- DOSprn 1.77: Long Life of old programs — The program solves the problems of printing from old DOS programs to modern bubble jet and laser printers. Modern printers are working in so-called graphic mode while DOS programs were all designed to print in text mode (as matrix printers do). The purpose of DOSprn is to solve this compatibility problem. If you use an old DOS program you can’t update it (due to lack of new versions or because of its…
- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- Atropos-SB ver.2005.05.25. The Organizer for Voices — In our normal «text-based digital life» we have one (or a couple of) programs to organize all those different texts we have — e-mail messages and IM conversations, notes and to-dos, diaries, etc. But ***when we try to talk instead of typing, we always stumble over the problem: how to record and remember phone calls, meeting or conference, or just the thoughts we mutter during the day but always…
- InfoAngel 3.2. Pretty Personal Program. — InfoAngel is a personal organizer, which you need precisely 0 minutes to learn and start using. Once you’ve downloaded and installed this elegant application, you can instantly begin using it and enjoy its great advantages. Everything in the program works just the way you assume it must work; every menu item is clear, and every button is decorated with an icon that makes its function naturally understandable. Despite its natural…
- IsoBuster 2.0, Optical Disk Surgery — IsoBuster has shocked me. Those several small windows under the covers contain such an incredible number of tools for broken optical disks! When I say «optical disks», I mean virtually any optical media from the «ancient» CR ROMs and up to HD DVD and Blu Ray disks, which are still more in the future than in the present. IsoBuster extracts the most from any of those disks. The software understands any file…
- The vOICe, Sound of Sight — Blind people lack one of the five human senses. Vision may be the main one out of the five, but it is not the only one. This is the thought on which the authors of The vOICe founded their invention: software which allows some kind of perception of visual information with ears instead of eyes. The vOICe («OIC» stands for «Oh, I See!») software analyzes information from streaming video (it works with…
- FaxSee Pro 2.80, See These Faxes — Fax is rather old but still popular and necessary kind of media. But in modern offices people will hardly use outdated «fax machine — phone line — fax machine» scheme, they would rather prefer something to do with a computer. Besides other features, computer-based faxing just allows you to make facsimile documents a part of your electronic document management. There is only one problem: different fax software use…
- Autorun Express — Creating high quality and useful content that will be popular with users is just one part of the problem. The other part is delivering this content to consumers in a way that will enable them to use it in the most optimal way. Whenever you send a compact disc to your potential client, how sure are you that it will be viewed at all after being inserted into the drive if it only contains a set of files…
- Crossword Express, Do You Have a Clue? — Love playing word puzzles? Solved everything you could find and ready to come up with your own brain-twisters? In this brief, you will learn how to turn the creation of word puzzles into pleasure and generate crosswords of any type, style or level of difficulty in a snap. Probably the most pleasant thing about this job is that you won’t have to twist your brain to get it done, as pretty much everything has…
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