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Must Have Software Tools For A Smart Home Office, Part I

If you do most of your business from a home office, you should know that there are plenty of software options out there to help you do more in less time, so you can devote more quality time to your family and children.

Diagram Studio

Diagram Studio offers you a wide choice of different tools which allow you to quickly and easily create flowcharts, business and technical diagrams, schemes, plans, family tree, etc. The focus of these tools is on ease-of-use, speedy results, automation, and quality output.

Diagram Studio contains many features else found only in very expensive packages, like automatic formatting and routing, rotation, customizable toolbars, professional color styles, graphics import and export, curves, flexible text support, and a library of ready-made symbols and templates. Diagram Studio supports Object Linking and Embedding in Windows as an OLE Server. This feature makes it very easy to use Diagram Studio drawings in other Windows programs. You can embed or link your diagram. In both cases, you can edit the diagram by double-clicking it in the destination application.

It's easy to draw and edit charts with Diagram Studio. You don't need to have any artistic talent or drawing skills to use this program. The simple objects can be easily created by using primitive graphic components, and for more complicated ones you can use our Libraries, supplied with the program, where most of the objects you might need are already gathered for you. Simply drag them from there and drop into your diagram. Diagram Studio includes many ready-made symbols that are carefully organized into Libraries designed for specific tasks. For each symbol, you can assign different line colors, pattern, fill and shadow colors. You can enter explanatory text label at any location. Text is entered and formatted just like your word processor does it.

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AutoImager

AutoImager is an advanced image converter that supports over 140 different graphic image formats, and gives you a wide variety of ways to enhance and alter images. Multi-page image conversion and editing is fully supported, making AutoImager an extremely comprehensive image file format conversion software package.

All operations can be performed in batch mode for an entire list of images. Image lists can be saved and loaded again at a later time. All editing and conversion operations have numerous options that can be optionally set for maximum control. The entire application is highly customizable. AutoImager allows you to alter an image or curl a page, batch convert images, and can even function as digital watermarking software.

With over 130 configurable command-line choices, it's easy to create batch files to perform image processing tasks which may need to be done routinely. You can set up your computer to run the batch file on a schedule and leave the routine image processing tasks to AutoImager. Entire in-house imaging procedures can be automated with ease, utilizing the command-line support provided.

More On AutoImager: http://www.deprice.com/autoimager.htm

John Deprice runs all of his businesses from a home office. The tools he uses are available for a free download from http://www.deprice.com/utilities-2-1.htm

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