Free Stuff
The Story Idea Machine, an interactive tool for generating a high-concept log line for your novel.
Page 2 Stage - The Screenwriter's word processor - Page 2 Stage is now free.
Free Section Sheets for use with The Marshall Plan® novel writing system. Plot your novel with ease
Plot Bot - With Plotbot, you can create private screenplays to work alone or with invited friends, or you can create public screenplays to find new friends. All changes are tracked to each writer, and you can revert to prior versions at any time.We handle all of the formatting—you just click the text to edit and write, easy as pie. All you have to think of are great ideas!
Word Count Tracker - This little javascript word count tracker gives you lots of options to play with. Writing a novel? Choose word counts. Want to work towards a page count goal instead? Choose pages. Would you like to set a blog posting goal for the month or year? You can choose that below too! In fact, you can use this tracker to track just about anything — miles run, pounds lost, dollars earned, etc. Just choose the “other” option from the drop-down and you can customize the tracker to measure whatever you want.
OpenOffice.org - What's in the suite?
WRITER Is a powerful tool for creating professional documents, reports, newsletters, and brochures. You can easily integrate images and charts in documents, create everything from business letters to complete books with professional layouts, as well as create and publish Web content.
CALC is a feature-packed spreadsheet which can turn boring numbers into eye-catching information. Calculate, analyse, and visually communicate your data quickly and easily. Use advanced spreadsheet functions and decision-making tools to perform sophisticated data analysis. Use built-in charting tools to generate impressive 2D and 3D charts.
IMPRESS is the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Your presentations will truly stand out with special effects, animation and high-impact drawing tools.
DRAW will produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects.
The Database User Tools give you all the tools you need for day to day database work in a simple spreadsheet-like form. They support dBASE databases for simple applications, or any ODBC or JDBC compliant database for industrial strength database work.
WRITER Is a powerful tool for creating professional documents, reports, newsletters, and brochures. You can easily integrate images and charts in documents, create everything from business letters to complete books with professional layouts, as well as create and publish Web content.
CALC is a feature-packed spreadsheet which can turn boring numbers into eye-catching information. Calculate, analyse, and visually communicate your data quickly and easily. Use advanced spreadsheet functions and decision-making tools to perform sophisticated data analysis. Use built-in charting tools to generate impressive 2D and 3D charts.
IMPRESS is the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Your presentations will truly stand out with special effects, animation and high-impact drawing tools.
DRAW will produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects.
The Database User Tools give you all the tools you need for day to day database work in a simple spreadsheet-like form. They support dBASE databases for simple applications, or any ODBC or JDBC compliant database for industrial strength database work.
Podiobooks: Free Audio Books! "Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule."
yWriter is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. yWriter was designed by an author, not a salesman!
Storybook is a free Open Source novel-writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors. Starting with the plot to the finished book — with Storybook you'll never lose the overview. Storybook helps you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing books, novels or other written works. Storybook assists you in structuring your bookManage all your data such as characters, locations, scenes, items, tags and ideas in one place. A simple interface is provided to enable you to assign your defined objects to each scene and to keep an overview of your work with user-friendly chart tools.
Q10 is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind. Q10 is freeware. That's right, you can download and use it at no cost. Q10 is small, fast and keeps out of your way.
RoughDraft A small word processing software that is sadly no longer developed.
FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It's available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, and has been translated into many different languages.
Jer's Novel Writer - novel writing software for MAC that doesn't cost a dime. With its easy and uncluttered interface it's perfect for any aspiring novelist who doesn't want to get bogged down in program interface details.
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. Also, Bean is available free of charge. FOR MAC
How to Write an E-book in Just 14 Days - This e-book is designed to help the reader write, publish, and market their own e-book that they either plan to sell or give away for free as a marketing tool. It includes background articles to help the reader first understand the e-bookpublishing process, and then takes them through a 14-day e-book writing plan from concept to launch.
Digital Personal Journal - Its pages turn like a real diary -- and you can write on it like a real diary. But it resides on your computer (not online) for your security and privacy. It's even password-protected to keep it away from prying eyes.
Free Business Cards - you customize the look!
