RGS CardMaster

Guy Roels

If you need to create an address book, RGS CardMaster is a great option given its intuitive and straightforward mode of use. You can create as many databases as you like, to which you can add fields for all your contacts. You can also search for any of these fields (name, address, phone, email, etc.) and print business cards. As a bonus, the program includes a calculator and a calendar, plus one button for sending email and another for opening the notepad. In short, RGS CardMaster is a simple way to manage your contacts and access them easily.

Smart Calendar

Evinco Solution Limited

Smart Calendar is a program designed to quickly and easily add events to a digital calendar, and works exactly like a traditional one. With Smart Calendar, you can remind yourself at a glance of all your important dates so you won't forget any of them. This tool is aimed at people who don't want a heavy program with lots of options that they never use, but are instead looking for a simple tool to record their appointments, events, and reminders just like an ordinary agenda. Smart Calendar presents a classically designed interface that's reminiscent of Windows 2000, and notable for the option to create different types of calendars: daily, weekly, or monthly. These can be exported to various formats like HTML, Excel, or PDF, thus letting you print your calendars and take them wherever you want without having to write them out by hand. You can also set Smart Calendar to have a horizontal or vertical layout, or change the style, background, alignment, font and color of the text, as well as the calendar template and colors to code your events. This is a practical, useful and simple tool that will help you organize your daily life.

Photo Calendar Creator

AMS Software

If you like to start your year or month with a smile, what better way to check on the date than with an attractive calendar featuring your favorite photographs? There are many programs out there to help you create your own calendar, but Photo Calendar Creator is your best option if you want to achieve professional results after following just a few basic steps. This tool comes equipped with 100 different templates perfect for creating any kind of calendar: pocket, wall, table, monthly, or annually. Once you've selected the style, all you need to do is add your own images and text. Templates are divided into categories, like classic, elegant, modern, and fun. You can then further personalize your calendar with additional photos and fun phrases. You can put those extra elements wherever you like, including inside individual days on the calendar to mark a special date or occasion. The software contains the holidays and national festivals for several countries, which you can choose to include. Photo Calendar Creator will print your calendars in high quality, allowing you to choose between different paper formats and to combine various calendars on the same page.

LeaderTask

Almeza Company

LeaderTask is an application to manage your calendar, appointments, tasks, and projects at the same time. With LeaderTask you can take notes about anything you need and later put them under a specific category and project. This way, whenever you have to get to work, you can just look for the notes for that project and start where you left off. The space to write notes is pretty extensive, so you don't have to worry about compressing the information. Additionally, you can include contacts related to a specific date or task, so you can quickly get in contact with them if need be. LeaderTask lets you filter the notes by deadline, associated contacts, category, and project. It also features reminders, lets you print task lists, and has a very attractive interface that makes your working experience a lot easier.

EssentialPIM Free Portable

EPim Ltd.

EssentialPIM Pro Portable is the portable version of EssentialPIM, an excellent Outlook-compatible agenda that has for years been considered one of the best on the market. EssentialPIM will help you keep track of your daily activities in as much detail as you choose, since it allows you to view calendars by the day, month, or year. You can also add your contacts to the program, which is available in a wide variety of different languages. One of the best features of this program is its integration with Outlook, so you can automatically add all of your Outlook contacts into the application without having to do it manually. This portable version is also new and more advanced, with additional options and the ability to transport your information through flash drives, USB devices, or diskettes. Some other great features include a note organizer, contact book, and simple daily task manager.

Open Contacts

FONLOW IT

Open Contacts is a really good electronic agenda aimed at those users who need one for business or personal use. It’s the tool you need if you want to have all your contacts in order. By using Open Contacts you will be able to sort and organize your contacts in groups (friends, family, business,...) search them by letter or make relations if you need. Each contact will include all data you can imagine (and some ones you could not) telephone, address, mail, website, personal notes or even a photo. Furthermore, you can separate business contacts from personal ones, so that your search will be faster. Finally, it can open automatically the mail client in order to send a mail to any contact or open google maps in order to show you the exact place where an address is.

