RealWorld Designer

RealWorld Cursor Editor beta is not far away and the online cursor library is going to get a small update as well. Things are going to get a little smarter.

I have promised a new version of the RealWorld Cursor Editor few months ago. It is going to take few more months until it is released, but the core features are set. Today, I’ll tell you about three major ones.

There is strength in numbers. A single gnat is easily dispatched, but you’ll run away from a hundred of them. How unimpressive a single neuron is, but put 15 millions near to each other and you’ll get the brain of a space faring species, the rats. Paint 1000 of poor paintings and you’ll be a [...]

Entering the “freeware image editor” segment with Paint.COM some 3 months ago was pretty exciting. Despite being a bit rough around the edges, people were in general satisfied with the software. There were a couple of feature requests related to image editing, but most often people asked for a portable and translatable version. And here [...]

From time to time, I receive an email from someone interested in translating one of the freeware RW applications. Unfortunately, translating RealWorld applications is not an easy task. There is a lot of text and due to the plug-in based architecture, making a list of strings to translate is quite difficult. But things are about [...]

Lots of people are not using the advanced functionality of RealWorld Cursor Editor and are happy drawing their cursors with just a few basic tools, like pencil or circle. If you are one of them, I have prepared for you an online cursor editor. No downloads or installations, a web browser is all you need.
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A couple of years ago, the decision was made to adopt the so called “multiple single document interface” used for example by Microsoft Word 2000, where each open document gets its own top-level window. Has the time come to change this approach?

The time has come to leverage the plug-in based nature of RealWorld Designer applications. While the plug-in architecture can help to cut development times of larger projects, its true strength lays in allowing people to make their own plug-ins. Applications released in 2009 will be much more plug-in-friendly :-).

After 18 months of development, RealWorld Photos is finally released. The applications targets two main scenarios: retouching of photographs and batch image processing. In both areas it has a couple of unique features to offer.

RealWorld Photos (to be released next week) is going to get a freeware sibling called RealWorld Paint.COM, a lightweight, easy-to-use, general purpose image editor with some notable features. Why Paint.COM? A combination of a word with a .xxx tl-domains seems to be trendy in this decade. And it is build upon COM technology.