(__=== The Really Really Useful Thread ===__)

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OK, to try to cut down on stickies I've tried to amass the useful ones here.

It contains Choke-A-Likes, CD Duplication & Venue listing.

I'm going to lock it so for more useful info to be added we'll create a sticky and when it's done I'll add the useful parts here ok?

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DUPLICATION

http://www.ttyc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=10752

Quality CD-R Repro

No hidden charges

www.hificopies.com


JJM / Drive Like Jehu is a CD factory.

Local CD Duplicatory Champion - 2005!


http://www.dualplover.com/duplication/duplication.htm

http://www.RivieraMultimedia.co.uk

http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/DIY/

http://www.iconixmultimedia.co.uk

http://www.gzcd.cz

http://www.datacopy.ltd.uk/

http://www.keyproduction.co.uk

http://www.gmprinting.co.uk/

http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk - Top site for seriously cheap media and hardware.

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Choke-A-Likes

Er… us!! http://www.chokecentral.co.uk/pages/chokeLinks.htm


http://usagi102.tripod.com/sooc/sooc.htm

This link is for "Straight Outta Clapton" who are a collective based in London. They put on gigs and stuff and their website's got MP3 downloads and stuff. We met one of them in Widnes, Cheshire. His band Stig are playing at Choke soon.

www.oxfordbands.co.uk

Oxford Bands does reviews of local and visiting bands, interviews etc and they've also started to put on gigs of their own. My band played one of them a while back and met some really sound people including a girl who does a radio show and a few promoters. Seems to be plenty going on and this site's the main point of contact.

http://home.clara.net/lovepeacemusic/mtb_ari.html

-this Rocklands/LovePeaceMusic/whatever site is fucking full of useful stuff if you can make sense of it. It's kind of an online community for people who like music and get want to get DIY at promoting it.

http://www.seanchai.dircon.co.uk/links/ukother.html

http://www.alternativeswansea.com/

The Independant promotors network is worth a look, though this particular page has no links just a list:

http://www.btinternet.com/~email.kingsley/ipn.html

Diskant is a good resource

http://www.diskant.net/links/events.htm

Leeds has cops and robbers

http://www.dkemp.uklinux.net/cnr/

Oxford has truck records who do a bunch of stuff:

http://www.truckrecords.com

Big smoke does london and brighton. They are just promotors I think.

http://come.to/BigSmoke

www.unsignedshowcase.co.uk

does what it says on the tin.... magazine and regular showcases, usually of the Loud variety, in Reading.... website's a bit lame though....

Then of course there's www.decodepublishing.com

www.glam-ou-rama.co.uk

http://www.situation-normal.com/

http://www.southscene.net

www.highvoltage.org.uk

www.planbmag.com

http://www.voodoojunkie.com/

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Venue Listing

http://www.ourband.net/new_asp/venue_li ... nue_Name=A

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Places To Send Your Music (Review etc)..

Pitchfork Media
1235-A North Clybourn #419
Chicago, IL 60610
USA

J. Crook (The Blooding Fanzine)
40 Silsoe House
50 Park Village East
Camden Town
London NW1 7QH

Loose Lips
PO Box 42260,
London E7 0WP

DrownedinSound.com
c/o Silentway
61B Pall Mall Deposit
124-128 Barlby Road
London, W10 6BL

The Wire
2nd Floor East
88-94 Wentworth Street
London E1 7SA

Decode Magazine
Manor Hall
Lower Clifton Hill
Bristol
BS8 1BU

Venue Magazine
64-65 North Street
St. Andrews
Bristol
BS6 5AQ

Gigwise,
4th Floor Gostins Building,
32-34 Hanover St,
Liverpool,
L1 4LN

Openingbands.com
c/o Will Zeiger
700 W. Illinois
Urbana, IL, 61801

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Mastering & Recording


http://www.statick.co.uk/audio
Statick Audio - 24 channel recording at J&J studios (Jim Barr's place)

==============================================================
Joel Eaton Recording Services