Google docs - a free, easy way to collaborate with other writers
The American Novel Since 1945 - a course from Open Yale; discusses many classics using audio, video and course materials
mind-mapping software - Plot your stories or organize research materials with this free online mind-mapping software from bubbl.us.
Adventure Maker (freeware) is a revolutionary, easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes, without any scripting or programming.
Calendar - Print up your own Free Calendars with this calendar freeware.
Calendar Magic - Full year and individual month Gregorian, Afghan, Armenian, Baha'i, Balinese Pawukon (full year only), Balinese Saka, Bangla, Chinese, Coptic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, French Revolutionary, Hebrew, Hindu Lunisolar (3 variants), Hindu Solar, Indian National, Islamic Arithmetical (8 variants), Javanese Pawukon/Pasaran, Julian, Revised Julian, Parsi Fasli, Parsi Kadmi, Parsi Shenshai, Persian (2 variants), Sikh Nanakshahi and Vietnamese calendars. A user option is provided to choose between displaying/printing calendars showing each week starting on a Monday (in line with the ISO 8601 international standard), on a Sunday for North American users, or on a Saturday for Middle East users. More features listed at website.
MyBookmarks is a free Internet service that allows you to keep your browserbookmarks and favorites online so you can access them from anywhere.
Image Shack - free online image hosting
TinyUrl.com - turn a long url with many characters into a short url
Jumbo Tweet - write longer tweets
Word Count Tracker - Enter your goal, current progress, what you’re measuring, and the size of the progress bar you want below and click “update” to see a preview and get your custom code. You can embed that code on your own website, blog, or forum signature (if it allows you to embed code) to share your goals and progress with the world. You can even choose whether or not you want to display the percentage.
NeoOffice: Similar to OpenOffice (for Mac)
TiddlyWiki, a reusable non-linear personal web notebook. It's a unique wiki that people love using to keep ideas and information organised.
NotePad++ - a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design.Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.
KWord is a part of the open source officesuite KOffice. KWord is more than just a simple word processor, with its frame-based layout capability it can act like any commercial DTP tool and even typesetting product. Working with large texts e.g. for books is not a problem in KWord - and at all time you are in full control of the layout. KWord also supports PDF - and is able to embed Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) into its documents.
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. (for Mac)
JaLingo: This OS independent program allows users to easily look up words in a dictionary right from their desktop, whether they have an Internet connection or not.
WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
Bibus: If you're writing nonfiction, you'll likely need to cite your sources. This program makes it easy to organize and maintain your citations without extra work.
Graviax: Give your grammar a once-over with this free open source tool. It goes through your writing to ensure you're using words correctly and forming complete sentences.
Research Assistant is a free multi-platform open source project (C++/Qt) for researchers to ease their work in classification of any kind of information. It is going to be more than just a MS OneNote analog.
Sonar is a manuscript submission tracking program, and I wrote it because I was going nuts keeping track of short story submissions. This program tells me which market has each story, whether a story has been sold or rejected and which stories are gathering dust instead of earning their keep. If you decide to use it, you will be able to view a list of all your stories and then filter them in various ways (e.g. only show stories which are available to send out). You can add markets, stories and submissions and best of all it's completely free!
EverNote can be a great way to capture, store and organize information that you're using in your writings. Best of all, you can use it from anywhere, even on your phone.
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).
LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.
LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.
TreePad Lite: Writers can keep track of their notes, emails, texts and reference materials with this all-in-one organizer. Looking like Windows Explorer, the program is easy to use and can be a great way to keep everything you need for writing in one place.
Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
ASuite is an application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.
Inkscape: Unless you're publishing a boring, lifeless blog or webpage, you'll want to have some images or drawings on them. This program can make it easy to create original drawings or map out parts of your stories.
Tellico makes it easy to track your books, videos, music, even your wine and anything else. A simple and intuitive interface shows cover images, groupings, and any detail you want. Grab information from many popular Internet sites, including IMDB.com, Amazon.com, and most libraries.
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, Excel or any other Windows application. A PDF takes less storage space, and is easier to send with email. Make PDF creator part of your the software suite you have installed on your computer for easy PDF creation.
Adventure Maker is a revolutionary, easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes, without any scripting or programming. It is particularly suitable for the creation of first-person and third-person adventure games, Myst-like games, educational software, presentations, and interactive tours. It can generate single stand-alone files, for Internet or CD distribution. Now make games for iPhone, too!
