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Here are scraps of information related to a lot of programs that I use and abuse, and links to sites where they may be found. In some cases these will be home pages, others are more generic. If there is no link, I lost it or the one I have doesn't work. Try Google. If I lost track of where I got it and the author didn't tuck an address somewhere in the thing... Most of them can be found on the usual freeware sites, I recommend Son of Spy, no scumware there. AXCEL216 has a great list of sites. Shell Extension City is almost too much of a good thing. Rating scheme (NEW) - 1-6 Brix. My lil house is not made of bricks, but it seems appropriate.
 PaintPixia is absolutely amazing, if you have enough RAM. 64MB might do ya. It goes well for me with 128. You can paint with great finesse - transparency, layers, all sorts of effects. I knocked off the background of this page's title in a couple of minutes (I dare say it looks like it:). Use any picture as a brush. (Text done in MS Paint)Rating: 6 Brix and a bucket of mortar
Bright is another good one to have in your paintbox. It has the coolest "smear" tool you could ever want. Fingerpainting with a computer! I can't seem to get at the home site, but it can be found in some freeware lists. It will perform better than the big fellas on a RAM-shy 486. If I ever find a source with a real link, I'll put it here. Webattack has it, but that's a paid membership deal.
If you have loads of RAM, a goodly hard drive, and don't mind a pretty fat download, try Project Dogwaffle,"the paint program for peole who love paint programs". It's wowsome. Current version coming down as I write this weighs in at around 13MB zipped... oh well, I can throw out a few small ones to make the Cynister One feel better about her sexy figure. It's resumable, and FreshDownload is cranking it fast. Gotta have it. I got the older version some time BUG, but couldn't do squatto with it.
At last I felt that the Cynister Mystress was ready for The GIMP. Plenty of RAM, decent bit of Pentium, hard drive to the horizon - let's go. I have v1.2 for Windows, and oh boy is it good. I had never messed around with layers much before - it seemed like a lot of trouble - but now I am making pixel sanwiches like a virtual deli. It's very different, but not hard to get the hang of. The controls are big enough to see, one just has to scout around for a while to find things. Quite the thing for interesting effects. Have had a little trouble loading Adobe plug-ins, but so what. IrfanView can handle those details. Dogwaffle is easier for "painterly" effects, Pixia loads faster for a quickie touch-up. But for an all-day art-a-thon, the GIMP will outlast them all. Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM AnimationAnimagic, from Right to Left Software is the only piece of shareware I have put out for so far. It's the only gif animator I've seen yet that I like to use. You can get the "fat" version that includes the tutorial, or go for the fast download and revisit the website when you need a lesson. It's pretty easy to get the hang of it. I found out a thing or two I could do that aren't in the tut - like making an animation with both foreground and background static image.Rating: 6 Brix and a bucket of mortar
CursorDance is one of those too-good-to-be but true bits of preciousware. I got it from ZDNet through Son of Spy by a devious route, one of those funky links. Sorry I can't make the path clearer. You'll have to go to ZD and search the downloads. If you want to make or edit animated cursors, it's worth the hunt. Icon Forge sux. There's a little Microsnot ani editor that's free too, but it's blah.
I used AVIQuick to whip up a new K-Meleon throbber. It's a treat, very simple and direct. Takes them apart and puts'em together. Drag your bitmaps in and click-click-click, it's an avi. See also 3D Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM 3D PreciouswareNo, this aint Kansas.
Anim8or is one of those free programs that is so good I almost cry. Controls are many, but easy to understand. You can construct 3D objects pretty much by mouse alone. I'm still trying to get my chin off the floor. (8D
Terragen is all I need for landscapes. The first couple of days I had it, I was in danger of hypothermia. Just sat here making worlds. It does crash on me a bit, especially when I use the bitmap import plug-in.
I kept running across references and links to Pov-Ray, and I finally decided to try it. Holy excrement. Like, the ultimate 3D thing. NOT for newbie button-pushers, however. It's a bit more like programming. But if you're ready for a learning experience... wow.
Font Magic is a must-have for 3D font fun. It will produce a series of bitmaps for animation.
