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. posted by mecran01 at 11:23 PM on December 31, 2004
Ooo! I've been looking for something that does what WhoLockMe does! Muchos thankias. posted by PinkStainlessTail at 11:42 PM on December 31, 2004
Wow -- thanks, mecran01 and stavros -- good stuff! posted by davidmsc at 12:24 AM on January 1, 2005
Oh the things you find with SpaceMonger. This is a very good link, thanks. posted by litghost at 12:46 AM on January 1, 2005
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. posted by ori at 1:26 AM on January 1, 2005
(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.) posted by ori at 1:32 AM on January 1, 2005
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 posted by Cancergiggles at 1:50 AM on January 1, 2005
Nice - I love stuff like this! Thanks, mecran01, stav, ori - and happy new year, everyone! posted by taz at 4:02 AM on January 1, 2005
Dittos to the wonders of SpaceMonger. I cleared up 4 gigs in no time. Thanks, SpaceMonger! posted by zardoz at 4:09 AM on January 1, 2005
Anyone know of an OS/X equivalent? Free/GPL stuff for preference? posted by cstross at 5:01 AM on January 1, 2005
It mentions Miranda-IM, but it doesn't mention blosxom for webjournalling. Better than MT (easier, at least) in my experience. posted by Eideteker at 6:07 AM on January 1, 2005
The Keynote and Treepad lite programs on the original link are useful. posted by JohnR at 6:18 AM on January 1, 2005
Sweet! [bookmarked for later use] posted by kamylyon at 7:20 AM on January 1, 2005
I'm still wowing over this little thing
If I still used IE I'd wow over it too. posted by kamylyon at 8:04 AM on January 1, 2005
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:
Thanks Hackworth. I just skimmed the pages. Wow. posted by ranchocalamari at 9:21 PM on January 1, 2005
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 posted by chundo at 8:55 AM on January 2, 2005
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. posted by odinsdream at 8:01 PM on January 2, 2005
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. posted by odinsdream at 8:09 PM on January 2, 2005
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