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.
The RSC General Resume Template acts as a guideline containing the structure for working through the components of a professional looking resume. The RSC General Resume Template is intended for those seeking to create a resume that has the key elements necessary to capture the attention of hiring authorities.
BiblioExpress - a simple reference manager for researchers. It is the freeware edition of our flagship product, Biblioscape. BiblioExpress can be used to collect literature references of different types, explore bibliographic resources on the Internet, and view bibliographic data. It can format records in several popular styles, including ACS, APA, and MLA.
TextPattern - A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs.When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to do a pretty good job of managing text and images on a personal computer, but to make these available to the worldwide web – a seemingly similar environment of documents and destinations – ease of use vanishes behind sudden requirements for multilingual programming skills, proficiency in computer-based graphic design, and, ultimately, the patience of a saint.
Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using ‘WYSIWYG’ web editors.
Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using ‘WYSIWYG’ web editors.
Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
KeyNote - Tabbed notebook with RichText editor, multi-level notes and strong encryption.
Google Earth allows you to view global imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. Just type in the address or location, and watch the interactive 3D navigate to that location, zooming in to street level (you can actually see cars on the street). Along with the detailed satellite images, you can pan and zoom, mark locations, and activate layers that show points of interests like banks, schools, restaurants shopping areas and much more. In addition to the standard satellite view, Google Earth also includes a tilt feature that allows you to render the map in a realistic 3D perspective that shows elevations levels. Additional features include on-screen measuring, emailing and printing of map views, personal places and more.
Requires 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM, high speed connection
Requires 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM, high speed connection
Notepad ++ is a source code editor and notepad replacement that includes a wealth of advanced features and support for many popular programming languages. If offers customizable syntax highlighting, code completion...
Efficient Diary is an easy to use personal diary that comes with all the features you need to maintain a daily diary of events or ideas. It offers a modern interface and full support for rich text editing as well as emoticons, tables, links, images and attachments. Your entries are automatically categorizes by date and can be viewed in a table or card view.The content of your diary is stored encrypted and password protected so that your personal thoughts are secure from unauthorized viewing.Other features include a customizable interface, export to RTF or text format, content groups and more.
MapleXP enables you to keep track of how much time you spend working various projects. It allows you to maintain multiple projects and divide each project into a hierarchy of tasks and actions in reference to those tasks. The program includes a simple start/stop time that can keep track of your time, and you can generate a report for all your projects.The Express version does not support billable tasks and has some other limitations.
Stickies is a virtual post-it notes program that allows you to place sticky notes on your desktop, which will remain where placed until closed - even across reboots. The appearance of the sticky notes can be customized in color, font, transparency and other aspects.The notes can even be sent across a network, synchronized with friends, imported/exported, sent by email or attached to application windows. You can choose to hide or show all notes with a single click from the tray and also recover notes that have been deleted in the past.Stickies can be hidden (sent to sleep) for a certain period, or until a specified date and time, to act as a reminder. Stickies is probably one of the best sticky note program you can find, it is small, well documented and comes with many useful features.
CintaNotes is a portable notes keeping app that provides a convenient way to quickly store pieces of information that are collected from other documents or websites.
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ClipMate makes you more productive by making the windows clipboard work better. It adds the functionality that Windows leaves out, starting with the ability to hold more than one item! (The regular Windows clipboard holds one item at a time.)
ClipMate holds THOUSANDS of "clips" for days, weeks, even years if you need it to. And you can organize, edit, re-format, print, combine, search, and manage your data. You can even encrypt sensitive information like credit card numbers. We've even thrown in a spellchecker with thesaurus.
ClipMate holds THOUSANDS of "clips" for days, weeks, even years if you need it to. And you can organize, edit, re-format, print, combine, search, and manage your data. You can even encrypt sensitive information like credit card numbers. We've even thrown in a spellchecker with thesaurus.
The Thinking Mans Thesaurus - an ideal pop-up utility for when the right word is eluding you.
Anniversary Bios is a software which allows you to design customized wedding or anniversary certificates. With this software, you can create an unlimited number of certificates and personalize their prints to fit your needs. It can also be used to create greeting and gift cards. Anniversary Bios also lets you use personalized logos and include advertisements in your print.