One negative note here - be warned - 3D Canvas is only for ultra-new computers. It pharked mine way bad. (She all feex now) Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM EffectsPaint Studio Light, by Alfian A Rahman, is sort of a super little button and logo maker with a lot of talent. It does good things with text, and has a nice selection of effects. It was very helpful when my computer was not so great. I still use it. Get from NoNagsRating: 6 Brix and a bucket of mortar
More awesome filters at: http://www.bmath.net/dc and Kangaroo (Krazy!). Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM Graphics - other toolsEureka, whoop, yahoo, I found it. There had to be a perfect tiny viewer somewhere. Pocket Watch is it. Call it from the context menu, the start menu, or whatever shortcut you make, one optional parameter. Any size you want, it sits "on top", displaying an image as a thumbnail fitted to its current window size. Right click and maximize, then restore, for full-size and back again. Left-click tray icon or press Esc to hide. Forward-back arrows and move symbol appear when mouse cursor hovers the right areas. No bulky frames or buttons. The "Scan" function is a super browse-finder. BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF. Oh, you want to print too? No problem!Rating: six-and-a-half brix
Blaiz Enterprises' Text Effects is a sweet little tool for making shaded text. It has one bad habit - like all the Blaiz freebies, it installs itself in the Windows Start Menu and that's that. If it weren't so good at what it does, I'd kick the little snot out! (I did, too)
Texture Processor from Paurex will knock your sox off. A shortcut to perfectly seamless tiles of infinite variety.
Harmware has two programs I love to use - Batch Thumbs, for the picture gallery, and 'sTile, to turn your own graphics into seamless backgrounds. Mucho FX, text, you-name-it, very friendly. You can play with it for hours. Web art essentials. I think B. Thumbs is way better than Irfanview or Easy Thumbs (ToniArts) for thumbnailing en masse. Better quality thumbs, never streaky or splotchy. Maybe it's just me. I dunno.
IconEdit, from PC Magazine - very good 16-color icon tool, with both transparency and reverse-color.
Randy's Icon Editor is a really slick 'n' simple one. 16 color, one transparent, no bugs.
SPEAKING OF ICONS - I don't usually touch shareware (being financially other-enabled) but I found AX-Icons to be just too damn good to keep my hands off. This is not only a truly superior icon editor (though I could wish for a few changes in th palette department - tiny, ugh), but also an icon hacker! If you don't like the icons that come in a .dll or whatever, you can re-do them. Yep, make those folders any color you like. Or any shape. I'm impressed. And my shell32.dll will never be the same.
Recently discovered:SnIco Edit, a real dutch treat. Versatile, a trifle quirky, one has to get used to its little ways. Very good though, and will probably get better. Free for non-commercial use. Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM If it aint broke, tweak it...INDISPENSABLE - Properties Plus may be found on this page of Son of Spy's awesome collection. Any time you need to change the attributes of a file so you can fiddle with it under Windwoes nose, or change an extension without being bitched at, it's right there.Rating: 6 Brix and a bucket of mortar
I keep losing track of a priceless tool from Funduc Software Inc.. Having the rather undistinguished name “Count Characters”, this drab under-200K mite doesn't look a bit like SuperProggy, but it has X-ray eyes. It will suck text out of almost anything, placing it in the clipboard so you can paste it into a text editor.. Never mind directory listers - copy from either left or right pane of Explorer. Have you ever wanted to take a “snapshot” of part of the Registry without having to export a hard-to-read REG file? Little Cntchrs.exe will do it. Many programs display lists of processes or system data that you would like to note down for later reference, or to paste into something else, and they give you no option to export the data as text. I used it on Linkexe's Window Hacker, got a listing that included every window and child window in a nice outline form. Does it get any better? TafWeb's RegSeek is pure platinum preciousware. If it's in the registry, it will be found. AND you can replace as well. Say you moved a program from one place to another, or changed the name of a folder that's used a lot. Do a good S and R, and the program will have no problems, and/or other programs will find your renamed folder in their last-visited lists as if it always had that name.
Context Edit gives me a leg up on keeping the right-click menu in order. Programs add cluttery junk I don't need, Windwoes makes useful things mysteriously disappear (Sheest, I had "Scan With AVG" yesterday, where the ffluffff is it now?). Context Edit fixes all that and helps with bollixed associations.
I used X-TEQ X-Setup until I got fed up with what I have come to call its "forward obsolescence". By that I mean it is too heavily weighted toward the newest flavors of Windwoes and other faddish gimcrackery to be of much use to me... I have to wade through a sea of plug-ins, only 10% of which I might use... and then it did that thing to my shortcut targets - I mean, everything in C:\Temp\? Ahrrrggghhhhh. OK, I admit to having installed the latest beta version again... but I'm staying away from some parts! I still use Flexy - v. 1.20 - newer version is snareware :(- and good ol' Tweakui. I recently discovered Blue Bit's Beacon, which is free now because he says it's too "old". Huh. Best I've ever seen for the elder Windwoes.
