Resize Images on Windows with a Right-click

Uploading high resolution images on your Facebookphoto album or uploading it into your Blog is a much time consumingblog. In these cases though you upload high resolution and heavy sizephotos, the images will be compressed into smaller size  and getdisplayed to you. So its a wise thing to resize your images accordingto the need before you actually upload it into the internet.
Image resizer is the freeware for windows that lets you resize any images with just a right click. It means you don’t need to use other softwareslike Photoshop, Picasa or others for resizing images which consumesextra time. After you download and install this freeware, a new menuitem to Windows’ contextual menu will be added. So right Click anyImages and click “Resize Image” to resize images instantly according toyour needs on windows.
You got different options for resizing your images according to yourneeds – small, medium, large and Mobile device in basic. In the advancemode you got option to apply custom size on images. Check on “Make picture smaller but not larger” if you want only the smaller size of the original image and check “Resize the original pictures (don’t create copies)” for preventing freeware making extra copies of the original images.

15 Recommended Opensource Applications for Windows

Posted: 19 Feb 2011 02:01 AM PST

Weall know what the term “Open Source” term refers to. But most of thetime we use it for open source operating systems such as Linux. Well, open source applications are available for Windowsalso. Among them, you already have a good knowledge on Firefox,Thunderbird, VLC and OpenOffice as they are the popular open sourceapplications for Windows.
In this post, we will introduce you all with some more open sourceapplications for windows that can fulfill the need of installing andrunning corresponding proprietary softwares.

1. LibreOffice

LibreOffice is the opensource alternative for MS Office. With a userfriendly and simple – to-use yet powerful interface and  compatibilitywith all major file formats and files from MS Word, Excel andPowerPoint along with many other formats, the switch from MS office toLibreOffice is a good deal in hand for opensource users.

2. Scribus

Withprofessional features such as CMYK color, spot color , separations, ICCcolor and robust commercial grade PDF, Scribus stands as a very goodopensource alternative to its counterparts such as PageMaker andQuarkXpress. It is meant to bring professional page layout to Windowsas well as to other operating systems like Linux/Unix, MacOS X and OS/2.

3. The GIMP

TheGIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program and can be used asopensource alternative to Photoshop in the Windows for various taskssuch as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMPfeatures a great fullscreen mode allowing you to use most of the screenestate to edit and preview your works.

4. Inkscape

Inkscapeis an Open Source vector graphics editor which uses the W3C standardScalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It is different from GIMPin a sense that GIMP  raster graphics editing features and Inkscapeuses vector graphic editing features. Although it is a difficult job touse the vector graphics editor,with Inkscape, it is very easy to editnodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and many more .

5.  ClawsMail

ClawsMailis a GTK+ based, open source email and news client that is similar toOutlook Express in Windows. With the messages managed in the standardMH format , it provides fast access , strong data security and emailimport/export features.

6. VLC player

VLCplayer is a cross-platform multimedia player, encoder, and streamersupporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well asDVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

7. Virtual Box

VirtualBox is a powerful opensource virtualization application for x86 andAMD64/Intel64 processor computers. It supports a large number of guestoperating systems including Windows , DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris and OpenBSD. It is a very good opensourcealternative toVMWARE in windows.

8. TrueCrypt

TrueCryptfree open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac and Linuxthat creates a virtual encrypted disk that can be mounted and unmountedonly with the configured passphrase.

9. Calibre

Calibreis a free and open source e-book library management application withfeatures such as E-book conversion, Syncing to e-book reader devices,downloading new from the web and converting it into e-book form,comprehensive e-book viewer and content server for online access toyour book collection.

10. 7-Zip

7-Zipis an Open Source file archiver  and manager with a high compressionratio in 7Z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression. It supports formatssuch as 7z, XZ,BZIP2,GZIP,TAR,ZIP and WIM for packing/unpacking andARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR,MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z forunpacking only.

11. PDF Creator

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program that can beprinted easily and even send generated files via eMail. It also hasDigital Signature , PDF Encryption and Autosave features.

12. VirtuaWin

VirtuaWinprovides virtual desktops for the Windows operating system much in thesame way Linux/Unix does. It is a virtual desktop manager for theWindows operating system and lets you organize application over severalvirtual desktops.

13.  Paint.NET

Paint.NETis a free image and photo editing software for Windows. It wasoriginally intrdouced as an opensource alternative for Microsoft Paint.With its new powerful features it has been even compared with AdobePhotoshop , Corel Paint Shop Pro and many more.

14. FileZilla

FileZilla is used for free FTP solution. It supports SFTP , allows for bandwidth speed limits and easily saves server settings.