Breaker

DDV

Breaker is a simple app that notifies you when it's time for you to take a break from work. When you start the program, you have to decide how long you want to work and when you want to take a break. This way, every time you move your mouse over the icon on the status bar, a timer tells you how much time is left. With Breaker, you can quickly see how much time is left until your next break and, more importantly, how long you have until you have to get back to work after your break is over. This is an interesting app for those of us who work on a computer every day.

GenDesigner

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GenDesigner is a curious application to create family trees in a short time. You only have to add people to the chart, include a photo if you have it, and enter their names and important info. Once you include them in the chart, you'll be able to connect them according to their relations. It's not difficult to use, although its look could be a bit better. However, it's a good idea to start creating it. Next time you'll go to a family event, you'll know everybody.

GiMeSpace Cam Control

GimeSpace

GiMeSpace Cam Control is a useful tool that you can use to control your PC by gesturing in front of your webcam, simulating your mouse or keyboard. The application recognizes three signals: move horizontally, move vertically, or zoom with two hands. You can adjust movement speed and sensitivity settings, and experiment with different configurations to see which best fits your needs. GiMeSpace Cam Control lets you forget about your mouse and perform your tasks more fluidly, especially if you use several monitors and need to manage projects across various screens.

Tarot del Amor

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TVplasmaLCDSelector

N/A

TVplasmaLCDSelector is a small application to help you find out which type of TV is better suited to your needs, either an LCD or a plasma TV. By asking you different questions about the approximate size of the TV you want, whether you want to play video games or watch sports on it, your concerns about saving energy, your budget, and the lighting in your room, the application determines which type of TV suits you better. Once you enter all the answers, just click 'What's best for me?' and you'll get the answer you need. TVplasmaLCDSelector is a good help in making perhaps your most important life decision ever: choosing which TV to buy.

Marble Portable

PortableApps.com

Marble Portable is a virtual globe that lets you get as close as you want to any region of the planet so you can see your nation's entire continent with just a few clicks. Some of the more interesting features that the program offers is the ability to click on any city or country you see on the map and automatically go to its corresponding Wikipedia page straight from the program's window. Also, you can copy geographic coordinates from any point on the map, activate the weather forecast, activate and deactivate the clouds, and add important tags. Marble Portable is a very helpful tool that allows you to access information about any place in the world in just seconds.

Teleo

ONCE

Teleo is a very useful tool for blind people who want to read books in Braille on any device with Windows. Thanks to the countless books available on ONCE's online catalog, anyone affiliated with this organization can read any of these books on their PC. Teleo has a simple interface for finding the books you want to read. All you have to do is add each book with a .tlo extension to start reading from the application itself, or a device plugged into the serial port, such as Braille-speak. Without a doubt, Teleo is an excellent program that makes reading books in Braille a piece of cake. With nothing more than this tool and another reading device, you can start enjoying books in a matter of minutes. Best of all, Teleo lets you move up and down the page, search for text, add bookmarks, or even import and export bookmarks as needed. All of the features are perfectly laid out on your computer screen, too.

Cookbook

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Cookbook is a comprehensive, easy-to-use virtual recipe book that you can use to catalog all of your secret recipes to save or print. The program's interface includes different spaces where you can note down the ingredients for the recipe as well as directions on how to prepare it. There are also spaces to record serving size, preparation time, and cooking time. You can add as many photos as you like to each recipe, and then categorize the entries as appetizer, dessert, entree, etc. Cookbook is a useful tool that not only allows you to digitize your own recipe collection, but also to import recipes from other users, so you'll have an extensive, personal cookbook in no time.

SuperDonate

SuperDonate

SuperDonate is an app dedicated to utilizing the energy your computer isn't using for other projects and subsequently turning it into donations. In theory, the idea may sound a bit confusing, but in reality it's as simple as choosing one of the NGOs available and having the program run in the background. Without noticing (and without even touching your wallet) you can help them financially. SuperDonate is an interesting program that, without negatively impacting your computer's usage, benefits organizations that really need it.

Juicy Business Cards

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With Juicy Business Cards, you can create your own professional-looking business cards, even if you have zero experience with graphic design. There are more than 50 different backgrounds available for your cards, ranging from floral motifs to abstract textures. You can also change the colors and brightness of each, meaning the possibilities are endless. You can put all your information on the card: name, address, phone, email, company name, and zip code. Of course, you can also add any additional information you feel is important to include. Other options include the ability to insert a picture or company logo to give the card an even more professional look. Juicy Business Cards is an excellent alternative for designing your own professional-looking business cards.

