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We did the math: If you bought popular GIMP www.gimp.org add-ons means there's not much this apps instead of trying their gratis counter- Windows ! MacOS | Linux The GNU Im- program won't do, from calendars to parts, at the manufacturers' iist prices age Manipulation Program (GIMP) does encryption. you'd be out $5,183 and change! Why spend most of what Photoshop does; the Gimp- money when you can get what you need shop project [plastiebugs.com) even UbuntU www.ubuntu.com for nothing? Sometimes, you do get what makes it look like Photoshop. Linux This Linux-based OS comes with you don't pay for. many of these Hall of Fame products iTunes www,apple.com/itunes (Firefox. OpenOffice.org) preinstalled. Hall of Fame windows I MacOS When you're attached to (See "OS Wars," page 87.) the top media player in the land (iPod), Adobe Reader www.adobe.com success is a given. iTunes continues to Win Amp www.winamp.com windows I MacOS I LinuK | Mobile This sim- build sales and refine its organization Windows After a decade of playing mu- plest of Adobe's PDF programs lets you of songs, video, games, podcasts, and sic, the "skinnable" WinAmp has several do just about anything PDF-related (be- more. versions, including one with full CD rip- sides create new ones), including online ping and burning. collaboration. It includes a host of fea- OpenOffice.org www.openoff ice.org tures to aid users with disabilities. Windows I MacOS | Linux You can spend a Operating Systems lot for Microsoft Office or nothing for AIM www,ajm.com this suite with full-function word pro- ajax Windows www.ajaxwindows.com Windows I MacOS | Linux | Web One of the cessor, spreadsheet, database, presenta- Web A virtual operating system (aka most widely used pieces of free software tions, even an equations editor. Web OS), it uses Asynchronous Java- ever, AOL Instant Messenger offers a ton Script and XML (AJAX) programming of capabilities. Skype www.skype.com to mimic the look and feel of a Windows Windows I MacOS | Linux You'l! pay tO desktop in Firefox or IE. It stores files Audacity audacity.sourceforge.net call regular phones, but if you sign up (using Gmail) and runs its own appli- Windows I MacOS | Linux Whether you're all your friends. Skype provides easy cations, plus Web apps like Meebo and recording or editing. Audacity is all (and even international) calls and video- Google Maps. If you can launch a Web about audio in practically any format. conferencing for nothing. browser, you can get work done through ajaxWindows. Firefox www.moz ilia.com Thunderbird windows i MacOS | Linux This PC Mag Edi- www.mozilla.com/thunderbird eyeOS eyeos.info tors' Choice Web browser has been on Windows | MacOS | Linux Mozilla's no-COSt Web This Web OS has ultra-simplified top of the heap since version 1.5 came e-mail alternative is extensible, fast, applications, including an RSS reader, out in late 2005. and easy to master. And a wealth of free satellite maps, a word processor, even
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MARCH 2008 PC MAGAZINE 79 extra encryption. If you're on a network Upload or e-mail your current docu- include a whiteboard for online eoUabo- that limits the use of certain apps (such ments for storage and editing. ration. as Skype). the VPN could give you un- fettered access. It even works with your IBM Lotus Symphony EssentialPlM Free wired connection for an extra layer of symphony.lotus.com www.essentiaipim.com security. Windows A much prettier version of Windows Imagine taking the e-mail out of OpenOffice.org, Symphony is preppcd Microsoft Outlook to get a killer person- Kruptos 2 www.kruptos2.co.uk for presentations, spreadsheets, and al information manager (PIM). Ihat's Windows Kruptos makes a file accessible word processing In a single window what EssentialPlM is all about. only to someone who knows the pass- (but lacks OO's drawing and database word; it includes a file shredder. modules). G009IC Calendar caiendar.googie.com Web I Mobile Featuring seamless integra- PC Flank www.pcflank.com KompoZer www.kompozernet tion with other Google products, shar- windows I Web While ShieldsUP! tests windows I MacOS | Linux A full WYSIWYG ing capabilities, and SMS reminders, this your firewall's ability to stealth all ports, Wcb-pagc authoring tool akin to Dream- Web app does for calendars what Google PC Flank performs surgical strikes that weaver, KompoZer integrates an FTP did for search. emulate specific malware attacks to ver- site manager for file uploads. ify that your firewall blocks them. Lightning NeoOffice www.neooffice.com www.moziiia.org/projects/cafendar/ SendShletd www.sendshield.com MacOS This version of OpenOffice iightning Windows This Outlook add-on strips out .org has the same great tools and price Windows i MacOS | Linux To be more like extra info and tracked changes in Word (free), but with an interface designed Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird needs documents attached to messages. specifically for the Mac OS. a calendar. Lightning provides that, plus a to-do list. It can even sync with Google Finance Notepad++ Calendar. notepad-pius.sourceforge.net GnuCash www.gnucash.org Windows Notepad++ handles text— Power Caiculator Linux Linux users can track their bank especially source code—in ways the ba- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ accounts, stocks, and expenses in this sic Windows Notepad could only dream down ioad s/powertoys/x ppo wertoy s. mspx financial program using a double-entry of, with embellishments like tabs and Windows This XP-only PowerToy replac- accounting method. color coding. es the lame Windows calculator with a mathematical powerhouse. Office ScrtbUS www.scribus.net Windows I MacOS | Linux This open-source Remember The Milk AbiWord www.abiword.com page layout tool has features compa- www.rememberthemitk.com Windows