After our 36-image converter version 4.4.5 was finally released on Download.com, we can now release the scheduled version V4.4.6. V4.4.6 will have a tool to remove red eyes and will contain some extra color filters. 

It will be available for download as soon as Download.com uploads it, we learned today that that can take from one day to a week. But you can discover version 4.4.5 in the meanwhile.

Finally finished updating a few pages on my site with information on free screensaver-building and wallpaper-making software. Everything needed to be tested, links checked, images positioned... I can't believe it took so long!

In any case, you can now see the fruits of my labour primarily at the Fantasy Art and Portraits "Use Your Art Collection" page. I feel these are really good resources, and that's why I so painstakingly and carefully added them to share with everyone:

FastStone: I've been using this for years, and now that I have my own site, I get to pay them back, in my own small way. I'm happy to feature them and provide a link to their site. Even if you're not interested in making your own wallpaper, FastStone Image Viewer is a very solid, multi-featured, image-viewing software.

Free Savers: An awesome find. One of the reasons they have thousands of screensavers is they link to other screensaver sites. A thumbnail for every screensaver saves you a lot of time as well.

Do check out these links (especially FastStone) and let me know what you think!

• No need to burn the CD-Rom anymore
• You can use the right-click menu for an easy and fast start
  
• Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick
• A clear and easy to use interface
• Light and portable application, packaged in a single executable of 1.6MB only

http://www.techsupportalert.com/ sitesinde birçok katagoride açık kaynak kodlu programlar listelenmiş. Özgür yazılımı tercih edenlerin beğeneceği bir adres.

"AppDonkey is directory where you can find and download free applications for your Mac. You can either search for a software or browse AppDonkey database by category such as Audio & Multimedia, Communication, System Utilities, Grphics, Security, File Sharing etc.

AppDonkey has one really useful feature, while browsing the site you can keep adding programs you like to the virtual tray and then download all of them at once in a single .tar file."

Features

• Directory of free mac applications.
• Search and browse apps by category.
• Currently lists over 500 handpicked free apps for Mac OS X.
• Download multiple programs at once.
• No signup or registration needed.

AppDonkey

"It lets you search and browse Ubuntu programs by category and popularity. When you find the program you need you can get it installed with a click of a button. All you need to do is click the ‘Install’ button."

Features:

• Huge colletion of free porgrams for Ubuntu Linux.
• Install desired apps with a click of a button.
• Browse apps by category: ames, Graphics, System Tools etc.
• No sign-up required.

Appnr

This is an "on-site button designer includes lots of options giving you plenty of freedom when it comes to styling the buttons. Once you have created the button you can download and save it to your PC as PNG image. No sign-up or email required."

Features:

• Create menu buttons for your website.
• Button Color/Form - Customize width, height, border color and thickness.
• Gradation Type - Choose between 5 different types.
• Button Stripes - Customize thickness, intervals, alpha, stripe angle etc.
• Filter - Bevel and dropshadow filters, both are customizable.
• Insert images and text.

AsButton Generator

"PatternCooler lets you create seamless background patters online and then download them for personal use on the website. In case you are having trouble to create something from the scratch browse on-site pattern library to save and re-edit patterns you like."

Features:

• Create and download background patterns for your websites.
• Save ready patterns online on PatternsCooler.
• Option to preview patterns in full screen mode.
• Huge pattern library with 13000+ patterns to choose from.
• Save and re-edit patterns you like.
• Other similar website is BgPatterns.

"All artworks on this site can be used freely on blogs, MySpace profiles, Twitter, mobile phone wallpapers, and non-commercial web projects."

Features:

• Design backgrounds, lines and bulleted points for your website.
• Graphic generators: 11 for background image, 10 line generators, 2 bullet generators.
• Download and save generated graphics as .PNG or .GIF images.
• No sign-up needed.

WebGrafixMaker

Features

• Easy tracking of school projects and homework assignments
• Save notes, manage tasks and attach files with each assignment
• Get notified via email and SMS about due dates
• Share messages and chat with friends
• Free to use !

