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Saturday, October 09, 2004
Friday, October 08, 2004
Tools I use
First I think it behooves me to take a lil time to share the great resources I am using to bring my site to you :
* - Blogger.com who hosts this site/blog
* - mytempdir.com a free host who can provide space for images AND files (up to 1 Mb in size).
They provide my download locales for the Freeware Book :-)
* - Imagehosting.us who make my graphics I use available (meaning they allow 'hotlinking' and direct linking which the vast majority of so called FREE webhosts do NOT allow)
* - Scott of FreewareArena for the long friendship and association we have had and his great patience and kindness towards me (and the freeware world online) also to various other members of the Freeware Revolution who have been equally kind, helpful and thoughtful to and towards me.
* - Tinyurl.com : A great FREE shorter url service. There are a large number of services that do the same, but I find this a useful, easy to use service, and the extension for Moz makes it simple for my needs.
Note : I also am recommending Urlsnip.com - an equally great shorter url service!
* - phpBB Star - they provide a freely** hosted phpBB forum for your site. Visit mine here if'd you'd care to.
(**Note : They do have the following posted on their site "We currently have no ads or advertisements of any kind!", I do not know if that is to possibly imply that in tiem they may utilize ads??)
* - Sitemeter.com - free counter service. I highly recommend it. You can have stats delivered you via email if you so choose.
* - FreePolls.com - nice resource that provides free hosted polls for your site (which is great if you don't want to mess with cgi or if your host doesn't allow use of such scripts on their servers).
* - Atomz.com - Providers of the excellent free search utility for this site.
* - myHQ.com - VERY useful free online bookmark manager service (which will be where I will have hosted my next version of my "portal"/links page). It is also notaeworthy that this service is provided banner free.
* - FreeFind.com - an ad supported resource (though a pay service that eliminates the ads is available) that can provide a pretty efficient search function for a website (also it can list a 'site map' and a "what's new" link/listing. All in all - it is a quite decent service that can enhance a website.
* - Blogger.com who hosts this site/blog
* - mytempdir.com a free host who can provide space for images AND files (up to 1 Mb in size).
They provide my download locales for the Freeware Book :-)
* - Imagehosting.us who make my graphics I use available (meaning they allow 'hotlinking' and direct linking which the vast majority of so called FREE webhosts do NOT allow)
* - Scott of FreewareArena for the long friendship and association we have had and his great patience and kindness towards me (and the freeware world online) also to various other members of the Freeware Revolution who have been equally kind, helpful and thoughtful to and towards me.
* - Tinyurl.com : A great FREE shorter url service. There are a large number of services that do the same, but I find this a useful, easy to use service, and the extension for Moz makes it simple for my needs.
Note : I also am recommending Urlsnip.com - an equally great shorter url service!
* - phpBB Star - they provide a freely** hosted phpBB forum for your site. Visit mine here if'd you'd care to.
(**Note : They do have the following posted on their site "We currently have no ads or advertisements of any kind!", I do not know if that is to possibly imply that in tiem they may utilize ads??)
* - Sitemeter.com - free counter service. I highly recommend it. You can have stats delivered you via email if you so choose.
* - FreePolls.com - nice resource that provides free hosted polls for your site (which is great if you don't want to mess with cgi or if your host doesn't allow use of such scripts on their servers).
* - Atomz.com - Providers of the excellent free search utility for this site.
* - myHQ.com - VERY useful free online bookmark manager service (which will be where I will have hosted my next version of my "portal"/links page). It is also notaeworthy that this service is provided banner free.
* - FreeFind.com - an ad supported resource (though a pay service that eliminates the ads is available) that can provide a pretty efficient search function for a website (also it can list a 'site map' and a "what's new" link/listing. All in all - it is a quite decent service that can enhance a website.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Full Freeware Listings
All freeware categories will be listed here to better facilitate navigating for freeware by categories. (coming soon)
Text related freeware
Graphics freeware
Anti Virus freeware
Anti Spyware freeware
The Freeware Book
Text related freeware
Web building tools
Start up tools
Internet related freeware
File tools & utilities freeware
Cleaning tools & utilities freeware
Text related freeware
Graphics freeware
Anti Virus freeware
Anti Spyware freeware
The Freeware Book
Text related freeware
Web building tools
Start up tools
Internet related freeware
File tools & utilities freeware
Cleaning tools & utilities freeware
De-evolution online
Editor's note : I ask you read the following as it hits home about what rancidness is taking ahold of many online users.
For the record, my friend spedders_son is a regular at Sims Online, but the article in no way is directed at him. Nor am I attacking any online gaming.
