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August 03, 2007

A simple and easy to use font viewer, that allows you to view all your installed fonts in a full screen window. You can change the size of the fonts and set bold, italic or underlined letters. No additional options, but useful to quickly browse your fonts in a full-screen mode.

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It shows you all the installed fonts (that is, those that are in the Fonts folder in your Control Panel) in one window. You can scale the fonts up and down and check out how they look in different font styles (bold, italic, underline, strike through).

Free&Easy Fonts Viewer has its limitations, though: if you have a collection of fonts which are located in a different folder from the system fonts, you won't be able to browse through them using this tool.

More about this free and useful software and download you can find here.

sb
August 01, 2007

Everybody needs utilities for their system and I found this bunch of application while surfing. This is really incredible! Forty One Freeware Appz in one install!

Words can't explain usability of these small utilities, you'll must try it by yourself.

AttriBat, file and folders attributes manager.
AlphaBook, keep your notes indexed in alphabetic pages.
BlockIt, blocks access to your computer when turned on Win95/98/Me only.
Stay OnTop Text, compare text by keeping "Stay Ontop Text" always ontop.
US and Country area codes, US states area code, and any country area codes.
Calculator, simple calculator with a scrolling window.
Calendar, use in place the calendar supplied with OS.
Calendar2, different calendar, take your pick.
Color Converter, RGB Color converter.
Change Video resolution, you can quickly change video resolution.
Drive Info, get all hard drives free and used space info in one display.
File Inventory, print all files in a directory or save it to a text.
IcoViewer, view all icons in a directory, option to view selected icon in Systray and Taskbar.
IcViewer, a mini icon viewer and tester, adds View to the context menu when right clicking an icon (optional).
LFN Backup and Restore, backup the Long File Names names.
Make Shortcut, make shortcut any where.
Move, gets added to the Context menu. Right click file(s)/folder(s) and select to move or copy files/folders locally or to network computer.
MyNotes, save your notes safely with excellent quick search, daily notes rotary backup.
Notes Lite save your notes safely with quick search, daily notes rotary backup.
OCX Fix, fixes OCX problems.
AlphaSort, sorts lines in alphabetic order.
Resource Meter and Resource Monitor, monitor resources and swap file usage Win95/98/Me only.
SubInfo, retains all your personal info, click any button to copy specific info to the clipboard.
Win9x Config, it is software and a tip on how to remove the added junk in Win Me, Win98, Win95 OSR2c and Win95 that has IE40 installed in it. Read the two page tip and run the
Win9x config tool that fixes your registry, MsDos.sys and disables AutoScan and Scanreg vicious restore circles.
Task Scheduler, Schedule tasks and run it as an alarm.

MiniApps 2 included in MiniApps installation, find MiniApps 2 in the StartMenu.
Clean Startup, Backup and remove all from the Startup folder, Registry Run and Registry RunServices, restart computer to get a clean start so you can run Defrag and backups with no errors or to trouble shoot startups. Then you can restore removed items, restart computer to
restore all items and computer to original state.
End Tasks, you can end task all running programs in one shot.
MyNotesA, similar to MyNotes above but complete different.
Make Sub Directory, adds "Make Sub Directory to the context menu where you can easily make a new directory.
Make Win Me Boot Disk, makes a Win Me Boot Disk in Win Me.
Auto Connect, automatically connects/disconnects dial-up to the internet to retrieve email.
Check Spell, copies clipboard when you open it, checks spelling in English/US, English/British, Dutch and Spanish. Also English Thesaurus. Download British, Dutch and Spanish dictionaries (2.1) MB.
Stop Watch, use it as a stop watch, countdown or clock.
Clean Temps, Clean the Temp directory, Temporary Internet Files and Cookies. A must have utility, use daily.
Network Auto Connect, automatically connects/disconnects Network card, this connects/disconnects DSL and Cable from being connected to the internet all the time. You can configure your email software to retrieve email if connection is present, it will retrieve your email when connected.
XpConfig, A must have configuration utility for Win 2k/XP/2003.
Cash Calculator, Very handy tool to calculate cash and cash drawer, with option to save last calculation and print.
Check Book, Multi checking account check book.
My checking account have been perfect since I start using it.
Note Calendar, This is the third calendar, but this one can save your notes.
View Fonts, Very handy to view how font looks like, instead of checking each individually in MS Word, etc.
US Zip Codes, Get city zip code or vice versa.

 

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Download MiniApps here (7,18 Mb)

sb
July 31, 2007

Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw,
Freehand, or Xara X. The most important difference here is that Inkscape uses Scalable Vector Graphics (svg), an open XML-based standard as the native format.

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In contrast to raster (bitmap) graphics editors such as Photoshop or Gimp, Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format. Vector graphics is resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and objects that you see in the image. A rasterization engine uses this information to determine how to plot each line and curve at any resolution or zoom level.

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Vector graphics are a complement, rather than an alternative, to bitmap graphics. Each has its own purpose and are useful for different kinds of things. Raster graphics tend to be better for photographs and some kinds of artistic drawings, whereas vectors are more suitable for design compositions, logos, images with text, technical illustrations, etc.

Note that Inkscape can import and display bitmap images, too. An imported bitmap becomes yet another object in your vector graphics, and you can do with it everything you can do to other kinds of objects (move, transform, clip, etc.)

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While Inkscape does not have all the features of the leading vector editors, the latest versions provide for a large portion of basic vector graphics editing capabilities. People report successfully using Inkscape in a lot of very different projects (web graphics, technical diagrams, icons, creative art, logos, maps). 
 
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For example, thousands of images on Wikipedia are created_with_Inkscape, as is the majority of the content on Openclipart many examples of Inkscape art can be seen here and here. The codebase is usable for real users, as authors believe that a tight iteration cycle between users and developers will give best results.

You can start using Inkscape alongside your other tools now!

Inkscape runs on multiple platforms: binary packages for Linux, Windows 2000/2003/XP (fully self-contained installer), and OSX (dmg package). Also, is known that Inkscape is successfully used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems. Note that Windows 98/ME is no longer supported.

More about software, examples, screenshots, downloads and user community you can find here.

sb
July 18, 2007
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sb
July 16, 2007

Photo Story 3 for Windows is one of the Microsoft's free offers. With PS 3 for Windows you can bring life to your photos. PS 3 is a software to create slideshows from your digital photos. With a single click and drag'n'drop you can prepare your slide show very easily in a few minutes!

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You can add pecial effects, soundtracks, voice narration, titles, captions and transitions to your photos. And when you finish, you can watch them on a TV, computer, mobile devices or burn DVD's.

System Requirements:
Windows Genuine Advantage
MS Windows Media Player 10
MS DirectX 9.0 or later

More about program, requirements, downloads and galleries here.
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