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Anti-Bloatware A very nice list of tiny apps. Get small!
posted by mecran01 (25 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
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


See also.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:44 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:There's tons more on the site.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 8:41 AM on January 1, 2005


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.
posted by xammerboy at 9:51 AM on January 1, 2005




I. Love. The. Post.
I. Love. This. Thread.

Thank you!!!!
posted by nj_subgenius at 3:27 PM on January 1, 2005


MicrosoftFilter.
posted by blasdelf at 3:55 PM on January 1, 2005


Anyone out there wanna throw a bone to us mac users? I'd love a list like this for my machine.
posted by ranchocalamari at 6:14 PM on January 1, 2005


ranchocalamari: all you os x users need is Fink.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
posted by Hackworth at 8:24 PM on January 1, 2005


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


Here we go.... List of Lists.


Enjoy!
posted by madman at 1:23 AM on January 3, 2005


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