Adobe Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices.

Shadow will be updated regularly to stay ahead of web standards, web browser updates and support for new mobile devices entering the market, while incorporating user feedback to provide the best functionality and experience possible.

Visualbee automatically designs your powerpoint presentations in a single click an exciting showcase. VisualBee uses your content and incorporates appropriate graphics and design to create an effective PowerPoint presentation. Search for and select images on the VisualBee gallery – over 12,000 great pictures and hundreds icons ready to be inserted into your slides. All your slides will include exciting animations and transitions to emphasize your message and keep your audience always alert.

Visualbee A complete solution providing comprehensive PowerPoint enhancement, image gallery and sharing capabilities. Visualbee premium Increased flexibility for the power users including extensive design choice, a private image library, and brand management. Visualbee enterprise The ultimate PowerPoint business solution for large corporations.

LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can get involved!.

Among the many changes you’ll find in version 3.3 are the arrival of new import filters and improvements to existing ones — key features when you’re trying to persuade users to migrate from competing suites like Microsoft Office, Works, or WordPerfect. Calc (the LibreOffice spreadsheet app) now boasts better Excel interoperability, SVG images can be opened and modified in Draw, and they can also be imported into Writer.

You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement.

Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize. It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.

It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file.

Main features:

• Open many image types including rare/scientific types.
• Save and optimize JPEG, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface.
• Works in dual view: (original – optimized image) or single view (optimized image).
• Automatic preview of resulting image.
• In-place compare function (alternativelly display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes).
• Compress files to desired filesize threshold.
• Fast processing (all is done in memory).
• See instant results including resulting filesize.
• Batch support (process multiple files at once).
• Transparency handling options.
• Decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles).
• Unsupported metadata is removed.
• Transfer metadata between image formats (destination format must support them).
• Common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip.
• Basic image adjustments: brightness, contrast, gamma, invert.
• Visually reduce number of unique colors for PNG and GIF images in order to reduce filesize.
• Two quantization methods are available: Xiaolin Wu and NeuQuant neural net.
• Resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others).
• Out-of-the-box support for external PNG optimizers (optipng, pngout, etc).
• The compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products, even higher.
• Adaptive logarithmic tone mapping algorithm (Drago) used for HDR images.

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HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure.

Simply open a page of the “mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

WinHTTrack is the Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release.

WinTools.net is a suite of tools for increasing MS Windows operating system performance. WinTools.net cleanly removes unwanted software from disk drives and dead references from the MS Windows registry. WinTools.net puts you in control of the Windows startup process, memory monitoring and gives you the power to customize desktop and system settings to fit your needs. Adds more speed and stability for your connection. Ensures your privacy and keep sensitive information secure. WinTools.net Ultimate contains tools: Clean Uninstaller, Scan Files, Scan Shortcuts, Scan Registry, Startup Manager, Tweak UI, Net Tweaker, Your Privacy, Invisible Man, File Shredder…

System requirements:

• OS Windows 7/VISTA/XP/2k/2k3/2k8 x86 x64
• Minimum screen resolution 1024×768
• CPU: Pentium processor and above
• RAM: 128 Mb RAM
• HDD: 5 Mb free disk space

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Imagicon is a graphics utility designed to convert multiple image files from BMP, JPG or PNG image formats into any of the following image formats (24-bit): Windows or OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), Independent JPEG Group (JPG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Windows Icon (ICO). With Imagicon Windows Icons will be saved using 32-bit colour depth.

Options are available to enable alpha transparency of icons and to define the mask colour used. The user can select to save icons with the following dimensions in pixels: 16 x 16, 32 x 32, 48 x 48, 64 x 64 and 128 x 128.

Imagicon also features the ability to drag ‘n’ drop multiple images for faster processing. Full instructions are included with the software, explaining each of the possible settings and the function that they perform.

Ninite installs software fast with default settings and says “no” to browser toolbars and other junk. Ninite checks your PC’s language and 64-bit support to install the latest, best version of each program.

Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background unattended and 100% hands-free. All Ninite does is automatically download and install the apps you select. Not even Ninite is installed. People use Ninite to install a million apps every month.

The easiest way to get apps.

1. Pick your favorite software.
2. Start your customized installer.
3. You’re done!

Core FTP LE – free Windows software that includes the client FTP features you need. Features like SFTP (SSH), SSL, TLS, IDN, browser integration, site to site transfers, FTP transfer resume, drag and drop support, file viewing & editing, firewall support, custom commands, FTP URL parsing, command line transfers, filters, and much, much more.

This free, secure FTP client gives you a fast, easy, reliable way to update and maintain your website via FTP. It also provides a secure method (via SSL, TLS, or SFTP) to upload / download files to and from FTP servers. Check out the list of features and you’ll find almost every feature you need, all in a free ftp program. There are no popup ads, advertising or spyware and you’re never asked or reminded to register.

Poladroid creates Polaroid-style images from your photos. Drop your photos onto the Poladroid “camera,” and after a few seconds, it spits out your unprocessed print. Watch it slowly “develop,” or speed up the process by — you guessed it — shaking vigorously.

All you need to do select an image and drag and drop it on to the Polaroid camera on your desktop and the fun begins – like a Polaroid camera of old the app with “eject” a print, complete with sound effects, to your desktop and the image will begin to appear before your eyes. Just like the real thing, it’s not an instant process and to add greater authenticity, the end results will be random and include smudged finger prints, dust, scratches, vignetting and way off colours. And just like a Polaroid film pack, you can only create ten frames, as film packs only had ten sheets, you then need to restart the app!

Features :

• Easy to use : Drag & Drop
• Generate High-resolution pictures (400 dpi), “ready-to-print” with a Polaroid design
• Funny : only 10 treatments per session, like the content of a cartridge ; interactive (look at the demo below) ; random and realistic Polaroid-like colors variation…