Professional recording and mastering services in north Bristol featuring a 24-track analogue desk, wide selection of mic's including Neumans, Bruel and Kaer, Hebden, Soundfield, AKG. Great Sounding Live and dead room with large control room. Surround Mixing Suites, Audio Visual Suite for music to flm. nice outboard kit, instruments including V-Drums, Doepfer Analogue Modular, Arp.  Pro-tools and logic set-ups. Tea/Coffee facilties. Clients include Hunting Lodge, Diego Garcia, Cat on Form, Lescour, King Alexander, Scarecrows, Fuck Buttons...
Recording Prices start from only £80 per day engineer incl.
Website under development
e-mail: soundslikejoel@gmail.com

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Live Band Photography:


Richard Brooks - mail him at gigs@camrabristol.org.uk

Lensman - http://www.lensmanship.com (PM him on this forum)

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Bristol Promoters

Name: Deadpunk Promotions
Contact: matt_otridge[at]hotmail[dot]com
Genres: Mainly Punk, Ska, Hardcore and associated genres
Web: http://www.deadpunk.com and http://www.the-croft.com
Other Info: I am also the In House Promoter at The Croft, and am interested in booking Bristol based bands

Name: Let The Bastards, Grind!
Contact: angie_yorke@hotmail.com
Genres: Everything 'under the ground' with DIY ethos from breakcore, mecha-ambience, grind, death/black metal, screamo to stirring soundage...
Web: http://www.myspace.com/letthebastardsgrind
Other Info: I also endeavour to do in-housing for The Junction
http://www.thejunctionbristol.com


Promotion Name: LittleThink
Actual Name: Steve
Contact: littlethink[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk
Genres: Anything that's interesting but I am an Indieboy at heart
Web: http://www.myspace.com/littlethink
Other Info: I mainly put on Bristol bands but if a great out of town band wants to play for petrol money then I could be interested.


Name: Popbox Promotions
Contact: migstar007@hotmail.com
Genres: All types of music (We have put on everything from Local bands first ever gigs to the likes of The Futureheads, Maximo Park, Scissor Sisters, Jose Gonzalez)
Web: http://www.myspace.com/thelouisiana
Other Info: I am also the In House Promoter at The Louisiana, and am interested in booking Bristol and 10 mile surrounding area based bands and we also book bands through agencies and certain promoters (Lofi hifi, anB, Metropolis, sjm, live nation, Big Noise) I also smoke way to many cigarettes... I would advise bands from outside the Bristol area to try Moles Club, Bath.


Name: LOFI HIFI
Email: tre_bailey[at]hotmail[dot]com
Genres: Quite eclectic i guess; bands I've put on include New Wave/Post Punk (Bromheads Jacket/Help She Cant Swim), Math-rock/Screamo (Oxes/An Albatross) and indie-pop (The Organ/Envelopes).
Web: http://www.myspace.com/lofihifi (also, my clubnight http://www.myspace.com/young_sensation)
Other Info: I work inhouse booking for the Louisiana (all local showcases etc), as well as my independent LOFI HIFI shows. Book both local/touring acts.


Name: Hightower
Contact: superfi_records[at]hotmail[dot]com
Genres: Done lots of different stuff so far - hardcore, punk, metal, grind, all the way to acoustic indie, but stuff that's basically DIY at heart I suppose
Web: http://go.to/bristolgigs (update soon)
Other Info: That's it really.

name : FACT FANS
contact: info (at) factfans[dot]co.uk (or theo@etc jen@etc hugh@etc)
genres: anything and everything as long as one of us likes it enough to put the gig on. that said we mostly do either very quiet stuff or very loud stuff.
always up for gig swaps as we also do tours for various acts and often need help with those.
web: http://www.factfans.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/factfans

Name: Slug Sessions
Contact: danceoftheweek[at]hotmail[dot]com
Genres: Acoustic, Folk, Indie, mellow acts
Web: http://www.myspace.com/slugsessions
Other Info: Promoter for the newly started Slug Sessions night at the Slug And Lettuce in Bristol, we put on shows every monday fortnightly starting from 6th March

Name: Weekend at Bernards
Contact: PM me HERE
Genres: Improv, People the really put on a show, Unique performers
Web: Not yet but soon
Other Info: I sometimes put on gigs in the surounding area of bristol too.

