Your Time to Shine

Ok, now's your chance to help me make the new TSS better than ever! Got a great download I haven't covered yet? How about a Windows tweak or trick you've just been waiting for me to discover? I want to hear your ideas. Comment below or send your ideas to sarahtss@gmail.com . Let's see what y'all got!

If you can turn me onto something new and/or crazy, I'll give you credit if I feature your idea on the show. Weird and clever websites are also welcomed (I'm trying to incorporate a little more wackiness into all of our lives).

Thanks in advance!
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Comments

[redban]

Hey neighboor!

I guess all my sites are crazy..

www.redban.com is my main one, I work for Joe Rogan (fear factor) so I meet a lot of crazy people, and I make stupid videos of them. I just moved to LA from Ohio, and I get paid SALARY to do nothing but record freaks and play video games. So my website is dumb documentary of my crazy life. From working retail at Gateway to smoking pot with the juggys from the Man Show.

Vegas Movie:
Big: http://www.redban.com/video/vegas2.wmv
Small: http://www.redban.com/video/vegas3.wmv

www.bluetorture.com a fake website that is ALL photshops and fake videos (well one snail got very very fresh breath, but lived -not real snail at end).

www.pillowhumper.com -website is being tweeked currently.

www.bushislord.com -friends website.. KERRY 2004@!

and my favorite... My buddy Doug Stanhope's (Man Show, Girls Gone Wild) DSL kept being disconected over and over again (for billing errors) so he called me up and we made 2 videos that we sent to verizon over the period of two days.. (pissed alot of people off because of the recent terror videos) But it has been downloaded more then 4 million times...

Part One: "The Warning"

http://www.redban.com/video/dslbig.wmv -Big

http://www.redban.com/video/dslsmall.wmv -Small

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part Two: "Times Up my Friend"

http://www.redban.com/video/dsl2big.wmv -Big

http://www.redban.com/video/dsl2small.wmv -Small

:)

Brian (redban)
LA LA LAND

[redban]

Oh and http://www.visitorville.com its turns your website into a real life video game.

[Joseph Montesano]

http://needlesearch.mozdev.org/

Its like a search tool bar on steroids. It lets you search for more than just sites and images. It lets you search domain names, phone books, and development databases. It supports many popular search engines as google, and Anywho. Any you can even add search engines if its not already added.

[WheelMan]

Sarah,

Recently I needed an MPEG2 player (Windows Media Player wouldn't play the video I needed to play), and after a LOT of searching, I found Moonlight's Elecard MPEG Player 2.2 (http://www.moonlight.co.il/cons_player.php). It's not exactly free, but the evaliation version seems to work beautifully! You should check it out.

Also, you probably already know about this one, but SpywareBlaster 3.2 (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html) is awesome. Since I've installed it, I've had absolutely no problems whatsoever with spyware on my computer. I don't think AdAware has found one single piece of spyware on my system since I installed SpywareBlaster. Before, I'd run Adware every other day or so, and there'd be like 10 to 15 pieces on my computer each time.

[ajax]

http://www.wackines.org

You wanted more wackiness

[Jack McRoopyllaer]

Alright, I dare you to click here... It is a stupid link, so take it at your own risk :-)! http://www.geocities.com/gimmemoneypleez/

[F. P. Dockery]

Free Downloads-
-Edonkey Overnet downloadable @ overnet.com. Free Edonkey file sharing client.

-Visual Boy Advance downloadable @ http://vba.ngemu.com/downloads.shtml or http://vba.ngemu.com/downloads.shtml. Allows you to play Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games right from your computer. Games or ROMS downloadable @ games2play.net

-w.bloggar downloadable @ wbloggar.com Cool Interphace to your blog

I hope this helps, and I sure hope that none of these have been shown.

[Matt C]

I will also vouch for the incredible usefulness of w.bloggar, and add Picasa, www.picasa.com to the mix. It used to be a for-pay utility, but Google bought them up and now it's a free download. It's an "insanely great" way of organizing and accessing your digital photos, and resembles iPhoto, but for Windows machines. There's also a neat little app called Hello by the same designers that allows you to share photos very easily - almost like a photo-themed IM program.

In the words of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - Share and enjoy!

[fitzfan]

FREE DOWNLOADS FOR TSS

Note Tab lite - inbetween word and note pad pretty handy.

Ace Money lite_ keep track of your money and spending habits.

Tweak Master - Free trial only, but it sppeds up downloads by tweaking settings.

Scrub XP _ cleans temp files, IE history and all other unwanted stuff. or check out CachePal

MP3 Trim -trims down mp3 files and stuff.

Key Note - take handy notes of everything u ever needed to write down.

Belarc Advisor - scans your pc to profile pretty much everthing on it.

and of course my favorite the espn bottom line for u techies u liek sports, just like u see on espn2 but u can customize it.