Mimosa

Mimosa Software

Mimosa is a tool that lets you organize and program all of your daily homework for high-school, college or university. You can make notes and program all kinds of activities, deadlines, conferences or late work; write our schedule with its corresponding assignments, draw up your examination papers, etc. Although the interface of the program, quite simple and intuitive, is completely in English, between the work template included in the download there is one in Spanish, that luckily puts almost all of the most important elements with those that work in Spanish. Mimosa is an application prepared as much for high-schools and universities as for individual users. It's only problem is that at first it can overwhelm you with so many options.

Smart Diary Suite

Programming Sunrise

Smart Diary Suite is an application to help you keep track of everything you have to do every day. With Smart Diary Suite, you can keep a journal where you can write down anything you want (a life diary, if you will). The most interesting feature, though, is probably the organizer tab, from which you can keep track of everything you have to do that day, week, or month. This version is free, but the paid version also includes other tabs like 'nutrition' and 'medication' to help you stay better organized.

ToDoList Portable

John T. Hall

ToDoList Portable is a portable version of ToDoList, a tool that you can use to manage and plan projects and activities, in addition to creating tasks and lists. With this app, you can efficiently organize yourself by managing pending tasks for the next hours or days. This app lets you create tasks and sub-tasks, and setup a defined amount of time for each one of them, that way you can definitely see these tasks through. Also, you can see the percentage of work that you have completed for each task, assign a manager to each one, in addition to organizing them. You can add notes and comments, and create a chart that shows the development of your tasks in order to obtain the best results. All this can be done on a friendly and easy to use interface.

CS-Bodas

Colibrí Software

Clockify

COING Inc

Active Desktop Calendar

Xemico

Active Desktop Calendar is a calendar which integrates itself in your desktop allowing you to have at your hand your tasklist, events, notes and all other functions a program like this usually offers. It is fully customizable, you will be able to change it look at any moment, and you will be able to use it at any time, because it will be there, in our desktop. It includes a calender, note editor, alarm,... And if you thought it was all, you will be able to sync it with Google Calendar. If you are one of those users who needs to have a lot of notes and reminders, Active Desktop Calendar has to become part of your desktop.

TKexe Kalender

TKexe

TKexe Kalender is a simple application designed to allow any user to create his own fully customized calendar. TKexe Kalender includes a preset template which can be modified in several ways, including, text format, background colors and the above picture. By this way, the user will be able to include the picture he'll desire and establish some effects so it looks like better. TKexe Kalender allows you to determine the holiday days or any date you want to highlight. Once you have created the calendar, you can save it as an image or print it directly from TKexe Kalender.

Advanced Diary

CSoftLab

Do you need a safe and easy to use application to write about your ideas? Advanced Diary can help you. Advanced Diary is a really complete personal diary where you will be able to organize your text ordered by date and have them as if they were a database. You’ll find extremely useful tools to organize your notes, perform searches,... It can be useful to people who are on a diet. It includes a very complete text editor with which you will be able to write as if you were writting with an specialized one. It allows you to change the letter format an even you’ll be able to include links. In addition it’s totally free.

OneCalendar

Code Spark

iDailyDiary

Splinterware

If you don't have a good memory and you like writing diaries, now you can forget the pen and paper, now you can write your diary on your computer thanks to iDailyDiary. With iDailyDiary you can write about your days on your computer as if you were writing in the text processor, and save it on the desired day. iDailyDiary provides a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing and much more. When using iDailyDiary, you can insert graphics, URLs, Hypertext links and links to other diary pages, so is much more than a text processor, it allows you to do a lot of tasks with it. In addition, iDailyDiary is fully searchable so you can always track down those important dates and reminders. Of course, it is password protected

Rainlendar

Rainy

Rainlendar is a useful calendar which will be placed on the tray bar to remember you your important (and not so important) dates. Maybe what impress you the most about Rainlendar is its marvelous skin system, designs and transparencies. You will be able to download hundreds of skins from its Official Site, set up alarms, set events, configure visualization settings,... This is what a lot of people was expecting: Easy to use, free, and it doesn't require to be installed.

