The best free, small apps http://theroflmao.com great software doesn't have to be big Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:06:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 IrFanView, a nice little image editing application http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/irfanview-a-nice-little-image-editing-application/ http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/irfanview-a-nice-little-image-editing-application/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:06:00 +0000 Jasper http://theroflmao.com/?p=27 Cropping, resizing, format converting, batch processing are simple forms of image manipulation that you could do in every version of Photoshop, but why use a program that uses large amounts of memory and burns a hole in your pocket?

irfanview 4.23

IrFanView does all these things with a tiny program (version 4.23 is only 1,28 MegaBytes) that uses little resources and is totally free. Let’s look into the list of file formats this freeware program supports:


Extension Format Name Read Save
       
Graphic formats:      
ANI, CUR Animated Cursor X  
AWD* Artweaver format X  
B3D* BodyPaint 3D format X  
BMP, DIB Windows Bitmap X X
CAM* Casio digital camera format (JPG version only) X  
CLP Windows Clipboard X  
CPT CorelDraw Photopaint format (CPT version 6 only) X  
CRW/CR2* Canon RAW format X  
DCM/ACR/IMA* Dicom/ACR/IMA file format for medical images X  
DCX Multipage PCX format X  
DDS* Direct Draw Surface format X  
DJVU, IW44* DjVu File Format X  
DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG* CAD Formats (Shareware PlugIns) X  
ECW* Enhanced Compressed Wavelet X X
EMF Enhanced Metafile Format X X
EPS, PS, PDF* PostScript Formats (Ghostscript required) X  
EXR* EXR format X X
FITS* Flexible Image Transport System X  
FPX* FlashPix format X  
FSH* EA Sports FSH format X X
G3* Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format X  
GIF Graphics Interchange Format X X
HDR* High Dynamic Range format X  
HDP, WDP* Microsoft HD Photo format X  
ICL, EXE, DLL Icon Library formats X  
ICO Windows Icon X X
ICS* Image Cytometry Standard format X  
IFF, LBM* Interchange File Format X  
IMG* GEM Raster format X  
JP2, JPC, J2K* JPEG 2000 format X X
JPG, JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group X X
JPM* JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm X X
KDC* Kodak digital camera format X  
LDF* LuraDocument Format X X
LWF* LuraWave Format X X
Mac PICT, QTIF, MP4* Macintosh PICT format (Apple Quicktime required) X  
MNG, JNG* Multiple Network Graphics X  
MRC* MRC format X  
MrSID, SID* LizardTech’s SID Wavelet format X  
DNG, EEF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF/ARW, PEF, X3F* Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma) X  
NLM, NOL, NGG* Nokia/LogoManager files X  
PBM Portable Bitmap format X X
PCD Kodak Photo CD X  
PCX PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation X X
PDF* Portable Document format X X
PGM Portable Greymap format X X
PIC* Softimage PICT X  
PNG Portable Network Graphics X X
PPM Portable Pixelmap format X X
PSD Adobe PhotoShop format X  
PSP* Paint Shop Pro format X  
PVR* DreamCast Texture format X  
RAS, SUN* Sun Raster format X  
RAW, YUV* Raw (binary) data X  
RLE* Utah RLE format X  
SFF* Structured Fax File X  
SFW* Seattle Film Works format X  
SGI, RGB* Silicon Graphics format X  
SIF* SIF format X  
SWF, FLV* Macromedia Flash format X  
TGA Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) X X
TIF, TIFF Tagged Image File Format X X
TTF* True Type Font X  
TXT Text (ASCII) File (as image) X  
VTF* Valve Texture format X  
WAD* WAD3 Game format X  
WAL* Quake 2 textures X  
WBMP* WAP Bitmap format X  
WMF Windows Metafile Format X  
WSQ* Wavelet Scaler Quantization format X  
XBM* X11 Bitmap X  
XPM* X11 Pixmap X  

* with plug-ins

As you can see there are a lot of formats that you can open with this program, although you can’t edit them and save them in the same format. This makes it a great program to convert some of the more exotic fileformats for use on the web. Another nifty feature of IrFanView is that you can create your own screensavers with it, based on pictures you like. It can also read the EXIF-data from the pictures you made with your digital camera.

To complete the package there are quite some plug-ins that add a lot of nice little features.

DOWNLOAD IRFANVIEW

]]> http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/irfanview-a-nice-little-image-editing-application/feed/ 6 Notepad++ a free source code editor for almost every developer http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/notepad-a-free-source-code-editor-for-almost-every-developer/ http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/notepad-a-free-source-code-editor-for-almost-every-developer/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:35:36 +0000 Jasper http://theroflmao.com/?p=23 Are you coding in: C, C++ , Java , XML, HTML, PHP, Java Script , RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (extension .nfo), doxygen, ini file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL , Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript, VHDL, Ada, Caml, AutoIt, KiXtart, Matlab or Verilog?

Guess what? Notepad++ supports them all with correct syntax highlighting. Parts of this site have been made with Notepad++ as well.



Notepad++ multiview

Notepad++ multiview

Other great features:

- work in multiple documents at once, side by side.
- set your own syntaxcolors
- print and keep the colored syntax

All this and it still manages to be free, open source and under 3 megabytes. Get your free version of this great source code editor now!

I can personally recommend this piece of software for being light weight and doing all the basic stuff you will need. If you’re building a really big project I wouldn’t recommend it, but for building your personal project it’s perfect. Every webdeveloper should have a copy on a memorystick or installed on their own computer!
The only negative thing about it is that it’s only available for Windows. I’m sorry penguins, devils and apples…

]]> http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/notepad-a-free-source-code-editor-for-almost-every-developer/feed/ 668 µTorrent, the best and smallest torrent client http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/%c2%b5torrent-the-best-and-smallest-torrent-client/ http://theroflmao.com/usefuldownloads/%c2%b5torrent-the-best-and-smallest-torrent-client/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:20:48 +0000 Jasper http://theroflmao.com/?p=3 In  the past we had Napster, Kazaa, eMule and nowadays everyone seems to be using torrents for downloading large files. You can as well!

The logo of utorrent

These torrents are using the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol called BitTorrent and it enables you to download files from people all over the world that are sharing that file or even just a part of it. You begin by searching for the file(s) that you would like to download, usually on a torrentsite, and then you download are really small file called a torrent. This torrent is then loaded in a torrentclient which reads this file and starts downloading the file you wanted in the first place.

There are a lot of clients out there, but there is one that has everything you want:

  • small
  • free
  • fast
  • easy to use
  • packed with options

This client is called µTorrent (often pronounced as uTorrent or youTorrent). It’s current version is 1.8.1 and you can find it after the jump!

Download µtorrent 1.8.1 now!

(only 263 kb!)

After you’ve downloaded and installed µTorrent we do have a few tips for you to optimize your experience:

  1. Forward the bittorrent ports correctly from your router to your pc.There is a good site called portforward.com that can help you with this.
  2. Make sure your upload speed isn’t set to the maximum upload speed of your connection, because it will seriously affect your normal surfing speed.
  3. Share your file after you’re done downloading so others can keep on making use of your connection just as you used theirs.
  4. Enjoy your downloads!
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