Thursday, December 24, 2009

Useful Tools From Windows For Freelancers

Hundreds of useful tools and applications are available on windows for freelancers and web workers. Windows being one the major operating systems offers a huge list of utility applications which come for free.

1. Ditto - It is a clipboard manager that lets you save, manage, and retrieve all of the countless clipboards instantly and effectively. It offers some great features such as easy- to-use interface, search and paste previous copy entries, data is encrypted when sent over the network etc.

2. Defraggler -It is a defragmentation tool for Windows that helps in defragmenting individual files or a specific portion of a drive. It also helps in scheduling defragmentation while working or doing important stuff and can be run daily, weekly or monthly.

3. Recuva- Another application for freelancers which helps in recovering files from Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Alos claims to recover corrupted and damaged files and brings them to the PC. It also lets its users retrieve emails as it supports Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Windows Live Mail.

4. Picasa- This photo editing application by Google that allows it users in gathering and organizing the photos and share them with connections. Editing, resizing and retouching your photos, sharing them online with friends and connections.

5. VLC Media Player- It is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

6. 7stacks- This easy-to-use, free application that allows Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have "stacks" of icons in their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). This helps in reducing icon clutter, and combining a group of related icons into a single icon.

7. Notepad ++- Another useful tool that helps in editing text and source code easily. It provides tabbed editing, to easily work with multiple open files. It features include Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, java, pascal, css and more), auto-completion, multi-document, full drag 'n' drop supported, multi-language environment supported etc.

8. Windows Live Essentials-This application includes Windows Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Live Messenger are worth downloading. Windows Live Essentials gives instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photos, and more.

9. 7-Zip- This tool is a host of compression formats, 7-Zip lets uncompress almost any compressed data, and with the unique 7z format, files can be compressed up to 40% smaller than Zip formats.

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