Sunday, 11 November 2007

Easy Windows Networking with Leaf

Need to grab files from your home computer or quickly set up a friend's computer for file sharing? Leaf, a peer-to-peer application, creates quick and simple VPN connections between machines. Install and run the software, create a user account and click the "Share" tab to get started. As with most networking products that aren't SSH or similarly encrypted, one shouldn't share sensitive information over something like Leaf, but it could make for an easy way to share files, printers and even network drives. Leaf is a free download for Windows XP and Vista and requires Microsoft .NET framework

Take a look HERE.

Edit Your Images Online With Splashup

Edit your images on the fly online with Splashup, a web-based image editor that integrates with Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa. Splashup offers up a surprising array of image editing tools, far beyond the usual crop of resize and contrast— you can also edit multiple images, play with filters and layers, use a variety of brushes, and more. Splashup is one of the best image editors in a long line of image editors; i.e., Picnik, Pixoh, and Resizr, to name just a few.

Read the article HERE.

Xentient Thumbnails

Xentient Thumbnails is a Free utility for replacing the generic icons of image files with thumbnail icons of the actual image. These thumbnail icons are much easier to recognize and they work everywhere icons are displayed, including on the Desktop, in Open and Save dialogs, and in Windows Explorer.

The utility automatically generates thumbnail icons for most popular image types including JPG, JPE, JPEG, JP2, J2K, GIF, PNG, BMP, WBMP, EMF, WMF, PCX, PBM, PGM, PNM, PPM, RAS, TIF, TIFF, and TGA.

Take a look HERE.