Windows 7 Starter Kit
Windows 7 is the new Baby in the town and if you are in love with you new Windows 7 PC or Laptop than you have to try all these Free Must Have Apps which are really Useful to your new Windows 7 Baby, So these are the must have starter apps for your windows 7. Windows 7 Starter Kit is divided into 10 categories Web Browser, E-mail Client, Office tools, Image Editors, Music Video Jukeboxes, File Compression, PDF Reader, Torrent Client, and Tweak Tools
Web Browser
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009[update], making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Chrome is blazingly fast and is easily the quickest browser available. Based on Webkit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google’s Android mobile platform, and several other Web-browsing tools, Chrome’s interface is a drastic departure from other browsers. Instead of the traditional toolbar, Chrome puts its tabs on top. Moreover, the tabs are detachable: “tabs” and “windows” are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser, and tabs can be rearranged at any time. By isolating each tab’s processes, when one site crashes, the other tabs do not.
E-mail Client
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Thunderbird combines smart browsing with sharp innovations aimed at both Web mail clients and industry standards like Microsoft Outlook. Basics like junk mail filters, HTML support, multiple identities, and POP, IMAP, and Microsoft Exchange server support load fast and are bolstered by S/MMIE, digital signing, message encryption, and a phishing detector. Interface tweaks maximize message viewing, a necessity in an e-mail reader. See Also: Top 10 most useful Thunderbird add-ons
Office and Productivity
OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.
2. AbiWord
This free, open-source word-processor strikes us as a worthy alternative to pricey, big-name products. AbiWord has a quick learning curve, since the interface is very similar to those in Word and WordPerfect. AbiWord, gives you just the word processor without the entire suite. It has a quick learning curve with an interface similar to those in Word and WordPerfect.
Image Editors
1. The GIMP
The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. Even the installation process has gotten simpler, with no need to download and install the GTX Runtime Environment separately. Extremely powerful and easy to work with, GIMP is ideal for both amateur and pro photographers, Web designers, or anyone who wants to create and edit professional-quality digital images on a budget.
2. Paint.NET
If all you want is a quick image retouch, Photoshop is overkill. Paint.NET, on the other hand, is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, resize images, adjust colors, and create collages.
Paint.NET supports common image formats–JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others–but not high-resolution RAW files. There are enough basic and intermediate effects and features to keep image-tweakers happy, though the red-eye removal tool is notably weak; those images may require manual attention.
Music and Video Jukeboxes
1. WinAmp
It now features strong device support, including iPod synchronization, AAC encoding, CD burning, and a robust file-management system. There’s an optional new interface layout that joins the separate windows, podcast support, you can edit device synchronization while in progress, and a built-in browser for media discovery. We liked that clicking on an artist’s name will get you related headlines and Web sites in a separate pane.
2. Miro
Miro is a popular, free, and open internet TV application. It brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform. Features include full torrent support, so you can download and view torrents in the same app, folder watching to manage only the hard-drive folders you specify for new videos, resumable playback, topic-based channel surfing, video sharing, hosting, and vodcast creation assistance.
VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of every major and most minor file types, and can stream media. Because of its open-source foundation, it evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently.
File Compression
1. 7Zip
7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. 7-Zip unpacks most archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, RAR, and its own 7z format. It can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems.
PDF Reader
1. Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is everything that Adobe Reader isn’t: lightweight, effective, and streamlined. Foxit’s main purpose is to read PDFs, but it also has annotation tools. The interface mimics Adobe’s, so you won’t have to change your reading habits. Text readability is nearly the same, and the 1.6MB Foxit starts surprisingly fast compared with Adobe. It’s a nice touch that it opens PDFs from the Internet in their own Foxit window, instead of sucking resources from within the browser.
Torrent Client
1. uTorrent
Still not for the faint of heart, this torrent utility is one of the easiest to use. The uTorrent executable adds a directory and some option information to your PC, but it is still small enough to run off an old USB key.
Tweak Tools
Here is the List of 5 Free Windows 7 Tweak Tools
15 free Screen Capture Apps for MAC
Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot (an image of your computer desktop or an active window). So here we Present you Best free Screen Capture Apps for MAC OS X. Which helps you to capture or print screen easily. See Also ( 80+ Free Mac OS X Applications ) Check out the list of 15 free Screen Capture Apps for MAC below:-
1. Copernicus
Copernicus doesn’t just take screenshots, it’s a virtual photo gallery too. Take as many pictures as you like, then save them one at a time or all at once. Copernicus is perfect for taking many screenshots.
