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09, April 1986

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Sintra Lisbon Portugal

Category: Freeware

Pocket Contact Manager

Posted on 5:59pm 12/31/2007 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Mobility, Software, Utilities
PocketCM I’ve been looking at this application evolution since more that six months. It runs on Windows Mobile, it is freeware and brings to the tips of your fingers a little bit of the iPhone user-experience.It is a contact manager that replaces the default one and allows you to scroll your contacts with your finger.It allows sending SMS, creating a favorites list and adding pictures to your contacts.You can set different themes. My favorite is the black one in the side picture. Download it here.

Still based on the ideal of using your PDA only with your fingers you also can find a keyboard in this website. Download it here.

Nowadays I don’t use this software. I’m in a minimalistic phase as a windows mobile user. Only the essentials to have it working. (Qtek S200 performance made me took this decision).

How about tasting Vanilla?

Posted on 4:15pm 12/31/2007 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Open Source, Software, Web

Vanilla - Free, Open-Source Forum Software

Vanilla is a free and open-source forum software easy to install and with a huge amount of add-ons.

I liked this software because the core software that you install is an simple forum. Maybe too simple for most people, because it doesn’t even bring a WYSIWYG editor. I wish that I’ve found this software some months ago. I needed to install a forum system in some client website, but they wanted something simple and fully integrated in their website design. I found a poor solution then, because I wanted to avoid PhpBB. It’s great but it was too big.

Next time I’ll give a chance to Vanilla.

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

Posted on 11:32am 12/18/2007 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Open Source, Software, Utilities

CamStudio - Open Source

During last month I had to record some demonstrations in my computer. I used the well known Camtasia Studio. Well, now the trial is ending, and I don’t want to buy this software :)

Today I found a nice software that can be used to achieve the same result. It is called CamStudio. You can record your screen while you perform some action like record an interaction with some software, record a presentation, etc. Then you can deploy it as an AVI file or flash video.

CamStudio - Screenshot

Maybe it isn’t new for many of you, but for those who haven’t ever heard about this software, give it a try.

OpenProj

Posted on 6:19pm 12/13/2007 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Open Source, Software

While “googling” around the web I found an interesting application. It is a Java-based project management tool. It is called OpenProj and it is able to work with Microsoft Project files. I only tried with one MPP file and it worked fine. Since it is a Java application it works in any platform which is always nice :)

The main thing that I didn’t like about this software (during my 15 minutes experience, lol)was the language settings. OpenProj changes its language into you OS language and I didn’t find any option in the menu or any configuration file where I can change it to a custom language. It would be nice to have OpenProj in English but now I am bounded with PT-BR version which is very different from PT-PT :(

OpenProj Screenshot

Projity (the company that developed OpenProj) also has a SaaS application to host you project management solution. It is called Project on Demand.

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

Posted on 10:45am 10/21/2007 by Bruno Silva in Design, Freeware, Multimedia, Software

Paint .Net

Vamos ser realistas, o Paint não serve para nada (ou pelo menos para muito pouco). É preciso um editor de imagem mais poderoso. Por outro lado algumas ferramentas mais avançadas são pagas e pesadas.

Deixo a referência ao paint.net, a minha ferramenta de eleição. Open Source, simples e intuitivo, ainda por cima leve, e com uma panóplia de plugins interessantes. É possível inclusivamente criar plugins em C# por exemplo.

Ficam aqui algumas capturas de ecrã para terem uma ideia da interface.

Paint .Net

Paint .Net

Paint .Net

Paint .Net

Software para Windows Mobile

Posted on 9:41am 10/08/2007 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Mobility, Software, Utilities

Pocket PC Freeware

Deixo a referência ao site Pocket PC freeware (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net).
Este site uma enorme colecção de software para Pocket PC.
No topo do site podem também encontrar links para os sites análogos para outros sistemas móveis.
Tem algum lixo, mas tem sobertudo muito software bom. E gratuíto!!

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