Pat's Freeware Selection 
Productivity and Office
Calculators
Calendars, time and alarm
Templates
Office Suite
Wordprocessing and Desktop Publishing
Editors with structured management
Editors for programming
CSV editors and tools
Notepad replacements
Document format converters
PDF
Screen capturing
Clipboard Utilities
Desktop utillities
Personal Information managers
Project Planning
Unit Converters
Translations, Thesaures, Dictionaries
Miscellaneous
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Calculators
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Calc.exe (P) | YES | I believe most versions of Windows have the calculator calc.exe on board. It has 2 views: standard or scientific. It's portable as it is. Or go here for a portable wrapper around calc.exe. | |
| ESBCalc Free | YES | YES | ESBCalc is a Freeware Windows Scientific Calculator with Infix Notation, Brackets, Scientific Functions, Memory, Optional Paper Trail, Result History List, Customisation of the Colours and Fonts used, Customisation of the Hints, and more. Functions include Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, Logarithmic - Base 10, Base 2 and Natural - and many more. |
| Handy math | YES | YES | Some ONLINE technical calculators. |
| Mini Calculator (P) | YES | YES | A simple 'pocket' calculator with all the basic functions, and that occupies very little space. Option to show a paper strip. |
| Moffsoft Freecalc | NO | YES | Moffsoft FreeCalc is a basic calculator that makes a great replacement for the Windows calculator. |
| MS Calculator plus | YES | YES | Enhanced MS Calculator. This application allows you to complete many different types of conversions; it also includes all the mathematical functions offered in Microsoft Calculator. |
| XCALC (P) | YES | YES | This is a Win32 (2000+, 98+) RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator. Highly configurable. Can be used for simple calculations using decimal or complex floating point, or hexadecimal, octal or binary integer numbers. |
Calenders, time and alarm
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Calendar Program Pro (P) | YES | YES | This is a calendar program for your desktop. Repeating events, categorized by default types such holiday, todo, reminder etc. The calendar can be protected by a master password. It has a built-in editor for longer entries. |
| Eventmanager (P) | YES | YES | Event Manager is a light weight reminder program. It supports many options for repeatable alarms. |
| FreeWatch (P) | YES | YES | Freewatch is a very simple stopwatch application. You may start as many instances of FreeWatch as you need. The Start, Stop and Reset button dont need any explanation. The Lap button can be used to freeze intermediate readings while the timer continues on. |
| Mozilla Sunbird (P) | YES | YES | The Sunbird Project is a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. |
| MP3-PizzaTimer (P) | YES | YES | This is a timer program that counts DOWN a user-configured length of time and plays your favourite MP3 music when the timer reaches zero. |
| RMP(Remind-Me-Please) | YES | YES | Remind-Me-Please is a reminder program which will give you advance warning of upcoming events. Enter one-off or repeating events: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and specials like 'Every two weeks from 1/1/2008' or 'Third Sunday of each month'. Once it's set up properly it'll give you a splash screen listing all upcoming events whenever you reboot your computer, followed by a splash screen for items due NOW. |
| SwizzTool (P) | YES | YES | With SwizzTool you can create personal reminders and automated tasks that can launch a program at a specified date/time, weekday or after a countdown has elapsed. The tasks also include options to reboot your computer, print a document, and more. In addition, SwizzTool includes a small memo pad with alarm features, integrated web search functions and a small clipboard manager. The interface is very basic but offers some very useful functionalities. |
| TimeSentry (P) | YES | YES | It's a small, multi-purpose calendar and time application. It features a customizable calendar, a date/time calculator to calculate the difference between two dates and times to the millisecond, and also an atomic time synchronizer. |
| XgD's Countdown (P) | YES | YES | Shows how far You are away from a user-defined event. It can sit transparent on your desktop, or tick away in your system tray. |
| yTimer | YES | YES | This program lets you run up to 40 countdown timers, with an audio alert and a popup window when the countdown reaches zero. You can also choose to run a program or open a URL in your default browser when the timer goes off. |
Templates
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| HP templates | YES | YES | Free Office templates: Download templates from a design set and help ensure that your communication materials present a consistent company image. |