Easy Cleaner - Toni Heleni - the Mozart of software - created this priceless tool for quick and painless cleanups. It gets the most obvious cobwebs out of the registry, finds useless and duplicate files, and gives a good picture of disk space usage. It is probably the best tool available for the timid user - wouldn't hurt a single byte, but it does some good dusting.
I will hurl if I see the word "powerful" in a software description again, but Jouni Vuorio's RegCleaner merits the danged word. This pup makes Easy look wussie. Do be careful, and BACKCKK UPPP before using. Oh, but what a wonderfully good way to get a detailed peek.
Registrar Lite, the freebie version of Resplendent Registrar, is excellent. Some day when I'm rich :) :) :) I'll get the big one. Extension Viewer is on my preciousware list. I lost it in the upgrade hurricane, and had to do a search to get it back. Do you think I can keep track of a link? Ha. Now go to the "Toybox".(this same dude did "Clickomania") Do you like torturing programs too? Then ResourceHacker will aid you in matters of binary vivisection... tear their little wings off, replace icons...
Visit Linkexe's Hacker homepage for elegant tools. Make those dagblanged windows behave or else. G(r)eek spoken here :) - Hackman's Official Home. Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM Text toolsTextview is what I've been looking for since about my second month of cyberlife. A text explorer, with tree and viewing panes, it allows you to leaf through scattered collections of notes and snippets with speed and ease. You can concatenate fragmentary texts in the Windows clipboard, and paste into your text editor. It will summon the default editor for any file, and has a handy command-line for special events. Is this 110 KB or 110 carats? :) Lots of keyboard commands. So many things it can do, and assist in doing. Fonts, colors, file filters, however you like them. Extremely friendly and comfortable to use. If you have a lot of stuff to sort out and read, Textview will do you more good than a whole pot of coffee.It's not just for text files, don't let the name fool you. Go through the cache of a browser such as K-meleon or Mozilla with it, and find out what all the anonymous files are. Fun and educational. Rating: 6 Brix and a bucket of mortar with the trowel thrown in free!
The Gun is the Notepad substitute I settled on for a while. Small, fast, opens anything. I renamed it Notepad.exe, dropped it into Windows, got a few commands nailed down in the context menu, and put a shortcut in the Send To folder for emergencies. Life is good.
Then I found EDXOR, and life got even gooder. At
...well, one could want a multiple document interface-plus-font options-plus-word wrap-plus-fast loading-plus-multi-file search and replace. In that case, Edit Pad Classic might be the closest thing to Heaven. I've been changing a lot of details in a lot of webpages and other texty things, and it got so hot and heavy I made EPC my NOTpad (replaced Notepad) for a while. Windows groans, "Oh no, not again?".
Power Edit has got to be in any list of Preciousware. With multi - syntax hihlighting, viewer, explorer tree, user configurable commands up the ying, it is Your Humble Servant for everyday editing. It's only flaw is, no wrap. This makes things a little awkward when dealing with large hunks of plain text or HTML. Hate those two-mile horizontals. :) Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM HTML Top Dawg is my idea of the near-perfect HTML editor. I can (and often do) get along just fine with a plain text editor, but I love those shortcuts. Hi-lite a section of text, tap! and it's tagged fore and aft. Any tag you want, and add your own. And when I change my fuddled mind for the nth time about the background color or cell size of some huge nested table... oooh, I love the search'n'replace. Not to mention a handy built-in viewer that gives a pretty good idea of what the browser will see (doesn't do table backgrounds perfectly, but heck). One of the best features, in my 'umble opinion, is the tabbed multi-document interface."Mindy's FTP", included with the Dawg, is also a great convenience, being very fast and easy to use for quick uploads of last-minute changes. Rating: 6 Brix and a bucket of mortar I tried out Toni Heleni's EasyHTML, but alas! it makes use of Invective Expletive for its viewer, and that browser is Programa Non Grata in my computer. I've tried out quite a few editors. I think most of them exhibit great suckness. Some aren't so bad, but they just aren't geared to my mind-set. Too many bells&whistles, basic stuff buried in frills, hard-to-find tools, lousy nav, whatever.
