Freewares / Free Softwares 14 Oct 2010

Photoscape

This utility is a photo editor to create various photo effects, including vintage effects. You needn't worry if you don't have photoshop skills or unable to follow advanced GIMP tutorials, Photoscape, a freeware, does it all for you. You can fix and enhance photos, and among the key features are: view photos in your folder, create a slideshow, resize, adjust/correct: brightness, color, white balance, backlight and frames, mosaic mode, add text, draw pictures, crop, filters, remove red eye, batch edit multiple photos, merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo, attach multiple photos to create one final photo, use multiple photos to create a final animated photo; print, split, capture screen, convert, and much more.

Photoscape Ver 3.5 for Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7can be downloaded at http://snipurl.com/photoscapecnet

GooReader

GooReader, a desktop application, lets you search, download and read books and magazines publicly available on Google Books. Its neat interface makes a reading a pleasure, just like reading hardcover books or paperback magazines. Use the mouse to turn over the pages, zoom them in and out. GooReader can also help to search for books by title, author or book_ID. The search results are represented as 3D book models on a bookshelf. GooReader can also search online books by title, author or a keyword.

The 1.1. MB GooReader for Windows XP/Vista/7 can be downloaded at http://gooreader.com/files/gooreader.zip

Net Framework 3.5 SP1 required. No Google account is required to use GooReader, and for more details browse the FAQ at http://gooreader.com/faq/

The paid version offers additional features like reading them offline, on mobile devices, and e-Book readers.

doPDF

This is the latest edition doPDF, a free PDF converter, mentioned in this column more than a year ago. This utility is very popular, and as on date it has been downloaded 11,000,000 times! doPDF can convert documents to searchable PDF files which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer (reader) installed. doPDF installs as a printer driver and helps to generate PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCad drawings. Features include: Predefined page size - you can select a predefined page size for the resulting PDF file such as: A4, A5, A6, Letter, Legal, Executive, Envelope DL/C5/B5/Monarch/#10; Custom page size - if you need more customization in terms of PDF page size, you
can define your own custom size for the resulting document by entering the desired width and height (you can create documents as small as 10x10 millimeters, or as large as 3276x3276 millimeters).

The 3.97 MB v7.1.345 (21 Sep 10) for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008/2003/2000 Server (32 and 64-bit) can be downloaded at http://www.dopdf.com/download/setup/dopdf-7.exe

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I need a simple desktop tool to manage tasks. Please
suggest a simple and straightforward applicaton.

You could try the very simple to use GeeTeeDee (GTD - Getting Things Done) at http://codea-dev.com/static/GeeTeeDee-0.1.161-win32.exe

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