Office Suite
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Go-oo.org | YES | YES | OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites. The go-oo version of OpenOffice.org is designed to give a foretaste of new features in development and includes functionality not yet accepted up-stream. Simply download the en_us file, and your native lang-pack, and install them one by one. |
| Openoffice Novell Edition | YES | YES | OpenOffice.org Novell Edition contains enhancements and bug fixes, especially for interoperability with Microsoft Office and other word processing programs, that are not available in the standard edition: Improved Excel compatibility, improved Excel VBA Macro Interoperability, Enhanced Fonts, ... To download you must register at Novell first. Big download! |
| Openoffice.org ENG (P) | YES | YES | OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites. This is the home page: language is englisch (ENG). |
| Openoffice.org NL | YES | YES | OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites. This is the Dutch localisation page: language is dutch (NL/BE). |
Wordprocessing and Desktop Publishing
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Abiword (P) | YES | YES | AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a variety of word processing activities and has the ability to read and write a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Open Document (pre-installed), RTF, HTML, Palm and more. It includes both grammar and spelling checkers as well as an array of other handy features including mail merge capabilities. It also has a plugin system allowing you to add features with available add-on plugins. |
| Qjot (P) | YES | Qjot is a relatively small alternative rich text editor that saves .doc files, inserts images and more. It can serve as a good WordPad replacement. Its native format is RTF, but it can open, edit and save Word and WordPerfect files (though not with all of their features). | |
| Scribus (P) | YES | YES | Scribus is an open source page maker/desktop publishing tool. With it, you can create professional looking documents, newsletters, magazines, and so on. |
| yWriter | YES | YES | yWriter is a novel or story writing program for authors. The program lets you organize your novel as a project. It allows you to break your novel into chapters and scenes within chapters. You can reorder scenes using drag and drop, and you can print out a number of reports (summary, synopsis, scene list, work schedule). Gives you a running word count per scene and chapter, and the built-in editor auto-saves your work. |
Editors with structured management
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| MemPad (P) | YES | MemPad is a notebook with an index tree. Support for text search, word-wrap mode, read-only mode, export/import, encryption, automatic backup etc. | |
| NoteCase (P) | YES | YES | NoteCase is a hierarchical note manager (aka. outliner). It helps you organize your text notes into a single document, with individual notes placed in the tree-like structure (each note can have its sub-notes, ...). As of december 2008 the development of the freeware version is discontinued, the last version being 1.9.8. |
| TiddlyWiki (P) | YES | YES | TiddlyWiki is a wiki-modeled client-side single page application, designed to be used as a personal notebook. It is a single self-contained HTML file that includes CSS and JavaScript code. TiddlyWiki can save the entered information by overwriting itself. Supports plugins. |
| Tkoutline (P) | YES | YES | With this editor, information can be structured hierarchically in an outline and outlines can be hyperlinked together to create a web of outlines. |
| WikidPad (P) | YES | YES | What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information like in a wiki. Links in a wiki are created by typing in WikiWords. WikidPad is a real-time wiki, an IDE for your thoughts or an Information Manager for Your personal or proffesional information. |
Editors for programming
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Notepad++ (P) | YES | YES | Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. |
| Notepad2 (P) | YES | YES | Notepad2 is a handy text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages: small, fast and without frills. Notepad2 is not allowed to write files inside the %PROGRAMFILES% directory tree, by default. You need to manually edit the Notepad2.ini file inside the program directory. See the faq. |
CSV editors and tools
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| CSVED (P) | YES | YES | CSVed allows you to manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator. You can add/delete columns, rearrange column order, change separator, filter items, remove duplicates, split/join columns etc. |
Notepad replacements
