little late submission, but i just saw this, and i need something to get my mind off another night with javascript :roll:

pretty much all the progs i use have been mentioned already..

i got:

[b]Notepad++[/b] for all my scripting needs http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
[b]ResHacker [/b]for when i think it's about time to reinstall windows :lol: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
[b]Console [/b]b/c CMD sucks http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
[b]7-zip[/b] http://www.7-zip.org/
[b]jasmin 3dcc[/b] http://jote.pai.net.pl/jn/3dcc/
[b]Irfanview [/b]http://www.irfanview.com/
[b]foo2k [/b]for playing music http://www.foobar2000.org/
[b]winamp [/b]5.52 for playlist creation/ipod http://www.winamp.com/
[b]ROCKBOX [/b]on my 4gig white nano (a must-have, couldn't live w/o it.. plays vids, too - on a 1st gen nano! it's like - the *box for ipod) http://www.rockbox.org/
[b]QTScrobbler [/b]to get my ipod played tracks to last.fm http://qtscrob.sourceforge.net/
[b]mp3tag [/b]for - well - tagging mp3s http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
[b]VLC [/b]- best video player out there http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
[b]utorrent [/b]so that my foo and vlc have stuff to play http://www.utorrent.com/
[b]soulseek [/b]for stuff i can't find in torrents http://www.slsknet.org/
[b]daemon tools[/b] for mounting .iso's http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
[b]miranda [/b]for IM http://www.miranda-im.org/
[b]mIRC [/b]for IRC http://www.mirc.com/
[b]filezilla [/b]for FTP http://filezilla-project.org/
[b]mozilla thunderbird[/b] for email http://www.mozilla.com/
and of course good ol' [b]firefox [/b]http://www.mozilla.com/

i used to use
[b]avedesk [/b]http://www.avedesk.org/
[b]rk launcher/rocketdock[/b] http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/ http://rocketdock.com/
[b]samurize [/b]http://www.samurize.com/
[b]rainmeter [/b]http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/legacy.html

and i gotta admit, i got some dirty expensive software, too..
[i][b]adobe[/b][/i]
[b]photoshop [/b]cs3 extended
[b]illustrator [/b]cs3
[b]flash [/b]cs3 pro
[b]dreamweaver [/b]cs3 (never use it..)

[b]ms office '07[/b] enterprise (also have '04 - should have installed tht, '07 is a piece of crap..)

and [b]nero [/b]for all my burning needs. i think that's it


wait, forgot one.. [b]mrun [/b]as run dialog replacement :wink: @ /\/\inimal http://www.lostinthebox.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2809

After reading this whole thread I concluded there is just one program I use and is missing in the list:
[url=http://www.donationcoders.com/jgpaiva/gridmove.html]gridmove[/url] "[i]GridMove is a program that aims at making windows management easier. It helps you with this task by defining a visual grid on your desktop, to which you can easily snap windows. This program comes bundled with some predefined grid templates, that can be easily swaped, but also has ways of creating custom grids or sharing grids made by others.[/i]"

Color Selector is a full featured color picker that includes a color picker with zoom and area sampling, format converter, palette tool, seven built-in export formats, customizable formatting options (four built-in), and scripting support via MSScript.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/colorselector/

All I know of in terms of editors with trans is notepad++ and metapad.

It's been mentioned already but it's so good I thought it worth mentioning again:

[u]File Management[/u]

[b]SequoiaView[/b] by the computer science department of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Man it's pretty! It uses "cushioned treeviews" to show disk usage graphically. There's no mistake what's eating all your disk space with this little app, you can be sure.

There's been some mention of the AnalogX utils here. I've been using Proxy by AnalogX but somehow it seems to scramble HTTP requests, so most websites come back as Google. Today I found something not mentioned here:

[u]Networking[/u]

[b]FreeProxy[/b] by Hand Crafted Software.

It's easy to set up and I haven't seen Google once. ;) Except when I actually wanted Google, of course. Plus this one does full SOCKS 5 proxying, as opposed to AnalogX's Proxy which only implements half the spec. One downside is you can't use any HTTP proxying on any port other than 8080. That's not too problematic, as long as you remember to reconfigure all your HTTP proxy apps to use port 8080. I learned the hard way.

[quote="jimmy"]Hi guys, does someone know if there is a text editor with transparencies (more or less like a linux shell) ?
In the past I used bbwintrans, but It acts also on the lecters, while I'd like to have just a trasparent background...
Thanks :D[/quote]
Doesn't grischka's BBNote do transparency? It certainly should, since it's made to look like a BB plugin.

