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Free Email Marketing Software: Mailman Max
Unlock PDF Documents with 4Dots Free PDF Password Remover
The Brain: Free Mind Mapping Tool
Render 3D RIB Graphics with Aqsis Renderer
Create Dynamic Desktop Background Slideshows with AutoBG
10 Websites To Download Free Non-Market Android Apps
Extract Data using Free Windows Archive Manager: Bitser
Create and Manage Virtual Drives: Virtual Drives Manager

Free Email Marketing Software: Mailman Max

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Mailman Max is the perfect tool for anyone who’s working in email marketing or just has a business with a large customer mail list. You’ve probably guessed it just by it’s name, that Mailman Max is a software that you can use in order to keep in touch with your clients and readers via emails. This mass emailer which is created by Kynix software is the perfect tool for everyone who wants to send a lot of emails at once, the free version of Mailman Max will only be enough if you don’t send a lot of emails though, because it’s limited to 50 emails per month.

Unlike some of the other email marketing software that we talked about before design of Mailman Max is very modern, slick and all in all very similar to that of Google Chrome. Settings windows appear in tabs, which might be confusing to some, the ones who are used to pop up windows. This emailer comes with a lot of options, but today we’re gonna just focus on three which are most important, setting up an email account, importing mail lists and of course sending the actual email newsletters.

Setting up an email account in Mailman Max

Before you are able to send emails with this mass emailer you’re gonna have to add email accounts which the program will be using to send the messages.

Take note of the lower right corner of the Accounts tab, this is where you enter information of your email accounts. It’s best that you’re using your own email account, under your own domain and hosting, because free email hosts like Gmail have limitations on how many emails can be sent each day, and you’ll have problems with it. Fill in all the data and click on Test which is located below the account import form. If everything’s OK click on Save Account. To add account go to Tools >> Accounts.

Adding email accounts into your address book

If you don’t have contacts you have nothing, and to add a lot of contacts you need to open up Tools >> Address Book and you will see the following tab appear:

This is where you can import the contacts from your existing newsletter list. As you can see from the image file format which is supported for contact import is . CSV, so you’re gonna have to export your contacts in that format to import them in Mailman Max. Once they are imported, you will be able to add them from the Address Book.

Composing emails in Mailman Max

In Mailman Max you have 2 different ways of creating emails, in a WYSIWYG editor, which would be the Design tab, or you can directly edit HTML of your emails in the Code tab. It’s also possible to add attachments, and to add more contacts click on To, and you’ll be presented with your Address Book.

Mailman Max offers a lot of possibilities and the best way to make a decisions if it’s good or not is to try it. Free version is rather limited, so consider upgrading if you need more from this email newsletter software.

Free Email Marketing Software: Mailman Max was originally published at I Love Free Software

Unlock PDF Documents with 4Dots Free PDF Password Remover

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT

4Dots Free PDF Password Remover is a free PDF tool through which you can unprotect PDF documents and remove passwords and restrictions on editing, printing and copying from PDF documents. Various PDF documents can be unlocked using this free PDF unlocker and you can even remove unknown and known user passwords. It is extremely easy to unlock PDF documents, all you need to do is right click them in Windows Explorer or drag and drop the files on the application. You can batch remove the passwords from PDF documents stored in several folders and there is absolutely no need to install Adobe Acrobat.

Installing Unlock PDF tool

Installing this free PDF unlocker is extremely easy, all you have to do is click here and download the free version of the PDF Password Remover. Once you click a file will be downloaded and you need to click on run. After you have clicked on run, the setup wizard will guide you through the installation steps. After running the entire setup process the program would be installed on your system and you need to launch this free PDF tool to start using the features. If you are interested to try some more PDF tools, you can try PDFill PDF Tools, Quick PDF Tools and PDFAid.

User Interface of this Unlock PDF tool

Once launched you would notice the user interface of the PDF Password Remover to be very plain and simple to use. Various tabs like add file, remove file, add folder and clear are provided to help users with the password removal process. You can add a file or folder in the application by clicking on the add file or add folder tab. The application shows you the file name, the size of the file, optional user password, file date and the full file path. It even offers you with the advantage of dragging and dropping the files on the application window. The tabs are all placed neatly and without the inclusion of any unnecessary tabs. The output file can be saved in the same location or you can change the location by simply clicking on the change tab. For the convenience of the users 38 different languages are provided for using this application.

