Collected Websites and Online Tools

Collected Websites and Online Tools (obsolete)
Epidemiology and Statistics

• Clinical Analyte Unit Conversion - Jay Clinic Service.
• OpenEpi provides statistics for counts and measurements in descriptive and analytic studies, stratified analysis with exact confidence limits, matched pair and person-time analysis, sample size and power calculations, random numbers, sensitivity, specificity and other evaluation statistics, R x C tables, chi-square for dose-response, and links to other useful sites.
• Statistical literacy
• Quick-R for both current R users, and experienced users of other statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, Stata) who would like to transition to R.
• Use of R! in Governments: USA (Revolutions Analytics), UK (ESDS Government).
• Jon's Excel Charts and Tutorials - Peltier Tech
• Chart Chooser — the favorite tool for improved Excel and PowerPoint charts. there is R! version of Chart Chooser (not many charts on the site, but the idea is great)
• Education
• Coursra offers high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. Here is the more story about Coursra by NPR.
• Khan Academy offers his free lessons in thousands of highly visual 10-minute chunks. Math and science dominate, and other topics for adult learners. It's been funded by Google and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Art of Problem Soving, especially for the middle and high school level.
• Open Yale Courses
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Harvard Open Courses
• Princeton University: WebMedia - Lectures
• Smarthistory focuses on art history, from cave paintings to Warhol
• R! Two-minute Tutorial.
• Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health. Topics about Diabetes
• Inspiration
• TED is a set of annual conferences that brings together some of the world's best and brightest thinkers to deliver talks on their realms of expertise.
• TEDMED is a community of people who are passionate about imagining the future of health and medicine.
• Travel
• The Roadtrippers road trip planner helps you discover, book, and create travel itineraries of the best places and experiences along the way. Also, there are apps for handhold devices.
• The airbnb helps you to rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries.
• Hipmunk lets you search for flights across major airlines, giving you easy-to-scan results in a grid sorted by agony ("a combination of price, duration and number of stops").
• Money Saving
• FatWallet: Save with coupons and deals - get cash back
• Clark Howard: Advice You Can Trust. Money in Your Pocket
• Caslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
• Car shopping: if you are looking for a car, you might visit these websites to get a good price:
  • Truecar, a hassle-free car-buying experience from a nationwide network of certified dealers.
  • U.S. News Best Cars, a best car, truck and SUV rankings and reviews from U.S. News.
  • Kelley Blue Book.
  • Edmunds - New cars, used cards, car reviews and car prices.
• Health
• HealthGrades provides the rating grades of doctors, dentists and hospitals on a five-star scale for everything from communication skills to wait times.
• 身與心的平衡 (The balance of body and mind) and 中醫世界 (the world of Chinese medicine)
• 張釗漢疼痛醫療基金會 - 原始點吉林演講
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)  - Biomedical Research & Science Education
• File Utility
• Smallpdf is a fast and powerful online converter; it can convert in both ways between PDF and files of MS-Office, also can compress PDF, unlock, merge and split PDF. There is no limits to file size, no ad watermarks - just a free and simple online PDF converter.
• Any2DjVu Server is offered by DjVu Zone to convert pdf etc. into documents in DjVu format.
• Extractpdf.com can extract Images, Text or EVEN Fonts from a PDF File.
• Zamzar is an online format converter which allows to convert media between different formats. It can convert document, music, videos, images, and even archived files. The free service provides a file size up to 100 MB file size limit. It converts MOBI file quite well.
• TransferBigFiles is helpful to send and receive files that are too big for email attachments. The free account allows you to send files that are as big as 100 MB.
• SendThisFile can send a big file up to 2 GB for free, but you need create an account.
• Dropbox has much more features but also can be used for big file transfer.
• GPS
• GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), driving routes, street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data.
• GPSFileDepot is a great source for GPS files including custom maps, custom points of interest, ximage hosting, articles, tutorials, and tools.
• Free routable maps for Garmin brand GPS devices using data of the OpenStreetMap (Mapquest, Public Transport)
• Online Maps: Google Map, 百度地图 (Baidu Map), Bing Map, OpenStreetMap
• Miscellaneous
• Copy-and-paste the URL on SaveFrom.net to download files from Rapidshare, FileFactory, Youtube, Google, and Metacafe. For Youtube, you can simply add "ss" after "http://" to download the video.
• Mr. Number controls who can call you and when with status, blocking, and caller ID for mobile phones.
• Video conference/chat
• AnyMeeting is an ad supported group video conference website.
• FreeConference.com provides free unlimited conference calls.
• Zendesk is a calming music source.
• Grooveshark is a great place to listen to music
• OpenDNS is the leading provider of Internet security and DNS services. It  protects kids from online violence, pornography, and other unsavory Web material.
• How to make your own Rivnut tool and install the Pilot running board by yourself:
• $1.87 Rivet nut tool for step/running boards.
• 2012 Honda Pilot RB (side board/nerf bar) Install
• Online Color Palettes Generator
• PHOTOCOPA from ColourLovers is an advanced color palette tool that helps you create the perfect color palette.
• Pictaculous is a simple color palette generator and give you HTML hex codes.
• Kuler by Adobe is a web-hosted application for generating color themes.
• Color hunter creates and finds color palettes made from images
• Color Palette Generator can generate a color palette based on an online image.
• Color Scheme Designer allows you to create various color schemes and export them.
• You can also use GIMP (Filters/Blur/Pixelize..., or to open the Palettes dialog, go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Palettes, then right-click anywhere in the Palettes, select import, the palette file (*.gpl) can be find under a palette folder.) to create one.