Soshiku

DriveImage XML

Runtime's Shadow Copy

XXClone

EaseUs Disk Copy

PING (for Linux users)

This is like Roboform, but some consider it better than the free version.

This shows up little colored circles to indicate the level of trust by users for websites.  It can indicate sites that have some problems, are scams, have malware, or just bad information.  It's like having a batch of reviewers searching the web ahead of you, keeping you a little safer.

Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, NTFS file system.  Freeware.

This lets you open programs, and do a number of chores without a lot of typing (except to set up a hotkey initially).

This is freeware, but donations are accepted.  Please use this ONLY for your own DVDs and convenience, and respect copyright law.

DVDx copies DVD movie to VCD, SVCD, DivX, AVI or WMV in one step.

DVDx has been designed as a simple and intuitive program especially for unexperimented users.

DVDx produces high quality MPEG and AVI movies and advanced features provides smart settings for experimented users.

DVDx Ultra Edition can copy protected movies while standard version can't. If you're allowed to copy commercial or protected movies, we strongly recommend you the Ultra Edition.

Freeware.  Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003. It does not support 64-bit versions of Windows, and it doesn't support Windows Vista at the time of this post.

So tomorrow is download.com's last chance to release the 36-image converter 4.4.5, we already contacted them and if they won't upload it by tomorrow we will stop our monthly premium services.

Heute nur kurz was neues, eigentlich wollte ich was anderes posten, war nämlich heute beim arzt und hab mir den weisheitszahn rechts oben ziehen lassen und nebenbei eine schöne röntgenaufnahme dazubekommen, aber ich hab das bild beim hin-und-herkopieren von datenträger zu datenträger schon wieder verpeilt...kommt dann eben später. Sonst gibt´s heute zwei neue arbeiten von mir, die eigentlich nicht neu sind...wer mich kennt oder mit mir in anklam( GDSA) grafik gelernt hat, wird die bilder aus meiner abschlussprüfung kennen. Die bilder sind mittlerweile schon drei/ vier jahre alt, weiß nicht genau, aber ich persönlich find sie immer noch gut...werd demnächst mal wieder was ähnliches versuchen, denn manchmal denke ich wirklich,ich wäre schlechter geworden in den letzten jahren...egal.

Viel spaß beim gucken...wir sehen uns! :0 

Außerdem wieder mal ein Stück mucke für unterwegs, ich rapp in der goldenen Mitte:

VSK-ZAHLTAG.MP3

Dengan program ini, sangat membantu sekali tuk kemampuan yang pas-pasan seperti aku.. hehehe... selain bisa menerjemahkan kata, kalimat, paragrap... Google Translate bisa juga langsung menerjemahkan isi web dengan cepat dan mudah.

Berikut contoh kalimat yang akan diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Inggris:

Hari ini saya menulis tentang manfaat Google Translate yang bisa menerjemahkan kalimat ini dengan mudahnya. Dan anda bisa lihat hasilnya... menakjubkan!

Dibawah ini hasil terjemahan Google Translate:

Today I write about the benefits of Google Translate that can translate these sentences easily. And you can see the results ... incredible!

Sedikit tips: Gunakan bahasa yang baku (resmi) dan struktur bahasa yang baik untuk mendapatkan hasil yang lebih baik.

One of the main problems with Windows Mobile is that new users are totally confused when it comes to installing software on their devices. Some applications install over ActiveSync (a method I don't like), some others use .cab files and some even require manual installation!

A simple solution is used by Apple (the AppStore) and Linux (package managers) to make installing applications an easier process. These are repositories. They are basically a place where you can find a ton of applications and install them without any hassle. They have proven their usefulness already and are partly behind the success of Apples's iPod Touch. Since Microsoft is not likely to field anything similar, it's up to us, developers, to get the job done.

However it's easier said than done. First of all it takes a lot of time and some money to maintain such a project. Apple makes a lot of profit by taking a percentage of the developers' revenue whenever an application is sold. Generally such stores take a huge part of the profits (up to 40 percent!) and make development even less profitable. Instead of doing this, I (we?) will only charge a tiny one-time insertion fee to shareware developers (1$?). This fee will help me pay for my studies and development tools and will ensure the repository remains up-to-date.