Using the application is extremely easy as all you have to do is click on 'add folder' or 'add file' to add your PDF files for their password removal. The application works in a smooth and fast manner helping you remove passwords from all your PDF documents. However in order to remove password from a protected file you need to be aware of the original password of the file. The main page of the application has the following options:

Add File
Remove File
Add Folder
Clear

Alternatively you can remove the passwords from your PDF file in Windows Explorer by right clicking and selecting 'Remove PDF Password'. If you want to make work this way, you should select 'Integrate with Windows Explorer' during the application installation. Another way to remove the passwords is by dragging and dropping the files in the application. You need to enter the password of the respective PDF files in the space known as Optional User Password. Click on 'Remove Password' and after the task is finished, automatically all the documents will open in Windows Explorer.

Now that you know all about 4Dots Free PDF Password Remover, you can use this software to unprotect PDF documents easily.

Unlock PDF Documents with 4Dots Free PDF Password Remover was originally published at I Love Free Software

The Brain: Free Mind Mapping Tool

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

The Brain is a free software for mind mapping that helps you to make visual diagrams of your ideas or thoughts. With the help of this free mind mapping software, you can record all your ideas, thoughts, tasks and get a visual experience like never before.

This free tools acts like a digital brain that stores and connects all your ideas or thoughts. The Brain is one of a kind software when it comes to visualization, as it's visualization is completely different from other such type of software.

The interface of this free mind mapping software is straight forward with a large section of the screen only for creating and displaying the mind map.

The Brain is a standalone mind mapping software that offers two view modes which are Transparent mode and Presentation mode.

Transparent mode is a cool feature which makes the interface transparent and only displays the mind map and a button to exit the transparent mode.
Presentation mode hides the toolbar and notes writing section below and only displays the mind map on the interface.

In addition, you are even allowed to choose your desired theme from the available themes for this software and you can even set your favorite wallpaper as the interface wallpaper.

The Brain even allows you to add attachments like images, text documents, journal documents, etc to your mind map. Thoughts in your mind map can be linked to files, folders and URLs making your work easier. You are even allowed to connect this software to a server for uploading your mind maps to the website.

How to Create Mind Map with The Brain

For using the software, simply launch it and choose to create a new brain. Enter the new brain's name in it's box and hit the check symbol button. Create categories by adding your thoughts to the active thought. The thoughts which you add to an active thought are classified into parent thoughts, child thoughts, and jump thoughts.

Parent thoughts are thoughts which you categorize above the active thought.
Child thoughts are those thoughts which are categorized below the active thought.
And the jump thought is basically those thoughts directly related to the active thought.

So add the thoughts simply by using your mouse and entering their names. So this way, you can create mind maps to organize your thoughts. For adding attachments or linking any thought with a URL, file or folder, you need place the mouse cursor on the respective thought and right-click for the context menu. From the context menu, you can choose the respective options for adding attachments and linking.

When you download the free version of this software, by default you get a Pro trial for 30 days. Enjoy the pro trial for 30 days; once the pro trial is over it automatically gets back to the free version (all the features that I have detailed here are available in free version). Download The Brain for free and organize your ideas or thoughts like never before.

Also, check out our post on Freemind another free mind mapping software.

Features of This Mind Mapping Tool:

Automatically saves all your work without a need to manually save it.
Add attachments like images, text documents, journal documents, etc.
Link your thoughts to URL, files or folders.
Comes with a search feature to search anything in a visual diagram.
Preference option to adjust this software according to your preferences.
Comes with transparent mode and presentation mode.
Smart mind map visualization.
Add text notes to any of your thought.
Works with Windows, Mac and Linux.

The Brain is an awesome mind mapping software which helps you in experiencing the next generation visual experience in terms of mind maps. Download The Brain for free.

