- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- 1001 Lines. Train Your Brain — Can you imagine the approximate amount of time people spend playing the «simple» games like Minesweeper or Tetris still by much exceeds the time spent on playing the «cool and modern» strategies and MMORPG? You aren’t surprised or may say, «OK, the simple games always would be more popular as they are _simple_.» It’s the point, but it’s not the complete picture. The simple logical games are…
- Vextractor 3.91, Pretty lines — The dichotomy between raster and vector image formats is like dichotomy between physical and logical shapes. When you want to do something «physical» (like print the images, or show them on a webpage, etc.), you use raster images. But for many other operations, like «fix this line on a logotype» or «remove this curve», or «open this scheme with AutoCAD», or «analyze this map», you…
- Image to PDF Command Line Tool, Just Type-In the Assignment — What does it take to convert an image from one format to another? — Just open the source in a converter application and then save it in the format you need. That simple! Or is it really? For a handful of pictures, it’s a great approach indeed. But what are you going to do with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of images that are to be converted… to PDF? Not many…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- Multis 6.6, The Essence Of Tetris — Since its invention in 1985, Tetris puzzle game has gone through zillions of remakes, ports to various platforms (even cell phones in the last years), design changes and even changes of the game itself. The «Classic» Tetris with seven classic bricks, still keeps its popularity, but we’ve seen and played several successive versions with the changed shapes, or different initial states or other rules. None of them can repeat the…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- CSE HTML Validator – the shortest way to perfection in every line. — There are situations when good HTML and CSS become an essential factor that determines the success of the web development project you or your company is working on. Manual review takes too much time and can often miss problems. In this case, automatic checking and validation becomes the only viable option. If finding an ultimate HTML, XHTML and CSS checking tool with link checking is definitely on your agenda, then consider the job done! The name…
- TETCOLOR 2 - a new life of the good old Tetris concept — If you were a kid once, you definitely know what Tetris is. This genius game was invented way back in the days when computers were only evolving into what we see today on our tables. However, the concept was so wildly popular that it spawned hundreds of clones and basically laid the foundation of today’s casual games genre. If you still get nostalgic of the times when you spent endless hours playing Tetris, you should check…
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