Top 6 Must-Have Windows Apps

It is important to pre-load Windows laptops with powerful apps to ease on works including photo editing for photo enthusiasts. Below are six such apps suggested. Have a look.

ABBYY FineReader Professional (OCR)

The optical character recognition software ABBYY FineReader Professional has the capability of converting PDF files into several formats including Excel and Word. Moreover, it can save the documents into searchable PDFs to make effective paperless office. It features support for up to 190 languages and is priced tagged $170.

Acronis True Image Cloud (Backup)

With Acronis True Image Cloud helps in taking a backup of everything on a PC including the operating system, data and application as well. Everything is stored in the cloud and allows flexibility of restoring all or part of the backup whenever required. The developer claims the service is faster than rival tools by about fifty percent. It is priced tagged $70 for one PC and three mobile devices.

Bvckup 2 (File mirroring)

With the Bvckup 2 user can easily mirror contents of one file location to another either across the network or on another storage device. The developer claims mirroring is fast with the tool as its engine identifies and copies only the modified parts of files. The folders in it either can be kept synchronized in real-time or scheduled as a batch job. Bvckup 2 is priced tagged just $20.

Cyberduck (File transfer)

If you are looking for a modern FTP client, the Cyberduck is perfect. Its traditional FTP, SFTP and WebDAV capabilities as well as its advanced features including support to filter files with regular expression, capability to define the number of concurrent transfer and resuming interrupted file transfers are worth to have the tool. It comes free.

GIMP (Image manipulation)

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is an open source image editor and provides extensibility through integration with Python, Pearl, Scheme and other programming languages. It is easy to use and the guide completely helps whenever required. It too comes free, but it is much required for photo enthusiasts.

1Password (Password manager)

Security is more than necessary and 1Password is a great help towards it. It is a password manager and encrypts credit card information, passwords and other most sensitive data in an AES-256 encrypted digital vault. It is integratable with all the popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari. New passwords are automatically saved and just a click of mouse is required to sign into online accounts or fill-in credit card entries. It is priced tagged $65 or else $5 per month.