Pricelessware List 2009 - Submissions, Nominations and Seconds Thread
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From: Shadow on 14 Sep 2009 18:05 I would like to nominate Ollydbg as the best freeware debugger Analog-X's Fastcache as the simplest unbuggy dns cacher Robin Keir's neutron clock-setting utility. ZSoft Uninstaller 2.4.1is pretty cool too. And the best disk defragger to date ? JKDefrag 3.36, better by far than the newer Mydefrag by same author. But they are probably too old for some people. So if someone nominates, I second. []'s I also like Drivermax 5.3, does a great job backing up all your drivers. But it's a one in a life program .... used about twice a year. Dunno if it qualifies.
From: Ron May on 14 Sep 2009 18:26 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:16 -0300, Shadow <Sh(a)dow> wrote: > I would like to nominate > Ollydbg as the best freeware debugger > Analog-X's Fastcache as the simplest unbuggy dns cacher > Robin Keir's neutron clock-setting utility. > ZSoft Uninstaller 2.4.1is pretty cool too. > And the best disk defragger to date ? JKDefrag 3.36, better by > far than the newer Mydefrag by same author. > > But they are probably too old for some people. So if someone > nominates, I second. > []'s > > I also like Drivermax 5.3, does a great job backing up all > your drivers. But it's a one in a life program .... used about twice a > year. Dunno if it qualifies. You can nominate as many of those as you like, but we need a bit more info. <g> Name, Link, and Description for each program will do it! -- Ron M. Help improve the ACF experience. Please don't feed the trolls. New to the group? Check out http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ and try to ignore the threads that aren't freeware related.
From: Shadow on 14 Sep 2009 19:07 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:26:39 -0500, Ron May <mayron(a)hotmail.com> wrote: OK, so here are the links: >On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:16 -0300, Shadow <Sh(a)dow> wrote: > >> I would like to nominate >> Ollydbg as the best freeware debugger (I call it freeware) http://www.ollydbg.de/ OllyDbg is a 32-bit assembler level analysing debugger for Microsoft� Windows�. Emphasis on binary code analysis makes it particularly useful in cases where source is unavailable. OllyDbg is a shareware, but YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND USE IT FOR FREE. Special highlights are: * Intuitive user interface, no cryptical commands * Code analysis - traces registers, recognizes procedures, loops, API calls, switches, tables, constants and strings * Directly loads and debugs DLLs * Object file scanning - locates routines from object files and libraries * Allows for user-defined labels, comments and function descriptions * Understands debugging information in Borland� format * Saves patches between sessions, writes them back to executable file and updates fixups * Open architecture - many third-party plugins are available * No installation - no trash in registry or system directories * Debugs multithread applications * Attaches to running programs * Configurable disassembler, supports both MASM and IDEAL formats * MMX, 3DNow! and SSE data types and instructions, including Athlon extensions * Full UNICODE support * Dynamically recognizes ASCII and UNICODE strings - also in Delphi format! * Recognizes complex code constructs, like call to jump to procedure * Decodes calls to more than 1900 standard API and 400 C functions * Gives context-sensitive help on API functions from external help file * Sets conditional, logging, memory and hardware breakpoints * Traces program execution, logs arguments of known functions * Shows fixups * Dynamically traces stack frames * Searches for imprecise commands and masked binary sequences * Searches whole allocated memory * Finds references to constant or address range * Examines and modifies memory, sets breakpoints and pauses program on-the-fly * Assembles commands into the shortest binary form * Starts from the floppy disk ( It's almost entirely portable - a tiny reg change)
From: Shadow on 14 Sep 2009 19:09 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:26:39 -0500, Ron May <mayron(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:16 -0300, Shadow <Sh(a)dow> wrote: > >> I would like to nominate >> Analog-X's Fastcache as the simplest unbuggy dns cacher http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Network/fc/Freeware.htm v 1.03 As long as there's an Internet, everyone is going to want to do things faster. Browse the web, ping servers, download files, whatever. Every time you go to a new website, or a website you haven't been to in a day or so, your computer needs to locate the server again using DNS. Each DNS request can take anywhere from 50 milliseconds, to even a second or more, but most are in the 100 to 200 millisecond range. Want to save a couple hundred milliseconds? Probably not, but what about a couple million or more? That's what AnalogX FastCache is all about. AnalogX FastCache is a caching DNS server that runs on your local machine and handles any DNS request that your computer makes, from Internet Explorer to your favorite FTP client. Once a query is made, FastCache will override the normal timeout for the item with one that you specify, so instead of saving a query for a couple of seconds, it can save it for a couple of days. Now every time you ask for it again while it's in the cache, it gives it to you instantly. FastCache works on all versions of Windows, from Window 95 to Windows 7 and everything inbetween (including XP, Vista, Win2k, etc)
From: Shadow on 14 Sep 2009 19:11
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:26:39 -0500, Ron May <mayron(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:16 -0300, Shadow <Sh(a)dow> wrote: > >> I would like to nominate >> Robin Keir's neutron clock-setting utility. I just love the size !!! Neutron 1.07 size: 7K Neutron is a very simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it. Options in the program enable you to automatically obtain the time from the time server and set your clock appropriately at program startup. It is also possible to have the program automatically exit after the time has been set and so is ideal for placing a shortcut in your Startup folder to sync your clock when your computer is started. Neutron uses the standard Time protocol (UDP port 37). See RFC 868 for more details. The time retrieved from the network time server is given as the number of seconds since midnight on January 1st 1900. Since the protocol only allows accuracy down to the second you may not get the most accurate time possible but it is usually good enough to always be within about half a second of "true" time. Network latency is accommodated in the calculations involved in setting your computer clock. |