[Mark]

THE LEET SPEAK GENERATOR!

http://ryanross.net/leet/

Haha, Kevin might like this too.

[John]

Here is some freeware that I use everyday and I think that other people might wanna know. Some of them have already been on the show, but they still are great programs to introduce to the new G4 audience. I got about 31 downloads here, so you can slack off till next month's download of the day.

1. Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/picasa/
iPhoto for the PC. Acquired by Google.

2. Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com
Photo Viewer, Slideshows, Thumbnails, Batch Editing, ect.

3. Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
Erases files forever using National Security Standards for erasing data.

4. Videolan - http://www.videolan.org
Free DVD Player, Media Player, Stream media anywhere. It is awesome watching DVDS at work.

5. UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
Remote Control your Desktop with features such as File Transfer, Chat, and has encryption option as well. I use it to help family members computers via the web. I highly recommend it!

6. Gimp - http://www.gimp.org
Free Adobe Photoshop alternative. Already been covered but Burt Manroy fans will love the price.

7. Regcleaner - http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm
Great Registry cleaner and can remove startups and stuck add/remove entries. Program name has changed to RegSupreme but the freeware version can still be found around.

8. Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and did I meantion it is free. Sourceforge is the greatest.

9. Meritline EZ Label Express - http://www.download.com/EZ-Label-Xpress-Lite/3000-2169-10256755.html
CD/DVD Label Maker. I picked this one because it is easy to use with a great GUI. There are probably better ones but I really found this one easy to use.

10. gamrcodecpack - http://anime-xtreme.com/gamrcodecpack-20040704.exe
I enjoy Animes so I found out about this little gem alittle while back. What the hell is Gamrcodecpack? It contains all the codecs you will ever need for media playback. Best of all it self installs the lastest version of codecs.

11. ABC Bittorrent Client - http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/
Just an alternative to the other great Bittorrent clients. User preference.

12. Virtual Dub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
It is a video capture/processing utility. Nough said.

13. StarDownloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/
We are starting to hit the wall. It is a good little file download manager

14. PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Accidently deleted an important document or file try and recover it with this utility.

15. Daeman Tools - http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php
Tools for Loading your ISOs or backed up CD/DVDS. Looks like another cd-rom drive.

16. HJ Split - http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
Multiplatform file splitter and joiner. Great for emailing the new Doom III files to your friends GMail account. I mean the Demo version of course.

17. Zone Alarm - Been there done that.

18. KDX - http://www.haxial.com/products/kdx/
Peer-to-Peer but very TIGHT COMMUNITY. But if you run the server on your computer you have chat, bbs, file download upload, remote desktop control. But it is not free anymore. Mac People still love it.

19. I have a Pocket PC PDA so here are some great freeware programs that I use.
uBook Reader - multi ebook reader / viewer
Ministumbler - Wifi Scanner
Betaplayer - Xvid Video Player
PocketMVP - DivX Video Player
Wisbar Advanced - Shell for Pocket PC

20. BartPE - http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Boot Windows XP from a CD. Like Knoppix. Pat did a segment already, but good for a rehash soon.

21. Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Now that service pack two is out Internet Explorer still sucks. However, this mod makes Internet Explorer almost as good a browser as Firefox. (Don't laugh, try it)

22. Emule - http://www.emule-project.net/
Honorable Mention.

23. File Renamer Basic 1.0 - http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025604,39084322s,00.htm

24. All-in-One Secretmaker 3.9.4 - http://www.secretmaker.com/
Cover your internet tracker with this one. Actually it does a whole hell of alot more. WOW!

25. MediaMonkey 2.2.1.76 - http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Media Manager for you extensive legal music collection. MMM Monkeys. I miss Megan. Sigh.

26. HTTrack Website Copier 3.32-2 - http://www.httrack.com/
Wanna put the entire G4 TechTV on your hard drive. Why not? This program will do that for you.

27. HalfMoon Calendar 1.1 - http://www.lithic.com/pages/halfmoon.html
Who needs Outlook Calender when you got this.

28. Winamp - http://www.winamp.com
Maybe someone has never heard of it. There are some really cool plugins that some people want. I just use Microsofts WMP.

29. Roboform - http://www.roboform.com/
From the Horses mouth: "Free Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Generator: Fill Forms, Save Passwords, AutoFill, AutoLogin, AutoSave." I like it and you should too.

30. Good old PGP. Okay I got nothing! http://www.pgp.com/

31. I saved the best for last of course. And my all time favorite program is.....um um um Oh yea! There is only 30 days in September anyway.