Name: Cider City Promotions
Genres: Punk.
Contact: chris[at]valdez[dot]org[dot]uk

Name: The Junction
Genres: Will consider anything, but seems to prefer stuff away from the mainstream
Contact: thejunction@live.co.uk
Web:

Name: Trailer Park Trash
Genres: Punk / Ska / Psychobilly
Contact: trailparktrash[at]hotmail[dot]com
Web: http://www.trailerparktrash.org.uk
Other Info: Also put on gigs in Bath

Name: Alternative Twist @ Meze Lounge, Newport
Contact: Steve via mezelounge[at]hotmail[dot]com
Genres: All sorts occasionally, but I prefer doing nu-folk/acoustic/slow core shows or noisy shows or good punky stuff thats interesting in some way.
Web: http://www.mezelounge.com (coming very soon)
Other Info: I prefer emails to phone calls! I also do stuff under the guises 'gathered in song' (americana/alt. country/folk/us indie/lofi - some bands I have put on or currently have scheduled... Great Lake Swimmers, Ox, Eileen Rose, Constantines, The Long Winters, Centro-matic, Goldrush), and once, or twice, 'all in awe' (experimental, and generally louder). Generally these shows are at Meze also, though not always. And I like gig swaps. I will put on out of town bands, just dont expect loads of cash, or, furthermore, loads of people.

Name: Unwanted Promotions
Genres: Most bar limp indie blandness. Particularly noise/nasty/niceties/'alternative' rock music/acoustic/electronic things.
Contact: unwantedpromotions[at]gmail[dot]com
Other Info: Small label with international distribution may be in the pipeline for special releases.

Name - Lesson No.1
Genres - anything we like, broadly 'leftfield' or noisy stuff but that's about as specific as it gets
Contact - email via the website
Web - http://lessonnumberone.blogspot.com/
Other info - we do shows in Cardiff and sometimes Newport

NAME:  Fishrock Promotions
CONTACT: FishrockPR@googlemail.com
GENRES: Anything! mostly alt. indie, hardcore, punk, metal. send it to me and we will take a look
WEB http://www.myspace.com/kellerraw
OTHER INFO: I organise Raw Talent which is the this years rework of the Bierkellers unsigned night (Dave H was in charge last year)
best bet is email, send me a link to a demo, a myspace with a demo, or even better a demo CD to my bierkeller address ( on the myspace)

Name:Open All Ears and Free Minds
Genre: I am not realy genre specific, but so long as it catches with meaningfull intent and interesting tunes, I have largely dealt with Bristol acts so far but I want to get the best acts available for first outings.
Where: Either the Croft or the Junction or anywhere else I can find
Contact: jeffrecluse(at)hotmail(dot)com
Other stuff: Like to dance crazily at gigs, and Iam concidering starting a rent a jeff service for all bands who need a bit of Jeff in their lives. I like to kick up a fuss about bands I have playing @ my events

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Rehearsal Rooms

Name: Hanger Studios
Contacts: Steve and Chris (numbers on website)
Website: http://www.stephenrussell.pwp.blueyonde ... index.html
Facilities: Excellent PA, Mics and Stands, tea, coffee, sofa, toilet etc.
Flexibility: 3 hours minimum, week day slots mostly taken, very accesible at weekends
Price: £7 an hour

Name: Drum Bank
Contacts: 0117 924 7222
Website: http://www.drumbankmusic.co.uk/
Facilities: Alright PA, No Mics or Stands, basic room, free drum kit hire
Flexibility: 1 hour minimum, week day slots mostly taken, accesible at weekends
Price: £6-£7 an hour


Name: Factory Studios
Contact: Tel 0117 952 5655
Facilities: Several rooms, including a very large one. Reasonable PA included. Drumkits and dodgy amps for hire. Storage. Free tea and coffee. Cold drinks for sale.
Flexibility: Mostly booked up.
Price: From approx. £7 an hour

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Radio Play

Last FM
.....is free internet radio that plays stuff based on what you've previously listened to, or is 'similar' to a chosen artist (based on what other people listen to). the selection they have is staggering to say the least, and it rarely plays music i dont like. its helped me find quite a few artists i would have otherwise never heard of. its also got many thousands of listeners (354 listening right now)

but theres more, which ive just discovered.

you can submit your own music to it, so that it also gets included in the system - so people listening to similar stuff will get to hear it.

its database of artists is updated by tracking what people listen to on their pc, which includes cds and mp3s. which means, if any of the last.fm listeners have listened to your stuff, then last.fm knows about you, they already have a page all about you, showing which of your songs are most popular, and what bands you are considered similar to, etc - and could potentially be playing your music and linking to your website.

doing a few searches, ive found that last.fm already knows about the following bands (click to see the page)

hunting lodge
loxodonta
north sea navigator
rose kemp
sj esau
steveless
team brick

i think this is a great potential oppurtunity to get your music 'out there', so i put it to you that you should all be submitting your music to this place

of course, this depends on you owning the rights to the music - if you're signed you will have to try and convince the label to send your stuff in.

the submissions page is here http://last.fm/labels/
did i mention its free?