Nice gadgets (freeware) from Microsoft

Nice gadgets (freeware) from Microsoft

Image Composite Editor (ICE)

ICE is an simple advanced panoramic image stitcher.
Mathematics 

This is an amazing powerful calculator has many functions with graphing options. It also has unit conversion tool.

You may also download and install Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote here; you can easily to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.

You may find more information for teachers/education here.
Sysinternals Suite

Sysinternals Suite, a troubleshooting utility package, was bought by Microsoft a few years ago.

Freeware of Mapping; how to create and upload free maps/free custom maps/free POIs on GPS devices?

Freeware of Mapping; how to create and upload free maps/free custom maps/free POIs on GPS devices?

Here is the overview of Garmin Custom Maps from Garmin.

Free software:

• Mobile Atlas Creator is an excellent open source (GPL) program which creates offline atlases for GPS handhelds and cell phone applications. Starting from v1.9 beta 2, it remove all map sources that are not basing on OpenStreetMap data because of conflicting with map providers. A few words about Custom Map Sources for MOBAC. You may download a copy of MOBAC 1.9 beta 1 here by BpACKer.
• Terra Incognita is a mapping tool with a range of features and functions. You can use this program to download web source maps or local files maps and generate OziExplorer, Kmz, JNX, GPSdash or TrekBuddy calibrated map file.
• ExifTool is a very powerful tool for editing meta information in image, audio, and video files. Exiftool GUI is a GUI for ExifTool. For geotagging a group of photos without any tracking information. ExifMixer is an another great GUI for ExifTool, it's good to change Exif in batch. 
• GPXSee is a GPS log file viewer and analyzer that supports GPX, TCX, KML, FIT, IGC, NMEA and OziExplorer files.
• Google Trail: a fascinating freeware converts Google,Yahoo Map, Openstreet Map, Cloudemate, or Bing maps into Garmin Custom Maps intuitively. It is simple and works like a charm, though it doesn't have as many features as Mobile Atlas Creator and OkMap.
• GPSMapEdit is designed for visual authoring of GPS-maps in various cartographic formats
• GPS Visualizer is a free online powerful GPS and mapping tool.
• GPX Editor is a must-having good program for loading, modifying and saving your GPX 1.1 files.
• ITN Converter is a great small freeware; it is a good one on both converting different formats and planning route simple and efficient.
• GpsPrune is an application for viewing, editing and converting coordinate data from GPS systems. 
• I use Picasa and Google Earth, or Lorc GPS Photo (the file size is much smaller). However, when I have tracking information downloaded from a GPS receiver, I usually use GeoSetter to geotag my photos taken along the trail. You can download GeoSetter Beta here.
• OkMap is an interactive software which allows you to work on your computer screen with digital maps that you have either bought or scanned.It downloads and saving maps from Google Maps with automatic calibration. It generates compatible "Garmin Custom Maps" (kmz format). OkMap also supports JNX file format since version 9.7.0.
• Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show OpenStreetMap, Terraserver, Bing Aerial and other maps in it, download geocaches for an area on the map, make new tracks and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc.
• GPSBable is good at converting waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs. I also install EasyGPS, a data transfer from your GPS receivers and computer, for a quick view of my downloaded waypoints, routes, and tracks.
• How to create/plan route for a GPS Unit?You can use the BaseCamp, a powerful but big freeware from Garmin, to create routes, waypoints, and tracks. Here are some training videos.
• MapSetToolkit generates TDB files for Mapsource and TDB files which will supports file TYP.
• DNRGPS is built to transfer data between Garmin handheld GPS receivers and GIS software.

