I'm putting in Recuva. It gets my vote 100%. I just discovered it yesterday: Saturday I filled a 4GB CF card with pictures taken of a sports event. While taking pictures I got a Error 99 (canon users know this one). So I pulled the battery and started shooting again. Fast forward to Tuesday and I wanted to copy the files…
I still like milkshape very much, because it's an easy app to learn and suitable for lowpoly modelling. If you want to port something to an old game, it still has important plugins. I also like wings 3d, but I still need to learn the interface. Milkshape (EUR 25 or USD 35) http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/ Wings 3D…
Lightshot : https://app.prntscr.com A great app to take screenshot, huge time saver when you have to make feedback, or do some image tutorial it's so simple to use, you can just click and drag to take screenshot of any area on your screen, quickly add stuff like arrow, text, frames and it also has pen tool.
I dont know if time management has been brought up but I use the Pomodoro technique to be more productive and focused. there's many apps for this but this is the one I use: http://www.teamviz.com/ And heads up to people with Mac, the OSX version of Crazybump has been in beta forever and it never expired so it's basically…
check out this time managment software: http://www.manictime.com/ its free and it tracks right EVERYTHING you do on your computer and puts it in bar graphs. its easy to overview and handle. you will track, how long you use your computer, your internetbrowser or any other programm. you even track the time on the sites you…
some for mac: Cyberduck great free ftp-program Audacity great free multitrack-audiomanipulation program which supports many formats (also 4 win) http://www.freesound.org/ website with masses of highqality soundeffects and loops under 'cc sampling plus' licence ffmpegX converts any videofileformat to any other (also 4 win)…
Auto-Arrange in Win7 makes sorting textures/ref a lot more annoying imo, and been looking for a way to turn it off in folders sense making the switch from xp64. Well today I came across this reg hack that does just that: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/h1-10/w7-fullrowsel.zip run…
I'd like to point out that Paint Tool Sai has a Lazy Nezumi feature, it's called the stabilizer. Increase it to a level, say 13, and the cursor lags behind while you're drawing. rant/ Personally, freehand inking and sketching on SAI is great (those strokes!) and I depend a lot of my b/w work on it. I've yet to see the…
OpenCanvas for $75 is fun to paint in, and has useful brush blending. What it has for me over PS is that brushes retain a good crispness even when small. It can't use layer masks and some things I will consider necessary for texture painting but it supports PSD! so you can have a workflow switching between the two apps. I…
3 D Coat - Awesome (and dirt cheap) all in one sculpting, retopo, uv and painting app. Weekly alpha builds of version 3 have all the good tools in them like voxel sculpting etc. and can be found in the forums: Latest Alpha Builds Runs great on mac but really flies on a 64 bit vista machine using cuda. Scribbles - Stumbled…