- Step by step, becoming an Astral Master. — You send your Elven Cavalry into attack! As a result, you have enough Mana to create Phoenix, and enemy’s Life and Astral Power falls down, his creatures become weak. You will be able to enjoy your complete triumph soon. What? Don’t you want another strategy game? But it’s NOT a strategy game. You certainly will be surprised, but I?m playing a card game now. Of course, it has many elements which are not typical in such game…
- InterBase/Firebird Development Studio 5.1.3. Database Designer. — There is an amazing integrated suite for working with Interbase and Firebird, obviously named InterBase/Firebird Development Studio. It is really brilliant in all of its aspects and components, but I want to speak about the «first between equals» — the Database Designer component. IB/FB Development Studio’s Database Designer is a many-sided crystal. It serves as: Full-fledged visual ER diagram…
- FinalBurner PRO 1.14, Master of Disks — FinalBurner PRO is a disk burner you can install and consider the problem of disk burning solved completely. The software handles all known types of optical disks, starting from the «good old» CDs and through «the latest things» like HD DVD and Blu-Ray. All types of «special» disks (auto-run, various type of video and audio disks and so on) are handled also. Once you run the program, you will need to select…
- 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…
- AscToHTM, Web Designers, Take a Rest! — What options do we normally have when it comes to posting a document online? Not much, really: a plain-text editor with the knowledge of HTML (a good bargain but with a bit of headache for the bonus), WYSIWYG HTML editor (a less achy solution that pulls cash out of our pocket) or… How about using a converter for that? Suppose, you have a plain-text file laid out in a certain format. You could just load…
- Qengine. Test Your Web Site. — Nowadays, when the role of the Internet in carrying on the business can hardly be overstated, it is really important to organize the functioning of your web sites and web applications properly. In order to get that done, you would need a powerful automated testing tool, such as QEngine. AdventNet’s QEngine is a complete automated web testing tool for the functional, performance, load, web-servicesá and regression…
- Testing Master 1.7.0, Be Brutal With Your Site — Yes, you ought to be brutal with your newly created website. Because if you, the person who has created and published it with compassion and did your best to find its bottlenecks, don’t do that, someone else will do that for you. Without poetry, any website larger than a personal homepage should be tested extensively in order to determine how it will handle heavy loads, for how long users will wait for response…
- 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…
- Startup Master 1.4, Letting Them Start? — There are applications that you use every day, and you start them when you need them. There are other applications, which you’d want to start with Windows (autostart) and let them run for as long as you keep using the computer; those are utility ones. And, certainly, there are applications that you DON’T want to start automatically; nevertheless, they just do it regardless to your opinion. You’d like to control that…
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