12 Free Alternative Image and Photo Organizer for Windows

August 25, 2008 · Filed Under Software · 1 Comment 

Here is a list of 12 free alternative photo organizer, free of charge as oppose to ACDSee 10 Photo manager, they may not be the best but it does what it says - organize your images.

Picasa

Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files.

  • The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums.
  • Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), removal of red-eye, and enhancing–even switching from color to black and white.
  • Create slide shows set to your MP3s.
  • E-mail photos with Picasa’s built-in client to take the guesswork out of compressing images, and order photo-lab quality prints or print at home with no mistakes.
  • You can also make instant backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections, to organize your photos using labels and stars (just like with Gmail), to write captions for all pictures, and to organize videos as well as pictures.

Take your photos further with Picasa from Google. Download Picasa.

Pictomio

Pictomio is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos, videos and other media files, and allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows. The extensive capabilities of the latest programmable 3D graphic cards are utilized for image decoding and displaying slideshows.

The Pictomio software is composed of different parts: a photo browser, slideshow editor and slideshow viewer. Features: Image Manager, 3D Image Carousel, EXIF Editor, Liquid Zoom, Library, Image Rating, Album and Categories, Tools, Slideshow, Video Viewer. Pictomio is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. Download Pictomio

Inzomia image viewer

Inzomia image viewer 3 is a very fast free zooming image viewer that will allow you to spend more time viewing pictures and less time waiting. It prepares the next image in the background as you are viewing. It has fullscreen mode and a number of layouts for different types of work. It can show zip and rar image archives. It remembers zoom. It has XML support to integrate into custom solutions.

  • Stop waiting for images to load, the inzomia image viewer prepares the next image in the background as you are viewing.
  • Use all the screenspace for your images not a user interface. The inzomia image viewer has fullscreen mode and a number of layouts for different types of work. This allow you to use as much of your computer screen as possible for what is important.
  • Save time by viewing zipped image archives directly without the need to first extract the image files.
  • Organize and manage your digital photo collection with ease using thumbnailed image playlists that remembers zoom and rotatation.

The Inzomia image viewer is available in two versions, one for commercial use
and one free for non commercial use. Download Inzomia Image Viewer free edition today, no crack, keygen or serial needed.

PicaJet

PicaJet offers direct import from your camera, image sharing via email or Web gallery, automatic photo enhancement, personal ratings and categories, as well as printing features. The photo organizer allows you to view your images by rating, keyword, or date/timeline and you can categorize your images by simple drag and drop. In addition, it offers editing features to correct red-eye, cropping, image sharpening, and level adjustment.

Additional features include direct CD/DVD burning, an image search engine with support for EXIF/IPTC/XMP data, slideshow maker, and a tool to generate a Web gallery from perfect templates. Version 2.5 build 495 has fixed troubles with running under domain network.

PicaJet is a powerful, feature-rich, but highly customizable and convenient digital photo management and image database software that will efficiently organize your fast-growing digital image collection. Download and more information of PicaJet

PicPerk

PicPerk is an image viewer and editor that supports most common graphic formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX, WMF, and TGA. The application enables you to open a specific image file and also enables you to open a folder and view and edit any image included in it. Along with the usual assortment of file operations, such as convert, copy, move, rename, delete, and print, PicPerk features thumbnails and full-screen viewing, zoom functions, and 33 image-editing effects, including crop, resize, and red-eye removal. In addition, PicPerk features tools to display slide shows, to set and remove the desktop wallpaper, and to associate file types with it.

In addition, PicPerk features tools to display slide shows, to set and remove the desktop wallpaper, and to associate file types with it. Download PicPerk

iBrowser

iBrowser is an efficient image viewer and browser. It is optimized for fast thumbnail preview of folders with a large number of images. All popular graphic formats are supported.

Image viewerPower features make iBrowser the best choice for every day use. Among these features customizable interface layouts, advanced memory management, slideshow, format defining by signature, full screen view, animated images autoplay, copying to clipboard, intelligent large files support, set as wallpaper function, windows shell extension. Download iBrowser

Firehand Ember

Firehand Ember is, very simply, the easiest to use, fastest, most feature-rich and highly-rated photo viewer and organizer available for your Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, NT 4, or Windows 2000 computer. If you create graphics, work with websites, use a digital camera or scanner, collect pictures from the Net, or simply receive photos from time to time from friends and family via Email, you need Ember. Version 7.2.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes. Download Firehand Ember

Album Shaper

Album Shaper strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, open source application for organizing, annotating, framing, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos. Album Shaper embraces open formats like XML, JPEG, and XSLT, while supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix users who speak a multitude of languages around the world. Download Album Shaper for Windows, Mac, and Unix.

