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Hundreds of useful tools and applications are available on windows for freelancers and web workers. Windows being one the main operating systems offers a huge listing of utility applications which come free of charge.
1. Ditto - It's a clipboard manager that allows you to save, manage, and retrieve all the countless clipboards instantly and effectively. It provides some great features for example easy- to-use interface, search and paste previous copy entries, information is encrypted when sent within the network etc.
2. Defraggler -It is really a defragmentation tool for Windows that helps in defragmenting individual files or perhaps a specific portion of a drive. It may also help in scheduling defragmentation while working or doing important stuff and may be run daily, weekly or monthly.
3. Recuva- Another application for freelancers which will help in recovering files from Windows computer, Trash can, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Alos claims to recover corrupted and damaged files and brings them to the PC. It also lets its users retrieve emails as it supports Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Windows Live Mail.
4. Picasa- This photo editing application by Google that allows it users in gathering and organizing the photos and share all of them with connections. Editing, resizing and retouching your photos, sharing them online with friends and connections.
5. VLC Media Player- It's a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework able to reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
6. 7stacks- This easy-to-use, free application that allows Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have "stacks" of icons within their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). This helps in lessening icon clutter, and combining several related icons into a single icon.
7. Notepad ++- Another useful tool that can help in editing text and source code easily. It provides tabbed editing, to easily use multiple open files. It features include Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, java, pascal, css and much more), auto-completion, multi-document, full drag 'n' drop supported, multi-language environment supported etc.
8. Windows Live Essentials-This application includes Windows Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Live Messenger are worth downloading. Windows Live Essentials gives instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photos, and much more.
9. 7-Zip- This tool is really a host of compression formats, 7-Zip lets uncompress just about any compressed data, and with the unique 7z format, files can be compressed up to 40% smaller than Zip formats.
10. Ares- It is a free free file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. It also helps in publishing files with the Ares peer to look network.