Tips:

• How to Convert Google Maps Direction into GPX file
• A few words about Custom Map Sources for MOBAC
• GPSFileDepot is a great source for GPS files including custom maps, custom points of interest, ximage hosting, articles, tutorials, and tools. If you don't have the topo maps on your Garmin GPSMAP, you can just use the maps on GPSFileDepot. Some maps  even better than Garmin's maps. A lot of thanks to GPSFileDepot and also to Garmin company for its mercy of letting us to use these free maps on Garmin GPS units. This is a excellent combination of great but expensive GPS units and free maps. Now I don't need necessary buy a GPS units with a installed topo map from other companies .
• Tip: How To Load Maps On My Garmin GPS Unit with BaseCamp
• Tip: How To Install MapSource If It Didn't Come With Your GPS
• Tip: How To Load Maps On My Garmin GPS Unit
• How to Load Maps Seperately on GPSMAP 62s: you need rename the file with name of 'gmapsupp.img' under the directory of 'Drive:\Garmin\' to a name with a '.img' extension. Then do the same for each extra mapset, using a different name with a '.img' extension. The GPSMAP 62 identifies any map file with an '.img' extension, but Mapsource creates a file named 'gmapsupp.img'.
• Tips: Garmin blogs - Trail Tech 
• BaseCamp views and organizes your maps, waypoints, routes, and tracks and send them to your Garmin device. MapSource plans and organizes trips with MapSource, computer software.
• Wiki Q & A about Garmin Custom Maps.
• How to Use GMapTool to combine multiple maps into one mapset file for Garmin GPS
• How to Use GMapTool with cGPSmapper to convert finalized gmapsupp.img back to MapSource maps (Use Gmaptool to install maps images in Mapsource)

Website for free tools and map images:

• GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), driving routes, street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data.
• GPSFileDepot is a great source for GPS files including custom maps, custom points of interest, ximage hosting, articles, tutorials, and tools.
• Gmap-pedometer.com is a Web app designed to let you track the precise distance of your workouts, and track and log your activity.
• Libre Map Project is to aggregate and make digital maps and related GIS data available for Free.
• Free Topographic Maps from Anyplace America
• Free topo maps from USGS.
• National Park Service Maps
• Army Map Service Topographic Map Series
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection by UTAustin. You can find some China Maps.
• Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
• Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) is the official public access geospatial information clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• MapCenter - a place where you can share your maps for Garmin GPS receivers and find maps created by other GPS enthusiasts from all over the world.

How to Create Custom Point of Interest (POI) for Garmin GPS

• Download Garmin's POI Loader
• Creating Custom POI Files.
• An informative article by Sam Penrod.
• POI-factory  is a place which GPS users get together to share locations and discussions with other GPS users since 2006.

How to Print Large Posters Using Freeware

The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version.

