- AIT_Trains 1.8. Train on the Trains — AIT_Trains I want to talk about today is a dangerous thing. It is a very effective and pitiless time-killer: I’ve spent several days with those trains, railways, freights, rail-stations; and I’m afraid those days were not the last portion of my time stolen by this game. So, read on only if you are positive that you can stand the temptation. OK, several words about the game’s plot. You have your…
- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- 12Ghosts 8.0, Approximately 90 Times Better — Modern Windows provides a reasonably good user environment. All in it is usable, understandable, and can be done in a few clicks — most of the time. But as your interaction with this environment gets more intense, the «most of the time», mentioned above, appears to be surely NOT ENOUGH. There are tons of places and problems where Windows environment CAN be better — but Microsoft…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into account the amount of time they waste when to find a byte of frequently-used data…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear. Is there a way to edit a code block without having to run those heavy development…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- Global Network Inventory, Examining The Network — Any computer network administrator has a large responsibility area concerning all network computers configuration. This area includes both hardware and software configurations, and control of all them is really important for network safety, reliability and stability. But as soon as the number of computers in the network exceeds about 7, no administrator, even a genius one, can control them all timely without an automating tool. There are…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…
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