Four collections of Photoshop compatible plugins totaling 36 effects add a variety of artistic options to photo editing projects. Selections perform tasks like cleaning up washed out skies (Skycleaner), adding moonlight effects (Moonlight), injecting fog into a picture (Serious Fog) surreal blurring effects (Bad Dream), and liquid metal transmogrification effects (Titanium). The plugins were primarily designed using Paint Shop Pro, so fans of that program should feel confident in compatibility. Other apps like Fireworks should also prove compatible for creating photo effects. A set of still images designed to be wallpapers for 1024x768 resolutions is also available from Xero. [Windows 9x/2k/XP $0.00]hey should work without problems with any Windows graphics program that supports the Adobe Photoshop plugin architecture. Please read the notes included in the download files for terms and conditions of use and redistribution.
Please note: These plugins are available for Windows only.
This project has been hugely successful, judging by its high ranking in Google when you type in the word “English”. It would probably be #1
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Internet surfing security.. Scans all Cookies Delete all or select cookies History Chooser Deletes Index.dat history Deletes IE URL History Deletes IE Cache History Deletes Windows Media Player History Clears Start / Run Menu Clears Start / Recent Documents Empties recycle bin
As Internet communication increases, it seems like we all demand more server space for our e-mail. The classic 5MB that was offered with many of the free services back in the day just doesn’t cut it anymore. Services like Gmail have spoiled the masses by encouraging us to think in terms of gigabytes instead of megabytes. With that much space, you won’t have to worry about emptying your archives in order to make room for new mail. It should be known that Gmail isn’t the only free and generous e-mail provider on the Internet. For example,
One of the things that I love about the Internet is that there’s never a shortage of goofy stuff you can do to waste time. That may sound like a stupid statement, but that’s because it is. Using the Internet for worthwhile purposes is great, but when you feel like you can’t do anymore serious research, there are plenty of games, animations, and tools to waste your brain cells away with. You may as well create something while you’re having fun, and you can do that very thing with 
Netcraft has released its security toolbar for the open source Firefox browser, aiming to limit the threat from phishing scams by using a blacklist of known fraudulent websites.
DVD Decrypter is a free tool that allows you to decrypt and copy DVDs to your PC's hard disk. From there you can watch them with the likes of WinDVD and PowerDVD, you can write them back to DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW / DVD+R DL / DVD-RAM media or you can convert them to VCD / SVCD / DivX for burning onto CD-R / CD-RW.
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PixelToolbox is a complete tool to design and create patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors for the Windows desktop. It provides a wide array editing tools, including advanced options like warping, gradients, selective fill, added text and others. You can create icons of different sizes, starting from 16x16 to 64x64 as well as 1 bit patterns, color patterns and cursors. Depending on your project, the workspace is automatically customized for the job.
Freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.
This freeware Audio CD ripper comes with an amazing array of features.
VCW VicMan's Photo Editor is a versatile image editor with an intuitive interface and a wide variety of features. This powerful application is user friendly, offering simple image editing, high productivity and easy customization.
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Apple's multimedia player has long been among the most versatile such programs, for Windows users as well as Mac aficionados. Since it supports over 200 audio and video formats, you're likely to experience a minimum of hassle in playing any file you come across.
FastStone Screen Capture (FSCapture) is a FREE image viewer, editor and screen capture.It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. With its amazingly smooth and crystal-clear magnifier, every detail of images can be viewed gracefully in full screen without compromising the quality. Its resizing, rotating, cropping, color adjusting tools with UNDO support enable image enhancement easier than ever. Its screen capturing allows you to capture anything on the screen within just a couple of mouse clicks. Its DRAG & DROP enables you to drag images from windows, Internet browsers and other programs directly to this program. Favorite folder accepts images dropped from Internet, which makes image collecting very easy and full of fun.
See how your lifestyle can affect you in the years to come by answering just 12 quick questions. Your expected age will show in the tabulator in the upper left corner. Keep in mind your answers may increase, decrease, or have no affect on your expected age.
Introduction to Detecting Lies:
IconTweaker is a freeware application that allows you to customize all your Windows icons.
It's in every other computer user's best interest to eliminate the possibility of virus infections because no viruses means fewer junk mail messages, less time wasted on trying to recover infected machines and more time to devote to more useful computing developments. AVG is gracious enough to offer a free version of their antivirus product, but it isn't updated as quickly as the full version and always seems to hog resources on any system I install it on. I'm finding ClamWin to be the most attractive free solution for Windows antivirus protection. It's based on the Clam AntiVirus engine, providing a simple user interface for integration into Windows and email clients like Outlook. The Clam AntiVirus engine is used in many enterprise production environments, so you're in good company. ClamWin scans files, supports scheduled scanning, receives automatic virus database updates and does all the key things you expect from antivirus protection. One downside to this particular app is that Windows XP SP2 does not recognize ClamWin and continues to report lack of antivirus on your system with ClamWin installed. If you already use an antivirus product, stick with it for as long as it keeps you safe. If you need an affordable antivirus package, or need something to recommend, ClamWin Free AntiVirus makes a good choice.
