Scribus - Create Publications and Catalogs

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.



Make Magazines Brochures and Manuals with Scribus

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to your desktop 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.

Scribus Portable

Artha - English thesaurus on WordNet

Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet. Stable releases for download are currently available for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. Artha is released under the GNU General Public Licence version 2; hence you are free to copy/redistribute it...

Artha - English thesaurus on WordNet

WordNet is a free open lexical database for English, by Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller. It is what its name says. Each word will have one or more definitions (or senses, technically). Apart from these definitions, a word is interlinked to other words by a relation like Synonyms, Hypernyms, etc. Generally, We tend to forget a word by learning a word's definitions alone.

PortableApps - Thumb Drive Computer

Complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably.

PortableApps - Thumb Drive Computer

Integrated PortableApps.com Menu (pictured at right) and the PortableApps.com Backup utility along with a set of custom icons,

Some Apps Available are ....

• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition (web browser)
• Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (email)
• Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition (calendar/tasks)
• Sumatra PDF Portable (PDF reader
• OpenOffice.org Portable (office suite)
• AbiWord Portable (word processor) .

DeskNow - Mail and collaboration server

DeskNow - Mail and collaboration server

DeskNow is a fully featured and easy to use mail and collaboration server that can handle all the communication and collaboration needs of your company.

DeskNow integrates in a single, easy to administer product: DeskNow can be installed in minutes, on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.

Advanced calendaring with meeting planning, free/busy search, shared calendars, task lists, resource booking, iCal publishing (Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal)

Outlook connector to integrate personal and group calendars, tasks, contacts SyncML synchronization with Palm, PocketPC, BlackBerry and most mobile phones, secure Jabber instant messaging with integrated web client automatic authentication and account import with Active Directory and LDAP servers

• Fully featured mail server
• Advanced antispam technologies, antivirus integration and content filtering
• Dynamic webmail interface
• Digital email encryption and signing
• Document management

Free version

After the trial period is expired, you can continue to use DeskNow in Lite mode, forever. This is perfect for home use or companies with zero budget. Or you keep all the Professional features by purchasing a license.

( i tried it a few years back and it is a professional, well engineered piece of software or webware, it can be used as a simple intranet application for small business - San Gear)

Free Business and Office software

Free Business and Office software

Listing of many free and opensource office tools. Even Web Apps for Office is being added, This is a professionally made list by the creator of Treepad a versatile text snippet organizer.

• Office Suites and Online Office Suites
• Desktop Publishing DTP and Word Processors
• Templates and Fonts
• Presentation Programs
• Diagram software
• PIMs - Database Programs
• Project and Time-scheduling Software
• MindMapping Software
• Thesauri and Spellcheckers
• Text Editors, Viewers and PDF Utilities
• Text-to-Speech
• OCR - Image-to-Text converters
• Calculators

KeyNote Tabbed notebook

KeyNote Tabbed Notebook

The basic idea in KeyNote is that you can include many separate notes within a single file. This means that you do not need to open several files - for most purposes it is enough to create only one file and hold all your notes inside it. With the addition of the tree-type notes, you now have a three-dimensional notebook: many notes within one file and a multi-level, nested pages within a single note. Optionally, KeyNote can encrypt your data securely using the Blowfish or Idea algorithms. Keynote's interface and behavior are extremely configurable.

Tabbed notebook, outliner and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption. Open source.

Further development has been taken up by Daniel Pradov, who has been releasing new versions under the name of KeyNote NF (New Features).

Tranglos Software - KeyNote Tabbed notebook

Tabbed notebook, outliner and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption. Open source.

