- OscilloMeter 5.57. Computer As Tool — Many years have passed since computers were invented as tools for scientific research and engineering tasks. The lucky invention has been widely accepted; it has changed our world and the course of progress completely. Now computers play the role of rather an «everyday tech», «personal communicator» or «stationery» than a serious engineering tool. Sometimes, we don’t even remember that…
- Easy HTML Construction Kit. Six Tools In One. — Any professional webmaster would definitely prefer to write HTML code by hand than to use some «dumb WYSIWYG» editor. But also, any webmaster would definitely dislike typing the same repeating fragments over and over. I’m talking about those cases where «just to show a small table of 2×2 with 4 characters on my page I must enter dozens of markup characters, all those <table>, <tr>…
- MySQL Auto Backup Professional Edition 2.0, Important in Safety — In most cases of enterprise environment, data itself has much more value than the work, time or a single employee or even a customer. So, there is a vital importance of having data in the «safe place»; typically, it means a regular and reliable database backup. The widely accepted and used MySQL database lacks this feature, but there is a good third-party solution for that, with the obvious name: MySQL Auto…
- The JukeBox'er, Tool for Making Parties — You have a party at home. Should you have music? Of course, yes! How are you going to get it? With a computer, I suppose. OK, but here are many problems, like changing CDs or managing your music collection. If there are many guests, who should manage the music? What if some guests don’t know how to use a computer? Or, even worse, they know how to use the computer (and start playing some Need for Speed game…
- XP Tools 7.76, Rule Over Your Windows! — When you’re trying to enchance and control your Windows, you have many options and utilities. The two most common extremes are «one utility for each single function» and «a suite for all service tasks». XP Tools software follows the second approach, and I should say it does the best in the logical organization and effective control. Let’s take a short guide through XP Tools and its usage patterns. The program…
- Uninstall Tool — An averagely curious Internet user downloads dozens of demos and shareware application each month. Once their trial period is over, these applications become useless and stay in the system along with multiple libraries and unnecessary resource files. The abundance of non-functional software creates a lot of mess in the Programs folder and your hard drive, which may cause system errors, let alone the issue of free disk space. The standard Windows…
- Electrist - a tool Thomas Edison would've dreamt for! — A little more than a century ago electricity was an unknown force that thousands of brightest minds tried to harness. Invisible, inscrutable and infinitely powerful, it was destined to change the world forever in just a couple of decades. Today, when the nature of electricity has been thoroughly studied and it has been put to good use virtually everywhere, we know what a complex set of laws it obeys. If you…
- DocMechanic - a data recovery tool you can rely on — When the lights unexpectedly go out or your computer shows you the notorious «blue screen of death», the only thought that flashes in your mind is whether the document you were working on has been saved or lost for good. Although Microsoft Office does have an integrated autosave feature, it’s not always capable of reliably protecting your data against system crashes, power failures and other accidents. If looking for…
- Mosaizer - a must-have mosaic tool for any digital artist! — If you feel that you already have the imagination and sense of art for creating digital masterpieces, all you need is the right brush — a digital one, of course. The art or mosaic creation takes time and years or practice, but if you have the right tool, this time can be reduced dramatically. If you want to give your artistic abilities a try, check out Mosaizer — this amazingly powerful application will turn into…
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