WeekToDo

merodriguez9112

WeekToDo is a very useful app for organizing and managing your time in an efficient and, above all, simple way. If you're looking for a good way to plan out your week, this option provides an easy-to-use space for all your tasks and appointments so you don't forget anything important. The biggest advantage of WeekToDo is its simple interface, which helps you get straight to what's important without wasting time on complex processes. Its interface is very intuitive and divided into four basic tabs: today, calendar view, add new task, and settings, which includes language options and night mode. In the first tab, you can see all the tasks you have planned for that day and the following three days, which helps you get an idea of what needs to be done in the next few days. There are also extra columns where you can add special events, important tasks, and anything else you want to keep in mind. No matter what, WeekToDo displays the columns and tasks in a simple way, with a title and a short description. With this tool, you can change your tasks and mark them as done, so you can keep track of what you do each day, cross it off your to-do list, or even move it to the next day. With WeekToDo, you can plan your week in an efficient way, saving time and effort as you cross each item off your list.

Todoist

Doist

Your desktop is your main workspace, and therefore should show all your reminders, organized in the most efficient way possible. Todoist is a great application with which you can manage all your important tasks and sync them to all your devices, so you never miss an important event. You can use its official client for Windows desktop. With Todoist you can work with custom to-do lists organized in categories, among which you can find the work, personal, movies to watch, and shopping lists. You can always create any new ones that you might need, and assign specific colors to them. It doesn't matter when you have to set the reminder for; you can set as many of them as you need and set them for any date. No matter how far ahead in the future they are. Once you insert all the fields, the application organizes the tabs for next week's and next month's lists, so even if you are not thinking about the ones that are still far in the future, you can see everything that's due within a week or a month. You can change the priority level for each one of your tasks if you need to. It doesn't matter what type of task it is, all of them without exception are stored on the cloud, so you can access them no matter where you are and which device you are using. It's a great way to have your work to-do list at hand at all times. Finally, it's worth noticing that Todoist is a collaborative tool that lets you add as many people to your projects as you want, and assign different tasks to each of them, increasing productivity. There are no limits to how many collaborators you can add. With this app, it's easy to structure your work in just a few simple steps.

Rambox

Rambox LLC

Rambox is a program for Windows that lets you organize all the tools you use on your PC in a comfortable and simple way. It divides each set of applications into well-structured spaces to increase your productivity while saving time. One of the most interesting aspects of Rambox is the simplicity of its interface. On the upper part of the program, you'll see a toolbar where you can place the programs you use the most. At the same time, you can add new apps at any time, which will be organized in a practical mosaic view. By dividing the tools you use regularly into groups, you can create an organized workspace. Click on the different icons to quickly access each utility or read notifications on another part of the interface. In fact, if you can't find the programs you want to use, you can also add them manually and in a customized way. Rambox has everything you need to create an intuitive workspace on your PC. By organizing applications based on the time you spend on them, you can save time each day.

Evernote

EverNote Corporation

Are you fond of Notes? Is your office full of those small colored papers telling you something to do? Now it's time to pass all those notes to your computer. Create, organize and find any type of notes on an endless, digital roll of paper thanks to Evernote. Evernote is a Note manager whose main feature is the note organizer, which is really useful when you have so many notes that you have to classify them. Evernote works with all types of notes, including Text Notes, Web/HTML, Digital Ink, and many types of images. It also includes the option of including a password, so your private notes will be safe when other people use the computer. Now you will have an office without all those papers and you will find all your notes quickly and at the time you need with Evernote.

SmsXeOn

Xeon

SmsXeOn is a program that lets you send SMS through the internet completely free of charge and without needing to go to any websites – you just need the program correctly installed and then you can send your texts. Basically, what the program does is manage your accounts on pages that offer the ability to send free SMS so you can send them from SmsXeOn without having to browse, without logging in, simply and quickly. The basic features of SmsXeOn are: - Agenda - Internal updater - Preset message options - Configuration of your own abbreviations - Proxy configuration - Statistics - Multi-account configuration - Small application so that the servers for free texting do not disappear - Support for HTTPS servers

Ringtone Expressions

Gx5 LLC

Ringtones revolutionized phones a few years ago, and now they are even better, you can set mp3 songs as ringtones and your phone can be the coolest thanks to them, but sometimes the price you have to pay for a ringtone is too high and the ringtone you want is not in the catalog. Ringtone expression will solve that problem, because it allows you to create ringtones from any audio. If you are watching a youtube video and you like the audio, you can extract the audio of the video and create a ringtone easily, in fact you'll only have to choose the start and finish position and Ringtone expressions will do the rest. If you feel creative and you want to plug the microphone, do it, and record your very own ringtone. You can also choose any mp3 song in your audio library and create the tone you desire. The interface of Ringtone expressions is amazing. It's very intuitive and you'll be able to create and upload your new ringtones to your phone in a snap. It's the easiest way to create a ringtone we have ever tested. It supports the most popular phones: iPhone, Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Nokia... Give it a try, you'll personalize your phone with no problems. Finally, you can share your new ringtones with your friends in Facebook or Twitter automatically.

