Freeware / Free Software 08 Apr 2010

FlipAlbum

FlipAlbum Standard with a with a natural and intuitive interface is a digital photo album utility to organize your digital images, better. Easy to use, yet highly customizable, FlipAlbum can automatically create realistic, book-like albums. The features include - Auto Flip function; Auto Slide Show - present the contents of your book as a slide show with auto-play. The slide show options include variable time interval between slides, transition effects, number of rows and columns of photos, etc; Realistic 3D Page-Flipping provides a pleasant viewing experience, Multi-page rapid flipping for album browsing; Preview; Supported Multimedia Formats include: Image: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, WMF, ICO, PNG, PCD, PSD and TIF; Video: AVI, MPEG1, WMV; and Audio: MIDI, WAV, MP3 and WMA.

FlipAlbum Standard v7.0.4 for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista can be downloaded at http://www.flipalbum.com/fahome/product/fastd/download/

Please note the standard version (freeware) of FlipAlbum may not include all the features.

Essential PIM

Essential PIM, a Personal Information Manager, lets you keep all your information in the electronic format. The fully Netbook compatible Essential PIM can store your appointments, tasks, to do lists, notes, contacts and email messages in a graphical and easily accessible form. The freeware edition of Essential PIM offers quite a lot of features to make it an interesting and effective choice for many. Among them are an easy to use scheduler, contact and to-do lists, "EPIM Today" option, overview in a single window of a user customizable schedule timeline - all readily accessible from the navigation pane; Versatile import/export capabilities; Scheduler: Color-coded, easy to read day/week/month schedules; To Do List: Categories, priority, completion status, due date, and reminder fields; Tree-like multilevel structure, unlimited number of folders and notes; Contact Manager
Wide selection of fields - adding a new data field to a contact is easy and quick; Fast search and sorting;

EssentialPIM v3.23 can be downloaded at http://www.essentialpim.com/download/essentialpimpro2.exe

A portable edition can be downloaded at http://www.essentialpim.com/download/essentialpimproport2.exe

XMind

XMind is a brainstorming and mind mapping software to share your ideas with others. It's easy-to-use, just double-click to create and edit topics anywhere on the map. The Drag-and-drop feature helps to reorganize topics, move markers, take a mapshot, and add attachments. You can even search on topic with Google and drag images into your map without leaving the working window. Its intuitive design and powerful features lets you focus on your work and share it easily with others by exporting it through popular formats such as PDF, Word and PowerPoint. The other features include Fishbone Diagram, Spreadsheet, Markers, Inline Notes, Hyperlink / Attachments, Topic As A Map (Drill Down), Spell Checker, Legend and Filtering, and Export to Html/ PNG / GIF/JPEG/BMP.

XMind v3.1.1 can be downloaded at http://www.xmind.net/downloads/ by choosing the appropriate link
for your specific operating system.

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Please suggest a freeware to convert the video files to 3gp.

You could try Format Factory which can be downloaded at http://www.formatoz.com/

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