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An at-a-glance view of your daily events and tasks.

With Today you can keep track of what’s on your plate for any given day without keeping iCal open all the time. Today syncs with iCal and your life’s agenda so daily events & tasks are always available via one, convenient little interface.

See only what’s important

iCal is great for keeping track of every aspect of your life. Whether you use Delicious Library to keep track of who you loaned DVDs to or subscribe to your favorite baseball team’s schedule, iCal can get a bit cluttered. Today allows you to filter what calendars’ events show up in Today.

Only show your school schedule, meetings or birthdays. It’s all up to you.

Not free.

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Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

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• Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines (UXGuide.pdf, 876 pages)
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines (OSXHIGuidelines.pdf, 394 pages) or web

Windows

• Security Essentials (Microsoft Antivirus)
• Windows Live Essentials 2011 ( Hotmail’s HTTPS setting)
  • Windows Live Mesh 2011
  • Windows Live Writer Plug-ins (also on CodePlex)
    • Insert Code for Windows Live Writer
    • Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer
    • Paste from Visual Studio
    • Tag Generator
    • Windows Live Writer Plugins (SnagIt Screen Capture Plugin, WebSnapr URL Preview Image, Now Playing, Insert Video)
• Outpost Firewall Pro
• Kaspersky Internet Security (rus)
• Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Personal (rus)
• KeePassX
• DjView4
• 7-zip
• ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator, which represents multiple consoles as one customizable GUI window with various features.
• AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks
• CintaNotes – a free, lightweight and user-friendly personal notes manager. CintaNotes lets you quickly save and tag any useful information that you come across or just need to jot down.
• Far Manager
  • Registry browser – allows you to do with registry keys and variables exactly the same things as with directories and files.
  • Colorer take5 is a syntax highlighting and text parsing library, that provides services of text parsing in host editor systems in real-time and transforming results into colored text (Far Manager Plugin).
  • VisualCompare – Визуальное сравнение файлов и каталогов.
  • Background copy – With this plugin you can:- copy/move/delete files in background;- get info about current background jobs;- stop any background job;- copy/move/delete/view/edit files even its contains symbols, which can’t-correctly map into current OEM codepage.
  • Drag’N'Drop – alows user to perform drag and drop operations between FAR manager and GUI-based applications.
• RSSBandit
• TrueCrypt
• VirtualBox
• CDBurnerXP
• UVScreenCamera
• Graphical Editors
  • PicPick is user friendly and full of features for creating your image, suitable for software developers, graphic designers and home user
  • XnView
  • Paint.NET
  • Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# which enables you to: Quickly capture and crop images of your screen, Crop out sections of vector graphic files without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor, Capture parts of a web site, including text and images, Breeze through creating documentation with images of other applications or websites. (CodePlex)
• Media and Video
  • K-Lite Codec Pack
  • Hamster Free Video – converts any video to iPod, iPad, iPhone, PS3, PSP, Blackberry, xBox, Zune, Apple TV, iRiver, etc.
  • Free Studio is a single package which bundles all free software from DVDVideoSoft to work with DVD, video and audio files!
  • Any Video Converter Free Version
  • VLC media player
• SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.
• FBReader
• WinDjView
• Foxit Reader
• Skype
• The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD).
• LinkedIn for Outlook - Get more info about your important contacts, see what they’re doing, and stay in touch.
• Browser common plugins:
  • Ghostery sees the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
• Opera
  • YouTube AdsFree – removes popup ads on YouTube videos.
  • FastestTube – YouTube Video Downloader - Download any video from YouTube!
  • Kudos Google Bookmarks - Google bookmarks menu. Create a button on panel using your Google Bookmarks inside. You can access and manage it. Also you can add new to Google Bookmarks.
  • google-translate - selected text translation with Google and PROMT
  • To-Read sites – temporary list of sites you want to visit later.
  • Opera Configurator - full control of your opera settings just 1 click away.
  • open-in-background-with-long-press – open links in a background tab on long press
  • PostRank Extension - Filter your Google Reader inbox with PostRank to find and read what matters. Or enhance Digg, Reddit, & search with PostRank. Use PostRank with Google Reader to score to help you find and read what matters.
• Internet Explorer IE9 (IE add-ons Gallery)
  • Tracking Protection Lists
  • Eugene Gavrin’s TPL
  • EasyList
• Mozilla Firefox:
  • Ghostery sees the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
  • Adblock Plus
  • Google Reader Watcher
  • Russian spellchecking dictionary
  • Download Manager Tweak
  • Flagfox
  • Pixlr Grabber
• google Chrome extensions:
  • Ghostery
  • Ghost incognito
  • Handy Google Shortcuts
  • Google Calendar Checker (by Google)
  • Google Mail Checker
  • Google Reader Notifier (by Google)
  • Google Contacts
  • Address book I need – сollect contacts with this offline address book, which can import from file and synchronize with Gmail / Android.
  • Google Share Button
  • Google Dictionary (by Google)
  • RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)
  • Page2RSS - is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS reader.
  • Gif Stopper will stop animated gif images with using the escape key.
  • Gtalklet – Let’s google-talk just when surfing
  • Google Tasks
  • Wikipedia Beautifier
  • Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google)
  • Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google)
  • Gtalk
  • Adblock Plus
  • Disconnect – stop major third parties and search engines from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do.
  • eBook Search
  • Torrent Search
  • LiveJournal Extension
  • LJ cleaner
  • PageRank Status
  • Chrome SEO
  • SEO Site Tools
  • Analytics Helper
  • Explain and Send Screenshots (?)
  • Webpage Screenshot
  • Drop Box
  • Stop Autoplay for YouTube
  • FlashBlock
  • Fast YouTube Search
  • WOT - Would you like to know which websites you can trust? The WOT add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser.
  • Gismeteo
  • QR code extension (by QRtag.net)
  • iReader
  • Chrome Radio Player
  • Sync Tabs:
  • chrome://flags/
  • find “Enable syncing open tabs”
  • restart Chrome
  • Select “Customize ” from “Sync Settings” and select “Open Tabs”
• Edraw Max is an all-in-one graphics software that makes it simple to create professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, business presentations, building plans, mind maps, fashion designs, UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, web design diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, directional maps, database diagrams and more.
• Promt Translator Online
• Abbyy Lingvo Online
• TeamViewer

