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From: John Hood on 6 Mar 2005 00:28 Hey all. On Friday I needed a VERY small audio player for my computer at work (to drown out the giant sucking sound coming from the executive department), and of course, stopped off at alt.Comp.Freeware to see what people here thought. I checked out CoolPlayer and went WOW!. To all who recommended it, thank you. Which brings me to my second point, and my freeware task for this weekend: Greenware. I issues a challenge to myself: Put a salesman (by name "Chris Sells") on the road, making sales calls and presentations all across the U.S. and Europe - without a laptop and no budget for software. The only thing Chris has is two 256 meg thumb drives, one for data, one for applications. Assume that Chris has access to a Windows 32bit computer with web access in every hotel (software loaded - unknown), and further assume that the home office provides web mail capability for Chris to use . What would I put on the first thumb drive? Here is what I found so far: Schedule and Contacts - Essential PIM Word Processor - Abiword for ThumbDrives. Audio player (gotta have tunes) - Coolplayer. Spreadsheet - Spread32 (nagware, but livable) or xSpread. Presenter or graphics software - ??? (may not be necessary of presentations are canned). Zip util - 100zipper That's as far as I;ve gotten. One thing would be a PDF reader, but I don't think Adobe has a no-install version of Reader so we can only hope the hotel computers have it. PowerPoint, Wink and OOo Presenter can create presentations that self-execute, so a presenter isn't essential. John Hood Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org "The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no fluff." "No kidding."
From: MightyKitten on 6 Mar 2005 06:25 John Hood wrote: > Hey all. > > On Friday I needed a VERY small audio player for my computer at work > (to drown out the giant sucking sound coming from the executive > department), and of course, stopped off at alt.Comp.Freeware to see > what people here thought. I checked out CoolPlayer and went WOW!. To > all who recommended it, thank you. > > Which brings me to my second point, and my freeware task for this > weekend: Greenware. I issues a challenge to myself: > > Put a salesman (by name "Chris Sells") on the road, making sales calls > and presentations all across the U.S. and Europe - without a laptop > and no budget for software. The only thing Chris has is two 256 meg > thumb drives, one for data, one for applications. Assume that Chris > has access to a Windows 32bit computer with web access in every hotel > (software loaded - unknown), and further assume that the home office > provides web mail capability for Chris to use . What would I put on > the first thumb drive? > Here is what I found so far: > > Schedule and Contacts - Essential PIM > Word Processor - Abiword for ThumbDrives. > Audio player (gotta have tunes) - Coolplayer. > Spreadsheet - Spread32 (nagware, but livable) or xSpread. > Presenter or graphics software - ??? (may not be necessary of > presentations are canned). > Zip util - 100zipper > > That's as far as I;ve gotten. One thing would be a PDF reader, but I > don't think Adobe has a no-install version of Reader so we can only > hope the hotel computers have it. > > PowerPoint, Wink and OOo Presenter can create presentations that > self-execute, so a presenter isn't essential. > > John Hood > Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org > "The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no > fluff." > "No kidding." Let's see... I've only a 128 MB USB Drive (For general purposes) with the next items: Tomahawk http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html Can write to PDF, RTF or TXT files, export to HTML, WorksSuite and word files CAD-KAs pdf reader http://www.cadkas.de/downengpdf5.php Not realy my favorite, but after installation, the containing folder can be copied to a usb drive without problems MyDBF3 http://www.jansfreeware.com/ Simple DBas compatible database Treepad Lite http://www.treepad.com/ For a treelike Database Diagrams http://www.jansfreeware.com/ For simple diagrams Abykus http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Enhanced_Calculators/Abykus.html Works different as Excel, but is capable of doing most of the math stuff you want. IZArc http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/ (Zip/7zip/ARJ/RAR, ect) compression tool Micros Burner http://www.silentnight2004.com/ If you got lukcy and find a cd burner (and have some blank CDs) iOpusSEA http://www.iopus.com/freeware/secure-email/ To encrypt data into exe files for Sending Snowbird http://www.geocities.com/casablanca2000in/msp/ Harddisk search Stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ Basic virus cleansing software SamSpade (TCP/IP & internet troubleshooting Eraser http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/ To grealy shred files you wan to delete (A must if you use public PCs) Free Undelete http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ To recover the accidently deleted files (No way you can get files back that are deleted withEraser) Antipol http://www.angryziber.com/tools/ Probably not needed, but this gem can breack trough any windows 9x poilcies active on the system. Can be usefull in some rare cases, and with a 10kb size it does not hurt to add it to the usb drive xmplay http://www.un4seen.com/ Audio player Low in CPU and memory needs, still being quite good svrecorder10be http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=downloadfile&ID=2739 Record sounds to MP3 Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ To view photo's PhotoFiltre http://www.photofiltre.com To edit photo's Though you can make both thunderbird and Firefox functinal on a USB drive, I prefer the next ones, because they are significant smaller in size Pimmy http://www.geminisoft.com/it/ Mail check & read client Off By one Webbrowser http://www.offbyone.com/ simple selfcontaining webbrowser miranda-im-0.3.2 http://www.miranda-im.org/ Messenger for MSN Yahoo, ICQ Filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ IMHO best freeware FTP client I did not name everything, as some software should not be of interest for your cause, Also 2 notes: #1 Some software may not be freeware for commercial use #2 Somesoftware does have an installer, but can be copied in the containing map to the USB Drive Sugestion: Create a html file with links to all the programs, to have a sort of start centre. That's all Jeroen de Bruijn
