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- Free Writing Application with Text Editor: WriteMonkey
- Free Music Player, Tag Editor and Organizer: Dajukebox
- Create Virtual Windows 7 or XP with WorldDesk
- Create Wonderful Envelopes with Envelope Magician
- Create a Free Personal FTP Server with Golden FTP Server
- Free Text Editor to Replace Windows Notepad: GetDiz
- 5 Free Expense Manager Apps For Google Chrome
- Portable and Lightweight Email Messaging with SendEmail
| Free Writing Application with Text Editor: WriteMonkey Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT
Write Monkey is free and effective writing application for people who love writing but are distracted with other activities over a system. Yes this software is a very handy application which takes away the entire clutter from the desktop and gives the writer a distraction free space to work and complete their tasks. So if you have too many things to bother you over your desktop taking the required attention away from your actual writing work then use this application as it will ensure you complete your book, any writing assignment or the blog post which you are working on in peace. After you download Writer Monkey you just need to unzip the application file to your favorite folder or drive. You would need to do no more than just opening the folder and clicking on the WriteMonkey.exe to launch the application.
How to use this free Writing Application?Upon clicking the file a green window appears which has a few one liner or tips on it.
After clicking on the close option on the tip being displayed, a black screen appears which has nothing on it besides two slim green lines at the bottom. However the screen has a cursor blinking continuously at the top indicating the start point where one could start writing.
With nothing on it you might wonder if it actually has any tools besides just providing you the space to start your writing. Well to your surprise it comes with a full complement of word processing tools and a few great features too. The font has been kept as classic yellow color which actually creates a sense of focus when the program is run in the full mode. Moreover you also have the option to run the application under the smaller scratch window where it would not hide the desktop. You can hit the escape key to toggle between the two windows of the application.
Moreover click on the right click button of your mouse and you would be surprised to see the numerous options that come along. It has more than 30 context menu entries which lets you customize the program in several ways. You can change the look, color, size, language, layout, typeface size and virtually perform all the activity which you would have on your favorite word processor. It also gives you the option to save a document, print them or export them, mark the text as you like, make them bold italics and add all the other effects you would like to. You may even save your preferences as profiles so that you have the ease to use the same settings when you work on this application later. Moreover one of the additions which is the Jump feature of the Write Monkey enhances the 'built-in bookmark tool' along with some of the other features it comes with. Those features include a Repository, Segment focus, and Inline comments.
As a user we may even enable the realistic old time typewriter sound to our fancies. Another handy feature which as a user you should make in your preferences is selecting the Always Save on Exit option which would integrate Write Monkey with Firefox through the All Text extension. You can name it and you would have the long list of features which this efficient writing tool has within it. Some of the features worth mentioning are the:
You may browse through the official website of the developers of this writing application where the documentation and assistance which includes the ones at the forums gives many handy recommendations. Moreover pressing the F1 key brings in hosts of help options which list out the shortcuts and the keystroke combinations which would help using the Write Monkey writing application much quicker and simpler.
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| Free Music Player, Tag Editor and Organizer: Dajukebox Posted: 01 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT
Dajukebox is a free music player you can use to play albums, edit tags, organize music and even play online radio. The application uses Microsoft's DirectShow architecture to provide great audio quality and support some of the most common audio formats like MP3, OGG and FLAC. Features of this music player
How to use Dajukebox Music PlayerInstallation was totally uneventful. The user interface is quite different from what we are used for and I must say it looks amazing. One of the strong points of Dajukebox is the audio library which groups songs based on albums. To add songs to the audio library, click the menu icon on the top left, select library and select Add. Choose a folder to add music from and click Select. You can use the same menu to open a new album, delete an existing album, clear the albums list and to create a new album. To manipulate albums use the Album menu. From the menu, you can edit song tags, delete songs from albums, burn songs from a particular album to disc and get information about the album from online databases. You can also organize all song in the album to a specific folder or copy them to a location of your choice.
To play an album, double click on the album to access all files in the album. To play individual files, select a file and click play. To play another file, select it and click play. The music player prompts you to choose how you want the request to be handled. You can add it to the end of the playlist, add to the next playlist, play it immediately or navigate to the playing album by selecting the respective option on the menu that appears. To navigate back to the albums list, double click on the album title. To play online radio, click on the radio tabs. The program already has a list of available radio stations but if you feel the need to add your own local radio stations, you can easily do so. To add a custom radio station, click the menu icon, select radio and click New radio station. You will be prompted to enter various details like URLs and station names, click Save to add the station. You can also edit and delete existing radio stations by selecting the respective options.
