Author Topic: Programs that make you go...Yippee (Read 16877 times)

AlienBC · « **on:** March 25, 2010, 09:26:06 PM »

For me it as to be this little add on AutoPager Firefox extension automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content. I just love it great for long threads like on this forum and google searches. I use the lite version and would never be with out it anymore. Yippee!!!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925

smokester · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2010, 02:53:22 AM »

These are then programs that I have quick launched which I consider is an honour I bestow upon them:

Autodesk Maya
Adobe Illustrator (and PS)
Cakewalk Sonar
Opera

Skadi · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:22:15 AM »

HijackThis
foobar

dweez · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2010, 07:59:37 AM »

Irfanview, DeskPins, mIRC, !Quick Screen Capture, StrongDC++, uTorrent, NewsBin, TorchLight

redlandslide · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2010, 09:28:22 AM »

Quote from: dweez on March 26, 2010, 07:59:37 AM

Irfanview, DeskPins, mIRC, !Quick Screen Capture, StrongDC++, uTorrent, NewsBin, TorchLight

uTorrent & Quick Screen Capture are the only ones of those I have. I now feel like I'm missing out on something.

dweez · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2010, 09:40:18 AM »

Most of the rest are all like utorrent but for different protocols. DeskPins lets me "pin" any window on top of other ones. This allows me to have a cmd prompt up and still read and scroll instructions on a web page beneath it without haveing to continually Alt+Tab. mIRC is just an IRC client. Irfanview is one of the best, lightweight image viewers I've ever experienced (and it has a decent but limited "Paint" add-on).

AlienBC · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2010, 10:07:19 AM »

Quote from: dweez on March 26, 2010, 07:59:37 AM

Irfanview, DeskPins, mIRC, !Quick Screen Capture, StrongDC++, uTorrent, NewsBin, TorchLight

Thanks I never knew any of them apart from utorrent & mric

For screen capture I use Snagit and also gets the Yippee!!!

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2010, 03:02:08 PM »

struggle with Irfanview
at the moment i have to use
rawstudio and import to gimp

although i am about to try lightroom 3 in wine. $:-\$

chekovsulu · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2010, 11:29:16 AM »

I once brought IrfanView to school on a floppy disk (it was the 90s) and the system administrator saw me use it, copied it off my network space and put it on all the computers - that's how awesome it is

Quote from: AlienBC on March 25, 2010, 09:26:06 PM

For me it as to be this little add on AutoPager Firefox extension automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content. I just love it great for long threads like on this forum and google searches. I use the lite version and would never be with out it anymore. Yippee!!!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925

Here's the Chrome version I use:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aeolcjbaammbkgaiagooljfdepnjmkfd

Foobar2000 makes me happy, especially after adding the Windows 7 component. It does this:

A progress bar in the taskbar

And it has something similar to that pop-up thing Windows Media Player has.

And erm... Opera.

AlienBC · « **Reply #9 on:** March 27, 2010, 12:03:26 PM »

The 90's god I remember my 1st PC 1991/2 560mb HDD 4mb ram and a Intel 486DX 66 MHz. Hell man it was a monster with a sound blaster and state of the art graphics card. I said goodbye to the BBS boards and hello to the net (CompuServe) I could not wait to run home from work with my new PC magazine free disk and check out all the goodies. Dam it sounds like the dark ages now!! The first software to blow my mind away was Photoshop on the Apple at work.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2010, 10:28:06 AM »

Windows 7 .
after much trepidation i installed on my desktop.
cost ?50. for elite version.

a pain to install
didn't like 2 optical drives and kept crashing after first boot and definitely hated sony image software i use for my camera.
still hates 2 optical drives, so i only use 1

found a updated version of sony image suite and alls well

faster on all of my photo software packages.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2010, 11:51:32 AM »

Opera 11 is so much better than Opera 10, it has tab grouping (they call it stacking)!

The mouse gestures has this circle thing come up to help you do it right. Yay!

It supports extensions as well, but I don't think I'll be needing any of that action.

Actually, I think I might:
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/wikipedia-personal-appeal-hider/1.1/?display=en

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2010, 12:36:03 PM »

didnt know there was a new version
will look into

smokester · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2010, 03:03:21 PM »

Quote from: chekovsulu on December 17, 2010, 11:51:32 AM

Opera 11 is so much better than Opera 10, it has tab grouping (they call it stacking)!

I saw that when it automatically updated but couldn't be bothered to read what it said. What is the tab grouping again?

