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The eIDnative Library is a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Belgian Electronic ID Card. It includes a native API for Microsoft .NET, native Win32, Visual Basic 6.0, VBA and Java (Windows platform only). The library has been developed by Serhiy Perevoznyk and started as a freeware SDK for the Belgian electronic ID card. Ortus intends to use the library to develop freeware applications as well as  commercial applications. Ortus maintains a free version of the eIDNative Library for the community and looks for input from users for future improvements. " I'm happy to transfer eIDNative Library to Ortus for continued development ", says Serhiy Perevoznyk, developer of the library. " Ortus has lots of experience with similar projects and can put a full development team at work to move eIDNative Library forward. " About Serhiy Perevoznyk Serhiy Perevoznyk is a Belgian software architect who masters Embarcadero Delphi, C#, C++ and Java. He is an autho...

Some screenshots of Krento showing different Krento skins.                

"Krento 64 bit edition" has been tested by the euroDownload.com labs and we have granted it by our best - GOLDEN award !

The new version of Krento 1.3 is available for download from http://www.krento.net This is major update of Krento and I would recommend to uninstall any previously installed version before installing Krento 1.3 You personal data and application rings would stay untouched. This release has new setup with modern look, additional features and accurate work with registry The size of Krento was reduced almost twice even with all new features. The loading of the application rings was improved. Krento keeps applications rings history and can navigate between the rings using context menu or Ctrl + B and Ctrl + F keys (to go back and forward). The registry access was reduced (portable edition does not use registry at all). Also all operations performed now without using Administrator rights even if Krento is running under Administrator account.

The new release of Krento v.1.2.200.12, freeware desktop organizer  is available for download from http://www.krento.net In this release the look and feel of Krento was improved and skinning engine was almost rewritten from scratch. Now Krento supports not only RocketDock skins, but  ObjectDock skins as well. It means that already now  thousands of skins are available for Krento to choose from. To be able to show all installed skins the skin selection menu become scrollable: You can find nice original skins that can be used with Krento on  http://www.wincustomize.com ,  http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/applaunchers/objectdock  and many other sites. How to install new skins for Krento Download the skin archive to your computer. Extract it from the archive Open Krento skins folder. To do this, select "Options" from Krento menu and switch to "Tuning" page Press "Open Skins Folder" button Copy the subfolder with your skin to Krent...

Krento v.1.2 released and available for download. Krento is a simple, good looking 3D application launcher for Windows. Application launchers can speed up your computer experience, but they aren't always pleasant to look at. Krento is not only easy to configure, but it adds some serious 3D eye candy to your desktop, with little impact on resources. Krento runs in the background from the system tray, and can be launched by either right-clicking the icon, clicking your mouse's scroll wheel, hitting Windows + C, or double-clicking a toggled "pulsar"—basically a small, semi-transparent animated icon—in the corner of your screen. To launch a program, just click on its box (or "stone", as Krento calls it). Or, if you don't want to move from the keyboard, you can also hit ctrl + the function key that corresponds to the program. In the above-pictured case, for example, Ctrl + F5 for the Command Prompt. To add programs to the launcher, just drag and drop th...

A long awaited update of Krento with possibility to configure stones is released. New features: Assign custom image to the stone Modify stone description Add optional command line parameters to the stone application Add command line argument that will be used during the stone execution. More information about the argument. You can add to the stone target URL the special symbol sequence ## For example: http://www.google.com/search/hl=en&q=## and provide an argument prompt text. When you execute the stone the following dialog will appear on the screen: You can enter the keyword and press OK button. The web browser will be launched and pointed to Google with search results for your keyword. In this way you can create the search stones for YouTube, Twitter and other social sites and search engines Download Krento 32 bit edition Download Krento 64 bit edition Download Krento portable edition  P.S. Do not forget to tweet or share this news with others.

Krento has been reviewed by Best Freeware Download and got 5 stars award

I added some screenshots  of Krento to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/47069565@N06/sets/72157623182116367/ and have a plan to add some more screenshots to this set later. To be continued...

Krento 1.1.184.29 is available for download. As always you can download the latest version of Krento from my SkyDrive or from the official Krento website Krento 32 bit version Krento 64 bit version Krento portable edition    In this release was fixed the problem with usage of mouse action buttons (2 additional buttons on 5 button mouse) and improved the quality of the icons when running on Windows Vista or Windows 7. For some types of stones the icons were replaced with standard Windows icons. I also added new settings to make Krento configuration more flexible:

New release of Krento is available for download: Krento 32 bit version Krento 64 bit version Krento portable edition   As was suggested by Mike Lee I assign now a unique version number to every release. These numbers will help those of us who are following your development of Krento , and making suggestions or bug reports, to accurately identify what version we are using. All editions are synchronized. Updated and extended options dialog. More settings, more flexible mouse activation with help of key modifiers Fixed problem with assigning the new skin and storing skin name between the sessions   Possible to assign custom icons for the stones. Just drag and drop image file (jpg, png, gif, tif, ico or bmp) to the stone for changing default stone icon to the new one Added ability to show/hide tray icon

I made a new release of Krento http://cid-b4508367face85d1.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/krento.1.1.x32.setup.zip In this release the configuration dialog was added Now is possible to define: Keyboard hot keys to activate applications ring Mouse key to activate applications ring Ring location when it's activated Start Krento automatically when Windows starts Other new features: Associate .circle files with Krento. By double click on .circle file new application ring will be loaded. You can also create the ring shortcuts on your desktop for quick rings reloading Application ring files .circle is can be dragged and dropped on one of the Krento stones. Now stone can load other application circle Krento settings are stored when user is logging of or shutdown PC automatically Every applications ring remembers the stones location and restore it every time while loading When Krento starts, it loads the last opened ring, not just a default one. The .circle file name ...

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Launch Krento Move your mouse over the big central button of Krento and press right mouse button Krento will show context menu Select "Create new circle" menu item The file save dialog will be shown. Select desired name for your new stones ring and click on "Save" button The current circle will be replaced with the new. The new circle contains only empty stones. You can start to drag and drop you items (files, programs, shortcuts, web addresses) to the empty stones. As soon as you fill in all 12 stones your new ring is ready. You can create as many rings as you want and select any of them at any moment via same context menu.

Good video showing Krento features

Krento does not use Windows registry to store the settings, but INI file instead. The name of the configuration file is  C:\Documents and Settings\ User Name \Application Data\Krento\Krento.ini [Position] Left=640 Top=512 Location=ScreenCenter The ' Location " parameter can have two values: ScreenCenter and Point . When Location is defined as ScreenCenter , then Krento is always appears at the screen center. When the value is Point ,  Krento  appears at the point of mouse cursor where you pressed mouse wheel.