Creative Project and Fotoslate Photo Print Manager Software for Windows

ACDSee Photo Editor
$69.99 - ACD Systems

Creative ease. Photo Perfection. Want to start being creative with your digital photos, but don't know where to begin? Maybe you think being creative with your photos is too difficult. Maybe you think true digital creativity is reserved for the photo professionals of the world.
We understand your reservations. And thats why weve designed ACDSee Photo Editor. For family photo lovers like you - people who want to turn their everyday shots into something extra special. Photo Editor makes photo creativity easy.Be creative with your photos and learn and how to get the best results in the shortest number of steps. Get the tools and clear instruction you need to turn your digital pics into something truly memorable - photos that will last a lifetime.
Create photos for use in cards, albums, and calendars of your kids, friends, extended family, vacations, and memorable moments for everyone to share.
Fix, create, and share your photos from the moment you first use the software. With clear How-tos built right into the application, each and every step to creating perfect photos is made easy and enjoyable for you.
Photo Editor has a feature called the How-tos that offer you step-by-step instructions on a variety of popular and less known photo tasks, complemented with visual examples and cues.
The How-tos are there to make creativity easy. In a nutshell, the How-tos are guided walk-throughs that teach you how to do the different creative tasks you might want to try with your photos. Even the simplest things have been included in the How-tos, like Getting Photos and Opening Files and Photos.
We made The How-tos so you can be confident and explore new creative avenues.
The How-tos walk you through the task you've select from the How-to menu. They show you exactly how to make each change in the creative process, with detailed and easy-to-follow instructions. When reading the How-to titles you'll find yourself saying, "Hey, that's cool, I never knew I could do that!"

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FotoSlate Photo Print Manager
$29.99 - ACD Systems

FotoSlate 4 Photo Print Studio takes your photo printing to a whole new creative level.In no time you'll create scrapbook-style photo albums, greeting cards, calendars, CD or DVD covers, photo collages and photo layouts. And you'll do it all quickly and easily using FotoSlate's helpful wizards and templates.
Create a photo project in three easy steps. Select a photo layout, pick your images, drag and drop them into your project and you're done. Then, just print it out instantly or share it by email. FotoSlate lets you save your projects as .pdf or .jpg for easy and secure file sharing.
FotoSlate has the photo layout templates you need. Let your imagination run wild by quickly creating your own custom layout with the Page Designer. Plus, you can use FotoSlate's powerful editing tools to correct colors or turn a photo black and white. Crop or sharpen an image easily. Just a few clicks and your photo's polished. Add scrapbook-style elements to any of FotoSlate's album templates. Create drop shadows, freely rotate text and photos for a collage effect. Use your own photo as a background, crop them into stars, hearts, ovals and more. Design a page that's as unique as your memories.
Create impressive photo calendars using our handy wizards. Personalize your calendar with holidays and your own special days.

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SMART Ideas Concept-Mapping Software
$199 - SMART Technologies Inc.

Teach your students to become creative, independent thinkers. SMART Ideas concept-mapping software not only helps your students connect ideas, organize concepts and plan projects - it motivates them to learn.
Create Maps
Record ideas and show relationships. You can select symbols of various colors and shapes, and easily connect and resize them.
Add Levels
Expand your diagram and keep it organized. You can add multiple levels, move between levels and preview the contents.
Link to More Information
Attach links to Web sites, documents, presentations, applications and video clips.
Switch to Outline
Plan reports by seeing an outline of your concept map. You can rearrange ideas in either diagram or outline view.
Publish Web Pages
Convert your diagram to HTML. Levels automatically become hyperlinked, so you can navigate your map just like you browse Web sites.
Insert Clip Art
Make your maps even more visual with the clip-art gallery of 2,000 images. Or drag-and-drop your own clip art and images into your diagram.

Use Templates
Save time by starting with templates for various subjects and projects. Or create your own templates for students to use.
Integrate with a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
Write directly in the application and convert your handwriting to text symbols and connectors.
Brainstorm with Ease
Quickly enter typed text as symbols, which you can later rearrange and connect.
Play Back Your Work
Review material by watching a playback of diagram creation.

Price ranges from $59 to $21 for North American educational institutions based on volume of licenses purchased.
Price ranges from $199 to $70 for all other purchasers based on volume of licenses purchases.