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 18, 2010, 01:07:49 AM »

windows media player 12 on my W7 streams to my ps3 a treat

chekovsulu · « **Reply #15 on:** December 18, 2010, 05:34:07 AM »

Quote from: smokester on December 17, 2010, 03:03:21 PM

I saw that when it automatically updated but couldn't be bothered to read what it said. What is the tab grouping again?

You can drag a tab on top of another, and they become part of a group. To see all the tabs in that group, you can press the arrow to expand the group, or you can hover over the group tab and a big square thing pops up showing all the tabs in the group.

It's mostly useful if you open up a million or so tabs. It's a bit annoying you can't see them all at a glance, but that's really just a minor issue for me.

This new version hasn't crashed since installing it, but I've yet to see how it reacts after resuming from standby/hibernate. D:

I think I've replaced saving bookmarks for saving sessions on closing (lazy-bum

)

smokester · « **Reply #16 on:** December 18, 2010, 07:16:02 AM »

I really like the visual mouse gestures.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #17 on:** December 18, 2010, 12:00:04 PM »

Yeah, me too.

Normally I'd have this in my sidebar panel thing:
http://files.myopera.com/szantos/albums/1310561/gestures_4.png

but the visual gesture thing is harder to ignore

smokester · « **Reply #18 on:** December 18, 2010, 02:11:05 PM »

Quote from: chekovsulu on December 18, 2010, 12:00:04 PM

Yeah, me too.

Normally I'd have this in my sidebar panel thing:
http://files.myopera.com/szantos/albums/1310561/gestures_4.png

but the visual gesture thing is harder to ignore

That's handy, but I'd probably print it and stick to the side of a monitor so as not to lose real estate, so to speak.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 20, 2011, 07:30:02 AM »

http://www.stellarium.org/
i was out in the garden last night star gazing.
well i had my lappy and this prog is excellent.
use on linux but i did notice it runs on all systems

dweez · « **Reply #20 on:** January 20, 2011, 10:58:35 AM »

Nice find goldie!

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 26, 2011, 01:37:42 PM »

has anyone heard of this system , is it any good

http://www.bodhilinux.com/

Skadi · « **Reply #22 on:** May 26, 2011, 01:50:59 PM »

Quote from: goldshirt*9 on January 20, 2011, 07:30:02 AM

http://www.stellarium.org/
i was out in the garden last night star gazing.
well i had my lappy and this prog is excellent.
use on linux but i did notice it runs on all systems

The multiple angles looks useful, I need to go home and install it. Lots of star gazing tools have limited perspective.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 09, 2011, 01:36:57 PM »

a freebie if your quick Answer by the questionnaire by june 20th
i have used and is very similar to lightroom.
just try and reply to the questionnaire to receive the full version for free.
be aware the questionnaire is NUMBER 2 on the email

http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/events/enu/2011/Q2/photodirector2011/index.jsp

smokester · « **Reply #24 on:** June 09, 2011, 02:51:35 PM »

That's a handy link, thanks very much Goldie.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 12, 2011, 04:11:45 AM »

http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home
a little program that gives the windows user the options of linux multiple desktops.
easy to install as well

dweez · « **Reply #26 on:** June 13, 2011, 09:56:06 AM »

I've been using VirtuaWin for multi-desktops but I don't use it that often because with multi-monitors, I haven't had much of a need. I'll check out Dexpot and see how well it works.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 13, 2011, 10:28:08 AM »

i did see that posted somewhere. $:-\$
i have only 1 monitor and i must admit it makes it easier to look at opened programs this way.

dweez · « **Reply #28 on:** June 13, 2011, 11:03:53 AM »

I used to use something called Litevwm (or something similar) that was a component of the LiteStep Windows GUI replacement. It worked great...until multi-monitors were involved and then more often than not, apps would get shifted on screens and end up outside of the screens Litevwm displayed. Hard as hell to get those back short of logging out and back in.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #29 on:** June 26, 2011, 10:15:05 AM »

elementary linux

very easy to use straight out of the box almost
install 3rd arty codecs at installation and then add the codecs for dvd later.
midori internet browser runs flash straight away with out any 3rd party installation
still messing around with but so far excellent.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #30 on:** August 07, 2011, 02:41:22 PM »

The Tree Style Tab extension for Firefox is hella good.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

I'm trying to make my Firefox work like Opera, because Opera is a bit fat nowadays. That extension helps. Now I need to figure out how to open a new tab with an empty search box.

smokester · « **Reply #31 on:** August 07, 2011, 04:37:39 PM »

Thanks for that as I really like that addon. Now I don't have that bus queue at the top of firefox any longer.

