- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- Constable Authorization Engine 2.0. Policies Above All — Constable Authorization Engine (CAZE) is a class library for .NET Framework, which does all about authorization policies in all of their aspects. In fact, CAZE is much more than just «some classes in the library», as it makes you think all your design thoroughly, from the roles and actions point of view. There is also a handy visual policy designer, which helps you look at policies «in general», without…
- ChemEng Economics Calculator. Calculate Your Profits. — ChemEng Economics Calculator is a tool used for doing the basic method of estimating the Net Present Value of a process plant. ChemEng Economics Calculator has a variety of quite useful features. It goes through a series of calculations to find the estimate. First of all, with ChemEng Economics Calculator you can choose from «Purchased Cost» of plant items or «Installed Costs» of plant items…
- Math Mechanixs — Computers were initially created for solving mathematical problems. However, these days we rarely use our PC’s for this purpose. If your activities involve complex calculations that cannot be performed using a calculator or standard applications found in your operating system, you need specialized mathematical software, which, unfortunately, is expensive and requires a lot of time to learn. Fortunately, there are alternatives that…
- Judy's TenKey: New Life to Good Old Calculator — The «great» news about having a free calculator built-in our Windows system doesn’t make us excited. No wonder — what it can do, the majority of us can calculate in our head. And making any real-life calculations is totally beyond its capacities; for making those calculations, we need to buy more sophisticated software. But aren’t we too speedy about burying the good old calculator? Coders…
- keyCulator: Shall We Calculate? — What calculator can be simpler than the one built in the Windows operating system? Or which one could be more powerful than the system’s default one? Suppose you were typing a paper in a text editor and needed to quickly calculate a certain arithmetic expression. Normally, you’d need to run a calculator program, make the calculations, copy the result to clipboard, close the calculator, and then paste the result…
- Turning the Face to the User. DJ Java Decompiler — Don’t be disappointed when instead a mono-color alphanumeric screen with a lot of mysterious characters, which make sense only to those “chosen” ones called “hackers” or “coders”, and control commands hidden behind the never-would-guess keyboard shortcuts you will see a feature-rich GUI-based editor with colored source code of your application loaded in it. — That’s DJ Java…
- TeX Expressions Put in Human-Readable Format. BaKoMa TeX. — Just as hard as to learn a new foreign language — is for a newbie to code a mathematical formula with TeX. It requires remembering a handful of tricky expressions and totally wears out on debugging the code: TeX provides no way to see whether or not the formula you have typed is syntactically correct, and the expression you’ve just “programmed” looks the way you wanted. Does…
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