I’ve just uploaded a new version of my own desktop search engine… Springo. The fastest and easiest way to find anything in your PC, your local network and Internet.
Find your office documents, your multimedia or launch applications without wasting clicks. Look up terms from any application in online dictionaries and search engines like Google, Wikipedia and more. Uses much less resources than other search engines, you won’t notice it’s running.
Link | www.gospringo.com
A small free editor for building XSL templates and test their transformation with XML documents.
This program was written by a programmer for programmers with using other programmers’ open source code. So, it must be free to get the source code. Also the source code exist as a project on SourceForge.net
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For some unknown reason, each time we try a new graphics application, we feel the uncontrollable desire to apply the most cheesy effects to beautifully designed typefaces. These so called text effects or type effects are carefully hidden guilty pleasures that most designers enjoy to try, but would never dare to apply in real life work.
For those like me that love text effects and have the courage to admit it, here’s a thorough guide to the best 80 text effects available on the web.
To some these may be not the best tutorials on the web, but certainly they are some of the best around. I had to eliminate those that looked nice but had very little preview images. This guide includes 78 Photoshop tutorials and 2 impressive collections of Photoshop Actions, plus 3 books on the subject.
If you have created a cool text effect and you believe it should be mentioned in this list, just leave a comment with the link to your tutorial or resource in the comments section.
Link | www.photoshoproadmap.com
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). WinDirStat is free software published under the GNU General Public License.
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Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they’re actually looking for. Icons can draw reader’s attention to the key aspects of the article and visualize the topic of the post. Buttons can be used to motivate users to some particular actions; and templates are supposed to help designers to create user-friendly interface elements right away. And whatever aim you’d like to achieve, free visual design elements are always useful – simply because they can give your text content a better visual appearance.
We’ve selected fresh high quality icons, buttons, vector graphics, templates and layouts. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them.
Not all listed freebies can be used for commercial projects, however you can use all of them in your private projects of for you personal purposes. Please read the disclaimers carefully before using icons – they’re changing from time to time.
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Solera Networks announces open source license for DataEcho web forensics software – Windows application reconstructs web and email activity for compliance and security management
Solera Networks, Inc., the technology leader in network packet record and playback appliances, today announced that source code for DataEcho, a web session reconstruction application, will be made available under the GNU General Public License. The company has established a community website. Source code and Windows installers are available for download now.
DataEcho reconstructs historical web browsing and email traffic from captured network packets, for monitoring insider security threats and policy compliance. It is a useful adjunct to network protocol analyzers such as Sniffer™ or WireShark.
“Releasing this application under the GPL allows Solera Networks to focus on system level advances in network packet capture and storage: our core competencies. Applications such as DataEcho demonstrate why we believe packet recording and playback capability is such a critical component of every data center’s infrastructure,” said Terry Haas, President and CEO of Solera Networks. “We look forward to future enhancements to DataEcho.”
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K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. It consists of basicly three parts:
1. The projects:
Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn.
2. The Tools:
The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting.
3. Context sensitive media actions:
When clicking on the Icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present it’s contents and allow some further action. This is for example the way to rip audio CDs.
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This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons. If you’d like to help out, please join the mailing list, and review the archives.
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