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Create hi-quality icons for Windows®, Mac OS®, Unix®

With IconWorkshop™ make your own icons for Windows®, Macintosh® and Unix®. It creates Windows® icons up to 256x256 for Windows Vista™ and Macintosh® icons up to 512x512 for Leopard (Mac OS® 10.5). Unix® uses PNG icons. IconWorkshop creates PNG images with alpha channel in a few clicks including from existing Windows® and Mac OS® icons.

The new generation of icons uses variable transparency (alpha channel). This feature permits creating beautiful icons with smooth borders and shadows. You need a professional tool to create such icons. Axialis IconWorkshop™ has been designed with one goal in mind: "Icon Quality".

Enjoy the powerful editor which permits creating the various image formats of an icon from an original drawing without quality loss.

Create, edit icons in Image Strips for toolbars

Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the only icon editor which permits creation and edition of Image Strips for toolbars. If you're a developer, don't struggle with wide bitmaps anymore! Just open them in IconWorkshop and edit each icon separately.

It can read all kinds of Image Strips in BMP and PNG. Transparency is supported in 32 BPP images through Alpha channels and in 24 BPP or less images through a fixed background color.

Icons in image strips can be added, copied, moved and removed. You can also create new image strips from ready-to-use image objects in a few drag & drops. The object pack "Lite Toolbars" permits creating sharp and crisp icons for toolbars.

Work efficiently with a Plug-in for Visual Studio® 2005 and 2008

Axialis IconWorkshop includes a handy feature which permits to work efficiently with Visual Studio®. The principle of this plug-in, as we've made it, is to create a direct bridge between the VS IDE and IconWorkshop.

The plug-in permits to easily edit in IconWorkshop an icon included in a solution. Just open the icon in the Visual Studio® resource editor and launch the associated plug-in command. The icon is automatically opened in IconWorkshop and you can work on it as necessary. When you save it in IconWorkshop, the VS IDE automatically refreshes the icon document.

Full support for Windows Vista™ PNG-compressed icons

IconWorkshop™ loads, creates, edits, saves icons for Windows Vista™. This new operating system, includes a PNG-compressed icon format. It permits creating icons up to 256x256 with alpha channel with smaller file size.

Axialis IconWorkshop™ now fully supports this new format in all features: edition, automatic format creation, batch creation, batch conversion, format normalization... Don't wait and create today your icons for Windows Vista™.

Create attractive icons using Image Objects

The use of image objects to create icons is an exclusive feature of IconWorkshop. It permits creating professional-looking icons in minutes using a few mouse drag & drops.

Convert icons between Mac OS® and Windows®

Mac OS® designers are prolific, especially when it comes to create icons. Use IconWorkshop™ to read MacOS® icons and convert them to Windows®. It reads all kinds of Macintosh® icons up to OSX 10.4 Tiger and OSX 10.5 Leopard.

If you're a software developer, you'll enjoy the ability to create applications for both Windows® and Macintosh® platforms by converting your icons. If you're a Windows® user you'll be able to use Macintosh® icons on your Windows® XP desktop.

In addition, IconWorkshop™ includes a feature which permits to convert icons between the two systems in batch-processing mode (several icons are converted in one fast operation).

IconWorkshop™ supports the Mac Binary file format which permits to transfer icons between Macintosh® and Windows® in a snap.

Automatically create icons from images

Axialis IconWorkshop™ features a powerful editor. But sometimes it's easier to create an icon from an existing image. You can import various file formats, such as PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF, JPEG2000...

Cute Editor for ASP.NET is by far the fastest, easiest, most powerful WYSIWYG browser-based Online HTML Editor for ASP.NET. It also available for PHP and ASP.

It enables ASP.NET Web developers to replace the Textarea in your existing content management system with a powerful, but easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editing component.

It empowers business users to make content updates easily and safely themselves while maintaining control over site design and content, all at an affordable price.

