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WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.

General

• Supports Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008
• Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats
• Unicode support
• Tabbed interface

File Compare

• Visual differencing and merging of text files
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not required
OS Support: 
Windows

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A powerful editor and notepad replacement TotalEdit makes it easier to complete your file editing and software development tasks.

TotalEdit is free for commercial and non-commercial purposes (its freeware).

TotalEdit delivers a broad range of features and tools and it can be configured to work the way you want to. Language-Specific Syntax Coloring, Fully customizable environment, file explorer, external tool integration (E.g. Java, command line, Web browser) and a built-in spell checker are just a handful of the features available in TotalEdit.

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FileMenu Tools allows you to customise the context menu of Windows Explorer, it lets you:

* Add some built-in utilities that perform operations on files and folders.
* Add customised commands which run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
* Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
* Enable/disable commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.

FileMenu Tools is freeware.

Envelope Wizard is a basic freeware envelope printing program. Envelope Wizard walks you through each step from selecting the envelope size, recipient's address, formatting the font, setting return address and other options. (Click Screenshot for more details).

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This little program will place the Microsoft Outlook Calendaring system right on your desktop. The calendar object gets pinned to your desktop and stays there all the time in plain sight so you can always see what's upcoming. Of course, the benefits don't stop there ... because it's the actual Microsoft Outlook calendar, you get all it's functionality, such as direct editing, drag and drop of files, etc. You have to see it to believe it.

• Places fully functional Microsoft Outlook Calendar on your Desktop.
• The Outlook Calendar is pinned to your desktop so that no windows can get stuck behind it.
• The Calendar's position, size and opacity are all adjustable via a very intuitive GUI.
Rating: 
Very Good
Registration: 
not required
OS Support: 
Windows

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Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of Frank's frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

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DeskTask connects to Microsoft Outlook and displays your calendar and task items on the desktop.

* Your tasks will always be visible, saving precious time to launch or switch to Outlook.
* Just minimize every window, and see what are the items due for today or tomorrow.
* DeskTask displays the whole week so you can be prepared to organize your work.
* Besides the calendar items, the Outlook to-do list (Folder Tasks) is also displayed. If you work with Outlook, DeskTask is for you

DeskTask is freeware. It can be freely used and distributed in commercial and private environments, provided the supplied Zip file is not in any way modified and there is no charge for it other than nominal handling fees.

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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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The FREE PDF-XChange Viewer offers all the feature's you would expect such as support of all PDF file formats from Version 1.0 all the way to the latest 1.7 (Acrobat 8)

You might be surprised just how quickly your large PDF files open and pages smoothly refresh as they are scrolled.

In addition to all the standard features here are some of the features available in the PDF-XChange FREE Viewer

* Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings) - unlike the Adobe Viewer which requires the PDF creation tool to be 'certified' by Adobe !
* Mark-up pages with text and objects
* Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.

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System Scheduler is an excellent tool to schedule unattended running of applications, batch files, scripts and much more. For anyone used to using MSTask, AT or WinAT, System Scheduler is an ideal and easy to use replacement, with more flexibility and features. Also, you can schedule popup reminders so you'll never forget those important appointments and things to do. Reminders, tasks and other events can be set to run once or every minute, hour, day, week, month or year and several variations on these.

System Scheduler not only allows you to launch programs at scheduled times but also to send keypresses to those programs. This allows you to not only schedule programs to run overnight or at the weekend but also get those programs to do useful things.

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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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The Alarm Clock of Justice wakes your computer from standby and hibernation to play an alarm consisting of movies, music, CDs, and/or running programs, scripts, batchfiles, and ANY type of file your computer knows how to run.

Alarms can also include web addresses and a built-in reminder system can speak reminders with a customizable display (including flashing random colors). Volume effects include unmuting the volume, setting the volume to a certain level, random volume, and alternating the volume between two customizable levels for four customizable amounts of time.

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PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems, useful for people who:

* work with various programming environments
* like highlighted syntax in their source code
* need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
* are looking for a tool that handles plain text
* want to save time - PSPad offers rich text formating functions
* need tool what offer user extension capabilities
* want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products because PSPad is free for commercial and government purposes too

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Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence. This project is mature.

Here are the features of Notepad++ :

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
Dynamic position of Views

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StickyPad is an invaluable, easy-to-use tool that lets you place sticky notes on your desktop. You can type notes to yourself, set meeting and appointment reminders, keep track of a to-do list, and anything else you would do with paper notes.

Your notes can be printed, pasted into other applications, or emailed to coworkers. You can even make notes translucent and have them float above your other windows, so you can see both your note and what you are working on. When you log off, StickyPad remembers all of your notes, and when you log back on, your notes are still there. Once you try it, you won't want to work without StickyPad again.

Organiser is a Personal Information Manager (PIM). A PIM is a program that helps you organise your life, just like a real-world Diary. Digita Organiser is different from most in that it looks and works just like a FiloFax®, complete with pages and 'tabbed' sections.

There are five sections to Organiser: Calendar, Diary, Tasks, Address Book and Supplements. Organiser also conforms very closely to Windows 95 Interface Guidelines with extensive context sensitive help on dialogs, icons, menus and objects and the use of pop-up menus throughout the program for common commands.

Support for scheduled audio alerts w/ pop-up. Holidays included as well as a wealth of other nice info such as smilies, and health facts. Does not support auto-dialing.

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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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PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file. Version 1.1+ includes a very powerful and simple to use XML to PDF converter.

PDFill PDF Tools are FREE PDF Toolbox to Merge, Split, Reorder, Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark, Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, and PostScript to PDF.

This package contains the complete PDFill applications, including the free evaluation copy of PDFill PDF Editor, the Freeware of PDFill PDF Tools and PDF Writer.