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.

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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.

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If you’ve ever tried to program a form in HTML from scratch, you already know that it’s not a very pleasant way to spend your weekend. You have to design the layout, program the code behind each element, upload your files to your server, and test, test, test. Even if you get your code up and running, you’ll still need to take time to review all of the incoming data and weed out spam! Today, there’s no need to ever code web forms by hand ever again – not with SeaGreen!

SeaGreen is the latest example of innovative, timesaving applications from Iconico, and it’s going to change your web programming life for the better! SeaGreen does all of the work for you, automatically creating online forms, MySQL databases, and administration modules, without any complex programming on your part! Just use the intuitive visual interface to design the layout of your form, arranging text boxes, radio buttons, dropdown menus, and more until it’s exactly as you envisioned it!
All that’s left for you to do is publish your form to your website with a few simple clicks. Handy wizards guide you through the process of integrating your form into your existing website. You can also use SeaGreen to produce standalone web forms on their own pages.

SeaGreen provides you with web form functionality that is vastly superior to coding forms by hand. For example, once your web form is up and running, you’ll receive email notifications every time someone enters information into your form. Worried about Spam? SeaGreen utilizes comprehensive field validation to ensure that the only data you receive will be good, clean, and valid! Try coding that kind of functionality manually!

When it comes to administering your form, SeaGreen anticipates your needs and provides you with the ultimate measure of control over all of your data. Everything that is collected by your SeaGreen web form is stored in your own database, located on your own web server. SeaGreen Software even lets you design the database administration module that you’ll use to query your database! And, of course, you’ll always be able to sort your data and export it to a CSV format file for use in other applications!

Stop wasting valuable productivity manually programming web forms! Use SeaGreen to automatically create stunning, effective, spam-proof forms and enjoy an immediate boost in productivity today!

SeaGreen runs on Windows XP and Vista

• You may download the fully-functional 30-day trial
• Single User license is only $149.00
• 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.

The 20th Annual Software Industry Conference (SIC) will be held on July 15 - 17, 2010 in Dallas, Texas at the Hyatt Regency DFW Hotel.

The Software Industry Conference is a three day event that culminates with a Networking Gala Dinner that gives software developers and publishers an opportunity to form partnerships and alliances. The conference also includes dozens of informative, educational breakout sessions covering a wide variety of topics that are critical to the success of Independent Software Developers (ISVs).

What's more, Nico Westerdale from Iconico/BitsDuJour will be speaking on "Do The Math – The Essentials in Successful Software Promotions" on Friday July 16th at 10.15 as part of the conference. You're welcome to peruse the full schedule and attend any of the seesions.

The conference includes more than forty educational seminars and presentations that are designed to help developers sell more software. Presentations by industry experts include topics such as profiting from Google Adwords, marketing more effectively, providing income-producing customer support, working with translation and localization services, sending press releases, developing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, avoiding legal pitfalls, reducing chargebacks, and creating affiliate networks.

The conference allows plenty of time to network with other software developers and software industry service providers. The conveniently-located daily breakfasts in the Hyatt Regency DFW Hotel make it easy for conference attendees to meet and socialize with fellow industry members. You can even attend the annual meetings and luncheons of two industry trade associations, ESC and ASP.

The casual SIC conferences are known for their family-friendly atmosphere. Many software developers turn their trips to SIC into mini-vacations.

As always, the conference will present awards to honor developers in several key software categories. SIC's Exhibit Night features the best software development products and services from leading industry vendors.

Registration at the door costs $299(US), or costs $249 if you register online http://www.sic.org/register.asp by July 13. Deeply discounted hotel rooms at the Hyatt Regency DFW are available to all conference attendees.

For more information about SIC 2010, visit http://www.sic.org

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Members of the press are invited to request free conference passes.

About SIC

The annual Software Industry Conference has been presented continuously since 1991. Each year, the conference focuses attention on the try-before-you-buy software development industry, its people, and the many fine applications that come from it.

The conference has grown dramatically since in recent years. In addition, the conference honors software developers with a series of annual awards, recognizing new and innovative software products created and marketed by smaller development companies.

Current sponsors for the 2010 SIC include Alta Web Works, asknet AG, Association of Shareware Professionals, Avangate, Inc., cleverbridge, Digital River, DP Directory, Inc., Elfring Fonts, Inc., Emurasoft, Inc., K Software, Lincoln Beach Software, NotePage, Inc., Paypro Global, Inc., Plimus, SoftCity, Software Promotions Ltd., The Utility Factory, and TRIUS, Inc.

