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Resize Pictures and Photos with Paint.NET

Posted by Rich On October - 27 - 20090 Comments

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Paint.NET is an excellent, free program, which helps you manipulate your images and create some of your own. I’ve reviewed Paint.NET before and in this guide, I’ll show you how to resize a picture with this program. While this task may be simple for many of you, we all have to start somewhere. You may want to skip this guide if you can confidently resize a picture.

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PROS: Search function to find your favorite app. Works on most thumb drives. Effortless, though slow, installation. Convenience on the go.

CONS: While necessary, installation can take over an hour. Difficult to customize which programs you want to see on the list.

VERDICT: LiberKey is a great program that can be used as a toolkit on the go. If you help friends with their computer’s, this will take you a long way. Just like any Thumb drive program bundle, you get a lot of what you don’t need and are sometimes left without your favorite programs, which you’ll have to install separately.

PRICE: Free

DOWNLOAD: LiberKey Ultimate

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th rollip4 Rollip Transforms Your Photos into Classic PolaroidsI recently reviewed Poladroid, a program, which turns your photos into Polaroids. A representative of Rollip.com approached me and asked me to try their service. In this review, I’ll show you what Rollip can do.

Rollip Features

Rollip is a free service that lets you upload your pictures and apply effects to them before turning them into classic Polaroid-style pictures.

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Free Image Optimization Tools [PNG/JPG/GIF]

Posted by Rich On September - 24 - 20090 Comments

If you run a website, you’ll know how important it is to keep file sizes down and optimize images, code, and files as much as possible. In this guide, I take a look at four image optimization tools, share their features, and compare them against each other.

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Windows XP can use a Powertoy, which lets you resize images from the right click menu. This tool was not made available for Windows Vista. In search of a similar tool, I found the Image Resizer Powertoy Clone. Here’s how to do this in XP.

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If you are using Windows XP, and you want to easily resize images from the right-click context menu, this guide is for you. Here’s how to do this in Vista.

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Write Monkey is a Full-screen Word Processor

Posted by Rich On September - 4 - 20090 Comments

If you like to write or if you are compelled to write by work, school etc, you know how distracting it can be to use your computer. If I am not focused, I can take hours writing a paper because I take time to check my email, browse websites, play with my computer etc. In this guide, you’ll learn about Write Monkey and I’ll run you over the best features.

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Free PDF To Text Converter

Posted by RSVR85 On September - 2 - 20090 Comments

PDF’s are great for distributing documents across the web.  Authors also love them because the original content is protected against change.

What if you need to make ammedments to, or copy PDF’s you’re sent from work collegues or friends?  This is where AnyBizSoft PDF to Text comes in.

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Don’t be fooled by the simple interface, this baby is powerful.  It supports encrypted PDF file conversion as well as multi language conversion such as English, French, Spanish, German, Italy, Dutch and Portuguese.

PDF To Text Converter will convert your PDF into a text file in lightning quick time, which can then be used any way you want.  Up to 10 PDF’s may be converted concurrently too.

The minimum hardware requirements are; 500 MHz processor, 256 MB memory and 15 MB hard disk space. (most phones could run this!)

You’ll need to provide a valid email address for your product key.

Get your FREE PDF To Text Converter.

Shape Collage Styles Your Photo Collection

Posted by Rich On August - 7 - 20090 Comments

If you have a lot of personal photos and want to present them in a classic and fun way, Shape Collage may be just the tool you are looking for. Shape Collage creates a collage by taking a bunch of photos and moving them around on a page so that they form a shape. Making collages can be fun but can also be time consuming as you attempt to place the pictures so they can all be seen. Shape Collage take the hard work out of this process and produces great effects.

Example of Shape Collages Results

When I see a program that can be useful for mintywhite readers, I always test it extensively first. This ensures that I only share highest quality programs; I also get to try some of the great functions these programs provide. An example of what Shape Collage can produce is shown below:

Shape Collage produces photo collages

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Download Shape Collage

FotoSketcher is a free program which takes your digital photos and turns them into works of art. This program is really easy to use and can produce some really good-looking results. There are different styles available including the following: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, and various painting renderings. The program also comes with built-in tools to help you manipulate your photos.

One of the only issues I have with this program is the fact that you cannot open PNG graphics to manipulate them. This is not a major problem, but I’ve come to expect most programs supporting this format.

FotoSketcher works on all versions of Windows and can be downloaded below. See some examples of the effects, FotoSketcher can produce, below.

Examples of FotoSketcher’s Results

FotoSketcher Example 1

FotoSketcher Example 2

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Download FotoSketcher



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