthis - Very useful tool for removing nasty spyware etc that can't be removed by spyware scanners such as adaware. When used with the automated log file analyser at http://hjt.networktechs.com it comes in very handy. I use this program on a daily basis at work to cleanup clients spyware filled pc's.
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Be careful though as you can easily screw up your windows installation if you delete the wrong things  |
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Posted: May 03, 2006 - 09:47 AM |
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Great to see everyone getting into the spirit of this! I was afraid you'd all laugh at me again....
I'm afraid I fail to see Smokey's joke, unless he's trying to suggest online translators such as Babelfish. While i'm on the subject of web applications, try Pandora, a online streaming personalised radio station which is linked to the Music Genome Project so that it plays music similar in style to your favourites.
Add RapidSVN to the list too. It's a free client for the (also free) SubVersion version management software.
If you're still using WinDiff, you're horrendusly outdated. Give WinMerge a go, which can merge files together as well as show the differences between files. Works on directories too.
Got some gaming nostalga, or an old DOS application you want to run again? Try DosBox, a free cross-platform DOS emulator - including virtual drivers for old soundcards so DOS games can run with sound - which will bring back yearings for days of yore.
Currently every single application bar one on my laptop (plus Windows itself) is freeware. I hunt around a lot, and i've got hundreds of fantastic utilities. No matter what it is, someone's already made it for you!
- Dean |
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Posted: May 03, 2006 - 11:19 AM |
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I would like to add
Firefox browser
Thunderbird email client
OpenOffice enough said
jGRASP source editor front end IDE for gcc java you name it |
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Posted: May 03, 2006 - 02:04 PM |
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abcminiuser wrote:
I'm afraid I fail to see Smokey's joke, unless he's trying to suggest online translators such as Babelfish.
It refered to the line in Groehem's signature which in English is "To the carrot, the rabbit is evil incarnate." Now you get it, n'cest pas?
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Posted: May 04, 2006 - 06:51 PM |
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Posted: May 04, 2006 - 09:47 PM |
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Jedit - Great java based gui editor. Does syntax highlighting for a ton of different programming languages.
Foobar2000 - a great minimalist audio player. Supports more audio fromats than you could think of, uses a small amount of memory and is easy to use!
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head that haven't been covered yet. |
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Posted: May 04, 2006 - 11:38 PM |
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Installed Foxit as PDF-reader .... what a relief ... sóóó fast compared to Acrobat Reader .. Great 
I used PrimoPDF as "printer" under WinXP; it shows up as a printer, but creates PDF-files. So any program could use it.
But I needed to re-register, and the link is broken.
Has anyone have a suggestion for an alternative ?
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 12:01 AM |
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Sure do. There's a project over at SourceForge.net called "PDFCreator" which does the same thing - and also installs as a virtual printer. Might want to give it a look.
EDIT: Another alternative is the PDF Export functionality of the free OpenOffice suite, but that won't allow you to create PDFs directly from any application.
- Dean |
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Atmel Studio 6.1 is now released, grab it here.
Report AS6/ASF bugs here.
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 12:16 AM |
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Foxit is fantastic, it really is an order of magnitude faster to load the program AND to load large files than Adobe Reader.
Thanks,
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 01:27 AM |
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| You can add a PDF printer to your Windows Printers list using any of the standard Windows PostScript printer drivers, a "parallel-port redirector" driver (which redirects Windows' outgoing data stream to a file or application), a little bit of manual twiddling, and Ghostscript. |
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 03:21 AM |
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| Does Foxit integrate with Firefox, or I'm stuck with Acrobat Reader for that? |
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 04:18 AM |
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Currently only the Pro version of Foxit will integrate with Firefox, but there seems to be an indication that version 2 of Foxit will include support.
You can still use Foxit but you have to change the option in Firefox not to use the PDF plugin. Then pdf files will download and open with Foxit. This hasn't really been a problem for me since most pdf's here only show the first couple of pages anyway before things freeze until the file is fully loaded.
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 06:33 AM |
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I used PrimoPDF as "printer" under WinXP; it shows up as a printer, but creates PDF-files. So any program could use it.
But I needed to re-register, and the link is broken.
Has anyone have a suggestion for an alternative ?
I just use Mac OSX. It's built into the system. And Preview opens PDFs almost instantaneously. |
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The Board helps those that help themselves.
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 04:28 PM |
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Hey,
There is a small utility/tweaker named "ADOBE READER SPEED-UP"... check this out:
...stores unused plugins in the Optional folder of Acrobat/Reader. This means that when a PDF is viewed and Acrobat/Reader requires a plugin for full functionality, it'll be loaded for that particular PDF only.
Adobe Reader Speed-Up (ARSU) was created in an effort to automate the process of speeding up Adobe Reader's launch time by disabling the majority of plugins that are, quite frankly, completely useless for most users.
So, you might want to give it a try.
Trust me: my AcroReader is faster than yours!
[Edit:] Download it from here: www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk |
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Posted: May 05, 2006 - 05:28 PM |
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Last night I installed PDF-creator (as suggested by Dean) to replace PrimoPDF: works great.
Same for Foxit: I de-installed Acrobat immediately .. it's fast (as a rabbit :LOL:), eats far less memory (not as a rabbit ), and is as easy to use as Adobe's Acrobat.
This is a great topic. Please, make it sticky, Dean.
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Posted: May 07, 2006 - 01:12 PM |
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Hi!
EAGLE (just for those who may be don't know about it...)
Free and damn good, it just works...
http://www.cadsoft.de/ |
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Posted: May 07, 2006 - 01:24 PM |
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If you find yourself running low on diskspace, try "CrapCleaner" - it's a utility to find and safely remove both usage history as well as a multitude of temp files and settings on your computer. Download is located here.
Should be mentioned that when you open CCleaner for the first time, make sure that only the junk you want removed is ticked. Nothing worse than having all your saved passwords and form information wiped accidentally. Having said that once you've told it what you want to keep it's a dream to use; right click the recycle bin and click "Run CCleaner". Finishes in seconds and is unobtrusive.
For those who want to give your computer a facelift without all the extra baggage of third party skinning programs, try XPize. XPize patches literally hundreds of system files to add in new and updated images, icons and animations to make your system look smarter at no extra memory or CPU cost. AFAIK it patches rather than replaces files as my updated DLLs still function as they did before running. This worked great for me to get rid of the boring and forgotten 256-colour icons and such and it even patches your XP theme DLL to allow for unsigned third-party msstyles themes.
