There are many times that you need to convey the design of a website or application without needing to deliver a completely coded solution. By working with your clients to define what they expect to see before you spend significant time working in the wrong direction, you’ll be able to save time, increase efficiency, and achieve the ultimate in customer satisfaction!

Today, one simple application will revolutionize the way you approach website and application design. Screen Shapes and Controls lets you quickly and easily create “scenes” consisting of all kinds of freeform and geometric shapes, fully customizable with respect to colors, opacity, background imagery, movement and more. Even better, you can add a number of Windows form controls to any of your shapes with a simple click of the mouse. The result? Easy mockups that lead to even faster code development.


Screen Shapes and Controls gives you an easy way to show customers how a proposed application or website will look and behave, without the need for any technical expertise or programming. On the other hand, if you’re a client, you can use Screen Shapes and Controls to give your programmer a good idea of what you want the finished product to look like – it’s a lot better than scribbling on a whiteboard!

With Screen Shapes and Controls, you’ll be able to store your favorite scenes for quick and easy retrieval, giving you the ability to quickly modify them to create new scenes with the same basic elements. And when you’ve created a scene and you want to show it off to a programmer or client, you can publish it as an XML file on your website, so that it’s viewable from any web connection.

The ability to transform your visions into working prototypes makes Screen Shapes and Controls a valuable part of your development workflow!


Screen Shapes and Controls runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

• You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
• Single User license is only $19.50
• We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide and Online Help.

To see the movies click here.

To download the application click here.

Those of you who perform a lot of drafting and design work understand that the most important factor, above all else, is accuracy! Back when most of the design work was done in hardcopy, it was easy enough to find yourself bent over a schematic, measuring and comparing to make certain that everything was precise. It’s funny to think how computers have actually made this task more difficult!

You can’t hold a measurement device like a ruler or protractor up to a computer display and expect it to be accurate! That’s why Screen Divider was developed – to give you a reliable way to measure distances, Cobb angles, and confirm parallel lines, for any image or schematic that’s on your computer screen!

Screen Divider directly addresses an ongoing problem facing all designers that work with digital renderings – how to quickly and effectively conduct length, width, and angle measurements without having to print out hardcopy.

With Screen Divider, you’ll have a convenient measuring tool that runs as an overlay on your computer screen and is fully configurable using only your mouse. Use the intuitive controls to adjust the width of your divider lines to ensure that your on-screen elements are evenly spaced. Add a second divider to calculate Cobb angles. Or use Screen Divider to confirm that two lines are perfectly parallel.
Combine this functionality with Screen Divider’s ability to measure the distance between any two points on your screen, assist in measuring the angle between any two lines, or determine the angle of any line with the horizontal, and you have the makings of an indispensable part of your development toolkit!

Screen Divider runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

• You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
• Single User license is only $29.50
• We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide and Online Help.

To see the movies click here.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Jewels and Germs, Mac and PC users, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you the first ever...

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...Bits du Jour Big Bundle!

That's nearly $400 worth of software for only $49.95, a huge 87% Off the retail price.

Whether you're a Mac Maven or a Windows Wizard you'll be sure to find diamonds among this treasure trove of top-shelf software titles.

The BitsDuJour Bundle Includes:

* BitDefender Antivirus 2011: With one of the most powerful (and most licensed) antivirus engines out there, BitDefender Antivirus 2011 means good riddance to bad rubbish.

* TuneUp Gold: Get more out of your music. Much more. TuneUp Gold will make iTunes and Windows Media Player users wonder how they ever got along without it.

* NTI Shadow: It's never too soon to implement an effective data backup solution. And what luck! NTI Shadow just happens to be one of the best backup utilities on the market. Save money and sleep better tonight.

* Screen Calipers: Measure just about anything on your computer screen with these handy virtual calipers. Intuitive, resource-friendly, and fully skinnable. And best of all, you can define your own units!

