Shooting your own videos has never been easier, especially if you’re equipped with a smartphone. Quality can be variable, of course, but a few minutes spent with Movavi Video Editor will fix many problems and give your footage a far more professional look. The program’s simple timeline helps to get…
FreeCAD is a powerful 3D CAD modeler and drawing tool which is targeted squarely at the mechanical engineering and product design fields. The program’s 0.12 version number tells you it’s not yet ready for prime time, but if you’re interested in this area – particularly if you’re familiar with Python…
Software Ideas Modeler is a versatile diagramming tools that can help you to create over 70 different types of diagram. There are many classic options here such as mind mapping, flowcharts and fault tree analysis, but there are also lots of rather more specific diagram types available. A key feature…
Modern technology enables a team to operate in different locations across your company and the world. If you’re a software developer, there’s no reason why you couldn’t pick the best programmers based in Germany, document writers from the UK, whilst your graphic artists could be based in the States. The…
PowerFolder is an unusually versatile file transfer tool that can synchronise, back up and share your data, both locally and across the web. You’re able to choose which folders you’d like to synchronise in just a few clicks, either selecting from a standard list (“Outlook”, “Desktop”, “Firefox”, “Pictures” and so…
Active@ Disk Image is a straightforward backup tool which will quickly create an image of your specified hard drive. The program is extremely easy to use. Open it and you’ll immediately see a set of shortcuts, with sensibly chosen names, highlighting all the main functions. So “Disk to Image” is…
Synchronizing files between locations makes it easy to not only back up valuable data, but also to easily make it available in more than one place. You may find, for instance, that you are constantly moving between two or more computers in the workplace, and a sync tool such as…
Inkscape is an open source SVG-based vector graphics editor that comes with a host of high-end, professional features. You get a lengthy list of drawing tools, for instance, quick ways to create rectangles and squares, circles and arcs, spirals, polygons, 3D boxes, Bezier curves, straight lines and more. But there…
Iperius Backup Free is an interesting and very configurable free backup tool. The program offers a clean and simple interface. You don’t have to explore a host of nested menus to figure out exactly what it can do: everything you need is accessible via few buttons. There are still plenty…
It’s amazing how quickly manufacturers abandon support for older hardware devices. This is nowhere more evident than when it comes to scanners. The gradual shift from 32- to 64-bit computing threatens to leave even more perfectly serviceable scanners in the box marked “obsolete”, but there may be a future for…