If you love the macs but own a PC, try the FlyAKite project. Not only does it posess the snazziest website i've ever seen (do try it if only for the novelty value) it is a giant patch which will make Windows look as much like MacOSX as possible. I can't personally reccomend this as I have not tried it as of yet but I have heard nice things.
I could go on for hours with all the freeware i've found over the years! 
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Posted: May 14, 2006 - 07:35 PM |
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Try Google Desktop!
Good if your always online! Especially good if you have lots of pictures. Normally you forget about them for a *long* time, but with google desktop they are always with you. And lots of other sweat gadgets!
www.google.com |
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Posted: May 14, 2006 - 08:36 PM |
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If you love the macs but own a PC, try the FlyAKite project. Not only does it posess the snazziest website i've ever seen (do try it if only for the novelty value) it is a giant patch which will make Windows look as much like MacOSX as possible. I can't personally reccomend this as I have not tried it as of yet but I have heard nice things
Well, here we are!
I've tried it!
First it's allright, even created system restore point (how nice). Felt weired felling watching this message : "Modifing regedit.exe". Hanged up on installation of some Itunes plug-in. So, had to reboot the system.
Oh!
Just enjoy!
Noticed some bugs with Mozilla already... |
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Posted: May 14, 2006 - 09:32 PM |
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Posted: May 18, 2006 - 04:03 PM |
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Joomla (formerly Mambo) for making your website !
The first websit eI made was www.bigeasybrassband.nl - So flexible because once installed you only need an internet browser to maintain the website on-line ! |
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Posted: May 20, 2006 - 02:38 AM |
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I've used Mambo, and I can concur that it is a great piece of software.
My newest find is SpaceMonger, a very tiny single EXE program which can give a visual representation of the folders/files on your haddrive so you can see what's hogging all your space. It's very basic and the layout can take some getting used to, but it's neat nonetheless.
Also check out HijackThis!, a utility to create a log file of most of your system details which you can then scan manuall or use an oline scanner such as this very good one (english site despite the domain).
Heguli: Will check those out. Thanks!
Dimonlp, nice screenshot but please resize it so it doesn't break the forum tables  . Also, I'd suggest moving the taskbar to the top of the screen (unlock it, then click-drag the bar to the top of the screen and relock) for that authentic mac appearance.
All: A new version of XPize is out. Havn't had a look at the new features yet, though. Also, requesting the link of a decent free hard drive imaging program, so I can back up my entire system.
- Dean |
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Atmel Studio 6.1 is now released, grab it here.
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Posted: May 24, 2006 - 10:38 PM |
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Posted: May 25, 2006 - 11:42 AM |
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fbi wrote:
Your last chance on HD crashes:
GetDataBack http://www.runtime.org
$79... 
AFAIK, the topic is: FREE applications! |
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Posted: May 25, 2006 - 11:52 AM |
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A free data recovery program is PC Inspector File Recovery, avaliable at this location. It could be a little more polished, but it's fine for recovering select file types (it scans the empty sectors for known file headers). The same company has a special flash card recovery program (also free) designed to recover accidentally deleted images of a CF/SD/etc card.
- Dean |
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Atmel Studio 6.1 is now released, grab it here.
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Posted: May 29, 2006 - 09:08 PM |
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Hi,
@groenhen: You are absolutly right, GetDataBack is NOT free. Sorry for my mistake  .
There is a free trial version, but it does NOT allow to copy the recovered data. Sorry.
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Posted: May 29, 2006 - 10:13 PM |
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FBI wrote:
@groenhen: You are absolutly right, GetDataBack is NOT free. Sorry for my mistake .
There is a free trial version, but it does NOT allow to copy the recovered data. Sorry.
Ah, don't worry ...
I was just too enthusiastic about your link, 'cause I had some problems with my old HD (a lot of bad sectors) and I was hoping to find a free software capable to detect & fix bad sectors...
Finally, as bad sectors were multiplying day after day (now there are about 10 GB  ), I decided to go for a radical solution: this evening I bought a new HD - a Seagate!
BTW: WD sux!
As for my old HD... what can I say?... RIP!
Regards,
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Posted: Jun 11, 2006 - 09:16 PM |
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Ok, I appologize in advance for the fact that this isn't an application, exactly...
While I was roaming around looking for some data graphing utilities and the such, I came across http://www.freewarehome.com and theres alot of neat stuff there! I havn't checked out all of it (that would take ages) but from what I've looked at, I'm impressed with the selection and quality so far. YMMV, but I think it's OK 
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Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 03:59 AM |
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| Another very nice unit of measure converter CONVERT |
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Posted: Jul 14, 2006 - 12:10 AM |
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Microsoft has just released their VirtualPC 2004 software for free, downloadable at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx. VPC2004 allows you to create one or more true virtual PCs (including emulated bios for each machine!) which you can install other OSes to.
I'm thinking about creating a virtual XP sandbox for my laptop, so I can try out new software without breaking my actual OS. Any OS will work.
Download is 20mb. You can also turn off access to your network/drives on each virtual PC or mount CD/Floppy/HD images as virtual drives.
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Atmel Studio 6.1 is now released, grab it here.
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Posted: Jul 14, 2006 - 03:42 AM |
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I have just realised the no one has mentioned the opera web browser in this thread. Fast, reliable and can pick up from where left off after a shutdown or a crash (system or browser). Also handles tabbed browsing better than any other I have tried. I've been using it for about 5 years and despite trying others I still find it the best.
Firefox has a long way to go to catch up.
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| After trying a few program for syncing a laptop and desktop I settled for SyncBackSe. You can use a freeware version or go for the SE sharware version for $25. I'm about halfway through the 30 day trial now and it works like a charm. With 1 click I can run dozens of "jobs" that each have folder information on how I want the files backedup or sync between the 2 machines. |
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Recently got this tip:
Picasa from Google. Link: http://picasa.google.com/
Organizing the pictures from the digcam or other. It's a great program.
Check it out, you can always de-install
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dksmall wrote:
Now that I have a wireless laptop, does anyone know of a good application that can sync up selected folders on the latop and a desktop so the files are current of both machines? This would also serve most of my backup needs, since 2 machines never die at the same time, right?? Anyway it wouldn't need to be a background mirror thing, just something I could run when I want to backup/sync my projects.
