- J2K-Codec: Size Matters — There is an image-compression standard named JPEG, which is quite good, but rather old. And there is a new, modern and progressive successor — JPEG2000. Respectively to JPEG, the new standard gives a smaller file size and better image quality, and some new possibilities, such as transparency and translucency (alpha-channel). With J2K-Codec any developer can easily add JPEG2000 support to his/her application. If you are a game…
- Bigmail 2.1. Size Does NOT Matter — Despite of all spam, anti-spam, viruses, blah-blah-blah, e-mail still remains the most common way of transferring something in the digital environment. If you know somebody, and that somebody is connected to the Internet — you’ll always have that person’s e-mail address, even if no other contact information is available. This universal communication channel, however, is not free from problems, and not the least one…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- CheckQuota 2.1, Size Under Control — A major problem with computers shared by several users (either locally, or through a network) is disk usage. Badly-tempered, non-experienced or forgetful users are used to storing huge files in their home or common file-exchange directories; sometimes they even do not store huge files, instead, they just never delete them. And all computer users can suffer the lack of disk space just because of a single «bad» user…
- Image Sizer 1.04, Change Your Pictures! — Since computers became personal and obtained ability to process images there is a huge bunch of image-related software written and solved. One may think you can easily find the best software for any image processing task. But it is not the plain truth. There is a common lack of one type of image processing software: something which does the most frequent tasks in the most easy and effective way. The typical needs for images…
- Folder Password Protect - rock-solid and hassle-free protection of your personal folders — There are dozens of ways to reliably protect your information — from complete encryption of your data using specialized software to storing them on your corporate server with strict access permissions. However, if you only need a way to protect a specific folder from prying eyes, there is no quick solution unless you want to learn the nuts and bolts of Windows user administration. To avoid this, check out Folder…
- PowerShrink, Bring Office Documents to the Real Size — Have you ever wondered how a Word document with just couple of sentences of text could take up to a few hundreds of kilobytes on disk? Or how a PowerPoint presentation of a few slides could take quite a few megabytes of diskspace? Could you imagine exchanging such puffed up files with someone over e-mail or posting them on a website? — Doubtfully; or, at least, that would…
- Lovely Folders: Inspiring Look of Explorer Folders — The standard appearance of the folders in Windows Explorer can hardly be referred to as «inspiring»; less to say about «pretty» or «lovely». They’re rather boring and unproductive. And the worst thing about them is that users can’t make any essential changes to their appearance, as Windows doesn’t provide any serious folder customization options. So, the majority of users…
- CRC .NET Control - a native .NET component for fast CRC calculation — Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) calculations are used by the majority of developers to validate the integrity of files and binary streams, which makes them an important part of applications working with multiple input and output files. Despite the great number of available CRC algorithms utilizing various initial polynomials, CRC32 is by far the most popular one. If you are a .NET programmer and want to use a CRC library…
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