The Rasterbator is very easy to use. You can either upload a file from your computer or use any file that is publicly available in the Internet. After you have cropped the image and selected a desired size, the rasterbated image will be sent to you as an easily printable pdf file.  

Use POSTERIZA to design your own big posters and signs from any digital photo with your home printer! 

My Favorite Freeware

My Favorite Freeware (updated on 03-11-2013)

Portable Freeware Package

• PortableApps.com is a well organized package but it only takes the open-source programs. However, I don't like the launcher much; so I use PStart as a launcher and PortableFileAssociator add file associations to a specific filetype, all files, all folders, the recycle bin, or to  all drives.
• winPenPack collects many portable Open Source apps and other free programs. 
• PortableFreewareCollection is a place to get some quick information.
• Camyo can turn your favorite programs into portable applications. Take them anywhere.

On-line Tools

• Jane: Journal/Author Name Estimator
• The Data Visualisation Catalogue
• Drawio.com is a powerful diagram app.
• WebPlotDigitizer extracts data from charts. 
• Graphviz is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of graphs and networks.
• iLovePDF has every tool you need to work with PDFs in one place
• Adobe Color Theme Generator
• Derivative Calculator & Integral Calculator
• Regular Expression Tester
• Stat check for errors in reports
• GPS Visualizer: Do-It-Yourself Mapping
• AI: OpenAI ChatGPT; Microsoft Copilot; Google Gemini; xAI Grok

Productivity

• AutoHotkey (AutoHotkey_L Portable) is a custom build of AutoHotkey maintained by Lexiko, which is flexible and automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder, then  convert any script into an EXE file. Here is the tutorial and documents. You can download different versions from the website here.
• Blog: Hotkeys/Shortcuts - MS Windows, Office, etc.
• Set Notepad++ for AutoHotey (Syntax-highlighting, Auto-completion, Plugins)
• There are a few macro recorders for creating macro of AutoHotkey:
• AutoScriptWriter is a classic recorder included in AutoHotkey basic/1.0.xx version.
• The latest modified version of Macro Recorder is what I am using.
• Macro Creator is much powerful and worth to be watched, BUT security software treats it as a spyware/hackware sadly.
• TinyTask (TinyTask Portable) provides quick & easy automation by recording and playing back mouse movements and keystrokes.
• DropIt provides a floating target image on your desktop that you can drag-and-drop files to quickly process them with a predefined action.
• freeCommander (FreeCommanderXE Portable) is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. Double Commander is similar to Total Commander (a shareware), but it is quite big.
• ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program.
• ToDoList allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience.
• Locate32 saves names of all files in your hard drives to file database. After that you can locate files. Very fast.
• GrepWin is a powerful search and replace tool with regular expression support.
• Highlight is a source code to formatted text converter. It can generate a html with syntax highlight of R! code from a file or clipboard.
• Freeplane, FreeMind, XMind for mind mapping.
• Money Manager Ex is an easy to use, money management application. It is a personal finance manager.
• FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming your movies, tv shows or anime and downloading subtitles from OpenSubtitles.
• PNotes is light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop.

File sync/backup and other file utility

• SyncFolders synchronize or backup the contents of two folders, including any subfolders. It is simple and portable, and has no spyware/adware.
• FreeFileSync (Portable from Snapfiles) is a powerful file sync tool but an adware.
• SyncBackFree (Portable) is a backup and synchronization program before I switched to FreeFileSync. Now it is much powerful than before. You can also download a zip file without installation (kind of portable).
• If you want to add a date stamp to a single zipped file, you can add the date stamp using timestamp.vbs: (cscript \timestamp.vbs "%_Destination%") without parentheses.
• DirSync Pro is a small (3.3 mb) but powerful synchronization and backup utility. It's portable, easy to use.
• WebMon is a old but simple program for monitor website change; it still works well.
• File Joiner allows you to easily join .001/002/003 files.
• Orpalis PDF Reducer enables you to reduce the file size of bulky PDF files by compressing and downscaling images and discarding unused objects. FileOptimizer is another one.
• SVGClearner can clean up SVG files from unnecessary data and dramatically reduces the size of SVG files.
• wxPackJPG can losslessly compress JPEG image files by about 20%.
• Video to Video is a good free portable video converter.