My wife is using FolderShare with great success. She and her partners love it.
https://www.foldershare.com/ |
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I'll nominate
Treesize.exe from JAM software - lite version is free; pro version isn't.
http://www.jam-software.com/
Quickly scans a drive or folder tree and lists files in size-order, so you can find those junk files that are huge and get rid of 'em. Like when your CD burner crashed and left some temp files. |
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Chancy99 wrote:
dksmall wrote:
Now that I have a wireless laptop, does anyone know of a good application that can sync up selected folders on the latop and a desktop so the files are current of both machines? This would also serve most of my backup needs, since 2 machines never die at the same time, right?? Anyway it wouldn't need to be a background mirror thing, just something I could run when I want to backup/sync my projects.
My wife is using FolderShare with great success. She and her partners love it.
https://www.foldershare.com/
SecondCopy - runs in background. Copies all new/changed files in desired directories to some other place including network backup drive. Safety Net. $30. Free trial. You'll need to disable pop-ups that alert you what it's doing.
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MIcrosoft SynchToy - free |
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Here's a link to a site with a utility that lets you treat your gmail account as a disk drive under windows.
http://viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
I invited myself to create an additional gmail account just for use as a gmail drive. Works great!
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I'm putting WinRoll's transparency option to use with autocad overtop of a pdf datasheet the way people used to use rice paper to copy a drawing. Thanks for the tips.
Also I'm looking for a program similiar in functionality to MSPaint but creates .SVG |
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vortagg wrote:
I'm putting WinRoll's transparency option to use with autocad overtop of a pdf datasheet the way people used to use rice paper to copy a drawing. Thanks for the tips.
Also I'm looking for a program similiar in functionality to MSPaint but creates .SVG
Glad to know you find it useful too!
As for SVG editors, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_tools# ... s_editors. Havn't trued any of them myself.
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Posted: Sep 21, 2006 - 06:23 PM |
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Well I need a free C compiler to use under WinXP (I don't want gcc under cygwin).
I want a friend to start with C programs for win32, command prompt only...
Anyone?
I don't use windows for that, I use gcc under linux so I'm trying here because I believe most of the people here uses windows... |
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Just came across the freeware TrueCrypt yesterday. It allows you to make protected, encrypted partitions (or virtual partitions in the form of a TC container file) for your sensitive files.
You can set up hot-keys to mount and dismount your favourite encrypted partition/virtual drive. Mounted partitions or drives appear like any other drive, but data being read or written is encrypted on the fly with either your password, a "Keyfile" or a combination of the two.
Works well, is fast and is free.
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Posted: Sep 22, 2006 - 03:21 PM |
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I downloaded Br@y++ and was running it on my laptop. When I started up the laptop, Br@y++ attempted to access the internet, so I uninstalled it. I'm not sure what it is trying to do, maybe just check for updates, but I don't generally trust freeware very far.
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| In addition to already mentioned SpeedFan which helps to tune down fan speeds, a non-free but frequently bundled with DVD burners - Nero CD-DVD Speed. Helps limiting DVD speed, reducing noise and temperature while watching movies or listening music directly from CD/DVD's. |
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A fine WYSIWYG editor for HTML:
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Does anyone know of an application like LabVIEW, that you can use to create nice graphs stuff from the serial port (USART) I would like to use somthing like LabVIEW but its to damn expensive... check out this project that uses labview (non avr) http://www.e-dsp.com/how-to-build-your- ... imple-ecg/
pretty neat little app, i have been making my own using VB.net and basicly having it draw to a picturebox but it usely takes more time to create that (if you want it to look nice) then it does to make the whole AVR application.
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I just tryed that app, and its freakin awsome! I just saved over 10gb with this little thing in like 15 seconds... pretty neat indeed. Tho its not a signal app anymore its a whole install, and its only trial... but theres very little protection. |
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The old version of spacemonger was/is freeware, and that's the version I use. The latest version offers little if anything extra over the old version, so look around and I'm sure you'll find the latter for download still.
Also, DEFINITELY install CrapCleaner (CCleaner). It will delete all your application's temporary files safely, freeing up hundreds of megabytes of space. Can also fix registry problems very well, and adds a quick (silent) clean option to the right-click menu of your Recycle Bin.
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| If you are responsible for project management, I recommend you checkout dotProject. Will be a really great tool when they release resource leveling. |
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"We do the stuff behind the buttons!"
Your source for embedded solutions with a 100% Guarantee.
http://www.jldsystems.com
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Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 11:05 PM |
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Plons wrote:
Here you can download EBCD, Emergency Boot CD.
Along the same lines, here's a link to the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows.
The Ultimate Boot CD actually boots to Windows. The UBCD4Win program is used to create an ISO format file. You will need to insert a Windows XP CD as part of the build process.
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Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 11:40 PM |
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Free vector graphic editor:
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
http://www.inkscape.org/ |
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Hi! It's my turn now ^^
Rainlendar: www.rainlendar.net/
Little App's that make a little calendar appear on your desktop, You can put task, event, put an alarm for some events, really nice and usefull !
Alwact Clock : http://alwact.atspace.com/
Make a little clock totally skinnable appear on your desktop.
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My turn now:
[WINDOWS] A great open source UML tool is StarUML (http://www.staruml.com/). It only supports JAVA and C++ at the moment.
(BTW: Does anyone know of a free CASE tool for C? Enterprise Architect worked well, but it is not free)
[Cross Platform] Highlight (http://freshmeat.net/projects/highlight/) is a very handy open source tool to preserve source code formatting when creating documentation. It can convert a source file to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, and XML.
[WINDOWS] ObjectDock (www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/) is a 'dock' similar to that of OS-X on the mac to organize shortcuts etc. Looks good and works well - no more cluttered desktop
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Posted: Jul 05, 2007 - 03:00 PM |
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Another soundcard-scope-program:
http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/Scope/Scope_en.html
From all the soundcard-scope-software I have tested so far, this is the winner. I suggest to use the Line-input. Add an attenuator like this:
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Btw, turn the speakers off
Clawson (Cliff) posted this link in the General AVR-forum. I put it here for easy reference. Thanks Cliff
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My favorite is Google Earth. Nothing like it; the ultimate place to learn and/or waste time. The latest version has sky (astronomy) as well as earth, and even includes flight simulator built in.
heh. Yeah that's fun.
Google also has it's sketchup - a simple 3d modeling tool. Nothing powerful. But - it includes a physics simulator plugin, where you can fool around with cubes, collisions etc. http://code.google.com/p/sketchyphysics/ |
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http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Azureus: IMHO the best P2P sharing system... Runs on both linux and windows. |
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This a nice little program to establish all kinds of metrics of your code, like # of lines, # of branches, max. depth, average complexity etc:
SourceMonitor |
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I just found a new "PDF printer" called BullZip.
