With this freeware progrem AndreaMosaic you can create your own photomosaics made with collection of your own pictures. A photo-mosaic is a mosaic where every tile is a photograph and not just a simple colored piece. The most famous photomosaic art was a “Truman Show” movie poster. That was a first tieme I’ve saw that kind of art.

To create such kind of mosaic you need a collection of images to use for the tiles of the mosaic and you also need an image to use for the original, as a matrix for the mosaics. Then you can set the parameters of the program for to create very different kind of mosaics. The program will then analyze all the images and the result will be saved for you.

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HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers. HJSplit supports many platforms (Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP, DOS, Linux, Amiga, Java, etc.). All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms. E.g. a file split on the Amiga can be joined on Windows 2000 and vice versa.

Now what’s the use of a program like HJSplit? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored.

What about a backup of very large Gigabyte sized files? HJSplit (Windows and Java version) also can handle these! E.g. HJSplit allows you to split a 10 Gb file into 640 Mb parts, which can then be stored onto CD-Rom’s by your CD-writer software.

Of course HJSplit can join these split parts back together again, so that the original file is restored. Alternatively, you can use HJJoin for this, which is a tiny and specialized program for joining files.

HJSplit is very reliable, simple, small and easy to use. It does not need any installation or complicated DLLs, it just consists of one ‘.exe’ file. This means that you can also run it directly from a floppy or CD-Rom.

pkColorPicker is an extensive and easy-to-use color selection tool. The program offers many ways to mix and to adjust colors. It offers sliders to adjust the red, green and blue intensities, brightness, suturation and hue. Colors can be choosen directly from the color matrix, entered in text boxes, or picked from any position of the screen, supported by a magnifying tool. It allows the user to create a custom palette and save it as bitmap or load it from an image file. If desired, the color value can be automatically copied to the clipboard in one of 3 available formats. pkColorPicker also supports web safe colors. This program is freeware and is allowed to be distributed for free, complete and in original state only.

7-Zip is an Open Source product that You may use for private or commercial use for free. 7-Zip is really my favorite archive tool! It does everything that can WinZip or WinRar - most popular commercial zip utilities. And even more - it uses it’s own format “7z”, that sometimes has better compression ratio.

There are main features of 7-Zip:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
• Supported formats:
  1. Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  2. Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
• For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 63 languages

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Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Blender therefore is fully free to use and distribute within any educational, professional or commercial environment. Artwork created with Blender – including python scripts – is the sole property of the creator.

There are main Blender features:

Interface

• Revolutionary non-overlapping and non-blocking UI delivers unsurpassed workflow
• Flexible and fully configurable window layout with as many screen setups as you prefer
• Undo support on all levels
• Powerful built-in database system allowing instances, scene management, and dynamic linking multiple project files
• Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support
• Windows for animation curves/keys, outliner, schematic scene diagram, non-linear video sequence editing, character animation action editor, non-linear animation mixer, image/UV editing, file/image selection and file management
• Built-in text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts
• Consistent interface across all platforms 

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