- 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…
- iRadioNet 2.01 Cool Software Receiver — iRadioNet is just the OCT, as I like saying. «OCT» stands for «one cool thing», and when I say so, I mean «something extremely pretty-looking, useful and easy-to-use; the thing, which would really help me live». iRadioNet is just that kind of thing. iRadioNet works as receiver set for almost all formats of modern online radio. You can listen to the streaming Internet audio (currently mp3, wma, and asf…
- Active GIF Creator - everything you need to create attractive and lightweight GIF animations — Although Flash and Silverlight technologies are what most advanced web designers think of as the future of web interfaces, there are situations when using them is not reasonable. First of all, these technologies are quite complex and are not well suited for beginners. Secondly, there are situations when animation has to be added to a Flash-free site. Finally, seamless integration of a Flash movie into an existing design is not…
- VisioForge Video Edit SDK 3.3 - a whole new world of video editing opportunities for your applications! — If you are developing an application that needs to have built-in video editing capabilities, implementing this functionality from scratch may bring the project to a complete halt for some time and increase the risk of not meeting the deadline. In order to avoid these undesirable consequences, you need a set of ready components that will integrate well with your framework and solve their tasks in an elegant manner…
- 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…
- Tiff to Text: A Whole Batch at Once — Recognizing text in image files doesn’t take a whole lot these days: just load the source image into an OCR application, do a couple of mouse clicks, and voila — what was a picture just a moment ago is now a readable, searchable and editable text. Easy enough if you’ve got just a couple of images to be «converted». But how are you going to handle a whole bunch…
- Cool Record Edit Pro — If you were a music fan before the guys at Fraunhofer came up with their MP3 format, you are well aware what audio cassettes and vinyl disks are. And if your collection of old hits was of any value to you, your nostalgia definitely stopped you from getting rid of them once and forever, so it is probably stuck somewhere in your garage. However, if time has come to digitize your old records, you need the right software…
- 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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