It is directed towards the vapidness that is swirling across the Net and holding some in a vise like hold.
Please listen, set times you use the Internet and do not go beyond the set time limits. Also do not use the Internet as a means to insult, harrass or to be indignant.
Spend time with your children, or wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend, take a walk, visit a neighbor, make a new friend by speaking to a stranger at the supermarket, volunteer in your community, start a hobby, join a church or group of your choosing, get a pet, read a book, watch/rent a DVD/VHS or whatever movie, go out to a movie, call a long lost friend, call a long lost relative, coach a youth sports team, exercise, turn on a radio, anything, just please do not make the online world your whole world.
Sex, mob hits: Sims tests virtual morals
Orginally from :
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/07/05/misbehaving.online.ap/index.html
Saturday, July 5, 2003 Posted: 9:17 AM EDT (1317 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jeremy Chase admits to shaking down his enemies. His Web site advertises extortion, hits and prostitution for a hefty fee.
Chase is a mob leader -- but only in the virtual world. He is one of hundreds of players who found the path of lawlessness and deviance too irresistible when "The Sims Online" challenged them to "Be Somebody ... else."
The popular commercial game, where thousands of people interact electronically, is turning into a petri dish of anti-social behavior. And that's raising questions about whether limits on conduct should be set in such emerging virtual worlds, even if they are huge adult playpens.
"Games give people the opportunity to either do something they've never had the ability to do before or allow them to do the stuff they are too afraid to do in real life," said Chase, an unemployed, self-described computer geek who lives in Sacramento, California. "This is as close to the real-life mafia that I'm going to be able to get."
All online games see their share of ne'er-do-wells, or "griefers." In other games where violence is the norm and killing routine, thugs delight in slaughtering the less powerful and stealing their loot.
But there are no guns in "Sims," made by Maxis, and it's impossible to do serious harm to another player. That means griefers -- admittedly a small percentage of the game's 100,000 subscribers -- have to be devilishly creative in their social deviance.
Chase and others insist they're just role-playing like everyone else in the game. But harassment can be a big deal in "Sims," which resembles a neighborhood of virtual dollhouses where you build a home and invite others to come over and play.
The game's raison d'etre is socializing; barely a half year old, it's the biggest game yet whose rewards come from making friends and being popular.
One mob tactic is gathering the foot-soldiers to stigmatize someone else with several so-called "red links" -- a sort of demerit that shows others how many enemies a player has.
For gamers who have spent hours building a reputation, red links can be devastating. The platform may be virtual, but the attack isn't.
Simulated or real?
"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real," said Holly Shevenock, a postal worker from Harrisburg, Pennsylania.
Shevenock quit playing "Sims" because she was spending too much time in it -- up to five hours a day. "If you're not careful, you begin to play this game with your real emotions."
She and others said they knew several people who stopped playing or reduced their time online because of groups that seemed intent on harassment.
Psychologists who study online behavior say in-game spats and the visceral responses to them aren't surprising. With simulations becoming more lifelike, the line between real and fake is blurred.
"The more real you try to make these online worlds, the more the problems are real-world problems," said John Suler, a Rider University professor who specializes in the psychology of cyberspace. "It's not always easy to contain this stuff in the fantasy world."
The game's Terms of Service agreement tells players they cannot "harass, threaten, embarrass, or do anything else to another Member or guest that is unwarranted." They're also told, "The laws that apply in the off-line world must be obeyed online as well."
Maxis gives warnings, terminates threads in message boards, suspends players and in extreme cases, bans accounts. Chase himself endured a three-day suspension for what he said was foul language.
"We have a very big hammer to wield when we have to," said Kyle Brink, a Maxis associate producer.
But Maxis can't cover everything.
Real-world liability
Some players have reported online spats leaking out of the game players have hacked into others' accounts, posed as acquaintances and spread rumors about real people through instant messaging. Some have even reported identity theft.
That puts far more pressure on game makers to begin cracking down in earnest on gamers, experts say. It could lead to more real-world, legal liability for both players and the companies that make the games.
"We're going to be forced to create a whole new area of social convention -- and probably law -- that reflects that kind of behavior," said psychologist David Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet Studies and author of the book "Virtual Addiction."
"You can't produce something that's this potent or powerful psychologically and not have some accountability for it," he said.
Piers Mathieson and his wife, Jennifer, are two more hardcore "Sims" players. They log several hours most days.
