Capture Screenshots in Windows with Greenshot
Being a tech blogger, I review many apps on my blog which sometimes require me to take screenshots. The Print Screen utility in Windows is not always effective when taking screenshots of a particular application window.
Greenshot is a free, open-source screenshot utility for Windows that has been optimized for maximum productivity.
Oxite: Blog Engine by Microsoft
We hardly know of anything that Microsoft has contributed to the open-source community, and almost a week ago, Microsoft launched its very own blogging platform which is surprisingly open-source, which means free!
Oxite is the blogging engine powered by Microsoft technologies which can be used for small personal blogs to large corporate websites as a CMS (content-management system).
Witty, Yet Another Windows-only Twitter Client
by Hammad Memon on November 9, 2008
in Freewares, Internet, Tools
Well, I know this is not the first Twitter client you are hearing of. There are many others like TwitterFox for Firefox, Twhirl for Windows, which is Adobe AIR-based and many others that have been developed for Twitter.
I have another Twitter client called Witty, an open-source app, which uses the Twitter API to bring you the Twitter experience on your desktop.
Portable CD/DVD Burning with InfraRecorder
PortableApps.com has always helped me carry my digital life where I want in the form of a tiny USB drive or now I also use my 16GB Nokia N96 for this purpose.
Yesterday, while going through the site, I found an interesting open-source application that has been made portable and lets users burn CD/DVDs on the go where ever they want.
DropUpload: Open-Source FTP Client For Windows
DropUpload is an open-source FTP client, that provides you with a simple interface that lets you drag and drop file uploads to any folder on your FTP server.
It is a very light, simple and robust utility which manages your uploads in the way of a spooler. It can even run from an USB device.
Visually Appealing Battery Meter For Your Windows Task Bar
BatteryBar is an open-source Windows utility that places a visual battery in you Windows taskbar. It is a simple and very light tool that sits your taskbar and shows the status of your battery.
Along with a staus bar, it also shows the estimated remaining time duration that your battery will last in hours:minutes. This visually appealing tool comes with five colour codes that the author has used to indicate the left battery charge:
Go-oo: An Alternative Office Suite By Open Office
Go-oo is an improved alternative office suite, a project by the open-source word-processing productivity suite, Open Office. It is not only faster, but has also some significant interface improvements as compared to Open Office.
Go-oo is almost the same as Open Office 2.4 in the overall features like including all the applications that makes up a complete office suite.
Delete Files Permanently With Eraser
Eraser is a very useful and handy open-source freeware utility which securely removes data from your computer permanently and remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns.
It is a powerful tool to remove traces of an important document or file that you don’t want anyone else to see or recover it by using any means. It features 4 patterns by which you can delete a file permanently. Gutmann technique, being the most popular, overwrites the deleted file up to 35 times to clear up its traces.
Sylpheed – A Multiplatform Email Client
Sylpheed is a fast, light weight and a user-friendly email and news client. It will run on just about any Linux or UNIX compliant system – Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. And works on Windows as well. The interface is 3-paned display, similar to popular email clients like Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. The interface is also designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.
