Windows Software: Essentials

last updated 03-05-2017

My current favorites of freeware in Windows.

0. Internet
1. Editors
2. Graphics
3. System
4. File
5. DV
6. Misc
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0. Internet
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Clipper Sync
* easy text copies management for Android across devices 
* syncs  Android text copies to webpage (thus accessible to web browsers)


1. Editors
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FiiNote 
* HTML5 editor for web browsers
* Also a native Android app syncable across devices, sharable via webpage
* can output to PDF e.g. use for travel journal (with pics) creation


ASCII Paint
Draw and share ascii art editor

Sketch Toy
Sketch and Share amongst  friends.

 
FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Free mind-mapping software written in Java.


2. Graphics
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Resize Pictures
shrinking pics
good sizes: 800x600

ABBYY screenshot Reader 
* screen grab in plain-text or graphics 
* OCR English, Spanish, Chinese etc.

3. System
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7 zip

Updating an archive

1. Add some text files
C:\DOCUME~1\user\Desktop\Utils\7zip\7-Zip\7z -ms=off a 0test.7z *.txt
2. Add some ahk files
C:\DOCUME~1\user\Desktop\Utils\7zip\7-Zip\7z -ms=off u 0test.7z *.ahk

3. Update special file that needs password protection
C:\DOCUME~1\user\Desktop\Utils\7zip\7-Zip\7z -ms=off u 0test.7z u MyAutoHKeys.ahk -ppassword


Autohotkeys (screen scraper, hotkeys, multi-function tool)


rjhExtensions
add functions to the context menu of Windows Explorer. Including a path to
clipboard function, DOS prompt, file encryption, file renaming, a file
shredder, file duplicator and functions better than: cm3utility (extends
explorer RMB to have more functions eg. delete later)


QDir
 Quad (more or less) views windows explorer.


sfk command line text file processing
e.g.   sfk grep -pat "# Verbs" -dir C:\Users\x\Dropbox\SimpleNotes  -file .md

e.g. search for a string in all files of a dir tree 
sfk grep . mystring
sfk grep -pat mystring -dir . -file .hpp .cpp

for the syntax of all commands, type "sfk" in the command shell.


AFI Rename: GUI: multiple file renames etc.

Winmerge Windows visual diff and merge for files and directories 

Unlocker Unlock locked windows file(s)

ccleaner Clean trash from windows

systemrescue rescue CDrom
sysinternalsSuite MS System Swiss Army knife
DoubleKiller


4. File
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Everything
search desktop files and folders by name instantly.

baregrep
- no MS docs, ppt

DocFetcher search the contents of files on your computer.
+ many MS formats: ppt, doc, pdf
xls not supported? protected pdf skipped

Clipjump
Clipboard Manager, support various formats (html, plaintext, graphics), sql-lite history
E.g. grep entries after a certain text
sqlite3 c:\users\x\Dropbox\somepath\Clipjump\cache\data.db "select id  data from history where data LIKE '%03-03-2017%';" 

PDFTK PDF Toolkit merging/splitting PDF files
 
Regexp tool to help you create the appropriate regex

http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

try this topic as well to extract text




examdiff : graphical diff http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp#download

renamefiles_v2.42_us.exe  
  defunct but still useful if you can find old archives. snap
 

5. DV
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Burn CD: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/CreateCD.htm (command line burn cd/dvd)

super Video Encoder
Audacity Audio tool
EAC Copy Audio CDs, wavs
CDex_150 Extract Audio
Mp3tag Audio MP3 tagger



6. Misc
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