Sites for Completely Free and Legal Software!

[Garyvdh]

Xirrus has created a collection of easy-to-use tools to help you more effectively use and manage your Wi-Fi networks. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor allows you to monitor your surrounding Wi-Fi environment and status of your Wi-Fi connection in real time - all directly from your desktop.

The Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is useful for both IT managers and end users, and is available as a Gadget for Windows Vista, a Yahoo! Widget for Windows XP and MacOS, and a Desklet for Linux. A radar-like display graphically displays available Wi-Fi networks and their range. Detailed information is available about surrounding Wi-Fi networks. A Glossary section helps you make sense of all the Wi-Fi terms. Nine different color skins are available to customize the Wi-Fi Monitor's look for your desktop.

http://www.xirrus.com/library/wifitools.php

You will also need the free Yahoo Widgets Application...

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

[Garyvdh]

http://divxrepair.sourceforge.net/

1. Why DivXRepair ?

If you are playing avi files, you may have noticed one of the following things:

- Suddenly the image froze but the sound kept playing.
- Disoriented or equally coloured blocks of pixels distorted the image for a time.

Using DivXRepair, you can repair corrupt avi files and eliminate freezes. This program automatically detects and eliminates bad frames.

2. Details about DivXRepair

This program is based on VirtualDub (version 1.4.2.x) - mp3 - VBR
DivXRepair cuts off the bad parts and re-assembly the avi file. (The bad parts of avi are undecodable frames / freezing frames).

The utilisation is simple:

- Add one or more AVI files in the list using the Add File.
- then click on Repair files

If undecodable and/or freezing frames are found, DivXRepair will cut off the bad parts and will save a new file in the same directory with the old file.
A complete report is generated and displayed after the operation is complete.

[GuDoN]

bravo!

[Garyvdh]

fanks!

http://www.technospot.net/blogs/watc...-your-desktop/

Watch Day and Night as it happens on Earth on your Desktop

Its a small windows utility which generates wallpaper dynamically with an accurate wallpaper showing how day and nigh changes on earth. You would feel like watching it from space. You can even see clouds, snow and night visions. It takes time from your computer and creates the wallpaper.
You can also get the cloud updates every few hours. This makes it really look alive all the time. If you had wished seeing the earth from space this can satisfy you for a long time.
However if you wish to setup time zones, cloud settings and others manually it provides full options for it.
....Free Software!

[sdd]

@ Garyvdh

I just wanted to convey a big thanks for all the tips you post on this thread. I must say, I have got myself some pretty good free stuff since checking out your posts.

Keep it up mate!

sdd

[Garyvdh]

You are welcome!!! Free Stuff FTW!

[hxc87x]

just installed that desktop earth thing... seems pretty cool!
thanks man

[Garyvdh]

Traffic Shaper XP...

http://bandwidthcontroller.com/trafficShaperXp.html

Traffic Shaper XP
Take control of your internet usage

Traffic Shaper XP is a free bandwidth limiter for Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server. It combines high performance traffic shaping with the ease of use and flexibility to keep your network free of congestion.

Features
# Speed limiting for bandwidth-intensive applications and protocols
# Flexible address and port filtering
# Acknowledgement prioritization to speed up congested links
# Real-time traffic monitoring and stream statistics
Download

Download Traffic Shaper XP today for a more rewarding internet experience. Installation is quick and easy with a built-in wizard for creating rules from existing connections.

* 100% Freeware
* Full uninstaller included
* Single user
* Requires Windows 2000, XP or 2003 Server

[Garyvdh]

BitMeter II is another Free Bandwidth Monitor...

http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2

BitMeter 2 is a bandwidth meter, it allows you to visually monitor your internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time. BitMeter is freeware - ie. it is given away completely free of charge, there is no trial period, no time-limited features, no spyware, and no adware, guaranteed.

BitMeter main window This is what BitMeter looks like. The different colours on the graph represent your upload and download speeds, the display updates every second, and the current speeds are also displayed numerically in the lower part of the window.