• RichText enabled editor, with many text formatting functions ad properties (font styles, colors, highlighted text, paragraph styles, bullets, numbered lists, etc.)
• Store many separate notes within one file; each note is displayed on its own, easily accessible tab. This is a much more convenient solution than opening several files on disk. Each note has independent font, color and editor settings.
• Choose between two types of notes: a simpler, editor-only note, or a tree-type note, which is a multi-level hierarchy of "branches", each with its own note. The two types of notes can be mixed freely within one file
• Tree type notes can be arranged horizontally (tree panel to the left of editor) or vertically (tree panel above the editor)
• You can protect your data files with secure encryption using a strong cipher (Blowfish or IDEA)
• Integration with WordWeb, a freeware dictionary/thesaurus program

(This is One of the Best Software Tools for the PC, RTF Editor, Encryption and Multiple Keyword Search - SAN Gear)

Moon Software Multimedia Xplorer Font Xplorer

Moon Software Multimedia Xplorer Font Xplorer

Font Xplorer 1.2.2 is now freeware.

"Do you need to find that perfect font for best friend's birthday card? Want to get a detailed overview of all the fonts installed on your system? Or, so you find that font installation in Windows is too difficult for you? Want to print professionally designed sample sheets listing all your fonts? Font Xplorer comes to the rescue! Designed for both beginners and professionals, this font tool should find a place in every computer."

Filenote - Allows you to add comments to files by creating text file that has the same name as selected file and opening it for editing in text editor (Notepad or another). If such text file already exists, it will be opened for editing.

(This was my first desktop search indexing aid in win95 - SAN Gear)

tinySpell 1.5 - a tiny spell checker for Windows

tinySpell 1.5 - a tiny spell checker for Windows

Occasionally you need to check the spelling of words in an application that does not include a spelling checker and you don't want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when tinySpell becomes handy. It is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check the spelling of words in any Windows application.

tinySpell can watch your typing on the fly and alert you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard.

tinySpell installs itself in the system tray for easy access. It comes with an American-English dictionary containing more than 110,000 words.

LyX - Document Processor - LaTeX

LyX - Document Processor - LaTeX

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 for Windows

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

Wink - Tutorial and Presentation creation

Wink - Tutorial and Presentation creation

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users

Navigation buttons to move to next/previous/random frames in the presentation, you can use custom bitmaps for these buttons (full transparency/alpha channel support).

Callouts and shapes for displaying text explanations. The inbuilt Callout Editor is used to create custom shaped callouts as you want.

Intuitive drag-n-drop editing of the frame, callout, cursor, navigation buttons and the title elements.

Advanced features like templates, cursor editing, palettes, background images, control bars & preloaders for the flash output etc.

Completely PC and Web ready with exports to PDF, HTML, SWF and EXE formats.

Jarte - Tabbed Light Word Processor

Jarte may be the best netbook word processor available. Jarte takes up very little space on your hard drive, it runs quickly and efficiently on the low power CPUs built into netbooks, and Jarte's compact display is perfect for small netbook screens. Unlike office word processors, Jarte is an ideal word processor for netbooks.

Jarte - Tabbed Light Word Processor

• Tabbed document windows for easy access to your open documents
• Larger buttons for the most commonly used functions
• Instant dictionary and thesaurus word lookup, integrates with free WordWeb
• Spell check and text search tools that do not park themselves on top of the text you are trying to edit
• Single click bookmarking that make bookmarks both useful and usable
• Instant access to the documents and folders you designate as your favorites
• Instant access to the fonts you designate as your favorites
• Use of the mouse scroll wheel button to copy and paste text

RFFlow - Software for Flowcharts

RFFlow - Software for Flowcharts

Organization Charts, Business Diagrams, Presentations, Flow Charts, and Org Charts: "Charting Software by RFF Electronics

Powerful, yet easy to use, tool for drawing flowcharts, organization charts, and many other kinds of diagrams. You will quickly create professional-looking charts for documents, presentations, or the Web. "

The trial version of RFFlow is identical to the full version in that it can be used to draw, edit, print, and save charts. The trial version has no restrictions related to the amount of time it is used or kept on a computer. However, the RFFlow trial will limit the number of shapes in a chart so that only small charts can be drawn. In the full version of RFFlow, you can draw enormous charts containing over 65000 objects.

Any RFFlow file can be opened, viewed, and printed with the trial version, no matter how many shapes it contains. In this way, the trial version is also the free viewer version of RFFlow.