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 [...]
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?
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.