Category Archives: Free

Free Mac program to convert Office 07 & 08 docs

This might come in handy if someone emails you a file saved as a .docx or pptx or whatever the other new fangled file extensions are. I’m currently running NeoOffice so this could come in handy for me sometime. Maybe it could help you out.
Here’s the link to the Microsoft Download Center page.
via [Webmonkey]

Need Avery label templates for Photoshop?

I’m going to print up 300 CD labels for my buddies new Album. I bought the 8931 CD labels from Avery but it only came with some bullshit software that I would have to install on my computer. I went to their crappy website to look for a some sort of generic template that I [...]

Inkscape versus Ilustrator: Bitmap Tracing

Bitmap Tracing Comparison
Originally uploaded by mr.throk.
I had to vectorize a small logo. In the logo was the picture of eagle. After trying to use Illustrator CS3 to get a good vector representation of the bitmap image without much luck; I decided to download Inkscape and use that to trace the image.
Wow, super easy. Not to [...]

Free Web Backgrounds

I had to make a new background for a website that I’m working on, and I couldn’t decide which background to use. I ended up making a few extras.

Download Zip Files

PSD (ver CS3) - Elegant Background PSDs
JPGs - Elegant Background JPGs

Use these for anything you want, please post a link in the comments with what/where [...]

Ubuntu Studio

One of the best things I’ve done since I’ve upgraded my laptop to Vista has been to turn the 10 Gig restore partition into a Linux Partition. I first installed the 64 bit version of Ubuntu, talk about fast! However there weren’t too many programs made to work on a 64bit OS so I [...]

New Twitter Background - free download

I took a few minutes today and I created a new background for my Twitter page.
I’m not really sure why I made it; especially since the only place people see what I’m tiwttering is on the Facebook application.

You can click on the thumbnail to view and download the JPG file. If you decide to use [...]