One that I don't use an awful lot (mostly because it's unnecessarily confusing to use more than one) but found too good to toss out, is Collie. Yeah, it's starting to look like my computer is a dog-lover. But check out this Russian whiz-kid's site. He's got some good stuff. The CollieHTML is excellent, and I do use it now and then as a syntax checker. The pup sniffs out some little boo-boos that my cruddy eyes always miss.
Not to knock the pup, but I have found the ultimate HTML checker. Tag Check from TaFWeb (either link) is terribly thorough. You can edit your pages right in the program, double-clicking on an error report to go to the offending line.
I have been on and off NoteTab (Light) for quite a while. I think I've finally settled on “on”. It takes a little getting used to, but I decided that it's worth taking the time to make it work for me. Editing and rearranging the clipbooks is turning it into my favorite HTML editor. I'm making my own special set of clips, very handy. I would definitely consider upgrading ($$$) if I had the ($$$). A word of warning about using WYSIWYG type HTML editors, Microsnot Office, etc. to design your webpages. It is best to know what you are doing, and not let the program give you a false sense of competence. A lot of very bad, user-unfriendly, browser-unfriendly, bloated, unnecessary, overcomplicated, downright stupid-looking code can wind up representing you to the web-wide world if you don't check it out before uploading. I've seen some awful things. (8P* * * Know thy code! Or at least be willing to accept helpful criticism. In reference to reference...:) I checked out Free Ref just to see what... It could be handy for quick reference IF you are on line (not for the time-limited!). It's sort of a one-site browser that gives you instant access to specific tag references in the W3.org files, rather neat tool in its way. However, though it is not spyware ore adware per se, it does do ads. Not a problem with my blocker... The main reason I will not be using it, is that it dumps in the Windows\Temporary Internet Files folder. I prefer not to go that route. Hint - after using it, copy pages out of the T.I.F. folder to use for offline reference. Rating: 4 brix Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM FractalAh, to be in love...Fractint and Winfract, its Windowed kid brother, rule.
XaoS also rules.
The Kingdom of Fractalia is levying a new tax on pigwhistle to pep up the treasury after building yet another throne room... yes, ChaosPro rules too! Though not as obscenely fast as XaoS, it has awesome flexibility. (Though a bit mentally exhausting to deal with...)
TieraZon is my other favorite. It has a lot of relatives, some of which I have tried. An odd lot, but they make pretties. Need mucho RAM, and all that. Of course if you want the best of all fractal worlds rolled into one very tidy package, you could go with what might be The Emperor of all Fractalia, Fractal Explorer. You couldn't hardly go wrong. Ummm.... it could take you about a thousand years to exhaust all the possibilities... One awesome feature of this cosmic fractal factory is the preview window, that lets you see what you will get without waiting for what might be some looooong minutes for the whole schemozzle to build. You can try umpteen variations and pick something spectacular, then go get a cuppa while it works. Some deep diving can be done, with very controllable zoom box. Many handy keyboard commands. Color? twiddle to your heart's content. FE brings out details deep down in some fractals that I have never seen before. It is hard to stop and get housework done when you are seeing things that make the Book Of Kells look like kindergarten stuff.
Another great thing it does, is to automatically save whatever you are currently working on, in case of cRAsh...... umm, it really works. I, er, ehem, tested it a few times, quite involuntarily. Reloads mighty fast too =]
Fractal Map Generator is the handiest device for tailoring smooth colormaps for Fractint & family.
While you're there, you might as well download Fractal Map Selector too. It is an intriguing program, with some potential for producing weird effects on non-fractal bitmaps as well (I'll try anything!). Also, it comes with a very shiny -new version of COMDLG32.OCX that is needed for (and might not be found with) the other prog. - ver. 6.00.8418, f.y.i. Beware the installation program. It doesn't parla inglese at all. I went a few rounds with it Parametri della riga di comando non validi etc. etc., then extracted the cab file, tucked it all in a comfy directory, and made a nice little shortcut for it. No more problema. My Italian stinks.Not as bad as my German - all I really know of that is speichern, beenden, and of course ja and nein. Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM MiscellaneousAVG anti-virus, from Grisoft, is my choice for protection from the possible vicious binary. I seldom use the automatic update, but get the fresh monthly files with Star Downloader. It's a lot faster.Rating: 6 Brix
For other surfing cover, I have Outpost Firewall. I tried Zone Alarm, but it was a huge pain, strutting about like a virtual rooster in my little henhouse. Outpost gets the job done without constant preening, crowing, and displaying. Also, Zone fouled up my FTP. I don't have to shut off Outpost to upload a webpage.