From: John Hood on 6 Mar 2005 13:15 MightyKitten wrote: >John Hood wrote: > > >>Hey all. >> >>On Friday I needed a VERY small audio player for my computer at work >>(to drown out the giant sucking sound coming from the executive >>department), and of course, stopped off at alt.Comp.Freeware to see >>what people here thought. I checked out CoolPlayer and went WOW!. To >>all who recommended it, thank you. >> >>Which brings me to my second point, and my freeware task for this >>weekend: Greenware. I issues a challenge to myself: >> >>Put a salesman (by name "Chris Sells") on the road, making sales calls >>and presentations all across the U.S. and Europe - without a laptop >>and no budget for software. The only thing Chris has is two 256 meg >>thumb drives, one for data, one for applications. Assume that Chris >>has access to a Windows 32bit computer with web access in every hotel >>(software loaded - unknown), and further assume that the home office >>provides web mail capability for Chris to use . What would I put on >>the first thumb drive? >>Here is what I found so far: >> >>Schedule and Contacts - Essential PIM >>Word Processor - Abiword for ThumbDrives. >>Audio player (gotta have tunes) - Coolplayer. >>Spreadsheet - Spread32 (nagware, but livable) or xSpread. >>Presenter or graphics software - ??? (may not be necessary of >>presentations are canned). >>Zip util - 100zipper >> >>That's as far as I;ve gotten. One thing would be a PDF reader, but I >>don't think Adobe has a no-install version of Reader so we can only >>hope the hotel computers have it. >> >>PowerPoint, Wink and OOo Presenter can create presentations that >>self-execute, so a presenter isn't essential. >> >>John Hood >>Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org >>"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no >>fluff." >>"No kidding." >> >> > >Let's see... >I've only a 128 MB USB Drive (For general purposes) with the next items: > Tomahawk > http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html > Can write to PDF, RTF or TXT files, export to HTML, WorksSuite and word >files > CAD-KAs pdf reader > http://www.cadkas.de/downengpdf5.php > Not realy my favorite, but after installation, the containing folder can >be copied to a usb drive without problems >MyDBF3 > http://www.jansfreeware.com/ > Simple DBas compatible database >Treepad Lite > http://www.treepad.com/ > For a treelike Database >Diagrams > http://www.jansfreeware.com/ > For simple diagrams >Abykus > http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Enhanced_Calculators/Abykus.html > Works different as Excel, but is capable of doing most of the math stuff >you want. >IZArc > http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/ > (Zip/7zip/ARJ/RAR, ect) compression tool >Micros Burner > http://www.silentnight2004.com/ > If you got lukcy and find a cd burner (and have some blank CDs) >iOpusSEA > http://www.iopus.com/freeware/secure-email/ > To encrypt data into exe files for Sending >Snowbird > http://www.geocities.com/casablanca2000in/msp/ > Harddisk search >Stinger > http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ > Basic virus cleansing software >SamSpade > (TCP/IP & internet troubleshooting >Eraser > http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/ > To grealy shred files you wan to delete (A must if you use public PCs) >Free Undelete > http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ > To recover the accidently deleted files (No way you can get files back >that are deleted withEraser) >Antipol > http://www.angryziber.com/tools/ > Probably not needed, but this gem can breack trough any windows 9x >poilcies active on the system. > Can be usefull in some rare cases, and with a 10kb size it does not hurt >to add it to the usb drive >xmplay > http://www.un4seen.com/ > Audio player Low in CPU and memory needs, still being quite good >svrecorder10be > http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=downloadfile&ID=2739 > Record sounds to MP3 >Irfanview > http://www.irfanview.com/ > To view photo's >PhotoFiltre > http://www.photofiltre.com > To edit photo's > > >Though you can make both thunderbird and Firefox functinal on a USB drive, I >prefer the next ones, because they are significant smaller in size > >Pimmy > http://www.geminisoft.com/it/ > Mail check & read client >Off By one > Webbrowser > http://www.offbyone.com/ > simple selfcontaining webbrowser >miranda-im-0.3.2 > http://www.miranda-im.org/ > Messenger for MSN Yahoo, ICQ >Filezilla > http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ > IMHO best freeware FTP client > >I did not name everything, as some software should not be of interest for >your cause, > >Also 2 notes: > >#1 Some software may not be freeware for commercial use >#2 Somesoftware does have an installer, but can be copied in the containing >map to the USB Drive > >Sugestion: > >Create a html file with links to all the programs, to have a sort of start >centre. > > >That's all > >Jeroen de Bruijn > > > Holy cow, what a list! Anyone else? John Hood Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org "The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no fluff." "No kidding."