Descom Mensajes SMS

Descom, S.L.

Cool RingTone Maker

Cool RingTone Maker

Cool RingTone Maker is an useful and easy-to-use program to create ringtones and melodies for your mobile phone. If you want to create a new ringtone you only have to import the audio track and choose the start and finish points. Cool Ringtone Maker will do the rest. Cool RingTone Maker features an audio player that shows on screen the audio waves so you can play the track and choose the start and finish points with no problems and listen to the selected part to decide if it's correct or not. It supports most popular audio formats so you will not find any problem to import and convert your audio files and have your new ringtones created. It supports MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR, WMV, AVI, MPG, 3GP, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WMV, MOV etc.

Phone Data Manager

Microsoft

Till now, it was very complicated trying to sync a mobile phone to a PC without using the software provided by the manufacturer. Sometimes, it was an impossible mission even with the manufacturer's app. But now Microsoft has created a tool called Phone Data Manager that lets you extract the multimedia content from any phone connected to a computer via either Bluetooth or a USB cable. You can quickly and safely add photos, music, and videos to your computer. You can also sync your phone contacts with Windows Live Mobile, so if you have a Hotmail account, make sure to take advantage. All you have to do for Phone Data Manager to pair your computer with your mobile device is to enter the key that program indicates to you and that's it. Not all models are compatible. Microsoft has tried some and created this list, with phones from manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Sony-Ericsson. This list is not exhaustive, however, so even if your model is not on it, give it a try.

BitPim

Roger Binns

Do you want to manage your cellphone's content from the comfort of your own computer? Would you like to use those images and songs which you so like as your wallpaper or ringtone? BitPim is a program that has been designed specifically for CDMA cellphones and that enables you to access every bit of your phone using your computer, manage information kept in its memory and transfer data from your hard drive. The program is compatible with many Motorola, LG, Sanyo, Samsung, and Toshiba models, although it can also detect CDMA phones of other brands. Edit your contacts, adapt the format of multimedia files on your computer and export them to your phone, manage your SMS messages (inbox, sent messages, drafts, etc.), view a complete list of calls with all kinds of data, create playlists, etc... All of this on an easy-to-use interface and a completely free program.

BlueXpand

SoftService

Movil Multimedia

BVRP Software

Avanquest Movil Multimedia is an app that contains several different utilities that you can use to easily customize your cellphone. It supports over 500 different models, regardless of the manufacturer. It includes a gallery of over 5,000 ringtones, images, and videos: 3,000 MP3s, 400 polyphonic ringtones, 600 backgrounds, and so on. The program is divided into three apps: melody studio, for creating and editing ringtones; image studio, where you can add and edit images; and video studio, where you can edit, add, or delete video clips. These three utilities have their own interface, and have very exciting features, such as the ability to add sound effects, add voice recordings, edit image size, draw, insert video transitions, etcetera. The app's star feature is the ability to send via Bluetooth or infrared your document to your mobile phone, but you'll obviously need the appropriate hardware on your phone to do so.

ToneThis

Rajan Singh Mobile Computing,

You've surely wondered at some point whether you could move that song you like so much to your mobile phone for free, or if you could create a ringtone with the chorus of another. ToneThis is a program to do all this and more, all aimed at customizing your mobile phone. The program has four main options: creating ringtones, wallpapers, videos, and games (although the latter option is not available yet). To convert any song, video or image saved on your computer to the appropriate format, you just load the appropriate file to export later. ToneThis doesn't save it directly to your computer, but rather gives you a direct download link that expires in one day. The program supports approximately 300 mobile phone models, covering all the most popular manufacturers (LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, SonyEricsson, etc.).