{"id":257,"date":"2013-01-22T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyville.org\/xblkx\/?p=257"},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T00:09:05","slug":"things-i-like-computer-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Things I like (computer-related)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had started a list of links and software I like, but I can&#8217;t find it, so I will put it here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WordPress theme selector:<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/tag-filter\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/tag-filter\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHPBB style selector: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phpbb.com\/styles\/demo\/3.0\/?from=submenu\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.phpbb.com\/styles\/demo\/3.0\/?from=submenu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorites is a software program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exp-systems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PDF Redirect<\/a>, which lets you print out PDFs from any application.\u00a0 It installs as a printer, and when you print to it, you get a PDF.\u00a0 For free!<\/p>\n<p>Atomic Clock Sync (set PC clock to time server): <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Atomic-Clock-Sync\/3000-18512_4-14844.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Atomic-Clock-Sync\/3000-18512_4-14844.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speedfan (CPU voltage and temperature monitoring utility): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almico.com\/speedfan.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.almico.com\/speedfan.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putty (SSH and telnet client): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.putty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.putty.org\/<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/winscp.net\/eng\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">WinSCP<\/a> (SFTP and FTP client for Windows).<\/p>\n<p>Firefox extensions and add-ons: FireFTP, FireSSH (caution: doesn&#8217;t work well with emacs), <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/video-downloadhelper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download Helper<\/a>,\u00a0 SQLite Manager, Google\/Yandex search link fix.<\/p>\n<p>RealVNC (remote access client): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VLC Media Player (player for video and audio files): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/index.html<\/a> and FFDshow codec pack: <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/ffdshow\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/ffdshow\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To resize, crop, rotate, adjust image files: Faststone Photo Resizer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faststone.org\/FSResizerDetail.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.faststone.org\/FSResizerDetail.htm<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>For disk partitioning and data recovery, Mini Tool Partition Wizard (<a href=\"http:\/\/partitionwizard.com\/free-partition-manager.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/partitionwizard.com\/free-partition-manager.html<\/a>) and Ubuntu Rescue Remix (<a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu-rescue-remix.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ubuntu-rescue-remix.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For ripping audio CDs to a lossless flac library, I recommend Exact Audio Copy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exactaudiocopy.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.exactaudiocopy.de\/<\/a>) and the scripting front end AutoFLAC (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legroom.net\/software\/autoflac\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.legroom.net\/software\/autoflac<\/a>).\u00a0 Once set up correctly to work together, you can go through a stack of CDs in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>Check your audio CDs for authenticity and discover which ones were created from MP3 files with True Audio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.true-audio.com\/Tau_Analyzer_-_CD_Authenticity_Detector\" target=\"_blank\">Tau Analyzer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For music file tag management for many file types, MP3Tag (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3tag.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mp3tag.de\/en\/<\/a>) is indispensible.\u00a0 I only rename my music files manually, but if you want to automate it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softpointer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MP3 Tag&amp;Rename<\/a> is also useful.<\/p>\n<p>For music file format conversions: Trader&#8217;s Little Helper (<a href=\"http:\/\/tlh.easytree.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tlh.easytree.org\/<\/a>) is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I purchased AlbumPlayer (http:\/\/albumplayer.com\/) jukebox software to play and manage my music library.\u00a0 After trying out every program I can find, this is the best thing there is, and the support and license terms are excellent.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used this program almost every day for more than 5 years and it&#8217;s one of the best programs I&#8217;ve ever found.\u00a0 It supports every audio and video format I tried, after installing BassAAC and BassALAC (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un4seen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.un4seen.com\/<\/a>) (see also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albumplayer.com\/webhelp\/scr\/non_contents_pages\/install_aac_alac_dlls.htm\" target=\"_blank\">AP forum topic<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other computer resources<\/p>\n<p>After dealing with an unbootable Windows 7 drive (a line of garbage displayed on the screen and then not booting), I discovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/927392\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft utility &#8220;bootrec<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nExecuted &#8220;bootrec \/fixmbr&#8221; and &#8220;bootrec \/fixboot&#8221; from the command prompt, and this fixed the problem.\u00a0 Startup Recovery did not detect any errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had started a list of links and software I like, but I can&#8217;t find it, so I will put it here. 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