From: Klaatu on 7 Mar 2005 16:35 On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:15:43 GMT, John Hood posted to alt.comp.freeware: > Holy cow, what a list! Anyone else? Here's what I've got "installed" on my 1Gb thumbdrive: 1by1 - http://www.mpesch3.de1.cc/#1by1 A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ AutoIt3 - http://www.autoitscript.com CDCheck - http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/ LCISOCreator - http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php CSVdb - no longer available? DirKey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm GammaPanel - http://www.stars.benchmark.pl/index.php?show=gapa GenControl - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html IconShop - http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm IZArc - http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm Junction Link Magic - http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html NetPing - http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/index.aspx Neutron - http://keir.net/neutron.html OpenTTD - http://www.openttd.com Oubiette - http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html Portable Firefox - http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/ PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html Serene Sound - http://serenesound.com/serenesound/ VNC Neighborhood - http://www.sysworksoft.net/products/vncnbhood.html VNC Viewer - http://www.ultravnc.com Xcalc - http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/ I'm pretty sure all of the above are freeware. And I'm always looking for other freeware programs to add to the list. Thanks for starting this thread, John. -- "Some folks are dissatisfied with free enterprise if it doesn't work perfectly, and satisfied with government if it works at all." -- Daniel B. Klein
From: John Hood on 7 Mar 2005 21:53
Susan Bugher wrote: > Klaatu wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:15:43 GMT, John Hood posted to alt.comp.freeware: >> >> >>> Holy cow, what a list! Anyone else? >> >> >> >> >> Here's what I've got "installed" on my 1Gb thumbdrive: >> >> 1by1 - http://www.mpesch3.de1.cc/#1by1 >> A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ >> AutoIt3 - http://www.autoitscript.com >> CDCheck - http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/ >> LCISOCreator - http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php >> CSVdb - no longer available? >> DirKey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ >> ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff >> freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm >> GammaPanel - http://www.stars.benchmark.pl/index.php?show=gapa >> GenControl - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html >> IconShop - http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm >> IZArc - http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm >> Junction Link Magic - http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm >> KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html >> MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html >> NetPing - http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/index.aspx >> Neutron - http://keir.net/neutron.html >> OpenTTD - http://www.openttd.com >> Oubiette - http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html >> Portable Firefox - http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/ >> PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html >> Serene Sound - http://serenesound.com/serenesound/ >> VNC Neighborhood - http://www.sysworksoft.net/products/vncnbhood.html >> VNC Viewer - http://www.ultravnc.com >> Xcalc - http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/ >> >> I'm pretty sure all of the above are freeware. And I'm always looking >> for >> other freeware programs to add to the list. Thanks for starting this >> thread, John. > > > Perhaps you'll find something if you scroll down the list of ACF > programs. Sorted on the I (install) column: > > http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_ProgramIndex.php?sortby=I > > I haven't seen Convert mentioned yet. ISTM that might come in handy: > > http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005BUSINESS-HOME.php#0156-PW > > Susan Sure will. I'm marking this thread as a keeper for a possible "Greenware" page on my site. On a side note. Anyone know how to get a thumb drive back from the dead? I have one I can read from, but not save to. Took me five times to get the computer to read it. Is this an entry in the circular hall of fame? or can I get some life out of it. Less than 6 months old. John H. |