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php
The interesting feature it has is merging pdfs, but I must admit to limited use at this time. |
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"We do the stuff behind the buttons!"
Your source for embedded solutions with a 100% Guarantee.
http://www.jldsystems.com
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Hi!
Anyone knows a free application able to ping a list of IP addresses? Better to ask here, maybe one of you has already used something like this and wants to share. I found some programs on internet, but antivirus was a little bit worried about it... What I need is something with a simple graphical interface: a green spot if an IP address in the list is online and a red spot if the IP address is offline.
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Try searching on www.download.com. I have a few PING programs from there.
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For what it's worth here are some of mine that I did not see previously mentioned (not all are Freeware, but all are free/full utilities - not crippleware):
www.sysinternals.com GREAT collection of Windows system utilities: Port monitors, TCP monitor, Registry monitor, Autoruns - list and control ALL programs that load automatically at boot time, bginfo - display system info on windows desktop background, and many more. If you've ever needed some detailed info from the depths of the Windows kernel, that place has a utility to view it!
Keypass Password safe - keep all of your passwords securly under a single master password. Can also us a password and key disk (keydisk can be a thumb drive). Versions for WindowsMobile (WindoesCE), Blackberry, Palm, and Linux are also available
Firebug If you're a web developer, you owe it to yourself to try this Firefox add-on. It allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
eDrawings An engineering drawings viewer and publisher that works with Autocad, SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, Catia, Unigraphix/NX, and OneSpace drawing formats.
File Shredder Secure file delete utility.
AVG Antivirus Free versions of Grisoft AVG Antivirus, Anti-spyware, and Anti-rootkit. I used the freeware version a few years ago and have been using the paid versions ever since. None better in my opinion.
www.activestate.com Free Windows interpreters for Perl, Python, and TCL.
Cygwin Linux (GNU) environment for Windows.
Apache.org Apache projects including the Apache HTTP server, Tomcat servlet container, Commons reusable Java components, and SpamAssassin mail filter to name a few.
PHP A great web scripting anguage.
MySQL The World's best open-source database. Also check out the PHP based admin tool for MySQL phpMyAdmin.
JAlbum Website photo album software - I'm using it with the bananalbum plugin to create the photo albums on my homepage (example)
WordPress God's gift to bloggers!
phpBB God's gift to web forum creators. |
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http://femm.foster-miller.net/wiki/HomePage
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Here is a better version of Google Earth, and does not require you to download software like Google Earth does
http://maps.live.com/
Enter an address and search. Click on bird's eye view
Works great, and the directions feature is dead on!!
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I have decided that I am no longer going to plan anything in advance. In a court of law this is called Pre-Meditated, and does not look good for the defense.....
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I've dumped Foxit and Acrobat, now using
PDF-XChange Viewer
Free version offers commenting, measuring, stamps and a lot more without any "buy now" watermarks. Pro version can merge PDF's, change page order etc. |
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Let me mention these..
1: CutePDF a free pdf printer. Shows up as a normal printer.
2: CopyPathToClipboard Gives you an extra "right click menu item" enabling you to copy tha path to an item on your HD or network.
3: Faststone image viewer. And other nice image tools
4: DraftIT a Free 2D cad program.
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I use TotalCommander instead of Explorer: dual windows, LOTS of commands. http://www.ghisler.com/
My editor is EditPlus http://www.editplus.com/
Yankee Clipper Plus often comes in handy. It's a clipboard extender. http://www.intelexual.com/products/index.aspx
KeyNote (http://sourceforge.net/projects/keynote/) while no longer suppported, is very good.
I use FreeMind (mentioned before) and Leo (http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/). Leo is GREAT for code development.
Finally, TurboNote (www.TurboNote.com) is a sticky note program that I really like -- I like it enough to have paid for it (gasp!).
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Rich, I use TotalCommander too, but it's not freeware. And that is what this thread is about.
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For your virtual machine needs Sungives away the excellent VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ). Relatively painless setup. I run GNU/Linux under Windows (Vista and XP).
I have been looking for virtualization solutions and it seems like the free VMWare Player does not allow you to set up VMs, only run VMs that has been created with a non-free VMWare product.
Microsofts Virtual PC does not run on Home editions of Windoze.
Sun's VirtualBox OTOH is free runs on both Windows and Linux. I have not tested it on a Home ed of Windows (yet) but I see no reason it will not work. On the VMs I have created everything has gone smooth, eg net work connections come up without trouble. You can access the file system of the host OS if you really want to.
Don't forget to install the "guest additions" when you have set up your VM. This gets rid of the somewhat tiresome mouse and keyboard capture "phenomenon". When installing updates to the VM system thee seems to be a tendency that the Guest Additions gets lost, but reinstalling them is a matter of a minute or two (and unfortunately a reboot).
VirtualBox can make snapshots of your VM. I have not tested to do that and later "roll back" (yet) but that is what is promised...
So d/l Ubuntu, Debian or some other preferred GNU/Linux disti, mount the ISO image with the help of DAEMON Tools, create a VirtualBox VM and start it. It boots off the ISO and setup commences. 30 minutes later you have a GNU/Linux to run in parallell with your Windows.
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I have been looking for virtualization solutions and it seems like the free VMWare Player does not allow you to set up VMs, only run VMs that has been created with a non-free VMWare product.
Johan,
Not entirely true - my way of running Ubuntu machines within a Windows Vista host is using Vmware but it's Vmware Server, not Vmware Player that I use. You are right that the player does not allow you to create new VMs and you have to use someone's pre-built image created within the commercial version. But recently this restriction was lifted from the Server version. The whole thing is completely free and if no one's mentioned it so far in this thread I'd say it is up there amongst the very best freeware.
The "trick" when using Vmware Server is to also download and install the "remote console plugin"
What's more you then might think you are still "stuck inside" the web interface to the console but I just run a separate short-cut:
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"C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\VMware Remote Console Plug-in\vmware-vmrc.exe" -h cliff-pc:8333 -u "cliff" -p "cliffs XP password" "[standard] Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine.vmx"
and this gives me a separate XP window onto the VM
(I repeat that shortcut link here as it actually took me several days to find out how to do this and it'll hopefully help someone else get their quicker)
One of the many nice things about Vmware is that you can simply make a .iso in the host environment appear as a CD in the VM - so it's easy to download an Ubuntu install image (for example) then boot the "raw" VM and install it as the OS
Cliff
PS Oh and the obligatory download link:
http://www.vmware.com/freedownload/logi ... t=server20
PPS many of the things you mention for VirtualBox have equivalents in Vmware - your "guest additions" is called "Vmware toolbox" and it can take/restore snapshots (that I found useful once!). Seems like the two products may be playing the "catch up" game. |
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Vmware Server, not Vmware Player [...] The whole thing is completely free
OK, that's where I missed out. I could have sworn that I saw a [Buy] button on the VMWare server web page.
