Image Tuner is a free batch image resizing, renaming, conversion and watermarking software; and comes with a super-intuitive and straightforward interface. Image Tuner is based on an extremely fast image processing engine, and has a bare minimum of controls capable of helping you with the most typical image-related tasks. Users can work with individual files and entire folders to resize, convert, rename and watermark images with surprising ease. Latest changes and additions include the following; addition of “Remove” button and tooltips, addition of option to check for update on start up, as well as a few minor fixes and tweaks.

Image Tuner has a lot of features that can include the following: resize, rename, flip, watermark and convert images in batch mode; the fastest image resizing algorithm; built-in size templates: iPod, iPhone, Facebook, Twitter, DVD etc; configurable compression/resolution ratio; variable options and settings for advanced users; supports camera RAW (CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, DCR, X3F, ORF etc.); supports common formats (JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX etc.); and a couple of others.

Certainly, this is one tool that has all the ability to help you do a lot of your daily task without any stress. The features are quite easy to use, and you can easily find them easy to use.

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PostgresDAC is a PostgreSQL BDE replacement application for Delphi 4-6 and BCB 5. The application allows you create Delphi/BCB5 applications with direct access to PostgreSQL DB without BDE and ODBC. This components set was developed for easy migration of existing projects from BDE/ODBC scheme to the native one. The User-Interface of postgresDAC is BDE-like and TDataSet compatible. TDBImageEx component for JPEG images in BLOBs support included in package for free (with sources). You need the following to use PostgresDAC on your system; Delphi 5-2009 or C++Builder 5-2009; PostgreSQL 7.4 and higher. Some of its latest changes include the following; ability to set error messages verbosity added, PostgreSQL v8.4.2 client libraries added (including pg_dump & pg_restore).

PostgresDAC is fully compatible with all existing data-aware controls and reports designers, full support of the BLOB fields, currently, the program is the only one that supports fully supports PostgreSQL native dump file format, and a couple of others.

PostgresDAC is a shareware application, and is compatible with the following operating systems; Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows XP. The unlimited version can be downloaded for $59.95. The trial period should be long enough for all users to get familiar with all the new additions or features.

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Beauty Guide allows you to apply makeup and corrects cosmetic defects directly on photos. Beauty Guide will help you to apply lipstick, rouge, eye shadow, and powder; line eyelids; change eye color; smooth wrinkles; reduce swelling and eye puffiness; delete birthmarks and blemishes; and bleach teeth. It is one program that has a couple of useful features to enable you do a lot of things on the photo. This latest version includes a text tool. With Beauty Guide, you can reduce the size of digital photos, lip makeup match, eye makeup match, and combine two picture together; all with ease.

Basically, Beauty Guide is a picture editing software that also allows or include a lot of plugins. Some of these plugins include: Corel paint shop pro photos, Corel photo-paint, and Adobe Photoshop element. Beauty Guide sells for $65.00, but users can have access to a trial version. However, the trial version comes with a limitation; and that means you can only save images in special TPI format. However, the unlimited version allows you to open TPI images, and save them in JPG, TIFF, PNG and BMP formats.

You can go over the page of the publishers to see examples and further guides on how to use this program, as well as other features it comes with.

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Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements. Some of these programs include the following; full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX Redistributable includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies; and they can all be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIs. Currently, this package is localized into the following languages; Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, and English. Before you download DirectX Redistributable, make sure you go to straight to the download page, and download the precise language version.

DirectX Redistributable runs on the following operating systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3. This version of DirectX includes all the latest and previous released DirectX runtime. They include the following: D3DX, XInput, and Managed DirectX components. DirectX runtime cannot however, be uninstalled. The publishers have not actually made too many changes to this version; of particular mention is the addition of the Bing toolbar.

The program is huge, and users may have to download the web version if they want to save a lot of time.

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Photobie is a feature-rich photo application that comes with a unique intuitive layer manager that enables users handle multiple layers with ease for advanced image editing. Photobie contains series of painting tools crucial for photo retouching. Photobie supports Photoshop filter (.8BF) plugins; which means that our users can apply thousands of free filters to their images. Meantime, Photobie provides an advanced screen capture tool, the simplest gif animation tool, and a photo framing tool. The program has been designed to enable both amateur and professional users to easily carry out their tasks without stress. Though, a freeware program, it nonetheless possess a lot of user-friendly features that enable easy photo editing.

With Photobie, you can edit photos, paint, scrap book, design photo templates, capture screens, and edit screenshots. However, Photobie requires a couple of additions in order for it to compete favorably with other popular programs out there.

Version 7.2.8 comes with an uninstaller, and also runs on the following operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. You can visit the homepage of Photobie to find out more about its features. As a matter of fact, you can view a tutorial on how to use it.

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Hamster Free Zip is an application that supports about forty (40) different languages that include the following; Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi (Iran), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese. Hamster Free Zip Archiver supports; format zip, Rar, 7z, and a couple of others.

