- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- FTPRush 1.0, Master of FTP — If you work with FTP eventually, i.e. download one file per month, all you would need for a happy life is your browser or a file manager. But once your FTP usage gets more intensive, start uploading and downloading, connecting to several servers, managing accounts, synchronizing folders and so on, you will finally come to the though that the FTP issue is not such an easy one. The list of features you have already requested is huge…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- Aurora Web Editor 2.2, Site Editor with a Human Face — Nowadays, the term «website» is really diffused. Google «is a website»? Amazon «is a website»? A personal homepage of an Oxford professor or New-York worker «is a website»? Then, what does it mean «to create a web-site»? OK, let’s turn back from the philosophy to the practice. Suppose, you want to have a simple, few-page website…
- Data Security Guard 1.2, Security Can Be Easy — One of the most basic requirements for personal security is ability to hide information onto computer you share with somebody else (your children, colleagues, boss or wife). You don’t need some huge bloated «security package for Professionals», no; typically you need only two features for this type of software: a) it should be easy and b) it should be reliable. That’s all. And that’s how Data…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…
- File Backup Watcher Professional 2.8.17 - an easy-to-use backup solution with a twist — Being able to regularly back up you crucial files is equally valuable for computer rookies and skilled professionals. After all, not everything depends on our ability to control the behavior of the system and perform the right actions — sometimes information get lost to unexpected power failures, hardware crashes and other factors that are generally referred to as Acts of God. That is a reason weighty enough to start…
- TextTransformer 1.4.1, The Last Text Processor You Need — TextTransformer is described as a tool for transforming texts (you bet!). But, in fact, this short description is almost humiliating for this great tool! Because real possibilities of TextTransformer are stretched from trivial word replacements in the text file to creation of new scripting languages (read it twice, guy; it’s true). The trick is: you need some kind of programmer’s mindset to use…
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