- SkinCrafter, Uniqueness of Visuality — Users love uniqueness; users love beauty; most of all, users love beautiful unique software interfaces. The previous passage sounds like a trivia, but it is truth, and it is the kind of truth the developers tend to neglect. In the context of the oversaturated market, your new cool software would be *taken* as new only when it *looks* as new. So, if you are an ambitious software developer, you do really need…
- Smart Install Maker 2.70. Just Do It. — Modern traditions and honest for Windows software say any program wanting claim itself «serious» and «professional» must have an installer. Despite of how large a program is, how many resource files, libraries and components it uses, and how deep its system dependencies are, user wants to just download a single «SetupMyProgram.exe» file, run it and have it ready to go. Preparing an installer…
- InterBase/Firebird Development Studio 5.1.3. Database Designer. — There is an amazing integrated suite for working with Interbase and Firebird, obviously named InterBase/Firebird Development Studio. It is really brilliant in all of its aspects and components, but I want to speak about the «first between equals» — the Database Designer component. IB/FB Development Studio’s Database Designer is a many-sided crystal. It serves as: Full-fledged visual ER diagram…
- Euphoria Programming Language, Software Development Made Easy — Do you like the modern software? I’d doubt that and don’t know anyone who does — today’s software sucks, to put it mildly; it’s crooked and works not the way it’s supposed to. If you were to re-write all the software that’s installed on your computer, you would have definitely made it a lot prettier, more natural and intuitive — simply better. Just because you know what…
- Personal Passworder – more than a simple password storage for an active Internet user — If you spend more than 5 minutes on the web every day, it is very likely that you are registered in several online services, numerous forums, conferences, user various IM clients, email accounts and other solutions that require user authorization. Using a single password for all of them is plain unsafe, as a single hack or leak of information will give the lucky intruder access to all of your accounts. On the…
- OLEDB Direct - a great set of COM interfaces for database-driven applications — When you are creating a database-driven application, interaction with the database becomes one of the key pieces of the overall functionality that requires significant time to implement. If you are using multiple data sources, this task becomes even more complex due to the complexity of database connections and related routines. That is the exactly the case when a universal database interface would come very handy. If you are exploring the…
- BillingTracker Pro - an affordable and feature-packed billing tool for all types of users — There are many categories of users that get paid on a non-standard basis — freelancers of all sorts, consultants, lawyers, project managers, translators and many others. These people need reliable and accurate time tracking tools to be able to correctly bill clients. If you are one of these users or even work for multiple clients (with different hourly rates), you are definitely looking for a billing system that will satisfy both…
- Advanced Tracks Cleaner – an indispensible tool for any privacy-conscious user — Whenever you perform an action on your computer — open a file, install a program, visit a webpage — your operating system records it. This logging is done for different purposes, but the most important consequence of this process is that your activities may be recreated quite accurately — even if you think you have been very discreet. If you want to protect yourself from this and be always sure…
- XP Home User Manager: Freedom to "Home" Users — For somewhat a «fair» price, the home edition of XP and Vista do provide the functionality sufficient for home users. Nevertheless, used to the «extended» Pro environment at the office, we feel ourselves uncomfortable with the restrictions we face upon returning home. And what can drive someone up the wall worse than anything else is the home edition’s half-baked user account management system, which makes the…
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