PCVoz

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BibliaSoft

José Enmanuel Quiroñes

BibliaSoft is an application that brings the wisdom and knowledge of the Holy Bible to your computer, letting you access its content with a single click. The application's menu is well-organized. You can open the New or Old Testament and search by book or even by author. The application's interface has an excellent design that makes reading the Bible incredibly simple. The only additional elements in your line of vision are placed in the window's margins, so nothing can distract you while you're reading, which is a great design decision. BibliaSoft is an excellent application for believers. With it, you can read the word of God whenever you want, including on your computer with nothing more than a single click.

Little Alarm Clock

Little Apps

Little Alarm Clock is a small clock app that, aside from displaying the time, lets you set as many alarms as you want. Setting an alarm is easy; you just have to click on 'create new alarm', set the time you want the alarm to sound, and provide a description. You can also set the sound or song you want to hear when the alarm goes off. Just as with real alarms, the app includes the classic snooze button, which will let you postpone interrupting whatever you're doing (normally sleeping, in this case). One of the best parts of this app is that its interface, which is minimalist but very accessible, lets you do all of this easily. Little Alarm Clock is an easy tool for setting alarms that has all the right functions. In other words, it's everything you want in an alarm.

Quakeshakes

bricbacs

Each day dozens of earthquakes happen around the world without many of us even knowing about them. Fortunately (or unfortunately) Quakeshakes will allow you to always stay up to date on all the earthquakes happening around the world every day. The main interface of the program shows a huge map of the world, to which you can apply various filters and views to make it easier to recognize the earthquakes. Quakeshakes is a quite interesting tool with which you can learn a lot about earthquakes and planet Earth in general. It is ideal for both the young and not-so-young.

TrackAMinute2

Spacejock Software

TrackAMinute2 is a personal management app to keep track of the time you spend working on a project. The application lets you create as many projects as you want and, for each one of them, as many tasks as it takes. This way, you can track the projects you have open in a concrete way, without losing track of the time you spend on each one. The application's interface is very simple and sleek, showing you all the features and important elements at a glance. You can easily access anything with a single click. TrackAMinute2 is a good way to manage your time no matter whether you're working or studying. For the latter, you can differentiate the time you spend on each of your assignments and the various tasks for each one.

Garmin Voice Studio

Garmin

How many times have you thought about changing the voice of your GPS? What if I told you now you can do it? If you have a Garmin Nüvi GPS device, you can. Nowadays, there are some companies ofering the voice of celebrities for your GPS, but Garmin has gone one step further and now it offers you the posibility of recording your voice or your childrens. It's very easy, when you run the program, it appears a list of indications, click on one of them and record your voice telling that indication. Record all indications and then connect the GPS to the PC and transfer the file. It's time to customize your GPS.

Myibay

Myibidder.com

Myibay is a small app that lets you win bids on eBay, thanks to its bid automator. The program's interface is very intuitive, and you only have to copy the link of the article you're interested in to start 'the hunt'. Once this is done, you must choose your highest bid and the program will place it automatically at the last minute. Once you've programed your bid, you don't need to be online or keep your computer turned on for it to go through. This will allow you to win bids in a perfectly legal way without having to stay on top of them. Myibay is a pretty useful tool for eBay fans, although it doesn't guarantee you'll always win.

ThisIsMyFile

Nenad Hrg softwareok

FinFamily

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FinFamily is a curious application to create family trees to digitalize your family roots. The viewer in the program is very simple and effective what makes it a good choice. You canadd as many people as you need,include it before and after any line and once you'll have created it you can view it and know at a glance who anyone is. parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, nephews, uncles,... include all of them and have your family inorder. You can enter genre, name, age, pictures andeven blood group and a small biography. FinFamily can be interesting, although we expect it to be powered up because it is in an early development step.

My Free Weather

N/A

My Free Weather is a complete meteorologic station that you can access to find out all the information you want on the weather in your city. All you need to do is enter the name of the city you'd like to track, and in just a few seconds you'll have all the relevant information: temperature, visibility, humidity, wind speed and direction, local time, and a forecast that goes up to five days into the future. The program's interface is one of its strong points; it's both simple and attractive. You'll find all the information about your city (including the date and time) in the main window, without any distracting buttons or tool bars. My Free Weather is a really interesting tool. Checking the weather has never been so easy - even when you have the window minimized, it will continue to display the current temperature.