* LastPass (1 year subscription): Got more passwords than you know what to do with? LastPass the most intuitive, most powerful, and most excellent password manager out there. And it's browser-based for your convenience.

* Postworkshop Artists Edition: Love visual art? Hate cleaning brushes? Postworkshop is a powerful tool that will give new life photos and digital images in ways you never imagined.

* Aurora: Histograms, color channels, contrast, hue, saturation... let's face it -- editing digital photos is pretty complex. Or at least, it was. Aurora gives your photos the professional touch. Automatically!

* 38 Handwriting Fonts: Show how much you care and give your next document or correspondence that personal, handwritten touch. Especially useful for those of us with less-than-adequate penmanship.

* EarthDesk: Anybody can put a map on their desktop. But only EarthDesk makes it spectacular. Dynamic light and weather conditions, gorgeous cloud rendering, and more customization options that you can imagine.

* Movavi Video Converter: Like watching movies? Hate trying to convert them to the correct format? Movavi Video Converter is a veritable powerhouse that'll make short work of all your video conversion needs. And it couldn't be simpler.

Purchase this week and BitsDuJour will throw in Screen Protractor too.

See The BitsDuJour Bundle

Thanks to TipFrom.Me, BitsDuJour vendors can now give their buyers Tips that can be easily shared to their friends and followers on the various social networks. Buyers of products during the promotion will have a financial incentive to share the great deal they just got, thereby making the Tips an exponential awareness builder for the 24-hour deal, for example one buyer may Tweet about the deal to his 10,000 Followers on Twitter. Those who follow the link and purchase will generate cash rewards back to the original buyer.

BitsDuJour customers will see the TipFrom.Me links after they purchase select products. These will be shown in the post order receipt page or a follow-up email.

Check out this slideshow of exactly how it all works:

For more information please visit http://TipFrom.Me.

Summer is conference season, which means a lot of travel. We're happy that next week is the Affiliate Summit, and even happier that it's on our home turf in New York City. The Affiliate Summit East 2010 runs from August 15th to 17th and is a major event of the affiliate industry, in fact, it's huge. So if you want to escape the crowd this is your chance to meet me us in person.

So if you're making the trip please drop us a note and we'll be happy to meet up and show you our home town.

If you’ve ever tried to redesign the layout of a web page in HTML, you already know that it can be a very long process of trial and error. Even using a WYSIWYG editor doesn’t guarantee that things will go smoothly! Today, you have the power to redesign the style of any web page using your mouse to click, drag, and reposition elements - with Website Styler!

Website Styler is the latest example of innovative, timesaving applications from Iconico, and it’s going to revolutionize the way you approach web site layout! Website Styler lets you select ANY element on ANY web site just by clicking it with your mouse – then lets you easily modify the properties of that element on the fly! Change fonts, font sizes, formatting, alignment, and more! For images and buttons, one click of a checkbox gives you the ability to drag and drop image elements anywhere on the page! Just use the intuitive visual interface to design the layout of your form until it’s exactly as you envisioned it, then save your work as an HTML file.

Website Styler provides you with web layout functionality that is vastly superior to making changes to HTML code by hand. Before, if you wanted to change the properties of a particular element, you’d have to locate that element in your HTML code, make your adjustments, then reload the page into a browser to see your changes. With Website Styler, just one click gets you access to any element’s properties, and your changes are immediately reflected in the integrated browser! Change foreground and background colors, fonts, or formatting – then watch as the browser window updates to display your changes. Website Styler gives you a quicker, easier way to make changes to web site elements.

Stop wasting valuable productivity manually programming changes to web site layout! Use Website Styler to create stunning redesigns with a flick of your wrist and a click of your mouse!

Website Styler runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

• You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
• Single User license is only $19.50
• We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide and Online Help.

To see the movies click here.

On Saturday Bits Du Jour won the Best Independent Software Vendor Award at the 2010 Software Industry Conference. Thanks to everyone at the conference and the SIAF. Photos by Ryan Smith.