Below are software applications that were selected for inclusion in Best Web Freebies. The programs are both shareware and
freeware, and all were selected for their usefulness to webmasters in
the management of their web sites. |
Calibre 0.5.0 (25.5 MB) is an e-book library management program featuring format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, e-book reader sync features, an integrated e-book viewer and a built-in web server that gives you access your ebook collection using a web browser from any computer anywhere in the world. Freeware for OS X, Linux and Windows XP/ Vista. ReminderCube 4.1 (28.3 MB) is a desktop calendar with numerous features, including a RSS reader, image viewer, app launcher, gmail checker, task scheduler and password manager. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista. ArsClip 3.12 (738 KB) is utility that monitors the Windows clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program. Remembers the last 15 (default) or more text entries entered into the clipboard and can be configured to monitor non-text items. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ Vista. My Address Book 4.8.1 (1.4 MB) is a simple contact manager for saving friend, family, and business contacts. You can store addresses, email, web links & phone information and notes for each contact. Features include alphabetic name sorting, send email, visit websites, calendar, quick search, printing, data backup & restore, password protection and data encryption. Freeware for Windows 98/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista. xNeat (560 KB) is a simple, clipboard manager that captures clipboard items as they are copied to the Windows Clipboard. Copied items can be pasted to other applications from a menu using a hot key, kept for permanent use or deleted. Freeware for Windows XP \ Vista (32 bit). StickIt! 9.0 (669 KB) is a desktop to desktop sticky note. Build a group of co-workers, friends, family, etc. and then send them notes that will immediately appear on their desktop. Those receiving notes can leave them up for as long as they wish or reply with a message. Freeware for Windows XP/Vista. Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. Total Text Container (3.4 MB) is a powerful PIM app that can store documentation, notes, passwords, images, bookmarks, contacts, spreadsheets, money transactions, calendar events & tasks, etc. Multi layer encryption, portable, xml database. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003. Mozilla Sunbird 0.8 (5.0 MB) is a full-featured, easy to use, cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. For Windows 9x/ ME/ 2K/ NT/ XP, Linux x86, Mac OS X, etc. Prism (6.9 MB) is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. When invoked, these applications run in their own window. They are accessible with Control-Tab, Command-Tab, and Expos�, just like desktop apps. Freeware for Windows 32 bit systems. Pigeonhole (1.58 MB) is a personal organizer that displays a grid of pigeonholes similar to a spread sheet. Click on any one and type in whatever you want to save. To recall the information, move your mouse over the pigeonhole and the information is displayed in a viewer. Freeware for Windows 95+. ReminderCube 3.2 (21.7 MB) is a multi-featured desktop calendar. You can set day's events, tasks with optional alarm and write notes in the all day panel. Includes a RSS reader, an application launcher and a gmail checker. Customizable. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista. SCAN 1.2 (1.9 MB) is a universal semantic content aggregator. It combines search, text analysis, tagging and metadata functions to provide a new user experience for desktop navigation and document management. Freeware. Platform independent. TextCrawler 1.0.6 (1.5 MB) is a great tool for anyone who works with text files. Find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders. Uses a powerful regular expression engine that allows for sophisticated searches. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP. SysSense 1.3.4 (1.3 MB) is a personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. Keeps your current Google AdSense stats in the Windows system tray. Monitor any number of AdSense accounts. Freeware for Windows 98/ 2000/ XP/ Vista. Ultra Hal Assistant 6.1 (21 MB) is a virtual digital secretary with a huge conversational database who can chat about anything and who learns from user input. Hal can can remember and remind you of appointments, keep an address or phonebook, dial numbers run programs and recent documents on command, etc. For Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP/ Vista. PastePerfect (836 KB) is a simple clipboard utility that makes it easy to store and retrieve commonly used items while writing emails and documents. Anything that passes thru the Windows clipboard goes thru PastePerfect and can be archived for later use. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP/ 2003 Netjaxer (1.26 MB) is an easy way to integrate web 2.0 applications into Windows. Create a desktop or quick launch icon. Load any web page when Windows starts and run it as a tray icon. Freeware for Windows 98 and above. PhraseExpress 3.1.6 (1.35 MB) is a utility that allows you to quickly copy and paste frequently used text phrases from a taskbar icon into any Windows application. Reduces repetitive typing. Can also launch programs, files or email messages and insert dynamic variables. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP. TextMaker Viewer (4.2 MB) enables you to open, view and print documents created in MS Word, Pocket Word, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument and TextMaker without the respective programs being installed on your computer. Freeware for Windows NT/95/98/2000/Me/XP. TED Notepad 5.0.1 (177 KB) is a true plain-text editor similar to Windows Notepad but with more text-processing functions, tools, hotkeys and clipboards for advanced editing. Freeware for Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ Vista. Cool PDF Reader (672 KB) is the world's smallest PDF viewer/ reader to view, print, and convert PDF files to txt, bmp, jpg, gif, png, wmf, emf, eps. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ XP/ NT. PDF Text Reader 1.1 (3.5 MB) is a utility that can convert most PDF files to text. Has a built-in text viewer and works independent of Acrobat and all Adobe products. Freeware for Windows 98/ NT/ 2k/ Me/ XP/ 2003. XSearch (195 KB) is a muti-featured search tool that can search files on your computer in high speed. Has numerous search and file operation options not offered by Windows Search and can search files in hexadecimal, unicode or UTF8 format. Freeware for Windows 98 and above. Synergy 1.3.1 (924 KB) lets you share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. Freeware for Windows 95 or higher, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher and Unix X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up. Verbose (192 KB) is a text to speech program which can read aloud any text or save it as mp3. Assign a system wide hot key to read the text on your screen aloud. Works within I.E., Word, Outlook and almost all other text based programs. Different voices are available. Freeware for 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/Vista. Inzomia Image Viewer (936 KB) is a fast zooming image viewer. Offers fullscreen mode and a number of layouts for different types of work. Can also show zip and rar image archives and has XML support for custom solution integration. Freeware for non-commercial use. Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP. Optimal Desktop (8.5 MB) is the ultimate Tab Browser/RSS Reader. Access Web, RSS, desktop files and folders. Features customizable 3D tabbed interface; RSS reader; XML editor and publisher; file viewer and file filters; toolbar and menu builder; Internet password playback; pop-up blocker; keyboard shortcut manager; and mobile desktop (USB version). Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP. |