AdAware is absolutely essential if you download freeware anywhere but the pickiest sites. I've seen it magically clear up two cases of Bonzi Syndrome, also known as computerPMS (Purple Monkey S--t). Don't let sneaky, scummy spyware stick you with ads and dial up without your permission.
Spybot is the new kid on the scumware-killer block, and he's got a sharp knife. Totally freeware, the 'bot not only finds adsuckers, it will point out loads of other vulnerabilities in your system. This thing is great! Perhaps not for the faint of heart or newb, but for the power user who wants to do some serious housecleaning...
GiPo@MoveOnBoot is a life-saver - especially for the DOS-impaired, I would think. A real no-sweat way to move or delete the odd item that can't be touched when Winders is up and running. It puts a new page in your Properties dialog so all you have to do is right-click the file in question, and start the process from there. I got rid of an obnoxious trojanoid that was sitting in my Startup folder with it.
Steve's File Splitter slices, dices, minces - however you want your too-big files divided, and writes a batchfile to reunite the pieces anywhere. And it's small enough to carry on a floppy with room to spare. Steve Perkins, you are The Man.
DMEXMenu shell extension makes life a lot easier. Configurable to the nth degree, it lets you change directories, open with any program you like, arrange windows, and too many other things to be fun listing, with two clicks. Whew, it's a worker.
TraySaver is a great little space saver. All your handy tray icons can be whisked out of sight to make room for a dozen window buttons. It does have some trouble with some programs, but is perfectly stable otherwise. Do not try to use it with Cacheman (Outer Technologies), there is an extreme antipathy between them. Mike Lin's site offers some other good progs, like MCL, a sort of "better command line". ----Due to some increasing Windows stability issues, I (temporarily?) stopped using TraySaver. However, I am now trying out PC Magazine's Tray Manager. Seems like a well-behaved little fellow, perhaps a trifle tidier than Mike's. We'll see how Windwoes likes it. :)
FreshDownload is so cool you could use it to chill beer. It can get a fat file safely through no matter how grotty your connection. =))
BUT Star Downloader is replacing it. Still a "work-in-progress", Star is the slickest downloader in all freewareland. A plug-in is available to integrate it with K-Meleon. Lovely. Also integrates with Opera now. This prog is too good to be true, but it is. The K-M plug-in also works with Mozilla
If you want more bells-n-whistles, plus an ftp explorer-type interface for file-hunting, you might try Leechget. As of this writing (7-19-02), anti-virus scanning has not been implemented, but is in the stew-pot. I rather like this prog, in spite of its somewhat overcomplex nature... it did get me a download that Star was choking on. I'm just not sure I want it in my face for everyday biz. Not yet, anyway. Plugins for Netscape, Moz, Opera, and the usual Idiot Exploder integration. Chummy with K-Meleon too.
MAIL has been a real proctalgia. Either a program stops working for me, starts crashing the house down, or simply exhibits too much suckness. Like the day I near had a heart attack when Pegasus opened an attachment I was just trying to delete. That's firing time. At last I found
However, with the spam getting thicker every day, Mailwasher looked like a better way to go. Now my mail pops up all sorted for deletion and bouncing (yeeehah!). Have to give it a once-over in case there is something interesting or useful in the junkpile, and catch the occasional weed, that's all. Most times one click rids me of all crap, and another click calls my default mail program. This is true love. Send this guy money if you possibly can.
And I finally got to the English version of Foxmail - a very foxy mail client indeed. If you need or want :) to send and receive HTML mail, but don't admire Outlook Express, can't abide Netscape, can't be bothered with Eudora, etc.etc., catch the Fox. Very nice for making cool stationery.
You need Netlaunch, especially if you want to get rid of that smelly old "Client for Microsoft Networks". It sits in your tray, dials up without your having to deal with passwords or other bothersome details, and launches any other programs you might want at that time. Or closes them. Automatically stay connected if you like. The ideal slave. All this with 80K of exe.
Open Office can free you of the terrible burden of Microsoft Envy. You'll need at least 64MB of RAM, 250MB drive space, and other good things (depends on your OS), and a good download manager to fetch the ca. 50MB package. But once you've got it, there isn't much you can't do. This is an extremely flexible system that uses XML. It has some killer features for both office use and web publishing. Being free doesn't mean being wimpy.