For more information about SIC, visit http://www.sic.org/. To schedule interviews with Sue Pichotta or other conference directors, contact Sue on suep@siaf.org

We're happy to announce the ColorPro and Image Filter Pro promotion lasting between June-12-2010 and June-21-2010 in which Iconico.com offers the two products for the price of 1.

Please take the following actions to beneficiate of this offer:
- go to the ColorPro page here: http://www.iconico.com/colorpro and press the Buy button
- go to the Image Filter Pro 100 page here: http://www.iconico.com/imagefilterpro and press the Buy button
- at this point you will have the two products in your product cart
- enter the following coupon code: CLRPROIMF100 in the 'Coupon Code' field and press the 'Enter' button.
- press the 'Proceed to Checkout' button

These two applications are perfect for harmonizing colors and improving your images.
ColorPro can be found here
Image Filter Pro 100 can be found here

Thanks!

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Just imagine – you’ve been tasked with maintaining a website that’s laden with images, and you need a way to be able to capture those images quickly so that you can work on them. Well, how would you like the ability to capture all of the images on any website, in just a few clicks of your mouse? Even better, how great would it be to wield the power to apply multiple filters and special effects to entire libraries of images, automatically?

Today, one simple application will instantly streamline your workflow when it comes to acquiring and editing digital images. Image Filter Pro 100, the latest in a great series of applications from Iconico, lets you save all of the images off of any website, plus gives you the ability to apply multiple filters to your images, condensing hours of toil into just a few minutes of effort.

Image Filter Pro 100 was designed with the needs of web designers in mind, providing a one-stop solution to the dilemma of acquiring large libraries of digital image content and applying multiple layers of filters, corrections, and other transformations to meet client demands. Just use the integrated browser to navigate to the web page that contains your desired images, and Image Filter Pro 100 automatically extracts all of the image files to your computer! From there, you can apply any combination of over 100 filters.

With Image Filter Pro 100 , you’ll be able to store collections of filters in Filter Groups, with the power to apply them all in a single click, either to individual images or entire folders using batch processing. With over 100 filters to choose from, including a vast selection of color filters, transforms, HSL filters, and edge detectors, you’ll be able to implement site-wide changes to your images using just a few clicks.

Once you’ve saved an image using Image Filter Pro 100 , you’ll be able to view all of the properties of that image, including its dimensions, pixel count, RGB values, Saturation, Luminance, and other color palette information. It all adds up to a wealth of data that you can use to make intelligent, informed design decisions!

Image Filter Pro 100 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 actual filtered images check out our filters preview page
To see the movies click here.

Those of you who are in the business of researching and maintaining lists of domain names know how cumbersome that research can get. Who hasn’t had to pore over the source code for a website to pick out legitimate domain names? Not to mention the fact that you often have to work even harder to identify subdomains, as well as domains that have extensions other than .com or .net.
Domain Extractor Basic is the latest example of innovative, timesaving applications from Iconico. With Domain Extractor Basic , your domain research workload will shrink dramatically, as your manual digging and searching is replaced by the simple act of entering a website address, or copying and pasting a block of text!

Domain Extractor Basic provides you with the fastest, easiest, and most common-sense approach to gathering lists of domain names. Just browse to any site on the Internet and obtain a list of all of the domain names on that site with a single click! Then, with another click, export those domain names to a text file.
With Domain Extractor Basic, you never need to experience the frustration of researching non-commercial international subdomain names ever again. Using the convenient Wizard or User generated patterns, you can customize Domain Extractor Basic to scan the target website for domains with up to 50 subdomains, and with extensions ranging from 1 to 20 characters. For example, if you wanted to harvest all of the 2-character domains from a site (such as those from Russia (*.ru), Canada (*.cn), or the Netherlands (*.nl), but not *.com or *.net names), you would set the number of characters in the extension to ‘2’. If you wanted to extract only a specific domain extension, Domain Extractor Basic lets you do that, as well. There’s power in flexibility!
For really specific searches, you can customize your own search pattern, using combinations of alphanumeric ranges, domain numbers, and extension character counts. Domain Extractor Basic gives you the ability to perform domain pattern searches that are as specific or general as your needs dictate.

Stop wasting valuable productivity performing manual domain name collection! Use Domain Extractor Basic to get more work done, in less time than you ever thought possible!

Domain Extractor Basic 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 $9.50
• * We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide.

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