- 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal! — There are several professions you would probably never try (and you don’t want to!) in your real life, but those professions are so romantically smelling and sounding, and dreamed of «sometimes, in other life»… For example, feeling yourself driving the big truck — those long dusty roads, strange cities, small restaurants at roadsides, friends and enemies. Hard, but faith work, work for real men. Some time, next life… This…
- Tordex Wheel 1.0, Heroes of Usability — There are always many different opinions on the usability of operating systems (which means the ease and pleasure of use, ease of understanding, and many other things). Each OS has its fans, critics and pragmatics; basically, each solution has its pros and contras related to its user interface. The first versions of Windows, despite the wide adoption, were highly criticized for the lack of usability; over the last years, Windows has passed through major…
- Watermarking – protect your images on the web with a few mouse clicks — If you upload many images to the web or actively trade on Ebay, you are probably quite concerned with protecting your content from unauthorized use and distribution. After all, some of your images, if used in an inappropriate context, may compromise you or create an awkward situation that will be hard to deal with afterwards. Apparently, adding a mark to the photos you make public is a good way of solving this…
- Anyplace Control - control remote systems no matter where you are — Most probably, there have been situation in your life when you had to explain something computer-related to another person on the phone. The task seems easy when you are talking to somebody with experience and knowledge in the area — in this case, the whole process may take mere seconds. But imagine having to explain the process of configuring an Outlook account to your mother-in-law and you’ll instantly realize what…
- DriverScanner - keep your hardware drivers up-to-date with a single mouse click! — Most users simply do not realize that hardware drivers are not just a necessary prerequisite for normal operation of their hardware, but very often also a factor that determines its quality and stability. Whether it’s poor video performance in a new game, stuttering sound in a new audio application or inability to use your webcam in a new version of your favorite IM — the problem is most likely in the…
- RbApp: Why Reinvent the Wheel? — No matter how complicated a program could be — it always comes down to a combination of basic operations. So, why does a programmer need to «re-invent the wheel» and code from scratch every time he needs to get one of those standard data processing functions? — RbApp library sets REALbasic programmers free from that chore. Linked to a project, the library lets you to just use the…
- ShiftN – straighten up your photos in a couple of mouse clicks! — Although modern digital photography has reached an amazing level of advancement and keeps surprising us every now and then when new products or concepts are presented, it is still based on the same optical principles as conventional film photography. Affordable mainstream point-and-shoot cameras and even professional SLR cameras without appropriate lenses suffer from common problems, one of the major ones being the distortion of vertical lines…
- Remote Administrator Control - stay in control, anywhere, any time! — If you have ever tried explaining anything PC-related to your mom or computer-illiterate friend, you have a perfect idea what a pain it can be. Even changing a small parameter may require a good half an hour on the phone, let alone more complex issues. Things get much worse, however, when it comes to supporting a couple of remote departments in your company with dozens of people regularly submitting requests…
- iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum - grab your favorite DVD's to any format with several mouse clicks! — If you are the owner of a large collection of DVD’s, you may eventually want to convert it into different formats to be able to watch your favorite movies on different types of devices and — which is also important — to save space occupied by hundreds of boxes stacked near your home theater system. Although it may sound like to serious endeavor, there are tools out there that can…
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