Category Archives: Basic Tools

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Art of Illusion, tool for modelling in 3D

Posted on 23 July 2013 by Admin

Art of Illusion is a good candidate for the first 3D modelling tool. It is quite straightforward to learn, and it is sufficient for basic work. I was searching for a 3D modelling tool in order to create book cover … Continue reading →

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Sweet Home 3D, Tool for designing house floor plan and arranging furniture

Posted on 9 July 2013 by Admin

Sweet Home 3D is free and open source tool for one particular task, house planning. Long learning curve is not needed, as the 15 minutes example below shows. Also there are existing examples to get started. The tool supports several … Continue reading →

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Hugin, tool for creating panorama photos

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Admin

Hugin is a good open source tool for creating panoramas of your overlapping photos of a scenary. Example: combining 3 sky photos Hugin contains several options for combining the images. The figure below is obtained after making manual alignment of … Continue reading →

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Toucan, portable utility for synching directories, creating backups and encrypting files

Posted on 18 February 2013 by Admin

Toucan is part of PortableApps, a collection of portable applications. It contains a good set features for managing your backups and archives: synchronise backup encrypt The figure below shows one file to be encrypted. After encryption, the original file is … Continue reading →

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ByteScout Watermarking, tool for adding watermark to your photos

Posted on 22 December 2012 by Admin

ByteScout Watermarking is freeware for adding watermark into your photos. Good: Integrated into explorer batch mode sufficient for basic watermarking tasks Example Original photo   Watermarked photo 1   Watermarked photo 2

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Stellarium, tool for Night Sky views

Posted on 25 November 2012 by Admin

Stellarium is THE program for Night Sky. It can show the constellations, stars, planets etc. For the realistic view, it has settings to adjust the light pollution, and settings that limit the weaker stars from seeing. And it is multilanguage.

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Xmind, Tool for mind mapping and brainstorming

Posted on 1 April 2012 by Admin

Xmind is great tool for brainstorming, and mind mapping in general. Even though there is no Affinity Diagram mode, it can be used for that as well. Alternatives List of concept- and mind-mapping software yEd, a great tool for diagramming … Continue reading →

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