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Best free obscure software

Gangularis said:
Oh.. my.. GOD... thank you for sharing that software with us. I've been contemplating buying one of those "switch boxes" because I have two computers at my desk, and i get tired of using two keyboards and two mice.. I set this program up and it works beautifully.. you can even copy and paste stuff from one computer, directly to the other.. it's amazing. Thanks again. VERY nice piece of software.
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Has anyone tried it up against Vista? I'm running one xp and one vista at home and would love to hook them up to the same wireless keyboard/mouse.
 
The_Fire said:
Has anyone tried it up against Vista? I'm running one xp and one vista at home and would love to hook them up to the same wireless keyboard/mouse.
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I can vouch that it works well on vista. I used to have a vista machine here at home I ran it on.
 
bitlbee.. IM <-> IRC gateway.

Bitlbee runs as a local IRC server, which i connect too, and on that server there is a channel with all my IM friends.

It supports the usual mix of jabber, icq, yahoo, msn, oscar.

I even think it does skype(text only)

If that isn't obscure, i don't know what is :)
 
If you recall, about a year ago, google said they were going to release some kind of toolbar/add on that lets you gauge whether or not your ISP is throttling your bittorrent transfers.. Unfortunately, that never got released, but welcome yourself to Measurement Labs...

http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools

Personally, i've noticed that all of my network traffic gets throttled when i do a bittorrent download, and I emailed with the "glasnost" staff, and asked them if they can tell if your connection is being throttled if all of your traffic is throttled and not just bittorrent traffic.. apparently, they can't. they rely on the distinction between two protocols to make the assessment.
 
I posted this in anotehr thread here, but it applies to this one as well. For windows users interested in learning a little about linux (specifically Ubuntu):

Ducky said:
Or, for those who want to try linux without having to install or even reboot, there's this.
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I don't know if they are obscure as such, but...

My one irreplacible tool for my Mac is Quicksilver: http://blacktree.com/?quicksilver . Generally you can remove this tool from my Mac when you have stepped over my dead, charred body.

Adium is a nice IM client: http://adiumx.com

iTerm is a really nice Terminal replacement: http://iterm.sourceforge.net/download.shtml

Eclipse and Netbeans are both nice IDE's for Java and other development.

And I gotta mention TextMate although it isn't free.
 
Disregard, my suggestion has been suggested already.
 
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madurobob said:
Someone already mentioned 7-Zip.. WAY better than Acrobat for reading PDFs.
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Well, I know you posted on April 1st, but did you mean Foxit rather than 7-zip? (I use both, but I don't see any PDF support in 7-zip, nor would I expect any.)

I'll also second the votes for Synergy, I've just installed it and it works great (after a bit of fiddling).
 
erlando said:
And I gotta mention TextMate although it isn't free.
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I'm partial to TextWrangler, myself.

Scaled down, free version of BBEdit. I don't use BBEdit, and can't imagine exactly what it is they've cut - TextWrangler has multi-file editing, writes and opens any encoding, has syntax highlighting for most anything, built-in (S)FTP, multi-file or directory search/replace/regex, and is scriptable and extensible.
 
Zax63 said:
Another 3D modelling and animation program for Windows that is currently free is trueSpace from Caligari. It's roots go back to the Amiga in 1990. This was a mid range(around $500 IIRC) commercial PC program for years but Microsoft acquired the company in July 2008 and released it for free. Which makes no sense to me but I'm sure it fits in their program of world domination somehow. :D

Ahh, MS wants the technology for their Virtual EarthTM so I'm more or less right about the world domination thing.
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If anybody was interested in or is using trueSpace, get it now while you can. Microsoft is killing it.

http://www.caligari.com/News/news_200905/LetterFromTheFounder.html
 
Now, I have read this thread, and I can't be bothered to check it again to make sure I'm not being the repetetive repeater.
I only came across this today: Thumbview (Windows only). I'd been fed up that since CS2, Photoshop no longer made thumbnails available for Windows Explorer. Thumbview fixes that, and sorts out a bunch of other formats too.
http://www.seriema.net/thumbview/
 
Are there any decent backup programs that can handle open files (and are free)?
 
GreNME said:
Are there any decent backup programs that can handle open files (and are free)?
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rsync?

No seriously...Open files, as in open format or open as in another resource taking them up at the moment of backup?
 
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