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Yes, and I was not clear above. That is possible in VirtualBox also. And when the guest OS is up and running in the VM you can of-course mount an ISO that will be accessible in the guest OS file system. Sorry for the confusion with DAEMON Tools.
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| I have tried VirtualBox on Macintosh x86 to run win2000, and it actually works better than running w2k standalone, well almost! But it was actually faster compared to having it on a similar spec. desktop. Installing and usage was simple and straight forward. I only had some problems with USB access, but I did not spend much time trying to solve it though... |
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Rich, I use TotalCommander too, but it's not freeware. And that is what this thread is about.
Nard
Ummm, well, I am going to pay for it. Some day... (Which is why I mentioned it -- I totally forgot it wasn't free. )
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I'll have to try this VMWare Virtual Server some weekend!
I'll have to try this Sun VirtualBox some weekend!
Well I've now tried this and I have to say that, on reflection (though only based on a few hours use), I kind of wish I had found VirtualBox before Wmware Server as it was actually much easier to get started.
I was a bit miffed at first when I couldn't get the virtual video adapter to do more than 800x600 but this was before I did the "Guest additions" step. All is now well.
I had hoped that the shared folder thing might offer guest->host as well as host->guest but I guess you can't have anything. At least it's a feature that Vmware doesn't offer though I'm still going to have to install/configure Samba in the guest so that my Windows editor can see files on the Linux filesystem.
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I had hoped that the shared folder thing might offer guest->host as well as host->guest but I guess you can't have anything.
If you are talking about accessing the hosts filesystem from the guest that should be possible. I am fairly certain that I tried it out before christmas, but I can't recall the details. Hang on...
EDIT: Works like a charm! We're not talking SMB or some such here, but a folder on the host that appears as a mountable disk in the guest VM. Heres how:
1) Create the shared folder on the host.
2) In VirtualBox (the app, not the guest VM as such) create the shared folder. I gave it the name "GuestAccess".
3) In the guest VM you now need to mount this shared folder, so for Ubuntu:
sudo mkdir /mnt/HostSharedFolder
sudo mount -t vboxsf GuestAccess /mnt/HostSharedFolder
Tada!
Please note that there's some trick with the "My Documents" folder in Windows making it hard (impossible?) to share that with the guest VM. At least on Vista. I don't care as I dont want my VM to have access to that anyway. I see the GuestAccess folder as a staging area between the guest and the host.
Theres more in the VirtualBox help. See The VirtualBox Guset Additions, Folder Sharing
As you're an old fart, and have been caught saying that "if I can't do it on a C> prompt it's not worth doing", you wil be pleased to find that there is a command line interface to VirtualBox that lets you create these shares on the host. And it can be used to start a VM so you dont have to start the GUI VirtualBox first and click things. I used this to create a shortcut for starting my Ubuntu VM drectly from the start menu, but you can of-course create a CMD bat file that will do that for you...
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Johan,
Nope, that is the direction that they offer an "easy" solution for. What I was after was being able to "see" the Linux filesystem from the Windows host so that my Windows based editor (SourceInsight) could see the Linux files I'm trying to edit.
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| Yes, sorry. I was a sloppy reader. Samba should do it, though.. |
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Table based linearization (interpolated or not) is fast and very popular, but it takes much space, and it is not very practical when AVR should deal with unknown curve inputs. For example, you made a device that receives inputs -10..+10V, and you programmed it and shipped, but some technician will install it and he will make measurements for the first time on site. He will take numerous samples through the whole input range and make a table. To make the long story short, there are mathematical methods to get a polinomial function out of that table and all you need to do is enter those coeficients (y=ax^0 + bx^1 +cx^2 + ...) into AVR and that's it. After this calculation (which is time consuming and without optimization not intended for time critical applications), your y value is calculated. Number of coeficients defines accuracy (simply said).
To automate all this and to get those coeficients directly out of table with nice visualization in Excel, there is an excelent free tool at www.xlxtrfun.com/XlXtrFun/XlXtrFun.htm
Enjoy!
p.s.: I apologize for presenting this so simple to all of you who know very well what is all this about |
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Maybe this should be in "the best freeware apps" in the off-topic forum so it won't get lost?
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If someone moves it there I don't mind...
[cliff: done]
Btw. You will see that 4-5 coefficients give nice accuracy for most input curves. |
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avra wrote:
... polinomial functions ... there is an excelent free tool at www.xlxtrfun.com/XlXtrFun/XlXtrFun.htm
Enjoy!
Thanks Avra. Did you also note that the author of these functions is 86 years old! I will be delighted to be functioning in any manner at 66 .. let alone at 86 and at such a "connected" level.
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[this post (and subsequent replies) moved from AVR forum and merged into this sticky thread - this is too good to allow it to be lost - cliff]
I bought a few 7110 LCDs and started developing a driver for it (for PICs). A few years back i used FontGen to generate my fonts and bitmaps but found that it has become commercial (250 USD). I found a few alternatives but they were either commercial or lacking. Consequently, i developed a font and image generator which outputs easy to integrate and compact font information:
* Generates any font, any size with any decoration (unicode still not supported)
* Generates only the letters required by the user and uses a font descriptor array to access, in O(1), the bitmap for the requested character
* Descriptor array is stored only for the required range of characters
* Strips all possible vertical padding from bitmaps
* Space character is generated by code, not by bitmap. This removes the need to hold a large descriptor array (since space is the lowest ASCII character and is often used)
* Array is formatted in binary to allow easy visual tweaking of character
* Generates both source file info and header file info
* Bitmap conversion supported as well
* Open source (C#), released under GPL
In addition, i've also released my 7110 driver for PIC16. This is a non buffered driver, specially tailored for uCs that can't store the ~900 bytes of back buffer required by the 7110. I'm posting this to illustrate how i iterate through the generated arrays.
You can get the zipped executable (37KB unzipped) here, and the 7110 driver here. I have not tested it on vista and i suspect the rendering will be a bit iffy, though i may be wrong. First thing in my todo list is vista support.