MyMoney

MTH Software

My Money is an application that helps users manage their bank accounts easily and quickly through the Internet. Whether you have a simple and personal bank account or a small business, with My Money you can perform all of the typical management operations directly from your computer. The user interface, which uses an intuitive tab system, allows you to always have access to your cheque book, bank lists and deposits or the calendar with any notes you have created. My Money supports many different types of foreign exchange and operations. Furthermore, with the possibility of creating shortcuts you can manage any operation in seconds. My Money is a very useful tool especially for users who have a fairly high economic knowledge.

NameGenerator

Evilmaster

NameGenerator does what its name exactly says: it generates names. Run it and press the only button you'll find in its interface. Once you press it, you'l see an extese list of names (2,000) for person, pets, enterprises, characters, etc. NameGenerator is not one of those amazing programs you can find out there but it perfectly does what is expected to do: it generates a lot of names that can be specially useful if you are searching for a name for your new RPG character.

Working Time

Louai Mishal Al Arabi

Working Time is a tool to plan out your week by assigning times to everyday tasks, or plan out your day by managing daily tasks. The application's main window is divided into two main tabs. In the first there's a chart of the hours in each day you can use to get things done. In the second, there's a classic task manager from which you can set tasks and estimate the time for each one. The program interface is a bit ugly, but it's also pretty intuitive. It's easy to move from one section to another and edit information – a welcome feature in an application designed to optimize your time and effort. Working Time is not exactly the prettiest task manager out there, but its simplicity and compact size make it an interesting alternative.

Visual Understanding Environment

Tufts University

Visual Understanding Environment is a very easy application that allows you to create diagrams and presentations quickly. Its intuitive interface lets you create nodes, and establish connections between one element and another just by clicking on the corresponding icon. In the same way, you can change the relationship between the nodes by simply dragging a line from one side to another, and add photos or change their design. For the presentations, you can navigate through the different elements of your diagram using the keyboard and mouse. You can also zoom in on them to show or hide details. Visual Understanding Environment offers a simple yet professional way to create charts and diagrams for university or business presentations.

Extra

El País

GMapCatcher

heldersepu

GMapCatcher is an application that allows you to dowload some areas of maps from CloudMe, OpenstreetMap and Google Maps to check them afterwards when you'll be offline. The procedure is very simple. You only ave to choose longitude and tatitude of the area. Then, the program will download the images of the map of the zone. Once the images are downloaded, you can browse the map in the same way you use Google Earth. Drag images with the mouse to move and click an area to zoom in. Set marks to remember places, restaurants or notes. GMapCatcher can be really useful if you are planning a trip and you don't know if there is Internet Connection where you are going. Using GMapCatcher you'll be sure you'll check the map.

RequestCommander

NesterSoft

Request Commander is an application to tag problems that allows you to organize them and manage user requests and complaints. The program processes the information sent by users instantaneously and stores them in a database. The design of Request Commander is very intuitive. It shows all problems sorted by categories. Request Commander is an application which is useful for only certain users, if you are among that group, you'll welcome it.

CR8 Card Printing

CR8 Software Solutions Ltd

CR8 Card Printing is a program that allows you to personalize and print your own cards to distribute to your clients. In this way, you can include all the necessary information so that anyone can locate you or your store, all with a personal touch that you add yourself. This program allows you to print on both sides of the card, so that you won't have any limits when you let your imagination go wild. In addition, it allows you to add magstripe encoding, if you are looking to create tickets for concerts, shows, or something similar. You can use CR8 Card Printing to create everything you can imagine, from event tickets to business cards or coupons for your store. And you can do all of this with the design that you think is best.

FreeApps

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We all like to try and download free software, and FreeApps will collect and sort them all in a convenient list you can access at any time, whenever we are connected to the Internet. The program basically is a list of free apps sorted by category that you can download with one click from the interface. Also FreeApps tells you the version of the applications, the rating given by users and the number of downloads. FLV, GomPlayer, Spotify, GIMP, GameBoost, Xfire, Avast, 7-Zip or Dropbox are just some of the free programs you can download easily. Other FreeApps tabs will show the programs we have installed and that need to be updated. That way, we'll always have the latest all our programs. Another tab in the program allows us to uninstall applications. It has several interesting features, such as filters which we have just used, and "toolbars" that we have recently installed. FreeApps is a great source to download free apps, install, update and delete them. An excellent tool that we do not even need to install. We simply need to double click and we can start using it without problems.

Ahnenblatt

Ahnenblatt

Ahnenblatt is a family tree creation tool that allows yout o create that tree and organize your family correctly. The interface of the program is extremely simple and you can add members to the family with only one click. Parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents,... religion, birthdate, pictures,... add all the information you know about that memeber and next time you'll meet him or her you'll know who he is. Are you prepared for the next family event? Ahnenblatt gives you some clues.