IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.

• Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
• Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
• Support for Macintosh OS X icons
• Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons
• Create icon libraries
• Create favicon for websites or blogs
• Easily convert images to icons
• Add, change or delete icons inside exe files
• Support for transparency (alpha channel)
• Batch processing for import, export and extract
• Multiple language support
• More than 40 effects + custom filter
• Resolutions up to 256×256
• Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
• Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
• Import and export images
• Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools
  

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ASPhere is a freeware utility primarily intended for creating and modifying configuration files for ASP.NET. But they are not only web.config files ASPhere can work with, you can use it for viewing and editing normal XML files and plain text files as well.

... and why was it written?

If you ever tried to create web.config files, you would definitely agree with me that modifying of these files can be time-consuming work. This tool should help you to do this in a more comfortable way.

It offers you a graphical user interface for editing XML-based files, a text editor with syntax highlighting, intelligent contextual help and other useful features such as comparing files.

ASPhere's main features and functions:

graphical interface for editing XML documents
editor with syntax highlighting and contextual help
ability to have several files opened simultaneously
files can be managed in a project
file compare function with highlighting differences

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