Editor & Office Related Tools

• Text/Programming:
• Notepad++ (Notepad++ Portable) is a great text/source code editor and Notepad replacement. You can download User Defined Syntax Highlight and Plugin  for other language such as SAS, Stata, and R. I used NotePad++ to view and print highlighted codes, and save highlighted codes in color for blogs. For portable version, the ''userDefineLang.xml" needs saving under "..\PortableApps\Notepad++Portable\Data\Config\" directory. Notepad++ Cheatsheet
• WinMerge (WinMerge Portable)is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. 
• CherryTree (CherryTree Portable) is a hierarchical note taking application and organizer, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file. The software is on the big side but more powerful than the KeyNote NF.
• PSPad editor was my favorite.
• MathMagic Lite Edition works well with most word processors like MS Word.
• Math-o-mir is a software tool designed to write and edit mathematical equations as easily as possible.
• PDF and DjVu:
• Sumatra PDF (SumatraPDF Portable) is a slim, fast, open-source reader for PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR). It's small and starts up very fast but quality of view seems need improving but it can read common formats of documents like STDU Viewer.
• DjVuLibre includes a standalone viewer, a browser plug-in (for Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Netscape, Galeon, and Opera), and command line tools (decoders, encoders, utilities). Any2DjVu Server is provides users with a simple online means to convert documents such as PDF etc. into DjVu format. WinDjView is a fast, compact and powerful DjVu viewer for Windows using the free DjVuLibre library. CuneiDjVu creates the OCR layer in DjVu files.
• Djvu-Spec Pdf2Djvu Converter can easy convert pdf to djvu.
• PDF-XChange Viewer (PDF-XChangeViewer Portable) (Now PDF-XChange Editor)presents users with an alternative to Adobe's Acrobat Reader. It gives users more options such as typewriter than its competition, allowing for more in-depth markups.
• Foxit Reader (FoxitReader Portable) is a PDF reader but the file size is much bigger than PDF-XChange Viewer.
• PdfSam (X-PdfSam) is a free open source tool to split and merge pdf documents (it keeps bookmarks of original pdf files).
• Briss is an excellent trimmer/cropper of PDF files. A simple user interface lets you define exactly the crop-region by fitting a rectangle on the visually overlaid pages.
• Orpalis PDF Reducer enables you to reduce the file size of bulky PDF files by compressing and downscaling images and discarding unused objects.
• PdfBooklet and Pdf shuffler creates booklet(s) from existing pdf files. It can also adjust margins, rotate, scale, merge files or extract pages.
• jPdf Tweak a powerful tool to change/scale margin/pagesize, combine, split, rotate, reorder, watermark, encrypt, sign, and otherwise tweak PDF files.
• JPdfBookmarks (X-JPdfBookmarks) is a handy tool allows you to create and edit bookmarks of pdf files.
• PDF Highlight Extractor can extract PDF highlights, and export highlights to MS Excel or a regular text file.
• PDF Shaper is a collection of free PDF tools.
• Adobe provides the Acrobat 3D 1.0 and Acrobat Pro 7.0 for free(?).
• PDFTK Builder and GUI for PDFTK are free graphical interfaces to the Windows version of pdftk making it much easier to use. pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.
• Bookbinder is a program to create a bindable book from a PDF file.
• PDFedit is a free open source pdf editor. There is a Windows version of PDFedit.
• NAPS2  (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) scans documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats.
• K2pdfopt optimizes PDF/DJVU files for mobile e-readers (e.g. the Kindle) and smartphones. It works well on multi-column PDF/DJVU files and can re-flow text even on scanned PDF files.
• Ebook Readers: 
• SumatraPDF is a PDF, EPUB, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ and CBR reader for Windows. 
• STDU Viewer (Portable) is a free viewer for multiple file formats including TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, JBIG2, MOBI/AZW, FB2, ePub, and WWF format. You can use STDV Viewer to print the files of these formats.
• Calibre (Portable) is excellent and powerful but quite big; I use Calibre to manage and convert the ebooks between the different formats. (Apprentice Alf’s Blog)
• Scribus (Scribus Portable) is a powerful Open Source desktop publication (DTP) system with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. There are a great video tutorial created by Dai.
• Zotero is a free reference management system to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
• Daniel's XL Toolbox is a free, open-source add-in for Excel® that helps you to analyze and present data; it can produce graphic files with Excel that meet the requirements of the majority of journals. It really works very well. I highly recommend it.
• FreeOCR is a free Optical Character Recognition Software for Windows and supports scanning from most Twain scanners and can also open most scanned PDF's and multi page Tiff images as well as popular image file formats. FreeOCR outputs plain text and can export directly to Microsoft Word format. You can also use Google Docs to do OCR. When you upload an image or PDF file (size limited to 2 mb), Enable the “Convert text from PDF and image files to Google documents” check box. 
• Google Books Downloader a tool that allows you to save Google books in PDF, JPEG or PNG format.
• How to Easily Merge and Split Ebooks (EpubMerge/Split Calibre Plugins)

