8 (More) Desktop Applications That Designers May Want To Know

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22 Jan 2010

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest desktop applications that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 8 (More) Desktop Applications That Designers May Want To Know. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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ComparePSD

ComparePSD

ComparePSD compares two Adobe Photoshop PSD files for you and highlights the differences. It can compare the difference Layer by layer,  Effect by effect. ComparePSD allows you to select the files in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on them.

Jing

Jing

You can use Jing to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly. There is an option to save as an image or short movie.

Simple CSS

Simple-CSS

To help you work with CSS, there is a free tool called Simple CSS, which runs on Mac OS X and Windows. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.

Adobe Type Manager Light

Adobe-Type-Manager-Light

Adobe® Type Manager® (ATM) Light is a system software component that automatically generates high-quality screen font bitmaps from the PostScript® outlines in Type 1 or OpenType® format. With ATM, you can scale your fonts without the characters appearing jagged, and you can also enable “font smoothing,” which further improves the appearance of your fonts onscreen by using your computer monitor’s color palette to intelligently improve the rendering of characters.

TeamViewer

TeamViewer

TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.

Krita

Krita

Greenshot

Greenshot

Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity. You can save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second and apply text and shapes to the screenshot.

Evernote

Evernote

Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web. Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.

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6 Responses to 8 (More) Desktop Applications That Designers May Want To Know

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Mazin

March 13th, 2010 at 1:51 am

are you serious!!! one it won't work and two why not just get a mac

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Amanda

March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm

bleach it then it will be about a blond and u dye the color u wat on top of it

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snow_skimmer

March 20th, 2010 at 5:44 pm

from the scribus page on wikipedia:

Scribus cannot read or write the native file formats of commercial programs like QuarkXPress, Microsoft Publisher, or InDesign; the developers feel that reverse engineering those file formats would be prohibitively complex and could risk legal action from the makers of those programs.[5]

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Kevin

March 22nd, 2010 at 9:14 pm

The enet stands for Ethernet.

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sarshay

March 24th, 2010 at 12:33 am

Yes

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ronmac60

March 28th, 2010 at 5:20 am

That is an amazing deal! That computer is worth at least 300 more (with the 2gb of ram and webcam built in amongst other things) Jump on that laptop while there are still some left! (best buy doesn't sell anything like that with 2gb of ram off the shelf)

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