If you like to do anything at all with icons you need to take a good look at another of my favorite programs -- Microangelo, by Impact Software. This is the only program to ever win a Shareware Industry Award 3 years in a row! It also won the People's Choice Award for "Most Votes On Simtel. Microangleo has different sections. The Librarianou, the Studio, the Explorer, and the Animator. That's right, you can even animate icons with this powerful tool. The Librarian helps you to manage icon files no matter where they are. The Studio lets you create, or edit, your icon images. You can create images from scratch or edit and alter existing images. The Explorer helps you find icons on your system. And lastly, the Animator gives you the power to easily add animation to your icons. This is the most impressive program I've ever seen for working with icon graphics in Windows. It's unique sections are integrated beautifully, so the program is eas y-to-use. You have to try it for yourself. This is not only a favorite of mine, but it's also a favorite of software developers and users!

If you're looking for a program that is amazing at creating thumbnails from your graphics, check out Easy Thumbnails by Fookes Software. First of all, it's FREE which makes what it does even more impressive. The program can work with a wide range of graphics file formats and it gives you a lot of options. You can take an image and fine tune it by changing things like brightness and contrast. You can also adjust the sharpness of an image or rotate it into a different position. The program has a handy viewer built-in, so you can see your changes as you make them. And Easy Thumbnails is really fast! When you create your thumbnails you can pick from nine (9) different methods, including Lanczos3 -- which is very popular with professionals. Do thumbnails in big batches because Easy Thumbnails can handle it. Easy Thumbnails, by Fookes Software, is a beautifully done program that's absolutely free! I've looked at all kinds of programs for creating thumbna ils and this is the one I use because it's simply loaded with great features.

If you want a powerful, freeform database that can handle data from a variety of sources, you need to try askSam, by askSam Systems. askSam can handle data fom a wide variety of formats including HTML, text files, Rich Text Format (RTF) files, email documents, and even documents from Word, Excel, and more. Besides being able to import data, you can also enter data without worryign about following a particular form. askSam has really powerful searching capabilities. And, the searches are fast and efficient. You can search in a variety of ways including wildcard searches (*.*) when you aren't exactly sure what you're looking for, and Boolean searches where you can use operators like NOT, OR, & AND. askSam, by askSam Systems, is a really powerful freeform database. It gives you great flexibility by letting you import a large range of file formats. Even more importantly, askSam gives you a variety of ways of finding the information you've stored. So, if you're looking for a database that's both powerful and flexible, take a look!