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Thread ID: 89058 2008-04-19 07:07:00 The Freeware thread Metla (12) PC World Chat
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660313 2008-04-28 09:02:00 AnalogX proxy server; useful when I had a one way satellite connection and wanted to bridge various network devices for internet sharing. jcr1 (893)
660314 2008-04-28 11:22:00 Gramps = Genealogy
GNUCash = Accounting
Gimp / Irfanview = Graphics
Lazarus = Programing
Qcad = CAD
OpenOffice
Fedora / PCLinuxOS = OS's
mikebartnz (21)
660315 2008-04-28 20:04:00 I have always been attracted to neat and tiny but useful utilities.

Ever been pissed of by those flash videos that load ephemeral fla*.tmp files into your temp folder, only to disappear with a poof! when you close the player window???

Now you can grab them by the short and curlies before they go poof! rename them to a .flv extension and copy them somewhere convenient, using a very neat little program called Unlocker (www.softpedia.com)

Hi Terry,
can you please explain how you use Unlocker to grab/find the flash videos.If not here then another post! Thanks.
Neil McC (178)
660316 2008-04-30 10:57:00 Hi Terry,
can you please explain how you use Unlocker to grab/find the flash videos.If not here then another post! Thanks.

The temporary flash video files go to Documents and Settings\'User Name'\Local Settings\Temp, and they are given names like fla6.tmp
Open this folder so you can see when the temporary file appears which it will do when you start to download a video file.

It may pay you to delete as much clutter as you can from here before starting so that you can more easily recognise the temporary file.

When the video has finished downloading, do not close the player window, instead right click the temporary file and select 'Unlocker'.

In the bottom left hand corner of the Unlocker window is an action box, select 'copy', rename the file to a .flv extension and save it somewhere convenient.

You can then close the flash player window. The temporary file will disappear, but you will be left with the 'unlocked' and renamed video file.

You will also need to unhide hidden files and folders, or you may not find the Local Settings folder, from My Computer\Tools\Folder Options\View.

The Unlocker program is useful in those occasions when you get an access denied message.
Terry Porritt (14)
660317 2008-04-30 11:31:00 The temporary flash video files go to Documents and Settings\'User Name'\Local Settings\Temp...
...right click the temporary file and select 'Unlocker'.

Heh, that's a novel use for Unlocker (ccollomb.free.fr). Back on topic, a few more that spring to mind that haven't already been posted -

IM
> Pidgin - http://www.pidgin.im/
> Digsby - http://www.digsby.com/

Security
> TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

Media
> Libra - http://www.getlibra.com/
> The GodFather - users.forthnet.gr
sal (67)
660318 2008-05-14 23:28:00 Well as the thread has slowed down I'll add something

#Utilities and bloody useful programs
(not really sure exactly the category for this)
Freelaunchbar (www.freelaunchbar.com)

I really love this as it lets me have Menus on my quick launch bar, which I personally think should be a standard part of windows, (unfortunately it doesn't work on Vista)

I normally end up with 3 or 4 menus at the moment i only have the office one (I am on the wifes machine)

Screenshot (www.imagef1.net.nz)

It is probably the one thing that irritated me about Vista is that this didn't work, as I had forgotten it was an add-on
Morgenmuffel (187)
660319 2008-05-17 09:47:00 Firefox
Thunderbird
Ad Block Plus
PCLinuxOS
CF1:Beta2
AusLogic defragmenter.
EBCD
R2x1 (4628)
660320 2008-06-05 01:53:00 Quick one for backing up email on Windows 2K-Vista, MailStore Home (www.mailstore.com). sal (67)
660321 2008-06-11 03:51:00 BROWSER:
#1 Firefox 3.0 (OK, so it kills a few extensions..but hey!)

BROWSER SECURITY, ONLINE:
#1 WOT (Web Of Trust)
#2 Nitro PDF Software (not strictly security, but a browser device)
#3 IE View Lite
#4 Site Delta

STREAMING DATA DEVICES:
#1 WMP10
#2 WinAmp

VIDEO CAPTURE TOOLS:
#1 Power DVD (Well...free with the DVD Optical drive anyway!)
#2 DVD Shrink (Nero fails me constantly!)
#3 FLV Player
#4 DVDFab Decrypter
#5 AMcap
#6 iSilo

AUDIO CAPTURE/EDITING TOOLS:
#1 Audacity
#2 Handbrake

NEAT THINGS:
#1 Tasco Skywatch
#2 PCB 123
#3 Google Earth
#4 M$ VPC
#5 Google Desktop

IM GUIs:
#1 GTalk
#2 Hello!

HARDWARE/SECURITY TOOLS:
#1 DeFraggler
#2 Easy Duplicate Finder
#3 RootKitBuster
#4 HJT
#5 RogueRemover
#6 CCleaner
#7 Aida32
#8 Belarc Adviser

E-MAIL TOOLS:
#1 TrueCrypt
#2 EMail Stripper

THINGS THAT MESS W/UNCLE BILL:
#1 PC World Forums, Press F1 (can you say: "LINUX"?)
#2 nLite
SurferJoe46 (51)
660322 2008-06-13 09:12:00 here are my entries:



CD Burning
> BurnAware Free Edition - www.glorylogic.com

FTP
> Filezilla - http://filezilla-project.org/

Download Managers
> Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Multimedia
> Media Player Classic Home Cinema - sourceforge.net
> ffdshow - http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

Games
> F.E.A.R - http://www.joinfear.com/
> TrackMania - http://www.trackmania.com/
wyattmtthws (11511)
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