- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- 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…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- Advanced WindowsCare Professional 2.51, Cares. — Who cares? Who cares of your Windows to be always fast and healthy, clean and tuned up? You think Windows ought to care of that itself? This idea makes sense, but the plain idea can’t make your Windows smarter; it just CAN’T take care of itself at an appropriate level. Instead, Advanced WindowsCare Professional will do that for you. The best I can say about this software is it’s made for human…
- xplorer2 1.7.0.5, Classic Goodies and New Strengths — File Managers have a long history. Both their strengths and weaknesses have been strongly associated with the operating system they had been running under. In the old times, inexperienced users often thought Norton Commander *was* DOS; nowadays, they think Windows Explorer *is* Windows. The reasons for that are natural: file manager is the most frequently used utility in any OS. But, hear me, guys, Windows Explorer is not your obligatory tool…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- Advanced XML Converter — Today, XML is probably the most popular open markup language for sharing structured data across various information systems, especially on the World Wide Web. Nonetheless, despite being well suited for purely programmatic usage, a typical XML file with a moderately complex structure is quite hard to read because of the entanglement of multi-level tags with bits of information scattered across the document. If you work with XML files and need…
- StudioLine Photo Classic: Intuitive Enhancement and Archiving — What’s the good of over-enhancing a photograph if there is no way to find it when it is most needed? On the other hand, browsing through a streamlined gallery of sloppy snapshots doesn’t do a pleasure either. How would you like to resolve both these issues with a single shot? Check out StudioLine Photo Classic. Unlike «heavy» and sophisticated image editing applications, StudioLine…
- Blocker Plains - a great version of the all-times classic — A lot of people play games and thoroughly enjoy it. Some prefer serious titles that take weeks or months to beat and some like simple and fun «time killers» that can be started and stopped at any time and that can be played during short breaks between tasks. If you are a gamer of the second type and like playing simple arcade games just for fun, check out Blocker Plains — another great incarnation…
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