Freewares/Free Softwares 16 June 2011

StickySorter

I love to use this e-tool to note down, edit, move and group the notes on my desktop. Developed by two Microsoft Employees, Sticky Sorter, can do all this and much more than what can be done with the physical stickers. Yes, you can use it to capture and record your thoughts and ideas, sift through, and organize them. Not only notes can be recorded using this application, even import of data from existing files is possible.

Among the other features are: recording of multiple fields on a note, a field editor to name and organize fields and to set properties, such as whether a field should appear on the front or back side of the note, notes can be saved to csv file format to help open them in a variety of application, and choice of colours for each sticky note. StickySorter supports Affinity Diagramming, a data analysis method which is used in many disciplines including user research, product planning, and design.

You can download the 3 MB StickySorter at at http://tinyurl.com/65amyyy

Wunderlist

Wunderlist is another note-taking utility. As it is web-based it would be well liked by people who are wary of downloading things from the web. Like StickySorter, it is a task management application to help stay organized whether you're using a Windows or Mac operating system, using an iPhone or an Android device, or even an iPad.

Practical applications include: Keeping track of everything you want to do, make separate lists, one for your work life and the other personal; check off items done, use it from your ownbrowser. Individual tasks and entire lists can be shared by email, Facebook, or Twitter, and completed tasks can be viewed as separate lists. Search for specific tasks can be carried out by keyword, specific dates and times. Important tasks can be marked and these override other less important ones.

More at www.wunderlist.com

Yammer

Yammer can help create a secure social network for individuals who wish to share information, documents, and more. By signing up for an account users can engage in microblogging, privat e-messaging, etc. It is as easy to use like Facebook or Twitter, has enterprise-class software to drive business objectives too.

Key Features: Microblogging - Start a conversation, read posts, and actively collaborate with your friends, associates or co-workers in real-time; share profiles, upload pictures and resumes; Create private or public groups and collaborate in small teams, within your network; Private Messaging; share Files, Links, and Images; Knowledge Base - Each conversation is archived and fully searchable; Administrative Tools to run Yammer network running smoothly; Message privately and securely in the cloud, say the developers; Tagging of content and messages to make content organizable and searchable; installation of third-party applications into Yammer; and Mobile phone connectivity - free iPhone, BlackBerry, Android apps. This version is free, however, a paid version with more features is available, at a couple of dollars a month.

Yammer details at https://www.yammer.com/

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Please suggest a utility to zoom/magnifiy.

DH suggested:

You could try DesktopZoom, portable and doesn't need admin privileges.
You can Zoom an area around the mouse, zoom a fixed window or zoom
the entire desktop. It can be downloaded at
http://users.telenet.be/littlegems/MySoft/Resources/Programs/DesktopZoom.zip

QUOTE TO MULL OVER

All that we dont know is astonishing.
Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing

- Philip Roth (born March 19, 1933),an American novelist