Couldn't live without Catfish to catalog my floppy-heap. It's the only one I've tried, and I don't see any need to check out others because it is so fast, simple, and efficient. Not sure about that link, probably better to go to Son of Spy.
FTP Commander is what put this page where you can read it. Wasn't that nice of it? Another straightforward, nonfrilly tool. I was running Windows95 when I got it, and couldn't use the Help file. Didn't slow me down too much. FreeFTP from Brandyware Software is my new love, though. I couldn't do diddly with my sister's site without it. There are a lot of other fine - and free - tools there, check it out!
Zippers - I download a lot of compressed files, mostly plain vanilla .zip. My favorite tool for "unwrapping" all these little packages is 7-zip. I use it from the context (right-click) menu, and it is the fastest! When 7-zip can't handle some mysterious format (duh, it's a .zip, but...) I call up Power Archiver. I could do it all with P. A., but I'm used to 7-zip. One gets sentimental about these things. ...But then, it's a good practice to change your habits now and then. I had an opportunity to dl Aladdin Expander without being hassled for my vital stats. Now I just doubleclick a zip. :)
Link is on AXCEL216's "Power Toys" page, a good place to be anyway.
But I got pickled off at Aladdin for not letting me change the zipfile icon, and also wanted something small enough to put on a floppy for installation in a non-internet-enabled machine I was working on, so... ICEOWS moved in. I don't know what to blame for the name, but it could call itself Jiminy Cricket and still function as well. Except for maybe putting a few too many options on the context menu - but hey, maybe eventually I'll use them all - it's a dream. So much power and ability in so few bytes! All that and absolutely freeware, with a decent help file. Share it around. Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM The ToyboxI don't do games very much, though I collect odd little proggies that don't have much - if any - practical use...
Don't know what to do with all those cool textures and fractals and stuff that you've had so much fun filling up your hard drive with? Drempels will show them to you in a new light. Your desktop on acid or a screensaver that will keep your hand off the mouse. Aurora computeralis. Only need Pentium II or up, DirectX5.0+, and at least one functional eye. Brain optional. Images warp, melt, blend, zoom, possibly make you seasick. It's flippin' awrsum.
Clickomania is one darned addictive lil game. Can't say he didn't warn me. IPoetry makes "refrigerator poety". The random word selection is tres cool. You can add your own word lists. Lost this one and had to randomly surf freeware sites to find it. Caught up with it at Rocket Download. Not my fave site, but I owe kind mention for that! Then, of course, I finally found where it was hiding at Son of Spy (it helps if you can remember the names of things...). Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM Browser(s) anything BUT Idiot ExploderOpera, of course (One thing I like about Opera, is that it actually gets better every time it is "improved", unlike some browsers I won't mention in the same breath...) But not Insidious Exterminator.
And I do suggest that you try You could go with Mozilla, I suppose, and get a few more frills - at the cost of 3 or 4 times as much disk space. It's a sturdy browser... I'll stick with the silly lizzerd for everyday use. I get a kick out of tinkering with it, and I enjoy the friendly and helpful forum community. When I run into an extremely "crashy" site, I switch temporarily to Opera. I also switch for HTML testing purposes, as these two browsers give a very different presentation sometimes. I have to admit Opera is a little ahead of K-M in some ways, but it is a desktop-hog on a small monitor, and ugh! the ads (see my "Virtual Duct Tape" trick Anyway, stay away from Invasive Exploiter! Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM Some programs I haven't found yet but would like to...Dragbox - This little Windows Explorer add-on would be a treat. I've tried quite a few extra-window etc. thingies, and have a good context menu send/copy/move, but for sorting things into more than one new location I want access to multiple locations at one time with no browsing between moves, and no wasted screen space. Here is a picture of my ideal. Wouldn't that be easier to manage than a whole shipload of Explorer windows?Back to the TOP - or just cut to the chase and go to the BOTTOM The BlacklistThere are always some programs that sound irrisistable. You just have to try them out - and then you wish you'd never heard of the blighty thing. Here's a few of my pet peevers. Stone's Text Tool - Back up your registry before installing this pig, if you must try it. It seems like a useful text and code editor - but it is VERY DAMNED RUDE. It takes over all .txt associations, and totally destroys them when uninstalled. As far as I am concerned, any prog with that much hubris is trash.
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