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Freeware & software gems. The perfect tools for the job.

This website lists the best license free alternatives to commercial software. There's no good reason to be paying for the often bloated software suites available through your local software peddler. There's a wealth of excellent free software to be found - if you know where to look. That's where we come in! All license free software has been carefully selected and re-evaluated throughout the years, based on our experience and opinion.

Organizer

Organizer

People want to be constantly available these days,
causing new technologies to emerge
every single day...

For many, a computer's core business should be to help us manage data, people, well, anything. Be it our finances, our media collection, contacts or any other type of information. It should streamline and automate the process and generally make life easier. Lucky for us, the free software community has always been happy to put much of their focus on this kind of software. GNU Cash has been outperforming Microsoft Money for years now. Picasa recently became something of a household name. Need I say more?

1

Best Personal Finance
GNU Cash

Runner-up:
HomeBank

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.

  • Double-Entry Accounting
  • Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
  • Small-Business Accounting
  • Customers, Vendors, Jobs,
  • Invoices, A/P, A/R
  • QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching
  • Reports, Graphs
  • Scheduled Transactions
  • Financial Calculations
2

Best MP3 Tag Editor
TagScanner

Runner-up:
Mp3tag

TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via online databases like freedb or Amazon.

  • Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features.
  • Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel.
  • Rename files based on the tag and file information
  • Powerful multiple files tag editor
  • Import tag information from an online databases like freedb or Amazon
  • Manual text-search for information in freedb
  • Generate tag information from file/foldernames
  • Tag fields formatting and rearrangement
  • Words replacement and case conversion from tags and filenames
  • Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack, TrueAudio, WMA, MP4 files
  • Supports ID3 1.0 to 2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata
  • Supports for embedded lyrics and cover art
  • TAGs versions conversions
  • Quick playlists creation
  • Export information to HTML, XML CSV or any user-defined format
  • Full support for Unicode
  • Multilanguage interface
  • Built-in multiformat player
3

Best Photo Organizer
Picasa 3

Together, Picasa & Picasa Web Albums make it easy for you to organize and edit your digital photos, then create online albums to share with friends, family & the world.

Beautiful web albums

Show your photos at their best. View full-screen slideshows, see your pictures arranged on a global map, enjoy video playback, and more.

Focus on people

People matter in your photos. Our technology helps you automatically organize your photos based on the people in them, and works in Picasa and Picasa Web Albums.

Get organized

Picasa automatically finds all the photos on your PC, wherever they are, and will organize them in seconds.

Be creative

Use Picasa to design and print beautiful photo collages, create fun video slideshows, add photo text or view your favorite photos on your desktop or screensaver.

It's free to use

Picasa is free to download, and Picasa Web Albums provides 1 gigabyte of free storage -- that's enough space for 4,000 wallpaper-size photos.

Sharing made simple

Publish your favorite photos online with one click. Create stunning online photo albums to share with friends and family, or public albums for the world to see. Get notified when your "Favorites" post new photos.

Edit to perfection

Improve almost any picture with Picasa's one-click fixes for common problems like red-eye, color, and lighting. Or, use tuning and effects to make your best photos look even better.

Add places

Easily add geo-tags to your photos so that you can remember exactly where they're from using Google Maps.

Order photos & gifts or print at home

Picasa makes it easy for you to get the best out of your color printer. And Picasa Web Albums gives your friends the ability to download full-resolution pictures, so they can do the same. When ordering online, choose freely between major retail services.

4

Best PIM
EssentialPIM

Runner-up:
Palm Desktop

PIM stands for Personal Information Manager. It allows you to keep track of all your information in one place. All your appointments, contacts, tasks, to do lists, notes, contacts and email messages are stored in a graphical and easily accessible form.

What does EssentialPIM has to offer?

  • Tools to satisfy your calendar, contact management, to do list, notes and email needs.
  • Synchronization with Outlook, Windows Mobile devices, Palm, iPOD, Google Calendar.
  • Simple printout of any or all modules and quick export of your data into the most useful formats (iCal, vCard, HTML).
  • Strong data protection using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.
  • Intuitive interface in many languages including German, Italian, French and Spanish.
5

Best Disk/File Organizer
Gentibus

Runner-up:
Disclib

If you use many removable disks such as cdroms, you know that it is sometimes very difficult to find a file among all these drives. The only solution consists in inserting each one in your computer and to use the files manager to research your file. This operation, if you have more than ten disks, can take a very long time...

Gentibus CD enables you to scan your removable drives or photo CDs and store thumbnail images of the pictures on your PC. The software offers special browsers to consult your disks easily by file types (video, mp3, image, program, ...), as well as extensive search functionality to quickly locate any kind of file.

6

Best Notes Organizer
Evernote

Runner-up:
KeyNote NF

Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web. Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free.

  • Capture everything. Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe.
  • Organize it. Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.
  • Find anything fast. Search for notes by keywords, titles, and tags. Evernote magically makes printed and handwritten text inside your images searchable, too.

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