Ergonomics

  CoolMon

…is a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else you wish to display on the desktop. It can also display stats from remote pc's and publish real-time stats on a webpage. The application can display CPU, RAM and page file usage, hard drive usage, MotherBoard Monitor temperatures and fan speeds, various network stats and more.

Click here to download it.

Total Commander

Windows Explorer-like program that provides very good functionality, making copying/cutting/deleting files child's play. Click here to download.

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Dictionaries

Eng<>Ger

Useful for working offline, you can use the following two-way German-English dictionary. Available for free download Eng<>Ger Dictionary

Graphics

Gimp

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Go here to download

Irfanview

A very fast, small and compact FREEWARE graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Availiable here.

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Internet 

Firefox

A Web browser that enables fast, secure and efficient web browsing. Highly recommended.

Click here to download.

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Security

Ad-Aware SE

…is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.  Available here

AntiVir® Personal Edition

The AntiVir Personal Edition offers effective protection against computer viruses for individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. Download here

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Translation Tools

Agent Ransack

A free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!  Direct download here.

Convert

Probably one of the most useful programs for translators. Convert is a unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others. It also includes the ability to create custom conversions.

Click here to download convert

ExtPhr32

This program extracts every word and every phrase up to a certain number of words in length that occurs at least a minimum number of times in a source text file and that does not start or end with a stop word.

Click here to download directly

Wordfast

A Translation Memory engine available for Microsoft Word on PC and Mac Wordfast offers a transparent, open format for all its data, but maintains compatibility with Trados and most CAT tools. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access files but also a wide array of tagged documents can be translated. Wordfast connects to MT packages like PowerTranslator™, Systran™, Reverso™ etc. Powerful terminology features are available. While wordfast is shareware, donations are welcome. Download it here.

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Web Design

Selfhtml (in German only). Everything you need to know about web-design is right here. Click here to download Selfhtml Guide

Sitesell Value Exchange

Vital for evaluating and ranking your website positively by the search engines is effective link-exchange promotion. Click here to find out more about link exchanging.

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