- Art of Japanese Crosswords — It’s a game. Moreover, it’s a Japanese game. Created not so far (1987) by the Japanese puzzle-master Tetsuya Nishio, the game, however, soaked up the ancient culture and civilization. It’s an art. The pictures are simple, the drawing is logical, not creative; but when the puzzle is solved, you suddenly see some small piece of art created by your mind and your hands from the plain and unpretentious…
- 3D Graph Generator 2.4, Visualize Smart! — The rapid development of modern computer-graphics hardware and software is a merit of computer games and other entertaining things. However, all those «entertainment-oriented» features can be effectively used for «serious» data visualization and analysis, completely changing the level of understanding of huge data arrays. A good illustration for the thesis is 3D Graph Generator. The program does exactly what the name…
- 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…
- PixClip, Clip It, Paste It, Save It — Does it make sense to learn or use those full-featured image processing monsters when all you need to do is to just clip a picture off the screen and then paste it to a document or save it to file? With the right tools, the job can be completed in just a few clicks. Check out the PixClip software by António Maria Torre do Valle. This handy «gadget» starts with your operating system and…
- Beneton Movie GIF 1.1.1, Mature Tool For Small Movies — Despite the new cool competing technologies, simple GIF file animation is still widely used, especially in the web. There are many reasons to prefer GIF-based «movies» — they are lightweight, supported by a wide range of browsers, they don’t require any plugins or browser additions and advanced users can work with them just like with other «normal» images. Though, there is a huge lack of right tools…
- Museum of New Psychedelic Art — Although screensavers only occasionally appear on our displays, they greatly add to the aesthetic appeal of our computers, especially now, when the functional role of screensavers has drastically diminished due to the overall dominance of LCD monitors. Standard Windows screensavers are not even nearly as impressive as commercial products available on the market. If you are looking for a bright, eye-catching and unusual screensaver, check out…
- Perfect Clock, It's an Art — Numerous times a day we look at the clock — on the wall, on the desk, on our computer desktop… And what do we see? — A pair of arrows in a circle or a few digits around the blinking dots? Perfect Clock gives a whole different idea on clock and timing, presenting time as a perfect combination of punctuality, power and art. Perfect Clock is a very flexible desktop…
- Watermarking – protect your images on the web with a few mouse clicks — If you upload many images to the web or actively trade on Ebay, you are probably quite concerned with protecting your content from unauthorized use and distribution. After all, some of your images, if used in an inappropriate context, may compromise you or create an awkward situation that will be hard to deal with afterwards. Apparently, adding a mark to the photos you make public is a good way of solving this…
- 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…
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