Saturday, May 28, 2011

Radical Image Resizer

This is real radical. If you want to keep your memories in pictures, but like to save memory requirements with very good quality but smallest image size, and also easy enough to process, here is a good photo resizer freeware. It lets you adjust the compression while visually seeing the output on side window. It is light weight, simple, easy to use, but powerful program.


Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize.

It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.



Monday, May 9, 2011

PDF Tools - the Swiss Army Knives for PDF's

PDF Exploiter is a useful freeware, with which you can do operations like Merge, Split, Encrypt, Decrypt and Water Mark and has a nice GUI. This makes use of open source libraries pdftk and pdfsharp. If you want to manipulate and create multi page PDFs, from single PDF sheets, this is the program you can use.
Merge

Gios Splitter & Merger is another handy PDF Tool: It can merge and split PDF's as well as merge JPG image files into a PDF File. It is also a portable program, so there is no need of installation but needs .NET framework.


Still another good one with more features is portable PDFTK Builder, which can split or modify your PDF files and is GUI for the popular pdftk commandline utility. 

Download PDFTK Builder Portable