Productivity

Google Slides

Google Slides is a free productivity app from Google that allows you to edit and create Google Presentations and share them with your co-workers. It’s also compatible with Power Point so you can open and edit and save PPT files, and apart from offering several editing tools, you can even use this offline.

gnuplot

Gnuplot is an open source command line graphing utility developed by Philipp K. Janert that allows students, scientists and researchers to create data and math formulas in an interactive manner. This cross platform program can also be used by third party programs and it has some web scripting support too.

Perfect Effects 9

Perfect Effects 9 from On One Software is an image editor that you can also use to work with Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture. The program is free to download, but you’ll need online access to activate the first time you use it. Once you’ve filled up the simple form, you can download the program, and there’s a lot of good stuff here.

Clover 3

Clover 3 is a free add-on for Windows Explorer that adds tabs to Windows Explorer, making the user interface of Windows’ file manager even more practical and easier to use. While there are a number of add-ons available on the market, Clover 3 stands out as one in the lead.

Snappy

Snappy is a Windows application that allows you to take screenshots. There’s more than a few of these available, but Snappy is free and easy enough for even a casual computer user to use. Developed by OndaNera, it’s a very basic but useful utility.

GanttProject

The GanttProject is a project management program designed to run on Windows, Mac and Linux. It was developed by Alexandre Thomas in 2003 and now run by Dmitry Barashev. Unlike other project management applications, the GanttProject is easy to use while retaining the most important project management features.

Battery Doctor+

Battery Doctor+ from Tap Plex is an app that optimizes the way your Widows phone uses its battery life. One of the most frustrating things with mobile devices is the more apps, games and videos you use, the quicker the battery drains out. With this free app you can extend the battery life by up to 50%.

Windows Reading List

The Windows Reading List is a downloadable app for Windows 8.1 that makes it easy for you to arrange all the media, be it an article or a video, you like to read online in one place. Read and go over the content now or save it for later, remove or add an article on the spot.