- 3S Web Tools v2.5. Web Developer's Joy. — The website development is a strange thing. Unlike other programming and near-programming activities, webdev requires much more of good taste, common sense, and wish to «do well» rather than strong programming skills. And even when some (or more) of programming IS required, such tasks are rather routine and only require time and accuracy, not «fantasia». So, whenever somebody or something can relieve you from such kind…
- InterBase/Firebird Development Studio 5.1.3. Database Designer. — There is an amazing integrated suite for working with Interbase and Firebird, obviously named InterBase/Firebird Development Studio. It is really brilliant in all of its aspects and components, but I want to speak about the «first between equals» — the Database Designer component. IB/FB Development Studio’s Database Designer is a many-sided crystal. It serves as: Full-fledged visual ER diagram…
- Sketsa SVG Editor 4.2.1, Modern Easy Graphics — Sketsa SVG Editor is modern lightweight cross-platform vector graphics editor with strong relation to the open format known as Scalable VectorGraphics or SVG. Sketsa combines easy user interface, familiar to any digital painter or designer, with deep capabilities to utilize the SVG ideology and features. Sketsa has modern tabbed interface, where you can edit any number of SVG files simultaneously. The application’s toolbox consists…
- Extreme Thumbnail Generator 1.9.3, The Images, The Thumbnails and The Gallery — The task is common, so, I’ll be short in description. You have a set of images (presumably photos) and want to publish them in the web. You don’t want them to be published like, «John, you can download the archive with photos from my FTP», you would rather have a gallery, with thumbnails for each image on several pages and personal pages for each image, cool styles and … The problem is you…
- Aurora Web Editor 2.2, Site Editor with a Human Face — Nowadays, the term «website» is really diffused. Google «is a website»? Amazon «is a website»? A personal homepage of an Oxford professor or New-York worker «is a website»? Then, what does it mean «to create a web-site»? OK, let’s turn back from the philosophy to the practice. Suppose, you want to have a simple, few-page website…
- Image to PDF Command Line Tool, Just Type-In the Assignment — What does it take to convert an image from one format to another? — Just open the source in a converter application and then save it in the format you need. That simple! Or is it really? For a handful of pictures, it’s a great approach indeed. But what are you going to do with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of images that are to be converted… to PDF? Not many…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- Mandala Painter, An Entertaining Art — Even the prettiest flower on earth is actually a great combination of simpler shapes (petals), symmetrically repeated around the circle. This is also true about other «tricky» masterpieces — snowflakes, shining stars, and even the most unrealistic designs capturing our eye through the glass of a kaleidoscope. Too sad — all of those exciting figures soon just pass away, and the best we can do about that…
- 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…
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