WikiCalc

The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. It can be easily set up to publish to basic web server space accessed by FTP and there is no need to set up server-side programs like CGI. It can, though, run on a server and be used with nothing more than a browser on the client.

Download it here

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Photo2Sketch

Photo2Sketch is a simple program that will turn your usual photos into designs imitating sketches.

It creates pencil/pen drawings of your photographs. I tried it and was pleasantly happy with it. Sometimes you have to play with precision and line slider parameters. The quality of sketches is very good. The program is very limited in functionality but serves its functions.

They have paid version which has more functionalities but for starters like me free version is ok.

Download here
Size: 848K

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The best graphic editor

This is one of the best graphic editor and absolutely free. It is small, nice and easy to install and uninstall with tons of features. I have used it everyday and I can't believe that how my life would be without this wonderful software. It does not provide high end editing of graphics but for day to day photo editing and organizing it is the best....Irfanview

License: Free
OS: 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Publisher: Irfan Skiljan
File size: 884.5K

What is better than email...certainly a personalized letter...

In this fast paced world where information is flowing in a fraction of second from countries to countries, personalized letters still carry a unique flavor.

On my birthday or on my anniversary I do get many wishes, eithre over the phone or on the net. The e card coming via internet are alright but somehow there is no personal touch, but I love those which come through snailmail. Over the years the number is getting less and less but still they are valuable.

I think there are few reasons why they are valuable:

1. You realize that somebody actually took time to write a letter to you.

2. It can be preserved for longer time.

3. It leaves a personal mark of the person who sent it, like his/her's original hand writings and signature.

I think these are probably reasons, why I cherish letters more than emails. When I ask my friends they echo the same thing which I am thinking. Let me know your views.

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Interesting website

Have you ever wondered about your body how it would look if depicted on canvas and that too naked. Well, bodyimprints precisely does that.

Quote from the website as follows:

"bodyimprints is a unique form of art ... where you are the subject of your own abstract portrait as interpreted by artist Donna Marie Kent. the technique was developed in 1988 and has now become a sought after experience for individuals and couples to express themselves. it is also an opportunity to honor your body in the classic tradition of a nude portrait but in a truly original way. each painting is crafted to capture the essence and sensuality of the subject that becomes a visually stunning piece of art."

I had a actually fortune to see the program on TV and it seems that artist does a great job. Do visit www.Bodyimprints.com and see for yourself.

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Ai Picture Utility 8.3

Do you have a number of photographs and you suddenly find it unmanageable to stack all of them properly? Are some of your digital pictures poor in quality or over exposed? Do you wish for complete perfection for your digital album?

Then your search ends here. Ai Picture Utility 8.3 is the software which provides solution for all your problems and gives you complete satisfaction. It can edit and manage your photographs to your taste and convenience. It is an image processor and specializes in conversion also. A number of the expensive commercial applications are available with Ai Picture Utility. It has an Imaging Lab in which you can retouch your photographs and make it perfect. It has various functions like remapping, masking, variable equalization, contrast restoration and bitmap operations. You can use its functions fro your pictures one at a time or for a whole bunch of them together.

Ai Picture Utility is also a photograph manager which can manage bundles and bundles of your pictures. You just have to enter the drives or the source's name where they are stored and all your pictures will be stored in the way you prefer them to be stacked, fro e.g. according to size, name,keyword,date and so on.
Ai Picture Utility also helps in multimedia presentations with more than 170 cool effects. Its capability to handle the file formats is vast and includes PSD, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, TGA, DCX, PCX, WMV, ASF, WMA, WAV, MP3, AVI, WMF,
MIDI, MPEG, and some more.
Ai Picture Utility also has widescreen and zooming tools and a fantastically speedy reviewer. So try it out and revolutionize your photo album today.

Download it here

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A website where you can download your favorite youtube or similar video

You can download any videos you like from this website...pretty intersting.

check out http://www.snatchvid.com/

I hope you will enjoy it.

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