The Literary Machine is a revolutionary relational database and composition tool that manages any kind of information, even the random thoughts and bits of information you get, and forget, throughout the day. LM's unique system unharnesses you (and your thinking) from the rigid framework of conventional databases. LM's unique composition tools are the first of their kind, before firing up your conventional word processor, Web page creation software, or presentation program, assemble your materials into a coherent and elegantly organized composition with the Literary Machine. Watch your productivity soar and, when you see your highly polished output, you'll know why we call this program The Literary Machine.
JPGVideo can create a video (AVI) file from a series of JPG files. If you have a webcam that automatically takes a snapshot every few minutes, you can use JPGVideo to combine the captures into a time-lapse movie. The program can automatically drop frames that are identical (or nearly identical) and sort the file sequence by time or file name.JPGVideo is not limited to webcam captures, you can use any kind of JPG images, as long as they have the same dimensions.
Email Remover -- A Small Yet Efficient Utility That Will Help You Delete Unwanted Mails Without The Hassle Of Having To Download Entire Messages. It Works By Retrieving Only The Mail Headers And Let's You Preview The First Few Lines Of Your Messages.
Date Reminder -- A Small Windows Utility To Remind You Of Family Birthdays, Anniversaries, Or Any Other Important Dates. When You Start Your Computer, It Looks At The Dates You Have Entered, And If One Is Approaching, It Flashes A Reminder.
T-Mail -- Real-Time Email Translation. A Service That Anyone Can Use To Send Text Documents To Foreign Language Friends Or Biz Contacts. The Following Language Translations Are Currently Supported: English To Spanish, French To English, English To Italian, English To French, German To English, Italian To English, English To Portuguese, Portuguese To English, English To German, And Spanish To English.
WakeUpNews Computer Alarm Clock - Finally An Alarm Clock That Wakes Up Even The Hard To Wake! With extra loud EXTREME Sounds, or Smooth Music For Those Who Like It Mild. (NOW FREE !!!) This Computer Alarm Clock Is Serious About Waking You Up!
CyberBuddy is a freeware desktop utility program that uses MicroSoft Agents. Animated cartoon characters deliver news headlines, local weather, time of day, and much more.
My Album is a free picture cataloger for building easily digital photo albums.
Digital Pen - Create your own email Stationery. Easy step by step creation also has extensive Help file in a Wizard type interface that guides you through every step. So easy, anyone can make Stationery in minutes. Comes with backgrounds, animated gifs and midi sounds. Has all the options for creating unique Stationery including a scrolling status bar message as well as an additional animation.
productivity apps in Google Drive - Docs keeps everything and everyone on the same page. Add artichokes to a shared shopping list, or put the finishing touches on your business plan from the lobby before the meeting, right from your mobile device. Other apps also available.
Free marketing plan template from ProBusinessWriter.
Free Online Press Release Creator Allows You To Instantly Create Powerful, Attention Grabbing, Perfectly Formatted Press Releases in an instant.
Plot your stories or organize research materials with this free online mind-mapping software from bubbl.us.
Gymnast converts text files to Adobe Acrobat PDF format without the need for any additional Adobe software. Gymnast supports hyperlinks, annotations, and automatic generation of bookmarks from headings. You can even include links to Web sites and other PDF files! Use it to publish electronic newsletters, brochures or price lists. Use it to compile database or spreadsheet reports for distribution to clients or staff. Use it to distribute readme files with your software. Produce professional-looking documents for the Web.
Adventure Maker is a revolutionary, easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes, without any scripting or programming. It is particularly suitable for the creation of first-person and third-person adventure games, Myst-like games, educational software, presentations, and interactive tours. It can generate single stand-alone files, for Internet or CD distribution. The main features include Load and Save functions, conversations (dialogue wizard), looping videos, animations, full-screen transitions, real-time water/smoke effects, inventory items, multiple-CD support, Flash movies support (SWF), support for over 30 file types (OGG, XviD, DivX...), multi-channel sound system, versatile Plugins System, and MUCH more.