Roxio MediaTicker

MediaTicker is more than just a photo browser or newsreader – it’s the ultimate RSS media reader. Its unique scrolling format provides you with access to unlimited news headlines, photos, articles and forums while keeping itself neatly out of the way so you can actually get on with your day. RSS feeds with thumbnails and full-size images are displayed right in the ticker, so instead of clicking on a text link for “Giants Win Superbowl LX”, you can click on a photo of the winning touchdown! RSS feeds that don’t have thumbnails will be displayed as text links along with a snapshot of the website from where the feed originated.

Get even more digital media with MediaTicker 3, which adds support for video files, more RSS feed types, and new media search options. Now enjoy your video collection the same way you enjoy your photo collection in the ticker, and add ANY RSS or Atom feed for even more news and blogs.

Plus, you can now save your RSS feed list on your Roxio MyAccount so you can access your feeds from any MediaTicker or internet connected computer, or even from multiple computers simultaneously! Download Free Roxio Media Ticker

Ai Picture Explorer

Ai Picture Explorer (AiPICX) is an all-in-one graphics application that views, edits, enhances, manages and organizes photos — plays multimedia too. It empowers digital photo enthusiats with advanced batch image processing and conversion capabilities. Included Batch UnZipper extracts multiple ZIPs unattended. Integrated batch rename, move and delete functions seamlessly integrate with its Slide Album to help collectors review organize and delete image collections. Content providers (and collectors) can create thumbnailed HTML catalogs for DVD/CD media or simply track contents of removable media with contact sheets or comments and 3D navigation buttons. Novices will appreciate our Web Pages for Dummies wizard.

Its Slide Album can quickly find and thumbnail entire drives (or offline volumes on DVD/CD) and organize images by visual content to find modified duplicates — aside from database queries by date, size, keyword … Our proprietary Image Analysis routines can quantify and rank picture quality. You can also create impressive slideshows (or presentations) with choice of 173 cool effects, variable delays, windows-in-windows, gamma, background color, rotation, comments and other properties (per slide). Download Ai Picture Explorer

Fresh View

Fresh View gives you the ability to organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, video). Watch movies, listen to music, and view graphics in a slide show. Image files in a folder can be displayed using a number of views, including a thumbnail view that lets you quickly see what your images are without having to open them.

You can convert graphics from one type to another, print, and even create an HTML album. This easy-to-use software supports 86 different formats (more and more added regularly). This software is 100% free, no ads, no spyware. Download FreshView

Photomeister

Helps you to handle, edit and publish photos from your digital camera. All functions that you need to manage your photos and to impress your family, friends or customers with your photos are included in one piece of software. Easy to use and install. Built around three basic functions: import, improve, impress. Download Photomeister

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Vista84 Blogger Template

August 23, 2008 · Filed Under Blogger Templates · Comment 

The Vista84 Blogger XML Template

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Google Book Downloader - Download Books From Google Books

August 18, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 5 Comments 

Google Book Downloader - Download Books From Google Books

Stumbled upon this web application, it amazed me with its ability to extract and list down every single page from Google Books. I can’t be certain if this is considered illegal, but I don’t see any difference between viewing it from my browser and viewing it from an image manager.

As the name implies, Google Book Downloader does exactly what it says, it will give you a list of url of the images, what you need next is a download manager such as Download Accelerator Plus or Flashget.

Downloading the images appears to be breeze free, it was not until half way through the process Google Books decided to cut me off, possibility they system detects an ongoing unusual activity or mass bandwidth consumption that does not justify a normal reading behavior. Superman?

Is it illegal? Well, I’m won’t be too concern about that, the million dollar question is, is it worth the trouble? Just have a look at the screen shot below.

It’s like downloading a broken mp3 where it skips a beat or two every 20 seconds. Nothing is more annoying that missing pages in a book, but then again, these missing pages does not apply across the board. Having said that, do you happen to know that copyright laws are meant to last for 50 years only? This means a huge number of books that falls within this copyright free category are copyright free, good old books such as Oliver Twist and many more.

While you’re busy exploring Google Books, why not treat yourself to some free magazines?

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Free Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton 360 v2 for 90 days

August 15, 2008 · Filed Under Security · Comment 

The latest promotion by Symantec, the creator of Norton AntiVirus is currently giving out complete functional version of Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton 360 Version 2.0 for a trial period of 90 days.

