- ConteXt: A completely different sight at DBMS — ConteXt is effective, highly scalable, and industrial-strength DBMS with an innovative data model. Rapid application development environment, which is included in ConteXt, allows you to speed up the development of complex data-manipulating applications. The powerful, but lightweight, engine makes possible any usage of the system, from embedded one-user DB to large solutions with hundreds of simultaneous connections. ConteXt is meant for…
- VideoPeep: Veiled Sight — Having you small web-camera, you probably have thought of organizing a hand-made video surveillance system. Its tasks may be different: For example, you could want to control your children’s or pets’ behavior, or guard for the «unwanted visitors» when nobody is at home. Whichever the case is, you will need the appropriate hardware and software. The hardware role can be successfully completed by a web-camera (all…
- Cortege 2.0. New Sight at Contacts — The Internet era has brought us to a completely new amount of permanent and valuable «contacts» — people you communicate with, primary by e-mail. Those people can be your business partners, customers, «just people you know», your family, or… Anyway, for the majority of us, they all are here. This huge number of people, who may have some great ideas for you, been waiting for your phone call, just miss you…
- 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…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- Proxel Lens Corrector 1.2, Fish Eye To Human Eye — Proxel Lens Corrector is a software suit for correcting lens aberrations, for example, wide angle lens’ «fish eye» when you shoot extremely wide landscapes. Proxel Lens Corrector is characterized by extreme quality, easy user interface and automated tool for camera/lens analysis. The software works this way: Lens Corrector itself is a Photoshop plugin. So, you just load your image in your Photoshop (on Windows or Mac), select…
- Crippin, Protect What You Value — Just think of this: it’s more than enough to lose the hold of your mobile device (or its memory card) for just a moment to have the data in it lost, stolen or modified. Not pretending to be the panacea, a straight-forward solution would be to encrypt the data. This way, if the device gets into an unwanted hand, the unauthorized person still won’t be able to get to the data…
- Fairy Christmas Day 3D Screensaver 1.0, Saving Screen, Saving Mood — Screen-savers became popular in the good old days when they addressed an important, even vital, problem of — you’ll laugh! — saving the screen. In those sad old days, CRT screens had to change their picture frequently enough to prevent pixel burnout. Those sad times are long gone, and nowadays screensavers are just an entertainment: when you aren’t using your computer, why should it look like a boring workplace…
- Autumn Time Screensaver, Sweet Memories of Bright Sunny Days — Autumn is not just rainy weather, muddy roads, dark and longer nights and the anticipation of the first snow. Autumn also pleases us with countless baskets of juicy fruits, bright colors of seasonal landscapes, and never-ending chains of exciting fairs and festivals. It’s a really unique time of year, which flies by within a few bright, sunny days, which we’d hope to last until the next summer. But the most we can…
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