Robert’s Rules of Writing - free e-book download from Writer's Digest
Free Online Press Release Creator Allows You To Instantly Create Powerful, Attention Grabbing, Perfectly Formatted Press Releases in an instant.
Eclipse Crossword - Add a theme-related crossword puzzle to a children's article or make a stand-alone puzzle with this crossword generator.
WebReaper - This offline browser enables you to download web pages to your hard drive so you can view them at your convenience, or save them permanently.
StickIt - This indispensable utility creates virtual sticky notes that you can place anywhere on your desktop. You can even customize the color!
Scholar's Aid 2000 Lite - This research companion manages bibliographical data collected from books, articles, websites, etc., and generates references in predefined or user-defined formats. Library Aid will then transfer the references automatically to documents in a word processor. Extremely useful for writers of long, scholarly pieces and/or books.
PhraseExpress - Add your favorite phrases-- addresses, greetings, signatures, and so on-- to any Windows program easily. Use either keyboard shortcuts or a phrase menu located in the taskbar to insert the words of your choice. Autotext - Clipboard Utility - Snippets Organizer
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Action Outline Lite - Bring order to your articles and stories with this free-form organizer/outliner. Lets you arrange text data in a hierarchical structure, edit your entries easily, and change their order to your liking.
KeyNote - Flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook that will keep your writing projects (or anything else, for that matter) in order and on track. Tranglos Software: Freeware
Vizual Einstein ME - Organize your book, screenplay or article with this feature-rich information manager.
Michael Hauge Story Structure Template for Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 - FREE for all Screenwriter 6 users
AkelPad - is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
Alien Speech is a freeware Text to Speech program. Simply type in some text or load a text file, and Alien Speech will read it for you, at a speed and pitch of your choice. This text to speech converter is completely free and is based on the microsoft text to speech engine, meaning it is compatible with nearly all recent versions of Windows.
Alleycode is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor with unique features. If you are new to HTML, Alleycode's great tutorial will walk you through your first coding steps... If you are an established coder you will find a refreshing, non-bloated infrastructure with fast and accurate delivery. Beyond HTML, Alleycode's wizardry focuses on PHP and CSS interaction for professional and easy management of your projects. Best of all, Alleycode is FREE! (we do accept donations if you find it useful).
AndreaMosaic, a free project to create digital art using images and computer software. With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures. A photo mosaic is an image composed of many tiled photos.
AM-Notebook is a multi-featured personal information manager that provides an easy and reliable way to save notes, formula supported spreadsheets, diagrams/flowcharts, to do lists, tasks and contacts within a light weight tray icon tool.
Angel Writer is a free text editor (like Microsoft Word) allowing you to create impressive documents that contain formatted text, graphics and tables. You can learn how to work with Angel Writer in five minutes since it is very similar to Microsoft Word. A comfortable interface, small size and high performance rate - that is the free text editor Angel Writer. You can download and try this free text editor right now!
A-ToolBar - This ultimate internet and desktop tool brings you 50 useful tools in one program.
Infinity 100 Mindmapper 1.0 - Organize your thought processes easily with this mind mapping program.
With BookDB2 you can enter all your books with author, category, publisher etc and print them out in a variety of formats. BookDB2 also has lending library features. With them, you can add borrowers, loan out books, add multiple copies and so on.
yEdit2 is a simple text editor with frequent auto-backups and a countdown word counter.
BookReader. A comfortable freeware e-book viewer. BookReader offers a unique way of reformatting text documents to represent them on your screen according to your preferences. The program can scroll text automatically. It remembers the reading position for each book from your personal library. BookReader includes the personal library manager, the bookmarks manager and the on-line library browser. More than 4000 freeware titles are available for direct download from the program. The text and the page layout are fully customizable.
Browzer Book Club - free downloadable books (.pdf format)
Q10 – the word processing freeware for writers
PublisherTracker - simple Windows-based manuscript tracker for writers. The original code was written in c# and features include: * Use of single screen for multiple entries; * Application uses xml data files instead of large database applications; * Several search options dependent upon manuscript title, publisher name, or date the manuscript was sent; * The application itself takes up very little room on any hard drive; * The software is absolutely 100% free!!!; No gimmicks, no spyware, no adware, or sneaky toolbars.
