- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into account the amount of time they waste when to find a byte of frequently-used data…
- Personal Chess Trainer 2007, And Now, It's Possible! — The chess game is one of the most ancient, non-trivial and brain-changing game since the humanity’s origin. It is well-known that it is much easier to «understand the rules» (how each figure moves, and what to do basically) than to really «learn chess». Some have even argued that there’s no way to learn chess on your own by just playing or reading books. But now, it’s possible! You…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear. Is there a way to edit a code block without having to run those heavy development…
- GoldenGem, Know the Target Price — What does affect a stock quote? How can you predict, where the market will go the next moment, hour or day? — Numerous techniques have been invented for analyzing markets and prognosticating stock prices; they include extrapolating a price using earlier values of that same price — also known as «technical analysis» — and considering data from financial statements, interest rates, volumes, competitors’ prices, prices…
- 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…
- Tiff to Text: A Whole Batch at Once — Recognizing text in image files doesn’t take a whole lot these days: just load the source image into an OCR application, do a couple of mouse clicks, and voila — what was a picture just a moment ago is now a readable, searchable and editable text. Easy enough if you’ve got just a couple of images to be «converted». But how are you going to handle a whole bunch…
- OSList-Optimal Shopping Maker – make your everyday shopping a pleasure! — For most of us, holiday or occasional shopping is an exciting and entertaining activity that we totally enjoy. However, when food shopping becomes an everyday routine that steals a good deal of your precious after-work time, it’s high time you thought about optimizing the way you replenish your supplies. Besides, it would be great if you also found a way to save a bit on the stuff you buy every day…
- PZ Tag Editor - bringing order to your music collection has never been easier! — If you manage your music collection much like most users do — that is, without paying much attention to file naming — you must have hundreds of files called something like «01 — Track 2» that you can’t even distinguish from other nameless tracks until you play them. This is plain uncomfortable, let alone the fact that you can unintentionally overwrite some music files with other ones having the same names. Navigation…
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