Category Archives: Basic Tools

For every day normal office use.

VLC, Tool for playing videos

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Admin

VLC media player is one of the alternatives for playing videos. Good: multilanguage portable option converts between media formats

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WinMD5, Tool for maintaining integrity of important files and documents

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Admin

WinMD5 is a great portable tool for calculating and comparing MD5 hashes of files. With this tool one can check that the content of your important documents and files has not been changed. Positive: Portable Open source drag&drop Can create … Continue reading →

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Lingoes, Tool for offline dictionary (and thesaurus)

Posted on 21 November 2011 by Admin

Lingoes is one of the free alternatives for offline dictionary. Common use is for translating words between languages, but it has other use as well. Results from different dictionaries are visible at once (see below).   Positive: huge collection of … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Thunderbird, Tool for emails

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

Mozilla Thunderbird is great tool for managing your emails. Screenshots are available here.

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Mozilla Firefox, Tool for accessing Internet

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

Mozilla Firefox is great tool for web browsing. It has a lot of additional tools, and it also has Private Browsing mode.

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Foxit Reader, Tool for reading PDF files and commenting and filling PDF forms

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

Foxit Reader is not a must, but is great tool for filling in PDF forms, and saving those PDF files for later use. It works also for forms which are not “interactive forms”, but regular PDF files (see below). Some … Continue reading →

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SyncToy, Tool to synchronize folders

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

SyncToy from Microsoft is free tool to synchronize 2 folders. One can create several folder pairs. This tool is usefull to synchronize USB drive, or encrypted virtual drive, with files on the normal hard drive (C:).

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