Image & Photo Related Tools & Media Player

• GIMP (GIMP Portable) is a open-source image manuipulation software.
• plug-ins: G'mic is an open and full-featured framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images.
• Installation for GIMP Portable: download the zip files unzip and put them under  "..\GIMPPortable\Data\.gimp\plug-ins\".
• GIMP Extensions is a Windows installer with a collection of extensions for GIMP that provides the ability to choose which Plug-ins, Scripts, Brushes, etc, that you want to install.
• Inkscape (Inkscape Portable) is my favorite open source vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape Wiki. Merging Stata and R SVG vector figures for publication using Inkscape
• SVGClearner can clean up SVG files from unnecessary data and dramatically reduces the size of SVG files.
• RawTherapee (Portable) is a raw image processing tool for free, which is similar to the Adobe Lightroom. I'm using the Lightroom 5, but I don't like the cloud and I am considering to use RawTherapee instead.
• ShareX (Portable ShareX)is a amazing open source program that lets you take screenshots of any selected area, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 25 different file hosting services. If you create a .bat file with 'ShareX.exe -p', it will start as a portable app. Greenshot is a small but sufficient screenshot tool. PicPick is a good one but it's only free for personal use.
• Meazure is a tool for easily measuring and capturing portions of the screen. It can add a resizable grid on desktop screen. 
• IrfanView (IrfanView Portable) is my favorite image viewer; it supports plug-ins. FastStone Viewer and XinView are good as well.
• Paint.net is lightweight but powerful free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. Pinta a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET.
• PhotoFiltre 7 (PhotoFiltre Portable) is developed with the core PhotoFiltre Studio;  it is a handy program but supports layers and to improve the filters including function of color selection and popping.
• Krita (Portable Krita) is a program for sketching and painting, offering an end-to-end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters.
• Color Cop is a simple and small color picker and can automatically copy color codes into clipboard which is just what I need. Colormania (Portable) is an advanced color picker utility, especially created for web-designers, graphic artists and application developers. Color Selector is a open-source program.
• Panorama: Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced high resolution panoramic image stitcher. It's very easy to be used and very impressive. Hugin is an amazing and powerful panorama photo stitcher but has a learning curve.
• HDR: Luminance HDR provides free tools for create high dynamic range photos. Picturenaut is a option.
• Adobe provides the Photoshop CS2 and other old version software including Photoshop, Photoshop elements, Creative Suite, Acrobat 3D, Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, Indesgin, Adobe Premiere Pro for free(?). They are not so new but still good enough for my regular need. Since it's not for 64-bit Windows 7, the installation may be tricky (See comments on Downloadcrew.com: Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Creative Suite). Thanks a lot to Adobe.
• Tip: Make sure you running the application as administrator by right-clicking the installer icon and selecting “run as administrator”.
• Tip: May need set to Windows XP SP3 in compatibility settings on the Installer.
• Tip: Change "c:\Program Files (86x)" to the simplified form of the same destination (c:\progra~2\). Don't set to "C:/Program File/Adobe"; that's for 64-bit software.
• How to disable the registration screen
• Google Nik Collection is a set of six powerful plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture (they can also be used standalone or with other Photoshop plugin-supporting apps), formerly priced at $149 but now available for free.
• NeatImage is a noise reduction program for digital cameras and scanners. It's not freeware but you can use it with some limitation forever.
• tintii,  a small size photo filter program, makes color popping or selective coloring much easy. Here is the last version (2.4.0) as freeware.
• Shrink Pic allows you to send dozens of shrunk photos as email attachments.
• There are several powerful graphic tools provided by RealWorld Graphics.
• SmartDeblur (Portable) is a tool for restoration of defocused and blurred images.
• A Sharper Scaling is a high quality image scaling technology mainly developed for upscaling.
• Tip: How to Print Large Posters with a Regular Printer
• Tip:  How to create a passport picture
• VideoLAN (VLC Portable)is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various. KMPlayer is a versatile media player with too much unwanted staff.
• PHOTOCOPA from ColourLovers is an advanced color palette tool that helps you create the perfect color palette.
• Pictaculous is a simple color palette generator and give you HTML hex codes.
• Kuler by Adobe is a web-hosted application for generating color themes.
• Color hunter creates and finds color palettes made from images
• Color Palette Generator can generate a color palette based on an online image.
• Color Scheme Designer allows you to create various color schemes and export them.
• You can also use GIMP (Filters/Blur/Pixelize..., or to open the Palettes dialog, go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Palettes, then right-click anywhere in the Palettes, select import, the palette file (*.gpl) can be find under a palette folder.) to create one.
• DigiCamControl controls your camera settings remotely from your Windows PC via USB.