2. Capture Me
Capture Me is a flexible screen capture and recording utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window, several saving options, and resize ability. To use the program, drag and resize the floating window to cover the area you want to capture. Then click in the window to capture the screenshot. You can resize it, copy it to the clipboard, and save it in a variety of formats and locations. Its behavior is customizable with respect to what happens after a capture. A newly added movie recording mode now allows up to a one minute long QuickTime movie (no sound) to be produced.
3. Jing
With Jing you can Snap a picture of your screen. Record video of onscreen action. Share instantly over the web, IM, email.
4. Constrictor
Constrictor is a screen snapshot utility for Mac OS X 10.4 and up (users on 10.3.x or earlier will want Constrictor 2.3 instead). It provides you with a moveable, resizeable frame that floats over all your other windows.
iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from a compatible source (like a microphone) as well as any audio from the mac itself.
6. Paparazzi
Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screen shots of long web pages. It’s written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API and the WebKit framework.
7. ScreenSend
ScreenSend is a screen shot program that allows you to quickly select a part of the screen, take a screenshot of it, and then upload the screen shot to an FTP server automatically. The url of the uploaded screen shot is then automatically placed on your clipboard for easy retrieval. ScreenSend can even be customized to work with your own FTP server or the default ScreenSend uploads server.
Screenshot Helper shows a full screen window with a solid color or a desktop picture so that you can take clean screenshots without having irrelevant windows and desktop icons in the background.
The easiest way to get a clean desktop for screenshots on Mac OS X is to create a brand-new user account and log in as a brand-new user. But if you need to use your own user account for whatever reason and you have a messy desktop like I do, you can use Screenshot Helper to hide the actual desktop in order to take clean screenshots.
9. Backdrop
Backdrop is a simple utility to fill your screen with a giant blank window. Fill the window with a solid color or a custom image, your choice
10. Skitch
Skitch.com is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.
11. InstantShot
InstantShot! offers classical screenshot functionality for capturing the whole screen, a portion of it or a window and also the option to make timed screenshots or to make delayed captures over time. It offers a wide range of preferences and options to fit everyone’s needs.
12. SnapNDrag
SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. Supports PNG and TIFF for times when image quality cannot be compromised. Or use JPEG with adjustable quality for smaller file sizes.
13. SnapClip
SnapClip is a small faceless background application to take screenshot easily and quickly. The captured image can be copied to the Clipboard, or saved into various format file including picture clipping, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, etc. It is designed to be more like memo tool rather than screen capture tool. If you save the image to picture clipping file with thumbnail icon, you can easily see what kind of image without using any applications. That’s why I use the words ‘memo tool’.
14. SnapWeb
SnapWeb creates complete screenshots of web pages even if the users screen isn’t large enough to show the whole page content at once. The resulting images are saved as JPEG or PDF files.
15. Timed Screenshot
This free background utility takes screen shots at timed intervals and automatically saves them to a folder of your choice.
110+ Best Twitter Tools
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. There are so many tools, Plugin, Scripts and App Available on the net for Twitter, which are really helpful for twitter Users . So am here posting some good List of tools.
Tools to Backup your Twitter Account
June 12, 2009 by Raj
Filed under Backup utilities, Top Stuff, Twitter
Twitter is the most Popular Socila Networking these days, and if you are a twitter user and No one wants to lose all of their Twitter tweets, followers, or anything else for that matter. So Backup is the Best Method to Save your Tweets. So am here psoting some of the Best Tools which will help you to Backup your Twitter Account. Here are the List which will help you to Backup your Twitter Archieve.
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80+ Free Mac OS X Applications
Most Of our Readers are MAc User and Most of them always asking us to Post Some Freeware MAC OS X App. So today We are going to post some Huge List of Free MAC OS X Application which are really usefull for MAC OS Users. Here are the List of 80+ Free Mac OS X Applications
Collection of Portable Video Converters: Pazera Video Converters Suite
Pazera Video Converters Suite is a collection of portable video converters which helps you to convert between almost all video formats like AVI, MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, M4V, 3GP.
The package also includes specialized converters to convert audio and video files for Zune, iPod and PSP players.
In addition, the collection contains audio extractor & converter, which allows you to extract audio tracks from video files and convert audio files between the most important audio formats (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, AC3, FLAC).
Tweak Windows 7, Vista, XP with TweakNow Powerpack 2009
May 17, 2009 by Raj
Filed under Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer’s operating system and Web browser. The RAM Idle program manages the free memory that is available to run Windows programs. It prevents performance from degrading as you swap files and programs in and out of memory. The AutoShutdown program lets you suspend, hibernate, or shut down your computer after a specified period of time.
