- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- TurboZip Express 7.1, Easy Zip Everywhere! — Zipping files is one of the necessary things for dealing with files (actually, you ALWAYS deal with files when working on a computer). Today, with our huge disks, 2 Gb flash sticks and broadband Internet channels, Zip still matters as a tool of organizing file transfers (you definitely would not be happy, if somebody asked you to «download these 50 tiny files» instead of placing them into a single Zip…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- 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…
- WinWatermark 2.0, Leaving Mark For The Future — Digital watermarks is a reasonable and easy method of photography attribution. Attributed photos are «better» in the most cases: for yourself and your family (remembering «when it was?»/«where it was?»), for techincal questions («how it can be shot, which camera and settings?»), for legal purposes (nobody can easily reuse your photos without attributing them to you). But before adding watermarks…
- Fake Webcam - hassle-free streaming of any videos instead of your actual webcam — Replacing your webcam video can be fun and not so hard to do if you have the right tools. Imagine how surprised your friends will be to see your face in a totally different environment or with special effects added to the background! This is also a good way of demonstrating videos to people across the world without uploading them to a video sharing service, an FTP server or sending them by email…
- 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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