free software development tools

Beginning Digital Image Processing: Using Free Tools for Photographers
$29.99
Since the advent of digital photography, we have been able to post-process our pictures. However, to do it properly, we have to become digital art apprentices. Sebastian Montabone is a computer vision expert who wants us to use our cameras and image processing software to come up with works of art. In this book, he teaches image processing techniques of ascending difficulty based on freely available tools. The book teaches you to use the best tools for the job, and it focuses on the techniques, not the environments or toolchains in which they run. Also in this book, you���??ll learn about the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), which expands the features of some cameras. What you��ll learn Learn how to process your photos by example. Save money by using free tools instead of expensive commercial software. Create unbelievable high-dynamic range (HDR) pictures. Generate stunning panoramas from ordinary pictures. Use the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) to expand your camera features. Make videos and edit them easily using free software. Who this book is for This book is for anyone who is interested in photography, image processing, or free image editing software, with no exceptions.

Ready-Site PRO 2.0
$38.95
I bought in the past several web site editors. I have always ended up to trash them, at least almost all of them. I came here at amazon trying to find something new and easy to use. I bought the pro version of Ready-Site. I received the cd in a few days. After only 25 minute my web site was up and running. There are 100 templates to choose from. You can insert your own html code ( for forms for example or google ads, or whatever you want). You can embed youtube videos or google videos, or others. [...]I'm sure that you'll love it. I almost forgot ... the customer service is really really helpful and fast.

Benchmarking R&D and companies through patent analysis using free databases and special software: a tool to improve innovative thinking [An article from: World Patent Information]
$5.95
This digital document is a journal article from World Patent Information, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
The availability of free patent databases on the Internet, offers the opportunity of opening the door of patent information not only to patent specialists, but also to many other groups, such as researchers, decision makers, potential inventors and students. The goal of this paper is to show how the combination of free patent databases (in this paper esp@cenet^(R)) and dedicated software makes it possible to perform easily and rapidly tests on new ideas, the automatic benchmarking of an enterprise's activity and the stimulation of innovative thinking. The benchmarking of companies alone, or of clusters of enterprises is exemplified with reference to the concept of high temperature lubricating oil technology. How to improve innovative thinking is shown within the context of an analysis of coconut technology in postgraduate courses of competitive intelligence provided in Indonesia. Both applications emphasize that the role of patent information is expanding as a unique source of technical information because free availability combined with easy patent mapping and analysis allow non-specialists to use this information source in all technical aspects of innovation, research and development, and strategic planning.

Ready-Site HOME 2.0
$19.95
Ready-Site��� HOME 2.0 is the only Web Site Creator on the market featuring Free Contemporary Templates with Professional Drop Down Menus Extremely Easy-To-Use and personalize with more than 4000 different graphic buttons and unlimited pages already linked ready to be published on the Internet. In less than 15 minutes Ready-Site��� HOME 2.0 creates websites until now created only using expensive webmasters. No more hours of designing, managing, and repairing. No HTML or other programming language. YouInWeb��� competitors are all applications based on a limited similar technology, almost 10 years old, and the templates included are old-fashion, obsolete and boring designs; then useless for the frustrated Customers. Instead, thanks to a totally new patented technology, Ready-Site PRO 2.0 with its exclusive features is the essential tool born to be The Standard Easy-to-Use to create professional-looking websites immediately ready to be published on the Web.