- ScreenVirtuoso 1.91: A real virtuoso of "learning by looking" — Explaining something to somebody is really a big problem. But to explain how to use a complicated program to a user sitting on the opposite coast is even a greater problem. It would be much easier to explain everything if there were an opportunity to demonstrate an example. But, you can’t travel 300 miles away, or more, to show somebody that «All you need to save your…
- Premium Clock 2.31. One Glance, Everlasting Sympathy — I’ve never seen such kind of things before. Maybe, this is the first «Desktop beautifier» I’d want to have a moment before I have seen it for the first time. I will try to picture it with words, but really, all I MUST say: «Go and have a look at it yourself». Still, I’ll try. The Premium Clock idea is simple: it?s a desktop clock. «What a boring…
- EnTren - Learn Through Fun. — EnTren is the ingenious foreign language trainer you’ll never get bored with. It is very easy and funny to work with, and through the game-like process all your foreign language skills will seamlessly grow to a much higher level. The most valuable thing is that many skills (like grammar understanding, working vocabulary, speech) are trained simultaneously, in complex. The other goodie is that there is no boredom in the…
- 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…
- Premium Booster 2.6, It Should Be Faster — «It should have run faster». Haven’t you ever thought this about your Windows? You have a fast modern computer, and you can see day by day that your system is becoming slower and slower… You do the same tasks as you used to do a year ago, but suddenly you realize that your system is working surprisingly slow. There can be many reasons. Some programs which you don’t need «at the moment»…
- Global Network Inventory, Examining The Network — Any computer network administrator has a large responsibility area concerning all network computers configuration. This area includes both hardware and software configurations, and control of all them is really important for network safety, reliability and stability. But as soon as the number of computers in the network exceeds about 7, no administrator, even a genius one, can control them all timely without an automating tool. There are…
- 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…
- Euphoria Programming Language, Software Development Made Easy — Do you like the modern software? I’d doubt that and don’t know anyone who does — today’s software sucks, to put it mildly; it’s crooked and works not the way it’s supposed to. If you were to re-write all the software that’s installed on your computer, you would have definitely made it a lot prettier, more natural and intuitive — simply better. Just because you know what…
- TextGRAB SDK 2.1, It's All About Text — Today’s user interfaces are mostly textual still; and if you understand this, you can suppose several software ideas based on this fact. Screen readers and translators are the most evident, though not only ideas. The things became much easier, if you have a software component able to take all tasks of obtaining the text from windows and buttons, so you can be concentrated on the main idea of your program. So, TextGRAB SDK really…
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