Windows Utilities

• Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool
• PC-Wizard - is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It’s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.
• PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
• BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy.
• Manage it! Is a new, portable, easy way to manage your computer. Changes registry, setting timer for shutdown, etc. *Manage It! is new version of MSV System Utilities.
• MHDD.RU – лаборатория восстановления данных
• SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
• UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.

Ubuntu

• See “Linux” page

Mac OS

• Paragon NTFS for Mac® OS X (rus)
• Parallels Desktop for Mac
• TrueCrypt
• VirtualBox
• VLC media player
• FBReader
• WinDjView
• Skype
• Opera
• Miro
• Utilities
  • Disk Inventory X
  • Reader Notifier
  • TeamViewer

• Paragon NTFS for Mac® OS X (rus)
• Parallels Desktop for Mac
• TrueCrypt
• VirtualBox
• VLC media player
• FBReader
• WinDjView
• Skype
• Opera
• Miro

Reader Notifier, discretely residing in your menubar, lets you know when Google Reader has found new items for you to read.

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Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called “treemaps”.

If you’ve ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

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A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!

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Break down the barriers between Windows and Mac® OS!

Including the new MacBrowser for Windows, NTFS for Mac® OS X provides a unique complete solution and creates an effective two-way communication channel between Mac® OS X and Windows. Effectively you get two products in one: You can browse contents, read and modify files, copy and create new files and folders on both file systems with both operating systems!

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AppDelete is an application for Macs that will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application. Now you will no longer have to hunt through your system to find these items and delete them manually. Or worse, just let them sit on your Mac forever even though the application is long gone!

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