Watermark Utility- Software for personal use

Well, this time in my blog, I just came into a problem in my newly built company, we had around 100's of images from my client that needed to be uploaded in their official website as well as FB Page. So, they needed to have a logo watermark on each of their event's pics before being uploaded on the internet. So, just to help my Designer and Social Marketing Expert, I made a small utility that can add the watermark to images.

So here's providing a link to free download this utility. It's simple, light weight, free for personal or commercial use. Need the source?? Contact me anytime. :)

Documentation

1.  Process Selection: Select “File” if you want to watermark just one file. If you want to apply watermark multiple images, copy them in one folder, and select “Batch-Folder” option for multiple files.
2. Select File: This will be enabled only if you have selected “File” option in section 1. Select the file by clicking the “…” button. The address of the file will be displayed in the text area above. DO NOT change the text area or program may crash.
3. Select Folder: This will be enabled only if you have selected “Batch-Folder” option in section 1. Select the folder in which your images are kept using “...” button. The software will automatically search for images in the folder. So, if you have some other files other than images, it won’t affect the functionality of the software. Also, the program will search for images just at the root of the given path. The address of the folder will be displayed in the text area on the right. DO NOT change the text area or program may crash.
4. Select Watermark: Select the watermark PNG image which needs to be applied on the image/s. Select the file using “…” button. The address of the file will be displayed in the text area above. DO NOT change the text area or program may crash.
5. Watermark Location: Select the location of the watermark in the image.
6. Apply Watermark: Click on the button to start the process of watermarking. Initially, it will ask for the location to save the converted file/s. If one file is converted, the file will be renamed to watermark.png. For batch-folder, the files will be stored as watermark_1.png, watermark_2.png and so on. Please note that the program will over-write the image if any available at the location with same name. After successful completion of task, the program will show a dialog box as “successfully converted!”. 

Download Link:Download Here!

Note: The software is virusfree... Be assured. It's made and actually being used by me. For any issues, please contact me at yours.akshit@gmail.com

PS: I love programming small utilities, even for free, So, if you need some more, you can contact me. Happy To Help.

EDIT: The Link has been updated and now lets you to download setup.exe and .msi files too. Sorry if you were not able to install the file earlier.

10 reasons to choose open source programs than premium softwares

We are now in the world where the two software markets stand before the customer. One that is flashy, may be colorful, filled with people who work day and night for money to provide you software as per your requirement at rates with literally NO range set. You may get the same functioned software in a wide range, all depending upon the gloss and the Brand Names of the software providers. Examples... Really needed? anyways, coming back to the other community, which may not have much good visuals as the latter. But they are lively, happy to help always! You may compare the scenes with your Official Get-together and a friend's party!

Open Source applications have now gained much popularity due to high rates of software by the Industry Giants. So, here presenting 10 reasons to select Open Source than Premium softwares!

1. They are Free!

This is the most attractive feature of open source application. They are free! So, if you want to do a cost cutting in your company or at home while setting up the computer systems, go for Open Source! They save you much!

2. No Piracy issues!

Why would you make a pirated copy of a software when you know that is is free of cost! Thus! no more issues and guilts of using a pirated software. You can freely and happily use the software!

3. A BIG community to help

Well this has been the best among all. Personally, I have been to many issues using Windows. When I queried on their official site, answers.microsoft.com, I have never ever got the solution from their official person. Instead, some geek would go by my forum post and suggest me the solution! But in case of Open Source, the community is full of millions of Geeks!!! They will help you out until you come up to your solution. My personal experience showed replies from the users within seconds. It looks good when someone actually cares for you. :) 

4. Customizable

You can customize the open source software to as much as you want! Examples needed? Take Chrome Browser! It is open source, and you can create themes and various apps for chrome to make your browsing experience the best ever.

5.Extensible

The open Source application you just downloaded is just a stock application. Almost every open source application provides plugins that can make your software work even more than you can think of.

 My personal example: I use Google Drive to save my data and actually feel hard to work on the online office software by Google. So, I had to download the file, edit it on my Office software and then re-upload it. Then I found a plugin for open-office (an open source alternative for MS Office) http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd that can directly pick my files from drive, open it on my local PC and then save it again online! I don't know whether MS has launched this feature in it's new versions of Office yet or not. But this plugin was available for Open Office since 2007!

6. Security

The perfect example: Linux! The best operating system made by mankind ever! The open source applications are built by thousands of developers. So, if any developer found a bug or security loophole, he will fix it up and will update the app ASAP. N not just the developer, if you found any loophole, just let them know, you will get the patch within next update or even in some days, depending how critical the issue is!

7. Quality

The open source app is made by the professionals and the users like you! And that too, in thousands of numbers. So, one person may miss some quality check, ok even five persons may never notice that thing, but when it comes to 100s of 1000s of  developers, ranging from newbies to ultra-experienced ones too, you can never even think of quality mishandling! 

8. Made with a good aim.

Now that's actually a good reason. The open source application is made just with one purpose. To serve the community. The developers, query handlers, website administrators, all work for free or on donations made by the users. You can say that it is the kindness of all those people who contributed on the software. It sends a good vibe of helping others. :) You feel glad that someone unknown to you, sitting miles away from you even don't know your language, has helped you, so that you can work effectively. It sends a good message of humanity to the world. :)

9. Interoperability

The open Source applications are platform independent. So, if you were using Open Office on your Windows, and you got a new Mac! Just download the Open-Office software for Mac and here you go! Everything same as you had in Windows. Same favourite software regardless of your Operating systems. What else you need?

10. More features than the premium ones.

Surprisingly this is true. Even stock applications have much more features than those in the premium alternatives. So, this actually means you got a software which gives you more functionality than other and that too for free!

So, still you wanna go for premium application when you have better functioning, more secure, with better support, with absolutely not giving a single penny? Choose Open Source for a better, happy world!

Please Note!: All images in this post are from various sources from the internet. The images does not belong to me!