Category Archives: Basic Tools
yEd, Tool for creating diagrams
yEd is a free tool for creating diagrams. There exist many software with diagramming function, like Inkscape,Dia and tools within Open Office. They are stronger in editing vector graphics, but also alternatives for creating diagrams. yEd’s positive features: automatic layout … Continue reading
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Gramps, Tool for creating and maintaining family trees
Gramps is a great free tool for Family Trees About: Gramps (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) is a personal genealogy program. One of the common views is the Pedigree view. The Ancestory Graph view might be valuable as … Continue reading
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ixquick, For searching internet with better privacy
ixquick is a metasearch engine which uses other search engines. The good side of ixquick is privacy. In their privacy policy, it is stated The IP address that is associated with your search will NOT be recorded. Please note that … Continue reading
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PDFsam, Tool for splitting and merging PDF files
PDFsam is a good basic tool for manipulating pdf files. It can merge, split and rotate pages. Update 2.9.2013, please see also PDFill PDF Tools, which contains additional features (different licensing).
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XMedia Recode, Tool for converting audio and video files
XMedia Recode is good alternative for converting audio/video file into another format so that it can be played in another device. Below is an example, where video from camera will be converted for phone format (mp4). The tool contains … Continue reading
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TTSReader, tool for reading text aloud (text-to speech)
There are several tools, like TTSReader, which can be used to read text aloud. Good in TTSReader: Can change voice including other languages Can change speed and pitch Can save speech as wav or mp3 file Unfortunately it is difficult … Continue reading
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Calibre, portable tool for reading ebooks
Calibre is good alternative for reading E-books on Windows. It supports both epub and pdf formats. The figure below shows some free books downloaded from internet sources. Some sources for e-books: Project Gutenberg ManyBooks Links: e-book formats epub Digital … Continue reading
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