http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Tag: favourites en Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:48:10 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-41780 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:58:58 +0000 Buddyboy 41780@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Easily my favourite downloaded programme from GAOTD is DemoCreator. I often get asked by friends "How do I..." do this or that on the computer. I used to have to type directions, step by step, click by click, describing each page as it appears. It took quite a while to formulate a helpful reply. Then I downloaded DemoCreator. Now, to answer a question, I start that programme then just do everything that I would otherwise have told the requester by email. I end up emailing the product, which is basically a video (.swf file) of what I did with my voice giving directions in the background. It wows my friends, is very helpful to them, and makes me look like a wizard. It's a fabulous programme. By the way, I did correspond with the makers of the programme and they were really great people to deal with. They are clearly working very hard to produce a good product. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-40757 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:21:31 +0000 Chronopie 40757@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Xilisoft DVD ripper<br /> Returnil<br /> ...? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-40384 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:34:54 +0000 KsbjA 40384@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>a-squared Anti Malware. Best of the kind! I can't tell you how thankful am I! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-32892 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:54:32 +0000 ZYXTIA 32892@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Some great software has been given away, but my favorites are </p> <ol> <li><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/xstarter/">xStarter</a>, an amazing tast maker</li> <li><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/smart-type-assistant/">Smart Type Assistant</a>, which has features like auto-correct and spell checker that work in <em>any</em> program, as well as a very useful "Smart Diary", which acts as a personal keylogger</li> <li><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/hide-window-plus/">Hide Window Plus</a>, which includes keyboard shortcuts to make any window just disappear, but still be "open"</li> </ol> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-31683 Thu, 29 May 2008 21:40:45 +0000 midas45 31683@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>In no particular order:<br /> 1. Cleanse uninstaller<br /> 2. Glary Utilities<br /> 3. Premium Booster </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-31608 Thu, 29 May 2008 18:28:30 +0000 temporarylox 31608@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yes, Image Mender is a nice little helper. It has some glitches, but is anyhow a frequently used proggy in my toolbox. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-31583 Thu, 29 May 2008 16:54:52 +0000 Beaver 31583@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>1:East-Tec Eraser 2:Glary Utilities </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-30339 Thu, 22 May 2008 23:59:35 +0000 funkymom 30339@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>yeah- image mender did an amazing job on a picture i didn't think i would be able to fix. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-30308 Thu, 22 May 2008 14:14:02 +0000 old_old_7 30308@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have fun with Image Mender,<br /> Auto Mouse do help me a lot.<br /> Thx to giveawayoftheday . </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-29475 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:18:07 +0000 zwylle 29475@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>1) WinSnap<br /> 2) Zoner Gif Animator<br /> 3) Robotask </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-29352 Tue, 13 May 2008 19:08:56 +0000 eakf 29352@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My favourites include:</p> <p>PPTminimizer because it's portable (I can run it from my thumb drive), does what it says, and the people in my office make huge "slideshow" ppts that are often &gt;100mb.</p> <p>Image Compressor Pro. This software is just magic for what it can do with my 12mp &gt;4Mb jpg's. Quality is superb. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-28037 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:29:25 +0000 Hellfire 28037@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My favourite giveawayoftheday tool was Helpsmith , but unfortunately i had to reinstall my windows vista because of a failure when installin Vista SP1 :-(((</p> <p>Now the greatest tool ever don't work anymore !<br /> I used it everyday !</p> <p>I hope it comes back as another giveawayoftheday soon !!! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-27295 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:50:31 +0000 charliebird 27295@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just finished East Side Story, great stuff, please get more like this nothing like a good adventure game, sure beats matching up squares and triangles.</p> <p>Thank You </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-26589 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:05 +0000 Steph 26589@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just to put in another good word for <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/search-gt">Search GT</a>, I decided to buy the program. I needed some tech support, which turned out to be really fast and effective. Great company. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-26015 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:06:22 +0000 AlexSJ 26015@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My alltime favorites are:<br /> 1) Returnil<br /> 2) Aston<br /> 3) AltDesk (would love to see the portable version offered)</p> <p>Followed by: Glary Utilities, Premium Booster, Equation Wizard, IconConstructor, any ConceptDraw Software, 10Strike Network File Search and BladeBox (would love re-runs), Wondershare Photostory, AptEdit, Evernote and a bunch more.