- Able Graphic Manager — Life is slipping by, but photos remain and remind us of the dearest moments. Everybody has his own favorite pictures. But what should you do if the photo is too small or too large for the frame? You may go to a distant photo center and pay a good amount of money for the result you may not like or buy an expensive program with a number of intricate features you may never use in your lifetime. What did…
- Actual Window Manager 4.5, Take More Than The Best Of Your Windows — Despite some evident drawbacks, Windows has the right concept of «Windows» (ha-ha). This concept is proven to be very effective for organizing several «primary» tasks (that you work with) alongside with many «secondary» ones (which you just observe or rarely switch to or consult with). But, the more intensively you work, the stronger you feel that Windows’ current window-organizing capabilities are far not enough for…
- Task Manager, Get Organized, Stay Organized. — What’s the most common way of getting things done at the office? — Of course, writing to-do things on sticky notes and then sticking those all over the place. «It works!» So we tend to think. But in the reality shows that sticky notes and paper scraps disappear from our desks and so do the jobs written on them — they just disappear from our memory. The good news is it seems…
- Enterra Download Manager — Those of us who regularly download large amounts of data from the web, and especially those who pay for their traffic, know well that a download manager is a must have if you don’t want to lose money, time and nerves. Unfortunately, the standard managers integrated in most popular browsers leave much to be desired and lose a lot to commercial applications. If you need a functional download manager that would…
- Manco .NET Licensing System - a 1-2-3 solution for product licensing and protection — When the last lines of your application and written and tested, one last step must be made to ensure a normal sales process — creation of the licensing scheme and the very mechanism that will allow you to offer different versions of the product and unlock the product for registered users. If your deadline is close and you haven’t figured out a way to quickly implement such a system, take a closer look…
- 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…
- Local Account Manager - comprehensive access rights management in Windows XP Home — Windows XP Home is a great operating system that offers everything necessary for a typical home computer for a price any household can afford. However, it lacks some of the more advanced features found in the Professional edition — and the ability to manage users’ access rights and permissions tops this «wanted» list. If you would like to stay with the Home edition and yet be able to efficiently manage…
- XP Home User Manager: Freedom to "Home" Users — For somewhat a «fair» price, the home edition of XP and Vista do provide the functionality sufficient for home users. Nevertheless, used to the «extended» Pro environment at the office, we feel ourselves uncomfortable with the restrictions we face upon returning home. And what can drive someone up the wall worse than anything else is the home edition’s half-baked user account management system, which makes the…
- Active Task Manager - a capable automation tool for novices and gurus alike — Most users — even after years of daily interaction with their computer — repeat the same familiar tasks after startup, launch backup software only when they suddenly recall that it hasn’t been done for months and perform a huge number of actions that could be automated and run on schedule. If you work with the same set of applications, you can make them start at the same time every day; if you have some…
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