EssentialPIM - Appointment and information manager

EssentialPIM is a visual appointment and information manager that allows you to organize your daily, weekly or monthly schedule. It includes an address book to manage your contacts, as well as tree-style notes manager with support for rich text notes. The address book supports pictures and lets you add/remove fields to customize it for your needs. The schedule provides a very convenient way to mark your appointments in different colors, and allows you to simply drag an appointment to reschedule it. EssentialPIM supports single and recurring events, priority settings, color coded categories, completion indicator and reminder alerts. In addition it can export to HTML, RTF and other formats, and supports password protection with strong encryption. A very nice and easy to use PIM, we quite surprised to find that is is free. Download : Click Here

Chaos Manager - Compact organizer with reminders

Chaos Manager is a compact organizer that includes an appointment/to-do manager, a calendar, contacts, a notebook, print/import/export and more. It can remind you of appointments via popup dialog, or optionally send email reminders to a specified email address - allowing you to get reminders, even if you are away from home. If you commute between 2 computer locations, you can use the built-in FTP synchronization feature to exchange and sync data with another install of Chaos Manager (e.g in your office). Additional features include password protection, customizable interface with many skins to choose from and more. As far as features, Chaos Manager is a mostly basic PIM, but the FTP sync features and email forwarding add some good features that may be more useful to some, than other advanced organizer features.
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RGS-CardMaster - Phonebook and contacts manager

RGS-CardMaster is a personal phonebook and contacts manager that helps you keep track of all your addresses, phone numbers, fax, e-mail addresses and other contact information. It can interact with your phone dialer, fax software and email program and also print contact lists and address sheets. Other features include a detailed search option, export to CSV and MS Word mail merge document, integrated calendar, calculator and optional password protection. Download : Click Here

SimpleOCR - Convert scanned documents to text files

SimpleOCR enables you to convert scanned documents to text files or Word documents. You can simply insert a printed document into your scanner, and SimpleOCR will scan and analyze the text and present you with a spell checker view that allows you to correct incorrectly identified words or spelling mistakes. The result can then be saved to a text file or Word (.doc) document. The free version works with printed documents, and also includes a trial option for recognition of handwritten documents. Download : Click Here

PDF2HTML - Convert PDF to HTML

Pdftohtml is a command-line tool that translates .pdf documents into html format. It offers several parameters, including options to create output with or without using HTML frames,ignore or include images, translate internal pdf links and more. Download : Click Here

RTF Viewer - convert .RTF to read-only EXE

RTF Viewer is a commandline tool that allows to convert a .RTF document into a standalone, read-only executable with built-in viewer. The program is useful to distribute .RTF documents without allowing the user to modify them. It can for example be used with MS Access (after exporting to .rtf) and many other uses. Comandline parameters allow for automation of the conversion process.

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Mobysaurus Thesaurus - Off-line English Thesaurus

Mobysaurus Thesaurus is an off-line English thesaurus that help you find related and synonymous words for your everyday speaking and writing purposes. It includes a database of over 30,000 root words and phrases and more than 2,500,000 synonyms, all of which can be cross-linked by simply clicking on a word. If you happen to run into a word that is not included in Mobysaurus, you can use the integrated online reference to look up synonyms on Wikipedia, Thesaurus.com, Dictionary.com, MSN Encarta, WordWeb Online and other sites. Other features include wildcard search, clipboard/print support, system wide hotkey, WordWeb integration and more. Download : Click Here

CatsCradle - Website translation aid and editor

CatsCradle is an aid for language translators that provides an easy way to translate web pages. While it does not do any translation, it extracts the text out of evey page and presents it in an easy to editable overview that allows you to translate the text portions without having to deal with any HTML code or other distractions. The built-in editing screen allows for side-by-side editing, as well as optional real-time browser preview of the translated page. Additional features include a built in glossary that can suggest appropriate words and phrases while you are translating, project file catalog with word count and more. CatsCradle can also handle .hhc and .hhk files for translating of .chm help files. And of course, you can also use the tool to edit text on any web page without translating edit, so it can a also handy tool for webmasters that need some quick no-code text editing. Download : Click Here

WordWeb - Dictionary lookup

Wordweb is a powerful free English thesaurus and dictionary. It comes with a local database of definitions, therefore it is very fast. In addition it offers to look up the word over the Internet if it is not found in the local database.

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TheSage - English Dictionary and Thesaurus

TheSage is a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language. It runs locally, and does not use your Internet connection. The program offers a unique structured display, as well as wildcard search, anagram search and more. You can copy the entire lookup, or portions of it to the clipboard, switch between results using the tabbed interface, and customize the interface to your preference. Download : Click Here

VersionBackup (Free Edition) - Personal backup tool

VersionBackup is an easy-to-use backup software that allows you to maintain multiple versions of a backup set on your PC. It can archive the backup to a new folder every day, and optionally delete old backups after X days. VersionBackup uses incremental backup procedures, so only the files that have changed are included in the new backup set - this allows you to keep your disk space usage to a minimum. The program comes with a built-in scheduler, as well as a recovery wizard to restore all, or just selected files from the backup. A wizard interface can guide you through the creation of your backup sets. Good tool for set-it-and-forget-it backups of your important files. Pro version available with additional features. Download : Click Here

SpeedUsb2CdDvd - Backup your USB drive to CD or DVD

SpeedUsb2CdDvd is a standalone program that can be copied to your USB drive and enables you to quickly burn a backup of the USB drive content to a CD or DVD. The backups are stored as compressed and dated .zip files, allowing you to store multiple backups on the same media. You can also password protect your backups, or limit the backup to selected folders from the drive. SpeedUsb2CdDvd runs directly from your USB drive and does not require any additional CD/DVD burning software. Download : Click Here

DriveImage XML - Create a backup image of your drive

DriveImage XML enables you create a complete backup image of any logical drive or partition, allowing to to restore your entire operating system along with installed programs, user settings, registry and all. You can restore the image later to the same or a different drive, and also choose to copy the drive directly to another one. The program includes an image explorer that lets you open previously created backup images and extract individual files. DriveImage XML can use volume locking or Volume Shadow Services (VSS) to create the backup image from within Windows, without the need to reboot. The program stores your images in .dat files, using XML format, allowing you to process them with 3rd party applications. Download : Click Here

Cobian Backup - Backup tool

Cobian Backup is a small and simple utility to backup files and directories from some place in your computer to another place in the same computer or to a shared drive in another machine.You can set the program to automatically make a backup within regular intervals of time, for example daily, weekly etc. Cobian Backup offers additional support for PKzip compressions and can be run as a service under NT/2000/XP. Download : Click Here