It may be a small utility or possibly the software upon which you run your business. We’ll tell you about our favorites.
Corel has released the latest version of their popular Painter tool. The new features are highlighted in the press release below. You'll also find links to download a free trial or to purchase both upgrades and full versions. Corel Painter 2017: New Brushes and...
In last week's post; Free Windows 10 Updates Over, Anniversary Edition Coming; I wrote that you needed to have at least 15 GB of free space on your system drive before you should proceed with installing the update. What happens if you don't have enough free space?...
The folks at Photodex recently released ProShow 8, the latest version of their powerful tool for creating multimedia slideshows! It is one of my favorite tools to use as I always feel like I am playing instead of working. Below are a list of new features provided...
Below is a press release about the release of a public beta of Affinity Designer for Windows. It is promoted as a professional-level tool for vector illustration. Thus it would be compared against products like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Designer Pro. I...
Xara has released a new version of their Designer Pro software. Below is the press release with details of new features and changes. We'll have a review after we've had time to give it a test drive. New Release Xara Designer Pro X365 This new release of Xara...
We've added a new CorelDRAW plugin from Advanced Tshirts designed to help those in apparel design and anyone else needing to create unique artwork. Fashion Factory 3.5 does require CorelDRAW X5-X8, but not any of the crippled versions like "Home and Student". In...
Xara has released the latest version of their Photo & Graphic Designer. Below is the press release describing the new version. Links are included if you want to download the free trial or purchase a copy. New Release - Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 365 Xara...
The folks at Xara are not only keeping up with what Web designers want & need, they're pushing Web design boundaries in all the right ways. The bells & whistles are all there in Xara Web Designer 365 - parallax scrolling effects, sticky elements,...
If you want to improve the quality of photos taken with a digital camera, you'll want to give Corel AfterShot Pro 3 a look. It offers a wide variety of tools for getting the most out of your photos and it does this really fast! I've been using AfterShot Pro since...
Two important tools for screen printers have been updated to work with CorelDRAW X8. SimpleSeps 4.0 SmartRIP allows you to print spot color separations to any printer from within CorelDRAW. To learn more about it, watch the video tutorials linked below. SimpleSeps...
Xara has released the latest version of Xara Web Designer. Information on the new version is detailed in the press release below. New: Xara Web Designer 365 Xara Web Designer 365 is the first release from Xara under its new and unique 365 Update Guarantee....
Each time a new version of CorelDRAW is released, add-on developers have to make a decision whether to update their add-ons to the new version and how quickly to make it available. One of the more popular add-ons, Design Base, is now available for CorelDRAW X8....
Back in September 2012, Google purchased Nik software. The thinking was that the purchase was for the Snapseed app that Nik had developed. But many of us knew Nik for the awesome Photoshop plug-ins they had developed. Each of those plug-ins delivered high-end...
Any time a new version of CorelDRAW is released, questions are asked about whether favorite add-ons are working well or if an update will be needed. With the last few versions, there has been some change in the CDR file format that required a minor update to the...
I was really disappointed when Microsoft ended support for their "Desktop Gadgets" starting with Windows 8. Yes, I found a utility that allowed me to keep using them and wrote about it in Four Useful Add-Ons for Windows 8. Sure, I had a way to run my old gadgets...
I think many of us will sometimes judge a product's capabilities solely on the name of the product. One such product for me is the eCut Designer Toolkit for CorelDRAW. As it has "cut" in the name, I immediately suggest it to users who have the need to cut from...
For those of you who don't stay up on Web design trends, the WordPress platform now powers the sites of more than 25% of the Internet. That percentage has been increasing year over year and our own sites have shifted from other technologies to WordPress. Our last...
Before I get into the major elements needed to build a great Web site, I want to stress that the most important element is content! It might only take a few words, it may take many. Someone has to write the words. Then there are photographs and other graphics. This...
As more and more products move to our new sites, we can focus on adding new and updated products. One of the most popular products on our sites is the free Design Base Automation Plug-In. It had been a long time since the last update as there was a major new...
Back in July, I shared information on the latest release of Xara Designer Pro X11 in New Release: Xara Designer Pro X11, Creative Software with Online Editing. Now that I've spent time with the software, it is time to share my thoughts. If you've used Xara products...
Many of you bill out your work based on the time involved. As I have moved moved more into Web design, this has been increasingly important to me. Not only did I need to track the time I spent on projects, I needed to log that time so I could bill clients. This led...
Software companies often give a press briefing before software is launched. I got just such a briefing on the newly released Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 and Adobe Premiere Elements 14. With mature products, many of the improvements are minor. One new feature really...
I've been using the ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite to protect the computers at Unleashed for more than a decade. They've done a fantastic job of protecting us as we've never had a virus or malware sneak onto our computers. The one downside I see to the new 2016...
In the last year, I've written a few times about System Mechanic Pro. If you want to read the previous posts, I've included links below. iolo System Mechanic 14 Professional Restores Computer Speed iolo System Mechanic 14 Professional Revisited System Mechanic 14.5...