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| 0.0.2: Vista support added |
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| Much appreciated. I paid for a cheap, albeit pretty decent, one a few months back for lack of a free alternative. |
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| What is its name? I'd be happy to copy ideas from commercial products, if it keeps the application simple. There's no reason why something so basic does not come free. |
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| Um, so what's a .7z file? |
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| 7ZIP. Yet another acrhive/compression program. |
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Posted: Jul 28, 2009 - 03:19 PM |
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Torby, 7z handles several compress-formats. Once you have installed it, you'll never want to be without
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Posted: Jul 28, 2009 - 05:18 PM |
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| 7z can also be decompressed with winrar and winzip. I found that the 7z archiver outperforms rar by tens of percents in most cases. Try to rar/zip something (with max compression) and then try the same with 7z (with Ultra compression). You'll probably be amazed |
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| I got it. And the cool Dot Factory program. |
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I don't know how come it wasn't mentioned earlier, but here's something no windows computer should be without:
http://www.info-zip.org/
(of course no linux or mac should be without one either, but on the real os's it sort of comes naturally)
infozip is a modern implementation of ZIP suite. It's command-line only, does everything there is to zip archives and unlike ancient PKZIP25 it supports modern filenames and long paths. |
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Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 04:22 PM |
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Version 0.0.3 of The Dot Factory released, adding a lot of configurable settings to the output:
- Output as hex or binary with selectable leading character
- LSb or MSb first
- Flipping horizontally/vertically/both
- Configurable padding removal (saves space)
- /* C style comments */ or // Cpp style comments
- Select which comments are added
- All the above for both text and images
Won't update this thread on every update, just the big ones. |
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A program that does do what Matlab, Octave and Maxima can do (mathematically, it does not have something like simulink, but it has sound analyses).
With an excellent very easy to use interface. It uses GNUplot. Many, many examples ("Notebooks")and fairly good documentation.
Monthly new features are added by german professor Rene Grothmann. It is absolutely free!
http://eumat.sourceforge.net/index.html |
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ET BEEP at www.encodeteam.com
Nice free tray alarm that uses internal beeper (which is always on so you won't miss it), and has an editor for alien like sounds. |
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Cellflow
http://www.xs4all.nl/~westy31/CellFlow/CellFlow.html
This is about CFD (ComputerFluidDynamics). It is a Cellular Automate. It calculates free convection, the sound generating flow in a flute, and so on.
Google "Lattice Boltzmann Method" for theory.
To see free convection animation example(usefull for electronics cooling):
1.Dowmload "Windows Executable file" (=Cellflow.exe) and "2D free convection example" (=Freeconv2.gmt) in the same directory.
2.Run Freecell.exe
3.Click Freecon2.gmt in the lower list box. And click button "Import geometry". Click OK in the pop up box.
4. Click "Cont"
5. Watch the show! A live time developing simulation of flow and temperature. After some time you see interesting oscillations of falling cold pockets.
Using a spreadsheet you can input your own design. You have to use tricks to limit the number of points, otherwise the calculations are extremely time consuming. |
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Recently found and liked: http://freerouting.net — a free Java-based PCB routing software. Compatible with Eagle and with whatever can export .dsn files. This is probably the first standalone router that didn't make me angry. It can push away the traces, drag components while keeping them properly connected and all that stuff Eagle can't do.
For a test I re-routed a Nixie daughterboard for one of my clocks using free-angle routing. The straight one is the original, spider-on-caffeine one is FreeRouting-ed.
I was so impressed that I even made a little video, forgive me the horrible quality but it should give the idea about how this happens.
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A long time back I recommended people switch to Foxit PDF reader, which at the time provided a much better alternative to (then) Adobe Reader 7. Since then versions 8 and 9 came out which were much faster and cleaner, so I switched back.
However, due to the myriad of security vulnerabilities in it, I've switched away from Adobe once more. Foxit is no longer a fast, bloat-free alternative. Enter Sumatra, a ulta-lightweight PDF reader which renders PDFs perfectly, unlike most other 3rd party readers (including Nitro PDF and Foxit). It's very low-frills, but if you just want to be able to view documents, search through them and jump to the bookmarks it's fantastic.
Ultra small (~3MB), loads in well under a second.
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sum ... nload.html
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Hi Dean,
Foxit still loads PDFs faster on my system. Sumatra takes much longer to "render" large files. Just thought I'd share my experience, ymmv. |
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| Dean! Just tested Sumatra on the AVR instruction set. Works like a charm, loads itself and PDFs lightning fast. Thank you! |
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I prefer the free version of the PDF-XChange Viewer. It's an ideal pdf viewer for students. It has a lot of nice pdf commenting features which are more comfortable than those in the free foxit reader and adds no nasty evaluationmarks to an edited pdf.
The print menue has more features and supports "print current view" which lacks the free version of foxit reader.
The current view, single pages or a complete document can be exported as pictures files comfortable, too.
Opening a pdf with the XChange Viewer is not as fast as with the Foxit Reader but it is still reasonable fast.
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Toporouter is free for up to 125 signals:
http://www.toporouter.com/advantages.php
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CodeTyphon, a powerful one click installation package for cross platform native Delphi like RAD/IDE based on Lazarus/FreePascal. CodeTyphon already supports 4 CPU/OS hosts (Win32, Win64, Linux32, Linux64), and 16 CPU/OS targets (arm-Wince, arm-Linux, arm-Embedded, arm-gba, arm-nds, i386-Win32, i386-Linux, i386-FreeBSD, i386-Haiku, x86_64-Win64, x86_64-Linux, x86_64-FreeBSD, powerpc-Linux, powerpc64-Linux, sparc-Linux, sparc-Solaris). More are supported in Lazarus/FreePascal, but others are not yet integrated in CodeTyphon.
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Personal-Backup:
I use an external (eSATA) hard-drive for my daily backups. I had been doing this manually. Incremental backups were done by searching based on date modified. All quite tedious.
I recently started using Personal-Backup. It greatly simplifies the backup process so I'm now doing it more frequently.
Also, it's free.
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Looks nice. I'll give it a try when I have some time to spare.
See:
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they probably had to do that to help defend their turf..Googles Sketchup 3d and Sketchup Pro have probably impacted them significantly in the Architectural use of autocad 2d/3d software and Solidworks is doing their best to take whats left of the profit out of 2d autocad software
by offering a free professional grade 2d program to replace autocadLt and autocad in many apps
http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/
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Plons wrote:
I needed a gerber-viewer to check the output of the PCB-design program I use, and this is what I found: http://www.easylogix.de/home.php?change=eng
So far it looks good !