MemPad - Plain text outliner and note taking program with a structured index. Fast and easy to handle; link, lookup, launch support; search functions; export; password protected encryption.
Freeware HTI PDF Creator 4.0 - Create PDF using HTIPDF - a free tool for high-quality conversion to PDF, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF from virtually any Windows application
Funetica Writers Block 2.1 is a an easy to use tool which helps a writer stuck for ideas. This software creates random sentences in a set form to give you some ideas for your writing. Randomly creates from a predefined list giving over 28,000,000,000 combinations. Just sit back and generate sentences until your mind starts flowing with ideas.
Vizual Einstein ME - Vizual Einstein ME is a revolutionary web-enabled application for investigators, researchers, academics, lawyers, scientists, essayists, students, and writers, which allows you to visually develop a project document with notes, headings, subheadings, and hyperlinks. Full database search functionality. There are many other features, including bibliography and formatted report output.
TightVNC - a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.
Create Your Own Text Adventure Games - Text Adventures (now commonly referred to as Interactive Fiction) are a cross between reading a book and playing a game, where you control the main character. Rather than reading the story from start to finish, you interact with everything by typing commands at a prompt, discovering things as you go along. Well written games give you, the player, the impression that anything you type is understood by giving a sensible and meaningful response. Indeed, part of the fun of playing text adventure games is discovering responses to things you didn't expect to have been catered for.Most text adventures follow the same basic rules - these include walking from location to location using compass directions (north, east, south-west etc). You can normally pick objects up, drop them,
ADRIFT Developer is a Windows application that allows you to create complex text adventure games quickly and easily. It allows you to concentrate on the story by making everything else easy, such as having all options available in dropdown lists, rather than you having to spend a lot of time just trying to figure out how to code the game. Games in ADRIFT are created by adding locations, objects, characters and tasks. These can be organised into folders, allowing you to group things together in a logical manner.
ADRIFT Developer is a Windows application that allows you to create complex text adventure games quickly and easily. It allows you to concentrate on the story by making everything else easy, such as having all options available in dropdown lists, rather than you having to spend a lot of time just trying to figure out how to code the game. Games in ADRIFT are created by adding locations, objects, characters and tasks. These can be organised into folders, allowing you to group things together in a logical manner.
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TextPattern - A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs.When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to do a pretty good job of managing text and images on a personal computer, but to make these available to the worldwide web – a seemingly similar environment of documents and destinations – ease of use vanishes behind sudden requirements for multilingual programming skills, proficiency in computer-based graphic design, and, ultimately, the patience of a saint.
Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using ‘WYSIWYG’ web editors.
Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using ‘WYSIWYG’ web editors.
Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
Lightened Dream is a useful application for lucid dreamers which can trigger your conscious awareness in the dreamstate. Bring your dreams to life with interactive graphs that track dream content, sleep cycles, lucidity and even the moon cycle.
Dreams are automatically organized by date for easynavigation and can be expanded to show common keywords and how they relate to other dreams. Play sounds in the middle of your sleep.
Dreams are automatically organized by date for easynavigation and can be expanded to show common keywords and how they relate to other dreams. Play sounds in the middle of your sleep.
KeyNote: Tabbed notebook and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption.
Chaos Manager is a compact freeware organizer with a simple and easy look and feel. Features appointments/to-do's, contacts (address-/phone book), calendar, multi-topic notebook (supports text formatting), sync via Internet, e-mail forwarding of appointments/to-do's, print/import/export, search options, skinnable and lots of customizable options, so you can personalize it.
MapleXP enables you to keep track of how much time you spend, working various projects. It allows you to maintain multiple projects and divide each project into a hierarchy of tasks and actions in reference to those tasks. The program includes a simple start/stop time that can keep track of your time, and you can generate a report for all your projects.
Stickies is a virtual post-it notes program that allows you to place sticky notes on your desktop , that will remain where placed until closed, even across reboots. The appearance of the sticky notes can be customized (transparency supported on Win2k/XP) in color, font and other aspects. In addition, the notes can be sent across a networked and also synchronized with friends, imported/exported, sent by email and more. You can choose to hide or show all notes with a single click from the tray and also recover notes that have been deleted in the past. Stickies can be hidden (sent to sleep) for a certain period, or until a specified date and time, to act as a reminder. One of the best sticky note program you can find, it is small, well documented and comes with many useful features.