After the Las Vegas couple distributed photos of themselves to friends, one griefer hacked into Piers' America Online account and stole his in-game character's possessions. Someone else posed as Piers and told other players that Jennifer had died of cancer.
The Mathiesons may have been easy targets. Their character, Mia Wallace, was the most popular in Alphaville, as one of the game's servers, or cities, is known.
"You start having to question who your real friends are, who you can trust, who you can't trust," Jennifer Mathieson said. "It also paints a huge bulls-eye in your forehead."
The two are also founders of the Sim Shadow Government, a group boasting 1,000 members dedicated to cracking down on griefers where Maxis couldn't.
Though the Mathiesons say they dispense justice, their online tactics can be just as rough. The couple say they have ransacked apartments, sent out their "troops" to urinate on others' lawns and once drove another player from the game.
Brink insists the griefers are a far less serious problem in "Sims" than in other games because it has a different demographic, a lot of women, people from all age groups, and "players who are looking to build not destroy," he said. "This is a mature, social crowd as a whole."
There are also many ways to block out people who bother you. Even the players agree, after all, that there's no law against being annoying.
"It reminds me of sales calls during dinner time," said Laura Robinson, a student who lives in Philadelphia. "They always seem to message at the wrong time, which in my case is always."
Sincerely,
Lis
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Portal Webmaster
Thoughts of a 'webmaster'
Thoughts of a 'webmaster'
- Written September 2003 -
First let me begin by saying that I am not a 'webmaster'. I personally despise such a term of arrogance that implies such a supremacy. Secondly, is it to convey that one is the 'master' of 'web'??
I am a web site operator, or if you prefer a web site 'presence' operator.
From this point forward I shall address the issues that trouble me in regards to mainly 'freeware' websites (but some points may be applicable to all gendres of sites).
Point # 1 - Why does a person create a website? In my case, it was my respect and admiration for freeware and by an inspiration of a friend who has been a true and pristine light in the world of freeware. But for many it is to make money (which I shall touch upon later in this piece), or to attain 'fame' (by having the highest traffic or highest rankings in the search) engines.
The previous two 'reasons' are enough to make one wretch. If you were to provide a product or servivce of your own creation, you are entitled to set a fair price for such if you so choose. But to plagarize something like freeware, that is criminal.
Regarding 'fame', simply put, 'get a life'. If your small depraved world is primarily orbitting around how 'popular' you are online, you need to immediately seek help. That is not a joke, that is a fact. If you are some engrossed in a cyber world as being your center, you are displaying extreme anti-social and possibly dangerous behavior(s).
Point #2 - Do the words that were utterred by Rodney King (in his fifteen minutes of fame), "Can't we all just get along", mean anything to more than a handful of 'webmasters'? Obviously not, for in the short time I have run this web site, I have been the victim of slander, 'flames', and a total shunning by some.
"Shunned" you may ask? I have chosen not to partake in the mad scavenging for 'links' (in the pursuit of 'fame/popularity'). This is the practice (to those uninitiated) whereby 'webmasters' are on the prowl to get other sites to link (list a display be it textually or graphically) to a site. It is basically a game, many sites make promises of 'traffic' or conversely sites seeking links (to bolster their search engine rankings) will be so, so very sweet and accomodating to (as my Great Grandma always refers to it as) 'court' sites to link to them. It can be accomplished through what in political circles amounts to 'butt kissing'. It comes down to forming 'alliances', and that destroys the whole beauty of the Net. The concept of the Net to many with a degree of intelligence is an interconnected set of 'places' to visit to obtain informations. But this concept is smashed when sites become clanish in their hunger for 'popularity/search engine fame'. The proverbial slitting of throats is so common that if it were not a metaphor, many parts of the net would look like medievel torture chambers (or perhaps like the early barbers who performed blood lettings). Or the analogy of 'backstabbing' maybe more appropriate. But it is a display of the depravity of people's empty lives when they use the net to fill the holes that exist in their lives. For an addiction negates all rational thinking(s).
Point # 3 - Anything for a buck, and oh how true that is in a growing section of the freeware world. I was viewing a messageboard recently and I was reading two 'webmasters' discussing 'selling' CDs of freeware programs. YES selling!
I wondered out loud to myself, "If one runs a freeware site, why sell the freeware?" The answer is so simply a child could comprehend it, money. It could be a perpetual money maker for some. "Hurry, hurry step right up ladies and gentlemen, I have kindly downloaded all these freeware programs and will graciously spare you the downloading time by selling them to you in one complete package"....Now THAT makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. This kindly 'webmaster' downloads these freeware programs, so would that not imply you too can/could download these freeware programs as well?? It is pathetic, people create freeware sites and still want everything - 'fame', money (and probably the opportunity to feature/display ads). And THOSE are the people who give freeware a huge black eye.
