Productivity

Redhaven Outline

Redhaven Outline by Rynelf Tools is a tool that can be used to make outlines and organizing your work and keeping track of your daily activities. It’s also a versatile tool for creating lists and for research purposes.

Grocery IQ

Grocery IQ by Coupons.com makes going to groceries less strenuous. This app allows you to make lists from its vast database. You can manually add items to the list, but it also offers a lot of helpful suggestions. The app comes with voice search and a multi-barcode scanner. The scanner is very easy to use. Just point the phone camera on the barcode of a product.

Autodesk 123D Design

123D is a desktop 3D modeler for Windows. Unlike other 3D programs, you don't need a lot of experience to create high quality objects. It is for people who have always wanted to make cool 3D art but don't have the skills to use complicated (and expensive) software. Created by Autodesk, you'll be able to make 3D designs from scratch. This CAD program has some elements similar to those of other Autodesk software. Tools like edge tweaking, push, pull patterning and symmetry turn your projects into realistic looking models.

Mindjet

Mindjet for the iPhone is a productivity app that lets you input tasks and ideas as well as notes into your mobile device, arraigning them into visual maps that allow you to rapidly organize those concepts. Published by Mindjet LLC, it can help you when it comes to prioritizing.

Lyx

Lyx is a free word document processor that takes the pain out of formatting your documents. Unlike other word processors that require you to do a lot of formatting, this word processor, created by the Lyx development team has taken care to make sure everything looks great from the start. Not only that, this program is also packed with some sweet features.

Wings 3D

Mention 3D graphics and people think of programs that cost in the thousands of dollars. However, Wings 3D is a powerful modeler that is totally free. It was created by Björn Gustavsson, Dan Gudmundsson and the rest of the Wings 3D Development Team. It’s a sophisticated program, capable of modeling human figures, creatures, vehicles, and so on. The program uses a graphical interface instead of icons. You use the keyboard and mouse to change an object’s geometry. Four selection modes are available: Body, Face, Edge and Vertex. Make no mistake about it; Wings 3D has a lot of tools. Each mode comes with its own set of modelers and editors. Its auto-UV feature makes adding textures easy.

Focus Booster

Focus Booster is an app for Windows designed to help you manage time. What the program does is break down your work into 25 minute segments and add breaks. The purpose of all this is to help you stay focused. While aimed primarily at people working, it will also help students and anyone trying to balance time on their desktop.

Springpad

Springpad by Spring Partners is a nifty little app that lets you save any file you want anytime. The latest version of the app sports a simpler interface and the app has been tweaked so it runs faster on the Android and iOS. While there are many apps that let you save files, few are as intuitive as this.

NameChanger for Mac

NameChanger for Mac is a free program that makes it easy to rename multiple files, a chore that usually takes forever to do. This application is developed by MRR Software, and it is very easy to use. The latest version has support for Regular Expressions, as well as the ability to sort via the EXF date.