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NEW! Free image resize software! Well, almost . . .

There’s some fantastic free image resizer software on the free cd with this months ‘.Net’ magazine. It’s a web developer mag which most of you will find thoroughly boring (but geeks like me love it!). You can find it in the likes of WHSmith and other good magazine retailers. This months mag (issue 163, June 07) has a white cover with a ‘G’ on it.

So, the software I’m talking about is  ”Quick Web Photo Resizer”. Normally it’s $30, but it’s free with the mag. The mag costs £5.99, so it’s almost free! The alternative is to buy it from their site at the normal retail price – this is still worth every penny in my opinion.

You can also download a free trial at  http://www.dzsoft.com/web-photo-resizer.html – this downloads a 30 day free trial. It’s by far the easiest to use image resizer that I’ve come across. For those of you who want to take advantage of the Aurora shop but don’t know much about image resizing it could be just what you need.