I Macos | Linux Volunteers keep rable to big names like Pagemaker, plus Web i Mobiie Never forget another gro- this open-source word processor alive. support for PDFs and scalable vector cery item, or anything else, using this It closely mimics the look and feel of graphics (SVG). extensible online task manager. It'll send Microsoft Word 2003 and earlier. reminders via e-mail. SMS. and IM. Windows Live Maii get.iive.com Adobe Buzzword www.buzzword.com Windows Live Mail not only reads your Sunbird Windows I Web | Flash Adobe takes on Hotmail, but also can check POP, IMAP, www.m02iiia.org/pr0jects/caiendar/sunbird Google with this online word processor or HTTP mail accounts. It works as an Windows I MacOS | Linux Sunbird is Mozil- built (naturally) in Adobe Flash. The in- RSS feed reader and a newsreader. ta's standalone calendar for tracking terface is splashy; controls are simple. events and upcoming tasks. It's a sister Zoho www.zoho.com to Lightning, which adds the same func- Gliffy www.giiffy.com Web I Mobile Zoho features every tool tions to Thunderbird. Web I Fiash An online-only diagramming you could want—word processing, tool with more options than you can spreadsheet, presentations, database, 30 Boxes www.30boxes.com flowchart. The free version is limited to even a wiki—and several you never Web One of the best-looking online cal- five diagrams. knew you needed. Some are also avail- endars, 30 Boxes features easy-to-grasp able off-tine. pop-ups for adding events and viewing Google Docs docs.google.com schedule details. Web I Mobil* Google's slickly designed Calendar/PlMs office suite offers online shared word Yahoo! Caiendar caiendar.yahoo.com processing, spreadsheets, and presen- Backpack www.backpackit.com Web Track your schedule and share it tations—and best of all, finally a solid Web Backpack is more than a to-do list with friends, then sync your calendar alternative in the office-suite space site. Your five easy-to-update pages with Outlook or your phone. It's a great to the totally dominating Microsoft. send reminders via e-mail or SMS and place to back up a handheld.
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Backup/Sync Allway Sync www.ailwaysync.com Windows Syne files between your PC and an external drive, filtering by folder, file name, or file type. The program displays warnings about questionable files before syncing.
Drivelmage XML www.runtime.org Windows Make an image of your entire hard drive for backup and restore pur- poses.
FolderShare www.foldershare.com Windows 1 MacOS Install the utility on multiple computers, create an online Plaxo www.piaxo.com account where you identify each com- Web Perhaps the ultimate online address book, Pla.xo is enhanced with the puter, and pick folders to synchronize. superpowers of a social network and plug-ins for many Web-based services Up-to-date data becomes available on all like Flickr, You Tube, Twitter and Livejournal for sharing across the Internet. those PCs whenever you make a change in a folder, with sync taking place in the background so you're never disturbed, just happy to find your files wherever look and feel of the Macintosh dock, Defraggler www.defrag9ier.com you work. complete with icon animations. It will Windows Defragment your entire hard even mimic Windows Taskbar buttons. drive—or just one heavily fragmented MozyHome Free www.mozy.com Add in extras (docklets) like real-time file at a time. windows i MacOS MozyHome provides clock and weather forecasts, even a automatic online backup for up to 2GB fully functional Windows Start button DriverView www.nirsoft.net of your data. and Recycle Bin, to get everything you windows DriverView list.s every single need. device driver running on your system, PassPack www.passpack.com with extra info on each. Web Pack away all your passwords in Quicksilver www.blacktree.com this secure online vault; it even logs you MRCOS This open-source launcher takes Eraser www.heidi.ie/eraser in to Web sites. plug-ins that allow it to do almost any- Windows Shredders are popular in the of- thing you want in the MacOS. fice, so why not have the digital equiva- SyncToy v2.0 lent? Eraser adds a right-click menu that www.microsoft.com/downioads Utilities will do away with a file or folder for- windows Make sure folders across your ever. networked computers contain the same Absolute Uninstaller files, even on drives that change location www.giarysoft.com FiieZilla www.fiieziita-project.org and name. Windows Replace the Add/Remove Pro- Windows I Hacos | Linux Download this grams control panel in XP to get batch FTP client for accessing multiple sites WinCione www.twocanoes.com uninstalls and clear out leftovers that or to use as an FTP server. In both cases, MacOS Bootcamp users: Now you can Windows frequently misses when unin- FiieZilla has convenient drag-and-drop clone (back up) your Windows XP/Vista stalling. support. partition for reinstall on a new Mac. CCIeaner www.ccleaner.com Glary Utilities www.giaryutiiities.com App Launchers Window* The extra tag">C is for erap, and windows Glary offers a ton of utilities for that's what CCIeaner gets rid of: all the cleaning, optimizing, and securing Win- Launchy www.iaunchy.net detritus left behind in the course of dows in one package. Windows Launchy launches (duh) using Windows. applications, files, folders, or searches Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 via a eommand-line-esque interface. CoolMon www.cooimon.org www.microsoft.com/windows/virtuaipc Windows CoolMon displays all of your Windows Install anything—DOS, OS/2, ObJectDock www.stardock.com system's vital statistics, including use of or any earlier version of Windows—as Windows Organize your application your CPU, RAM, and hard drives, inter- a virtual machine. It'll run in a separate shortcuts in a toolbar that mimics the nal PC temperature, and more. window on your Vista or XP desktop.
