- The Bat! 3.65 Postmaster of the High Standard — Suppose you are choosing a new e-mail client (don’t ask me «why?» — You’ll understand in a second). What would you want from it if you could request absolutely anything you wanted? May be your wish list would look a bit like mine: my email client must be: pretty and convenient; flexible and wise; secure and reliable. The order of these requirements may vary, but the entire list is constant…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0. Go in Pieces! — Puzzles are universal things. A 3-year old child loves playing her big colorful 3-piece puzzle, a 30-year old woman spends hours and days with a 3-thousand piece puzzle of a Scottish castle. A big colorful puzzle is a great present. However, a «personalized» (i.e. unique) puzzle is also stylish. Just imagine giving your girlfriend the cool puzzle, which, when solved, becomes a memory photo with you and her in some romantic…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- 360 High Definition Screensaver Version 2, The Beauty Is Around — When you are looking at your computer’s screensaver, it’s about the same as if you were looking through a virtual window. You see something there, that thing may be pretty or scary, but it’s «behind the monitor». Many screensavers try to convince you, «you’re not in a stuffy office, you’re outside», but instead, you just see «one more window». 360 High…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.2, I'm Fallen Into Pieces — There is common multipurpose design technique that allows making some obvious things less trivial: An effect of Puzzle. Puzzles are commonly drawn as images «cut» into several fancy-form pieces. In the real world, puzzles are very popular among both children and adults. In terms of computer design, a puzzle image is rather a «symbol», but very commonly used. Still, how can you create a realistic-looking and yet not…
- The JukeBox'er, Tool for Making Parties — You have a party at home. Should you have music? Of course, yes! How are you going to get it? With a computer, I suppose. OK, but here are many problems, like changing CDs or managing your music collection. If there are many guests, who should manage the music? What if some guests don’t know how to use a computer? Or, even worse, they know how to use the computer (and start playing some Need for Speed game…
- Cube Puzzle, Rubik' Big Brother — If you’ve caught the time of Rubik Cube’s popularity, you are very likely to have seen folks playing with it like if that was the only thing they could grab in the endless universe. But the time flew by, and the toy that used to keep folks captive magnificently was no longer interesting: all puzzles were solved, and the mind was seeking for something new. Well, what new or unexpected could be possibly pulled out…
- WebSoft CourseLab 2.3, Constructing E-School — Assignment in brief: create an electronic learning course. Assignment in detail: Create a learning course, which guides student step-by-step through textual and graphical information, with interactive elements (like «point a term with the mouse to see the corresponding element on the picture», or interactive animated demonstration of the processes); embed video and audio information; capture and embed the demonstration of working with…
- 15 Puzzle: Endless Fun of Mind Rating — No one knows for sure when and where the 15 Puzzle has been invented. But the invention was truly a success: it’s hard to think of any other puzzle game that has gained such popularity. The whole world, both children and adults, have been playing it even these days. The idea of the game is to sort the 15 randomly placed numbered square pieces in the ascending order without taking them out of the 16-cell box. But although…
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