Point #4 - Actually sub point to Point #2, which is this. If a people want to operate websites as their cyber 'personas', which is a variation of the actions of a ventriloquists (whereby a person uses a character to convey things that they are unable to in normal settings or to vent what they may be unable to directly), please explain the dynamics that drive this, for I am at a one thousand percent loss to having an understanding. And if the rationale (or lack thereof) can be disseminated to me I would be grateful, for I am a student of all behaviors (be they typical or of the abnormal nature). They wonders of the internet are vast, and yet it is rather disturbing when a segment of society seizes a mass communications method to almost infect untold numbers with a dissociative thinking, it to me weakens the foundations of civilization.
In a nutshell, when people are lacking in the capacity to be productive, effective and work in a unilateral means it is sign of problems, major problems. The breakdown of society is when chaos and irrational thinking is allowed to be 'accepted'. hatred, jealousy, resentment are all emotions, and emotions are not truly tangible 'items', so to act based upon contempt solely dues to ire at another merely illustrtaes the old analogy of 'misery loves company'. In this case when an individual is so 'miserable' that they feel the need to 'share'/transfer their feelings on others it is the signal again of a very weak mind operating.
In the 'real world' if one is unable to function as a part of society, the results can be in instances, deadly. And it is a microcosm of this when online sites become 'seperatist', they only will "cooperate" with other similar thinkers. THAT is a 'red flag' to take instant note of and avoid. If a site is either 'elitest' or just plain the proverbial 'angry young man' railing at the world for no valid or useful purposes it is spreading the message be it veiled or glaring that technology is being wasted, as are those lives disrupted by the message(s) being broadcast.
My personal view is be very, very careful of your words and thoughts exchanged or posted online in any form, for they will exist for an undetermined time and if your 'word' changes from day to day, week to week, month to month you fail as a person. Your value to others is by your actions, nil.
But there will always be those disenfranchised individuals who need help so badly and never receive it, and they will attempt to purge their demons/problems by seeking noteriety online, and they will all the while become shallower and more callous for they will never be 'satisfied' and they will become more arrogant and the 'need' to bolster themselves will further manifest itself through more 'boasting', more isolationism (where they will shower those who 'follow' them and abide by their methods), and above all more 'attacks', insults and other actions towards others as they will become slaves to their egos. They will lose sight of the good that can be accomplished with computers and will only serve the hunger of being 'seen', which is merely a metaphor for 'being accepted', or 'validated'. Such persons need help, and they are hurting, the more they spew anger and/or hatred, the more they are showing their pain(s).
My advice, step away from the computer for perhaps one day a week, and enjoy another activity. Be amongst people, savour the tangible and intangibles of reality as well as of creativity. If who you are is about what you 'act out' online, you have a void, and nothing you scheme online will ever fill or even begin to fill. Be who you are, and if you are confused about that, take the time to get to know who you really are. Once you can recognise that, and only then can you actually set useful and productive goals for you and your life. If online 'fame' is your goal, the minute those you believe see you as 'famous' either disconnect or walk away from their monitor, your goal has disappeared. And is THAT what would bring you happiness? An illusion?
Sincerely,
Lis
- Written September 2003 -
First let me begin by saying that I am not a 'webmaster'. I personally despise such a term of arrogance that implies such a supremacy. Secondly, is it to convey that one is the 'master' of 'web'??
I am a web site operator, or if you prefer a web site 'presence' operator.
From this point forward I shall address the issues that trouble me in regards to mainly 'freeware' websites (but some points may be applicable to all gendres of sites).
Point # 1 - Why does a person create a website? In my case, it was my respect and admiration for freeware and by an inspiration of a friend who has been a true and pristine light in the world of freeware. But for many it is to make money (which I shall touch upon later in this piece), or to attain 'fame' (by having the highest traffic or highest rankings in the search) engines.
The previous two 'reasons' are enough to make one wretch. If you were to provide a product or servivce of your own creation, you are entitled to set a fair price for such if you so choose. But to plagarize something like freeware, that is criminal.
Regarding 'fame', simply put, 'get a life'. If your small depraved world is primarily orbitting around how 'popular' you are online, you need to immediately seek help. That is not a joke, that is a fact. If you are some engrossed in a cyber world as being your center, you are displaying extreme anti-social and possibly dangerous behavior(s).