Unlike the other applications, this project will not be entirely open source. Instead, I will give away the source of the client for developers to make their own but I will not allow anyone to edit the software database. Developers will have to submit a request to get their aoftware added (just like on software sites) so I can filter what kind of content ends up on the list.

To make sure the costs stay low, developers will have to host the applications themself. The client will not sell software neither so it will only provide demo versions of the shareware applications.

If you want to provide feedback or help us with this ambitious and interesting project, stay tuned! We also have a thread in Development & Hacking on XDA Developers.

Image editing

GIMP – This is the open source alternative to Photoshop, and the most popular image editor on Linux. It has a variety of features and there are quite a lot of tutorials available on the net for it. It recently underwent an interface overhaul.

Paint.NET – A Windows only image editor that should be powerful enough for most needs while being fairly simple to use.

Picasa – Not a full fledged image editor, but good enough for touching up photos. It serves quite well as a photo organizer, and is the official tool for uploading to Google’s Picasa web album.

Windows Live Gallery – Very similar to Picasa, with slight differences in the interface. It fills the gap for a uploader combined with a photo gallery for Flickr.

Video editing

Virtualdub – A very basic video editor (mainly for AVI files), useful for trimming and clean up.

Windows Live Movie Maker – The Live version of the popular Windows Movie Maker that supports publishing to the MSN online service.

Videospin – A very good alternative to the Windows Movie Maker. It has a host of features, and videos can be created in a variety of formats. I got to know of it from its coverage on the Digital Inspiration blog.

Audio editing

Audacity – One of the best audio editors out there, and a very handy alternative to the paid Sound Forge. Very useful for performing different tasks and processing on audio clips.

Screencast

Camstudio – A decent alternative to the paid Camtasia Studio. It supports the creation of screencast videos, along with the ability to record audio.

Wink – Another screen capture software that records images, but can also be used for making screencasts.

Document creation

OpenOffice – An open source alternative to Microsoft Office – not 100% compatible, but it has some additional features of its own along with support for other formats. The memory usage is on the higher side.

Lotus Symphony – Another alternative to MS Office by IBM. Similar to OpenOffice, but with fewer applications in the suite.

PDF creator – A handy utility to create PDFs from different sources (installs as a PDF printer).

Notepad++ – A must have replacement for notepad. Has a tabbed interface, supports syntax highlighting (useful for editing HTML, XML etc), and recording of macros.

Utilities

7-Zip – Supports most of the commonly used compression formats like zip, rar, cab etc along with its own 7z format which boasts of one of the best compression ratios. A very good alternative to paid software like Winzip and WinRAR. It can also be used to split files which comes in handy when sending large email attachments in batches.

CCleaner – One of the most popular system cleanup utilities. It clears temporary files, browser cache, history etc.

VirtualBox – Useful for creating virtual machines, like say for Linux which can then in turn be used for different purposes. Much more convenient than trying to set up dual boot configurations, especially on laptops.

Fun stuff

ComicRack – Very useful for keeping ones comic/ebook library organized. It supports various formats like pdf, cbr etc. Kind of like a media library for books.

Internet

Pidgin – A popular messaging client that supports most of the major IM networks like MSN, Yahoo!, AIM and GTalk. Definitely more convenient than having a ton of IMs loaded at the same time, granted that none of the advanced features of the networks are being used.

Flock – The social network incarnation of Firefox. It contains built-in tools for posting to blogs, uploading to photo sharing sites like Flickr, checking social networking sites among many other features.

Feed Demon – A powerful feed reader that is integrated with the Newsgator service (similar to Google Reader) to keep feeds in sync across machines.

RSS Bandit – Another feed reader that’s currently under development, but supports integration with Google Reader.

Portable Apps

PortableApps comprises of an entire suite of applications that can be run directly from a removable storage device like USB drives and external hard disks. It contains many of the software mentioned here. Some of them are included by default in the download, while others can be added using the respective installers.

The applications range from browsers and email clients to media players and editors, office applications to virus scanners among many more. Every portable device should include this.