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Amiasoft Thumbnailer
$19.95 - Amiasoft Corporation

Ready to share all those photos you've taken with your digital camera? Thumbnailer is software for creating thumbnails, resizing your digital images, or organizing your images into an HTML-based photo album. A list of features included in Thumbnailer are listed below:

-Project Files to quickly reproduce or enhance your image galleries and collections.
-Project Management tools for complete control of projects such as moving, copying, renaming or deleting.
-Complete control of image output by selecting size, quality and type of image.
-Copies selected images to one central area within the project folder for ease of uploading entire collection to the internet.
-Sorting options to sort your image list alphabetically, ascending or descending.
Ability to add images one at a time or by directory!
-Complete style control over the HTML index page that will display your images.
-Complete style control over the HTML pages that displays the full size original images.
-Included are several pre-defined color schemes to help prime the creative juices.
-A mini-preview area to interactively watch how your color selections affect the appearance of your HTML documents.
-Ability to add and preview background images for your html pages.
-Several pre-defined background images included with the program
-Ability to specify sub-folders for your original images and thumbnails
-Ability to add shadow effects to your thumbnail images plus the ability to adjust the size, type and color of the shadow.
-A large collection of pre-defined navigation buttons for the HTML pages are included. If you don't find a set you like, you can specify your own or use customizable text hyperlinks.
-Thumbnailer also tracks any changes that have been made to the project and warns you on the last panel if changes were made.
-If only changes you make to a project affect the HTML files, you can quickly rebuild just those HTML documents.

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Chrysanth NETime Author
$99.95 - Chrysanth Software Sdn Bhd

Chrysanth NETime Author is designed to be professional writers' best companion. Various kinds of writing projects like book, novel, personal journal or creative content writing is made easy with an assorted range of supporting functions like Media Library and Task Manager to help overcome "Writer's Block" and organize all important writing tasks in the same repository.

With the proper tracking and filing of individual articles, as an author, you may always organize your thoughts, novel characters, story lines, articles and contents in a very tidy way, i.e. the "Collection" way. You could easily leverage all the supporting functions for your daily brainstorming activities, hence fueling all sorts of creative ideas to your successfully writing projects.

Furthermore, all written articles from the previous past can be easily stringed together to form a ready-to-publish (or ready-to-SELL!) e-book or even printed materials! This is made possible by the versatile functions which helps create PDF (Portable Document Format) e-book and HTML web pages on-the-fly.

Backed with a powerful Media Library, you would be able to gather sufficient referencing digital contents easily and link them up to your writing projects. Anything from a simple URL bookmark, file location pointer to mp3 voice files, photo pictures and video files could be kept safely in the same database for future reference. And via the integrated design, the access to all the necessary piece of information is just a few clicks away, which totally does away the hassle to look for files stored in various locations on the hard disk or even over the Internet!

Meanwhile, the built-in Task Manager allows you to easily organize all tasks related to your writing works in a tightly integrated way. This could further serve as a task reminder for urgent and important due dates or events of various purposes.

Get your copy now, and your next best-seller writing experience would be utterly rewarding!

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Investment Growth RateCalculator
$25 - Vidyasoft Applications

If you have any type of investments or stocks, you may often wish to know the real rate at which your money is growing. This calculator calculates the compound interest rate based on dates of all your previous investments and the current balance. By knowing the growth rates for different periods of time, you may decide to fine-tune your investment strategy.

In addition, the calculator provides account management by storing multiple account information with reminders. The account can be assigned in any currency. Find the consolidated account balance in any currency. These features will make the calculator useful for long-term usage.

To calculate the real interest rate, enter all the previous investment information (date of investment and the amount of investment). Then, enter the current date and balance, and the rate calculator will calculate the interest rate! It is that simple! You can also use this calculator for calculating your interest rate between the two periods to see the performance in that period. This can be creatively used for determining weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly interest rates.

The calculator also makes a projection of your investment accumulated, in say 10 years. The projection is flexible to include a regular periodic investments and tax. This gives you a more realistic projection.

The authors of this software believe that magic of compound interest on investments and right portfolio is one of the great ways to get good returns in 10-20 years. The authors with good background in mathematics and computers have created this calculator for their use! The free shareware version has enough goodies to make you excited about investments. So try it and register it only if you like the software!

The Help file describes the working of the Rate Calculator, the magic of compound interest, some tips and links. For mathematically savvy persons, we describe the mathematical formulas used in calculating rates and projection.

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