The playlist enables you to create a list of files to play in a particular sequence. To manipulate files in the playlist, click the menu icon and select the playlist. The playlist menu allows you to delete, move up and down, delete a playlist, open playlist files and clear playlist by clicking on the respective options. The icons to the left of the interface allow you to show or hide the playlist, show album information, show artist information and even show song lyrics. Program settings are accessible from the Settings tab. On the General settings tab, you can set file associations, edit templates and choose directories to store playlists and databases, click Save to store any changes you have done. You can maximize, minimise and restore the window to its original size by selecting the respective options on the menu icon.You can set fonts, font sizes and styles for various text in the program by accessing the Library Panels from the Settings tab
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ConclusionDajukebox is definitely one of the best music player around and lives up to its target of challenging even the large commercial music players and organizers. No related posts. Free Music Player, Tag Editor and Organizer: Dajukebox was originally published at I Love Free Software |
| Create Virtual Windows 7 or XP with WorldDesk Posted: 01 Jul 2012 02:00 PM PDT
WorldDesk is a utility which will create a virtual operating system inside your Dropbox or Box accounts or locally on your thumb drive which you can then use on the go. This is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to have a different working environment separate from the default operating system that is installed on the computer. In a lot of ways what WorldDesk does is similar to what you get in software like VirtualBox or VMware, in fact WorldDesk is partnered with VMware, so you sort of get an idea what I’m talking about when I say that with WorldDesk you get a virtual operating system environment.
Image that you see above is actually a screenshot of a virtual Windows XP which is a WorldDesk machine installed inside a DropBox account. The only way that you could know that this is in fact not a real machine would be if you were to look at the background wallpaper or something that is more obvious, the WorldDesk toolbar at the top of the window. Virtualized machine has everything that a real machine has, and you can use it for a lot of different things, some of which would be:
WorldDesk virtual OS installationIt doesn’t take long for you to create your own virtual OS, and for those who are thinking that you’re gonna have to have an installation CD in order to setup a WorldDesk virtual machine, you’re wrong, all that you have to go through is a simple installation wizard, where this is the most important step:
This is where you are asked where you want to install WorldDesk, you can either choose an external device like a USB thumb drive or external drive, or you can place the necessary file for the WorldDesk machine inside your DropBox account. The nessecery space for basic installation of WorldDesk would be 80 MB, but make it 100MB just in case. You’ll have to free up space if you plan on using WorldDesk. After the installation is completed, just run the desktop icon and the machine will start:
Using WorldDesk virtual machineOn the main website you can choose between several different versions of the virtual operating system that you can install:
Box version is for those who use Box online storage, while the Slacker pack has some small games, and can play videos, if you’re interested in that sort of thing. We’ve already mentioned all the different uses that this type of a machine can have:
The basic Window XP machine comes with IE 8 preinstalled, and you can use that for safer online browsing, seeing how the WorldDesk virtual machine is not your regular system, which might be infected. The upper toolbar can be used to switch between the real OS and the virtual OS, and it can be removed. WorldDesk is a great program for all those who require easily installable and accesible virtual machine, make sure to try it out. Related posts:
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| Create Wonderful Envelopes with Envelope Magician Posted: 01 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT
Envelope Magician is a free, perfect software which can help you to create personal set of graphics for creating envelopes in no time. You can create and then print envelopes using a EnvEcoLaser. The program comes with several personalization features where you can add or delete images, photos and text as well. The tools available in the envelope creator can help you in positioning the images and texts where you may even rotate them 360º. Using this tool you may even backup your personal graphics, print out creative envelopes, change the size of a design as per your envelope requirements, etc. Installing Envelope MagicianThe moment you download Envelope Magician from here you will see a setup file in your download folder. Just run the setup and complete the installation in order to start using this application on your computer. The installation is pretty simple where it takes a couple of minutes to complete. After you are done installing the program on your system click on the launch icon of this free envelope creator. But you need to have framework .NET 2.0 installed in your system to run this free software. Using Envelope Magician to create envelopesThe documents are in the '.elp' format which are created or used by this software. Whenever you open the software a fresh window always remains open. In case you wish to create a new document while you are working on one, just click on File and then the New option from the sub menu. In the same way you could open an existing document by clicking on File and then Open from the sub menu. At the top of the window, below the file menu there are several options for inserting texts, images, or deleting selected contents. For example you wish to have a image file on your envelope you just need to click on the Add Image option and locate the image you wish to be added. You can use any image formats for your envelope as the software accepts most of them. You can drag the image and place it wherever you think it fits in the best.
