Archive for December, 2007
Promote your blog posts on a Digg style website - zaBox News
zaBox News is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. zaBox News - Box your news was born out of the need for free advertising of news, blog posts, articles etc.
Th registration is pretty simple (takes about 1 minute). Among the features besides submitting a story we mention :
- upcoming news
- news comments
- vote news
- tag cloud
- live news system
- RSS feeds for every category
- top users
- complete user profile
- “Box news” directly from your web browser.
More information on the zaBox News website.
Filter Forge Releases Free Metal Textures Plugin
The first free texture pack for Filter Forge (Filter Forge Freepack 1 - Metals) has been released.
On the surface, Filter Forge is just a Photoshop plugin, a pack of filters that generate textures, create visual effects, enhance photos, process images. However, there are 3 things that make Filter Forge unique:
- You can create your own filters
- You get free access to user-created filters
- Contributors get Filter Forge for free
Filter Forge Freepack 1 - Metals is a set of seven photorealistic metal textures and effects. Metallizing effects, alien-looking or industrial metallic surfaces, rust or aluminum foil, and more – all filters are fully adjustable and support seamless tiling.More free texture packs are coming soon. We’ll keep you up-to-date.
Download Filter Forge Freepack 1 - Metals
Convert Microsoft Publisher Documents to Adobe InDesign - PUB2ID
Markzware’s InDesign plugin is an easy to use tool designed to easy convert Microsoft Publisher Documents to Adobe InDesign.
Available for both Windows and Mac, PUB2ID converts Publisher 2002 through 2007 documents to InDesign CS2 and CS3 formats. The plugin offers conversion for the page size, positioning, color models, fonts and styles, text attributes and tables, layers, word wrap, linked text boxes, as well as automatic extraction of images embedded in the Publisher file.
For the moment there is no trial version, but you may upload a document to the Markzware website for free conversion.
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Find more information on the Markzware website
