- Gold Frog Leaps! — It is a beautiful summer day. Incredible big green wet leaves hang over the smooth mirror of a small lake. Not a sound is heard. A rainbow-bright butterfly flutters near the surface of the water: Hmmmm! No more «rainbow-bright» butterfly. A moment later, a dragonfly with miraculous wings swiftly flies over to the lake: Hmmmm! Good-bye, dragonfly with miraculous wings. Oh, now I see a fly: Hmmm! I see…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Active GIF Creator - everything you need to create attractive and lightweight GIF animations — Although Flash and Silverlight technologies are what most advanced web designers think of as the future of web interfaces, there are situations when using them is not reasonable. First of all, these technologies are quite complex and are not well suited for beginners. Secondly, there are situations when animation has to be added to a Flash-free site. Finally, seamless integration of a Flash movie into an existing design is not…
- SWFKit Pro - hassle-free conversion of Flash movies and animations into powerful EXE applications — Macromedia Flash provides virtually unlimited opportunities for creative talents to put their ideas into life. Powerful vector drawing, animation and object tweening tools make it a weapon of choice for ultimate website designs and offline presentations. However, playback of Flash movies always required a special player, so you could not simply open it as you do with regular movies and images. If you are building a desktop application…
- 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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