Point #2 - Do the words that were utterred by Rodney King (in his fifteen minutes of fame), "Can't we all just get along", mean anything to more than a handful of 'webmasters'? Obviously not, for in the short time I have run this web site, I have been the victim of slander, 'flames', and a total shunning by some.
"Shunned" you may ask? I have chosen not to partake in the mad scavenging for 'links' (in the pursuit of 'fame/popularity'). This is the practice (to those uninitiated) whereby 'webmasters' are on the prowl to get other sites to link (list a display be it textually or graphically) to a site. It is basically a game, many sites make promises of 'traffic' or conversely sites seeking links (to bolster their search engine rankings) will be so, so very sweet and accomodating to (as my Great Grandma always refers to it as) 'court' sites to link to them. It can be accomplished through what in political circles amounts to 'butt kissing'. It comes down to forming 'alliances', and that destroys the whole beauty of the Net. The concept of the Net to many with a degree of intelligence is an interconnected set of 'places' to visit to obtain informations. But this concept is smashed when sites become clanish in their hunger for 'popularity/search engine fame'. The proverbial slitting of throats is so common that if it were not a metaphor, many parts of the net would look like medievel torture chambers (or perhaps like the early barbers who performed blood lettings). Or the analogy of 'backstabbing' maybe more appropriate. But it is a display of the depravity of people's empty lives when they use the net to fill the holes that exist in their lives. For an addiction negates all rational thinking(s).
Point # 3 - Anything for a buck, and oh how true that is in a growing section of the freeware world. I was viewing a messageboard recently and I was reading two 'webmasters' discussing 'selling' CDs of freeware programs. YES selling!
I wondered out loud to myself, "If one runs a freeware site, why sell the freeware?" The answer is so simply a child could comprehend it, money. It could be a perpetual money maker for some. "Hurry, hurry step right up ladies and gentlemen, I have kindly downloaded all these freeware programs and will graciously spare you the downloading time by selling them to you in one complete package"....Now THAT makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. This kindly 'webmaster' downloads these freeware programs, so would that not imply you too can/could download these freeware programs as well?? It is pathetic, people create freeware sites and still want everything - 'fame', money (and probably the opportunity to feature/display ads). And THOSE are the people who give freeware a huge black eye.
Point #4 - Actually sub point to Point #2, which is this. If a people want to operate websites as their cyber 'personas', which is a variation of the actions of a ventriloquists (whereby a person uses a character to convey things that they are unable to in normal settings or to vent what they may be unable to directly), please explain the dynamics that drive this, for I am at a one thousand percent loss to having an understanding. And if the rationale (or lack thereof) can be disseminated to me I would be grateful, for I am a student of all behaviors (be they typical or of the abnormal nature). They wonders of the internet are vast, and yet it is rather disturbing when a segment of society seizes a mass communications method to almost infect untold numbers with a dissociative thinking, it to me weakens the foundations of civilization.
In a nutshell, when people are lacking in the capacity to be productive, effective and work in a unilateral means it is sign of problems, major problems. The breakdown of society is when chaos and irrational thinking is allowed to be 'accepted'. hatred, jealousy, resentment are all emotions, and emotions are not truly tangible 'items', so to act based upon contempt solely dues to ire at another merely illustrtaes the old analogy of 'misery loves company'. In this case when an individual is so 'miserable' that they feel the need to 'share'/transfer their feelings on others it is the signal again of a very weak mind operating.
In the 'real world' if one is unable to function as a part of society, the results can be in instances, deadly. And it is a microcosm of this when online sites become 'seperatist', they only will "cooperate" with other similar thinkers. THAT is a 'red flag' to take instant note of and avoid. If a site is either 'elitest' or just plain the proverbial 'angry young man' railing at the world for no valid or useful purposes it is spreading the message be it veiled or glaring that technology is being wasted, as are those lives disrupted by the message(s) being broadcast.
My personal view is be very, very careful of your words and thoughts exchanged or posted online in any form, for they will exist for an undetermined time and if your 'word' changes from day to day, week to week, month to month you fail as a person. Your value to others is by your actions, nil.
But there will always be those disenfranchised individuals who need help so badly and never receive it, and they will attempt to purge their demons/problems by seeking noteriety online, and they will all the while become shallower and more callous for they will never be 'satisfied' and they will become more arrogant and the 'need' to bolster themselves will further manifest itself through more 'boasting', more isolationism (where they will shower those who 'follow' them and abide by their methods), and above all more 'attacks', insults and other actions towards others as they will become slaves to their egos. They will lose sight of the good that can be accomplished with computers and will only serve the hunger of being 'seen', which is merely a metaphor for 'being accepted', or 'validated'. Such persons need help, and they are hurting, the more they spew anger and/or hatred, the more they are showing their pain(s).
