- 3S Web Tools v2.5. Web Developer's Joy. — The website development is a strange thing. Unlike other programming and near-programming activities, webdev requires much more of good taste, common sense, and wish to «do well» rather than strong programming skills. And even when some (or more) of programming IS required, such tasks are rather routine and only require time and accuracy, not «fantasia». So, whenever somebody or something can relieve you from such kind…
- 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 VC++ MFC, 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…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- Test Pro Developer — Popularity of quizzes and tests is easy to explain. Most people like being challenged, like knowing how they rank among others and what their current level is. Of course, there are spheres — such as education — where tests are an integral part of the performance evaluation process. If your position implies the necessity to prepare tests on a weekly or even daily basis and you are seeking an powerful, yet…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- dbQwikSite Developer Edition - fast and effortless automatic generation of fully-functional database-driven websites — If you are the owner of a small company or an individual willing to start an e-commerce website to sell your merchandise online, price is most probably your main concern. After all, sales haven’t started yet and you are only probing the shaky soil of online commerce. In this case, spending a fortune to hire a team of professionals to create your own trading platform may not be a good idea…
- Email plus Voice for Microsoft Outlook - an easy way to say more in an email message — It often happens these days that you and the recipient of your messages (for instance, your client) live in completely different parts of the world. It creates certain difficulties for live communication and emails are not always informative enough to convey your thoughts. In this case, sending a sound recording solves the problem — you can quickly express your ideas, support them with attached documents and drop a couple of lines…
- File Security Manager - full control over file and folder access permissions (even in Windows XP Home) — Being an overall excellent operating system, Windows XP does have some versions that limit user’s control capabilities to a bare minimum. For instance, Windows XP Home offers a great set of multimedia and general features, but lacks the degree of flexibility that many advanced users would definitely appreciate. For instance, the Home version will not allow you to set file and folder access right, which is a common method…
- 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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