Dictionary

• WordWeb (Portable) is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. I may buy one someday.
• TheSages English Dictionary and Thesaurus has wildcard and anagram Search. The interface is complicated.
• Lingoes (Portable) is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software, It offers lookup many dictionaries and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages. [How to remove the popup-window of ads: 1. go to: "\PortableApps\Lingoes\app_data\update\". 2. delete contents of tip.xml. 3. change the properties of *.xml in that directory as read only. 4. delete lingoes_update32.exe. 5. run Lingoes, in "Configuration...", check "Don't show tip window".]

Information and password manager

• KeePass (Portable) is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. I use 1Password for my cell phone.
• File Encryption/Decryption
• dsCrypt is AES/Rijndael file encryption software with multi-file, drag-and-drop operations. It's very small and fast.
• DropIt provides a floating target image on your desktop that you can drag-and-drop files to quickly process them with a predefined action.
• Drag'n'Crypt ULTRA is a small file encryption tool.
• 7-Zip (Portable) can do encryption/decryption quite well.
• SanDiskSecureAccess protect sensitive files on the SanDisk USB Flash Drive.
• How to Create an Encrypted Container File With BitLocker on Windows
• TrueCrypt  (discontinued) is a free open-source program for creating a encrypted virtual disk. The TruPax to create TrueCrypt compatible container files out of arbitrary selections of files and folders. It extract of containers created by TruPax (in case TrueCrypt is not available). 
• Steganography
• Lifehacker: How to hide files inside of JPEG images (GuidingTips), Hide data in files with easy steganography tools.
• OpenStego is a steganography application that provides two functionalities: a) Data Hiding and b) Watermarking.
• under cmd type: >COPY /B cover.jpg + files.zip secretfiles.jpg

