- Visual Money. Smart and Ambitious. — All software developers know: There are certain areas in the market where one would never try to compete — there are some Old, Greedy Huge-Budget and Long-History Monsters out there already, and «you’ll-never-bit-them». The trick is -there is a small share of presumptuous developers who still try to take their steps in such markets — and they win! (Much more often than you might think, actually.) Sometimes they even…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls… Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .Net, there is Java, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- Addict 3.5, Spell-Checked! — Addict Component Suite is a set of VCL components for Borland Delphi/C++ Builder (wide range of Borland/Turbo IDE versions are supported). The suite is designed to solve spell-checking issues once and for all: virtually any scenario of checking is easily supported with highly customizable controls. The basic option is the dialog-based spell-check: you click on the «check» item and see the dialog with misspelled words shown one…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- RIT 1.6, Check the Intelligence — Typical software or paper-based «intelligence tests» are a one-time thing; once you’ve run through a test, the next run will show incorrect results. Moreover, once you’ve run through one of intelligence tests, other similar ones will also become «inappropriate» for you. That’s because of the usual approach to intelligence testing: a set of static constant puzzles and questions — you see them…
- Anyplace Control - control remote systems no matter where you are — Most probably, there have been situation in your life when you had to explain something computer-related to another person on the phone. The task seems easy when you are talking to somebody with experience and knowledge in the area — in this case, the whole process may take mere seconds. But imagine having to explain the process of configuring an Outlook account to your mother-in-law and you’ll instantly realize what…
- AutoWallpaper - a kaleidoscope of wallpapers with stunning visual effects — If you are a proud owner of a shop or a multi-monitor system, you may eventually want to use your monitors to decorate your display case or workplace. A single panoramic screensaver or synchronized switching of several wallpapers would be ideal for a vivid demonstration, but setting it up using standard OS means is quite problematic, if not impossible. If you would like to breathe new life…
- 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…
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