[url=http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/]Pixia[/url] - A great image editing prog, GET THE EXTENSIONS!!!
[url=http://www.otakpim.com/]Otak[/url] - A good Personal Info Manager.
[url=http://www.explorerxp.com]ExplorerXP[/url] - Explorer replacement.

You cna also try AnalogX's many progs. I need an editor with good project management, any ideas? I know of PsPad btw.

[quote="XZero450"][quote="jimmy"]Hi guys, does someone know if there is a text editor with transparencies (more or less like a linux shell) ?
In the past I used bbwintrans, but It acts also on the lecters, while I'd like to have just a trasparent background...
Thanks :D[/quote]

Supposedly.. there is a way that you can set which color in the application is transparent. Transparency is not a lean/lite thing though, most of recent systems can handle it though.[/quote]

I guess you're talking about the SetLayeredWindow call to set alpha or color to make a window transparent? I guess you could fake multilevel transparency by having 2 windows stacked, the bottom one having the edit area and the transparency, and the top one having colorkey on its background :)

Another way would be to use PaintDesktop to grab the desktop background, and then process a region of it and put it as the window background.

Cheers,
Chris

[quote="jimmy"]Hi guys, does someone know if there is a text editor with transparencies (more or less like a linux shell) ?
In the past I used bbwintrans, but It acts also on the lecters, while I'd like to have just a trasparent background...
Thanks :D[/quote]

I've started working on a plugin, for bbLean, for transparency, mainly to see if I can make a more stable version of bbwintrans, and test my novice programming skeelz =)

Supposedly.. there is a way that you can set which color in the application is transparent. Transparency is not a lean/lite thing though, most of recent systems can handle it though.

http://www.pnotepad.org/ <-- good text editor
http://www.dcsoft.com/products/regeditx/ <-- adds a few thing to regedit, making it more useful, and easier to use
http://www.silverex.org/news/ <-- X-Chat 2 for Windows, and free unlike X Chat for Windows..

I've been using 7zFM as my file manager lately. It's not as feature-full as xplorer, but I always had problems with that. I miss voyager, that was a good file manager, and by good i mean great.

Hi all,

one more tip for the lean thread: Ward van Wanrooij's Spider 1.16
It works on deleting the index.dat files entries with the possibility to
have a look at them before deleting (you have to reboot for that)

It's and old app, so I don't know if and how it works on other platforms
than Win98SE, maybe you can check it out (no installation required)

Here's the download link: http://mosel.soft-ware.net/dl/mcaamoeeph/p02996/spider116.zip

So long,
Andy

Hi!

[b]File Manager[/b]
[url=http://www.freecommander.de/index_de.htm]freeCommander[/url]
This filemanager is very good and freeware :lol:


Regards
Djon

[quote="maaneeack"]A few years ago I was making video cds and found that codec packs were the easiest thing to grab/install to encode/play. I have had some problems with packs but since I found k-lite it hasn't given me any headaches.

I have ffdshow, never used it really though, was installed with k-lite I think. But no, I'm not a fanboy of codecs, so if something is better I'll check it out. I rip/encode my dvds as xvids and reencode things I have for use in my psp some too.[/quote]

My advice for you, if you are into editing movies and such in applications such as Adobe Premiere or EditStudio, and feel that the FFDShow codec doesn't quite go all the way is to install the few codecs you need separately. This will cause the smallest amount of collisions and trouble :)

But, with ffd you still get one codec that can encode into any format you'd like ;)

Cheers

A few years ago I was making video cds and found that codec packs were the easiest thing to grab/install to encode/play. I have had some problems with packs but since I found k-lite it hasn't given me any headaches.

I have ffdshow, never used it really though, was installed with k-lite I think. But no, I'm not a fanboy of codecs, so if something is better I'll check it out. I rip/encode my dvds as xvids and reencode things I have for use in my psp some too.

[quote="ser VI"]As you are talking about ffdshow want to know something, which one I download: I have an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with MMX and SSE ?
http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDShow_download.htm[/quote]

I usually go for the standard version :) The other ones are just optimized to make use of optimizations in the MMX and SSE instruction sets, but standard works excellent :)

Btw, player of choice: [url=http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Media_Player_Classic_for_Windows_2000XP/1045531002/1]Media Player Classic[/url] :)

As you are talking about ffdshow want to know something, which one I download: I have an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with MMX(+), 3DNow(+) and SSE ?
http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDShow_download.htm