iCopy - Simple Photocopier¬For most people who have a scanner and printer con¬nected to their PC, this free utility lets you com¬bine your scanner and printer into a powerful, but easy to use photocopi¬er at the press of a button. Manage scanner and print¬er options, like brightness, contrast, and number of copies, with ease. SimpleOCR3.1- Scanning a page and converting it to editable text (Optical Character Recognition or OCR), usually requires expensive software like FineRe~der or OmniPage. With the free tool Sim¬pleOCR, you can convert a paper document into edit¬able text, that you can use in any application (such as MS Word or OpenOffice). Advanced Outlook Repair 1.4 If Microsoft Outlook reports that your personal folder files (*.PST) are damaged, you can still try to minimize the loss. This tool will scan and try to recover as much as possible, of your mail messages, folders and other contained objects.

BorgChat 1.0- Whether you just need to send a one-off message to a colleague, or be in touch all the time, the free BorgChat can carry that out dependably. It does not need you to logon to a server over the Internet, so your confi¬dential data and communica¬tion remains that way. All people on the LAN running BorgChat, appear on the contact list automatically. Sunbird Calendar 0.7- Keep¬ing track of events, holidays, appointments, and meetings in a digital world can be sim¬plified by using a calendar application. Sunbird is an open-source, free applica¬tion from Mozilla that helps you do this.
FinePrint 5.77- Exercising control over how you spend ink and paper, not only saves money but is environment friendly.

FinePrint helps you control and enhance printed output, by fitting more text when pos¬sible, and printing at higher quality when needed. Clipboard Buddy 2.34- How many times have you wished Windows could copy more than one item into your clip¬board (whether it be plain text, rich text or images), to make the process of pasting them faster? This free utility will let you select your twen¬ty most recent clipboard items, for pasting.

Recovery Toolbox for Word vl.l- A lot of hard work goes down the drain, when Word documents get corrupted and you need to re-type whatever you remember, of the text that was previously in the file. This tool helps you retrieve information from corrupted Microsoft Word documents and templates (*.doc, *.docx, *.dot, *.dotx) and RTFs. Recovery Toolbox for Excel vl.l- Excel spreadsheets are probably among the most accessed repositories of data in an office. However, the chance of a valuable file get¬ting damaged is seemingly directly proportionate to its value. Help is at hand, with this tool that can recover damaged Microsoft Excel files (* .xls, * ,xlt, * .xlsx, xlsm, *.xltm, *.xltx, *.xlam). OrangeHRM- It helps you to manage employees and cli¬ents, and automate your HR processes. Even small businesses with a HR department will find this free web-enabled application very useful to simplify processes.

OrangeHRM is distinctive in that you can set some options and thereafter, track¬ing employee profiles, pay grades, time-sheets, leaves, holidays; and even processes such as tracking customers, projects, and bug-files, can happen automatically. The extent to which HR details of the people in your compa¬ny can be digitized; the con¬venience of being able to search and have information on your fingertips; and the implications of conversion from paper-based to a digital office could bring sizeable returns. St~rt using it on an experimental basis and once it is working smoothly, you can shift over to it. OrangeHRM for Windows systems can run as an appli¬ance; with its bundle of Apache, MySQL and PHP. During install, you'd need to unblock it from windows firewall; and make an admin¬istrative username and pass¬word (do remember what you entered). For optimal performance on a windows server, install to a destina¬tion other than C: drive. Login with the administrative username and password you chose. To access it through the rest of your LAN and company, replace localhost with your server's IP address or domain name. Further documentation is included in PDF form on this month's DVD.