IrFanView, a nice little image editing application

January 31st, 2009
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Cropping, resizing, format converting, batch processing are simple forms of image manipulation that you could do in every version of Photoshop, but why use a program that uses large amounts of memory and burns a hole in your pocket?

irfanview 4.23

IrFanView does all these things with a tiny program (version 4.23 is only 1,28 MegaBytes) that uses little resources and is totally free. Let’s look into the list of file formats this freeware program supports:

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Notepad++ a free source code editor for almost every developer

January 27th, 2009
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Are you coding in: C, C++ , Java , XML, HTML, PHP, Java Script , RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (extension .nfo), doxygen, ini file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL , Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript, VHDL, Ada, Caml, AutoIt, KiXtart, Matlab or Verilog?

Guess what? Notepad++ supports them all with correct syntax highlighting. Parts of this site have been made with Notepad++ as well.

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µTorrent, the best and smallest torrent client

December 22nd, 2008
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In  the past we had Napster, Kazaa, eMule and nowadays everyone seems to be using torrents for downloading large files. You can as well!

The logo of utorrent

These torrents are using the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol called BitTorrent and it enables you to download files from people all over the world that are sharing that file or even just a part of it. You begin by searching for the file(s) that you would like to download, usually on a torrentsite, and then you download are really small file called a torrent. This torrent is then loaded in a torrentclient which reads this file and starts downloading the file you wanted in the first place.

There are a lot of clients out there, but there is one that has everything you want:

  • small
  • free
  • fast
  • easy to use
  • packed with options

This client is called µTorrent (often pronounced as uTorrent or youTorrent). It’s current version is 1.8.1 and you can find it after the jump!

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