Posts Tagged ‘32-bit’

IconXP 3.30

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

IconXP v. 3.30Aha-Soft IconXP allows you to edit icons and customize the Windows desktop appearance. It supports the new icon format introduced in Windows Vista (employs smooth transparency and other visual effects). Using this program you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color depths up to 32-bit True Color with 8-bit alpha channel. Paint tools include: color replacer, color selector, spray can, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line tool, rectangle, curve, ellipse, 3d frame. Modifiers can also be used to apply color gradients and chess fills. For Windows XP icons, you get to add cool drop shadow and smooth effects.

IconXP supports .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .xpm, .xbm, .wbmp, Mac OS icons and Adobe Photoshop .psd file formats. You can import images from screen captures. IconXP allows you to import, export and change color palettes for icon images.

IconXP allows you to change standard Windows icons, folder icons and customize desktop attributes. You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects – My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, system folders and your own folders. You can also hide or change shortcut overlays. There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, and rebuild the icon cache.

Version: 3.30
License: Shareware
Download: IconXP v. 3.30

KbdEdit 1.2.1

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

KbdEdit v. 1.2.1Keyboard customization under Windows has never been easy. Fortunately, KbdEdit is here to turn it around: now it`s never been easier!

KbdEdit is no ordinary keyboard mapper: not only can you assign any letter or special character to any key, you can remap physical position and function of any, and we mean ANY key: letter or digit, Control, Alt, Shift, Function, multimedia, cursor, Caps/Num/Scroll Lock and Numpad keys.

All keyboard functions are at your fingertips, waiting for you to reprogram them to your taste – only one menu item, button click or drag&drop away. You can also drag&drop characters from/to other applications – KbdEdit is better CharMap than the Windows built-in CharMap itself.

Multiple level Undo/Redo always gives you an easy route back.

Any change you make can be instantly tested in the Preview screen.

Unicode palette enables you to quickly locate the desired character. It adjusts automatically to the current layout, displaying only character ranges that make sense for your language.

Use advanced layout features like Ligatures, customized dead keys, togglable KANA modifier etc

KbdEdit imports KLC files produced by Microsfot Keyboard Layout Creator. Not only does this make for a painless migration from MSKLC, it also enables the deployment of KLC files under 64-bit Windows, which cannot be achieved using MSKLC alone.

Your customized layout can become a part of the Language Bar list in no time, and from that point on it is accessible from any Windows application.

Your changes are localized strictly to the custom layouts created with KbdEdit. Windows standard layouts, as well as layouts created with other tools, are protected from any accidental damage.

Deploying a custom layout elsewhere is as easy as exporting it in KBE format and using the “Import” feature on the target computer. For a cost-effective deployment on a large number of computer, the “Player” edition exists with its volume discount license.

Version: 1.2.1
License: Shareware
Download: KbdEdit v. 1.2.1

MPRESS 2.19

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

MPRESS v. 2.19MPRESS is a free, high-performance executable packer for 64-bit, 32-bit, .NET executable formats!
MPRESS compresses PE32 (x86,32-bit), PE32+(x64, AMD64, 64-bit) programs and libraries and .NET applications, makes them smaller, and decrease start time when the application loaded from a slow removable media or from the network. It uses in-place decompression technique, which allows to decompress the executable without memory overhead or other drawbacks; it also protects programs against reverse engineering by non-professional hackers. Programs compressed with MPRESS run exactly as before, with no runtime performance penalties.
MPRESS is absolutely free of charge software, therefore you can use MPRESS for your commercial project without needs to make it opensource. MPRESS uses LZMAT – extremely fast data compression algorithm.
MPRESS Features:
Advanced compression of .NET executable files (anyCPU,x86,AMD64,IA64 EXE)
Support for MS Framework 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0
Does not require .NET Framework to be installed
Advanced compression of PE32/PE32+ (AMD64) executable files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.)
Very fast decompression: ~210 MB/sec on an AMD 2500+
Static TLS support
Iin-place decompression
Optional LZMA compression
Strip sensitive information (relocation, debug information, exceptions, etc.)
Compression of program code, data, and resources
Completely transparent, self-contained operation with UNICODE support
Command line interface allows to use MPRESS from a batch or from a make file
Full Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 compatibility

Version: 2.19
License: Freeware
Download: MPRESS v. 2.19

ArtIcons Pro 5.40

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

ArtIcons Pro v. 5.40ArtIcons Pro provides great opportunities for working with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons. You will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression.

Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images – they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, Articons Pro is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.

A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. Aha-Soft has again found a way to cast off these shackles: Articons Pro uses advanced PNG compression to save images without losses and supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel. That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.

Articons Pro will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your program`s most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Vista Icons crafted by Articons Pro will strongly impact users` overall impression of your programs` visual design. Articons Pro will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.

Version: 5.40
License: Shareware
Download: ArtIcons Pro v. 5.40

ArtIcons Pro 5.40

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

ArtIcons Pro v. 5.40ArtIcons Pro provides great opportunities for working with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons. You will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression.

Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images – they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, Articons Pro is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.

A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. Aha-Soft has again found a way to cast off these shackles: Articons Pro uses advanced PNG compression to save images without losses and supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel. That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.

Articons Pro will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your program`s most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Vista Icons crafted by Articons Pro will strongly impact users` overall impression of your programs` visual design. Articons Pro will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.

Version: 5.40
License: Shareware
Download: ArtIcons Pro v. 5.40