Free Photoshop Analogues

Certainly, Adobe Photoshop is the most popular computer program for drawing and image editing. However, it is not cheap, and that pushes users to search the free analogues. There are free programs that replace Photoshop. So, this article is about them.

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How to remove the revision in Mercurial?

It often happens that in the process of development is required to remove some of the specific revisions. This may be necessary if accidental committing and great confusion in the revisions. To do this, activate the mq-extension, by writing the following to the hgrc-file:

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Tree Component on JQuery

Sometimes for certain projects we need to implement multi-level tree menu similar to Windows Explorer. There are several plugins for JQuery, allowing to get it. I have tested a lot, and decided to stay on jsTree. It has a lot of features and is attractive by the following reasons:

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How to choose an e-book reader?

Now almost at any store of consumer electronics they have entire shelves filled with e-book readers, or as they also called – just “readers”. Of course, many people want to read comfortably without having to carry thick paper books all the time. How do you read in so many products offered? About this is that article.

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Moqups – an Interface Prototype Builder

Front of any developer sooner or later face the task of designing the application interface. It is better when the problem gets up early, then all the battle for beauty and convenience is on paper and drafts, instead of the real system. Paper is convenient because you can pleasantly and quickly draw on it. However, the disadvantages are obvious: it is uncomfortable to erase / modify and extremely difficult to transfer sketches to other developers. Therefore, was created many electronic systems for prototyping interfaces, among which is the Moqups.

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Compiling Enca for Windows

Enca – the command line utility that allows you to determine the encoding of any text file. It may be necessary when the system receives a set of text files in various encodings. We need to clearly know the encoding of a particular file and re-encode it if necessary to some common encoding, for example, UTF-8. The enca program allows to identify and convert encoding if necessary (enconv utility is also included). However, all this works under Unix. In this article I'll show you how to compile enca under Windows.

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Opening port in the Comodo Firewall

If there is a Windows-server, and it is not possible (or desire) to set up a standard firewall, then you can look into the direction of free proven solutions. One of them is the Comodo Firewall - it's free, secure, and proven. In this article I'll describe how to secure your server using Comodo Firewall, closing all ports except 80.

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