Downloads - Freeware / Shareware
Acrobat Reader Viewer for files in Adobe PDF format.
CutePDF Very useful utility used as a normal printer to generate PDF files like Acrobat Writer. Any Windows application able to print (Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, ..) can use CutePDF to create a PDF document.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
DocPad is a superior alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it has many advantages: 10-level undo, alphabetization, block indent/unindent, bookmark, case conversion, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line, jump to offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose basic text editor, designed to be small and compact. EditPad can be used to open and edit files on DOS, Windows, Unix or MAC format.
FreeMind is a mind mapper, and is at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
Free Word /Excel Password Recover Softwate this application lets you recover forgotten password for Microsoft Word and Excel files. This free software recovers file opens passwords for Word - Excel 97 to Word Excel 2003. Recovering password is complex and may take a long time due to the billions of passwords that may by need to be tested (depends on the len of the password to recover).
Irfanview is one of the most used viewers. This viewer opens almost any type of file format (text, images, cad, video, audio, ...). You can additional download the corresponding plug-in for Irfanview. This plug-in adds support to open more files formats. The Irfanview as some nice feature to manipulate and to print the open files.
GanttProject is a free project scheduling application not so complete as Microsoft Project. This freeware application is written in Java and featuring Gantt Chart, Resource Management, Calendaring. The Gantt Project supports importing and exporting of the following file format: MS Project, HTML, PDF and spreadsheet .
jxProject is a free project scheduling application not so complete as Microsoft Project but it's very useful to manage daily task and project. jxProject as some feature like: Task and subtask management, resource management, calendaring, ... jxProject supports printing to HTML file. (Note: jxProject do not support MS PROJECT file import/export).
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003 Open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed.
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 PowerPoint Viewer 2007 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
Microsoft Visio Viewer 2003 View, print and copy Visio documents, even if you don't have Visio installed.
Microsoft Visio Viewer 2007 The Visio 2007 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0, 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007) inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later Web browser.
Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
Notepad++ is a free generic source code editor (C, C++, VB, HTML, XML, PHP, ..). Notepad++ replace in many case any native editor with a efficient and customizable GUI interface.
OpenOffice is a complete free Office Suite developed, supported and promoted by OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice is a fully feature office suite compatible with all leading products (Microsoft Office, ...). The Openoffice components are:
Writer - Word processor with many features, compatible with Microsoft Word.
Calc - Powerful Spreadsheet with all tools needed to calculate, analyze and present data in numerical and graphics report, compatible with Microsoft Excel.
Impress - Multimedia presentation software, compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint.
Draw - Application used to produce Simple Diagrams and Images to dynamic 3D Illustrations.
Base - Simple Database Application compatible with Microsoft Access. Lets you create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports with OpenOffice. BASE opens some existent Database like: Adabas D, ADO, Microsoft Access, MySQL.
Math - Graphic interface for creating mathematical equations. Formulas are directly typed in the user interface.
Suite - Tool to group in same OpenOffice document file some different OpenOffice files and give them the same layout.
OpenProj - Project Management is a free desktop replacement of Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project, with a Gantt Chart and PERT chart etc.
OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office is a Add-in for Microsoft Word (XP, 2000, 2003 and 2007) and Microsoft Excel (XP, 2000, 2003 and 2007) to allow opening and saving OpenDocument format (ODF) files. On the Web Site it can be found a ODF Translator command line, a Word Add-in, a Excel Add-in and a few samples in ODF (Openoofice) and DOCX (Microsoft).
PDF Split and Merge is an easy to use tool to merge and split pdf documents. Console and GUI versions are available. The GUI is written in Java Swing and it provides functions to select files and set options. It's made over the iText library..
PDFCreator Very useful utility used as a normal printer to generate PDF files like Acrobat Writer. Any Windows application able to print (Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, ..) can use PDFCreator to create a PDF document.
PDFTK usefule utility to manipulate PDF files (Can be used to replace Acrobat Writer for some function). This program file can be used to:
Combine PDF files;
Extract some pages from PDF files;
Apply a background Watermark to PDF files;
attach files to PDF Documents or files;
repair corrupted PDF files;
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PortableApps.com Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go... ( sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps ).
Scribus is an open source cross-platform page layout (DTP - Desktop Publishing) program. Scribus is used to make professional page layout accessible for beginners without limiting support for professional publishing features such as: spot color support, CMYK color, high grade PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of color separations.
XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff and highlights diffs inside lines.