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Freetoall.info
This site offers two excellent freeware
programs. Wallpaper Desktop lets you generate
colorful, original patterns for your desktop. A
second program here, Grabzilla, lets you easily
capture screenshots from your desktop.
(For Windows).
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20/20
This fabulous free, adware-supported graphics
application offers loads of features that you
normally only see in the top commercial
programs. 20/20 is an image viewer, screen
capture and annotation program. Many features:
slideshows, thumbnails, a background generator
and much more. (For
Windows).
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Meazure
Have you ever needed to know the dimensions of a
window on your screen, or the size of an image?
Meazure is a useful freeware screen measurement,
magnification and capture tool. It's easy to use
and offers loads of features.
(For Windows).
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IrfanView
(Note: this site is
occasionally inaccessible). One of the
handiest freeware programs around, this
multimedia and graphics viewer can handle any
type of file you throw at it: from GIFs to Real
Audio to MP3 to Adobe Photoshop files, as well
as a lot of obscure formats.
(For Windows).
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Alice
Are you interested in 3D graphics, but find the
whole process too involved and complicated for a
novice? Then check out Alice. It's a free 3D
"Interactive Graphics Programming Environment."
Alice can be used for creating many types of
applications, including interactive games,
animations and virtual reality environments. It
has a moderately steep learning curve.
Basically, if you've messed around with BASIC
before or built a spreadsheet, you can handle
Alice. (For Windows).
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POV-Ray
POV-Ray (the Persistence of Vision Raytracer) is
a high-quality, free program for creating
sophisticated 3-D graphics. Has a steep learning
curve, but is worth the time you invest in it,
if you're serious about learning about
ray-traced graphics.
Available for Windows, DOS, Macs, Linux, SunOS
and Amiga.
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ShoeString PictureDicer
This is a freeware tool that chops any image
file into several smaller images, suitable for
creating mouseover effects and pseudo-imagemaps
on Web pages. It also generates the HTML for a
table to contain the partial images and display
them so they appear as the original uncut image.
(For Windows).
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Icon Viewer
The only freeware program of its kind, this
handy utility lets you view all of the icons on
your computer that are contained in an EXE, DLL,
ICO or ICL file. You can also compare icon files
to determine whether they're identical or not,
and search a directory for duplicates of an
icon. (For Windows).
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