- SMTP Preprocessor 1.01 Strong Tool for Wise Admin — SMTP Preprocessor is a tool for SMTP server administrator. This minimalist tool allows powerful on-the-flow pre-processing of SMTP messages. It can be useful for cutting the loading of the main server software, quick black-listing and rejecting other abuse attempts, and for some much more advanced things we’ll cover below. When SMTP Preprocessor is started for the first time, it may seem a bit confusing: the main window is showing…
- HotMail+ 2.0. Email Must Be Convenient — Hotmail.com, the free e-mail service operated by Microsoft, provides a good-quality e-mail service at no cost. It is a default e-mail provider your Windows operating system would suggest using during its first start. But unfortunately, Hotmail forces you to read and write e-mail messages through your web browser, which seems to be not a very convenient way; and that’s because of Hotmal’s failure to support some…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- Visual Money. Smart and Ambitious. — All software developers know: There are certain areas in the market where one would never try to compete — there are some Old, Greedy Huge-Budget and Long-History Monsters out there already, and «you’ll-never-bit-them». The trick is -there is a small share of presumptuous developers who still try to take their steps in such markets — and they win! (Much more often than you might think, actually.) Sometimes they even…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- 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…
- AELLA Mass Email Campaigner — When the number of your customers exceeds a certain threshold, individual approach suddenly becomes a task of ultimate complexity, be it a matter of sending product updates, company news, invitations or newsletters. This might be the point when you start thinking about using specialized software that will help automate the mailing process. Ideally, this software should be easy to install, configure and use. If you can relate…
- 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…
- AutoWallpaper - a kaleidoscope of wallpapers with stunning visual effects — If you are a proud owner of a shop or a multi-monitor system, you may eventually want to use your monitors to decorate your display case or workplace. A single panoramic screensaver or synchronized switching of several wallpapers would be ideal for a vivid demonstration, but setting it up using standard OS means is quite problematic, if not impossible. If you would like to breathe new life…
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