- 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…
- 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…
- Alvas. Audio 6.5 – make your applications sound differently! — If you are a developer working with C# or VB.NET languages to create an application that is actively using sound capturing, processing and playback functions, you are most probably facing a serious dilemma. Since these are large and complex tasks, you may want to create your own classes and libraries to have full control over all sound-related processes. However, if your time is limited and deadlines are looming, you may want…
- Dr.Explain: User Guides Done Right — No matter how great is the value hidden in your program, it won’t worth a penny until user figures out how the program works and how to get started. Manuals of all kinds are supposed to help users get along with software; however, the composition of a decent user guide can easily turn into a full-time job by itself, if all the operations are done by hand. With Dr.Explain, the job of creating manuals can just…
- 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…
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