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SandBoxie www.sandboxie.com Universal Extractor www.iegroom.net search enhance and replace the boring Web Place a layer of "transient storage" Windows See what's inside any archive old Windows Explorer. —a sandbox—between your applications file—ZIP, RAR, even EXE. and your hard disk to stay safe. Yahoo! Widgets widgets,yaiioo.com uTorrent www.utorrent.com Windows i MacOS Fill your desktop with SecureZIP www.securezip.com Windows The tiniest BitTorrent client tiny interfaces for everything from stock Windows Compress and decompress files around (only 214K) comes with al! the picks to RSS feeds to weather forecasts on the fly, even in e-mail through Out- torrent download features you crave. (using Doppler radar!) to Wi-Fi sen- look integration, and encrypt archives as sors to remote desktops to eountdown desired. clocks—to name a few. Pick from over Interface Enhancement 4,300: some are more useful than others, Task Killer www.rsdsoft.com Battery Status but almost all are interesting to look at. Windows Stop any Windows process users.rcn.com/tmtaipey/BattStat dead; this is handy for clearing frozen Windows This app runs in the system tray File View/Conversion applications. and takes advantage of smart battery support in XP/Vista to provide loads of Foxit Reader www.foxitsoftware.com TinkerTool www.bresink.com info on laptop-power usage. windows Perhaps the fastest PDF reader MacOS Get access to additional prefer- around. Foxit includes a free annotation ence settings in Mac OS X to turn on Googie Desktop desktop.googie.com tool. Add-ons enable support for new hidden features. Windows I MacOS | Linux Let Google index file formats and UI languages. and search your hard drive contents. Uniblue ProcessScanner The sidebar adds graphical widgets to Samuraj Data vjew.samurajdata.se www.processiibrary.com your desktop. w«b You can display PDF tiles in your Windows i wab You can do the Ctrl-Alt- Web browser when no other reader is Delete salute in Windows to see what's miniMiZE aquarja.za.net available. bogging down your PC, but can you un- Windows miniMIZE puts thumbnails derstand the results? ProcessScanner, of your minimized applications on the ScanR.com coupled with the online Process Library, desktop for easier access. Web I Mobfts Instantly perform optical provides extra information on each pro- character recognition (OCR) on pictures cess (like whether it autostarts or not, Quero Tooibar 4 www.quero.at by c-mailing them from your phone to and who makes the software in ques- Windows Replace the Internet Explorer ScanR.com. tion), and even lists the security risk to address bar to integrate ad blocking and your system for running it. make IE7 look more like IE6. YouConvertlt.com web This site turns just about any file Downloads Vista Drive Icon into a different kind of file, even online drvicon.sourceforge.net videos from YouTube. It also converts BitLet.org Windows Add one of Vista's best features units of energy, force, length, and more. w«b Who needs a BitTorrent client? Just to XP: smart drive icons showing the find the torrent metafile link on a tracker current capacity of each hard drive. ZamZar www.zamzar.com site, plug it in at BitLet.org, and let it re- Web File conversion is no longer a com- trieve the file as if you were download- XYplorer www.xyplorercom plete nightmare. Just go to ZamZar, ing it from a regular Web site. windows Multiple tabs and improved upload a file, choose from a long list of
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extensions (including image, doc. mu- W.bloggar www.wbloggar.com Pidgin www.pidgjn.im sic, video, and compression types), and windows This post and template editor Windows I Linux Open source tackles in- enter your e-mail address. When it's can handle multiple blogs, across mul- stant messaging in this client, which done, ZamZar will send you the con- tiple blogging systems. supports more IM networks than you've verted file. ever heard of. Windows Live Writer get.llve.com Networking windows Live Writer is not a word pro- Trillian www.ceruleanstudios.com cessor, but a universal, WYSIWYG blog- Windows Access all your IM accounts LogMeIn HamachJ secure.logmein.com posting tool more powerful than most (AIM, ICQ, Windows Messenger, Ya- Windows I Maeos I Linux Instantly cre- blog services' own tools. hoo!, and more) from a single interface ate a free, peer-to-peer VPN eonnec- that also logs all your conversations, if tion between your computer and other Word