Diabolico · « **Reply #32 on:** September 02, 2011, 04:44:55 AM »

What's with Thunderbird? It jumped from v3 to v5 and now its v6.

Stopped using Opera due to a few malware problems; switched from Firefox to Chrome. The only thing I use Firefox for nowadays, is the FTP add-on.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #33 on:** September 02, 2011, 01:07:47 PM »

They want the versions to match Firefox:
http://groups.google.com/group/tb-planning/browse_thread/thread/521988f37b611174

Version 4 was skipped.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #34 on:** September 04, 2011, 01:31:05 AM »

to be honest firefox is moving on so quickly i easily get lost using it,plus a lot of my add on's will not work

chekovsulu · « **Reply #35 on:** February 05, 2012, 02:22:19 PM »

I like this extension:
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/let-there-be-comic-sans/

It makes all the internet use Comic Sans - awesome!

chekovsulu · « **Reply #36 on:** February 12, 2012, 11:56:15 AM »

Oh, I came in to post the above. Never mind.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #37 on:** February 24, 2012, 12:40:58 AM »

Nexus
a nice dock for Windows 7 docks

Discover99 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 24, 2012, 01:44:27 PM »

dropbox, evernote and caffeine make me happy most of the time

smokester · « **Reply #39 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:58:28 PM »

PicPick is really useful. And it's free which is definitely "yippee" inducing.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #40 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:28:02 PM »

That's a handy set of features.

smokester · « **Reply #41 on:** February 25, 2012, 05:01:18 AM »

Quote from: chekovsulu on February 24, 2012, 04:28:02 PM

That's a handy set of features.

It's really handy for web design due to its ruler and colour picker. I use it as a screen grabber on the laptop too.

Not bad for nish.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #42 on:** February 26, 2012, 10:08:44 AM »

Firefox is good.

smokester · « **Reply #43 on:** February 27, 2012, 09:10:11 AM »

WAMP.

dweez · « **Reply #44 on:** February 27, 2012, 10:19:01 AM »

I prefer XAMPP cuz I usually try to run my web servers on a linux box. XAMPP has a version for both Windows and Linux I just haven't tried running it on Windows yet.

smokester · « **Reply #45 on:** February 27, 2012, 10:59:49 AM »

I was running XAMPP as I set up Mercury Mail to have all testing facilities on a sandboxed machine. But after my recent build I want all the comps running the same thing as it makes setting up the dozens of localhost subdomains that I use much easier.

dweez · « **Reply #46 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:48:59 AM »

Ah yeah, a homogeneous environment does help things.

smokester · « **Reply #47 on:** February 28, 2012, 02:36:25 AM »

Quote from: dweez on February 28, 2012, 12:48:59 AM

Ah yeah, a homogeneous environment does help things.

It didn't help that Mercury mail was a bugger to get working right. As I recall I am all over the XAMPP forum with questions on what I was doing wrong - maybe I should have asked you Dweezo? Do you think you could get it working locally?

dweez · « **Reply #48 on:** February 28, 2012, 10:11:56 AM »

XAMPP? Probably. Mercury Mail? Probably not.

smokester · « **Reply #49 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:58:14 AM »

Quote from: dweez on February 28, 2012, 10:11:56 AM

XAMPP? Probably. Mercury Mail? Probably not.

It was the mail server I was talking about and for some reason the mail sent from a locally installed version of SMF (via php) wasn't caught by it.

goldshirt*9 · « **Reply #50 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:02:39 AM »

Try the following freebies

http://www.freemake.com/
I D.loaded "red cliff" but the subtitles weren't hard encoded so i tried on my installed Xilisoft and way too long to encode and then no sound.

looked around for a free alternative and was about to give up, so many were confusing.Stumbled upon this @ cnet, both down loaders and editors rated it pretty high so why not try.
Wow so easy to use, hard encoded the sub's with ease and no loss of quality what so ever

Looked at their other available software and can honestly say
easy to use, easy to navigate, easy on the eye.
Plenty of options also.As yet no problems .
Give it a try as i cannot believe this wont be snapped up by a large firm.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #51 on:** April 27, 2012, 06:00:50 PM »

Paint.

chekovsulu · « **Reply #52 on:** November 01, 2012, 11:16:17 AM »

Qupzilla is kinda cool. It's like Firefox with some of the extensions you'd want already included, except a vertical tab bar, so it's not a real replacement.

It's multi-platform, so it'll run on your OS/2 machine as well.

http://www.qupzilla.com/