For adding text to your envelope you need to use the Add Text option at the top. After you have the Add Text option on your screen you need to drag it to the place where you wish to insert the text. In order to insert the words and other credentials you need to click on the arrow keys at the bottom of the window. Clicking on this makes a new section appear at the bottom giving you the option of editing the text with colors, fonts, and size of the text.
In order to rotate the text or your images you just need to click on the image or the text you have inserted and use the scroll button on your mouse. Keep scrolling till you feel the picture or text is in the right position.
So when you are done adding images and text to your envelope you can repeat the same by adding more pictures, playing with the fonts and sizes or may be rotating them to look much better. Further you may customize your envelope size and apply other settings as well. In order to do so you need to click on tools and then the Envelope Size from the drop down menu. This would bring in a new window with two tabs and options all over. So you can select the size you wish to and click on Use on current document to apply the changed settings on your current envelope. If you are looking for a simple image editor for designing your envelope, you can try PixBuilder Studio, PicPick and Magix Photo Designer.
You can also take a print out of the software itself. Click on the File option and select Print Preview from the Drop Down in order to view the print options. A new window pops up asking you the printer you wish to use for printing, the layout of your prints, check out the print preview, etc. You may use the advanced option too for customizing the print format further. After you are done setting all of these just click on the Print option to print your envelope.
Now that you know how to use this free envelope creator, you can start creating wonderful envelopes using Envelope Magician. No related posts. Create Wonderful Envelopes with Envelope Magician was originally published at I Love Free Software |
| Create a Free Personal FTP Server with Golden FTP Server Posted: 01 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT
Golden FTP Server is a free FTP server application for Windows, which can be used to create a FTP server from your home computer. FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol and there are several different reasons why someone would be interested in running a FTP server on their home computer, main one of course would be so that files and data can be more easily accessed by others or perhaps even the owner, when they are not home.
What you’re seeing on the image above is the default interface of the Golden FTP Server application. Program also runs in the tray and it can be set so that it starts with Windows so that you computer becomes a FTP server right after you boot up into the system. There are some things that you need to know before you decide to run a FTP server, main one would be that you inform yourself what FTP servers are all about. Server of every website has FTP access, that’s how files get uploaded to them. If you are a website owner, you’ll know about FTP, and how it works, if not read on. Similar software: FireFTP, best FTP clients Working with FTP, File Transfer protocolWe connect to FTP servers when we either need to download files or upload files, for the most part at least. Connecting via an FTP connection gives you access to files that are present on the opposite end, and depending on your privileges, if you are allowed to, you can even upload files to the remote server. This is usually done when you want to upload websites and put them online, but when you are running a FTP server yourself, things are a bit different. Automatic home server setupTo start running a FTP server in your home, the first step would of course be to install Golden FTP server. After you do that, you need to decide to which directories on your system you want to allow access. This is done under the Open Shares portion of the program:
After you choose the directory that you would like to share and click OK, new window will appear where you get the FTP location of your new server:
This will be the IP address of your computer, or should I say your home network and in continuation the location of the chosen folder. The numbers above will of course be different for you, because this was just a test run. It’s important to know, if you are planning on running a server to know that majority of ISPs routers change their IP address each day at least once, and if you want to keep the same address you’re gonna have to ask your ISP for a static IP address, or use DNS services like DynDNS.