My advice, step away from the computer for perhaps one day a week, and enjoy another activity. Be amongst people, savour the tangible and intangibles of reality as well as of creativity. If who you are is about what you 'act out' online, you have a void, and nothing you scheme online will ever fill or even begin to fill. Be who you are, and if you are confused about that, take the time to get to know who you really are. Once you can recognise that, and only then can you actually set useful and productive goals for you and your life. If online 'fame' is your goal, the minute those you believe see you as 'famous' either disconnect or walk away from their monitor, your goal has disappeared. And is THAT what would bring you happiness? An illusion?
Sincerely,
Lis
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Text Freeware
Cleaning freeware
CCleaner (Crap cleaner) (ver. 1.22.142)
Author : Spazmatic
Normally I try to write a brief summary/review, but with this proggie (CCleaner) I want to make sure that all it's functionality is hit upon so I will 'borrow' the program's author's description from their website :
"CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free. :)
Cleans the following:
* Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
* Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
* Recently opened URLs and files.
* Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
Including: Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...
* Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more...
* Backup for registry clean.
* This software is completely Freeware and contains no Spyware or Adware."
Size : 320 Kb - Rating : 5
Homepage - Download
Author : Spazmatic
Normally I try to write a brief summary/review, but with this proggie (CCleaner) I want to make sure that all it's functionality is hit upon so I will 'borrow' the program's author's description from their website :
"CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free. :)
Cleans the following:
* Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
* Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
* Recently opened URLs and files.
* Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
Including: Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...
* Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more...
* Backup for registry clean.
* This software is completely Freeware and contains no Spyware or Adware."
Size : 320 Kb - Rating : 5
Homepage - Download
CleanCache (ver. 2.17)
Author : ButtUglySoftware
Handy dandy cleaner for Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows 2000/XP. Very customizable, and can run automatically.
Size : 345 Kb - Rating : 4
Homepage - Download
CleanMOCache (ver. 1.05)
Author : ButtUglySoftware
Outstanding cleaning app for Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox/Opera and Windows 2000/XP.
From the same developer as the above listed CleanCache.
Size : 349 Kb - Rating : 5
Homepage - Download
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Don't join the 'Revolution'
There is a movement afoot called the Freeware Revolution, whose main goals are to educate and inform people about the oft misunderstood idea of what freeware is (and isn't). But I have thought long and hard about telling others about learning about it and participating in and/or joining it, and then a lightbulb so bright went off in my head - NOT everyone can understand, respect or appreciate freeware or be able to be a part of such a cause. It was my misguided thinking that told me that everyone should know and that everyone would want to come along, which was a flight of fancy that now has been rationalised and I know that it is only for those who are truly concerned for and about others.
It is a forum to actually do things outside the selfish circle that some may dwell in. I laugh when I actually wander back in time and believed that everyone and anyone would understand what it is all about and for. So I now say, if you have an ego or are close minded, DO NOT JOIN. If you are one who cannot get along with others and must be the performing chimp who lives for the attention of being 'paid attention to', DO NOT participate or even go near this group. Perhaps auditioning for a 'reality television show' (oxymoron) is a better course to take. Maybe writing an angry blog or anti-whatever you despise site is more in line with your personality.
We all have free will, and freedom of thought and freedom of speech, right? We all can say whatever we want? Right? There are no boundaries, no parameters, it is 1,000% acceptable to insult and namecall and single people, companies or groups out....that is after all what free speech is, isn't it?
And working to better the internet experience of those less financially well off, well that isn't anyone's responsibility now is it? If you have a good paying job, you are ENTITLED to do as you please right?
If you answered yes to even one of those preceeding questions, you should block your'e being able to access the Freeware Revolution's messageboard as well as those sites and individuals who truly support it, for you would only be wasting your undoubtably valuable time by bothering with any of us.
The Revolution is not a rewarding endeavor in the traditional (traffic, noteriety) sense, it's reward is in the service provided, that the message spread is greater than any one member or even all those committed to it combined. It is helping many whose lives would be so very limited and whose chance to learn, grow and become enabled. Education can accomplish more than any madman can ever hope to.
Our greatest leaders have been those who call others to rational and united action(s) to improve problems and to accomplish this via education/empowerment...for look to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King who said, "The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility." ...or when he said, "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." or him saying, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." he also wisely said, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." And he once stated, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Dr. King never endorsed radicalism nor hatred for those who were ignorant and closeminded, he sought to educate so as to enable all peoples.