NoteIT is a personal notes organizer that runs in the system tray and provides quick access to write down and save notes. The program offers an easy to use interface with note items organized in a tree view. You can send a note by email, password protect selected items and also backup your entire collection of notes. Additional features include a search option, different skins to choose from and print support.
Lavasoft - The best free antivirus, antispyware and browsing protection for your PC.
ClipMate makes you more productive by making the windows clipboard work better. It adds the functionality that Windows leaves out, starting with the ability to hold more than one item! (The regular Windows clipboard holds one item at a time.)
ClipMate holds THOUSANDS of "clips" for days, weeks, even years if you need it to. And you can organize, edit, re-format, print, combine, search, and manage your data. You can even encrypt sensitive information like credit card numbers. We've even thrown in a spellchecker with thesaurus.
ClipMate holds THOUSANDS of "clips" for days, weeks, even years if you need it to. And you can organize, edit, re-format, print, combine, search, and manage your data. You can even encrypt sensitive information like credit card numbers. We've even thrown in a spellchecker with thesaurus.
Rhymesaurus is the ultimate collection of computer reference tools for poets, songwriters, copy writers, linguists, teachers, Scrabble players, word lovers, and anyone who needs to find "just the right word."
Cybernetic Poet - A screen saver that writes poetry, a Poet's Assistantthat helps you write poetry (and song lyrics!), and 50 professionally - designed "poet personalities."
Find out how the RKCP can help you find rhymes, alliterations, ideas for the next word of your poem (or song), ideas for turns of phrase, and more.
Find out how the RKCP can help you find rhymes, alliterations, ideas for the next word of your poem (or song), ideas for turns of phrase, and more.
JPGVideo can create a video (AVI) file from a series of JPG files. If you have a webcam that automatically takes a snapshot every few minutes, you can use JPGVideo to combine the captures into a time-lapse movie. The program can automatically drop frames that are identical (or nearly identical) and sort the file sequence by time or file name.JPGVideo is not limited to webcam captures, you can use any kind of JPG images, as long as they have the same dimensions.
Date Reminder -- A Small Windows Utility To Remind You Of Family Birthdays, Anniversaries, Or Any Other Important Dates. When You Start Your Computer, It Looks At The Dates You Have Entered, And If One Is Approaching, It Flashes A Reminder.
Shopping List - Try this quick, easy, and flexible way to make your shopping lists.
- Saves and maintains lists of grocery items
- Point & click or drag and drop items to quickly form shopping lists
- Edit, add, and delete items and categories
- Print shopping lists sorted by category or item
- Save lists for re-use
Wake Up News -- A Utility That Automatically Loads The Newspapers Of Your Choice Every Morning And Wakes You Up When It's Ready. You Can Use It At Home Or At Your Workplace(Without The Alarm) So Your News Are Ready When You Walk-in. It Has Been Designed To Be The Equivalent Of A Virtural Paperboy And Its Advantage Over Similar Personalized News Services Is You Can Use ANY Newspaper You Wish, From The New York Times To Your Local Daily Newspaper.
CyberBuddy - A Freeware Utility Program That Uses MicroSoft Agents. It Provides Instant Messaging With Speech And Animation, Reminders, Time Of Day, Check Email, News Reports, Text Reading And ICQ Status Reporting.
PopUrls - the aggregator to beat all aggregators - scan the most popular/used urls in all categories all on one page.
Snopes - the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Box lets you store all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share it from anywhere. Integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce and access Box on mobile devices.
Evernote helps you remember everything across all the computers, phones and tablets you use. Capture anything - Save your ideas, tasks, projects, files, research, and more.
Writer will take care of saving your work automatically every few minutes, when you start a new document, and when you open a different document. Important! Writer remembers you by placing a cookie on your computer. Click Preferences to choose a login just in case you lose your browser cookies or if you want to use Writer on a different computer. You can customize colors, fonts, and other settings in your Preferences.
Pho.to - 600+ creative photo frames, effects and filters - Lots of ideas to add style, fun and amazingness to your photos. All online, all for free.
WhatsApp for PC - Introducing the desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work. Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.
