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NeoPlanet

1999-07-30

abandoned, dead, email clients, freeware, GUI software, image viewers, loved, proprietary software, reviews, software, web browsers, Windows 9x software, Windows software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
was neoplanet.com

A Windows 16bit internet browser+email suite. It leveraged Internet Explorer‘s HTML rendering engine.

This is probably the most significant piece of software I’ve ever used, because it was the initial prompt for my writing and publishing reviews. It pushed a major hobby and has influenced whole careers. As for it being any good.. well it had potential that it didn’t meet. At the time it was better than Opera but it just didn’t survive the web browser marathon.

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Pegasus Mail

1999-07-30

dead, freeware, GUI software, loved, proprietary software, software, Windows 9x software, Windows software

Software > Email >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.pmail.com/

An email client. I believe this was originally 16 bit and I likely ran it on Windows 3.1.

This would have been one of my major programs back then. (version not recorded)

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Software >
(on Wikipedia)

A ubiquitous file compression program.

Also unzip
I don’t use the GUI version, I use 7zip for that, or the built-in manager for Windows (various versions)

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Prat 3.0

1024-11-18

convenience AddOns, freeware, glances, GUI software, live, loved, Lua software, open-source software, social AddOns, software, UI AddOns, World of Warcraft 3 (WotLK), World of Warcraft 3.3.5 (Ascension), World of Warcraft AddOns, World of Warcraft AddOns with Git repositories

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/prat-3-0
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-3-0

A chat AddOn.

I use it to eliminate my need to hold alt to move my cursor back and forth while typing into the chat box, and to move that box to the top so can move the whole chat area down further.

/prat

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URLCheck

1024-07-23

Android 10 software, Android 12 software, Android 7.0 software, android software, f-droid software, freeware, Google Play software, GUI software, live, loved, open-source software, security, software, software with Git repositories, utilities

Software, Android >

https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker
(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/search/label/UrlChecker

Allows you to open links through it, viewing and modifying the link before sending it on its way to some other app or just the clipboard.

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Tipard DVD Ripper

1024-07-10

archivism, freeware, glances, GUI software, loved, optical drive software, payware, proprietary software, software, windows 11 software, Windows software, zombie

Software >

https://www.tipard.com/dvd-ripper.html

DVD ripping software.

Also has video enhancement functionality (resolution upscale, brightness/contrast auto-adjustment, video noise removal, video shaking reduction)

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Doom II

aka Doom II: Hell on Earth

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The last level from Doom 2 has a certain sound which I’ve heard in movies. Perhaps it came from somewhere else, but I’m forever calling it the Doom sound.

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