Simple Informations

Resizr is a free online image editing site. I will allow you to use almost all the basic photo editing features. “RESIZR was conceived in July 2006 by Matt Miller, after trying to help a user upload an image to the Urban Pug Forums. After suggesting some tools, it became apparent that there might be a need for a brutally simple online image resizer.”

With Resizr you can Crop, Resize, Change filetype (GIF,PNG,JPG), sharpen, adjust levels, change the tone of the image (to B/W &&; sepia), adjust brightness and contrast and even control the quality of output file. Resizr is equivalent to a photo editing software. It is free and also saves your file for a specific amount of time before which you can download it.

Free tools have always been my favorite. You can see that under the free tag. If you don’t have any software to create an icon or cannot create a free icon as in the previous post, you must try this free online icon creator.

The site allows you to make 16×16px icons. You can also select an image make it to 16×16px and upload to the site and convert it to ico fromat. Since the canvas is highly magnified you can easily create shapes and write using the provided tools. After the work is finished the icon can be downloaded by clicking on the Download icon button on top.

PrimoPDF is a free software that installs itself as a printer in your system. It will accept the print requests and allows you to save them as a PDF file. So you can create a PDF file from virtually any file in your system. If you need to create a PDF file from an Office document you may use the export feature available in OpenOffice.org.

PrimoPDF also allows you to change the quality of the output files to four preset ones and one custom setting.

PrimoPDF is light on system resources and produces good quality PDF files. Although you might end up with file having its own path printed into it, PrimoPDF can be used as a basic tool to create PDF files. Download the Windows installer here

Opera 9.5 failed to process TinyMCE correctly. so if you enterd something in the HTML editor and came back to Visual editor mode.. you won’t see any text. Check out thses screen shots.

Actually it is caused by wrong implementation of JavaScript in TinyMCE. More about it is explained at opera development blog. In the race to win Acid3 test Opera made the implementation of web standards strict. It was this that caused the error.

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As of now the problem has been solved in Opera 9.51 and this post is being written using Opera 9.51. Another known issue with TinyMCE was scrabling of text when pressing the ENTER key. This is also solved now.

Pig font viewer is a free utility that allows you to preview your fonts. You can enter any text you want and click on the list of fonts shown from your fonts library. You can also select fonts saved in a directory by browsing to that directory through Pig Font Viewer.

If you want to have the fonts loaded in Pigfontviewer when you open it just install it by right clicking on it. It is available for Linux, Windows and MAC platforms. You can download Pig font viewer from their web site.

The easiest way to enable support for the new Office 2007 file formats in Office XP is to install the Migration pack provided by Microsoft free of cost. With the introduction of the XML standard in file format, the new files with extensions ending in x (docx, xslx, pptx) will not be compatible with the older Microsoft Office.

With Migration pack installed you can either save in all the New office supported formats as well as open all the new format files. Here is a screen shot of the Save As dialogue in Office XP with 2007 compatibility pack installed.

Main advantages f the new file format are that it is a standard XML format and also the compression ratio is better for the XML formats. You can open all the 2007 Office files using any archiving tool.

The Office 1007 compatibility pack is free of cost and can be downloaded form Microsoft Download center. You must install all High Priority updates from Microsoft update center before installing this pack. Here is the Office 2007 compatibility pack download page at Microsoft Download Center. The file is a 27.5Mb Windows Executable.