Pricelessware: The best of the best in Windows © Freeware, as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware.

The Pricelessware List reflects the programs favored by members of the newsgroup alt.comp.freeware ; it is not an exhaustive list of the best available Freeware. Most of the listings are well-known programs, but there are some hard-to-find goodies to be discovered. Although most categories will list only 1 or 2 selections, a few will list 3-4 programs.
There are NO Adware/Spyware programs included in the Pricelessware List.

Although it is smaller than your thumb, the XPort contains all of the hardware and software required to Web-enable any device, including:

10Base-T/100Base-TX auto-sensing Ethernet connection

Mature, robust operating system

Embedded HTTP-compliant Web server

Programmable e-mail alerts

Extensive networking protocol suite including full TCP/IP stack

128-bit AES Rijndael encryption

 
Compact, Loaded, and Easy to Integrate
Because so much of the complex engineering and integration has already been done for you by Lantronix, the XPort offers the following:

Accelerated Time-to-Market: Whether working with an existing design or an all-new product, the XPort is a simple drop-in solution-so easy to integrate that it allows you to make Ethernet connectivity a standard product feature in less than 60 days.

Reduced Design Risk: Traditional networking solutions require hardware, a microprocessor, various kinds of software, and the networking expertise to integrate them all. In contrast, the XPort is already engineered, tested, and EMC-compliant, effectively eliminating much of the R&D and investment risk inherent in trying to network-enable an edge device.

singingfish.com: Audio and video search engine

How to Install Windows 2000 NetBEUI Under Windows XP
To ensure proper operation of your network, please follow these directions precisely.

"MailFiler is a seamless addition to Microsoft Outlook 2000/02/03 which organizes your Inbox, handles your bulk and junk mail, tracks your messages, files them, notifies and alerts you and then and lets you rapidly retrieve them.

MailFiler uses new U.S. patented technology to allow you to manage your email messages in a highly efficient and structured way, saving you time and giving you a clear and organized email system."

Microsoft KnowledgeBase Questions; you might find it!

A special access point for MS KB articles

"The Secret Guide to Computers

Read it online for free! The Secret Guide to Computers is the world's only complete computer tutorial. It includes:

Hardware: Learn about all of the parts of your computer and what they do. Use the buyer's guide to discover how to buy a great computer cheaply. Find out what to look for in a system and compare different brands. It even goes so far as to offer unbiased recommendation of places to purchase what you choose!
Software: Find out everything you wanted to know and more about your operating system, word processor, spreadsheets, databases, games, and more. Learn to tweak your computer for maximum performance and neat shortcuts to make you more productive.
Internet: Go beyond just surfing the web. Start using email, newsgroups, and more.
Fix Your Computer: Why spend money to fix your computer when you can do it yourself. Discover how here.
Programming: Learn multiple programming languages that allow you to make your computer putty in your hands.

If you have ever wanted to know anything about computers or how they work, you can probably find it here. So go ahead, read it for free online"

ExcelTip.com, the first place to look for Microsoft Excel tips and tricks. The tips have been written by expert Microsoft Excel users and are absolutely free. In addition, you can view sample chapters of new Mr Excel on Excel book.

"Roogle is a search engine for what is called a "RSS Feed". An RSS Feed is an XML tagged file which allows a website, news site or blog (actually any site) to provide to the world a list of its current contents. RSS feeds can contain all kinds of information from news to blog / weblog posts to stock quotes and more.

An RSS feed is generally not read in a web browser like a web page. Instead a special piece of software called a "News Aggregator" like Net News Wire or AmphetaDesk is used. What these products do is enable viewing of multiple RSS feeds in an easy fashion. If you read a lot of information on the web or like to keep up with things, you should definitely look into a News Aggregator.
The best analogy I've found for RSS feeds and Aggregators is this:

Imagine a world where new information, about anything you are interested in, comes to you -- not where you have to go find it."

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s

microsoft knowledge base uri format

Don't you just hate it when you receive junk e-mail? It's bad enough getting junk mail through your letterbox! I can't stand junk e-mail cluttering up my inbox, and when it finally got too much, I decided that enough was enough. I'll assume that if you're reading this, you've decided enough is enough too.
On this part of my site you will find resources and information that will hopefully help to ease the growing problem of spam. You'll also find what is possibly the biggest blacklist on the Internet - the GazNET Anti-Spam Protection File. Click the links in the left-hand column to take a look around.

TightVNC is a free remote control package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. TightVNC is:
free, GPL-licensed, with full source code available;
useful in remote administration, remote customer support, education, and for many other purposes;
cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software;
well maintained and being actively developed.

POPFile is an automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will work in the background of your computer, scanning mail as it arrives and filing it however you wish. You can give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or a complicated one - like filing mail into a dozen folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox.

Fusion is a free Windows Media Player. It is based on DirectShow© and features all the latest audio and video formats (DIVX, WMV, MP3, WAV, ...), if the appropriate codecs have been installed. Fusion doesn't contain any spyware or spam.

Visualising Google

"A company specializing in uncovering criminal connections and terrorist networks has released a visualization tool that reveals hidden relationships in Google search results.

anacubis, a subsidiary of intelligence analytic software company i2 Group, has made its Google Viewer available for free download today. The anacubis Viewer automatically represents "entities," such as people, organizations and locations, as small graphic icons. It then shows the relationships between entities as specialized link types -- for example, president, business type, address, and so on.

With Google results, each web site is represented by a website icon. To get more information about a particular result, right click on its icon and select "expand links" or "expand related." Expanded results show linkages among and between particular web sites.

As you find more and more useful information, you can continually add it to an ongoing "view" of your results. To make the picture even more focused, you can filter unwanted results or delete them completely from the view.

Other tools allow you to rearrange the view and its linkages according to your own preferences. The anacubis Google Viewer is one of a growing number of tools that help you visualize web search results, showing relationships between them. I wrote about the TouchGraph Google viewer in January. I'll also be taking an in-depth look at visual metasearch engine Kartoo very soon.

If search results that go beyond a simple list of text results appeals to you, take a look at the anacubis Google Viewer."

anacubis Google Viewer

THE Rename 2.1.5 (dated of december 2002) is a donationware program designed to help you to rename files and folders en masse with a number of possibilities and options.
This is a freeware program. You can use it in any situation (professional and personal use) You can rename a series of files with a counter: pict0001.jpg, pict0002.jpg, pict0003.jpg...
You can rename files so the prefix is in upper case and the extension is in lower case.
The program is useful for people who publish pages on Internet and need to convert file names to lower case.
The file attribute changer is a very useful option for anyone using a CD recorder.
You can rename pictures with their width and height.
You can rename audio files (MP3, VQF, OGG and WMA files) based on their internal tags.
You can rename files and folders
If you have a digital camera, THE Rename can use (EXIF) tags that your camera include inside photos

"Analyst’s Notebook 6 provides the optimum environment for effective link and timeline analysis. It is the de facto standard for this type of analysis worldwide and is an essential visualisation application. Whether you are working in law enforcement or the commercial sector it is instrumental in:
Identifying the factors contributing to an issue, evaluating their probable causes and effects and understanding the relationships between them.

Increasing the ability of your team to rapidly achieve a broad-based understanding of complex situations.

Providing an ideal medium for disseminating critical information concisely.

Analyst’s Notebook 6 offers unrivalled analytical functionality and integrates with all other i2 products. It can also be configured to connect direct to your own database systems or to integrate with other application"