Useful, Unusual Tools You've Found

[Lorelei]

I'm not talking about the usual suspects, be they SimPE or SimCategorizer, but other tools that help you with your Simming.

Google "JDirPrinter.exe" for a free tool that lists, in a text file, the contents of any directory. Good for obsessives who want a record of their downloads.

Google "Del.icio.us", a free bookmarks manager. You can access your personal bookmarks anywhere from any computer, and deletions are carried over when you get back home. Useful for me when using a T1 line at school. I bookmark interesting large downloads at home, then find the links at school, download them quickly, delete the link, go back home and the link is already gone, as desired. You can choose to make all, some, or none of the links public or private. You can also find other people's links, and categorize links. Links related to Flash and ActionScript, for school, are thus easily separated from Sims2 stuff.

Tool I can't wait for: I believe someone at MTS2 is working on an easy clothing categorizer that will aid in binning and deleting hair (and clothing?) and I am excited about it. Will be able to move violently pink reds to custom and blondes, greys and other normal colours in custom to proper bins. If lucky, my custom bin will only have fugly hats from Maxis and weird XMS-like unnaturally rainbowified recolours that seemed like a good idea at the time but which I rarely use.

[BlueSoup]

The tool you can't wait for is by jfade, not "someone at MTS2."

[Lorelei]

The tool you can't wait for is by jfade, not "someone at MTS2."

THANK YOU!!

Had a memory lapse.

JFADE, JFADE, JFADE. *burning it into my mental harddrive*

[redisenchanted]

Gadwin print screen helps with picture taking.

Fast Stone photo resizer lets you change files in batches.

Both paint.net and gimp are great free photo shop like programs.

[missangelica]

*clings to her Gadwin print screen*  I've had it for years.  I recommend it fully.

I use Photoshop for batch file changing nowadays but any adequate paint program will have it.

[Doursim]

If you're a lazy downloader like me, and are not picky about categorizing your downloads folder, I recommend The Sims File Maid.  Loved it for Sims 1 and <3 it for TS2.  Just download everything to your desktop (or wherever) open up filemaid, highlight zip/rars....drag into the "lawn" and presto!  Now you can delete those stupid zips.  It also skips over anything thats not a package (so no stupid images, or readmes in your downloads folder).

[Plum]

I used to use File Maid until I realized that if I highlight my ZIP/RAR files and right-click I have the option to "Extract files here" and that does the same thing but much faster than File Maid, which tends to freeze if you give her too much to do at once.

[Whatever]

Yeah, took me a few years to find that trick  :oops:

[Shark*Tooth*Hester]

Artweaver if you can't be arsed to track down photoshop for the 5 avitars and recolors you do a year.  :lol: It's free, and a nice little program.

[BlackPearl]

This is really neat, you can place your sims on counter tops, etc. in poses and add more things to tables, etc.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=217234  

Sims Wiki http://www.sims2wiki.info/Content_List

[Doursim]

I used to use File Maid until I realized that if I highlight my ZIP/RAR files and right-click I have the option to "Extract files here" and that does the same thing but much faster than File Maid, which tends to freeze if you give her too much to do at once.

Thats nice too, but I don't have my default download location in my downloads folder (er, I download stuff besides sims things, lol)

[alia]

I used to use File Maid until I realized that if I highlight my ZIP/RAR files and right-click I have the option to "Extract files here" and that does the same thing but much faster than File Maid, which tends to freeze if you give her too much to do at once.

I've done that for years. I extract them all in the same folder. Then I click View -> Details from the explorer bar, sort them by the filetype and move all the .package -files to my DLs folder. It's still faster than filemaid.

[icedwhitemocha]

Google "JDirPrinter.exe" for a free tool that lists, in a text file, the contents of any directory. Good for obsessives who want a record of their downloads.

*mashes nonexistent thanks button*

[FreeForMeAlso]

I really like Double killer http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/download.htm  This is great if you have your files in folders and want to make sure you don't have more than one version of the file (sometimes those names are not descriptive ).  This program is fast too!

I've also found list maker to be a helpful program http://www.listmaker.cc/

And totally sims related MultiSims2PackExtract http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=37577  (MTS2 is down so I hope that is the right link, if not just search for it there).

[Feverish]

I use clipmagic for all my print screens.
I don't have to paste and save every time I press print screen.
It records them all.