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File Courier Simplifies Complex File-Sending Needs

Zevrix Solutions’ File Courier is a digital delivery system that lets you send files to FTP and local destinations automatically. With a little initial setup, sending files is a matter of drag-and-drop. File Courier will ask you to select a pre-defined destination and an e-mail notification template (if desired) and off goes the file.
If your [...]

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Markzware’s Universal Content Extractor

For many years, Markzware has made tools to convert and/or repair documents made in QuarkXPress, InDesign, and other applications. Now, they’ve taken their experience, knowledge, and patented technology and rolled it into PageZephyr, a new tool that can search and extract text.
As Markzware says:
“indexes, locates and outputs content created from proprietary or encoded formats without [...]

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Neat Image: An Excellent Noise Reducer

Neat Image is a plug-in for Photoshop 7 through CS4, as well as Photoshop Elements and Apple Aperture, that reduces image noise and grain in digital photos and scans. (They also have a standalone version, and a version for video!)

It works well at reducing noise in low-light action photos, as well as in portraits, in [...]

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Affordable Photoshop

If you, friends or family don’t have the full version of Photoshop, check out Photoshop Elements for Mac or Windows. It’s a powerful image editor that uses the same engine as Photoshop, but with a simpler interface and a much lower price: $80.
Version 8 was recently released and includes Content Aware Scaling (called Recompose), a [...]

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