Quote:
On Last.fm unknown artists get the same exposure as those with million-pound advertising budgets and of course it's free for labels, artists and listeners.


i think everyone on this board should seriously consider this
Link to original post: http://ttyc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=14621 ... sc&start=0

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Freeware (Long Post).

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-servi ... _ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cw ... nload.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/i ... tion.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=p ... rainlendar
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html
Zonealarm Basic firewall -

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/c ... wnload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detai ... ation=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
WYSIWYG Web Builder -

http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/h ... ilder.html

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:[b]
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

[b]IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.ph ... eadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swiss ... sknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000 ... ag=lst-2-7
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/prod ... php?p=iico
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

Pop-up Blockers:[b]
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

[b]RSS Readers:
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overvie ... n&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374 ... nload.html
WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

Video codecs:
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_di ... /index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :
AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories ... DEasy.html
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AdShield - http://www.lossepladsen.dk/all4you/TheL ... Shield.php
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/
BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/
Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/
Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downl ... e_105.html
Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/
Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp
Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html
Peerguardian - http://www.methlabs.org/
Process Explorer (aka ProcessXP) -

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freew ... cexp.shtml
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/show ... =txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/M ... index.html
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
WeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain
WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/
XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/
YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm

[Snoo Gliffer]

Flightcases and associated Hardware

http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/

[Old Father Disc]

Live sound - This is Joe Garcia's PA and production service:

Red Radio Sound
Several rigs are available, from small, high quality vocal PA's to large systems for clubs, halls and outdoor events. Red Radio Sound has the gear and expertise to get you a great sound, even on a tight budget.

Location Recording:

Red Radio Sound
High quality location recording is available with several mobile recording rigs able to cater for all sorts of projects big and small. This means you can record wherever you like. Red Radio Sounds has done recordings in church halls, crypts, at live gigs and can record anywhere with mains power.
Quality multitrack recordings can be made of live gigs for as little as £40!

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[Snoo Gliffer]

Anonymous Browsing:

http://www.freetoview.net/

[Snoo Gliffer]

Really Useful Websites.

I’ve given a brief explanation but visit the actual sites for more info.

www.freelawyer.co.uk - Done Something dodgy? Need to Sue? Look here for advice.

www.myvouchercodes.co.uk - Where people upload their online discount codes. Check here before buying anything online.

www.howtocleananything.com - Red wine on your carpet? Jism on your sister? SOLVED!

www.planningportal.gov.uk  - Contains all sorts of useful info about planning and building applications in your area. Post code searchable.

www.sharpmail.co.uk - Anonymous text or e-mail service.

www.cqout.com - The number 2 in online auctions!

www.emailias.com - e-mail sign-up go-between so you can trace any spam.

www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/what/ - Register with these guys to prevent unsolicited sales calls. It is a legal requirement for companies to respect the wishes of those registered.

www.yousendit.com Free upload service for sending large files (Good for music, DJ mixes etc)

http://www.mediafire.com/  Just like yousendit

www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html - Check your getting the broadband speed you are paying for!

www.powersnipe.com - E-Bay sniper for 11th hour bidding.

www.zamzar.com - Free online conversion site for hundreds of file formats

www.cbfsms.com Send unlimited text messages from your PC.

www.fring.com - mobile phone client that somehow ties in with VOIP type stuff and lets you call cheap of free or some such. You can tell I haven’t looked at this one yet can’t you?

www.192.com Not just phone numbers. Electoral roll and census records for personal searches.

[Snoo Gliffer]

http://www.ppluk.com/en/Performers/

New official way to obtain ISRC codes for your recordings.

[Snoo Gliffer]

Free Audio Plug -ins

http://audio.tutsplus.com/articles/gene ... s-plugins/