Le webmaster du site VirusPhoto nous gratifie d'une compilation de logiciels portables globalement destinés aux photographes, mais aussi aux infographistes, le tout pour votre clé USB chérie.
Pesant plus de 100 Mo au téléchargement, il vous faudra néanmoins posséder une clé d'une capacité d'au moins 512 Mo, VirusPhoto USB frôlant les 300 Mo après extraction de tous ses logiciels.
Cette initiative à saluer, basée sur l'application PStart (que nous mentionnons dans notre dossier sur les applications portables ), vous permettra d'utiliser sans installation aucune et sur n'importe quel PC des logiciels comme (liste non exhaustive) :
- Gimp
- PhotoFiltre
- Scribus
- Firefox
- FileZilla
Vous trouverez aussi un service pour uploader vos fichiers sur Flicker, ainsi qu'un répertoire pour stocker toutes vos créations.
Disponible en français, cette compilation est néanmoins en version beta, soyez donc attentifs aux éventuels bugs !
Free Personal Learning Edition
The Free Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a fully functionnal version of Vue 7 Infinite/xStream (selection of Infinite or xStream is done during installation). With the PLE, you can:
* Create complete projects, save your work and export to other applications,
* Render stills and animations without size/length limit,
* Experience Vue's power directly inside Max/Maya/LightWave/Cinema4D/XSI,
* Learn at your own pace (the PLE never expires)!
The PLE is for personal, non-commercial use only, files cannot be exchanged with other PLE users and are not compatible with other versions of Vue, renders may be watermarked and carry a logo.
Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop.
EditiX is a powerful and easy to use XML editor, Visual Schema Editor, XQuery Editor and XSLT debugger for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X designed to help web authors and application programmers take advantage of the latest XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT / FO, DocBook and XSD Schema. EditiX provides users with an extensive range of XML functionality within a refined IDE that guides you with intelligent entry helpers. EditiX has realtime XPath location and syntax error detection. Helpers are also provided with context syntax popup supporting DTD, Schema and RelaxNG. EditiX supports multiple templates and project management. User can apply XSLT, XQuery or FO Transformation and show the result with a dedicated view. All the process can be managed by shortcuts. Working locally is managed with OASIS XML Catalogs. EditiX includes default templates with XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSD, XML RelaxNG, SVG, MathML and XML FO.
Gawker is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with up to four locations side-by-side.
Welcome to ZoneMinder.com, home of ZoneMinder the top Linux video camera security and surveillance solution. ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security applications, including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child, family member or home monitoring and other domestic care scenarios such as nanny cam installations. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more video or network cameras attached to a Linux system. ZoneMinder also support web and semi-automatic control of Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras using a variety of protocols. It is suitable for use as a DIY home video security system and for commercial or professional video security and surveillance. It can also be integrated into a home automation system via X.10 or other protocols. If you're looking for a low cost CCTV system or a more flexible alternative to cheap DVR systems then why not give ZoneMinder a try?
An application that takes several single images and combines them into a larger image.
Some time needed to learn how to use all it's features, but not massively complex to learn.
If you have a stable hand, you can even use this application without a tripod.
Open Flash Board is a free, open source whiteboard drawing application. OFB provides the ability to draw with various tools (curve, circle, line, rectangle), move the various drawn objects, group objects, scale objects and grouped objects and save as XML
A QS like launcher for windows * Launches Applications.
* Browses the File-System and the Web.
* Searches for stuff on the Web.
* Performs calculations.
* Creates emails on-the-fly.
* Inserts quick texts.
* Perform CMD commands on a specific Explorer Window.
* And more...
This article features some of the more useful and free desktop graphics editors I've come across whether you're creating/editing an icon, a vector file or otherwise. I hope that everyone finds this article useful, and I also hope that it's read before you shell out $300 for a commercial graphic editor elsewhere. What you will not find in this article are the more well known image editing applications such as The Gimp
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.
PC-BSD is a free operating system with ease of use in mind. Like any modern system, you can listen to your favorite music, watch your movies, work with office documents and install your favorite applications with a setup wizard at a click.
OpenGL sketch/paint application. Currently in development. Download the latest version below if you want to try it out.
Some key features:
- Layers with lockable transparency, and visual layer selection
- Various layer blending modes
- Image filters
- Undo for paint operations and filters
- Layered animation with onionskin and frame export
- Friendly tooltips and help
- Tablet/mouse support
- 16-bit color channels with dithered rendering
- Arbitrary color channel shape/gamma, to allow various blending properties
- Multicore support
- Rotatable canvas
- Optional miniature canvas overview
- Convenient interface for adjusting color and brush properties
- Flood fill and other tools designed to aid comic/cartoon coloring
- Greyscale-to-transparency conversion for a purpose similar to the above
- Brush path smoothing using bezier curves to avoid polygonal lines
- Optional brush inertia to improve steadiness/flow
- Joystick pressure control as alternative to tablet (use an analog trigger for instance)
- Load/save PNG, JPEG and an internal lossless layered format
Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared keyboard/mouse to control all of them.
Jolicloud is a new operating system for netbooks. The OS provides a beautiful interface, an application directory and a set of social features that make it easy and fun to use.