</p> <p>Favorites found over tips in the comment section: TrueCrypt, Mojopac, Erunt, GoBinder (Student Software), Train your Brain, O&#38;O Defrag<br /> Pura Vida, AlexSJ </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-25982 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:12:29 +0000 Steph 25982@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I've acquired a nice little collection of useful programs since I discovered GotD a few weeks ago, most notably Evernote, which I was already using as freeware, Anvir Task Manager, Driver Magician and StarBurn. I also have a future project in mind for CyberPower Audio Editing Lab. </p> <p>However the only GotD prog which I use several times daily, which lives in my Quick Launch tray, and which I really wouldn't ever want to be without again, is </p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/search-gt">Search GT</a></p> <p>Blindingly fast! Great stuff. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-25788 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:51 +0000 CyberNaruto 25788@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>only 1 i can think of is 1:bulk image down loader thank you for making it a giveaway :D the trial is so hell and with my 1000Mb per sec connection downloading large gallery's will be simple as a click and watch(saying doesn't make sense but w\e/....) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-23992 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:27:29 +0000 winracer 23992@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>AptEdit <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=aptedit&#38;x=37&#38;y=14" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=aptedit&#38;x=37&#38;y=14</a><br /> Folder Marker <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=folder+marker&#38;x=45&#38;y=16" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=folder+marker&#38;x=45&#38;y=16</a><br /> PowerCmd <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=powerCMD&#38;x=29&#38;y=13" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=powerCMD&#38;x=29&#38;y=13</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-23901 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:11:34 +0000 SouthernFriedGeek 23901@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My favorite: Yesterday's BurnAware Home Edition. Cool Edit Record Pro is second. Anvir Task Manager is third. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-20054 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:00:28 +0000 freebird31 20054@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I love AVI TOOLBOX, FOLDERMARKER, PAGE FOUR and all converters. very handy stuff. </p> <p>the best of all time has to be the page four. I'm a writer and love this software. if I ever lose it I will buy it in a cold minute. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-20050 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:06:40 +0000 alijonsa 20050@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I must agree with WhiteRabbit, I think EAZ-FIX is a really wonderful little program. I also love cleanse-uninstaller unfortunatly I was cleaning my computer and by accident deleted the program. I would really appreciate it if Give-Away-Of the day would make Cleanse-uninstaller available again. Also I came across a program called Reg Sweep, it must have been a previous give-away and I missed it, becuase I live in South Africa and with the Elctricity cuts etc.. I was not able to get onto the internet. So I would really appreciate it if re-instate the give-away again. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-19050 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:05:45 +0000 MASA 19050@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>GridinSoft Notepad. That is such a nice app.</p> <p>I also liked the SWF to Vid and the Flash Decompiler </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-18913 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:53:05 +0000 goodgotd 18913@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I still have to put eaz fix in the negative column- for dual-boot systems it could be a nightmare.</p> <p>I'm putting infinite jigsaw up since the wife is ga-ga over it.. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-18013 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:41:03 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 18013@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Since it's been six months since I last posted here I think I'll post again as things do change and there has been some excellent giveaways that I now find I can't do without. Just to remind you I chose the following previously:</p> <p>1) Zoner Photo Studio 9<br /> 2) Wire changer<br /> 3) Concept Draw Mindmap or Magic Score</p> <p>Though Mind map was only a demo version because I missed the giveaway. Someone has just posted a link to a freeware mindmap program in the forums; in response to me saying I'd missed it. I still use Zoner Photo Studio 9, and Magic Score, I've not reinstalled Wire changer for some time despite having bought the program following the giveaway versions loss after a format.