[Web Pack] 318 Essential Collection: Productivity
Each issue we hunt down the best productivity applications available on the internet so you don’t have to. This could be anything from task reminders to document organisation, from PDF editing to mind mapping and everything in between.
You name it, we’re likely to cover it. Best of all, everything you’ll find on this page will be freeware. So no nagging popups, no time restrictions and no feature limitations. Just strictly no holds barred functionality! Read on to find out what we’ve been digging during the last month.
GreenCloud Printer NEW
GreenCloud Printer is a virtual printer driver that works with any program with a printing option for setting up your printout before finally committing the words and pictures to ink and paper. Even better, just output to a PDF document with GreenCloud and waste no paper at all. GreenCloud’s preview displays all the pages to be printed, and here you can select just the pages you want printed, preventing all the junk off the bottom of an email or webpages that you don’t need , for instance!
Save some trees and ink by using GreenCloud for all your printing
FocusWriter NEW
The thinking behind the FocusWriter word processor concept is to remove any distractions so you can concentrate on your subject matter. The work environment FocusWriter presents is nothing more that a plain screen and blank page to type within. The menu and scroll bar are invisible too until you move the mouse cursor to the screen edges. This barebones word processor does manage to include a multi-language and editable background and colour themes to help inspire your creativity.
Open Freely NEW
If you have a file of which the format is unfamiliar and unable to open; whether it’s an graphic, document, media file, or archive! Open Freely deal will handle it with ease. This application supports over 100 file types, as it’s soul purpose in life is opening the files you can’t.
Freeplane NEW
Mind mapping is the concept of jotting out your thoughts in visual diagrams to help simplify complex projects or pooling collaborative ideas together. It’s easily done on paper, but not very practical for making edits. Freeplane is a specially tailored Open Source minding mapping program packed with tools for drawing and amending mind maps on your computer of whatever complexity you require.
Money Manager Ex NEW
With entire countries still teetering on the precipice of financial ruin, all we can do as individuals is make our best efforts to balance our own personal books. Money Manager Ex should aid you towards this goal, tracking all your accounts, income and outgoings and investments. Detailed reports collate all this data providing graphical and statistical overviews of how your finances are performing.
Take control of your budgeting this year with MoneyManager Ex
KeepNote
Working on any project, be it professional, as a student, or just personal. Chances are you will be generating a lot of notes. These notes always need to be managed to make any sense out of them. This is where a program like KeepNote steps in. You can store your class notes, to-do lists, research notes, journal entries etc in a simple notebook hierarchy.
Task Coach
It can be very hard to be at your most productive throughout the day. If you work from home or even at the office, it is always good to have an eye on how on long it takes you to complete tasks. A lot of things can distract us during our working day. To help with procrastination, Task Coach is it hand to help you to manage your to-do list and cut down on redecorating your desk with post-it notes.
Rainlendar
Calendars are indispensable in everyday life of the organised. However, they are not always the most useful. Everyone’s needs are different, so with a program like Rainlendar you can customise your calendar to suit how you work with different icons and appearance. Events and tasks are displayed in separate lists and importance can be granted to any entry with an alarm.
DVD Collector
Physical media isn’t dead, well not yet anyway. Most of us have quite a fair few DVD’s and Blu-Ray’s in our home movies collections. Sometimes there are too many to count and even putting them into alphabetical order isn’t enough. With DVD Collector you can catalogue and manage your movie collection. It supports multi-disc DVD’s and you can also create your own wislists.
ManicTime
If you are concerned with how long you spend using your computer, or as business may need to log how long a PC is running day-to-day, then ManicTime has the answer. The download includes a 15 day free trial to preview Professional edition. After the trial ends, you can revert back to a Standard (free) edition or purchase a licence key and use Professional edition.
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