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The Brain: Free Mind Mapping Tool was originally published at I Love Free Software

Render 3D RIB Graphics with Aqsis Renderer

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Aqsis is a program with a peculiar name which can be used to render 3D graphics. Program is fairly simple and it doesn’t have a lot of advanced options, which isn’t a surprise since the program is intended for 3D rendering only, it cannot be used to actually create 3D graphics, that’s not what rendering means. The purpose of Aqsis is to create quick renderings of 3D descriptor files and nothing else. You should use this program alongside other software that actually has 3D modeling functionality, Blender for example.

This is the default window which will welcome you after you install Aqsis. Please note that the latest version of the program, version number 1.8, doesn’t work on Windows or Mac, only on Linux. Aqsis is usually a cross platform software, but there were problems with Windows and Mac builds when the latest version was being created which means that Win and Mac users have to download and use version 1.6.

What is 3D graphics rendering

Before we start with a more detailed explanation of how you can render 3D graphics with Aqsis, it’s necessary to explain what exactly rendering would be. There are several different activities that are associated with the word rendering, several different rendering techniques to be more precise. What Aqsis does is it creates 3D graphics or 3D scenes from the so called RIB files. RIB stands for “RenderMan Interface Bytestream”, which is the syntax used in the RIB files. This syntax describe the appearance of 3D graphics, it’s the thing that’s behind the graphical tools and interfaces that we are used to, here’s a snippet of how a RIB file looks like:

Don’t be frightened or alarmed, it’s not necessary to know this code in order to create 3D graphics. It can and is created automatically in 3D modeling programs. Think of Aqsis as a viewer for the RIB descriptor files.

How to open RIB files in Aqsis 3D graphics renderer

Opening a file is quite easy, don’t go under file, but rather click on Tools and select Render File. You’ll be presented with a selection where you can locate RIB files that you’re interested in viewing. Program comes with examples installed, so you can use them to test rendering capabilities of Aqsis:

This is a screenshot of how rendered graphics look like in Aqsis. Notice the two tabs called History and Console located in the main window of the application? This is where you can observe how the rendering is progressing, if there are any errors present. Sometimes it’s not possible to render graphics because the file is corrupt or not written very well.

Adding shaders to 3D graphics

Aqsis also supports the RenderMan Shader Files, these are called SL files, and they can also be opened and added to the basic RIB files to add a little bit more reality to the renderings.

For what it does program is very simple to use, and it’s very lightweight, considering that we’re talking about graphics rendering. Keep in mind this is just for rendering, for actual 3D modeling you’re gonna have to look elsewhere, but for simple rendering Aqsis is more than enough.

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Render 3D RIB Graphics with Aqsis Renderer was originally published at I Love Free Software

Create Dynamic Desktop Background Slideshows with AutoBG

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT

AutoBG is a free desktop enhancement utility which is very useful for creating dynamic slideshows on your desktop background. This free desktop wallpaper creator is handy for all those of you who wish to have an application which works in the desktop background to make your desktop look more than static as it used to be. AutoBG automatically creates a new image which is to be used as the next picture the moment Windows or the user switches to a new image. The program comes with the ability of generating programs which includes the random images from random xkcd comic or the Mandelbrot set. Moreover it comes with the feature of allowing other programs to be easily added and used. You can create dynamic desktop background slideshows using this free desktop enhancement utility.

Installing AutoBG

This free desktop background creator besides being simple to be used is very simple to be installed on your system. In order to have this program working on your computer you need to visit here and click on the download link. The moment you do so you are redirected to a new page where the download gets started after 5 seconds. Being a small file it takes a few seconds to be downloaded on your system after which you could unzip the files and launch the program on your computer. If you want to check out some more desktop enhancement utility, you can try XWidget, Aximion 3D Desktop and MooO Multi-Desktop.

Creating Dynamic Desktop Background Slideshows

In order to launch the program you have to click on the Background.exe file launched from the unzipped files. When you would launch you might not observe anything happening on your screen. However the program once launched gets minimized in the taskbar and starts its activity. You can access the options by clicking on the icon at the taskbar which pops up several options. To start using the software you need set a few options so that the software performs as per your needs.