Yes, that is 90 days of the usual 15 days, and it can only be found via the following official link Download Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton 360 Version 2.0. I’m still puzzled about this whole idea of keeping this promotion low profile, isn’t it a great way of promoting your own product to would be customers?

p.s. Say, what if my 90 days trial period for Norton 360 is up and I proceed with the installation of Norton AntiVirus 2008? Will I be getting 180 days of free Norton product?

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Download Free Norton AntiVirus 2009, No Crack, Keygen or Torrent!

August 14, 2008 · Filed Under Security · 5 Comments 

Yes, you heard me loud and clear, no fake phone activation, no crack, serial or keygen needed. This is a genuine free Norton AntiVirus or also known as Norton Security Scan made free by Google and Norton Symantec.

Download Free Norton AntiVirus 2009, No Crack, Keygen or Torrent!

Google Pack is offering a free edition of Norton Security Scan, better known as the striped down version of Norton AntiVirus 2009. Visit the official website and download the Free Norton AntiVirus - Google Pack.

What is Norton Security Scan?

Norton Security Scan is a software tool designed to help you understand if your computer is currently protected from known threats. Norton Security Scan will scan your computer and identify if there are existing viruses, worms, spyware, unwanted adware or Trojans residing on your computer. Norton Security Scan checks to see how your computer is currently protected.

So, what is the difference between Norton 360 and all the other products compare to the free edition of Norton Security Scan?

Norton Security Scan does not integrate with the operating system to provide real time protection against viruses and spyware, but instead scans your hard drive for viruses and spyware “on demand”, or at a given point in time. It only removes viruses when they are found during a scan, and does not remove them from the PC at the time of infection. It is the lack of real time protection (and integration between Norton Security Scan and the operating system) that ensures that Norton Security Scan can co-exist with other Norton products.

There you go, the only drawback for the free edition Norton Security Scan is the lack of real time protection, you can over come this by manually (right click and select ’scan with norton antivirus’) scan any files you think that are suspicious, for your information it is only available in both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

When it comes to antivirus programs, my advice is don’t go for the crack version downloaded from any torrent websites, it is not worth the risk, hackers knew that the real reason you’re downloading these security software is because your computer is not protected. Always go for the free edition if you can’t afford a genuine copy. For a list of free antivirus, visit this post.

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Free magazines on Fashion, Photography, Playboy and more

August 10, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

Free Playboy, Penthouse magazine and more

Here is a little tutorial on how to read 20 different magazines for free legally online, yes, you heard me loud and clear, it is totally legal. The pro and cons of this free service are:

  • No subscription charges
  • Only requires Firefox or Safari browser
  • Its free and the content is the same
  • High resolution images for easy reading
  • Not all issues are up to date, usually a month or two behind the actual release

Now, I bet you must be wondering why they are making these magazines available for free? Magazine publishers do not make a single dime from printing magazines, in fact, they’re subsidizing the magazine so that it is affordable to everyone, what they want in return are eyeballs, the more circulation they have they more advertising dollars they get, simple as that. The following titles are available for free:

  • Reader’s Digest
  • Macworld
  • Macworld Espanol
  • PC Magazine
  • Technology Review
  • Lonely Planet
  • Outside
  • Popular Photography
  • Saveur
  • US News and World Report
  • Men’s Health
  • Kiplingers
  • Popular Mechanics
  • Car and Driver
  • Viv
  • Elle
  • Playboy
  • Penthouse

What is the catch? Truth is, there are none. Zinio is a company that sells the soft copy version of almost every magazines available in the market for half the price. Currently they’re giving out free magazines to iPhone users, and in order to read these magazines for free using your laptop or desktop, you’ll need to tell the website that you’re browser (user agent) is an iPhone. Here goes:

Apple Safari Browser

Step 1 - Go to ‘Edit’ then ‘Preferences’

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Step 2 - A new Window/Dialog box will pop up, under the advance tab, check the ’show develop menu in menu bar’

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Step 3 - a new menu (develop) will appear in the menu bar, select ‘Develop’ then ‘User Agent’ and finally change the user agent to ‘mobile safari 1.1.3 - iPhone’

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Step 4 - Visit www.zinio.com/iphone for the free magazines.
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Mozilla Firefox 3 Browser

For firefox user, install User Agent Switcher plugin, this plugin will adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of Firefox, simply change the user agent to iPhone and visit the following url - www.zinio.com/iphone

Download the entire magazine for offline reading

Digital Quest has a cool tutorial on how to browse the magazine offline, no hack or crack or any pirated software needed, just a simple and legal tools available, think out of the box. How to download magazines from Zinio.