Nard
I've been using Viewmate for many years (the free version):
http://www.pentalogix.com/viewmate.php
You do need to register to obtain a serial number required during installation.
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Nice to see there is a Linux Gerber viewer ! I will save that for later.
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I am missing here also some apps
VMplayer + (VMmachine creator XML generator for VMplayer)
A/V
- Handbrake x264 encoder
- AviDemuX Multi OS VirtualDUB alternative
Other
- MeshLAb
- Sandboxie
- Lazarus/FPC
- Ghostgum - PDF
- RealTerm - Serial Terminal
- CPUid/GPUid - small systeminfo
- Bricscad V10 is not freeware but realy nice small CADsoft import/export etc.
- Quick Config - Win32 System conf profiles switcher
- MediaInfo
- Notepad++ (+hex edit plugin)
+ FAR (NC-Like FileCommander +TXT Hexedit also)
- Recuva
- CCleaner
- UltimateDefrag V1 FREE Public Domain Version
- Defragler
- Avira rescue boot ISO/CD
- Hiren's Boot CD
- Diamond Ultimate Boot CD (be carefull torrent version contain trojans)
- LibreOffice ?
- Jdownloader when need download huge video tutorials from filehosting services
+ Mozzila Addons
Xpath Checker (cool plugin when is requied develop web data fetcher)
Tamper for JSON or HTTP request debugging
FireBug
WebDeveloper
ScreenGrab (save whole page as image)
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Stuff that I use:
- irfanview
- gimp
- vim (the best IDE )
- opera
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Quote:
- AviDemuX Multi OS VirtualDUB alternative
As that's the first mention of VirtualDub in this thread I'll also say "VirtualDub" itself.
For doing diffs I like KDiff3 a lot.
VirtualCloneDrive to mount as a "fake" CD any .iso image (this can also be done by VirtualBox inside VMs)
For recording onscreen action in Windows: CamStudio by RenderSoft
As a hex editor that can open whole drives as well as files and understands FAT format the read-only version of WinHex from X-Ways.
Tortoise+SVN as a code versioning system.
Format Factory for converting between all kinds of video formats.
HeapAgent as a tool for i386 .exe development that hooks the system malloc() and gives diagnostics about over-runs and things.
OpenVPN for making a VPN link to a corporate network.
PSI as a Jabber IM client.
WinDirStat for getting a visual map of what's eating all your hard drive space.
ProcExp and ProcMon for Task Manager with go faster stripes (and monitoring file/registry accesses)
Because no one else has mentioned it: Arudino of course. (not to mention the avr-gcc toolchain!)
Oh and...
Another vote for VirtualBox as a VM
Another vote for Notepad++ as a text editor
Another vote for TeraTerm as serial terminal
Another vote for Audacity as audio editor
Another vote for 7-Zip as compression/archive manager
Another vote for GIMP as an image editor
Another vote for CutePDF as a PDF "printer"
Another vote for Foxit as a PDF reader
Another vote for VLC as the ultimate media player (backed by FFmpeg) |
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| Cutecom for linux: similar to Brays, and the only Linux tool I've found that can display incoming serial data as hex... |
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Quote:
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- AviDemuX Multi OS VirtualDUB alternative
As that's the first mention of VirtualDub in this thread I'll also say "VirtualDub" itself.
Better is VirtualDub Mod or another clone Free Video Dub
Network cool App is FreeCap (any app sock5ifier:)
Good way find other FreeWare Apps
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Old but still good and working tools
OllyDbg - Cool debugger Disassembler
IDA - This program also exist as free version/personal
Hiew - Dissasembler HEXeditor and much more homepage or (video)
CUP386.exe (CyberWare Universal Unpacker, UCFCUP, CUP) - Unpacks many compressed executables
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CUP386 is regularly cited as one of the best EXE unpackers around – it was developed primarily for hackers and others with a programming bent. Although CUP386 has many debugging and other power-user options, it is often capable of unpacking many formats in one easy step, and that's why I include it here. CUP386 has been tested with the following formats – but was designed to unpack executables packed with unknown software: PkLite, Diet, LzExe, TinyProg, PgmPak, HackStop, WWPack.
Requires a 386+, functions best when memory managers (e.g., EMM386) are not loaded.
Author: Alex Petroukine / Cyberware,
HINT:
Use some command line switches
/3 /5 Emulate i386 instructions good for AntiDebugCode Skipping
/d debug this will invoke Borland TDebug txt mode Debugger thats really cool is so small EXE binary
Download ucfcup34.zip (49K).
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| I use Bullzip PDF Printer. It installs as a standard printer. It has features like: security, watermarks, merge/append. I print to it from MS Office, IE etc. I also use it to print select pages out of an existing PDF file. |
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Not sure if these are already included but here's my favourites.
CutePDF, for printing files to PDF
Winmerge, compares documents, good for looking at changes in revisions of code.
CoolEdit, used for changing the sample rate of WAV files. |
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It's about 10 years ago that I had so much fun with Ntrack to make all kinds of sounds.
Here it is:
http://ntrack.com/
BTW: With the early wav recorder/player in Windows you could playback your recordings in reverse. It is a really funny game to learn the reverse played song, sing&record that and reverse playback.
In my language (dutch) it seemed I could sing in russian and vice versa. Really cool!
You may learn somebody this reverse song, and then play it back in reverse. Of course you can make people say/sing things they did not intend. |
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Clonezilla + Tuxboot
Being in NCA mode (New Computer Acquisition), I was in search for a disk clone/restore software. I like to be able to get back to "original state" (and nowadays you seldom get install media with your new computer). Then you need another image/clone after you've applied a few years of Windoze Upyours ..sorry.. Windows Update.
I have previously been a Norton Ghost user, and now I had my eyes on Acronis TrueImage but that turned out to be a costly solution since I soon will have to back up five or more different system disks in different computers.
After a tour on The Web I decided on Clonezilla, and so far I am satisfied. Not for the faint of heart that needs to do this with zero tech insight and who crave a GUI. It's a GNU/Linux solution with text-mode prompts (or raw command line if you prefer). It will happily clone Windows disks and/or partitions, placing the m on e.g an USB disk.
You use Tuxboot to get a bootable disk(e.g. a CD-R) with Clonezilla on it (more here: http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php).
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Western Digital has a free version of Acronis True Image. I assume you need at least one WD drive plugged in to use it.
