[Stoner]

I tried the dead pixel program. The spot was apparently more than one pixel. After several hours, the intensity and size of the dead spot decreased noticably. After turning off the app.......several more hours later it was back to the original intensity

[jadag]

Hi All

As you all know, I have a very old IBM Thinkpad with only 40 Mb of RAM, so most of the voice mail programs (Skype, Yahoo etc.) don't work for me.

CQPhone will work on any computer that is running Windows 95 or later. The use of microphone, speakers, and web cam is optional. Your computer must be connected to the internet. CQPhone as been successfully tested on Windows 95, 120 Mhz, 32 MB RAM, 33K dialup modem!!!

Here are some of the things it can do;

VOICE CHAT: high quality, two-way voice, even for people using a slow dialup connection.
TYPING CHAT: for people who prefer not to use voice.
VIDEO CHAT: for people who wish to use a web cam.
PICTURE SHARING: for people who wish share photos during a chat.
PUBLIC CHAT LIST: for people who wish to meet new friends.
PRIVATE PHONE NUMBER: for people who prefer not to use the public chat list.
NO REGISTRATION: CQPhone is ready to use as soon as you install it.
NO ADVERTSING - NO SPYWARE
GOOD PRIVACY: Peer to peer connection - the chat is not saved.
WORKS BEHIND A NAT: Handles calls between two computers behind the same internet sharing box.
WORKS ON OLDER SYSTEMS: CQPhone as been successfully tested on Windows 95, 120 Mhz, 32 MB RAM, 33K dialup modem.
CLEAN UNINSTALL may be perfomed at any time.

I think this program is going to be BIG. Check it out at;
http://www.cqphone.com/

[hewee]

He hee John I would say stuck means that MAYBE it can be fixed and dead means dead and your NOT going to bring it back to life.

[Higgy]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Of course, this one isn't freeware, right?

URLBase 5 Personal Edition is definitely freeware.
They also offer a Professional Edition that's not.
I've been using Personal Edition 5.1.0.721 for way over a year now to convert from Opera bookmarks to Internet Explorer favorites.
Works great!

[DCM1519]

One of my favorites is Cobian Backup. I gave up all my commercial backup programs in favor of this for a number of reasons. First, it backs up to Zip format, not a propietary format. Also, it can be scheduled, will backup any or all files that you want it to and will backup to the destination of your choice including multiple locations. I backup everything to 4 different locations each time I run it. It will also run full, incremental, or differential backups.

The writer of this program is very actively engaged in it. It is updated and improved regularly even though it runs just fine as it is.

It is worth a try for your backup needs.

[Dude044]

I'm not sure if this prog has already been posted 'AutoStreamer' it only works with Windows 2000 & XP http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S...streamer.shtml

[michael_jii]

Originally Posted by dmullen

One of my favorites is Cobian Backup. I gave up all my commercial backup programs in favor of this for a number of reasons. First, it backs up to Zip format, not a propietary format. Also, it can be scheduled, will backup any or all files that you want it to and will backup to the destination of your choice including multiple locations. I backup everything to 4 different locations each time I run it. It will also run full, incremental, or differential backups.

The writer of this program is very actively engaged in it. It is updated and improved regularly even though it runs just fine as it is.

It is worth a try for your backup needs.

great! thanks for that

[michael_jii]

i've also been playing with flyakite osx emulation.. it's a bit of fun, totally transforms the look of a windows based pc to that of a mac.

http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

makes the pc look great.

they've just released v3.x aswell.

[franca]

Find album art
http://www.findmycover.com
Digital music is amazing. You can carry around thousands of songs in your pocket and flip through them easily.

You don't need to worry about scratched discs. And you won't have stacks of CDs that you need to store.

But there is one drawback: You don't always get the album cover. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to look at the covers.

That's why I use FindMyCover. Just enter the name of an artist or album, and it finds the cover for you. Then you can download it and add it to your computer's music library. It rocks!

From Kim Komando web-site.

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by michael_jii

i've also been playing with flyakite osx emulation.. it's a bit of fun, totally transforms the look of a windows based pc to that of a mac.

http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

makes the pc look great.

they've just released v3.x aswell.

Some would question this being an improvement!

[Muffy7]

Regarding the flyakite mac emulation program..

So i have been using Windowblinds, and Style XP for a while, and i decided to try the flyakite thing...
it didn't come out as nice as i had my computer set up and so i uninstalled, but it put all my files back to the way they were as a standard XP, and then window blinds stopped working, i had to reinstall windowblinds and reapply the skin i have been using, and now i finally have got it back to how i like it

[DCM1519]

Another outstanding freeware program is "Registrar Lite". It makes editing your registry a lot easier and faster.

[John Burns]

I got an email from PC Pitstop today which listed one of their program advertisers for an eraser which would find and erase IE Browser History, among other thing it does. However, after the items were identified, it required a key to remove them ($29) and being the cheapskate I am, I looked elsewhere for FREE removal programs.

Through Google, I stumbled on the following:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html

It shows all items in IE history in a viewer and allows you to delete those which you wish. I used it and now all the items are gone which I wanted to erase, but didn't want to pay for. This site has other programs for free listed, but I haven't had a chance to check them all out yet. Hope maybe this will help someone else trying to get rid of persistent IE history. (I had tried IE Tools, Crap Cleaner, etc but none would erase these particular URLS from IE. IE History View did.

[franca]

Steam videos all over the house

URL
VLC (Win, Mac, Linux)

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


VLC stand for Video Lan (Local Area Network) Client. VLC allows you to stream videos over a local network. One problem with this is that it can be difficult to get this to work but if you can get it working you will be able to watch movies for the main computer in the Bedroom.

VLC is also one of the only free media players that includes the ability to play DVD’s. Normally you have to buy a player to play all of your normal DVD’s.

VLC is available for Mac, Windows and Linux as well as 9 other platforms.

[hewee]

John Burns,

Nirsoft has lots and lots of great freeware at there site.

Many are standalone executable programs too.