Category Archives: Recommended Free Tools

This category contains tools which I have found usefull.

For “no open source” free tools, consideration is needed if they are safe to use in that task or environment.

Team talk, Tool for conferencing (Audio, Video)

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

Team Talk 3 or 4 is great simple tool for meeting online. If one particpant has dynamic DNS, and firewall configured properly, then other ones can easily join the voice conference. Team Talk contains a lot of option for voice … Continue reading →

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WinSCP, Tool for sftp and ftp connections

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

WinSCP is great tool, a must, for sftp. One can customize the look and feel. It can also remember your password for easy and quick connection. Nice feature is the folder synchronization, this can be used for an easy backup … Continue reading →

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yWriter 5, Tool for writing Novels, Scenes etc.

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

yWriter 5 can be helpfull when planning your novel. One can first define the main flow, and then start writing the content step by step (see below). The great thing is that this way the main flow is allways easily … Continue reading →

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SIW, Tool for showing System Information on Windows

Posted on 30 September 2011 by Admin

SIW is great tool, a must have, for showing what your windows computer has: software hardware network Typical use is to check hardware related data like the number of memory slots, graphic card slot etc in the computer.   One … 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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