Tuesday, 27 September 2011

ZoomIt

Microsoft's ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. Features include:  customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.


ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows.

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ZoomIt.zip

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Freeplane


Freeplane is a powerful and free software for building mind maps. It is a redesigned version of the well known FreeMind, and is created by one of FreeMind's key developers.

The software is written in Java, and supports any platform capable of running current versions of Java, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux / BSD / Solaris.

Freeplane can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/5ucskry

For ideas on ways to use Freeplane, see the Freeplane mind map gallery with several useful downloadable maps in different languages, visit http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Mind_map_gallery

PowerInbox

PowerInbox is being touted as the next generation of email because it is
collaborative, realtime, and interactive. Its developers say PowerInbox
brings the app experience to email. It provides Email apps, christened
"PowerApps", to make your emails more useful by letting you perform
actions inside the email itself. For example, A Facebook email lets you
comment back on a photo, a Groupon email shows a live countdown to
expiry or a Twitter email lets you tweet and follow back.

The developers are building more apps for all favorite services, would
love to hear of any apps that you may want them to build for you.

http://www.powerinbox.com/

Finestra Virtual Desktops

Finestra Virtual Desktops can help manage many windows or tasks on Windows. It lets you split up your desktop space into multiple "virtual" desktops, each one easily accessible. For example, we can keep all of your internet applications open on one desktop, work on another desktop for the normal routine, and still another for games or entertainment

Finestra virtual desktops also takes advantage of Windows' live window thumbnails to show live previews when viewed from the fullscreen "switcher" view. And, with Windows 7, Finestra utilizes the new taskbar features to make the experience natural and enjoyable.

XP owners needn't worry as Finestra Virtual Desktops does support it, however, window previews are not "live" since XP doesn't have DWM.

The 1776 KB Finestra Virtual Desktops can be downloaded at
http://vdm.codeplex.com/releases/73511/download/282402

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Trello

Trello, a collaboration tool, can organize your projects into boards. At a glance, Trello reveals what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. All your projects, all your tasks, all of your team--organized, tracked down, and easily visible. One can easily understand the list and the card metaphor, and can start deploying Trello within minutes.

https://trello.com/

Monday, 12 September 2011

FileWiggler


FileWiggler can help convert most audio and video files from one format to another. It's an free online service, supports many formats: iPhone, iTouch, iPod, iPad, Blackberry, PSP , Android, Windows Phone 7, Zune 3GP, AAC, DICOM, MPEG4, AVI, FLV, MKV, MP3, MP4, Smartphone, MXF, WMV, ASF, WMA, VP8, OGG, H. 263, H. 264 and others.

FileWiggler also supports videos from: YouTube, Metacafe, Break, Dailymotion, Devour, Google Video, TeacherTube, SevenLoad, CollegeHumor, and Vimeo.

Just upload your file, select the format you want to convert to and hit GO! You will receive a link of the converted file to download through your email. It's that Simple!

http://www. filewiggler. com/

Sunday, 11 September 2011

Markup


Markup can help express your thoughts on a webpage,
make a point about it or share the thoughts / ideas with others.
There is nothing to downloadand install,  just drag the GetMarkup
icon into the bookmarks bar. Whenever you want to make notes on
a webpage,  click the bookmarklet to load the markup toolbar.
Publish when you are ready to share.


Features

Draw on any webpage 
Stays in your browser,
Make shapes with the magic marker 
Write with the text tool 
Publish to share your ideas. 

Markup at http://markup.io. 

Help file at http://markup.io/help

Saturday, 10 September 2011

WinDirStat


WinDirStat can scan your hard drives and reveal a detailed summary of what's taking up the space on your disk. This revelation is provided in the form of a colorful graphic where each file type is assigned a color. The collage of squares, each one large or small, depends on how much space a particular file takes up. The unwanted file can permanently be deleted from within the application.

WinDir was released quite sometime ago, actually in 2007, yet continues to be found useful by many. It can be downloaded, for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/NT, at http://windirstat.info/wds_current_setup.exe

Friday, 9 September 2011

IObit Uninstaller

One more to the list of uninstallers is the IObit Uninstaller. It can help uninstall and remove unwanted programs and folders from your computer fast and easily. The IObit Uninstaller which appears to be quite a good alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs" doesn't require installation.

The 1.2MB IObit Uninstaller v2 can be downloaded at http://www.iobit.com/downloadcenter.php?product=advanced-uninstaller

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

NetTraffic

NetTraffic lets you view and be informed about the download and upload speeds in real time. Just select a Network Interface Card, eg. Fast Ethernet Card, Wireless Card..., and instantly view the network traffic (graphic bars and animated icon if you choose this option).

Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher required

The 19.5 KB NetTraffic can be downloaded at
http://patrice-zwenger.co.cc/Documents/Zip_Files/NetTraffic.zip



Saturday, 3 September 2011

Flipping PDF Reader - an alternative PDF Reader

Flipping PDF Reader, with the nice flip book feature, appears to be a a handy replacement for the standard Adobe PDF Reader. It lets you read PDF documents in user friendly interface with flipping book effect. Flipping PDF Reader has many other features too, like - intuitive navigation and zoom, search feature, mouse roller to flip pages, advanced page rendering, PDF bookshelf, page preloader, fullscreen mode and more... all of them make Flipping PDF Reader a truly useful desktop reader.




You can check out the Flipping PDF Reader, an absolutely free desktop application (Windows only), at
http://webstunning.com/pdf-reader/download/pdfReaderSetup.zip

WeeDuplicateDetective

WeeDuplicateDetective is a FREE duplicate cleaner. It helps you find
copies of files (duplicates) and clean them up. It provides you a lot
of control over

which files are to be treated as duplicates,
how to view the list of detected duplicates,
how to select the duplicates for cleaning, and
how to clean the chosen duplicates

Supported OSes: XP, Vista and Windows 7 - To XP and Vista users: you
would be required to install the .NET Framework 4. It can be downloaded
at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24872

WeeDuplicateDetective v1.0 can be downloaded at
http://wdd.onphp.net/wdd/WDD_1.0.0.0_Setup.exe

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Free PDF To Text Converter

LotApps Free PDF To Text Converter, a standalone Windows application, can 
extract text from PDF files, very quickly.

Key Features

Fast extract PDF document to text
PDF to Text Converter flawlessly switches multitudinous PDF to Text in very
short time.

Allow batch conversion
PDF to Text Converter supports Batch Mode that converts a lot of PDF documents
into plain text files at one time.

Support password-protected PDF files
Capable to convert password protected PDF files to preferable image type.

Standalone and no need to install
It does not require Adobe Acrobat or Reader support, and not need to
install.

Supported formats
Support exporting plain text files (.txt)
Support importing Adobe PDF 1.0—1.7 formats (.pdf)
Support encrypted PDF files conversion

Please note it only extracts the details to text format, nothing more, but it
does this very quickly

http://www.lotapps.com/download/pdf2text.zip