- Gold Frog Leaps! — It is a beautiful summer day. Incredible big green wet leaves hang over the smooth mirror of a small lake. Not a sound is heard. A rainbow-bright butterfly flutters near the surface of the water: Hmmmm! No more «rainbow-bright» butterfly. A moment later, a dragonfly with miraculous wings swiftly flies over to the lake: Hmmmm! Good-bye, dragonfly with miraculous wings. Oh, now I see a fly: Hmmm! I see…
- As Simple As Photoshop — The phrase above is not just a slogan. First, it is the name of the program I’d like to tell you about and second, the declaration of this program’s possibilities. You may think that Adobe Photoshop, which is an industrial standard for image processing, is rather hard to learn. Who said «I know it from cover to cover»? OK, this article is not for you. If you think so, you may need somebody…
- StarSkin, Get Their Best from Themes — Windows Themes, introduced by Windows XP, are really a cool thing. The bound of interface changeability was nearly completely broken. Nearly: StarSkin does one more step to the boundless interface theming. First of all, it allows changing appearance — of either the entire Windows or of individual elements — more comfortably, then Windows itself does. One or two clicks — and your environment is altered…
- Landscapes Online Wallpaper — This may strike you every day. It comes unexpectedly and fills your mind. This thought seems to be simple, insignificant, and «I-have-more-important-tasks» dumb. But once you have allowed it in your mind, you won’t be able to escape. Whether you are a complete novice or old sysadmin, a pretty schoolgirl or severe ascetic — once in a while you do think, «WHY NOT CHANGE MY DESKTOP…
- Active Wallpaper Changer — Nice wallpaper is the first step towards creating a more attractive and cozy desktop. Not only does it make for a more aesthetically pleasing working environment, but also keeps you in good spirits by bringing your family, your loved ones or picturesque seaside landscapes closer to you. Just don’t forget to change your wallpaper from time to time and you will always have a new view in front of your eyes. If you want…
- Fairy Christmas Day 3D Screensaver 1.0, Saving Screen, Saving Mood — Screen-savers became popular in the good old days when they addressed an important, even vital, problem of — you’ll laugh! — saving the screen. In those sad old days, CRT screens had to change their picture frequently enough to prevent pixel burnout. Those sad times are long gone, and nowadays screensavers are just an entertainment: when you aren’t using your computer, why should it look like a boring workplace…
- VectorEye - the most hassle-free method to turn regular images into vector graphics — Whenever you need to convert a standard bitmap image into the vector format to use in a Flash movie or any of the popular vector-based applications, such as CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Mobile Designer, Swish, Inkskape or others, you face a dilemma of doing it manually or finding a tool to perform the conversion for you. Manual conversion may take hours or even days, so you should think well prior…
- Image SXM - a comprehensive tool for managing microscope images — If you are a scientist working in the medical, pharmaceutical, physical, biological, chemical or other hi-tech industries, you must know how to handle a scanning microscope. Today’s scientific equipment allows scientist to observe samples on the atomic level and even take pictures for immediate processing and printing. If you work with a variety of microscopes in different labs, you may be interested…
- Personal Photoshop Coach. As Simple As Photoshop — “A picture is worth a thousand words”, the saying goes, and applies far beyond the folklore: According to various studies, over 70% of information finds its path to our brain through the eye. That suggests that the quickest way to get along with complex applications, especially those like Photoshop, would be through watching a lot of examples with live illustrations and audible explanations and trying to repeat those after…
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