Top features of WYSIWYG HTML Editor

What makes Cute Editor the leading online HTML Editor on the market? Aside from its powerful features and ease to use, here are some of the top reasons that make the Cute Editor your best choice for creating and publishing web content:

1. A cross-browser, cross-platform WYSIWYG online HTML editor.
   Compatible with the most important browsers available in the market: IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Opera 9.0+, Netscape 7+ and Safari (1.3+). This includes Macintosh and Linux.
2. Compliant with the web standards, no deprecated tags such as <FONT> anymore
   Does your online html editor still use deprecated tags such as <FONT>? Cute Editor will help you build sites that adhere to the latest HTML standards, generates clean HTML/XHTML code with no deprecated tags.
3. Insert clean HTML from Microsoft Word.
   When text is pasted from Microsoft Word a lot of unnecessary word specific markup is carried across. This can result in web pages that take an unnecessarily long time to download. The Paste from Word button solves this by removing word markup before pasting the text into your page.
4. Support accessibility according to W3C WAI and section 508 accessibility guidelines.
   Cute Editor optional accessibility settings ensure your site complies with Section 508, so people with disabilities can have full access to your content.
5. Clean, lightweight and extremely fast loading
   Numerous optimization methods has been applied. It's clean, compact, extremely fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient.
6. Advanced file upload function
   We integrate a hi-performance ASP.NET upload component - Ajax uploader into Cute Editor. Ajax Uploader allows you to select and upload multiple files at once. It also supports client side validation of the file size/type before uploading.
7. Store images in a Database
   With Cute Editor you can easily use a Sql Server database or access database as the file storage.
8. Image insertion and automatic upload
   Built-in thumbnail generator. Thumbnail images are dynamically created; Supports upload new images. Paging - specify how many images. Support auto resize images.
9. Style Builder Dialog Box
   With Style builder dialog box you can apply CSS style attributes directly to any HTML elements on your Web page.
10. Online Image Editor
    People that input content on a website are generally not web designers, so most don't have that design & technical fibre in them. With online image editor, you can now edit image file with no image editing software to download or install! Easy drag and drop familiar interface. Resize, change dimensions, scale, crop, add text, optimize, rotate, flip, mirror and add watermark.
11. Compatibility with the browser's back button
    Don't you hate losing your edits? It is so easy to accidentally browse away from the page you are editing (eg by hitting a back space key or button). And then you have lost all your edits. Unless you are using Cute Editor!
12. RTF to HTML, HTML to RTF
    With Cute Editor you can easily convert an HTML document into an RTF file and RTF file into HTML or XHTML document.
13. Create PDF files
    Cute Editor also allows you dynamically create Adobe PDF documents from ASP.NET.
14. Apply security to control user access to resources
15. Cute Editor allows developers to assign a pre-defined set of permissions by group or individual. This prevents a normal user to access the administration functionality.
16. The details of permissions are specified by an XML security policy file. Each level maps to a specific file. The default mappings:
    admin--maps to admin.config
    default--maps to default.config
    guest--maps to guest.config
    You can customize and extend each policy file by editing the XML security policy file. You can also create your own policy files that define arbitrary permission sets.

RegAlyzer is a tool to browse and change the registry. It was created because of a few features we missed in the original regedit tool, from support for exotic value types over background and regular expression search to better bookmarks, displaying .reg files in the accustomed style and a history view.

A short list of the pros of RegAlyzer:

• New: Undo and Redo logs in .reg format
• Improved search function (results list)
• Hierarchical bookmark support
• Jump to key by command line parameter
• Jump to key by typing/copying it into dialog (instead of browsing)
• DWord editing with parallel hex/decimal/binary display
• Support of QWord (64 bit integer)
• Display of .reg file contents without importing it
• Support of version 5 files (Unicode) even with Windows 95/NT
• Low-level display of security settings with option to export it

But there are a few not-yet completed features as well:

• Complete Unicode support
• Display and import support for some system stuff (REG_LINK,REG_RESOURCE_DESCRIPTOR, etc.)
• Changing security settings
• Remote connection doesn't ask login yet
• Changing opened .reg file
• Editing binary data
• Working (add/delete/etc.) in remote registry

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendlyness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

This project is mature. However, there may be still some bugs and missing features that are being worked on. If you have any questions or suggestions about this project, please post them in the forums. Also, if you wish to make a feature request, you can post it there as well. But there's no guarantee that I'll implement your request.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ into your native tongue if there's not already a translation present in the Download Section. And if you want, help translating Notepad++ official site into your native tongue would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.

