Useful Freewares...

kisame

King of Heroes
^No such softwares.U will have to contact your admins for list of proxies and the blocked/unblocked sites in each.
There is elite proxy switcher for bandwidth but its not free.
 

Skud

Super Moderator
Staff member
^^ I know about that ap and that app itself is a open source and free to use app but GAOTD periodically updates it's wrapper software to make such tools useless :

Here's the un-wrapper app download link - using this is legit I think :
GAOTD Setup Keeper | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net

But read the Description :



and this ;-)
Giveaway of the Day Project Team’s Blog 2012 July 05

so practically GAOTD just gives some users a a copy of a commercial app which is perfectly usable without any limitation for free but the catch is if one needs to reinstall it they either have to buy it or else stop using it.

Nw coming to the biggest question : what if it's a app ( provided for free by GAOTD ) which creates some files with proprietary extensions ? and the user has created some important files with it and he needs to re-install it ? or if the user got so much attached using a certain software ( provided for free by GAOTD ) - in both caase the user will but the app - so in a way GAOTD is just promoting commercial apps.

Now these types of scenarios must be covered by their EULA - but how many people properly read them ?

So I would say stop recommending GAOTD and recommend only pure free t use apps downloadble from either the author's website or a website recommended by the app makers.


I was unaware of the wrapper, I am doing the following since long:-
1) Run the setup.exe in the downloaded gaotd zip file,
2) wait until the welcome screen of the main installer comes,
3) keep it running,
4) Go to your temp folder, make sure you can view hidden files, sort the files by date,
5) will see a file being created with tmp extension at the current date and time.
6) You can check the size of the file to match with the size of the zip file to ascertain you are getting the right file. They should be closer in size.
7) Copy this file, remove the hidden property, change the extension to exe and voila - you have gotten the installer.

This works for most of the software. For pre-activated software or for those which needs to be registered via external links (like Paragon software) you don't need to take a headache about the serial. For rest which needs to be activated via activate.exe you may have to search your registry to find the keys. I have kept most of the software from GAOTD by this way.

But I do agree on one thing: GAOTD is off-topic here, one should not equate it with freeware. And more often than not, the software offered, you can find much better open-source and freeware alternatives.
 

thetechfreak

Legend Never Ends
Download Free Any Burn 1.1 Free - A lightweight but professional CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software - Softpedia

a nice lightweight cd burner :)
 

NIGHTMARE

ANGEL OF DEATH
Well this my first freeware submission. I hope you guys enjoy this application.

Flutter is a small freeware of 3.28 MB. Play music without mouse and keyboard without touching single key. It has been designed to control the play and pause option of the music players with hand gestures. It works very well and very helpful at times.

Download
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
^^ The list has not been updated for a very long time and that's why Avast/Avira and some other good freeware security apps are missing from the list.
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
^^ try this :
Bandwidth monitor, bandwidth speed test, bandwidth and traffic monitoring tool for Windows
 

Flash

Lost in speed
Have anyone ever listed the below. :chinscratch:

GIMP have a try @ www.gimp.org. [A free alternative to Photoshop].
i've done this in GIMP -> *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/chit-chat/147200-artwork-thread-5.html#post1724991 :thumbs:


Easy sai paint tool - will be useful for digital artists, especially for coloring.
you can try @ Paint tool SAI in English

My :2cents:

Use net meter

==- Readerror -==

Netlimiter is a good option too.
 

rajnusker

Sage of the Six Paths
^topgear has already suggested that. The main problem is the software shows speeds in K and M. I want something that shows in Mbps or MBps..
 
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