We have so many great figures throught out history whose words were and continue to inspire us to go outside our selfish restraints. The Revolution is a bold set of individuals, who aspire to better the Net, they exemplify what Shakespeare wrote, "Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.". It also brings to mind yet another Shakespeare quote, "No legacy is so rich as honesty.", think about that - 'honesty'....ponder to yourself what you consider honesty means. Or the oft referred to, "To be, or not to be: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles", perhaps that distsills what is lacking in the online world, the desire to address the sea of troubles/problems or is it nobler to aspire to outrageous fortune? In 2003, "outrageous fortune" is to achieve success, which to many dullards is equated to traffic/visibility/power. Is THAT nobler? Will THAT mean anything in 5 years?
NO......5 years from now, if there is still any freedom truly available online, I may post this Shakespearean inspired passage...
Alas poor freeware I knew you well....were not for the egos and callousnesses of the depraved, we would see you now as the brightest light upon yon internet, but you were treated as a concubine and used for the sole motive of fame...fame, so fleeting that the very opiate that it is to some, each moment loses it's potency and so withers more souls who serve you - their master......
Sleep dear sweet freeware, rest and know not the torments that so many cast upon ye.....know the peace of eternity and look back not on the possibilities and lives you may have perchance enriched.......gaze upon the void and smirk with the knowledge of what you had done in your brief time in this troubled place....be all those whose trespasses against ye be remembered, for we shall not see the likes of ye again....may my tears turn to cascading streams that may soothe you and release my some of my sorrows of your ascention from this mire....
But if you do care about the future of freeware...then my friend, find out about the Freeware Revolution. For we can stop the slow death and prostituting of freeware..NOW.
Sincerely,
Lis
It is a forum to actually do things outside the selfish circle that some may dwell in. I laugh when I actually wander back in time and believed that everyone and anyone would understand what it is all about and for. So I now say, if you have an ego or are close minded, DO NOT JOIN. If you are one who cannot get along with others and must be the performing chimp who lives for the attention of being 'paid attention to', DO NOT participate or even go near this group. Perhaps auditioning for a 'reality television show' (oxymoron) is a better course to take. Maybe writing an angry blog or anti-whatever you despise site is more in line with your personality.
We all have free will, and freedom of thought and freedom of speech, right? We all can say whatever we want? Right? There are no boundaries, no parameters, it is 1,000% acceptable to insult and namecall and single people, companies or groups out....that is after all what free speech is, isn't it?
And working to better the internet experience of those less financially well off, well that isn't anyone's responsibility now is it? If you have a good paying job, you are ENTITLED to do as you please right?
If you answered yes to even one of those preceeding questions, you should block your'e being able to access the Freeware Revolution's messageboard as well as those sites and individuals who truly support it, for you would only be wasting your undoubtably valuable time by bothering with any of us.
The Revolution is not a rewarding endeavor in the traditional (traffic, noteriety) sense, it's reward is in the service provided, that the message spread is greater than any one member or even all those committed to it combined. It is helping many whose lives would be so very limited and whose chance to learn, grow and become enabled. Education can accomplish more than any madman can ever hope to.
Our greatest leaders have been those who call others to rational and united action(s) to improve problems and to accomplish this via education/empowerment...for look to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King who said, "The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility." ...or when he said, "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." or him saying, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." he also wisely said, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." And he once stated, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Dr. King never endorsed radicalism nor hatred for those who were ignorant and closeminded, he sought to educate so as to enable all peoples.
We have so many great figures throught out history whose words were and continue to inspire us to go outside our selfish restraints. The Revolution is a bold set of individuals, who aspire to better the Net, they exemplify what Shakespeare wrote, "Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.". It also brings to mind yet another Shakespeare quote, "No legacy is so rich as honesty.", think about that - 'honesty'....ponder to yourself what you consider honesty means. Or the oft referred to, "To be, or not to be: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles", perhaps that distsills what is lacking in the online world, the desire to address the sea of troubles/problems or is it nobler to aspire to outrageous fortune? In 2003, "outrageous fortune" is to achieve success, which to many dullards is equated to traffic/visibility/power. Is THAT nobler? Will THAT mean anything in 5 years?
NO......5 years from now, if there is still any freedom truly available online, I may post this Shakespearean inspired passage...
Alas poor freeware I knew you well....were not for the egos and callousnesses of the depraved, we would see you now as the brightest light upon yon internet, but you were treated as a concubine and used for the sole motive of fame...fame, so fleeting that the very opiate that it is to some, each moment loses it's potency and so withers more souls who serve you - their master......