</p> <p>Of the giveaways that have been given since the summer of 07 the recently given away EAZ-FIX has to have been amongst the best find so far despite it getting a very poor response from the community, which I suspect was partly to do with the usual vocal contributors to the site. I nearly didn't download it myself following the few comments I'd seen when I log on (usually an hour or two after the changeover), but decided I’d try it out on one of my computers and see if there was any adverse effects. (I now use one of my older computers for this ‘test phase’. Before I went to bed I rechecked the comments and was really shocked at the negativity that had been thrown at this application, but as I’d not had any problems with it, the fact that I’d never been entirely successful with the windows restore point system, and that it had such a simple GUI I decided to throw caution to the wind and install the program onto all of my computers. Well I’m glad I did as several days later I had a major crash on one of my computers. Initially I was at my wit’s end because I couldn’t access anything apart from the bios. I kept forgetting to press the home key, but eventually did and hey, my computer was restored to the last snapshot. I lost the last day’s giveaway and game because I’d not taken a snapshot after downloading the day’s giveaways, but that was a small loss. I find it so much simpler to use this program than the system restore, and it’s ever present when the computers are booting up. I’ve had no problems with any of my computers since the application has been installed. Definitely the best giveaway to date in my opinion. I will be buying this when the next update is available. </p> <p>My second choice has to be Starburn. It has replaced Blind Write as my favorite DVD ripper, though it’s not just for that. I’ve completely scrapped my paid for version of Nero (v7) and am now using Starburn exclusively for authoring and burning DVD”s and CD,s It’s so much more simpler than Nero, and I’m sure it’s quicker as well, but that could just be my imagination, lol. I sometimes got cyclic redundancy problems with Nero when saving images to disc, which was a more of a problem with earlier versions of Nero (e.g. 6.5) Unfortunately I won’t be buying this one as it’s far to overpriced for me. (The value of the product has in no way influenced my decision here as to be honest, I don’t think it’s worth the amount of money they are asking – perhaps a $100, but not $495) Those two giveaways are in total contrast to Goodgotd’s selection as he’s put them down as some of the worst, lol. </p> <p>My third giveaway has to be Easeus Partition Manager. I know Windows has its own manager of sorts, but I find Easeus much easier to use. I have 14 hard Drives not counting the external drives, so there’s a lot to manage. All of those discs apart from three which are all relatively small and are my oldest disks (1x40Gb, 1x60Gb and a 1x80Gb) range between 320Gb to 750Gb, so I needed a good manager, and Partition manager filled the spot, though there’s a decent one in the freeware library that could be used if you missed this particular giveaway.</p> <p>A close fourth would be Evernote which seems to have been the most popular one that several others have chosen. It would probably be in my top three if I was still working, though now it’s only used for note taking for my reviews elsewhere (I don’t use it for writing my game reviews for the game giveaway project as they are all written on the spot, unless I’m writing a special for the forums) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-17350 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:20:40 +0000 Moizelle 17350@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>1. Returnil<br /> 2. Sticky Password </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-16320 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:06:34 +0000 Spado 16320@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The most useful is surely Webcammax, but I formatted very often and I lose it...<br /> PS Sorry for my english, I'm italian </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-16149 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:54:04 +0000 ezra 16149@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>#1: StickyPassword<br /> My computer never runs without it and I never go anywhere without it. It reduced my time online by upwards of 10%, in that I don't have to sit and try to remember the password for a particular site. Also, when signing up for accounts, I don't have to spend time noting it. The password manager takes care of that.</p> <p>Their website: <a href="http://www.stickypassword.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stickypassword.com/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-16006 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:27:38 +0000 goodgotd 16006@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>off topic, but I found that starburn isn't *hopeless*, just mighty frustrating still a negative overall.<br /> <code><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2464?replies=13#post-15881" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2464?replies=13#post-15881</a></code> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-15835 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:24:38 +0000 goodgotd 15835@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm not sure this is allowed in the 'rules', but for positive favorites I'll nominate:</p> <p>Frigate 3, for becoming more useful as I learn it.<br /> AnVir Task Manager, for being polite as well as useful.<br /> Magnifying Glass, for a really nice way to help me see the fine print.</p> <p>About a hundred others deserve mention- not for the giveaway, but for alternatives posted in comments- and pointing out things I didn't know were possible so I could search out free alternatives. DeskMate I can't put on the list as I haven't tested enough.</p> <p>Then negative 'favorites' for showing me what *not* to try again:</p> <p>Aston Shell for defaulting to destroy a user's original desktop rather than save JIC.<br /> RTFM and then *read* the little option boxes!<br /> Eaz Fix for being an example of not remembering the saying 'if it sounds too good to be true, look for the hidden hook, then *pass it up.*'<br /> Starburn Shark for being really good until rebooted. &lt;sigh&gt; and it burned so *well!* </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/2#post-15204 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:51:23 +0000 ouzelkat 15204@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>1. Evernote<br /> 2. Direct Access<br /> 3. Glary Utilities</p> <p>I'd hope that when you look at the list, along with the top from 2007, you'll offer reruns of those favorites, if the vendors will go along again. Direct Access has upgraded since last May's offering. </p>