Here are the features of Notepad++:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag 'N' Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

Java software allows you to run applications called "applets" that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D.

Many cross platform applications also require this to run.

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

• Graphical user interface
• Translated into several languages
• Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)
• U3 support
• All common operations with files
• Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol
• Batch file scripting and command-line interface
• Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
• Integrated text editor
• Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
• Integrates with Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) for full support of public key authentication with SSH
• Windows Explorer-like and Norton Commander-like interfaces
• Optionally stores session information
• Optionally supports standalone operation using a configuration file in place of registry entries, suitable for operation from removable media

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3 is the new managed code programming model for Windows®. It combines the power of the .NET Framework version 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes. These new technologies are Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace.

The .NET Framework 3 is included as part of the Windows Vista operating system; you can install it or uninstall it using Windows Features Control Panel. This redistributable package is for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

The latest version (3.5) contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 1.

.NET Framework version 3.5 Service Pack 1 provides the following new features and improvements:

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which provides a rich scaffolding framework that enables rapid data driven development without writing code, and a new addition to ASP.NET AJAX that provides support for managing browser history (back button support). For more information, see Whats New in ASP.NET and Web Development.
• Core improvements to the CLR (common language runtime) that include better layout of .NET Framework native images, opting out of strong-name verification for fully trusted assemblies, improved application startup performance, better generated code that improves end-to-end application execution time, and opting managed code to run in ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) mode if supported by the operating system. Additionally, managed applications that are opened from network shares have the same behavior as native applications by running with full trust.
• Performance improvements to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), including a faster startup time and improved performance for Bitmap effects. Additional functionality for WPF includes better support for line of business applications, native splash screen support, DirectX pixel shader support, and the new WebBrowser control.
• ClickOnce application publishers can decide to opt out of signing and hashing as appropriate for their scenarios, developers can programmatically install ClickOnce applications that display a customized branding, and ClickOnce error dialog boxes support links to application-specific support sites on the Web.
• The Entity Framework is an evolution of the existing suite of ADO.NET data access technologies. The Entity Framework enables developers to program against relational databases in according to application-specific domain models instead of the underlying database models. For more information, see Getting Started with the Entity Framework. The Entity Framework introduces some additional features, including support for new SQL Server 2008 types, default graph serialization of Entities, and the Entity Data Source. This release of the Entity Framework supports the new date and file stream capabilities in SQL Server 2008. The graph serialization work helps developers who want to build Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services that model full graphs as data contracts. The Entity Data Source provides a traditional data source experience for ASP.NET Web application builders who want to work with the Entity Framework.
• LINQ to SQL includes new support for the new date and file stream capabilities in SQL Server 2008.
• The ADO.NET Data Services Framework consists of a combination of patterns and libraries, which enable data to be exposed as a flexible REST (Representational State Transfer)-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients in a corporate network or across the Internet. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework makes data service creation over any data source. A conceptual view model of the underlying storage schema can easily be exposed through rich integration with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Services created by using the ADO.NET Data Services Framework, and also compatible Windows Live (dev.live.com) services, can be easily accessed from any platform. For client applications that are running on Microsoft platforms, a set of client libraries are provided to make interaction with data services simple. For example, .NET Framework-based clients can use LINQ to query data services and a simple .NET Framework object layer to update data in the service.
• Windows Communication Foundation now makes the DataContract Serializer easier to use by providing improved interoperability support, enhancing the debugging experience in partial trust scenarios, and extending syndication protocol support for wider usage in Web 2.0 applications.
• The .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (SqlClient) adds new support for file stream and sparse column capabilities in SQL Server 2008.

set_volume sets the master mixer volume and controls the mute from the command line via command line parameters. This makes it possible to script volume effects like fade in and fade out or just set the volume from any old batch script. When combine this program with sleep, you can create complex volume effects.
Parameters
set_volume [options] [volume]
-v [volume as ] : sets volume Ex: set_volume -v 50 will set volume to 50
-m : mutes computer Ex: set_volume -m will mute the volume
-u : unmute computer Ex: set_volume -vu 60 will set the volume to 60% and unmute the volume
It uses the same engine that the Alarm Clock of Justice uses to set the volume.