ok, modified the mainpage to have a "nerd" section. Added the warez link. the idea is to post all new Free/share or good test ware in this story so that all are informed etc.

Me and Broaky would appreciate it if you add some links there through "editing" not "adding"... cheers.

Office products
office pakage openoffice
webbrowsers Mozilla Firefox | Opera
multiple messanger services Miranda | Trillian
e-mail Mozilla Thunderbird

Firewall/Ad&Trojanremoval/Virus Scanner
firewall ZoneAlarm | Sygate PF
ad removal AdAware | Spyware Doctor | Bazooka | HijackThis
trojan remover tds-3 | Spyware Doctor
virus scanner McAfee Stinger(limited library)

Multimedia
sound file converter dBpowerAmp | JetAudio Basic
movie player vlc player | Real_Alternative
codec identifyer GSPOT
soundcard emulator VDMSound (nintendo etc)

Photo/Video Editing
photoediting Picasa

Downloading/IP Telephone/other
torrent client BitComet | Azureus
ip telephone Picophone | Skype
remote computer controll VNC

Computer cleaning and optimizing
tempfile killer tempkiller

(application/octet-stream, 0 KB)

(2000/XP) | tempkiller98

(application/octet-stream, 0 KB)

(98/ME) --- download to autostart folder
clean up pc Find Junk Files
file killer Eraser
hack windows Resource Hacker | RJH Extensions (edit "right-klick")
registry cleaner RegCleaner | Tweaknow Regcleaner
registry recovery / optimizer ERUNT & NTREGOPT
read ntfs partitions NTFS Reader

system
info, diagnostics and benchmarking EVEREST Home Edition

Hardware configurations
overclocking Riva Tuner | SoftFSB
bios wizard BIOS analyzer
hd LLF (low level formating) powermax.exe

CD/DVD Burning
dvd copy DVD Shrink

if you're not interested in buying a ipod shuffle, don't bother reading this. i hope this can help people who are planning to get one.

for the second time in my life i have invested in an ipod. last time it was the 5gig, 1st generation ipod that was actually built only for the mac, but was working fine with PC's with a little help with a program called EphPod.

The other week I decided to buy an ipod shuffle, so that me & chesty could try it out and decide if we wanted to buy a second one, or if not, the "iPod killer" (mp-120) by jensofsweden.com would be an ok alternative.

The reviews that i had read were generally good of the ipod shuffle, i thought it would be just like the big ipods and be easy to dodge the file copy crap protection and use it like any other practical flash mp3 player.

hell no.

- you can only copy music to your ipod (not from, unless you go past itunes, but then you wont be able to listen to the songs while you're on the move, or from the ipod at all for that matter. )

- if you connect the ipod to a computer to recharge, using usb2, it won't work unless it's got iTunes installed.

- your playlist from your ipod will get scrapped if you want to add other songs from a different computer than the one you initially used to add the first songs (why steve, why!!)

- itunes itself wont work with any other portable mp3 players, other than ipod, leaving you no choice.. :-( too bad if you like itunes but not the shuffle for instance!)

- the usb port on the player itself is bulky, and you'll probably have to disconnect anything else connected to the surrounding ports while updating / recharging, unless you get a separate USB cable.

- if you decide to use the ipod as a memory stick, to store documents or other files, you won't be able to retrieve them if you connect it to a computer with itunes installed on it.

another item that was supposed to make my life easier, but naah..

don't get me wrong i love the design of the apple products nowadays. maybe it's because they are hiding horrible things on the inside..

i will post another article on the minimac once i get it.

please post alternatives to the itunes / ipod software / firmware, for the ipod shuffle

dreamlist

- work with more then two computers without deleting playlists/ music files.
- let you copy files onto AND off the player.
- recharging without itunes installed.
- drag drop tunes directly to player (and let you play them on the move), and let you store other items that can be retrieved on another computer running itunes.

oh.. forgot the good things..

- it looks beautiful
- it plays music when you push the play button (if you have put the songs on using itunes!!)
- you can sleep with it on all night and it still has battery power the next day. (at least after the first time you've recharged it ;-) )