Comments on: Smallware

Smallware

mecran01 — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:21:52 -0800

Anti-Bloatware A very nice list of tiny apps. Get small!

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:23:34 -0800

And a Happy New Year, for those of you on U.S. Mountain Standard Time, using the Gregorian calendar, that embrace the notion of "Happiness" as an achievable state of being.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:42:07 -0800

Ooo! I've been looking for something that does what WhoLockMe does! Muchos thankias.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:44:43 -0800

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:24:12 -0800

Wow -- thanks, mecran01 and stavros -- good stuff!

By: litghost

litghost — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:46:14 -0800

Oh the things you find with SpaceMonger. This is a very good link, thanks.

By: ori

ori — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:26:26 -0800

I'm still wowing over this little thing (click on the link for screenshots). It lets you mount a virtual filesystem on a gmail account as a harddrive on windows (here is the original linux version). jessamyn and hansbleep just posted these on an ask.mefi thread. 119k download.

By: ori

ori — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:32:22 -0800

(Also, sweetcode.org used to pick innovative free software regularly, most of which fell under the tiny & ingenious category. The site is still up, but they haven't updated in a year or so. The archives still have two years' worth of picks. There are too many wonderful and peculiar software gems for me to list here.)

By: Cancergiggles

Cancergiggles — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:50:47 -0800

Didn't actually download a single one of the apps but really enjoyed reading what I could do if I wanted to. Bookmarked it for later - thanks

By: taz

taz — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:02:37 -0800

Nice - I love stuff like this! Thanks, mecran01, stav, ori - and happy new year, everyone!

By: zardoz

zardoz — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:09:46 -0800

Dittos to the wonders of SpaceMonger. I cleared up 4 gigs in no time. Thanks, SpaceMonger!

By: cstross

cstross — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:01:26 -0800

Anyone know of an OS/X equivalent? Free/GPL stuff for preference?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 06:07:40 -0800

It mentions Miranda-IM, but it doesn't mention blosxom for webjournalling. Better than MT (easier, at least) in my experience.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 06:18:29 -0800

The Keynote and Treepad lite programs on the original link are useful.

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 07:20:58 -0800

Sweet! [bookmarked for later use]

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:04:19 -0800

I'm still wowing over this little thing If I still used IE I'd wow over it too.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:41:17 -0800

There's a guy called Analog-X whose software I've been using for the past couple of years. He has a wide variety of applications for all needs, but what really makes all the programs stand out is that they are TINY in size and memory footprint, no ads/registration/whatever, and they're almost all single executable, which means uninstalling them is simply a matter of deleting the file. Here's some of my personal faves:

There's tons more on the site.

By: xammerboy

xammerboy — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:51:41 -0800

Wow. I needed some of this stuff. Not only did I download the page, but he has interesting writings too. I bookmarked the site. Thanks.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:32:41 -0800

also of interest: CleanSoftware.org is a resource to help Windows users find the best free daily-use software, free from nasties: adware, spyware, harmful/intrusive components, and threats to privacy.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 11:32:21 -0800

Great links, thanks all!

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:27:08 -0800

I. Love. The. Post. I. Love. This. Thread. Thank you!!!!

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:55:44 -0800

MicrosoftFilter.

By: ranchocalamari

ranchocalamari — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:14:42 -0800

Anyone out there wanna throw a bone to us mac users? I'd love a list like this for my machine.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:24:03 -0800

ranchocalamari: all you os x users need is Fink. http://fink.sourceforge.net/

By: ranchocalamari

ranchocalamari — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 21:21:43 -0800

Thanks Hackworth. I just skimmed the pages. Wow.

By: chundo

chundo — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:55:08 -0800

From stavros' link: "How about BeOS, *nix, Amiga, QNX, etc?" Those who are comfortable using these operating systems need no such guide as this; clean, well-made software is the rule rather than the exception. *feels validated* Also, ranchocalamari: here

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:01:32 -0800

It's sad that these kinds of directories need to exist, really. I'll spare everyone a diatribe of the Philosophy-of-Unix-type, but suffice to say, I write my own software with size and memory requirements in mind, even if the system doesn't have such constraints, which seems to be increasingly "novel," let's put it that way. Unfortunate, in my opinion. Thanks again for the links, everyone.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:09:14 -0800

Oh, and if anyone's looking for something to try out once they have Fink installed, ImageMagick is a great piece of software. With it, you can do batch processing of image files from the command-line (terminal, console, whatever you want to call it). Several tools are included. Mogrify is the one I use most frequently. It does edits in-place, so the files you give it are changed in the process. It's a joy to use. See the website for details, but just as an example, to resize a bunch of TIFF's to smaller JPG's: mogrify -format jpeg -resize 640x480 *TIFF ...it gets way cooler, there are other tools included; it's wonderful software.

By: madman

madman — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:23:28 -0800

Here we go.... List of Lists. Enjoy!