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It is not easy to remember all the important dates – anniversaries, birthdays, and other – in our busy stressful lives. Definitely, being a member of Facebook social network helps, bringing you important reminders for the upcoming dates. But, believe me or not, not everyone still uses Facebook, so you might get in the situation, when you forget, simply forget something you are not suppose to.

The simple, easy to use, freeware portable utility will help you to be on the top of all the important dates, time related responsibilities, and will offer you prompt reminders on everything you need in time.

Yes, Date Reminder will remind you of all important events you have logged, both recurring and nonrecurring. This program can be run from the Startup folder with an option to show only, if there are any alerts for this day. If Date Reminder is kept in the System Tray (optional), if will also alert you after standby or hybernation.

The reminders are listed in chronological order, with recurring events showing only once (the next one). This gives you an instant view of the alerts (at top), as well as a full list of all reminders. Other view modes: Alerts only, History.

Main Features

* Events may recur every year, month, week, day, or every 10 days, every 2 weeks, every 3 month etc.
* For monthly or annual reminders you can preselect a specific day (e.g. "first Monday") of the month
* Reminders can be marked "done", i.e. "dealt with". Past events will remain in the list until they are marked "done".
* An advance notice marker can be set a number of days before an event, as per your particular need.
* An extra calendar box, sizable for one or more month, always highlights the date of the currently selected line.
* Second text line with launching capability (shows in status bar). You can double click to load a file, program, website etc., or just use it for additional text.
* Date format according to the user's regional settings.
* The user interface is controlled by language files. English (default) and 20 other languages are included. Additional language files can be created.

* Unicode support.

* Utility is portable and does not require installation on your Hard Drive.

*Software is an ultimate freeware.

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Developer: Horst Schaeffer

Website: http://www.horstmuc.de/wrem.htm

Direct download link: http://www.horstmuc.de/win/reminder.zip

Password Dragon - Free, Easy, and Secure Multi-Platform Password Manager

More you spend your time online, more you have to remember different passwords and logins. Yes, definitely, to make it easy, you can choose the same user name and the same password in most cases, but that is not considered safe by the security experts. It is enough for the hacker to get access to one of your logins, and he or she can use it against you in other accounts. Besides, different sites have sometimes different guidelines for the login and password creation, or your favorite user name might not be available. So, to make the story short, you may need to remember multiple logins, which is not an easy task. As, usual, the software is your best friend.

Today we will present one of the good utilities to store all your passwords in one place, safe and accessible exclusively by you, the one who has a virtual key – a single password to remember.

Main features:

* First of all it’s free. No strings attached. Password Manager does not contain any spyware or ad-ware.

* The application is very intuitive, user friendly and easy to use. Does not require training even for not very experienced user.

* Files are encrypted with very secure BlowfishJ algorithm. You need to remember only the master password.

* This the multi-OS portable utility. It works on Windows, Mac and Unix as this is written in Java. No need to be installed on a hard drive and can be launched directly from USB thumb drive. Thus, if you have devices with different Operating Systems, the Password Safe can be used on all of them successfully.

* You may organize all your user id, password, URL, and accompanying notes information in a single file.

* Software is highly configurable – you may store additional information using the 10 additional customizable attributes.

* Program is available in multiple languages.

* Copy User Id and password to clipboard in one click.

* Built-in random password generator and useful password strength indicator.

* Data files are automatically backed up for increased security.

* Programmed application Inactive timeout, locking the software automatically, if not accessed for particular amount of time.

* File Locking Facility

* Launch URL from the application. You may either choose browser for URL launch or use system default browser.

* Records can be grouped using user defined categories.

* Import and export capabilities. You may export all/selected records to text, HTML, or XML file, and equally import records from the text file.

* Advanced records search and sorting capabilities.

* Configurable interface to match your preferences.

Screenshot:

Developers’ website: http://www.passworddragon.com/

Direct Download link: http://www.passworddragon.com/passworddragon.zip

Freeware Powerful Optimizer for Windows 7

GIGATweaker is a free powerful and compact tool that allows you to optimize and tweak your Windows 7 Operating System. Experts consider it as one of the best and fastest programs that combine the highest comfort, compactness and power, while have multiple useful features for users of all levels of computer expertise.

Main Features:

* Software works with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7.

* GIGATweaker can be used as a portable application, with no need to install on the hard drive.

* GIGATweaker focuses only on the most useful hidden tweaks for Windows 7, not on all of the available.

* All changes made by GIGATweaker in the system are transparent through informative console.

Developer: Pavel Mikhaylov

Developer website: http://7room.net/gigatweaker/

Direct download (portable version): http://7room.net/gigatweaker/gt3_archive.zip

How to prepare your own books for self-publishing?

For good and for bad, the paper books sales and consumption is on sharp decline, since more and more people switch to reading content digitally.

You may have already enjoyed the epublishing revolution as consumer, using different ebook readers, tables, or big-screen smartphones, betraying your home library. However, have you thought to join the revolution as content creator? Why not? You do not need to spend your financial resources anymore to publish your books. Fast, easy, does not require special knowledge and expertise.

And here, I would like to present the smart, free, and user-friendly assistant, which will help you to convert your novel in any text format to the special ebook format EPUB. Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor, developed by Strahinja Markovic, and currently appearing on the top of the most popular open-source applications’ lists. This open-source tool takes a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) approach to putting together your finished manuscript, and comes with all the basic formatting tools you need.

Just import your finished text into EPUB as plain text and you’re ready to go. A WYSIWYG editor lets you edit e-books in something as close as possible to their final form, which greatly improves not only editing accuracy but also the appearance and presentation of the text. It's critical for readability in both traditional and electronic publishing formats.

Your work is divided up into separate XHTML-based chapters, and by styling up your text using headings you can generate a full table of contents with a single click, allowing your readers to jump around your work quickly and easily. You can even insert images into the text, including your book’s own cover. Make sure it’s 590 pixels wide by 750 high, and then place it at the beginning of your document and insert a chapter break immediately after it and before your text. Finish by expanding the Images section of the Book Browser pane, then right-click your cover image and choose Add Semantics > Cover Image.

Sigil also features a tool that will check your EPUB file for errors – click the green tick to verify it’s problem-free before distributing it.

Main Features

• Free and open source software under GPLv3
• Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
• Full UTF-16 support
• Full EPUB 2 spec support
• Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
• WYSIWYG editing in Book View
• Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
• Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
• Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
• User interface translated into many languages
• Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
• Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
• Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
• Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator
• Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned

Screenshots

Developers’ page: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

Direct download: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/downloads/detail?name=Sigil-0.7.2-Windows-Setup.exe&can=2&q=

Portable version download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Sigil%20Portable/SigilPortable_0.7.2.paf.exe/download