Artweaver is a ‘natural painting program’ allowing you to create art with simulations of real life materials, it has a fair amount of potential.There are a few natural painting programs available, but usually they are rather limited. Most image editing application are geared towards post-image manipulation, rather than creating your image from scratch.Artweaver is an application aimed at artists capable of painting through a pen tablet or directly on to their screen, using a mouse. It has a wide range of brushes and the brush simulation is as realistic as possible, with chalk, charcoal, pencils and other brushes included.

As well as its natural painting, it will enable you to make sketches from existing photos and also add effects to images. It will enable you to import from a wide range of image formats. Its freeware and available here.

If you like this, you might also wanna check out my earlier review of a similar program here.

Here is a cool billing and invoicing software for you, it is called kBilling. kBilling is a billing & invoicing software that helps you create, print and email invoices, create recurring billing cycles, and manage customers and contacts easily.

One thing I really love about kBilling is the fact that it was made with the user’s needs in mind. It has an easy to us interface that will allow you to make your own invoices without having any detailed knowledge of accounting.

It doesn’t matter what you need to do, tracking your customers, maintaining their balances, including your logo on invoices, managing payments of different types; kBilling will help you get it done easily.

The publishers, K Software are so sure of their software that they are offering it free for you for 30 whole days. So you don’t have to pay a dime until you are sure of how good it is.

Go check it out! CLICK HERE!

Here is a software that is very useful for classrooms and network groups.

AB Tutor Control was designed in response to requests from teachers and trainers who need to interact effortlessly with their students on an individual, group or full classroom basis using a very simple and reliable user interface.

The fact that no prior experience of computer-based training or networking is required makes this software very easy to use. The software enables a tutor or network administrator to control a number of student workstations in a computer training room – or remote location – from a tutor workstation. Classroom groups can be created by network managers to maintain security on large networks.

This software is also very useful for network administrators and help support staff. Want to try it out; It’s a shareware with a 30 day time out trial version.

CLICK HERE for more info and trial download.

In need of a software that can help you create pictures in form of texts and small images? Then you might want to check out Image Constructor.

Image Constructor helps you to create pictures in form of texts and small images over some background with picture or gradient fill and import them to graphical files. This software is really useful in making web graphics; structural diagrams; flow-charts; presentation materials; beautiful pictures etc.

I love the fact that Image Constructor is built with simplicity in mind. So there are no special requirements for this software, this means you should be able to enjoy it fully no matter what kind of system you are using.

Check it out: http://www.easyanimationtools.com/products/imageconstructor/

Here is a nice software that comes highly recommended; GB-PVR.

GB-PVR is a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) allowing you to schedule TV recordings, view and pause live TV. The cool thing about GB-PVR is that it’s more than a PVR; it also acts as a media center allowing you to watch movies, listen to music, view pictures and listen to FM radio. It also supports multiple tuners, allowing you to record multiple channels at one time.

The recent version, GB-PVR 0.99.5 has these changes incorporated into it,

• Improvements to scheduling logic for multi-tuner setups
• Added support for Maltese plugins. If enabled in config app, then it’ll load MultiDec plugins from MDPlugins directory
• Improvements to the start up time for timeshift mode, and the time to change channels. (PC improvements, not relevent to MVP) To take full advantage of this, you’ll probably want to set you ‘LiveTV Pre-play delay’ to ‘0’
• Added support for Vista, though I’d recommend doing a clean install if you decide to upgrade a machine to vista that was previous running an earlier version of windows with GB-PVR
• Fixed a bug that could occur with badly behaved BDA devices that continue send a small amount of data from frequencies they were previously tuned to (for example, Compro devices)
• Fixed a couple of bugs with the DVB EPG (now supports PSI pointer_field used in some countries to squeeze more data in)
• Improvements to H.264 support (BBC HDTV trial etc). You’ll need to have an H.264 decoder installed. For playback of recordings, you’ll also need HDTV Pump installed: http://dvbportal.dyn1.de/download.ph…etup-1.0.7.zip

And lots more.

Check it out; http://www.gbpvr.com/

This is another website that lets you send or share big files easily. Maybe you have a big file you want to send to a friend, this can be frustrating to send over instant messenger as sometimes it times out or fails and you have to start all over again and hope for the best. As for emailing it, some emails don’t accept files over a certain size or your friend’s inbox might not have space for it.Thats where sites such as SendSpace can come in very handy. You simply go to the SendSpace website and upload your file, it can be up to 300mb, which is pretty generous. You can even add a short note/description to the file, then you have the option to enter your friends email address and it sends them a link that they can download the file from!

You don’t even have to register or anything to use this service.

Check it out at the sendspace website for more info or to try it out!

This is a really cool software. And what makes it really cool? Well it allows you to create your own games easily. Yeah it does!

Quest Pro allows you to make text adventure games, also known as interactive fiction, quickly and easily and without needing to learn any programming. With this software it is so simple to create your own interactive world or interactive story you won’t believe it, and editing your game is made easy with the included editor, QDK. It has the power to let you make exciting adventure games, complete with graphics and sounds.

With this cool software [Quest Pro] you can make text adventures, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, interactive fiction, online multiplayer environments and lots more.

Want to see what it’s all about? Go to http://www.axeuk.com/quest/

Genie Soft has a great program which solves a problem I’ve had many times in my tech support career: how to back up Outlook Express. Yes, you can search the folders for where the files are hidden and copy them to another computer. But that’s a pain.

This super little program supports backing up the data of all the identities in Microsoft Outlook Express in the same backup file. You can even backup as a self-executable EXE file that can be run on any machine even if the main Genie Backup Manager isn’t running or installed. That’s very cool.

Unlike other backup methods you can copy Multiple Identities, Message Rules, and All accounts and Preferences, as well as Signatures, Stationery, your Address Book. It’s a marvel.

Take the high road to Genie Soft for more…

Based on the excellent Ewido Anti-Malware package, this new AVG offering is a do-it-all solution against viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and adware.

The software is active for 30 days, so you can try out all the features before you buy, and buy is what you will probably do. It’s not wildly expensive and as far as I can see is very effective against keeping spyware threats at bay. Some of the threats I tested it on, like Spy Sheriff and Brave Sentry were not completely removed, but I think more needs to be done to free your machine of those nasty bugs.

Head over to Grisoft for more…

Here is a good software for you to use in making cool and unique web buttons in a matter of minutes with relative ease. Agama web buttons enables you to create professional quality, unique web buttons in a matter of minutes.

The cool thing about this software is that you can use it to create a variety of 2D and 3D glassy, metallic, plastic and even XP style buttons from predefined templates. You will love the fact that base installation of Agama Web Buttons contains 50 packages with more than 500 button templates available for instant use.

What really separates this software from the pack is that, unlike other software, you can download more new packages with attractive button templates from their website for free. Ain’t that Cool!

The latest updated version, Agama Web Buttons 2.62 released a couple of days ago has these changes:

• local menu in the list of packages
• packages can be tagged as favorite or new
• new button templates

GO CHECK IT OUT: http://www.agamabuttons.com/