Comments on: 4 Applications That You Do Not Know (But Should)

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:06:05 +0000

I have indeed used speed fan before and I was quite impressed. I don’t use it now because the default drivers I have already give me most of that functionality, yet it’s still a very useful program.

Regardless, still a highly recommended program for those that don’t otherwise have software to already do that stuff for them.

By: mrantispyware

mrantispyware — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:36:17 +0000

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By: flo

flo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:17:01 +0000

totally useless

By: Sonal

Sonal — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:04:48 +0000

Hey
at first moment reading and thinking about them I felt they were not what could help me. But after giving it a try I feel this is something which helps me operating my machine.

Good applications

Sonal Maheshwari
USourceIT

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:01:55 +0000

As for F.lux

At first I don’t appreciate this idea. I always liked the contrast and bright colors, never wanted to reduce color temperature. But it worked! My eyes really feel better. Now I reduced color temperature in the monitor settings too.

So – thanks!!

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:18:48 +0000

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By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:42:03 +0000

Umm… This is seriously the four apps you name that every computer user should know about? Not a notepad replacement, or explorer add-on, but something that adjusts fan-speed? Really? … Wow.

Also, most users aren’t using Firefox or Winamp or gmail. They use IE, OE & WMP because that’s what’s installed on their machine.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:19:38 +0000

Know about DeltaCopy and Speedfan. May I suggest an unknown device manager on steroids, DeviceRemover………

http://www.pro-it-education.de/software/deviceremover/

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:34:22 +0000

@John L

SpeedFan is toy for techies and indeed has rather clunky settings. :) Here is another post of mine that tries to explain fan control setup.

http://www.rarst.net/software/temperature-noise-management-speedfan/

Can’t claim it does perfectly, but still try it and tell me if any issuues remain unclear. :)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:08:57 +0000

John I agree that Speedfan displays many information in a way that only computer geeks understand. Not all information presented are needed however to work with the program. Some values should be self explanatory, like HD0, HD1, Core 0 while others are more difficulty to decipher like Temp1, Temp2, Temp3, Temp. A click on configure will reveal additional information about each value. You can use this information to identify hard drives and the Temp values.

Rarst wrote a nice article about Speedfan here at Ghacks as well http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/07/analyzing-drive-health-with-speedfan/

By: John L

John L — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:42:46 +0000

I like the idea of Speedfan but have never found anyone who appears to know how to use it. Almost every article appears to give different information on how to use it making me wonder if people are just guessing. I have tried it three times over the years, my motherboard is supported but I cannot find out to what items it is referring to and no adjustment has any effect so I end up uninstalling it every time. There appears to be a gap in the market for a product of this type that is much easier to use and, in my case, actually works.

By: web design studio

web design studio — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:34:16 +0000

Great post, That F.lux program will come in handy.

By: Heinz Rainer

Heinz Rainer — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:32:17 +0000

FLUX classified as malicious software.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:06:11 +0000

All those comments labeled “This comment was originally posted on Twitter” are worthless.

Why do you need to show them? At least segregate them from the useful comments!

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By: RogueSpear

RogueSpear — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:28:52 +0000

I found F.lux attempting to phone home. I blocked it from doing so and my XP install started to become non-responsive / semi-responsive. Sort of like when your computer begins to overheat. I never did capture the packets to see what it was doing, but just uninstalled it. And I’ve decided to pass on trying it out in Linux.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:01:37 +0000

I have two virtual drives and one DVD drive and always manage to click on the wrong drive letter :)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:51:50 +0000

On driver namer – what’s wrong with showing disc label as name what Windows does by default? Works fine for me.

Or worked. Don’t use discs much lately except LiveCDs. :)

By: lmiller867

lmiller867 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:45:23 +0000

As others have mentioned F.lux doesn’t change brightness, but I did find a program that does (just not automatically) DarkScreen http://www.fxc.btinternet.co.uk/assistive.htm lets you darken the screen 20-90%. Now if someone would just take DarkScreen functionality and put it inside of F.lux’s interface/automation we’d have a win.