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| AcroPAD (P) | YES | YES | Dreamscape AcroPAD is a small Notepad-like program with PDF conversion capability and a useful button toolbar. |
| AkelPad (P) | YES | YES | AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast. Features Unicode support, multi-level undo, single window mode or multi window mode with tabs, unlimited file size, search/replace, etc. |
| SavageEd (P) | YES | YES | Very small, written in assembly language. It can edit files of any size. This is fast and stable notepad replacement and only a few KB in size! |
| TED Notepad (P) | YES | YES | It looks like a small Notepad, but it's more, mutch more! Every single action has its hotkey, nine permanent clipboards, text size is limited only by your available memory, search, autocomplete,etc. Designed for daily writing of notes, lists, scripts and html files. |
Document format converters
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Online-utility's Image converter | YES | YES | This is an online image converter. Supports over 100 major image formats. |
| T2T | YES | YES | T2T converts delimited files (CSV files) to HTML tables. With a few clicks you can produce a nice HTML table. You can specify fonts and colors for the output files. |
| Youconvertit | YES | YES | Online service to convert files to another format (Documents, Images, audio & Video) without buying or installing anything on your PC. |
| Zamzar | YES | YES | Zamzar supports online file conversion between a wide variety of different file formats: documents,music,images,video |
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| A-pdf Info Changer | YES | A-PDF INFO Changer is an utility for Reading and changing the PDF file properties, include author, title, subject, keywords. | |
| Adobe Reader | YES | YES | Free PDF reader from Adobe. (=Acrobat Reader). Good, but a bit heavy. You probably want to use an alternative reader like Foxit Reader, Cool PDF Reader, or another reader here in this list of PDF tools. |
| CoolPDFreader (P) | YES | YES | A small reader that does exactly what Acrobat Reader does; only faster and with about 1/50th of the resources. |
| CutePDF Writer | YES | YES | CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables Windows applications (must be able to print) to create PDF documents. |
| doPDF | YES | YES | Installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver, so after a successful installation it will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF. |
| Ensode PDF Unlock Online Utility | YES | YES | Some PDF documents prevent the user from copying and pasting or printing it's contents. This sometimes presents a problem since the author of the PDF might have used a font that is not available in the sytem trying to read it. This page contains a free online utility that allows you to upload a PDF, once uploaded, a version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions is displayed in a new browser window. |
| Foxit Reader (P) | YES | YES | Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it. Works faster then Adobe Reader. |
| Free PDF Compressor (P) | YES | Free PDF Compressor removes duplicate PDF objects, optionally takes advantage of new compression features of latest PDF specifications that for many classes of documents compresses 30 - 60% better than what is possible in PDF 1.5. With this freeware, you are able to set the compression level to generate PDF files of smallest size. | |
| GUI for PDFTK (P) | YES | It's a GUI for PDFTK making it much easier to use. Like PDFTK Builder this is a similar tool for merging, splitting, encrypting, decrypting, compressing, decompressing and repairing PDF documents. Under Windows XP, the program reports "The pipe has ended" after processing a PDF document. This is not an error! It indicates successful operation. I think You may prefer PDFTK Builder over GUI for PDFTK (although that is good too!). | |
| Paehl PDF tools | YES | Some free tools for PDF file repair and other PDF tools. One of those tools is GUI for PDFTK (also in this freeware list). | |
| PDF Bundle | YES | With this utility, you can attach a file of any type to your existing PDF file. The file that you attach is called the ATTACHMENT of a PDF file. | |
| PDF Compress | NO | PDF document compression : text and graphics. | |
| PDF Info | NO | Change info on PDF documents. | |
| PDF Thumbnail Generator | YES | Create thumbnails for your existing PDF files, generated from a bitmap (.BMP) or a JPEG (*.JPG) or even a EMF (Encapsulated Meta File). When thumbnails are created and embedded into your PDF files, you will see the thumbnails displayed on the left column of your PDF Reader or Viewer. With this utility, you can decide whether to show thumbnails when PDF file is opened. | |
