It seems like the faster computers get the more bloatware and software garbley gook developers seem to throw at us to make our bleeding edge PCs run like the antiques of yesteryear. Navigating this vast ocean of useless software to get the valuable tools we need is no small feat. Whenever I am fortunate enough to run across a truly exceptional program I feel inevitably summoned by the powers that be to share it with my computer compatriots.
Net Perspective an up and coming web application development organization recently released an incredibly useful application named Image Plane. Image Plane is a lightweight, fast in-site image editing program with multiple high end features such as image scaling, rotation, color selection, cropping, previewing, centering, flipping, moving, etc. The uses for Image Plane are multifaceted on the developers side you can purchase a copy of Image Plane for a minimal fee and integrate it with your CMS (Content Management Enabled) website for end user image manipulation. Also for developers Image Plane is licensed per domain so you are not limited in your usage. On the user side if you have a website that you would like to be able to dynamically update on your own then image plane is the product that will allow you to perform such actions easily and intuitively.
Click here to test Image Plane and familiarize yourself with the features and interface.
Here are a couple of screenshots of me manipulating an image with Image Plane.
For those developers among you who like free utilities check out the open source offerings from Net Perspective:
jQuery Scroll Follow : Scroll Follow is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls.
jQuery Purr : Purr is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library for dynamically displaying unobtrusive messages in the browser similar to the MacOSX program, “Growl”.
Vanishing Point : Vanishing Point is a PHP package designed to help automate the optimization of web content.