some neat little tools. all simple, not fancy, but extremely practical. all small, easy to download and move about on your computer, often a simple one or two executable in a folder, with no change to your computer. it takes only a moment to download any one thing here and the least computer knowledge to start using it. this is an interesting aspect of technology, self contained functioning! what is not the distributable freeware which is also the stand alone ( executable ) among my shared files, what i had preferred above most other and what i could have listed here without difference, with the least description and a link. help yourself. please do not take credit from their programmers, visit their sites and read. accept and see the beauty of stand alone programs! thank these programmers. **you will need to copy and paste these links into your browser address box in order for this to work** Vol 1.0 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Configgerations_-_Settings\PC_Speaker_Volume\Vol W9x/ME/NT/XP (2000 not tested) The Package includes 56 small tools, runable without installation. Included in the package is an Alternative to the Standard Windows Systray Volume Control http://www.freewarehits.de/ToolsPackage.htm search my shared files and download "ToolsPackage.zip" Video Codec Swapper in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Configgerations_-_Settings\Video_Codecs\vcswap15 Windows w9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP Make switching between Video Codecs easier http://members.chello.nl/p.bekke/ search my shared files and download "vcswap15.zip" ----------------------------------------------------------- file conversion Avi4Bmp in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Extract_-_Convert\Video\avi4bmp W98/2000/CE/ME/NT/XP reads Avi and Gif and converts them to an unique Bmp or Png http://www.bottomap.com/ search my shared files and download "Avi4Bmp.zip" Formati 11 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Convert\Graphics\Formati11 graphics file converter http://jansfreeware.com/ search my shared files and download "formati11.zip" MJ Pegger TM v2.01 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Extract_-_Convert\Video\mj_pegger W95/98/Me/2000/XP Convert your downloaded media files, those created with your web cam, digital camera or other peripherals to Motion JPEG and/or CD quality PCM sound with MJ Pegger TM http://www.anetac.com/products.html search my shared files and download "mjpgr_eval.zip" DivX DVD Ripper 1.5 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Extract_-_Convert\Video\DivX_DVD_Ripper W98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server backing up your DVD movies. With DivX DVD Ripper you can convert any DVD movie to DivX, VCD2.0 or SCVD1.0 in one step including multiplexing and splitting. http://www.openwares.org/ search my shared files and download "ddr-1[1].5.exe" DVD Decrypter v3.5.4.0 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Extract_-_Convert\Video\DVDDecrypter W2k/95/98/ME/NT/XP decrypt and copy DVDs to your PC's hard disk. From there you can watch them with the likes of WinDVD and PowerDVD, you can write them back to DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW / DVD+R DL / DVD-RAM media or you can convert them to VCD / SVCD / DivX for burning onto CD-R / CD-RW. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvddec.htm search my shared files and download "SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe" DVDx2.2 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Extract_-_Convert\Video\DVDx W95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP convert DVD to VCD 2.0 or SCVD 1.0 or DivX in one step including multiplexing and splitting http://www.xcode.info/ http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10323705&merid=6263227&mfgid=6263227&lop=dir&edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3000-2140_4-10323705&ontId=2140&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xcode.info%2F search my shared files and download "DVDx_22_setup.exe" STOIK Video Converter 2.1 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Extract_-_Convert\Video\STOIK_Video_Converter W98SE/Me/2000/XP Convert AVI, WMV, DV files in all possible combinations http://www.stoik.com/products/svc/index.html search my shared files and download "StoikVideoConverter10.zip" GiFFY 2.3 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Convert\Graphics\Giffy W95/98/NT/2K/ME/XP BMP to GIF and vice-versa Converter. convert .bmp files to .gif format and vice-versa. With just a few clicks, GiFFY can create transparent, non-transparent, interlaced, and non-interlaced GIFs. One reason you'd use GiFFY is that it can fix .gif files which some Internet browsers (particularly some versions of Netscape) can't read in Java applets. http://mysoftwear.com/go/0405/21149571583e895ec086789.html search my shared files and download "giffy23.zip" ----------------------------------------------------------- file sharing security NetBrute in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\File_Sharing\nbrute10 NetBrute scans a range of IP addresses for shared resources that have been shared via Microsoft File and Printer Sharing. In addition, any SMB compatible shared resources will show (i.e. Samba Servers on a Unix/Linux machine). http://www.rawlogic.com/netbrute/ http://www.rawlogic.com/products.html search my shared files and download "nbrute10.exe" ShareWatch W95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003. see who is connected to a computer and what files they are accessing. Have you ever wondered why your hard drive or modem is active, but you aren't doing anything to cause it to be active? It is possible a remote user is accessing your computer. Have you ever had a file locked but you don't know why? ShareWatch can tell you if a network user is using the file and allows you to disconnect them so that you can edit/delete the file. http://stevemiller.net/ShareWatch ----------------------------------------------------------- screen