Free YouTube Downloader - Free YouTube Downloader grabs and saves videos from YouTube, one by one or in batches, and can also convert files to different formats and quality, so they'll play smoothly on your phone, tablet, or TV. It also saves YouTube videos as MP3, AAC, or Ogg Vorbis music files.
IrfanView (64-bit) - Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, watermark image option, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.
Skype - Skype lets you make free voice and video calls to other Skype users, and to call any regular phone line for reasonable rates. You can also chat online for free, and because it's so widely used, there are few people you can't communicate with for free using this service.
WordWeb - This thesaurus/dictionary can be used to look up words from almost any program. In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, WordWeb can find sets of related words. The database has more than 160,000 root words and 222,000 senses many proper nouns, pronunciations, and usage tags. WordWeb works off line, but when online you can also quickly view Web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
PicsArt - Photo Studio - PicsArt provides you with everything you need to make amazing photo edits, artistic camera shoots, photo collages, create digital drawings, and communicate with other creatives who have joined our mission to beautify the world.
Free Alarm Clock - Free Alarm Clock adds alarm functionality to your computer, letting you create multiple alerts that can wake you up or remind you when it's time to do something.
Simple Sticky Notes - It's a simple, easy-to-use, absolutely free, fast and efficient taking notes software. Features: Full unicode support; RichText support; Colorful and Transparent notes; Printable; Snap to desktop edges; Hide/Show all notes option; Automatic updates.
YoWindow - YoWindow is a streamlined weather app that features pleasant animations and the ability to track the weather in multiple locations at once. With this program, you can quickly see what's going on outside your window or what kind of weather you'll be flying into on your next trip. The magic of YoWindow is living landscapes that reflect the weather. Just like in your window. In YoWindow you can even scroll time forward to see the weather forecast.
Kindle for PC - Amazon's Kindle for PC is a free e-book reader and manager for Windows PCs. You can read e-books, manage your library and collections, and shop for new titles, just like you can with your handheld Kindle device, only in a layout optimized for Windows.
Ultimate Ebook Creator - How to Self Publish Many people have a dream of being an author and wonder how to go about publishing an ebook and specifically how to self publish on Kindle, Barned & Noble, iBookStore, Smashword, Lulu. Well I have some really good news for you. All you will need is the Ultimate Ebook Creator - which is probably one of the best ebook creation software on the market today. You can write your ebook from scratch unsing the built in professional WYSIWYG editor or, if you already have your content in a text file or word document, then you can literally import all your content into UEC, organize your content into chapters and sections and have your e-book published in less than an 30 mins (depending on how large the book is). UEC is probably the only e-book software you will ever need. It takes care of all your formatting and automatically generates your "Table of Contents", so all your formatting headaches are gone. You can generate for Kindle, Barnes and Noble, iBookStore, Smashwords, LULU.com.
Writer Rhymes (online rhyming word finder)
BookDB - Book catalogue software. Enter all your books with author, category, publisher etc and print them out in a variety of formats. Also includes library features - borrowers, multiple copies of the same book, loans, etc.
Remind-me-Please3 - Remind-Me-Please (RMP) is a reminder program which will give you advance warning of upcoming events, appointments, TV programs, movies, birthdays and so on.
Sonar3 - Who did you send that story to? How long has it been out? What was the feedback like? Has an article been sold or rejected? Use Sonar to track your short story or article submissions.
yNotes - Sticky notes for your Windows desktop. Create as many as you want, minimise them to just the title or hide them altogether.
yRead - yRead will load a plain text or HTML file and display it in a single-column, resizable window. Then it will read the file to you out loud, using human speech.
yWriter5 - This free novel writing software allows you to break your book into chapters and scenes. Tracking progress is easy with the 'status' flags, and this program will also create autobackups of your work by date and time.
Spacejock Installer - This program fixes missing MSCOMCTL.OCX and similar on Windows 10. Make sure you run it as ADMINISTRATOR. This program is really useful on Windows 8 and Windows 10 - if you get a 'Missing MSCOMCTL.OCX error message from any Windows software (not just mine), you can download and run the Spacejock Installer to correct the issue. You should run Installer.exe as ADMINISTRATOR to ensure the runtimes are installed properly