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General => Help => Topic started by: Melbosa on August 05, 2005, 08:26:53 AM

Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Melbosa on August 05, 2005, 08:26:53 AM
Seeing as though we all have our sources for information and tools to get what we need, thought it would be nice to keep a compiled list here going of sites.  Just reply with sites, and myself, Magnus, or the other Moderators can edit this post with the list. Will try and keep it alphabetical.

Audio
Clients
Winamp (http://www.winamp.com)

Tools
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com)
MP3Tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/)
Music Brainz (http://www.musicbrainz.org/)
Music Collectorz (http://www.collectorz.com/music/)


BitTorrents
Clients
Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/)
Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com)
uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/)

Websites
MiniNova (http://www.mininova.org/)
The Pirate Bay (http://www.thepiratebay.org)
TorrentReactor<net> (http://www.torrentreactor.net)
TorrentReactor<to> (http://www.torrentreactor.to)
TorrentSpy (http://www.torrentspy.com)
TV Torrents (http://www.tvtorrents.com)

Downloaders
FTP
Filezilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/)
SmartFTP (http://www.smartftp.com/)

Download Managers
Free Download Manager (http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/)
StarDownloader (http://www.stardownloader.com/)


Games
Tools
Game Collectorz (http://www.collectorz.com/game/)

Websites
3D Gamers (http://www.3dgamers.com)
FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com)
FileShack (http://www.fileshack.com)


IRC / Chat
Clients
ChatZilla (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/)
mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/)
Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/)


Misc
Anti-Blaxx (http://www.mb-lock.ch.vu/)
GhostScript (http://www.ghostscript.com/)
CutePDF Writer (http://www.cutepdf.com/)
Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/)
Winlibre (http://www.winlibre.com/en/) - Free Windows Software


News Groups
Clients
GrabIt (http://www.shemes.com/)
PowerGrab (http://www.cosmicwolf.com/cosmicwolf/default.asp)

Websites
alt.binaries.nl (http://alt.binaries.nl/)
bincrawler (http://www.bincrawler.com/default.aspx)
NewzBin (http://www.newzbin.com)


Peer-To-Peers
Clients
eMule (http://www.emule-project.net/)
Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com)


Release Information
Websites
NFOrce Entertainment (http://www.nforce.nl/)
VCD Quality (http://www.vcdquality.com/)


Video
Codecs
DivX (http://www.divx.com)

Tools
Alcohol (http://www.alcohol-software.com)
DVD Decrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.com) - Software still available, website just dead.
DVD Shrink (http://www.dvdshrink.org)
Movie Collectorz (http://www.collectorz.com/movie/)
AnyDVD (http://www.slysoft.com/en/)

Websites
Doom 9 (http://www.doom9.org)
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Shayne on August 05, 2005, 09:06:21 AM
 mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) for audio tools.  far and away the best for organizing 14,000+ mp3s :P

www.tvtorrents.com for torrents (TV torrents :P)



Done - Melbosa
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Cova on August 05, 2005, 10:29:32 AM
 Best tool I've ever seen for managing MP3's - will find proper title/artist/etc and set ID3 tags.  Works using "acoustic fingerprints", it will find the proper info even if there is no current ID3 tag and the file is named wrong (or has a wrong ID3 tag).   http://musicbrainz.org/


Also - for DVD Decrypter, it was shut down due to being threatened with a lawsuit from Macrovision (the analog copy-protection guys).  As part of the agreement to not be sued by them, Macrovision now owns the DVD Decrypter web-site, and is potentially logging any/all accesses to it.  It is recommended that the first thing you do after installing DVD Decrypter is make sure automatic updating is off.  (checking for automatic updates involves an HTTP request to the DVD Decrypter web-site).

Done - Melbosa
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 05, 2005, 04:41:49 PM
 (FREE!) full-featured multi-track sound recording/editing/converting:

Audacity

(I use it on my Windoze, my bro' uses it on his Mac... identical interface, gotta luv it)

Very handy when listening to online radio you want to grab - visually pick where the appropriate sound bite starts/ends :)



(FREE!) PDF creation:
CutePDF Writer

(haven't tried it yet, but sounds like the above is like a printer driver, i.e. works in your word processor, spreadsheet, browser...)


