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The BullZip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

This program is FREEWARE which means that it is FREE for personal and commercial use. It does not contain any advertising or popups (Really!).
Features

* Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
* Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003/2003 x64/Vista/Vista x64/2008.
* Supports 64-bit operating systems.
* Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for destination.
* Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the resulting PDF document.
* Control output and prompts programmatically.
* Setup can run unattended.
* Graphical user interface.

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CLiCk, Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It is part of the CLC-4-TTS Suite of products, it features a mouse driven interface, and it reads web pages - hence its name.

Reading with a simple interface - CLiCk, Speak is designed to be as easy to use for sighted users as possible. The interface is completely mouse driven; there's no need to remember any key combinations. Reading through a page is as simple as placing the cursor and hitting the GO button; reading a selection is as easy as highlighting the text and hitting the SPEAK button.

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jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

Some of jEdit's features include:

* Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
* Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available.
* Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.
* Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.
* Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
* Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
* Word wrap.
* Highly configurable and customizable.

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This program is a system tray utility packed with features :

• a launcher for your favorite applications, documents, folders or URL's.
• create systemwide hotkeys that can simulate any set of keystrokes.
• hotkey macro language for extra functionality (eg : screenshots)
• extra built-in tools : Character map, Colorpicker, Screen Magnifier,...

Features
- Popup menu with links to Programs, Documents, Websites, Directories
- Very simple and intuitive interface
- Easy to understand macro language (no programming skills required)
- Small/Large icons
- Uses very little resources
- Easy Setup (with uninstall support)
- No extra DLL's required

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Replace text in multiple files in a single operation. Make backup copies of your original files, select case sensitive or insensitive searches, or choose between replacing whole or partial text strings.

New features in version 2.0 includes improved user interface (Win XP compatible), a new scan folder(s) option, etc.

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SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.

OCR Document Scanners - If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way to do it. The SimpleOCR freeware is 100% free and not limited in any way. Anyone can use SimpleOCR for free--home users, educational institutions, even corporate users.

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This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

* Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts (Windows 2000/XP required for PostScript OpenType fonts)
* Supports Type1 fonts (Windows 2000/XP required)
* Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
* Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
* Deletion of installed fonts.
* List of all installed fonts with several display options.
* List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
* Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.

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Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs - it helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories).

One keypress launches the utility - then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch. As you type the best matches are shown - just hit the number to launch the associated program.

NOTABLE FEATURES

* Fully customizable search paths (search your entire hard disk for files as well as apps)
* Fast incremental searches, with memorized search history helps you find the files you need quickly.
* Completely customizable heuristic scoring metrics - tune the program to search the way you think.
* Add your own custom alias groups.

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Ten independent Timers in one program, to count down to zero or up to max. 100 hours, with 1 second accuracy. Timers can be viewed one by one or all at once and can resume on a later computer session, all settings are remembered from the previous time ran.

Sound signal (optional) and blinking message window (cannot be hidden with other windows) with user-defined message on alarm. Each timer can be assigned an individual identifier string. Always on top mode and hide in System Tray mode.

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PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

* Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
* Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
* Send generated files via eMail
* Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
* AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
* Merge multiple files into one PDF
* Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
* Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
* And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

Use your 'PrtScn' button to instantly capture to the clipboard, print out your screen capture, save it to a specific folder, or even send it through e-mail.

You can perform full screen captures, capture a specific window, or selected rectangular area. Six different image formats to choose from, and each one can be resized.

Nice suite of 5 free graphics/office  programs. Desktop publishing, drawing, digital imaging, 3D design, and web publishing apps.

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us.

OpenOffice.org is both a fully-featured office suite compatible with leading office products, and a virtual community working through OpenOffice.org's numerous projects. The community comes together at www.openoffice.org to develop, support, and promote the use of OpenOffice.org. For information on joining the OpenOffice.org community, visit our Introduction page.

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IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge.

