- 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…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- AscToHTM, Web Designers, Take a Rest! — What options do we normally have when it comes to posting a document online? Not much, really: a plain-text editor with the knowledge of HTML (a good bargain but with a bit of headache for the bonus), WYSIWYG HTML editor (a less achy solution that pulls cash out of our pocket) or… How about using a converter for that? Suppose, you have a plain-text file laid out in a certain format. You could just load…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- SiteCraft - your ideal launch pad into the world of web design — The art of website creation is a huge discipline — and it takes years to become a real master in it. Besides, the first steps are always the hardest ones. Without knowledge, guidance and proper tools even the simplest task becomes a pain in the neck and takes hours. If you are just starting to work your way towards the pinnacle of success as a web designer, you need something that will give you a little…
- Running Steps - an all-in-one solution for comfortable creation and debugging of batch files — Batch files have been around for almost as long as files themselves and still remain one of the most efficient solutions in a great number of situations, such as manipulations with multiple files, installation and uninstallation procedures, and a whole lot more. Thanks to their simplicity, batch files can be created in any text editor and generally don’t require any special knowledge or skills. However, they can be made…
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