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Beijing 2008 Olympic TV schedule coverage and download wallpaper

August 8, 2008 · Filed Under Sports · Comment 

Beijing 2008 Olympic TV schedule and Download Wallpaper

If you’re searching for the Beijing 2008 Olympic TV Schedule online then you’ve come to the right place, NBC is one of the many official partners in the up and coming Beijing Olympic Games, the detailed Olympics games competition schedule can be found via the official NBC Olympic website - NBC Olympics TV and Online Listings. All you need to do is key in your postcode (only for US citizens).

Beijing 2008 Olympic TV schedule, click the image below for a larger resolution.

Beijing 2008 Olympic TV schedule and Download Wallpaper

Since this is the Olympic fever, why not celebrate this great moment in history by downloading the Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Wallpaper for free, visit the official Beijing 2008 Olympic website (Download More Wallpaper).

Beijing 2008 Olympic TV schedule coverage
Image Source: Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Website

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Avira Anti-Virus Lightest on System Memory and CPU Usage

July 24, 2008 · Filed Under Security · Comment 

Avira Anti-Virus Lightest on System Memory and CPU Usage

A friend of my told me to download an antivirus software for her, she could not remember the name of the anti-virus, instead, she only remembers the logo of the company, which is a red umbrella.

That is how I found out about Avira AntiVir Personal 9, I thought the umbrella symbol and its ugly user interface makes it one of the most unreliable anti-virus in the market but I was proven wrong after giving it a try.

Based on my own experience and experts reviews, Avira Anti-virus is very light on system memory and CPU usage, this is could a good and bad indication, it could be that it does not perform background check as intensive as the other anti-virus programs or it simply has a very good set of codes that somehow reduces memory usage.

Avira Antivir Personal 9 is highly recommended for people that still uses Windows 98 or computers that has limited resources.

I always believe that the best anti-virus is non other than us, avoid suspicious programs and always download software from the official website, torrent websites is the final source for instant if you’re looking for outdated releases that is not available in the official website.

Here are the features:

  • Avira offers: Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc.
  • Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software.
  • Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring.
  • Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system.
  • Forum and phone support, Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site.
  • Rootkit Detection and Removal.
  • A modularized AV-search engine for improved scan performance
  • An integrated failsafe security system, and SMTP support for AntiVir MailGuard.
  • Detects private trojan through heuristic method, not through virus definition

And the pros and cons:

Pros: Very fast scan, low on memory.
Cons: The updates are painfully slow, took nearly two hours to update the definitions and comes with “Nagware” asking you to upgrade to the retail version.

Download the Free Avira AntiVir Personal 9 now.

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Crack and Keygen for WhiteSmoke 2008 in Torrent Contain Virus

June 20, 2008 · Filed Under Software · 4 Comments 

Warning! Do not download WhiteSmoke 2008 from bittorrent, the crack or keygen comes with virus, if you are not aware of it, upload the keygen/crack to VirusTotal - it is an online anti-virus engines that scans the file with 32 anti-virus engine.

Before I proceed, please note that this is not a site that promotes pirated software or serial numbers. If you are interested in WhiteSmoke 2008, do give the demo version a try and if you are happy with the performance, then purchase it.

WhiteSmoke is an innovative software tool that improves and edits your English writing. Based on patented natural language processing (NLP) technology, WhiteSmoke performs advanced and context-based English grammar, spelling, and punctuation checking, as well as text enrichment to enhance your writing.

Based on my personal experience, WhiteSmoke’s performance is somewhat disappointing, it is rather hard to put it in words, you just have to try the demo version and see it for yourself. It did enhance the essay by suggesting keywords, but Microsoft Office is getting better by the minute, and I see no reason why I should pay USD30 for a piece of software.

I guess the only way to improve my grammar is not the use of any computer software but through English classes. After all the English language is a crazy language. Below is an article that you might find amusing, the title of the essay is ‘English is a crazy language’, author unknown.

There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down. In which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

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Download Mozilla Firefox 3

June 18, 2008 · Filed Under Software · 2 Comments 

mozilla firefox 3 logo

Attention all Firefox user, Mozilla Firefox 3 is now available for download. My first impression was - the user interface is still the same, feature wise it is reasonable. I was hoping for the ‘paste and go’ URL that Opera introduced years ago, it is so convenient.

Opera Browser Feature URL

I’m not a big fan of add-ons, therefore I can’t comment on that either, but time will tell if they manage to plug the memory leak issue and the possibility of losing our bookmarks whenever Forefox 3 crash, yes, Firefox 3 is not as stable as they claimed it to be, based on my personal experience IE appears to be much more solid.

Some of the new features are:

  • Malware Protection
  • Anti-virus integration
  • Vista Parental Controls
  • Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
  • New Web Forgery Protection page

If you’re into security, Mozilla Firefox 3 is the number one choice.

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