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.

gImageReader, OCR tool for capturing text from scanned images

Posted on 20 February 2015 by Admin

gImageReader can recognize text from scanned documents or books. The OCR (Optical character recognition) used is based on tesseract-ocr engine. It is free and open source. There also exist a portable version for PortableApps. Wikipedia: Optical character recognition (OCR) is … Continue reading →

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Ditto, tool for pasting unformatted text

Posted on 27 January 2015 by Admin

MS Windows does not have a keyboard shortcut for copy pasting text only. In the long run it can be very tedious copy-pasting process when creating presentations or writing documents. Ditto (open source) is a good alternative for this. It … Continue reading →

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Bandwidth Manager, tool for limiting bandwidth on a computer at home

Posted on 18 December 2014 by Admin

SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager is good basic tool for sharing the internet connection by limiting the bandwidth on different computers. In the example below (Lite edition), download bandwidth limit is set to 20Mb/s and upload limit is 2Mb/s. (For some reason … Continue reading →

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Balabolka and Microsoft Speech Platform, way for multilanguage TTS (text-to-speech)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Admin

Most of the TTS tools on MS Windows support SAPI 5 (SAPI=Microsoft Speech API). In a previous blog, eSpeak and TTSReader were introduced as an alternatives for non-english languages. The good news is that the free tool called Balabolka also … Continue reading →

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PingInfoView, tool for monitoring network latency (ping)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Admin

There are several free tools for monitoring availability of multiple computers. However, it is surprisingly difficult to find a tool with the source code available. (For other needs, please look the discussion forums of your preferred programming language, there are … Continue reading →

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Vtiger CRM, Tool for general Customer Relationship Management or for personal CRM use

Posted on 16 December 2013 by Admin

Vtiger CRM is a multiuser web-based Customer Relationship Management tool. Vtiger page at sourceforge describes it as follows: Vtiger CRM enables sales, support, and marketing teams to organize and collaborate to measurably improve customer experiences and business outcomes. Vtiger CRM … Continue reading →

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GPX Editor, Tool for editing GPX files

Posted on 29 September 2013 by Admin

GPX Editor is an open source tool for editing your GPX files. For example those GPX files recorded by Maverick. Plus: No installation required Minus: Some practical problems at cutting the tracks Note: I’m using this before posting tracks into … Continue reading →

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