| PDF Version Converter (P) | YES | Convert a PDF file between different versions for compatibility purpose. Every PDF file is generated or produced according to a specification. This specification has evolved from version 1.0 to version 1.7. Sometimes users are faced with the dilemma that a certain application only recognizes a specific version of PDF file. This freeware utility enables you to convert PDF files between versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7. | |
| PDF Watermark Creator | YES | Add a watermark (texts such as DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, etc) to PDF files to mark you PDF documents as your copyrighted property. The watermark can be stamped behind virtually every elements of a PDF file. You can number the pages of existing PDF files or add you company text logo or your copyright message and much more. | |
| PDF-XChange Viewer | YES | YES | PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe PDF reader. The program also includes a handy loupe tool to zoom in on selected areas of a document, as well as options to extract text and images, export a document to image formats, and more. |
| PDFill tools | YES | PDFill PDF Tools is a 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. (Needs Ghostscript) | |
| PDFTK Builder (P) | YES | YES | It's a GUI for PDFTK making it much easier to use. With PDFTK Builder You can collate, split, add background, decrypt and password protect PDF files. |
| Sumatra PDF (P) | YES | YES | Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It's small and starts up very FAST. It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive. |
| Tweak PDF | YES | With Tweak PDF, you can set the initial view preferences of a PDF document, such as whether to center window of the PDF file when opened, etc. You can set the page mode of a PDF document, such as show PDF files in full screen mode, outlines mode, thumbnail mode, or simply without any special mode. PDF document properties such as title, subject, author, keywords can be modified with Tweak PDF. | |
| WinPDF | NO | YES | Installs a PDF writer named "Easy PDF Creator" as if it were a real printer, making the creation of PDF files as easy as printing. |
Screen capturing
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| AutoScreenRecorder | YES | YES | A limited screen recorder to save your screen activities into video files. |
| Camstudio (P) | YES | CamStudio records activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files and can also convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer. | |
| Gadwin Printscreen | NO | YES | Gadwin PrintScreen is an easy to use freeware utility that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient of your choice. |
| Mwsnap | YES | YES | Screencapture software: is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats. Standalone software! Small! |
| Wink (P) | YES | Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. |
Clipboard Utilities
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| ClipGuru (P) | YES | YES | ClipGuru is for the Windows user who would like to have a full-featured clipboard rather than the standard Windows one. ClipGuru gives users the ability to recall and reuse current and past clipboard contents, and to optionally save those clips into your own clip Sets for future use. |
Desktop utillities
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Caffeine (P) | YES | It prevents Your computer from locking or going into screensaver mode. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard. It puts a coffee pot tray icon in the system tray. Double-clicking the icon temporary disables the program, double-clicking it again, enables the app again. Very useful on computers where company policy prohibits disabling the screensaver for security reasons and Your in a meeting, doing a presentation,etc. | |
| DM2(P) | YES | DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!). DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, always on-top, resize, hide, etc. DM2 also supports custom plugins, which even further enhances the program. | |
| NoteZ (P) | YES | NoteZ is a simple Post-It implementation. Sits in the traybar, supports transparency, always on top feature and keyboard shortcuts for easy navigation. Use this if You seek a small app and just need stickies, plain and simple. | |
| Stickies (P) | YES | YES | The name says it all: Stickies works like Post-it notes for your PC. They are yellow rectangular windows onto which you can put some text notes. Stickies can be highly customized! Among other things, they can be hidden for a certain period, until a specified date and time, or to wake every day, week or month, to act as reminders. |
| Texter (P) | YES | Windows only: Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define. It runs in the system tray and works in any application you're typing in. Texter can also set return-to markers for your cursor and insert clipboard contents into your replacement text, in addition to more advanced keyboard macros. | |
