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IconLover 4.10 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, its a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.
First, IconLover 4.10 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.
Second, IconLover 4.10 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.
Finally, IconLover 4.10 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.
The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.
This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265×256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265×256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.
IconLover 4.10 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars
Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.
If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.
System Requirements
Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
RAM: 64 MB
Hard Disk: 8 MB
Company Website
http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm
Product Page
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm
Build reports instantly with DTM Schema Reporter.
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TierDeveloper 5.2 Released for .NET includes New Mapping Wizard, Separation of Domain Objects from Persistence Layer, Integration Layer provided and much more…
San Ramon, California April 5th, 2006 - AlachiSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TierDeveloper 5.2. TierDeveloper is an object-to-relational mapping and code generation tool that helps developers cut down development time and cost. Map objects to relational tables, embed powerful SQL including queries and stored procedure calls, and instantly generate fully-functional .NET components (VB.NET and C#). Also generate real-life ASP.NET and Windows Forms applications to use against the generated objects.
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DownloaderXL Easy-to-use software to download and manage data in Microsoft Excel.
OLSOFT has released DownloaderXL version 5.9.2 - easy-to-use software to download and manage data in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. DownloaderXL Package includes the following products: DownloaderXL, RTQuotesXL, OptionsXL and PortfolioXL.
New features have been added to OptionsXL and PortfolioXL. New data sources and Master feature were added to OptionsXL. Using PortfolioXL it is now possible to group the data by tables, import/export records, open/close Short positions, transfer records from one portfolio into another, download and add dividends, exercise/close derivate, download current prices from different data sources.
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Database migration is a process of moving data from one place to another. Sometimes it is as simple as copying database from one PC to another. Sometimes it’s a time consuming operation that involves converting old database to a new format, uploading it to a new server and then testing it to make sure everything works correctly. There hardly is a database administrator who does not dread the database migration routine.
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Advanced Office Repair(AOFR) is a Microsoft Office data recovery suite. It includes recovery tools for corrupt or damaged MS Access databases, MS Excel worksheets, MS Word documents, MS Outlook data files, and MS Outlook Express dbx and mbx files.