Photo to pencil drawing software

FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.

Using FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season's greetings stationery or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall. Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...).

FotoSketcher is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware or virus. It runs on any version of Microsoft Windows.

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Free painting software for Kids

BabyPaint is an easy to use paint software for kids. It comes with an easy to use controls and painting functions which kids can learn easily. It features redraw with Music, Unlimited Undo and Redo, Save Undo, Symmetry and more.

BabyPaint is a standalone executable, it doesn’t require installation. Just download the software run it from anywhere.

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DNS Server Performance Testing Tool

DNS Benchmark is a free software which enables you to test the performance of a list of DNS servers so you can determine which offer the fastest response time and optimize your Internet settings accordingly. This program comes with pre-configured with a list of public DNS servers and you can easily add your own entries to see how the compare.

DNS Benchmark performs a detailed analysis and comparison of all servers in the list and generates a bar graph that makes it easy to interpret the results and choose the fastest servers. In addition to the graphical results, the program also generates tabular data that shows detailed technical results for expert users, as well as a conclusion that explains the overall results in Plain English for non-technical users.

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Disk space usage analyzer for Windows 7, XP, Vista

ShowMan is very small utility software which helps to recover disk space usage . It gives pie-chart view of disk usage, including unused space, with the ability to drill down into folders and shows actual or nominal space occupied.

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Batch image resizing software

Mihov Image Resizer is a freeware which can be used to batch resize images in bmp, gif, and jpg picture formats. It can make any kind of images smaller or bigger - whichever you need at the time.  converting pictures between different graphic formats. It can change from bitmap to JPEG or GIF, from JPEG to GIF or from GIF to JPEG. Again, this can be made in batch mode. That means that you will only have to select the images and the program will do the rest for all selected images.

Mihov Image Resizer is also a perfect utility for creating thumbnails, so you can put them on your home page for faster loading or send pictures with smaller size to family and friends by e-mail.

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Create Bootable USB drive with free software

UNetbootin is a free software which allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on both Windows and Linux. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.

UNetbootin can create a bootable Live USB drive, or it can make a "frugal install" on your local hard disk if you don't have a USB drive. It can load distributions by automatically downloading their ISO (CD image) files, or by using existing ISO files, floppy/hard disk images, or kernel/initrd files, for installing other distributions.

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Disk Analyzer for Windows 7, Vista and XP

Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard disk analyzer software. It shows a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays which gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk, folder, removable or network drive.

It makes it easy to see the contents, structure and file distribution and file composition of a whole hard disk, directory, or mapped network drive. Includes full report creation.

Xinorbis Features:

• analyse a single drive, folder or merge several together in one report
• view the results by file type, attributes, size, user (owner) and date
• the Folder History feature allows you to compare the contents of a folder or drive at times and dates
• in-bullt powerful search engine (+ save results to a file or clipboard)
• find duplicate files (by name and size)
• complex report generation (with many user customisations) with export to HTML, ASCII, CSV or XML
• save reports and tables for later comparison or for inclusion in other documents
• shell support, scan a directory through Windows Explorer

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Easy to remember password generator software

WinTinker Password Generator is a free tool which allows you to generate easy to remember passwords. Generated passwords which you will use for online banking, social networking sites and computers are strong and secure.

Features of WinTinker:

• Freeware application that easily creates easy-to-remember words that can be use as a secure password that combines all Upper Case, Lower Case, Numbers and Symbol.

• Creates unreadable Randomly generated password that you can write down for free.

• Generates a password that balances the unrecognizable secure passwords and easy-to-remember password ones. From a very simple suggested password like “carlo” into a strong and encrypted words.

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