Tag Archives: freeware

Jumpcut: Free OS X Clipboard History Utility

Jumpcut is a very handy clipboard extender for Mac OS X. What Jumpcut does is remember a user-specified number of text items copied to the clipboard, and allows one to select from them when pasting. The standard OS X clipboard allows … Continue reading

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Essential Adobe Illustrator Plug-in: Select Menu

A plugin that I always forget to tout, since the functionality it provides seems so intrinsic to Illustrator once it’s installed, I forget it’s a third-party enhancement. Select Menu for Adobe Illustrator (Mac and Windows, free) from Graffix Software is available … Continue reading

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Color Blindness Software Tools for Artists

Just stumbled across these handy Mac OS X software applications to help designers and artists simulate the effects of color blindness on-screen: Sim Daltonism and Color Oracle. Sim Daltonism works as a floating palette which converts an area under your … Continue reading

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Productivity Tip: Floating, Transparent Reference Images Using Screenshots & Free Software Afloat

Ever need to temporarily reference another document while working on something – this may be an image, or instructions, or a PDF file. Many times you want it floating right on top of your current document so you can refer … Continue reading

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Paintbrush: Free Bitmap Image Editor For Mac OS X

Paintbrush a cool little free image editor/paint software program for Mac OS X. As the site says, this is no Photoshop competitor. It’s just your basic paint program like Microsoft Paint or the old MacPaint. It has just the basics … Continue reading

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Pencil: Free Vector & Bitmap Drawing/Animation Software for Mac & Windows

(via CoolMacOSXApps) Pencil is a free, open-source vector and bitmap graphics animation/drawing application. I have not had a chance to try it out just yet, but will do so in the near future and pop a review on the ol’ … Continue reading

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Kuler: Handy, Addictive and Free Social Color Theme Creation Tool by Adobe

Adobe has this new online tool for creating color themes, Kuler that is not only really useful, but fun (at least for us color geeks). You can save and share your color themes with other visitors, and even rate them.

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