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Font managers reviews and opinions

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I've had to play with fonts recently and I realized I was ill equipped...

So started to look for good font managers -- Will be downloading and installing Veign's Cfont Pro and check it out (looks very good BTW). I used to have Bitstream Font Navigator, a long long long while ago. I was young in these days.

Anyway. I found many rather recent and informative global (even if incomplete) reviews. Here are 2 of them :

http://www.techsuppo...ree-font-manager.htm

http://www.smashingm...ment-tools-reviewed/

But no reviews are good without some DCers comments and opinions... I know there are a few threads on fonts and realted stuff around here. But it's always fun to ask : what's your take, font experts ? Any all time favorite ?


Mini Review - Helicon Filter - photo editor

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Intro:
Helicon Filter is a complete image editing solution for the digital photographer.
Pro Version used in review, but there is only minor difference for most users.

Who is this app designed for:
Originally I thought this was a fantastic easy to use program for the average photo taker that wants to perform some improvements to their photo's.
But after using for a while you will find that there are some unique and Power user options, tools that Photoshop find difficult if not impossible are a breeze in Helicon Filter.

The Good
Fast, Fast, Fast.  If you need to improve some photos quickly, turn out some work that is presentable, this is it. Make some adjustments, save the adjustments and apply them to other images or batch process a whole folder.

Simple, even your mother could use this. (my mum could not use Photoshop)

Powerful, there are some features that are unique, but you have to poke around to find them (especially in Pro)
Easy frame tool, reduce noise by colour, side by side comparisons, noise and sharpening maps, blur/sharpen brush, eyedropper white balance, Image stacking HDR, etc.

The needs improvement section
Programmers probably take for granted what a new user does not understand, the tutorial/help section is good, but you need to read it over and over.
Some buttons and sliders are available, and you will need to dig to learn what they perform. No layers or masks.

Click here to continue reading the full minireview now..


IconArchive - Another Free Icon Website - With Some Nice Section

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Check out this web2.0 section of the free icon website IconArchive.com.
Really nice collection.

http://www.iconarchi...ons-by-fasticon.html


HWiNFO32 - Great Freeware System Hardware Report Generator

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HWiNFO32 - freeware system information tool for Windows. Lets you create hardware reports in various formats and select the components you want in the report.

http://www.hwinfo.com


Google Chrome -- Nightly Update Checker+Downloader

Not that I use this browser all that much, but I do like to keep up-to-date with how it develops, and Google are turning out "nightly builds" like crazy. The only bad thing about this is that these builds doesn't contain a built-in update check...and they [Google] are releasing up to 10+ versions a day. So, I made myself a litte autohotkey utility to make life easier..

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Download Here


Tip of My Tongue

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A nice web tool by Chirag Mehta:

Tip Of My Tongue - Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember.

http://chir.ag/phern...ia/tip-of-my-tongue/


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