Press www.wordpress.com you desire. people's. Download the software, create w«b It lacks the simplicity of Blogger a network with a unique name, give it to or Vox, but the commercial offshoot of Communication friends you want to join, and start shar- WordPress.org offers some of the best ing files with them—even your iTunes tools of any hosted biogging service. GiznnoProject www.gizmoproject.com folder. Windows I MacOS I Linux Gizmo competes RSS Readers with Skype to offer free, peer-to-peer, NetStumbler www.netstumbler.com over-the-Internet phone and video calls, windows Use it to deteet any Wi-Fi net- Google Reader reader.google.com but uses open standards. work in your vicinity and see if it's open Web I Mobile Google Reader is arguably for use, or just use it to troubleshoot the best RSS/newsfeed reader on the Gmail www.gmaii.com your own. Internet. Read feeds while off-line or on web i Mobile What to do with nearly lim- your mobile phone. itless e-mail storage space—that's the PrinterAnywhere enviable quandary of Gmail users, who www.printerany where.com Net vibes www.netvjbes.com can store up to 5.5GB worth of e-mail window* Share your printer with others w«b This is a handsome combination of and chats. And the amount is constantly over the Web; in turn, send jobs to other online RSS reader and podcast aggrega- growing. Other perks include advanced shared printers, no matter their location. tor, with some widget apps thrown in. search options, real-time updates, and "conversations," in which e-mail chains Blogging Instant Messaging are stored in one continuous thread for easy perusal. Blogger www.blogger.com Meebo.com www.meebo.com w»b I Mobile Blogger was one of the Web This polished Web app aggregates Mall Redirect addons.moziiia.org first blog-publishing tools. Years after your AOL, Gmail, ICQ, Jabber, Windows, Windows i MacOS | Linun This add-on for Google bought it, it remains one of the and Yahoo! buddy lists into a single. Thunderbird lets you biiuncc a message best, especially for newbies. Create a Web-based instant-messaging and chat- to the proper recipient without reveal- brain-dead simple weblog and let Blog- room experience. Meebo is building in ing that you got the message first. ger host it (with a blogspot.com name) extras, such as games you can play with using the slew of provided templates, IM buddies, as well as video and audio OOVoo www.oovoo.com or use it to publish a blog on your own chat ytm'd find with your regular IM cli- windows I M»cos noVoo video chat is domain. ent software. more P2P than Skype (no supernodesi),
MARCH 2006 PC MAGAZINE 83 with a better picture. It supports up to Jumpcut.com Paint.NET www.getpalnt.net six co-videoconferencers, file transfers, Web This online app provides Flash- Windows This program is probably the and group text chat. powered video editing. closest thing to Photoshop you can get free, courtesy of a student project. SightSpeed www.sightspeed.com Miro www.getmlro.com Windows I MacOS SightSpccd has bet- Windows i MacOS | Linux Miro combines Picasa www.picasa.com ter video quality than ooVoo, but in a BitTorrent downloads with video play- windows I Linux Google's photo manager less attractive interface. More than two back to become the next best thing to makes it easy to get pictures off a digi- video chatters will cost you, as will file your DVR. tal camera, organize them, and even edit transfer and group chat. and share them. MythTV www.mythtv.org Audio Linux Use your Linux box as a homespun Picnik www.picnik.com digital video recorder (DVR). web i Fiash Instantly edit pictures in this Juice juicereceiver.sourceforge.net Web site. Upload images from your com- Windows I MacOS | Linux Aggregate all Songbird www.s0ngbirdne5t.com puter, Flickr, Picasa, or elsewhere. your favorite podcasts in one place for window* I MacOS I Linux The open-source easy listening. answer to iTunes (from the makers of pikifx.com WinAmp) plays your music and videos, web Another online pic editor, pikifx Leveiator .com emphasizes special effects such as www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator TVersrty www.tversity.com added text and borders. Windows I MacOS | Linux Leveiator adjusts Windows Turn your computer into a the levels of your audio files to give the server to stream video and audio to just rsizr.com perfect balance. about any device on your network. web I Flash With one of the best Web interfaces yet—all in Flash—rsizr.com Reaper www.coci
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