| Yadabyte Subtext (P) | YES | Yadabyte Subtext is another free, simple and portable text substitution app that can save you loads of time... on any PC you are on like Texter, also in this list. |
Personal Information managers
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| CodeBank (P) | YES | CodeBank is a tree based (XML) personal information database for textual information, with extra features for programmers. Unlimited database size, Search Engine, syntax highlightning for comon programming languages( C/C++, Object Pascal, Java, XML, Visual Basic, VBScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL), Export/Import between databases, zip Compression, AES Encryption. | |
| EssentialPIM Free (P) | YES | YES | EssentialPIM is a scheduler, contact manager, and outliner. Data can be exported to HTML, RTF, CSV, and TXT. Complete import from MS Outlook or Outlook Express. Be aware: no password protection in the free version. |
| NeoMem (P) | YES | NeoMem allows you to store and organize all kinds of information in a cross between a word processor and database. The interface is similar to Windows Explorer, except that instead of dealing with files on a hard disk you deal with objects in a file. It can be used to store to do lists, books, website passwords, addresses, account information, and collections of all kinds. You can define your own classes for items that you want to store information about, and define properties for those objects. Each object can also store formatted text in a simple word processor view. | |
| REMLAP knowledgeBASE | YES | OK | Just about anything can be stored within a KnowledgeBASE Document, including text, pictures, spreadsheets, Graphs and Charts. Closely mapping the way we think, KnowledgeBASE utilizes a Keyword Indexing system, which is powerful and flexible. Other features include multi-user/network support, auto-backup and more. There is no password security! |
| TreeDBNotes Free (P) | YES | TreeDBNotes is a free powerful and easy-to-use personal database program, PIM and Word Processor with Tree Structure, advanced encryption and password protection. Features: Search, Replace, Case options, Insert file/ link/ image/ time/ date/ symbols/ table / html table. Import from txt, wri, rtf, Excell, Word, html and more. Export to txt, html, wri, doc and more. | |
| TreeLine (P) | YES | YES | Some would call TreeLine an Outliner, others would call it a PIM. Basically, it just stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to html. Because this is not a typical tree-based outliner, a litle learning process is involved, but it is worth it. |
Project Planning
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| DevProject Manager (P) Webpage Translated to English | NO | YES | This is a project management tool for software developers. Keep track of the status of multiple projects, as well as the team members for each project. DevProject manager addresses itself rather to Freeware, Shareware or open SOURCE developer, that can use no data base server for the project management or would like. So it lets You store code snippets, annotate them with additional information like description and requirements, and view them with syntax highlighting. The application website and help file are in German, but the application itself supports multiple languages, including English. |
| Planner (P) | YES | This is Planner, the GNOME project management tool, for Windows. Planner is a general purpose project management tool that provides a variety of features, which are available via 4 separate screen layouts called views. As you will see, the views are accessed by clicking the icons in the left hand toolbar in the Planner window. |
Unit Converters
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Converber (P) | YES | YES | Converber is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between many various units of measure. |
| Convert (P) | YES | YES | Convert is a popular and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! |
| Numerical Chameleon | YES | YES | The NumericalChameleon is an open source, platform-independent and localized software to convert units. It converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 3200 units in 81 categories. This is probably the most complete converter available. This is your converter if you work with more “exotic”, special units. Use the zipped version to install on Vista. See the FAQ. |
| Onlineconversion.com | YES | YES | ONLINE service to convert just about anything to anything else: over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions available. |
Translations, Thesaures, Dictionaries
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Applied Language Solutions | YES | YES | This site offers translation of all kinds. Online translation of text, email or website. Also translation tools and translation bar for on your website. |
