AdesBlog.com

I have created a shared folder (see pic) at http://www.adesblog.com/files.php.

The folder will contain some useful freewares, sharewares and other interesting files that are worth to share.

The folder works in a Windows-like manner, so just click on the folder names to see their contents. Clicking on a file name will show the file information. In order to download a particular file, click on the link (globe icon) at the far right.

I am still in the process of uploading softwares and files, so make sure to check back later for more useful stuff.

How it is done?

The page is created using 4shared.com. It’s a free service that offers 5GB storage space and 10GB bandwidth/month for your file downloads.

As I discovered, disadvantage of the free service is: 1) it is with ads (of course!) and 2) you need to login at least every month, if you do not login more than 30 days, your account will be deleted.

The url of my folder on 4shared’s site is at adesblog.4shared.com.

You probably won’t need this software, but when you do, it will save your day. It’s a small software that allows you to extract email addresses from files. You can choose folders, files or file types in your PC or network neighborhood. It can then search all the sub-folders for email addresses.

After releasing new version of my color picker tool, I wanted to send a free upgrade to eligible customers. However, I didn’t have their emails in one single file. I had them in RegNow system with other information like names, addresses, etc. But since I only needed their emails, this tool was a tremendous help. I could extract all the emails with one click. Check it out for your future use: www.a1soft.com/emextcom.htm

I have been working on the new version of my color picker software - AdesClrPicker. The new v2.2 version is out now, you can download it here.

For those who are not familiar with AdesClrPicker, it’s a software for picking colors from anywhere on your screen. With one click you can get the color code of that spot in 5 different codes (HTML, RGB, Delphi, C++ and VB). For example if you click on a white space on your Desktop, it would give you #FFFFFF (it will be copied to your clipboard). Setting up your AdSense ads will be very easy with this program ;)

New features in this version

Floating Panel

Floating Panel (see image to the left) has been redesigned to include most used functions of the program. Previously it used to show the last 10 captured colors only. Now it has a lot more useful features on it. Floating Panel just sits on your screen, on top of all your windows. It’s small in dimension, so it can easily be positioned in any corner of your screen. If you do not want, you can always minimize it to taskbar.

Export Captured Colors as Image

New export feature has been added. Now you can export your captured colors as an image (jpg, gif or png) as well, in addition to Adobe Photoshop table export feature that it has. Exported images will have a colored box + color code. These images are useful if you want to share your colors with others. Instead of sending just the color codes, now people can actually send the colors together with the color codes.

This is how the exported image will look like (image + color code):

Change Preview Pane Size & Zoom Level

I have also added a new feature that allows you to change the preview pane and its zoom level. Some people suggested that they want to have a bigger zoom level. With new version that will be possible!

As you can see, a lot new exciting features are added to the new version. But it’s still small in size, only 1.5MB.

Promotion: Get 50% Discount

The program costs $9.99, but I am giving 50% off to all AdesBlog readers. Just use the following coupon-code on checkout page ACP-4CJB-BLOG and you will get $5.00 discount. Expiry date for this coupon is 20th May 2008 (another 7 days).

Warning: Using cracked version, illegal copies , cracks and serials of this software is not allowed. Failing to do so will make you liable for legal action.

iPod and Mobile software developer Koloroo has decided to make its products free, or in their own words “careware”. Its products include Color Schemer (for Windows, iPod, and Mobile Phones) and Tip Calculator (for iPod).

What, exactly, is careware?

Careware is free Koloroo software … with one tiny catch — before you download it, you must agree to do something nice for someone. And it doesn’t matter how big or small your act of kindness is. ~ Koloroo

People are already reporting acts of kindness that they have done or plan to do on this page. It’s great that Koloroo came up with this kind of innovative way to give its products for free which promotes social responsibility. (i should have ended the post here)

Constructive Criticism of Koloroo

Koloroo has robust software development and user interface design skills. However, I think they are wasting their skills and efforts on the wrong products that do not make sense (i.e not really useful). For example, their color schemer software for iPod. How you are going to use it? It doesn’t make sense to have a color selection tool on your iPod. It’s not practical at all, and its application in real life would be like zero!

Few weeks ago they have developed a PC version of their color schemer. My question is “Why didn’t they start with the PC version from the beginning?!” Because at least PC version would have been useful to graphic designers.

I am pretty sure that Koloroo’s recent decision to make its products free was because they were not selling well, there was no demand for them. So, probably they thought “why sit on the products that do not make money, let’s give it away for free better!”.

Koloroo’s case is the opposite of FSCapture case. FSCapture started as a freeware in the beginning, but once it became popular the author suddenly wanted to make money on it. But then again that’s life… most of the thing revolves around money in this life.

Lesson: Anything you do (i.e projects) do it with long-term vision in mind. And of course, do your homework (i.e feasibility study) before you launch any product to the market.

This is a great, small and free application (standalone exe file) that can check your entire website and show corresponding PageRank for every page. It was developed by SEOJunkie on the request of one of his blog readers.

Recommendations:

I wish the application had a “pause” button. Currently there are only “start” and “quit” buttons on the toolbar (see screenshot above). The problem arises when the website has too many pages, when this happens, there is no way of pausing the program. It goes and goes… only thing is to quit the program.

Also, “export to text file” feature would be great idea. (just a thought SEOJunkie ;) )

P.S Yes AdesBlog is now PR3, *sigh* big-G is really determined to crush me. But my other new project has a PR5 now, it was launched just 4 months ago. So, at least that’s something to be happy about.

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The site explicitly says that it’s totally free and they do not need anything from bloggers, meaning program review on the blogs, mentioning it briefly in the posts..etc. However if you do, they say it should be purely out of your good will for the great, free program.

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