Yours in Cyberspace,
redlobo.com

[tim]

My wife and I recently decided to rip all our CD's. I thought it would be easy but we ended up searching for quite a while and kept getting heavily restricted shareware/trial versions. A friend told me that WMP would do it, but the latest version seemed to need a plug in you have to pay for; same for winamp. So finally we found:

FreeRip
( http://www.mgshareware.com )

It's free, fast, and querries freedb to retrieve track info.

[Erik]

You could also do Zwei-Stein, a free video editor with chroma keying. It's been around for awhile, but a new version is coming out soon, and it is a great program.

[Erik]

Oh yeah, Zwei-Stein's website is http://www.thugsatbay.com/. Sorry about that!

[Nashvillan]

Website to look into?
I know this site has been up and down for the past 5 years, but currently it is up.

www.zeldaclassic.com

You may have covered it once upon a time, I'm not sure. As the name implies, it allows you to play the original 1986 NES Legend of Zelda on your PC. However, included with the download is a quest editor so you can create your own quests. You can also go to the quest database and see what everyone else has created, and they have had 5 years to build up that database. A must see for any Zelda fanatic. The site is sponsored by Armageddon Games.

[Sallie]

Try This---> http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr: is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization, making photo management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more!

[WheelMan]

I think Arachnophilia (http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html) is an awesome yet simple html editor. I've been using it for years and swear by it. I prefer the older version, 4.0, but the current version, 5.2, is written in Java and runs on all platforms.

[Sarah]

Not sure if it's ever been covered on not, but the Google Toolbar for Firefox is the best thing ever! http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=33&vid=34

[Hyper Smiley]

Geez girl! You're wearin' us out! :) As if 72 hours 6 days a week of work wasn't enough. I'm killin' myself tryin' to sort out close to 500 GB's of newsgroup scans. Anyway, here's some of my choice picks. I'm sure I'll think of more after my mind clears from info overload. ;)

Zoom Player:
http://www.inmatrix.com/

The Godfather:
http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Gspot:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Tmpgenc:
http://www.tmpgenc.net/

Weapons of Mass Downloading:
http://www.techsono.com/weapons/rardecoder.html

[Hyper Smiley]

Oh!... I wanted to add one last comment before I get some rest. :) Everyone should get off of Micro$ofts biggest flaws and download an alternative media player such as zoom player and replace their browser with mozilla or firefox. I feel that is'nt said enough. Oh yeah! and replace M$'s email client. Don't forget to backup, backup, backup. You'll be glad you did when it comes time to do M$'s ultimate fix of backup, format, and reinstall. :D

[smeager]

For all of your dvd/media backup and pretty much anything that has to do with anything (with media) goto Doom9.net. Check it out.

[Diana]

Hi Sarah,

Don't know if you've heard of this player before.

Core Media Player
http://www.corecoded.com/

I don't know if any other player has this capability, but Core lets you play videos on the desktop background! It's a fun thing to do. Core also support multi language files among other things, so you can watch multilanguage DVDs on this.

[vakky]

I ain't extremely useful in this regard, but here's a couple things I like:

DOSbox: A DOS emulator for XP machines, for those like myself who love older DOS games. Slightly buggy and there may well be better options out there, but I don't know them.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

24-7 Media: Just a nifty little website, a web designer's portfolio. Not enough to it to feature it on the show, but it's kinda cool I think. Got a sort of creepy/weird theme.
http://www.247media.de

[Scott]

Desktop Sidebar - Great sidebar app

main program:
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

plugins/skins here:
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/fileforum.php

[Val Nutu]

www.tweakxp.com(This is not my site so dont give me the credit.)
Allot of neat tips, tricks and of course TWEAKS!!
My site:
www.lugnut.vze.com

[Mark]

And to go with vakky's dosbox I feel it right to post www.dosgames.com a collection of a bunch of free old classics.

[trev]

try photobucket.com i use it for my xanga. uploads images and gives you a link...

[rayjay2380]

i hope you read my email to you! if you didnt here is the web addy again! http://www.reallycoolsite.org/index.html
i thought you would like this site cause it makes you kevin leo AND ALL the TECH TV PEEPS into comic strip characters and its real funny i think!

[denny]

is tss still happening?

did they kill it?

all I have seen in 3 weeks are old tapes.

which I do not watch. and I don't have time to keep checking for any signs of new ones.

so if they can't resume the nightly shows real soon then it's bye-bye

[zzxc]

You may want to have a look at the Firefox skin that makes it look just like Internet Explorer: http://www.zzxc.net/ieskin

Using this, you can fool people into using firefox when they think they are using IE. Combine this with the Firesomething extension (http://www.cosmicat.com/extensions/firesomething/) to change the name from "Firefox" to "Internet Explorer".