| Babelfish | YES | YES | This site offers online translation of text or website. Also translation tools for on your website. Translation is not perfect, but it gives you an idea. |
| Freetranslation.com | YES | YES | This site offers online translation of text or website. Translation is not perfect, but it gives you an idea. |
| Google Translation | YES | YES | Google offers online translation of text or website. Translation is not perfect, but it gives you an idea. |
| Het Chatwoordenboek | YES | YES | Free ONLINE DUTCH chat-dictionary. Explanation of abbreviations, Emoticons, Drawings. |
| Merrian-webster | YES | YES | Free ONLINE ENGLISH Dictionary and Thesaurus. |
| Mobysaurus Thesaurus | YES | YES | Free, comprehensive, feature-rich, off-line English thesaurus that brings the exact word to your mind, serving your everyday speaking and writing purposes. Comes in handy when writing in english. Requires .NET framework! |
| Schoolbieb.nl | YES | YES | Free ONLINE search in THE DUTCH “Van Dale” dictionary or translations Dutch to Englisch or Englisch to Dutch... |
| Vandale ONLINE | YES | YES | Vandale offers online searching in a Dutch dictionary: the “Van Dale Hedendaags Nederlands”. Of all headwords you can look up spelling, grammatical information and the meaning of the word. This online dictionary is a lite version of “Hedendaags Nederlands”. |
| Vertaalbureau | YES | YES | Lingo24 vertaalbureau offers free online translation and paraphrase/thesaurus tools under the link “vertaalhulpmiddelen” and interesting links to language tools and sources. (Dutch website) |
| WinDi | YES | YES | Linguistic Functions in 7 Languages (21 language pairs and 42 possible directions). Free Access to Dictionaries, Spelling, Conjugation, Grammar, text-to-speech and Search Engine. |
| Woordenboek.eu | YES | YES | Translate online from or to... Select a language to translate from or to Dutch or English. (Most used languages have a flag.) |
| WordWeb Free | YES | YES | This thesaurus/dictionary for English can be used to look up words from almost any program. WordWeb is a handy utility that gives you the definition, synonyms, and antonyms of any given word without requiring you to go online, though it can connect to the Internet for expanded functionality should you want it. |
| WordWeb ONLINE | YES | YES | WordWeb is an Englisch, international dictionary and word finder with more than 280 000 possible lookup words and phrases.WordWeb fully covers American, British, Australian, Canadian and Asian English spellings and words. It is updated regularly, and has no annoying adverts. If a word isn't found the search feature automatically searches other dictionaries and an encyclopedia, and shows you anything it finds. It is also available as Windows software. See Wordweb, also in this freeware list. |
Miscellaneous
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Ensode Excel Spreadsheet Unlock Online Utility | YES | YES | Microsoft Excel allows a user to protect one or more sheets in a spreadsheet. Protected sheets cannot be modified without entering a password (chosen by the person that protected the spreadsheet). Sometimes these passwords are lost, therefore protected spreadsheets are permanently locked. This web page contains a free online utility that allows you to upload an Excel spreadsheet and unlock any protected sheets in the spreadsheet. |
| GnuCash (P) | YES | YES | GnuCash is open source personal and small-business financial-accounting software. It allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It has a somewhat steep learning-curve for us non-accountant types, but the time-investment is worth it. There are some Vista issues: see the FAQ. Vista users probably better use the portable version (See my portable freeware section). |
| Transfz | YES | YES | With Transfz you can launch online searches from any document or application, by simply selecting the text and pressing a keyboard hotkey. In addition to standard web searches (Google, Yahoo etc.) you can also perform online dictionary lookups, Wikipedia searches or any other online query by creating custom entries for any site that offers a search feature. Transfz is also a clipboard manager and can keep track of the X last items copied to the clipboard. |
| Universal Viewer Free (ATViewer) (P) | YES | YES | Universal Viewer Free (ATViewer) is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. Supports free Total Commander Lister plugins to enhance Universal Viewer. It's a viewer only, no editing! |
| Winbank | YES | YES | WinBank is financial-accounting software (dutch language only). You can manage your private income and expenditure with this program. WinBank supports importing transfers of all large Dutch and some Belgian banks. Other features: budget planner, manage personal effects, placement funds, energy consumption, Mortgage & Loan, calculator, search functions,... Target public: Dutch and Belgian users. |
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