Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 16th, 2009
PhotoFiltre – Free Image Retouching Program
PhotoFiltre is a freeware application that can be used to retouch an image. This has amazing features that can be used to develop great touch-ups for your photo in no time. This has a big list of filters which can be used to add special effects to an image. This application is light on the system, it is easy and intuitive to use and is completely free of cost. This has a very simple user interface where all the standard filters and tools are available on the toolbars. You can have the touch-up you want in just a few clicks.
Some of the cool functions that are packaged with this application are:
Filters: You can use this to control the brightness, contrast, saturation, tint and other such attributes of the image.
Vectorial selections: This allows you to select a region on the photos with any shape. This region can be manipulated while the result is anti-aliased by vectorial calculations.
PhotoMasque module: This lets you add amazing effects to your photos by the use of making.
Automization module: This lets you make general changes to the images attributes like its size, framing, conversion, etc.
This is a great application to intuitively modify and retouch photos.
Website: Photofiltre – Free Image Retouching Program
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
DriveSpacio – Information About Your Harddrives
This is a useful little tool that displays detailed information about your hard drive usage. This displays intuitive information about the available free space in the disk, how is the disk used, and who is using the used disk space. A simple use of this tool is to clear data on your pen drive. You can use this software to find information about the way the space on your pen drive is used so that you can delete the required information to make space on it. Similarly, when you have junk data on your hard drive, you can easily check if the amount of data needs to be cleaned using this tool.
This is a free ware. You can download this without paying any money. Unlike most software that gives you information about disk usage, this has a very good and useful display. Why would you want to go for a paid tool that you rarely use when you can download DriveSpacio.
Website: Drivespacio – Information About Your Harddrives
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
OneSwarm – Anonymous File-Sharing
Peer to Peer technology is booming now with the ever increasing number of torrents. OneSwarm is a peer-to-peer tool that can be used to share files while you protect your own identity. Most existing peer-to-peer application like BitComet, uTorrent and Gnutella display your IP to everyone when you are sharing files. This can be sometimes malicious as other can know exactly how you are using your system by systematically monitoring your IP. OneSwarm on the other hand, keeps your IP completely hidden. With this you have protected access to your system. You can only share files with your friends and others you intentionally want to allow access. Due to its nature of data sharing, this has been called a Friend-to-Friend data sharing.
The main advantages of this are – It uses address rewriting to protect your privacy; it has a user friendly web interface; it is an open source. Meaning you can share files with your friends while you stay protected and use this service for free.
Website: Oneswarm – Anonymous File-Sharing
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