[Garyvdh]

http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/artic...icleId=4570466

Cubit updates free POS software

South Africa-based Cubit Accounting on Thursday released a new version of its Cubit POS (point of sale) application.

The free and open source Cubit POS system can be run on any PC and operating platform - including Apple Macintosh, Linux and Windows.

The latest version, version 2.0, of the Cubit POS also inter-operates with the majority of existing POS hardware, says Cubit CEO Andre Coetzee.

"The Cubit POS software is licensed under the BSD licence, meaning the application source code is freely available, belongs to everyone and can be modified by anyone without restrictions and without having to disclose the new source code to anyone else. Anybody can also download the source code, recompile, re-brand it and sell it to anyone else," says Coetzee.

Cubit POS can be customised to comply with the differing tax regimes around the world and is already successfully being used in both the United States and South Africa, says Coetzee.

It can also accommodate hundreds of tills, so that businesses as small as the corner store and as big as a supermarket chain can make use of the system.
Cubit POS2 can be downloaded from the Cubit website or from Cubit's Sourceforge.net page.

Get it here...

http://www.cubit.co.za/

[Garyvdh]

Everything Open Source Website...

http://oss.zentu.net/

Welcome to the Free Open-Source Software Resource @ zentu.net!

The zentu.net network is an ever-evolving resource dedicated to Open-Source Software (OSS), the people who write it, and the people who benefit from its use. Aside from being the most comprehensive directory of free, open-source software on the net, some of the goals of zentu*nix @ zentu.net are:

-- To bring about an increased awareness of the varieties of OSS which are available as free alternatives to proprietary software.

-- To provide a comprehensive reference source of working open-source projects, and to organize those projects by form and by function.

-- To assist and educate old and new users of open-source software by sharing the wealth and resources of tips, tricks, links and tutorials about OSS.

-- To highlight the numerous benefits (from cost-savings to security) of using OSS over pay-per-license proprietary software.

-- To support open-source developers by providing a neutral place within the community to showcase projects of any scale: from large, well-funded ventures to the small independent projects.

-- To contribute something of value upon which future innovations will be built.

The future is wide open. The foundation upon which open-source is built can and will save the world; as has been proven, open-source conserves time, energy, resources and money by being honest and efficient.

Enjoy your stay!

[Garyvdh]

http://www.app-stick.com/index.php

Portable Freeware Directory!

What is a portable application?

A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a USB flash drive (a "stick") and use on any Windows computer. When your stick is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind on the PC.

In an effort to "eat our own dogfood", we have developed most of the software for App-Stick from a 2GB stick with portable applications (XAMPP, PSPad, FileZilla, Firefox,...). As a result, we can plug that stick into any of our computers and get to work immediately. We love it!
Why are these applications free?

Most of these applications have been developed as Open Source Software, free to use and modify under the GNU license. Most of these projects accept donations to help support the efforts of programmers and overhead of developing and hosting them on the internet.

Can any PC application be used on a stick?

No. Most applications rely on the particular PC on which they are installed. Portable applications are designed to avoid getting threaded into a particular PC. A portable app should write no data to the PC or its registry; all relevant data should be written to the stick on which the application resides.

[mercurial]

This thread should be stickied!

[Garyvdh]

This thread should be stickied!

hehe... thanks... but I pretty much post here every day anyway!

Here are some Cool Tools to Deck out your USB Pen Drive...

http://varunkashyap.wordpress.com/20...usb-pen-drive/

By far the nicest... I think... is this one...

http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/download.jsp

MojoPac was always a nice tool... but now it has a free version!

MojoPac Freedom

MojoPac Freedom is FREE and gives you the ability to carry personal applications (such as Outlook, games and IMs), files and desktop settings on a portable USB device or iPod. There is not a whole lot of difference between the Free Version and the Paid version other than techinical support and commercial use!

[teraside]

My Desktop Earth Cloud images has been messed up since the weekend It's getting irritating.