The Useful Little Programs thread

[Zbigniev Hamson]

I don't know if this thread is a really good idea, or won't be of any interest at all, but I thought it might be nice to share a list of helpful little programs that each of us might take for granted, but most people might never have heard of, that make our computing experience that little bit more smooth-running and stress-free.

My contribution is FSScreen which is a free little program that lets you take multiple screen grabs with the Print Screen key, saving them all in a directory, and saves you having to faff about pasting the image manually into some paint program and saving it each time. I'd probably never have heard of it if I hadn't played Flight Simulator, but I've used it loads of times for other things, like making animated gifs or whatever. Even if you just want to take a single screen grab it's STILL less hassle to load it up and use it rather than mess around pasting into Paint or whatever

[Pip Madeley]

Super

It's a video converting program, converts pretty much anything to anything. I've only used it for convering FLV (Flash YouTube) and AVI videos to MPEG-2, but it does the trick. Well worth a download.

[Paul Monk]

I have that as well. Pretty good for converting audio formats as well which is what I use it for.

[Lissa]

Scotty the Windows Watchdog is always good at giving you control over your computer.

And I find DVDFlick very useful for making DVDs out of AVIs.

Blah blah lots of stuff here blah blah.

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Well that's one way to kill off a thread