Sleep dear sweet freeware, rest and know not the torments that so many cast upon ye.....know the peace of eternity and look back not on the possibilities and lives you may have perchance enriched.......gaze upon the void and smirk with the knowledge of what you had done in your brief time in this troubled place....be all those whose trespasses against ye be remembered, for we shall not see the likes of ye again....may my tears turn to cascading streams that may soothe you and release my some of my sorrows of your ascention from this mire....
But if you do care about the future of freeware...then my friend, find out about the Freeware Revolution. For we can stop the slow death and prostituting of freeware..NOW.
Sincerely,
Lis
What's in a name
- Written October 2003 -
Recently I had a friend tell me about a 'redirect' service (free??) called www.freedomain.co.nr.
Then I recalled a conversation from nearly 2 years ago I had with Scott of freewarearena.org, who told me that his site was originally called 'Free Computing' but had to rename it to FreewareArena after someone purchased the domain name 'freecomputing'. I went to www.freecomputing.com the other day and lo and behold it is for sale, it never was actually ever used, it just must have been one of those 'get rich quick' crooks that sees a site become popular and such and figured, "hmm, I could buy that name and make some lazy money*" ( *lazy money is my Dad's term for anything that requires no effort, or worse yet profiting from another's labors).
But it is merely another reflection of the mentality that permeates the Net - $$ first, creativity last (or not at all). The practice of buying a domain name for alterior motives (for profiteering or using name recognition) is termed "cyber squatting". And it is a very sad state of affairs when originality is discarded for $$ and/or 'fame'. IF the perpetrators of such actions were to use their creativities to do something orginal it would be mindboggling to see how the Net could blossom so fully and vivarently.
So when the day comes that someone sees 'Freeware Outpost' as valuable or has name recognition (and that is truly not likely), and they buy the domain name, it would be perfectly legal...Oh I see the very black toothed grin of someone cackling with delight as they buy one doman name after another and all the while they are actually stifling what the potentials of the Net truly are.
Well you say, "save that from happening Lisa, buy the domain name now". To which I retort, "Why??"
To use a similar analogy to this situation, any law enforcement officer can tell you, 'if a crook really wants to rob you they will find a way'.
And besides, I already have 19 alternative names I have ready when/if the no talent weasels come to pilfer.
They can 'take' the name, but they can never duplicate the creativity or heart that conceived this all. I for one have almost a feeling of pity for those who need ideas given to them (actually taken by them) as they are wasting their intellects and creatvities for such sad reasons.
Sincerely,
Lis
Recently I had a friend tell me about a 'redirect' service (free??) called www.freedomain.co.nr.
Then I recalled a conversation from nearly 2 years ago I had with Scott of freewarearena.org, who told me that his site was originally called 'Free Computing' but had to rename it to FreewareArena after someone purchased the domain name 'freecomputing'. I went to www.freecomputing.com the other day and lo and behold it is for sale, it never was actually ever used, it just must have been one of those 'get rich quick' crooks that sees a site become popular and such and figured, "hmm, I could buy that name and make some lazy money*" ( *lazy money is my Dad's term for anything that requires no effort, or worse yet profiting from another's labors).
But it is merely another reflection of the mentality that permeates the Net - $$ first, creativity last (or not at all). The practice of buying a domain name for alterior motives (for profiteering or using name recognition) is termed "cyber squatting". And it is a very sad state of affairs when originality is discarded for $$ and/or 'fame'. IF the perpetrators of such actions were to use their creativities to do something orginal it would be mindboggling to see how the Net could blossom so fully and vivarently.
So when the day comes that someone sees 'Freeware Outpost' as valuable or has name recognition (and that is truly not likely), and they buy the domain name, it would be perfectly legal...Oh I see the very black toothed grin of someone cackling with delight as they buy one doman name after another and all the while they are actually stifling what the potentials of the Net truly are.
Well you say, "save that from happening Lisa, buy the domain name now". To which I retort, "Why??"
To use a similar analogy to this situation, any law enforcement officer can tell you, 'if a crook really wants to rob you they will find a way'.
And besides, I already have 19 alternative names I have ready when/if the no talent weasels come to pilfer.
They can 'take' the name, but they can never duplicate the creativity or heart that conceived this all. I for one have almost a feeling of pity for those who need ideas given to them (actually taken by them) as they are wasting their intellects and creatvities for such sad reasons.
Sincerely,
Lis
Monday, October 04, 2004
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