There is one limitation I am aware of. You can only back up entire partitions. You can't select folders or files for the backup. On the restore side, you can selectively restore whatever you want. |
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I'm kind of surprised this hasn't hit the list yet but after I mentioned it in another thread Johan suggested I add a further recommendation here for USBDeview.exe:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
This gives you the kind of information in Windows about inserted USB devices that lsusb gives for Linux. Perhaps key amongst the reported information is simply the VID/PID that a device has enumerated against. If you are building your own USB devices and configuring the enumeration to deliver your own selected VID/PID this is a quick way to check you are on the right track (or even to see that it is enumerating at all). |
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| I've always used XP's Windows Movie Maker for making videos to upload to YouTube but always had problems with it crashing (having to save after every edit step) and I recently got a Sony HX9V which takes video at a higher resolution than it could cope with so I went looking for something that could run natively in my Linux host and after reading recommendations and trying a couple I have to say that kdenlive (just "apt-get install kdenlive" in Ubuntu) is at least as good as Windows Media maker in every sense while providing a user interface that is very similar so it makes for an easy transition for anyone used to the XP program. |
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The Saturn PCB Toolkit
is the best resource for PCB related calculations you can find.
It incorporates many features that PCB designers and engineers are in regular need of like current capacity of a PCB trace, via current, differential pairs and much more. Please download our PCB Toolkit today for free and enjoy!
Code:
http://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit.htm
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dxr wrote:
The Saturn PCB Toolkit
is the best resource for PCB related calculations you can find.
It incorporates many features that PCB designers and engineers are in regular need of like current capacity of a PCB trace, via current, differential pairs and much more. Please download our PCB Toolkit today for free and enjoy!
Code:
http://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit.htm
I use this software regularly. Very useful! |
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No viruses.
No daily critical security risk updates.
No expensive user programs.
No expensive bi-yearly OS updates.
No crashing when the OS screws itself up.
No open hard drive and personal info to Microsoft corporate.
No helping Bill Gates remain a multi billionaire.
Ubuntu.com |
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| I'm a huge fan of digital audio. Most frequently use Medieval CUE Splitter and Monkey Audio. Lots of rare old CD's and bootlegs are shared in via APE + CUE. |
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Logic Friday is a freeware tool for students, hobbyists, and engineers who work with legacy digital logic circuits based on standard IC packages.
Current version: 1.1.4, released 9 November, 2012.
With Logic Friday you can:
Enter a logic function as a truth table, an equation, or a gate diagram
Enter functions with up to 16 inputs and 16 outputs
Minimize a function with options of fast or exact minimization
Automatically generate a multi-level gate diagram using gates chosen from a library
Automatically minimize the number of standard gate packages
Trace the logic state of each gate's inputs and outputs for a given input vector
Compare logic functions
Generate new functions as logical combinations of others
View any function as a truth table, equation, or gate diagram
Generate efficient, compact C code lookup functions from logic functions
Save functions and gate diagram images to files
Export and import truth tables as CSV files for editing in spreadsheet applications.
Code:
http://sontrak.com/screenshots.html
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Just to give a quick plug to Google Play Music Manager. My wife has an iPad and our music collection in iTunes. I got an Android tablet and wanted access to the same music collection. By downloading Google Play Music Manager (both Windows and Linux versions are available - I ended up using the Linux one as the Windows one says it won't work within a virtual machine) I was able to just point it to the iTunes folder and say "upload that" and then on either the tablet or the phone I can just use the Google "Play Music" application and it can play the music streamed direct from the Google "cloud" (it even shows the album art). For favourite songs/albums I can just right-click them and "Keep on Device" and it caches a local copy of the tracks on the SD card of the phone/tablet so it can play when out of range of Wi-Fi/mobile. The only limit is that the cloud storage will only hold 20,000 tracks (but we're miles from that just yet).
In a similar vein I have photos in various places (PC hard drive, my phone, Facebook, etc) and I wanted to be able to access those from the tablet too so I just uploaded them all to Picasa which (because it's owned by Google) integrates seamlessly with Android so that I can access them from the "cloud" (again) or can elect to have certain ones downloaded into the device.
I wonder how it is that Google seem to be able to do so much better a job at just "putting everything together" compared to decades and many failed attempts from Microsoft? |
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I wonder how it is that Google seem to be able to do so much better a job at just "putting everything together" compared to decades and many failed attempts from Microsoft?
Corporate philosophy and corporate governance.
An Evening with Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Google+, Google).
1. Google-y-ness - 11:57 for about 5m.
2. The Quartet - 38:20 for about 4m.
http://i50.tinypic.com/161lx6e.jpg
(Microsoft's Bing Christmas wallpaper)
Take a close look at what's shown in the trailer's left side rear window. |
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| Satan Claus! |
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| Am I the only one seeing Santa Tux to the left in the rear window? |
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I'm not seeing it. I guess by 'left side rear window' I was thinking the rear window on the trailers left side, whereas you were thing of the left side of the rear window. And I thought Santa Tux has yellow feet?
Maybe I've been using Windows too long.
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I found this collection of SW in single compressd package (400MB)
I hope this list of SW will help find suitable SW for any task.
Mosstly of apps are in freeware licence.
All tools are for Win32/64 platform some exist also in MAC or some are capable run under Wine.
Code:
AUD.AudioAnalyser2010.12
AUD.HarmonicTune
AUD.MultiSine
AUD.RealtimeAnalyzer
AUD.SpectraVue
AUD.SweepGen
AUD.VisualAnalyzer
AUD.miniscope
AUD.soundscope
CAD.3Dconverter
CAD.AnyCAD
CAD.AnyViewer
CAD.AutoQ3
CAD.BRL-CAD
CAD.DraftSight_FreeEdition
CAD.FreeEasyCAD_3D
CAD.HeeksCAD
CAD.LibreCAD_2Donly
CAD.LiteCAD.portable
CAD.MachCloud
CAD.NaroCAD
CAD.PLCAD
CAD.QCAD_demo
CAD.Uniconvertor
CAD.VisualCAD
Circuit Wizard 1.15
PCB.DipTrace.500.pins.PortablePacked
PCB.ExpressSCH
PCB.Fritzing
PCB.PADS (500pins version)
PCB.PcbExpress
PCB.Saturn
PCB.VeeCAD
SaleaeLogicAnalyzer
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Online Regular Expression Builder/Debugger
Quote:
http://regexr.com?33ncj
example is showing how to simple match word starting with 'de' characters
Good luck with evil's chars |
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