- Home Brew Log 1.42. The Real DIY — DIY (stands for Do-It-Yourself) is a really big overall world trend of the last years. Doing something yourself from the scratch is not always an easy task, but the outcome is worth the efforts. Things made by hands just *have more of life in them*, compared to things you can buy in shopping centers. In the computer era, doing something by hand is really easy: programming, writing blogs and articles, designing…
- Able Graphic Manager — Life is slipping by, but photos remain and remind us of the dearest moments. Everybody has his own favorite pictures. But what should you do if the photo is too small or too large for the frame? You may go to a distant photo center and pay a good amount of money for the result you may not like or buy an expensive program with a number of intricate features you may never use in your lifetime. What did…
- 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…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- 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…
- Konst Pinger: Are They Online? — Or, «Who are they?», «Where are they at?», and «How do you connect to them?» — When it comes to investigating a certain network address, you’ll want to find out everything about that host. With Konst Pinger — a multi-purpose network utility — you will be able to get all that and even more. The application can ping, trace-route hosts and retrieve the hosts? Whois…
- Advanced Host Monitor – keep your fingers on the pulse of your network — Being a system administrator is somewhat similar to being a doctor — servers and websites can go down unexpectedly and at any moment and you can be woken up at night by an emergency. The problem gets especially serious when you are in charge of a large network of geographically distributed servers located in different time zones. If you’ve been dreaming about centralized monitoring…
- NeoPaint: Great Looking Graphics? - You Can Do It! — The vast majority of drawings do not involve those cutting-edge features that are offered in those heavy-branded image editors; certainly, not for free. Public-domain applications, on the contrary, demonstrate poorer performance and are often not so easy to get along with — if they have necessary tools in the first place. A great response to the real-life drawing challenges is NeoPaint — a feature-packed and yet…
- 3D Button Visual Editor - create awesome-looking 3D buttons for your site in seconds! — Clear, unambiguous and intuitive navigation is one of the key elements of a high-quality website. No matter if you are developing a brand new site or redesigning an existing one, you must take navigation seriously. If, however, you feel much more confident coding than creating your site graphics, there seems to be only two options: either outsource this part of the work or learn to use professional graphic editors, such…
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