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Common Data About Pocket PCs

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

    A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC (although this abbreviation is used for other purposes!), is a handheld-sized computer that runs a specific version of the Windows CE operating system. It has many of the capabilities of modern desktop PCs. Currently there are thousands of applications for Pocket PC, many of which are freeware. Some […]

Reflet from Antonio Da Cruz (FreeWare)

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

    Reflet is rather small and compact utility. It serves for one purpose only: allows to generate an animation simulating ripple effect and a reflection of the image in the water, and makes it in a simple and elegant way. It can be useful for logo animating, to decorate Web pages or just for fun. Of […]

Pixia from Isao Maruoka (FreeWare)

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

    Pixia is a free painting and photo finishing tool originally created in Japan by Isao Maruoka. There it quickly became rather popular and after some time there appeared versions of the program in other languages including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (simplified form), Polish and Hungarian. Now there is a rather big circle […]

PhotoFiltre from Antonio Da Cruz (FreeWare)

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

    Although it’s fairly limited in features, PhotoFiltre offers a simple, but elegant user interface and a lot of one-click image adjustments, filters, and effects. There is a built in image explorer panel for visually navigating your file system, basic drawing, painting, retouching and selection tools, and batch processing capabilities.
    PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. […]

Photobie from Xuedong Cheng (Freeware)

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    Photobie is a complete image editing software customized for photo retouching. Unlike other commercial and free image editing softwares, Photobie has its unique identity and is more like a homemade cookie. Photobie developers intend to build an easy-to-use and feature-packed tool for graphics amateurs. Although, it is not yet a perfect tool for professionals, it […]

Paint.NET from Rick Brewster (FreeWare)

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that […]

The Helium Digital Bluetooth Communicator HDBT-110 (4)

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

The Helium Digital Bluetooth Communicator HDBT-110
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There are also audio cues provided for power on (ascending tones), paired (single blip), and shut down (descending tones).
Once everything is paired up, operation is simple and straightforward. The only slight oddity I found was the use of the Volume Down (-) key to initiate Voice Dialing, since my Motorola […]

The Helium Digital Bluetooth Communicator HDBT-110 (3)

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

The Helium Digital Bluetooth Communicator HDBT-110
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Connecting the Communicator is just like using a regular Bluetooth headset. There is no software nor drivers to install. You just need to have the phone (or laptop or whatever) recognize the device and establish pairing. It even uses the common ‘0000′ security PIN, if required.
Figure 4: The Helium Communicator […]

i.Mage from Matthew Allen (FreeWare)

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

    This is a simple free Pixel-Based editing tool. i.Mage features:

Load/Save: Gif, Tiff, Jpg, Pcx, Bmp, Ico.
2 pane view, zoomed and 1:1.
Downsampling/upsampling bit-depth, dithering, halftone, error diffusion. Resampling (smart resizing), cropping, rotating, offseting and flipping images.
8-bit palette editor: RGB/HLS ramps, colour cubes/stock palettes, reverse ramps, remapping.
Clipboard support.
Alpha blending.
Basic linear/radial gradient fill.
Undo queue for most tools.
Conversion of […]

GIMP fow Windows (FreeWare)

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

    The GIMP is an Open Source multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
    It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching […]

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