The first thing to do is to select one of the following options from the Background menu:

Mandelbrot Set: It would generate picture from Mandelbrot set.
Time and Date: Selecting this option would display the current time and date on the system.
Webpage: It would launch the webpage for changing and checking Background options whereby displaying them statically.
NatGeo: This would set the background to National Geographic Picture of the day.

Further from the menu option called the ''Background Options you can select various colours for the pictures that are being saved from your background. At the top you have the option of saving the present background manually after clicking on which would ask you to select the location where you wish to save the image file of your existing desktop background. The image gets saved in the JPG format.

The folder where you had unzipped the folder or the files which you downloaded, you would observe two files being created named jpg1.jpg and jpg2.jpg. Now you need to right click on your desktop and click on personalize. There you would be required to select Desktop Background where you need to browse to the unzipped folder and select jpg1.jpg and jpg2.jpg. Also keep in mind to select the desired time interval in the space available.

The slide can also be updates manually by right clicking on the desktop and selecting Next Desktop Background. After you have done all these you are ready to use the software and let it run automatically giving you a great feel of your system.

AutoBG is a free desktop enhancement utility which is very useful for creating dynamic slideshows on your desktop background. Try AutoBG Free

Create Dynamic Desktop Background Slideshows with AutoBG was originally published at I Love Free Software

10 Websites To Download Free Non-Market Android Apps

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Here, are 10 websites to download non-market free Android apps that are not available in Google Play Store. Google Play Store has a vast collection of apps, but there are many good apps out there that are not available on Google Play store. Thankfully, Android allows you to install non-market apps on Android. So, lot of websites have come up that feature non-market apps that you can download and install on your Android phone. Such apps can be both free, as well as paid.

In this article, we will discuss about 10 websites that allows you to download free non – market Android apps. Websites include 1Mobile, Android Freeware, Android apps, BestAndroidDownloads.com, Playandroid, and much more. In addition to non-market apps, all these websites also provide apps that are available in Google Play store as well.

Most of these websites allow you to download Android apps in apk file format. You can install apk files only when you allow your Android phone to install apps from unknown sources. For this click on Settings→Applications→Unknown sources.

1Mobile:

1Mobile is a website that provides collection of free Android apps. You can easily download Android apps on your phone in the form of apk files, and then click on that file to install the app. You can also download the apk file on your PC, and then copy the downloaded file and install the app on your Android phone.

The website provides information about the apps which includes the app size, price (which will be free), last updated date, required Android version, and the number of downloads. You can easily check the collection of Android apps on the homepage of the website.

Android apps and Android games are categorized separately in separate tabs on the website. This makes it easy for you to browse Android apps and Android games separately.

The good part of the website is that the developer has come up with an Android app of 1Mobile with the name of "1Mobile market" which you can download and install on your Android phone and browser apps.

Another interesting feature of this website is “AppLists” that show similar apps for a particular topic. For example, there is a list of apps for movie lovers, and another list for 2012 London Olympic Apps.

Android Freeware:

Android Freeware is an online service that provides free Android apps to install on Android phone. The website is specialized in providing collection of Android apps in apk file format for free. You can search or pick any app and click on install to install the app. The good part of the website is its downloading feature. The website gives the option to download the app by scanning the QR Code with your Android phone. Scan the QR Code and the download of app will start on your Android browser. You can scan the barcode with Barcode Scanner app for Android. Downloading and installing the app within Android saves your time on downloading the app on PC and then transferring the app setup to Android. All the apps in the website database are categorized as latest, featured, widgets, other categories as well.

BestAndroidDownloads.Com:

BestAndroidDownloads.Com is website that provides a large number Android apps to install on Android. Not only Android apps, the online service also provides much more like live wallpapers, widgets, themes, games, and more. You can easily browse Android apps according to the categories which includes appearance, entertainment, internet & Communication, Multimedia, Security, and more.

To download the apk file of the app, you need to login to your Facebook account and allow BestAndroidDownloads.Com in Facebook app list. After allowing BestAndroidDownloads from your Facebook account, you can then download the app from the website.

