FeeX – The Robin Hood of Fees

Do you know how many hidden fees you are paying on your way? Actually, if you cannot change and you do not know, you sleep better. But if you know and you can change, you are definitely an informed customer and potential winner in the game.

With one excellent and very popular startup (recently acquired by Google) already under his belt, Waze founder Uri Levine has now set out on a new adventure. While Waze revolutionized the way people navigate using GPS by adding crowdsourcing into the mix, FeeX is trying to do the same with your bills.

The FeeX Damage Meter will show you the percentage of your retirement savings that could be consumed by fees. Then your portfolio will be compared with others from the FeeX community, and if there will be another competitive portfolio with lower fees and better or the same performance, you will be presented with such alternative.

The company has secured $3 million in financing and is well on its way to achieve its goal of becoming the “Robin Hood of Fees.”

The service is definitely free and will remain free for the life of the project.

Website: https://www.feex.com/

How to send free SMS from your PC to international mobile numbers?

I would like to present today two free services, allowing you to send SMS from your desktop Windows PC to mobile phones, including overseas.

MFreeSMS

Send free text or voice SMS online. No need to register, just write your message and send free SMS to any Country. Simple and straightforward form, secured by captcha from spam.

Website: http://mfreesms.com/

AFreeSMS

Text Message anyone worldwide for free with international SMS messaging with no registration or sign-in. Service is fast and reliable, and the amount of the messages you may send is limited only by Fair Use rules.

Website: http://www.afreesms.com/

Popcorn Time: Watch Free Movies on your Desktop

For free movies’ lovers there are multiple opportunities on the modern Web. You can review multiple full movie clips, loaded on YouTube, you can download movies through the BitTorrent applications, or you can find the streaming website, who will offer you to see them through their interface.

Popcorn Time is a new service offering you to stream torrent movies instantly with free application. The service still in Beta, but is fully operational.

Main feature:

* Popcorn Time service is collecting over the Web the best movies’ torrents from multiple torrent sites.

* There are no restrictions. You may watch any movie as many times as you want. All you need to get started is a proper internet connection.

* If movie is available in catalog, you may watch it instantly in HD and with subtitles.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 and above, Mac OSX 10.7 and above, and Linux.

Legal disclaimer: Downloading copyrighted material may be illegal in your country. Use at your own risk.

Website: http://getpopcornti.me/

PaintStar – Free Digital Photo Editor

Digital photo editor became a must software piece on every computer. Therefore, choosing a high-quality freeware to perform the task is really important.

Here is software which carries very high experts’ and users’ rating, while not being much in the general public spotlight.

PaintStar is versatile digital image processing software, suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, image morphing, composing and authoring images, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path, and the most common editing techniques. Paintstar has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings and some interesting extras, which you may not find even in commercial programs, as well.

Main Features:

* Full suite of painting tools including paintbrush, pencil, eraser, airbrush, filter brush, color retouching, blur/sharpening, smudge, and cloning. Many customizable brushes, texture, gradient, and 26 methods of combining modes supported.

* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, perspective, flip, and wrap. Auto anti-alias supported.

* Image Morphing supported. With this technique, you can create a sequence of intermediate frames that seamlessly transform one image to another and generate output in a form of gif animation or image file sequence.

* Gradient Fill tools include linear, radial, square, conical (symmetric), conical (asymmetric) and shapeburst. Multiple colors supported.

* Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy and paths. Add, subtract, invert, anti-alias and feather selections supported.

* Zoom 10% - 2000% display, and show grid supported.

* More than 30 File formats supported include JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, BMP and many others.

* Color conversion includes several different dithering methods and palette options.

* Alpha channel (transparency) supported.

* Displays Histograms (RGB, HSV, HSL, and CMYK).

* Displays EXIF information. EXIF 2.2 supported.

* TWAIN supported for scanners and digital cameras.

* Multiple Layers, 26 methods of combining modes supported.

* Multiple Paths supported. You can add, delete, insert point to the curve and adjust point in the curve just like vector drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.

* Multiple Undo and Redo supported. You can set up the number of Undo´s from 3 to 99.

* More than 100 Filters/Effects. Application of 3x3 filters supported.

* Screen capture supported. You can capture selected or fixed regions of the desktop, as well as active windows or individual controls (menus, dialogs etc.), which can be easily selected by an on-screen indicator which outlines the area to be captured.

* Displays thumbnail of selected image in Windows Explorer context menu just like ACD System Picaview.

Screenshots

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/wangzhenzhou/