Japplis releases Japplis Page Reader, an online application that speaks the given text to the visitors of the web site.
Japplis Page Reader can be set in a small corner of the web page to deliver audio text to the persons visiting the web page.
Uses of this application includes
* Blind or visual impairment visitors.
* Visitors for who it’s easier or faster to listen to the text than to read it.
* Visitors willing to do something else while listening to the web site.
* Visitors willing to read the site during working hours but don’t want their boss to see it. (Using ear-plugs/headphones).
* Visitors willing to read the site with their notebook closed.
* Visitors willing to read the site during their commute in their car or in public transport.
* Deliver important messages that the visitors may miss when scanning the page.
The buttons play, pause, stop can be configured. The audio can be started when the page is loaded or when the user click on play/start.
The text can be a part of the web page or a specified text. The text to speak can also be “injected” in the application in JavaScript after the page is loaded or on a user action.
Japplis Page Reader works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Japplis has released Decoration 2.0. Decoration is an application specialized in applying effects to photo albums.
To use Decoration, 3 steps are needed. The first one is the selection the photos, then the selection of the effects to apply and finally setting the output options before clicking on the start button.
Decoration contains more than 100 effects including color border, gradient frame, round corners, drop shadow, mirror, blur, reduce noise, tint, mosaic, superpose text, watermark, rotate, zoom, crop, brightness, contrast, gamma, glow, bend, sharpen, change transparency, oil, emboss, bump or edge.
What’s new:
- More than 80 preconfigured set of effects.
- Several improvements in the preview panel such as possibility to use the mouse whell to zoom in and out.
- Performance improvements.
- Improved default values for a few effects.
- Various improvements and bug fixes.
Decoration is a shareware but it can be run for free online at http://decoration.japplis.com/runonline.html
No registration is needed and the photos are not uploaded to a server.
Decoration is available at http://decoration.japplis.com/
Decoration works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
I’ve just released Japplis Pastel 1.0.
Japplis Pastel is a free online photo editor with a different approach than the standard one.
In standard photo editor, users need to know which effect they want to apply to a photo.
With Japplis Pastel, users can see their photos with more than 80 differents effects. They then just need to select the ones they prefer and save them.
Most of the time this results in choosing effects different than the users had in mind or saving the photo with different effects.
Japplis Pastel 1.0 is available for free at http://pastel.japplis.com/.
Official press release: http://www.japplis.com/resources/pr/pr-pastel-10.html
September 15th, 2009
Java
Japplis Toolbox 1.2 has been released, an application containing a set of utilities for developers and for text manipulation.
Japplis Toolbox is free and available as application, as applet or as NetBeans plug-in.
Japplis Toolbox includes:
- Encoding / Decoding: URL, Base64, hexadecimal, hex or binary
- Java System Properties, Environment Variables, Swing Defaults
- Text: character count, word count, MD5, SHA, XML Validate
- Charater map
- Pattern: long to date, match regexp, contains regexp
What’s new:
- Upgraded to Apache Commons Codec 1.4
- Also available as standalone executable for Windows
- Plug-in repacked with NetBeans 6.7.1
- Sort lines
- Reverse lines
- shuffle lines
- Add line number
- Delete duplicated lines
- Trim spaces
- Extract words
- Split regexp
- Hash code
Today I’ve released the beta version of Japplis Pastel.
Japplis Pastel is a new application that applies different effects to your images.
The application is done for people who don’t know which effect looks the best on their photos.
As Japplis Pastel will show you a preview of your photo with different effects, you just need to select the ones you prefer and save/copy/drag them.
Japplis Pastel runs online for free at http://pastel.japplis.com
As for Decoration, no account is needed and the photos are not uploaded to a server (unlike most of online photo editors).
Here is a screenshot:
I’ve just released Discotheek 1.2. Discotheek a freeware that generates flashes.
Discotheek uses the monitor of the computer as light source, switch colors to emulate a color spot light.
Discotheek has different modes such as rainbow, stroboscope, light (only white), dark (only black), lava lamp (slowly fading colors).
What’s new:
* More online pages with predefined configurations: Online Spotlight, Online Strobe, Online Zen, Online Light, Online Dark.
* Fixed problem when loading and saving parameters
* Hide mouse cursor in full screen mode
* Availability as portable application for Windows
Discotheek is free and available at http://discotheek.japplis.com.
It also runs online at http://discotheek.japplis.com/runonline.html.
I’ve just released Japplis Website Optimizer Lite.
Japplis Website Optimizer Lite is freeware and is a subset of the already existing Japplis Website Optimizer application.
Japplis Website Optimizer Lite optimizes HTML pages and reduce the size by more than half making the page to be downloaded faster and saving bandwidth.
Japplis Website Optimizer Lite also adds width, height and alt attributes to images if missing.
Japplis Website Optimizer Lite is available at http://website-optimizer.japplis.com/lite/ or you can run it online here.
Japplis Website Optimizer 2.0 has been released.
Japplis Website Optimizer optimizes web sites by using several techniques:
- Remove unneeded spaces.
- Add width and height attributes to images if missing.
- Optimization of the CSS.
- Optimization of the Javascript.
- Compression of the web pages, CSS and Javascript.
Web pages, CSS and Javascript files are reduced by more than half their original size.
What’s new:
- Possibilty to choose which files to optimize.
- Optimization of PHP.
- Possibility to run it as command line and Ant task.
- Possibility to optimize only in compressed files.
- Several bug fixes and small improvements.
- Also available the Beta version of Japplis Website Optimizer Lite (Freeware).
Along with the release of Decoration 1.2, I’ve released a new web site to apply effects to your photo albums.
The new web site is http://effects.japplis.com.
You first choose which effect you want to apply to your photos, then add the photos to the left panel, click on the Play button and save the files generated in the right panel.
More than 100 effects are available including color border, gradient frame, round corners, drop shadow, mirror, blur, reduce noise, tint, mosaic, superpose text, watermark, rotate, zoom, crop, brightness, contrast, gamma, glow, bend, sharpen, change transparency, oil, emboss, bump or edge.
Contrary to most of the online photo editors, no account is needed and the photos won’t be uploaded to a server.
The web site is also available in French at http://effets.japplis.com
If you want to combine effects or have more options use Decoration online
I’ve released a new version of Decoration.
Decoration is a photo editor specialized in applying effects (more than 100) to photo albums.
What’s new:
- Improved user interaction
- Faster applet
- Available as portable app
- New effects: recale colors, sepia, grid
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