Zip Archiver is a Very powerful tool that is designed to read and write any Zip archive formats like WinZip or 7zip. This current version of Hamster Free Zip Archiver comes with a New Look Interface, Full Windows shell integration and improved Fast Zip algorithm for high-speed Zipping. Hamster Free Zip Archiver is completely free for all users to download and install on their systems.

Hamster Free Zip supports or runs on the following operating systems; Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. This version also comes with an uninstaller, as well as a new archiver. This program may not be as popular as other Archivers out there however, users can still find some of its features very useful; moreover, it cost nothing to install.

Want to check it out? Visit ZipArchiver.

BOINC is an open source software platform to allow distributed computing projects like SETI@Home and Climateprediction.net (CPDN) which use volunteered computer resources to run. The publishers have simply developed a program that enables your computer do some other things instead of being left idle. In other words, there is no need to leave your computer idle when you are not doing anything on it.

BOINC for Windows 6 enables you to participate in several projects; ensuring that your computer is kept busy even when one project has no work. As a user, you can control how your resources (such as computer time and disk space) are divided among these projects. This is an excellent program that also enables you to use the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, as well as a couple of other things including research. As a matter of fact, there is no need to panic over the safety of your computer because this program is perfectly safe and secure to use.

Companies can use this software for Desktop Grid Computing; Universities can also find it useful in the area of creating a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center, and many more.

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Hyena is an application designed to simplify and centralize virtually every day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. The program uses an Explorer-style interface for all operations, including right mouse click pop-up context menus for all objects.

Management of users, groups, shares, domains, computers, services, devices, events, files, printers and print jobs, sessions, open files, disk space, user rights, messaging, exporting, job scheduling, processes, and printing are all supported. This functionality is provided in a single, centralized, easy to use product. Today, Hyena is being used by a lot of people who have come to find some of its features highly effective for their daily tasks. Most administrators can not afford to ignore or do without this tool. Over the years, we have seen versions after versions of this program; and as a matter of fact it a program that has a lot of uses.

Hyena uses an Explorer-style interface for all operations, some of which include the following: right mouse click pop-up context menus for all objects; management of users; groups (both local and global); shares; domains; computers; services; devices; events; files; printers and print jobs; sessions; open files; disk space; user rights; messaging; exporting; job scheduling; processes; and printing are all supported. Hyena is a shareware, and can be downloaded for $199.00.

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Codec Pack is an advanced codec pack that is mainly used by encoders. Cole2k Media Codec Pack Advanced supports a large number of codec’s and filters and also features some additional tools. The package will enable you playback and encode most major formats currently available. Installation is quite easy because of the highly informative menu. Options that may cause problems have a warning in the description pane, the installer will also de-select options that my cause conflicts.

The program allows any DirectShow enabled player that include Windows Media to play in various file format. Apart from being a wonderful addition for music and movie playback, Advanced Codec Pack also comes with main stream encoder codec for producing audio and video files.

Codec Pack Advanced features the following: DivX h.264 Video (Decoder) Codec; XviD 1.3 Video (Encoder) Codec – Koepi’s 24/02/11 Build; Flash Video Splitter x86 + x64 1.4.2499; InterVideo Video Filter 7.0.27.191; ffdshow Video Codec x86 20110207 revision 3755 by xxl; ffdshow Video Codec x64 20110218 revision 3760 by clsid; Lame MP3 3.98.2 ACM Codec; DSP-worx Bass source filter 1.30; CyberLink DVD Video/SP Filter 6.0.2.2806; Microsoft – Windows Media 9 Video Codec 9.0.1.369; ACM Audio Codec also known as Windows Media Audio 4.1; and a host of others.

Codec Pack Advance is a freeware program, and I available for all users.

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FastPictureViewer is a lean and mean, minimalist picture viewer or application that allows you to view digital images faster. The program is easy to use, and enables you view pictures faster by taking advantage, when available, of the power of your multicore processor and the incredible speed of your DirectX graphic accelerator, all working in concert to speed up your viewing to unprecedented levels. FastPictureViewer Basic supports a lot of quality and easy-to-use features like; JPEG and Microsoft HD Photo, along with Adobe XMP ratings.

However, it might take a few days for someone who is not a pro to understand this program very well. However, if you are a professional, you may find FastPicture Viewer highly effective. It helps iStockphoto inspectors cut through some of the 1/4 million new images they get every month, among other photographers and imaging professionals all over the world. The program also helps photo enthusiasts culling their weekend pictures to analysts reviewing consumer behavioral studies made of millions of images. Wedding photographers, magazine picture editors and print shops can also do their image selection tasks more efficiently, and with ease by using FastPicture Viewer.

Not a bad program if you are a photo enthusiast; and the fact that this version comes to you for free, makes it worth trying out.

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