AppsApk.com:

AppsApk.com is an online service that provides a wide collection of Android apps which include games, apps, live wallpaper, themes, and widgets. You can easily browse the Android apps according to the categories of the apps given on the website. Just click on any tab of your choice and start browsing the apps accordingly. You can easily download any app in apk file format. From there, transfer the apk file to your Android and install it. You can even sort the apps according to categories like call & contacts apps, education apps, entertainment apps, email & SMS apps, communication apps, Islamic apps, business apps, and much more. The website looks simple and is truly easy to browse apps. If you are searching for the best Android apps, then this online service would end up your search.

AndroidGamesRoom.Com

AndroidGamesRoom.Com is an online service that deals with Android gaming applications. If you are crazy about playing games on Android, then your search end on AndroidGamesRoom.Com. The website provides a vast collection of Android games to download and install on Android phones. To download and install a gaming application, you need to scan the QR Code given on the website from your Android and you will see the apk file of the game starts downloading on your Android phone. Tap on the downloaded file and install the game on your Android phone. There is a download button given below the QR Code.

AndroidSoftwareDownload.com

AndroidSoftwareDownload.com is a website that brings a vast collection of Android apps to install on Android. Like other websites as discussed above, this online service also provides category browsing. You can easily browse apps according to categories of Android apps which you want to install on your Android phone. The website looks simple and easy to browse. To download any app, just click on the app and the download button at the bottom of the app. Apk file will be automatically downloaded on your PC browser. Now, you can easily transfer the apk file and install the app on your Android phone. Before installing the app, you can easily go through the description of the app with a nice screenshot. This makes you understand the app in a better way before installing it on your Android phone.

CELL 11.com:

Cell 11.com is a web service that provides collection of Android apps to download in apk file format. Apart from Google Play Store, you can now download Android apps in apk file format from CELL 11.com. Apart from Android apps, CELL 11.com provides the collection of iPhone apps, Java phone apps, games, wallpapers, themes, and much more. While browsing Android apps, you can easily read the brief description of any app which you are browsing and then click on download button to download the app in apk file format. To Install the app, you need to transfer the setup of apk app to your Android phone and then you can easily install the app on your Android phone. You can even check out the screenshots of Android apps and proceed accordingly.

Best-Androidapplications.com:

Best-Androidapplications.com is an online service which deals with Android apps and provides vast collection to download on Android. The website allows you to download apk file format Android app. Select the category, select the app, read the description and then click on the download link to download the apk file format app on your computer or any other smart device. Best-Androidapplications.com provides the collection of Android apps in different categories which makes easy for you to browse. Also, all the Android games are given separately in Android games tab of the web service. Click on the appropriate tab and start browsing Android apps.

Android Freeware Lovers:

Android Freeware Lovers is a website which provides vast collection of Android apps to download. You can easily download any app in apk file format and that too free. The website provides free Android apps and their setup in the form of apk file. You can can easily download the setup on your Android or on your computer. The other option is to scan the QR Code and then download the app directly on your Android phone. The web service provides the list of Android apps according to different categories, newest Android apps, Android apps supported by new Android devices, much more. The website provides you simple interface where you can easily browse between the categories and download multiple Android apps in apk file format.

Best Apk – Free Android Downloads:

Best Apk is an online service which provides collection of Android apps to download. You can download all the Android apps in the form of apk file format. The good part of the website is its brief description about each Android app. You can go through the brief description of each Android app and then download the apk of it on your Android or computer. Best APK has divided Android apps into three separate categories which include general Android, Android games, and Andoid personalization apps. Select any one category and start browsing and downloading apps apk on your Android or on your computer.

If you find other good websites that allows you to download free Android apps, then do lets us know in comments below.

10 Websites To Download Free Non-Market Android Apps was originally published at I Love Free Software

Extract Data using Free Windows Archive Manager: Bitser

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Bitser is a free Windows archive manager which can be used to extract data from over 20 different archive formats, all of the popular ones are supported of course, and those who are interested in compressing data, in creating data archives you can do that as well with the help of Bitser.

