Microsys Ajour : Free Calendar and information manager

Microsys Ajour is an easy-to-use personal information manager (PIM). Use it as a combined calendar, diary, organizer, and reminder. Keep track of dates, appointments, annual events like birthdays, todo items, and notes. You can also dial phone numbers stored in your data just by double-clicking them.
In Ajour package you also get a program that starts when you log on/start your computer (this behavior can be turned off). It will show you whatever upcoming appointments and events you have in the following week as well as any "tagged" todo items you have entered. Ajour supports 8 languages in the user interface: Danish, Dutch, English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Download Ajour

Screen Ruler : Measure anything on your screen

Using Screen Ruler you can measure the distance between two points on screen, get the exact location and size of an element on a web page, measure in pixels, centimeters or millimeters, both horizontally and vertically. Download Screen Ruler

LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer

While working with LINQ to SQL many times we need to see the actual SQL code generated by the framework. Scott Guthrie's LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer does the same and also gives you the ability to execute the SQL generated by the framework.

Download LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer. http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/linqquery/SqlServerQueryVisualizer.zip

To install the visualizer you need to copy the the SqlServerQueryVisualizer.dll assembly from the .zip package to your local \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers\ directory.

Unlock files in use with Unlocker

While using windows, many times you might have seen annoying message like: Cannot delete file: Access is denied There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use. The file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. Unlocker is a very handy utility which lets you free up the file locks easily. Simply right click on the files or folder and click 'Unlocker' menu item and it will do the magic for you. Download Unlocker

Alkitab Bible Study : open source bible study toolset

Alkitab Bible Study is a cross platform and open source bible study toolset
based on the NetBeans Platform and JSword CrossWire library. It features
rich and user friendly Bible study tools. Alkitab supports parallel view,
commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, and daily devotions. It
also come with powerful search capability. Alkitab is an alternative front
end to the JSword CrossWire which is available for Windows, Unix/Linux, or
Mac OSX.

Features :
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View Single Book or Bible
View Parallel Books or Bibles
Cross Reference and Search
Commentaries
Strong's Concordance and Morphology
Lexicons/Dictionaries/Glossaries
Daily Devotions
Plugins Support

This application requires Java 1.5 or higher (http://www.java.com/getjava)
to run.

UniConvertor : universal vector graphics translator/converter

UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator. It uses sK1 engine
to convert one format to another.
Development of the import/export modules for this program goes through
different stages, quality and feature coverage are different among formats.

Supported Import Filters:
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1. CorelDRAW ver.7-X3,X4 (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX)
2. Adobe Illustrator up to 9 ver. (AI postscript based)
3. Postscript (PS)
4. Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
5. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
6. Windows Metafile (WMF)
7. XFIG
8. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
9. Skencil/Sketch/sK1 (SK and SK1)
10. Acorn Draw (AFF)

Export Filters:
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1. AI (Postscript based Adobe Illustrator 5.0 format)
2. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
3. SK (Sketch/Skencil format)
4. SK1 (sK1 format)
5. CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
5. WMF (Windows Metafile)

Latest binaries can be downloaded from below URL :
http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor

Creative Docs .NET - free vector-based graphic design tool

Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more. This software is developed by Epsitec SA, a Swiss company, editor of many intelligent games, The interface is tailored for high productivity: it does never get in your way. Creative Docs .NET tools are simple, yet powerful. All styles and attributes can be modified interactively with a minimum number of mouse clicks. A color gradient, for instance, can be modified directly by dragging its handles in the document window. Download Creative Docs .NET

Real time multi-user collaboration with WhiteBoardMeeting

WhiteBoardMeeting is Skype Extra and a real time multi-user collaboration software which allows users to draw vector graphics, insert text and images, edit existing objects. All users see eachother creating and editing objects right away. You can have multiple meetings with different user groups at the same time. You can even invite other users after you have prepared the work offline. And all this in WhiteBoardMeeting Basic without having to pay anything. But of course you can buy WhiteBoardMeeting Pro and collaborate without limits. System Requirements:

• Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista
• .NET framework 2.0 or later
• 400MHz processor with 256MB RAM
• Skype 3.0 or later
• 5 MB free hard disk space
• Mouse or some other pointing device

Download WhiteBoardMeeting 1.2.1.0 for Windows.

Open Links in Internet Explorer from Firefox using FireGestures

Many times we need to open Firefox links in Internet Explorer may be because the site does not support firefox or is not able to properly render the content. This trick lets you open links in Internet Explorer from Firefox using FireGestures. FireGestures is a Firefox extension which enables you to execute various commands with five types of mouse gestures. Steps to enable the feature: Install FireGesture Add-in. Install the script by dragging the Open Link with Internet Explorer link to FireGestures [Options] window. Custom scripts are available here. Assign a mouse gesture to the script and you are ready to use the feature.

Mole : multipurpose visualizer for VisualStudio

Mole is a multipurpose visualizer for VisualStudio. Mole is designed to not only allow the developer to view objects or data, but to also allow the developer to drill into properties of those objects. Mole allows unlimited drilling into objects and sub-objects. When Mole finds an IEnumerable object, the data can be viewed in a DataGridView or in the properties grid. Mole easily handles collections that contain multiple types of data. Mole also allows the developer to view non-public fields of all these same objects. You can learn a lot about the .NET framework by drilling around your application's data.

Mole can be downloaded from : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/MoleForVisualStudio.aspx

Great work from Andrew Smith, Josh Smith and Karl Shifflett.

Open all type of files quickly with notepad - Registry Hack

Many times you might be using notepad or any other editor to quickly open files with unknown extensions. The default method of opening unknown files shows a long list of known applications and is not very convenient to use. This small trick lets you open any kind of files by just right click and "Open with Notepad" context menu. Copy and paste the code below into Notepad. Then save it as a .reg file and import it to registry by clicking on it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad] @=”" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad\command] @=”notepad.exe %1″

In place of notepad you can use any of the text editor as notepad is very basic and takes lots of time for large files.