Security

• Microsoft Security Essentials is my favorite package to help guard against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It provides real-time protection for your home or small business PCs.
• Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
• SUPERAntiSpyware Portable will detect and remove over 1,000,000 spyware/malware infections. I used it with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free utilizes Malwarebytes powerful technology to detect and remove all traces of malware including worms, trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware and more.
• Spybot Search & Destroy (Portable) will spot all sorts of tracking cookies and let you remove the offenders individually.
• AdwCleaner is a browser toolbar/Adware/PUP/Hijacker remover.
• 360 Total Security Essential of Qihoo is a full-featured antivirus program.
• Comodo Internet Security can satisfy all your needs. Comodo Internet Security Premium includes the company's free firewall and antivirus program, which together do a good job of keeping your PC safe from even the very latest in malware threats.
• Block and Filter:
• PeerBlock is a small and advanced IP blocking gadget; it lets you control how your computer talk with other computers over the Internet, letting you block servers and sites known to be troublesome or dangerous. It can block adware and spyware, etc.
• Ghostery sees the "invisible" web, detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by Facebook, Google, and thousands of other companies interested in your activity.
• AdBlock is a popular Chrome extension blocks ads all over the web.
• NxFilter is a DNS filtering server that is capable of filtering Internet traffic based on domain names and content categories. In addition, it can use DNS packet inspection to protect your network from malware and botnet activity.
• FreeFixer is a general purpose removal tool which will help you to delete potentially unwanted software, such as adware, spyware, trojans, viruses and worms (Notes: not for newbies).
• Read more: http://fileforum.betanews.com/#ixzz3Dga8Af5S
• Blocklist:
• I-Blocklist (Level 1) can be used with software such as (PeerBlock, PeerGuardian, iplist,  pfBlocker) and (Vuze, Transmission, uTorrent).
• URLBlacklist is a commercial managed URL blacklist service. You can downloading the blacklist once for free.
• Smart DNS Changer is a versatile network tool which can change your DNS server, MAC address and PC proxy settings.
• McAfee Avert Stinger is a stand-alone portable antivirus tool which can detect and remove some malware.
• CCleaner (Portable) is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. 
• Eraser, Freeraser  and UltraShredder can destroy secret files with free data shredder.
• Recuva (Portable) is used for file recovery.
• Puran File Recovery is an excellent file recovery program. It seems faster than Recuva. Highly recommended. It's a part of Puran Utilities.
• PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files; it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, which recovers lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.

System Utilities

• SIV (System Information Viewer) can run without admin right. It displays a lots of useful system information.
• NirLauncher is a suite of more than 100 of NirSoft's excellent portable freeware Windows utilities.
• Sysinternals Suite collects all the Windows Sysinternals troubleshooting tools into a single file.
• GeekUninstaller performs deep and fast scanning afterwards and removes all leftovers. Keep your PC clean! Use Force Removal for stubborn and broken programs. Another options is Revo Uninstaller (Reo Unistaller Portable)
• Glary Utilities (Glary Utilities Portable) is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools.
• GNOME Partition Editor (GParted) for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
• CrystalDiskInfo is my favorite hard drive monitoring program, which remind you when the temperature or the health of a drive is deteriorating.

iPhone and iPad apps

• Waze is the world's fastest-growing community-based traffic and navigation app.
• 1Password is an account manage app for iPhone.
• GoogleMap no need explanation, do you? 
• iTriage is founded in 2008 by two emergency medicine physicians, which offers a proprietary Symptom-to-Provider™ pathway that empowers consumers to make better health care decisions.
• MapMyDogWalk - brought to you by Subaru. Dog walking, running, jogging, diet, calorie, GPS, and pedometer. I compared it with several others and keep this one. It shares the same account on the website with MapMyFitness.com.

Others

• GPS & Geotagging & Exif editor  & Mapping
• My Favorite Statistic and Math Open Source Software & Freeware
• Useful Websites and Online Tools
• Nice Gadgets from Microsoft
• CamStudio (Portable) is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and save it to a video file or streaming Flash video.
• Youtube Downloader HD
• Kodi is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
• Win Tips: How to add App shortcuts to the Start Menu manually on Windows 10 here: 
• "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\" (press Win-key and R-key)
• Or, C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
• Win Tips: What is the alternative to Pause and Break keys?
• Add or Remove Programs in the Open With Menu From the Registry, Add Any applications to the right-click menu
• Citrix software to open a *.ica file and access Citgo: 1) Citrix Workspace app; 2) HDX RealTime Media Engine