On the image above you can see the create window that pops up when you right click on a file and select Add to Archive option in the Bitser context menu, the right click menu. This is where you can select all the different options that are available with Bitser. Next to a very long list of supported data archives, another great thing about Bitser would be the fact that it also comes with a lot of options when it comes to both creating new archives and unpacking existing archives, some of the useful features that this free archiver has are:

20+ supported archives for extraction (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, UDF, ISO, DEB etc)
Create either ZIP, 7- ZIP or EXE/SFX self extracting archive
Right click context menus
Add encryption on archives, password protection
Choose the compression strength
Split archives after a certain size
Option for hibernation once that the compression is completed

Many more useful tools and features hide behind the Bitser name, and now we’re gonna put the one that’s probably sparks the interests of majority of the readers, and that would be what kind of compression strength is offered with Bitser.

How to create data archive for free with Bitser

Creating archives is a great way of how you can easily group together various different files into one container, and also in the process decrease the size of the files, to compress the archive.

On the image above we can finally see the default interface of Bitser. Notice at the top that it has Beta in its name, that’s because the program is still in development, but despite of that this free archiver worked just fine for us, without any kind of problems. Click Create in the top left corner, find and select the files and folders that you’d like to add to the archive and then at the bottom of the application select what kind of format the created archive is gonna have, from the three that were previously mentioned.

Once you’re done setting everything up you can hit Create and the archive should be created, in the location where you’ve selected on the previous window. Compression rate was actually quite good, but we were compressing text, 40kb file was decreased to 7kb in size. With images we didn’t have that much luck, even with compression rate set to Ultra.

Conclusion

On the image above you can see the Bitser context menu, where you can quickly extract or create archives by simply right clicking on files and archives on your computer. Bitser is a free application, and it’s very lightweight on the computer resources, make sure that you give it a try, because it could save you a lot of headaches.

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Create and Manage Virtual Drives: Virtual Drives Manager

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

'Virtual Drives Manager' manages to fulfill a need of computer users that has been known for some time now, but nobody thought of addressing it. The number of logical drives on a computer often falls short. Although Windows now provides a logical disk creator in its latest operating systems, the novel approach taken by the developers of this program is a lot simpler.

Features of this virtual drives manager

The program is tiny and doesn't boast too many features. It lets the user choose particular directory and then the program makes the operating system believe that the folder is a virtual drive. This is done through a Symbolic Link, similar to a device name on MS-DOS. The benefits of this are manifold. There are some applications which insist that the installation be done on a clean drive. Some users might wish to divide their existing partitions in such a way that they can use each partition for a particular type of data. The drives that the program creates remain after the computer is restarted. If that were not the case, then the software would be useless. The users would need to create the logical drives every time they logged on to their system and that would spoil the purpose of the program. The program also doesn't need to be installed, so it's simple to use.

Downloading and Installation

The program is less than 1 MB in size. It doesn't require any installation and can be run on any recent Windows operating system such as XP, Vista and 7. The lack of an installation procedure also makes this a simple program to use.

You can also check out free software to encrypt virtual drive.

Working and Interface

The program makes it very easy to access folders that are regularly used, or install particular applications. The interface is pretty straightforward and has concise instructions. There are two drop-down menus; one lets the user choose the nomenclature of the drive and the next one allows the user to choose the destination folder that the aforementioned drive would point to. Once these two have been chosen, there is a button which the user can click to confirm his choice. Once that is done, the drive is created. The user can check the veracity of this by going into the explorer and the new drive is displayed. The number of partitions that a user can have is limited by the number of letters in the alphabet, but then nobody will ever realistically need more than 26 partitions. Besides, Windows doesn't allow any more drives than that. If a drive is no longer needed, it can be removed using the same software, but the data in it won't be lost as it is only a logical drive.

Verdict

This is a very simple way of accessing your frequently used folders without cluttering your desktop. The logical drives can also be renamed to show what data they contain, so it won't be much hassle to find out which partition contains what data. All in all, Virtual Drives Manager is a good and light software to have on one's system.

Create and Manage Virtual Drives: Virtual Drives Manager was originally published at I Love Free Software

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