[Block Sheep]

http://www.robomagic.com/
Robomagic Software Corp.

it has been around for a very long time (used to be Locutus Codeware)

I recommend the two shareware apps:
MoonPhase - http://www.robomagic.com/moonphas.htm
and
DayToday - http://www.robomagic.com/daytoday.htm

check them out

[Mark]

I think anyone could get into this :

http://www.woot.com

It offers one item each day. Always changing, never the same thing.

Recently they offered USB fans for 1 cent. [Plus 5 dollars shipping]

[ken193]

www.nationstates.net

[matt]

Bearshare Lite - http://www.download.com/BearShare-Lite/3000-2166-10301053.html?tag=lst-0-1

Pretty much just Bearshare without adware or spyware. Great for downloading all that 'legal' stuff...and other stuff, just about anything.

[Patrick]

This is a pretty wacky website with alot of funny cartoons.

www.homestarrunner.com

[Edgar Governo]

I like to think my website is weird, clever, and wacky, so feel free to incorporate it into your life:

http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html

It's not at all technical in nature, really, and involves no downloads whatsoever, but you should still enjoy it...it's an annotated list of fictional timelines on the Web. The site is divided by medium (e.g. Television, Movies), and covers just about any fictional series you can think of.

[Jeff]

Deskpops Interactive Wallpaper. There's a new videogame and tech version with all the latest news and reviews. Pretty cool and nothing else like it out there.

http://www.deskpops.com/sites/multi/videogame/

[Noelle]

Hi Sarah, I like your blog so much, I put you in my blogroll!!! Your right at the top of my site (after the site meter,) for everyone to see. Don't get much trafic right now though, I just started this blog a week and a half ago!!!

[Carrie]

Mark,thanks for the Avant Browser! its soo much better than IE.

I dont have any cool links =(
all the cool stuff I know is from The Screen Savers.(I really Lke SphereXP http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/version.htm)

Now I have a lot of junk on my computer.I love it ^.-

[Carrie]

I mean thank you John..sorry John.

thank you too mark ^.- the leet speak is funny ^.^

[Carrie]

www.ishar.com
a rpg thing.its a little confusing at first,but you'll get used to it.

[Mark]

LOL @ Carrie

Your welcome for the link to Leet Speak - Thought I should pass it on for the world to see. But since you mistaked me for recomending a browser here is my pick - MYIE2 or Maxthon.

MYIE2 is the stable release and Maxthon is the Beta release.

http://www.maxthon.com - Beta Release
http://www.myie2.com - Stable Release

[JamesV]

Here are some programs I can't live without.

Name: FileLocatorPro
Type: Search App
Desc: Extremely fast filename and content search app. At least 5-10x faster than the built-in Windows 2000/XP file finder.
Note: RegExp or DOS searches
Cost: $12.99 / 30 days. Free stripped down version is AgentRansack(.com)

Name: MSGTAG (aka message tag[ger])
Type: Mail Utility
Desc: Embeds a 1x1 pixel into all your smtp sent emails. The server will send you an email when the recipient opens the email (if they weren't smart and disable html emails).
Highlights: Know when to call when crunch time is approaching, doesn't allow mass emails (prevents being used for spam), and NOT a subscription service even though it uses their server to host the 1x1 pixel.
Cost: $19.95, free version embeds a MSGTAG image footer to every email.

Name: ieSpell
Type: IE Utility
Desc: A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer
Note: Checks all or highlighted form text (right-click menu), add your own words
Cost: FREE!

Disclaimer: I do not work or have any relation with these companies other than being a happy customer. Don't worry about your name in my email address, I use that to make it easier to filter things and as a little trick to know where my spam is coming from.

[crackheadjones]

Ultimate resource for use in conjunction with a P2P.

http://astalavista.box.sk

crack site

[R]

You are hot

[Paul]

Love the Show and this site. Well as far as cell phones i have a Nextel and i have found a cool site for Nextels. Its called www.nextpimp.com . You have to have a data cable which you can get here: (http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/Action/ViewAccessoryDetailAction)and a Loader which you can get a trial version here:(http://members.cox.net/myteam/)Now your ready to install ringtones and wallpapers. You can put just about any wav tone, song or even any picture you want on your phone. The www.nextpimp site even has a area where you can upload your picture and it will convert it to a format so you can upload it to your phone. NEXTELS PHONES ONLY

[Nick]

I found this program a little while ago and think it is kind of cool. www.3dna.com

[jordan]

Hi... nice site...even if i cant do nothin...lol...check out my site at: www.jordannickerson.piczo.com

[me]

for star travel

http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/

[Ralph Bristol]

I have used Avant Browser and mozilla browser, but believe me, try out Lexun Browser. It is easier to use and and it is not cluttered up with a lot of unnecessary junk. Also check our majorgeeks.com If you cant find out what you are looking for there you probably won't find it.