Finding the best search results on the Internet is a task made easier by using multiple search engines. I don’t know what you personally like to use, but I default to Google and Yahoo! for my searching needs. Google always comes first, but if it doesn’t give me exactly what I’m looking for, I’ll give the query a spin in the search engine that yodels. You can obviously open up two browser windows or tabs to use both at the same time, but a site called YaGoohoo!gle gives you a side by side result comparison.
Food Storage Label Maker (FSLM) is a program designed to assist in keeping track of your food storage inventory. Anyone who stores food knows that the hardest thing about food storage is how to keep track of your inventory and an item's rotation.
EZBack-it-up is a personal file backup utility. It is designed to be very easy to learn and use. It is not an archival tool that compresses all your files and folders into one file, but instead, it copies your data to a destination of your choice where you can readily access your backed up files any time you need. All directory structure is preserved and you can optionally choose to delete files from the target that are not in the source. EZBack-it-up includes a built-in scheduler, command-line switches, logging functionality, and more.
Keep track of the time around the worldQlock helps you see the time in as many different cities as you can fit on the screen. There are five different sizes of clock and each one can have an alarm. They also diplay the hours different from the local time. You can colour code the clocks and they snap onto each other so it is easy to arrange them onscreen.
Don't get your back up about backing up. Cobian Backup handles the most tedious parts of this chore without taking away your options. Let this utility to back up files and directories automatically on the schedule you choose--without losing the ability to back files up manually. You can keep everyone else up to date on recent changes by backing up not only to your own PC and others on its network, but to your FTP server. Integrated .zip compression abilities let you make backups that consume less space as well as less time.
David Bowie wrote a number of songs during the late 1960's and early 1970's with a sound that's just as fresh today as it was at the time. Space Oddity was his first hit and for me, the first track that I consider part of the collection of timeless tracks that are a signature of much of his glam period that is best remembered with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. Earlier this month, Flash animation site Newgrounds featured a college project by someone who created a sort of music video set to Space Oddity. The animation is simplistic but effective in translating the story of the song to a modern medium. I have my doubts about anyone clearing the rights with Bowie, so I don't imagine it will be long before a cease and desist is issued, but it's definitely worth watching at least one. Be cautioned that some areas of Newgrounds are definitely not family friendly.
Neevia’s Document Converter eXPress is a PDF converter, but instead of installing software on your PC, you do it via the website. It’s aimed at businesses who can install it on their servers but, as a courtesy, Neevia has made it available to users over the web. There is a 1Mb file size limit, but that should be adequate for most uses
A cleaner interface is the most obvious improvement in this release of Opera, but there are also a number of not so obvious enhancements.
If you've got a big collection of digital music and video, you know that bringing it with you when you roam can be a hassle. Large media files can quickly overload a notebook's hard drive and they certainly won't fit on most cell phones or PDAs. 
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Of course you know how to make shortcuts to folders, but the shortcut function has changed little since the days of Windows 95. SnapFolders helps you create faster, more powerful shortcuts. Instead of forcing all shortcuts to open the target folder in a folder window, SnapFolders gives you the choice of having shortcuts open Explorer windows with the target folder either selected or as the root folder. SnapFolders' shortcuts automatically appear on the Start Menu; from there, you can copy, move, rename, or delete them.
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Retrieve information from the Web and corporate intranets via your Palm OS handheld. AvantGo lets you store Web sites in your PDA, so you can read them later. Select the Web sites from AvantGo's desktop application, and then HotSync the information to your Palm. The AvantGo Palm client is compatible with ASCII text, HTML documents, and GIF or JPEG images.
Freeware is a beautiful thing. If you’re currently using a freeware application that you can’t live without, please thank the developer by either sending them an e-mail or a donation. Trust me, they’ll appreciate it. The life of a freeware developer obviously isn’t filled with caviar and champagne. They mostly rely on donations (if at all), and when the money isn’t flowing in, it can be an extremely costly thing to do. Why do they do it? The answer: pure, unbridled motivation. They slave over their code simply because they feel that their program has something better to offer over the pricey competition. Their reward is hearing from hundreds and even thousands of satisfied users. To find some great freeware, refer to this list of 
Qnext is a secure P2P communications suite that offers universal instant messaging, video conferencing, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), file transfer, file sharing, group text chat, online games, photo sharing, and remote PC access. IM networks Qnext can access include QNext, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ. Qnext uses includes 512-bit user authentication and 192-bit encryption on all P2P data communications.
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