Done - Melbosa
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Lazybones on August 05, 2005, 07:57:33 PM
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"(FREE!) PDF creation:
CutePDF Writer

(haven't tried it yet, but sounds like the above is like a printer driver, i.e. works in your word processor, spreadsheet, browser...)
I have used it, it works well. There are several free ones out now.
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Melbosa on August 08, 2005, 08:22:25 AM
 Moderators, reminder, please keep the listing in Alphabetical order to make it easier for scanning.  Thanks.
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Melbosa on August 08, 2005, 04:26:24 PM
Quote from: "Cova"Also - for DVD Decrypter, it was shut down due to being threatened with a lawsuit from Macrovision (the analog copy-protection guys).  As part of the agreement to not be sued by them, Macrovision now owns the DVD Decrypter web-site, and is potentially logging any/all accesses to it.  It is recommended that the first thing you do after installing DVD Decrypter is make sure automatic updating is off.  (checking for automatic updates involves an HTTP request to the DVD Decrypter web-site).
Split this into its own topic: http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php...topic=2185&st=0
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Shayne on August 08, 2005, 04:34:30 PM
 What about Emulation?  As in Daemon Tools http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php or Alcohol 52% http://www.alcohol-software.com

for FTP, filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ is unbeatable for both server and client.  The client can connect multiple times to the same site for quick downloading of like 1000 little files (under packet size).





DONE- Lazybones
DONE - Melbosa - Re-edit -> put Daemon Tools in better category of Misc, vs Video
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Mr. Analog on August 08, 2005, 11:36:00 PM
 Behold my l33t FTP client, installed everywhere there is Windoze...

(http://vger.homeip.net/images/ftp.JPG)
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Darren Dirt on September 14, 2005, 12:09:00 PM
WinLibre!

http://www.winlibre.com/en/



This is a collection of free and non-M$ software covering everything from Office tools to compression to audio/video viewing creating, drawing programs (vector, 2D, 3D), instant messaging... and it includes/links to many mentioned above as well as a few others!



Take that, Mr. Gates! ;)



EDIT - Added by Melbosa
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Shayne on September 14, 2005, 12:15:51 PM
Have you seen Office 12 *drool*
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Darren Dirt on February 15, 2006, 11:25:34 AM
Just found this handy page, a very long list of freeware recommendations, nicely categorized (covering security, browser aids, Notepad replacements, various other utilities categories)



http://aumha.org/freeware/morefree.htm
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 07, 2006, 10:22:57 AM
Well, I just installed Chatzilla, what a great program. I likes it!
Title: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Lazybones on May 07, 2006, 12:16:20 PM
Added:

Free Download Manager and uTorrent

to the list.



Forgot we had this thread.
Title: Re: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Melbosa on May 31, 2006, 09:21:32 AM
Added AnyDVD, as I find it is a good replacement for DVD Decrypter.
Title: Re: Download Resource Sites
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 24, 2006, 11:04:03 AM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 15, 2006, 11:25:34 AM
Just found this handy page, a very long list of freeware recommendations, nicely categorized (covering security, browser aids, Notepad replacements, various other utilities categories)

http://aumha.org/freeware/morefree.htm

SIMILAR, but even BETTER:

http://www.listible.com/list/open-source-applications-for-windows

Decent list, *all on one page*, including most of the best-known open source apps in most of the important categories (Firefox, Audacity, eMule, etc.) but also quite a few that do stuff for which I didn't even know there was a non-commercial application available!


vnc2swf - Screen Recorder
Vnc2swf is a screen recording tool for X-Window (X11), Windows and Mac OS Desktop. Vnc2swf captures live motion of a screen through VNC protocol and converts it a Macromedia Flash(TM) movie (.swf).

Tor (The Onion Router)
Tor is an implementation of second-generation onion routing - an anonymity system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet.

Paint.NET (features, including layers (http://www.getpaint.net/features.html) -- screenshots explain more, WOW! (http://www.getpaint.net/screenshots.html))
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003.

OpenSebJ - Open Source Audio Mixing
An audio production & mixing tool, featuring a - Sequencer, Beat Box, Wave Recording, Frequency Modulation, DJ Scratch interface and sampler playback

Krut Computer Recorder
A computer recorder. Record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. Can be used to e.g. make instructional videos or record games. Could also be used to record streaming video and audio.

Virtual Desktop for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Virtual Desktop will create new desktops for you and let you to switch between desks and windows quick and easy.

PDFtoHTML
A utility which converts PDF files into HTML and XML formats.