Lotus Symphony puts you in charge – take control over spiraling upgrade costs, ensure access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments with support for Microsoft® Windows® and Office file types.... even extend your applications with the new Lotus Symphony developer toolkit.

Quick To-Do Light is the entry-level version of an award-winning small and easy-on-use Personal Information Manager.
Its only duty is to track daily to-do list and it does it well without compromise.

Quick To-Do Light have won numerous software awards mostly for its simplicity of use yet power. It will take you few moments to understand the way program works.

If you just decided to get your life organized, Quick To-Do Light is a great way to start. It's free for non-commercial use and you will be able to understand your needs better by trying a real program.

Quick To-Do Light highlights tasks of different priority in different colors. This attractive solution will help you to understand a task's priority without

Quick Info is a reference lookup tool for three things: U.S. telephone area codes and time zones, international direct phone-dialing codes and time zones, and Internet domain suffixes.

With more than 2000 cities worldwide, 320 area codes, and 250 national Internet suffixes listed, you're sure to find some piece of information that you need to get your hands on quickly.

A quick find feature jumps to the proper section of the area code listing as you enter the numbers. Quick Info gives you the following information:

1. US area codes for all 50 states and territories. This includes a description of the general location of the area code and the time zone of the area code.

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Complete all your daily and scheduled tasks on time.

TaskPrompt is a task reminder utility. You can add tasks and categorize them. Set the task's occurrence to Immediate, Todo, Minutes, Hourly, Hours, Daily, Days, Weekly, Weeks, Monthly, Months, Yearly, Years or Scheduled according to when the task should re-occur.

Tasks that have a date and time set to Minutes, Hourly, Hours, Daily, Days, Weekly, Weeks, Monthly, Months, Yearly, Years or Scheduled will prompt you with a popup scroll window above your system time on the Taskbar to notify you that the task needs immediate attention.

Use the Todo occurrence to add tasks to a task category for all those things that you need to do or review at a later date and time. This list can be printed or viewed.

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We have created a product called ACRef which allows you to look up area codes from your desktop. You do not need to be connected to the Internet to run this.

Easy to Use & Informative: You just enter an area code and it will tell you the primary cities within that area code, along with the time zone that area code is primarily in, plus the local time. Note that some area codes cross time zones, so the local time may be off by an hour in those cases.

Free Updates*: This product has an option where you can click a button to go to our web site and update the data to the latest version. Lately, the number of new area codes has slowed down dramatically, so new versions may only be released about once or twice a year.

Let your computer read for you! Convert any text to speech. Copy from web, e-mail and text files to have contents read aloud to you. Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software.

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CFS-Technologies Speakonia is a FREE Text-To-Speech (TTS) GUI (graphical User-Interface) Program which uses the Microsoft ® Speech Technology.

The easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) is similar to Notepad. Speakonia reads aloud any given text with just one mouse click!

The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. In addition Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can even have your mails read to you using the "Clipboard Reading" feature.

Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.

It is possible to use Rainlendar with other calendar applications too. Rainlendar uses the standard iCalendar format to store its events and tasks so you can easily transfer them between applications. You can also subscribe to online calendars and see your Outlook appointments directly in Rainlendar*.

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FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.

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AgileMail is an email sender which is slim, powerful and easy to use. You can import messages from text files. You can easily add/remove attachments with a simple attachment management interface. You can custom your signature and AgileMail will automatically append it for you before sending outgoing mails. You can use define your own templates to create new mails.

Lookout is a free addin to Outlook that provides lightning-fast search for your e-mail, files, and desktop integrated with Microsoft Outlook™.

Built on top of a powerful search engine, Lookout is the only personal search engine that can search all of your e-mail from directly within Outlook - in seconds... Use Lookout to search, e-mail messages, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, data from exchange, POP, IMAP, PST files, public folders, and files on your computer or other computers.

View and print Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access & Visio Files without having the full application.