capture deskscan 1.35 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Capture\DeskScan W95/98/ME/NT/4.x/2000/XP screen capture with Twain support DeskScan is a simple to use two-button screen capture tool with additional Twain support. It allows you to capture a full-screen desktop or a selected area as well as input from your Twain device (scanner, camera etc.) The captures can be saved as BMP,JPG,GIF,PNG or TIFF http://www.dpaehl.de/ search my shared files and download "deskscan.zip" ScreenHunter 4.0 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Capture\ScreenHunter ScreenHunter can capture a rectangle area, an active window and full screen. It automatically saves captures in BMP, JPEG or GIF file format, so you don't have to stop each time and you can capture as many as you like. It also can save to Clipboard to be copied to other programs, such as Motion Studio and Word. http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm search my shared files and download "setupscreenhunterfree.exe" Web2Pic in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Capture\WEB2PIC WXP, Me, 98, NT, 2003 and 2000. This is a utility which allows you to save complete web pages as images. You only need to enter a URL into the Address box, click the Start button, and Web2Pic will capture full size web pages for you. http://www.anloer.com/web2pic/ search my shared files and download "w2psetup.exe" GrabZilla in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Capture\GrabZilla Ever wanted to capture the whole screen or just parts of it? Grabzilla lets you do just that, and save the result as a JPG, BMP, GIF image. http://www.freetoall.info/ search my shared files and download "Grabzilla10.zip" ----------------------------------------------------------- image editing Mihov Image Resizer version 0.7 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Mihov You can change from bitmap to JPEG or GIF, from JPEG to GIF or from GIF to JPEG. Mihov Image Resizer is also a perfect utility for creating thumbnails, so you can put them on your home page for faster loading or send pictures with smaller size to family and friends by e-mail. http://www.imageresizer.com/ search my shared files and download "ir.exe" A Square Image in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Resize\A_Square_Image reducing/cropping/padding an image to a (square) target size http://www.trivista.com/products/asquareimage/ search my shared files and download "asqi10a.exe" Mprinter v2.0 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Mprinter Mprinter is a program to imprint either text or a graphic on another graphic, for example to copyright it. You can load and save Bitmaps, JPEGs, GIFs, Enhanced Metafiles or PNG graphic files as the main graphic. You can load the same plus Icons as the imprint image. The imprint image can be transparent and/or translucent. The main graphic and the imprint image can be resized. Text and the imprint image can be moved with a mouse and the text can be horizontal or vertical. The menu is popup on the right button. search my shared files and download "mprnt20.zip" DCEnhance 1.3 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Photo_Editing\DigitalCameraEnhancer W95/NT/98 Digital Camera Enhancer does the hard job of noise reducing, skin smoothing and automatic balance control for you. It uses the latest (c) Mediachance image processing algorithms. http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm search my shared files and download "dcenhanc.zip" PaintStudio Lite 1.2 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Photo_Editing\PaintStudioLite12 enhance the look and optimize the size and appearance of images for use in document, presentation, homepage and others. http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/alfian/ search my shared files and download "PSInstall.exe" ----------------------------------------------------------- media players 1by1 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\View_-_Play\1by1 1by1 is a small, fast and handy player which is not only small: It provides powerful tools to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks. 100 MHz / Windows 9x, NT, 2K, XP MP3 ACM system codec (present in XP) or mpglib.dll http://www.mpesch3.de/ search my shared files and download "1by1_151.exe" Billy in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\View_-_Play\Billy Billy is a no nonsense audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files minimum system requirements 266MHz Pentium II or comparable 128MB RAM 1MB Hard Disk Space 16bit Sound Card W98 DirectX 3 http://www.sheepfriends.com/ search my shared files and download "billysetup.exe" CD in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\View_-_Play\cd CD is a simple but fully functional CD player in 10K (5K download). http://www.sheepfriends.com/ search my shared files and download "cd.zip" CoolPlayer Thing is, it -never- crashes, skips or gives any problems on my computer.. (is that selfish;) I really would like to see some developers picking up some work on CoolPlayer. I'd be happy to give developer access to sourceforge to those interested. That's why I made it open source in the end http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/?download Fusion in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\View_-_Play\fusion VIDEO Watch DivX, XviD, MPEG or WMV movies in fullscreen on your PC AUDIO Play MP3s, WMA, WAV or MID with visualization plugin support STREAMING Listen to thousands of radio broadcasters around the world RECORDING Record your favorite streaming content directly to your harddisk in CD quality DVD Enjoy your DVDs with full-access to all DVD options and menus http://www.fusionmedia.org/index.php?inc=main search my shared files and download "fmp_setup.exe" HACP in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\View_-_Play\hacp HACP is a simple but handy CD player with support for freedb (the alternative for CDDB), CD TEXT, multiple CDROM drives, Key2Audio fix. The program has multiple user interfaces: a normal view, a very basic "tiny view", and it can be minimized to the tray. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hneel/index.html search my shared files and download "hacp.zip" mv2player in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\View_-_Play\Mv2Player Mv2 player is freeware multimedia player for Windows, with tons of useful features. Important features: Intelligent subtitles detecting/loading Lots of multimedia, skins and subtitles formats supported Easy to use for beginners, and lot of settings or advanced users Fast keyboard control Unique comix and history feature Small and free search my shared files and download "mv2p070RC2p.exe" ----------------------------------------------------------- video and audio editing VCSwap in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Configgerations_-_Settings\Video_Codecs\vcswap15 VCSwap is a tool for Hot Swapping Video Codecs. You can, while you are editing your video's, swap between the different codecs. http://members.chello.nl/p.bekke/ search my shared files and download "vcswap15.zip" Media Tagger in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Media_Tagging\Media_Tagger W98, ME, 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Media Tagger is a freeware program intended for editing comments (tags) in multimedia sound files. Media Tagger lets you modify any number of files at a time in an easy way. http://www.volny.cz/media-tagger/eng/ search my shared files and download "mediatagger.zip" Soliton II in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\WAV\Add_Effects\Soliton A free sound editor. If you can’t afford Sound Forge or Cool Edit, try this! http://biphome.spray.se/baxtrom/ search my shared files and download "soliton.zip" AudioShell 1.1 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Media_Tagging\AudioShell freeware MS Windows Explorer shell extension plugin which allows you to view and edit music file tags directly in Windows Explorer http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm search my shared files and download "AudioShell1.exe" Mp3tag in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Media_Tagging\MP3Tag Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ search my shared files and download "mp3tagv229setup.exe" TagScanner in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Media_Tagging\TagScanner W9X, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 TagScanner is a multifunction program to organize large music collections. It can edit tags of several progressive audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames. Also you may get album info via internet music database freedb.org. http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm search my shared files and download "tagscan.zip" The GodFather in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Media\Media_Tagging\The_GodFather W98, ME, NT, 2000, XP The GodFather is an intelligent MP3 renamer and organizer, that helps you get rid of all those strange MP3 file names and convert them into a consistent name scheme, based on the artist, song, album information etc. http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/ search my shared files and download "tgf_full.zip" ----------------------------------------------------------- moving files about CD2Folder - version 2.0 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Copy_-_Move_Files\CD_To_Folder\CD2Folder When you run "CD2Folder.exe" it will look if a CD exist and will display a list of all files in the CD. If you want to copy all files from the CD to your selected folder, click on "Copy" button. If you want to copy only some files from the CD, don't use the "Copy" button but double-click on any file on the list, one at a time, and the file will be copied to your selected folder. You will get a message for each file that was copied. If you copy all CD files you will get only one message after all files are copied.. http://www.thailandphotoalbum.com/ search my shared files and download "CD2Folder.zip" BitTorrent With BitTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth. http://www.utorrent.com/ Copy Handler in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Copy_-_Move_Files\Upload_-_Download\Copy Handler copy/move files and folders between different storage medias (hard disks, floppy disks, local networks, CD-ROMs and many other). copying data at 6-7 times faster than standard MS Windows copying (when copying data from one partition to another on the same physical hard disk) http://copyhandler.com/index.php?page=ch1desc search my shared files and download "ch128.zip" ----------------------------------------------------------- Screen Calipers Version 2.1 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Screen_Calipers Screen Calipers are a unique on-screen measurement tool, similar to a screen ruler. They resemble real life vernier calipers in both form and function. http://www.iconico.com/caliper/old.aspx search my shared files and download "calipers.zip" SCALE 2.0 in folder A_Little_Help_Sharing\Imaging\Scale W95 or above (32 bytes) This program was not fully tested in other systems then Win95 and might contain bugs. Visual Basic runtimes library (vb40032.dll) tools to help in the design of forms, web pages, presentations and other visual materials. From the Tool bar you can open the Rule, to measure horizontal and vertical distances in 7 different units (pixels, twips, inches, centimeters, himetrics, characters and points); the Magnifier to enlarge, up to 30 times, any image or text in the screen (you can make precise measurement and color pick with this tool ); the Angle Measurement Tool, to measures angles formed by lines in the screen, in degrees and radians; the Color Mixer/Picker to mix and pick colors anywhere in the screen and get the respective codes in 6 systems (RGB, VB, HTM, CMY, CMYK and HSL) and a small Calculator with some useful features. http://personales.conexion.com.py/sgrillo/ search my shared files and download "setup.exe"