Showing posts with label open source. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open source. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Capture2Text (Windows) - Captures text from photos

Everyone knows you can't select the text you see in a photo onscreen. So what do you do when you need to copy it? You're certainly not going to type it out by hand! Here's an easier(?) way to grab the text in photos on your computer screen - OCR it!

Capture2Text is an open-source tool designed to use optical character recognition to read the text in a graphic on your screen and pop the result into a little editable window for any corrections that are needed (machines aren't perfect!). You can then copy it to your clipboard and paste it wherever your heart desires.

I found it a little tricky to get the hang of, but as you can see below, it works!


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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Windows Double Explorer - Twin panes and tabs to boot

The standard Windows Explorer leaves much to be desired, but this powerful utility can make up the missing difference. Offering a double-paned view and multiple tabs means you don't have to open several explorer windows to perform the simplest of tasks.



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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

OutSync - Sync your Facebook contact photos with Outlook

Everyone's getting into the act. Socializing everything. And I think that's a good thing. Pulling your Facebook contacts' photos into Outlook is a nice treat, making your Outlook stuff less stuffy. From the developer:

"OutSync is a free Windows desktop application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time."


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Saturday, May 01, 2010

NoteFly - Desktop stickynotes with a social connection

Desktop sticknotes apps abound, but this one has a nice twist, allowing you to send your notes to email, Twitter or Facebook from the context menu. Features:

-Very small application. Less than 100kb setup.
 If .net framework 2.0/Mono is installed1.
-Change color of notes.
-Make a note sticky on top.
-Make notes transparent.
-Create an e-mail of a note.
-Send a note to your Facebook wall.
-Tweet a note to your twitter account.
-Resize notes how big or small you want it.
-Syntax highlighting for html content notes.
-Fully xml based (does not need windows registry2)
-NoteFly is opensource.



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Saturday, March 27, 2010

ZeuApp - Download up to 82 open-source apps in one fell swoop

Whether you're loading a new PC with your favorite apps or restoring an exisiting machine, or even if you just want to get the best open-source aps on your PC with the minimum hassle possible, this downloader could be your best means. From the developer:

"Pick software that you want, start download and install it. One click download the application you want to install, ZeuAPP in its list contains 82 applications.All applications are freeware or open source, and you are free to download them. ZeuAPP has 12 categories:  Archivers, Audio, Video, Chat-IM, Internet, CD Burners, P2P-File sharing, Games, Graphic, Office, Security, Utility."



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Friday, March 26, 2010

iTuner - A must-have iTunes companion

This little app adds important features to your iTunes installation. See the developer's remarks below:
"A system tray app that adds seamless features to iTunes including automated library maintenance, playlist exporting, playlist sychronization with MP3 players, global keyboard control, lyric discovery, and track and playback control. C#, WPF, MusicBrainz, iTunes APIs, and more!"



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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

PeaZip - A powerful file compression tool that's free!

This is a great open source application that'll do what the paid apps will and do it just fine, thank you very much. From the developer:

"Open source file and archive manager. Flexible, portable, secure, and free...create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP...extract 123 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF and many more..."


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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

OpenOffice.org 3.2 - Free office suite update now available!

OpenOffice.org has long been the best free alternative to MS Office, and now you can download the newest version, 3.2. There are many great new improvements to enjoy, and did I mention that it's free?


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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Scan Tailor - Fix up your scanned pages

If you are prone to scanning lots of pages and tired of trying to make them presentable, this app could save your life. OK, not your life, although anything is possible. Perhaps lots of time and stress. From the developer:

"Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project."




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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Vista Services Optimizer - Sweetens the ride on Vista and 7

There are probably millions of things that can be tweaked to optimize how Vista and Windows 7, but who has time to mess with most of them? This open-source app will help you make the most of either OS in minutes. From the website:

"Its an open source windows tweaking utility that supports Microsoft Windows Vista and 7, enabling Windows users to optimize and take control of most Windows services in an easy and safe way. This will make your PC run at maximum performance and security."



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Monday, June 01, 2009

Webinaria - Open source screen recording and sharing

Here's another "better-than-explaining" application that can save your sanity. Rather than trying to explain how to accomplish something you're doing on your computer to someone else - how frustrating that can be! - use this free application and website to record, publish and share it instead.


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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Kludgets - Put Mac dashboard widgets on your Windows desktop!

For all you Mac admirers who use Windows, here's a free, open-source widget engine that allows you to put Mac dashboard widgets on your Windows desktop. From the website:

"The Kludget Engine Beta is finally here. Dashboard compatible,Webkit-based, Nokia QT-based (multi-platform), Yahoo Widget Engine inspired, open sourced."


Kludgets

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

MindRaider - A multiplatform outliner and note-taker

It's not only the thoughts themselves that are important. It's the way they're connected and organized that makes them useful. This open-source application helps do that in a big way. From the website:

"MindRaider is personal notebook and outliner. It aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. MindRaider mission is to help you in organization of your knowledge and associated web, local and realworld resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation and inferencing."


MindRaider

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

OpenWith.org - Find free applications to open any file type

Someone sent you a .ppt file, but you don't have PowerPoint? What about a .rar file? If you ever face these types of situations, you can make good use of this application. From the web site:

"OpenWith.org provides detailed information about most file extension and links to free programs that can open and create each type of file. All of us at OpenWith.org have found ourselves helping our parents and friends open obscure file types time and time again, and decided that this information was best shared with everybody. There are plenty of great programs out there that will cost you hundreds of dollars to do what you need. What you probably don't know is that there is usually free software that it just as good. You just don't know about it."




OpenWith.org

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Stellarium - Fantastic open-source astronomy software

Why pay hundreds for a telescope you'll use 3 times in your life and brave summer heat and winter cold in your backyard and still not see anything you can identify, when you can see it all on your computer screen for nothing? From the web site:

"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope."


Stellarium

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

SimpleD Budget - Watching your pennies is more important than ever

This open-source app is a little gem. Nowadays it may not make sense to spend lots of money on humongous financial tracking apps. From the web site:

"SimpleD Budget is an open source Windows application designed for personal or household financial management.

With SimpleD Budget, you can keep track of your expenses for each month by allocating your income into "categories" such as Mortgage, Entertainment, etc., and as you spend money throughout the month, you enter the amount into a category. SimpleD Budget will let you see how much you have left in each category, or see how fast you are spending. It supports multiple languages(Unicode) and multiple currencies."

SimpleD Budget

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

AxCrypt - Free, open-source file encryption software

When you need to keep certain files secure and unreadable from unauthorized eyes, you can pay for lots of different applications, or you can us the free, open-source AxCrypt.

"Easy to use strong file encryption, integrated with Windows Explorer. Encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks. Cryptographic primitives are AES-128 and SHA-1. A combination of strong symmetric encryption with compression and double-click editing/viewing. Encrypted files have a '.AXX' extension added to their names, and are shown with a new icon."


AxCrypt

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Friday, November 28, 2008

Cabos - A free, clean, effective file sharing application

What to do when Limewire doesn't get the job done? When you can't find that song you can't get out of your head? Try Cabos.

A very simple, clean interface belies the effectiveness of Cabos, which has proven effective for me when other apps have fallen short.

"Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software. No spyware. No adware. Guaranteed.

Cabos provides simple sidebar interface, Mojito DHT support, firewall to firewall transfers, UPnP support, IP2Country support, iTunes integration, "What's New?" searches and more."

Cabos

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Spicebird - Open source email client, calendar, task manager, etc.

If you're ready to try something new, check out Spicebird...

"Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and integration among its components."




Spicebird

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