Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Stardock Abandons the Many Freeware Programs
How sad for the freeware community to understand that Stardock has stopped distributing the freeware versions of CurserXP and Icon Developer. They were truly some of the greatest products available to the freeware community. However, there are substitutes and I don't think they will generate much revenue for Stardock. I protest the decision in my BLOG but I doubt it will have much effect.
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CurserXP
Replacing your default curser is another way to enhance your experience at no cost. This is the best curser replacement program Mighty Joe has found. There are many different independently written cursers you can download from their site.
http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/downloads.asp
Icon Developer
This is, without a doubt, the best Icon generation program I know of. The primary way I use this program is to take any image, crop it, and save it as an icon. It creates all the different icon sizes for you. It is the easiest way to create cool icons out of image files. You can also draw your own icon but that is so time consuming and difficult. It is much faster just to take an image and create an icon out of it. If you are going to work with Icons you have to try this program out. It will save you a lot of time and effort.
http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/downloads.asp
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CurserXP
Replacing your default curser is another way to enhance your experience at no cost. This is the best curser replacement program Mighty Joe has found. There are many different independently written cursers you can download from their site.
http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/downloads.asp
Icon Developer
This is, without a doubt, the best Icon generation program I know of. The primary way I use this program is to take any image, crop it, and save it as an icon. It creates all the different icon sizes for you. It is the easiest way to create cool icons out of image files. You can also draw your own icon but that is so time consuming and difficult. It is much faster just to take an image and create an icon out of it. If you are going to work with Icons you have to try this program out. It will save you a lot of time and effort.
http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/downloads.asp
Flashpaste Lite - Freeware Version Discontinued
Sadly, they have decided to discontinue the free version of this software. They sell a copy of Flashpaste Professional for 19.95 which is too much for me to fork over. A replacement will be coming soon.
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Flashpaste Lite
This is a great tool and useful in a number of ways. You can store different strings of text and when you right click on the tray icon it brings up a window that allows you to pick which string you want to insert into whatever application you are running. Therefore, you can store your name, address, emails, credit card numbers... it makes filling out forms a snap. In addition there is a clipboard manager that works just great because it stores your last 5 clips (or more, it's an option). You can also clear your clipboard cache. I highly recommend Flashpaste Lite. It is one of Mighty Joe's MUST HAVE freeware applications. I use it every day and I think most people would if they knew about it. Everyone should try this out!!!
http://flashpaste.softvoile.com/
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Flashpaste Lite
This is a great tool and useful in a number of ways. You can store different strings of text and when you right click on the tray icon it brings up a window that allows you to pick which string you want to insert into whatever application you are running. Therefore, you can store your name, address, emails, credit card numbers... it makes filling out forms a snap. In addition there is a clipboard manager that works just great because it stores your last 5 clips (or more, it's an option). You can also clear your clipboard cache. I highly recommend Flashpaste Lite. It is one of Mighty Joe's MUST HAVE freeware applications. I use it every day and I think most people would if they knew about it. Everyone should try this out!!!
http://flashpaste.softvoile.com/