If everything went fine, you should be able to open you server by clicking on the given FTP link, see images above. What we tested is the free version of Golden FTP, there are some limitations to it, like lack off:
These are not something too horrible, and if you are just starting out, Golden FTP Server Free will be more than enough for you. No related posts. Create a Free Personal FTP Server with Golden FTP Server was originally published at I Love Free Software |
| Free Text Editor to Replace Windows Notepad: GetDiz Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT
GetDiz is a free text editor designed to replace the Windows text editor, Notepad. GetDiz now comes with an interesting array of features but still manages to keep its light weight nature meaning that speed and usability are not in any way compromised by the new features. The developers clearly indicated that it should replace Notepad on your windows machine so we set out to find out just how good it was. Features of this powerful text editor
How to use itInstallation was very smooth. The program creates file associations immediately as it launches. Its interface is very much like Notepad except for the background colour and the command buttons at the bottom. You also get the very first feel of how the program displays ASCII art. Just like most ordinary text editors and generally many programs, the File menu contains file manipulation commands. Some of the tasks you can perform include, saving, printing text, opening existing files and creating new files. Also you can get a preview of text before printing or view a list of recently opened files and launch any of them from the list which is accessible by clicking Print Preview and Recent files respectively.
The program contains redo and undo commands which you can access from the Edit menu. If you do not feel like using program shortcuts for cutting, pasting, copying and deleting, you can access the commands from the Edit menu or use the command buttons at the bottom. You use the Find/Replace command on the Edit menu to look for specific text in the document and replace it with text of your choice. In case you need to enter the current time any where in the document, you don’t have to worry about getting the format right, you can easily insert it anywhere by placing the cursor in the desired position and clicking the Date/Time option on the Edit menu or just use the Ctrl+D hotkeys. Other text editors you can try out: Editpad, Notepad X. If you don’t fancy the default background color, font or text colour, you can easily change them to liking by clicking Set Background Color and Set default Font and Color. You can also set a default font colour for all text being printed by clicking Set Print Font and choosing a suitable font. You can allow the program to accept dragging and dropping of files,word-wrap, to launch URLs when they are clicked or to show line numbers by checking the respective options and making sure they are all enabled. You can also set the program to trim text before pasting or convert Linux files added to windows by checking the respective options. You can allow only one instance of GetDiz to be opened instead of opening multiple files on multiple windows by checking the allow only one instance option. You can choose between 24 available languages by selecting your preferred language from the Language submenu on the Options menu. You can manipulate program width and height by selecting whether they should be automatically defined by size of text, by the use or use same dimensions for all files. Help is available in form of compiled HTML and can be accessed by selecting Content from the Help menu. On the same menu you can check for updates by selecting Look for new version or donate to the cause by selecting the appropriate Donate option based on the currency you wish to use. Pros
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ConclusionGetDiz is a wonderful text editor and fits the bill as a Notepad replacement. Related posts:
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| 5 Free Expense Manager Apps For Google Chrome Posted: 01 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT
Here, are 5 free expense manager apps for Google Chrome browser. Expense Manager is a useful tool to manage all your expenses and incomes. Moreover, when you have Chrome apps to manage your expenses and incomes, your work becomes easier and simpler on Google Chrome browser. Chrome web store has many expense manager apps to manage expenses and incomes according to your monthly budget. We will discuss about 5 best expense tracker apps which include CashBase; one of the easiest way to manage expenses and incomes on Google Chrome, Money IO; the complete income and expense calculator, and more. CashBase Expense Manager for Google Chrome:
CashBase is a free expense manager app for Google Chrome browser to manage expenses and incomes on Chrome browser. You just have to enter the basic details which includes multiple incomes and expenses during a month. The expense tracker app will automatically calculate the total expense and shows the difference of total incomes and expenses on your Google Chrome browser. You need to create a free account to use this Chrome app. All the transaction of incomes and expenses are displayed in the list format. The total balance out of the income after total expense is displayed at the right top side of CashBase web page. You can also easily check the pie chart of all your expense which is created according to the categories of the expenses recorded. The app even allows you to export the list of all the incomes and expenses in CSV file format on Google Chrome browser. CashBase also has other features which includes budget and cashflow. However, these features are included in paid version only ($5 per month). My Rupee Tracker:
My Rupee Tracker is a free Chrome app to record expenses and incomes on your Google Chrome browser. My Rupee Tracker works in simple way on Chrome browser. You just need to record your daily expenses and incomes and leave the rest on the app. The recording of financial expense and income is a bit different process as compared to other expense managers. You will see a field with amount and comment section at the left top side of the app page. Enter the amount and comment or the name of expense or income. Now hold and drag the whole field section in the appropriate category of expense or income. All the incomes and expenses will be listed in tables at the bottom of the app page. You can easily add the category of expense and income in the app. My Rupee Tracker also has the option to set the monthly limits of the expenses. I tried testing this option, but for some reason I was unable to find out the categories name in the list which I added in the app. You can try this and if it doesn't works, then mail to its developer for any help or query. Money IO Expense Tracker for Chrome:
Money IO is a free Chrome app to manage expenses on Chrome browser. This expense manager app works with full calculation of income tax and national insurance. With Money IO, you just need to record all your expenses, and the app will calculate the net amount or take home amount after deduction of income tax and national insurance. You can record the expenses in different currencies which include Dollars, Pound, Euro, and Yen. Along with all the expense and income calculation, the app also shows the pie chart. Money IO allows you to record expenses and income annually, monthly, weekly, and per day wise. Toshl Finance:
Toshl Finance is a free expense tracker app for Chrome to manages expense on Google Chrome browser. This expense manager app is simple yet useful app to keep a track of all your expenses and incomes. You can easily set a budget for all your expenses or specific expenses and spend accordingly. Record all your daily expenses and incomes. The app is smart enough to calculate the total of all your expenses and incomes and then tell the difference between them. The app also tells if you have done any over expense or under expense. You can easily maintain your monthly budget by knowing that where you have actually spent more than the required. Before getting started with Toshl finance, just sign up with it and maintain your own account. If you continue without signing up with the app, then your expenses, incomes, budget will not be saved. Easy Envelope Budget Aid:
Easy Envelope Budget Aid is a free Chrome app to manage your expenses in the form of easy envelope on Google Chrome browser. This Chrome app makes your expense tracking easier by creating 10 different envelopes. You can record the amount of expense and its nature to create a monthly budget. Based on that monthly budget, you can record all your expenses. The app also manages the unallocated money by distributing them in different envelopes of your choice. You can even prepare monthly, weekly or bi-weekly budgeting. The amounts are transferable between envelopes. The good part of this Chrome app is its sync part. You can easily sync the budget envelopes created via Android phone. Install Easy Envelope Budget Aid and start synchronizing your budgets on Android too. You can check out a video that how good Easy Envelope Budget Aid works on Android. Click here to view the embedded video. If you have Android phone with you, then you can check out free Android expense manager apps. If you find any other expense manager app in Chrome web store, then do let us know in comments. Related posts:
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| Portable and Lightweight Email Messaging with SendEmail Posted: 01 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT
ActiveExperts SendEmail is a simple email messaging software that you can use instead of the large and bulky email clients like Microsoft Outlook, when you need to send a message to someone. Name of this email messaging application tells us that it is only for sending messages, it’s not a full fledged email client which would also support receiving emails, but even without that option, SendEmail has a lot to offer to those who try it.
Like you can see, the interface of the program is not packed with a lot of options, and best of all there is no installation, which makes this a portable email messaging software. Opening up more serious email suits like Thunderbird and Outlook could take time, especially if you have a lot of accounts setup and if you receive a lot of messages. In these types of situations, you might have thought how good of an idea would be to have an email client for sending messages only, when you want to contact someone, SendEmail can do that for you, completely free. Similar software: GroupMail, Free Email Clients for Windows. Setting up SendMail e-mail senderBefore you can start using this partial email client you’re gonna have to setup the email client which you’re interested in using while sending messages. To do this you’re gonna have to click on the Edit button next to the Quickconnect field after which you should see something like this:
This is an important step and make sure that you don’t do any mistakes while filling out the fields. If you make a mistake, you’ll get errors when you try to send messages. Supported protocols for the outgoing email server would be SMTP and of course IMAPI. After you’ve entered all the settings, click on Save and then you’ll be returned to the main window. Sending emails with ActiveExperts SendEmailUpon opening the main window which you can see above, you can see all the different options that can help you out when sending messages. Some of the of the more interesting features would be:
Quite a lot of options for an email program which is only a few megabytes in size, and doesn’t require any kind of installation. After you’ve written your message and set everything up:
Hit Send e-mail and your message will be sent. If you plan on sending a lot of messages, remember that Gmail doesn’t allow for unlimited amounts of emails to be sent per day, so that you don’t over do it, seeing how easy it is to send :). ConclusionOne main advantage of this small email utility we’ve already mentioned, that there’s no need for installation and that you will not have to spend a lot of computer resources running it. Functionality had to be sacrificed a bit in order for this to happen, but if you are not a very demanding user, then sending emails with the help of ActiveExperts SendEmail is more than enough. Related posts:
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