If you want a minimalistic image viewer that just works, but looks really really good while at it, check out the free NexusImage. This program has a similar look and feel to the ‘Lightbox’ image viewing style you find on many blogs (including this one), where →
Geo-tag your images and locate them on a map with open source software GeoTag
You may not realize it, but the pictures that you take with your GPS-enabled camera or smartphone (such as your iPhone), and many of the images that you download from the internet contain location information that identify precisely where the snapshots were taken (typically, in the →
FastPreview: get all sorts of info about your image files, right in Windows explorer
Most image files today contain a large amount of information, from tagging and geo info to EXIF data stored by digital cameras at the moment that the pictures were taken, to run of the mill color and resolution and date taken info, etc. But this information →
Physion: create your own virtual physical world
Imagine that you could create any object you want by the flick of a mouse, many different kinds of objects, in fact, of various shapes, colors, and properties, and that you could then watch these objects interact with each other and the virtual world around them →
MachStudio Pro 2: realtime 3D graphics rendering, now 100% free
MachStudio Pro 2 is a powerful 3D visualization package that had hitherto cost $4000 but recently been released to the public absolutely free. Excellent news for anyone interested in architectural 3D graphics rendering or 3D animation. This software emphasizes real-time graphics processing that leverage the horsepower of powerful →
Resophnotes: take notes quickly on your desktop, then access them in the cloud on other devices or computers
Resophnotes is a free note taking software that syncs with the “SimpleNote” cloud-based note taking service. This means that your notes from Reshopnotes can be accessed from multiple computers and devices (including the iPhone via this free app). Resophnotes can also be used portably from a →
How to enlarge images with no pixellization and minimal quality degradation (using free software)
Have you experienced a situation where an image you are interested in using is smaller than you would like it to be, whether it might be for printing purposes or for use in illustration projects or even for usage on the web, etc? Typically, straight-enlarging of →
RoboReader: image viewer displays images and CBR/CBZ comics as on-screen floating objects
RoboReader is a free image viewing program that handles images as floating objects on the desktop. But more than that, it is also a comics viewer for CBR or CBZ ebook formats (or other compressed image archives) , and supports dual page image view, which is well →
Free Online OCR: web app delivers editable text from scanned images or PDFs
Do you have PDF documents or images (e.g. JPG, PNG, TIFF) that were created using a scanner, and that you wish you could convert to editable text? Free Online OCR is a web service that can perform optical character recognition (OCR) on your scanned images and/or image based →
GPDF2SWF: convert and publish PDF documents as flash SWF
If you’ve ever wanted to publish a PDF in SWF (flash) form then read on: GPDF2SWF is a free tool that can do this very easily. GPDF2SWF is the graphical user interface for a tool called PDF2SWF, and is part of SWFTOOLS, a collection of SWF →
Okozo desktop: display animated, flash-based interactive wallpapers on your desktop
Okozo desktop installs flash-based animated desktop wallpaper on Windows Vista and Windows 7, utilizing DirectX 9.0c and Adobe flash. Because they are flash-based, Okozo desktop animations differ from the “dreamscene” WMV-based desktop animations in that they can provide a wide range of interactive functionality, such as being →
Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder: finds duplicate and similar images
Do you have a huge photo library with a lot of duplicate images? Or perhaps you have multiple resized versions of the same image cluttering your hard drive and resulting in the same image appearing multiple times in slideshows, etc. If so, check out Awesome Duplicate →
