Useful tools and toys.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 12th, 2007, 14:16

cheeseandham wrote:You're welcome.. That Teragen is fun to play with for 20 minutes or so...

ISTR you can output the heightmaps from that and import them into BF2 (with some haxing)

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » August 12th, 2007, 15:03

cheeseandham wrote:Teragen is fun to play with for 20 minutes or so...

Yeah, it was bandwagonned on the b3ta board a couple of years back. I think I downloaded it but never got around to playing.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 27th, 2007, 6:23

Windows Desktop Search

Microsoft made search addon, seems decent without the security issues of google desktop and such, takes a while to index for a start (and won't index when you're using the computer unless you horse it)

Fear · Post by **Fear** » August 27th, 2007, 11:06

I would download it from Microsoft here tho:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/deskto ... t.mspx#wds

/not trusting 3rd party sites

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 3rd, 2007, 17:32

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

online virus scanner that uses a whole fuckload of AV apps.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » November 24th, 2007, 14:23

http://www.drivermax.com/ - allows you to easily export and import all your Windows drivers
http://mozy.com/home - Online backup. 2Gb for free or £2.50 p/month for unlimited storage. (I'm storing 40Gb of my photos on it and use the Pro version for work where you pay per Gb)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 8th, 2007, 15:38

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1583

not really a tool or toy, but might be a good read.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 10th, 2008, 12:05

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Rescue-CD ... 29976.html

Probably handy.

Post by **deject** » January 25th, 2008, 17:58

If you've got a USB Key, this can be very handy:

http://portableapps.com/

The suite has pretty much everything you might need, or you can just install the base menu and then choose your own apps. It will work with any program that's built to be portable, not just he ones they host, so for example I have put InfraRecorder on mine, so I can burn a CD on any computer with a burner without needing any software installed on the PC. Really quite handy bit of kit, especially if you've got a USB drive you don't use that's about 1GB or so.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » March 18th, 2008, 23:19

Firefox with the PicLens extension.

Then once installed and restarted, go to http://flickr.com/groups/5punk/pool/ hover over a picture and press the little "play" button that pops up.

Then drag the mouse around, click things and play, you'll get the hang of it.

Works with a lot of the main photo sites.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 18th, 2008, 23:33

HW monitor

Lightweight temp/voltage monitor, brought to you by the same people who make CPU-Z.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 22nd, 2008, 22:23

sandboxie looks a bit handy.

Post by **fabyak** » June 4th, 2008, 10:48

http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix

Great utility that will fix problems with Windows Updates not installing/ Windows Installer/ and a load of other Windows bits. Very useful

Lee · Post by **Lee** » June 16th, 2008, 12:56

If anyone has an X-fi and gets sick of/doesn't bother changing modes then you might like this: http://spectra9.com/xfmc/xfmc.html

It does all that for you automatically, you just have to tell it what programs/games should use which mode.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 16th, 2008, 13:12

Lee wrote:If anyone has an X-fi and gets sick of/doesn't bother changing modes then you might like this: http://spectra9.com/xfmc/xfmc.html

It does all that for you automatically, you just have to tell it what programs/games should use which mode.

Tis very good, but I've had trouble with it in the past, mainly due to driver memory leaks when changing modes, and because I use ASIO a fair bit, which doesn't seem to like the mode changing.

Post by **fabyak** » July 21st, 2008, 21:19

AutoRuns from Sysinternals

Tells you what is running at startup, what is registered as a DLL, what kicks off when you fire up explorer, what services are running, basically really really useful for tracking down what that wierd shit is on startup (other than Windows).

Useful tip: remove MS certified stuff from the view and then refresh, it'll make the list much shorter

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 21st, 2008, 21:20

Ooh, that is useful.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » July 21st, 2008, 21:49

fabyak wrote:AutoRuns from Sysinternals

Hello there, SafeDisc. Where the hell did you come from, I wonder?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 20th, 2008, 8:55

Teracopy

Windows file copy/move replacement, absolute must have if you use Fista and do a lot of file transfers, I find it to be considerably faster than the built in one.

Easily installed and removed, not evil IME.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 31st, 2008, 15:09

Idrive

2gb of free online backup (150gb if you pay £2.50/mo) comes with very handy app for backing stuff up, also supports proper versioning, and backing up as you work.

Well worth sticking onto more critical machines to save you from actually having to have a decent/viable backup strategy

Berk approved chap review here