FREE FLASH CARD SOFTWARE - MNEMOSYNE

Mnemosyne, www.mnemosyne-proj.org/principles.php A very nice flash card creation tool to help you build effective activity based on an algorithm. The tool is developed keeping in mind the spaced repetition and memory research. The tool does offer basic configuration setting to enable the user to enter appropriate questions i.e. questions that require frequent review. The user can specify priority for different questions so that the ones that require regular reviews appear frequently. The 'Getting Started' guide is quite helpful for a new user wanting to have a quick look at the tool.
Once created, the activity could be exported in an xml format.

Quite an easy-to-use utility tool !

FREE PDF UTILITIES

PDF documents have become an integral part of our work routine. Be it online or offline, pdf documents make our task easier. pdf documents are quite handy. Found out about this handy website with some real useful pdf utilities to offer and that too for free. The site is http://somepdf.com and offers 5 highly useful pdf utility tools. I tried the following three

• pdf to word converter which converts the selected pdf document into a word format
• pdf to html converter which converts the selected pdf document into html pages
• pdf to image which extracts the images from the selected pdf document

The two other utility tools offered takes care of text to pdf conversion and pdf to text(rich text) conversion

The interface is very simple and easy to use.

A very handy set of tools to have

FREE FLV PLAYER

Most of the video download sites have videos available in Flash video format ( .flv format). To run .flv files, one requires a FLV player. Applian FLV player, www.applian.com/flvplayer is one such FLV player one can download and use.

So, install the FLV player and start downloading the flv files.

FREE BASIC FLOWCHART DESIGN TOOL - 1888 QUICK FLOW CHART CREATOR

1888 Quick Flow Chart Creator, www.1888softwaredownloads.com is a simple, basic Flow chart creation tool. The advantage is it has lots of shapes available for use and one can do basic manipulation on the flow chart like adding colour, etc.

Not a very comprehensive tool but useful utility for drawing flowchart and you can save it in an image form.

FREE EBOOK SOFTWARE - SWIFTEBOOK

Found out this little tool called Swiftebook. The tool is available at www.gurucreation.com Found it interestingly simple and useful to carry out basic document creation and editing. To start creating an ebook ( they call it that though the saving formats are the usual ones like HTML, rtf, pdf, etc.). Inspite of that, i liked working on the tool, maybe because of the fetaures it provides in a simple way. No doubt the tool is quite attractive.

Once you start with ebook creation, click on New and start typing. While typing click on the Document and Style options and you get a glimpse of the features available. The user may simply click on the feature to apply it to the document.
The Document option allows to add more about the doucument - title, creator, Category, Niche, etc. which would be quite helpful during ebook search.

The Style option provides with the various common formatting option

Hold on, that not all in this tool. There's this useful Reminder option which can help one organise

SKETCH DRAWING SOFTWARE - SKETCH STUDIO

Sketch Studio is quite an interesting and simple software, www.sketchandsmudge.com/download.html
A wonderful hand sketching tool with some real nice, unique features.The interface is very user friendly and immediately one can get started with creating an image using the Sketch pen of varying sizes.

Some of the unique features of the tool are

• Smudging
• Play Sketch Option
• Trace Image Option
• Help Topics
• Tutorials to get started

Trace Image Option can be used to trace an outline from any existing image

Play Sketch Option can be used to play the sketch as was drawn. A very handy option indeed where one can view the skecth in steps

The tutorials are very helpful and additionally the Help Topics are also available.

Once may also save the sketch as a JPEG image.

An image sample of the Lessons/ Tutorial section is shown below. The Lessons are really nice and one may practice skecthing as well.

A nice tool !!

FREE SOUND FILES

www.findsounds.com is quite useful when looking for some sound (files). A good range of parameters helps refine the search further. Though it supports few popular formats but still a useful site. Depending on one's requirement, specific size files could be searched.

A good alternative when trying to create sound with a bad throat !!