Useful Tools From Windows For Freelancers
1. Ditto - It's a clipboard manager that lets you save, manage, and retrieve all the countless clipboards instantly and effectively. It offers some great features such as easy- to-use interface, search and paste previous copy entries, data is encrypted when sent over the network etc.
2. Defraggler -It is really a defragmentation tool for Windows that can help in defragmenting individual files or a specific portion of a drive. It may also help in scheduling defragmentation while working or doing important stuff and may be run daily, weekly or monthly.
3. Recuva- Another application for freelancers which will help in recovering files from Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Alos claims to recover corrupted and damaged files and brings these phones laptop computer. Additionally, it lets its users retrieve emails as it supports Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Windows Live Mail.
4. Picasa- This photo editing application by Google that allows it users in gathering and organizing the photos and share them with connections. Editing, resizing and retouching your photos, sharing them online with friends and connections.
5. VLC Media Player- It is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most video and audio formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ) in addition to DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, as well as other streaming protocols.
6. 7stacks- This easy-to-use, free application that allows Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have "stacks" of icons within their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). This can help in lessening icon clutter, and combining a group of related icons into a single icon.
7. Notepad ++- Another useful tool that helps in editing text and source code easily. It offers tabbed editing, to simply work with multiple open files. It features include Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, java, pascal, css and more), auto-completion, multi-document, full drag 'n' drop supported, multi-language environment supported etc.
8. Windows Live Essentials-This application includes Windows Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Messenger are worth downloading. Windows Live Essentials gives instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photos, and much more.
9. 7-Zip- This tool is a host of compression formats, 7-Zip lets uncompress almost any compressed data, and with the unique 7z format, files could be compressed as much as 40% smaller than Zip formats.
10. Ares- It's a free free file sharing program that enables users to talk about any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. It also helps in publishing files with the Ares peer to look network.