- ScreenVirtuoso 1.91: A real virtuoso of "learning by looking" — Explaining something to somebody is really a big problem. But to explain how to use a complicated program to a user sitting on the opposite coast is even a greater problem. It would be much easier to explain everything if there were an opportunity to demonstrate an example. But, you can’t travel 300 miles away, or more, to show somebody that «All you need to save your…
- AIT_Trains 1.8. Train on the Trains — AIT_Trains I want to talk about today is a dangerous thing. It is a very effective and pitiless time-killer: I’ve spent several days with those trains, railways, freights, rail-stations; and I’m afraid those days were not the last portion of my time stolen by this game. So, read on only if you are positive that you can stand the temptation. OK, several words about the game’s plot. You have your…
- EnTren - Learn Through Fun. — EnTren is the ingenious foreign language trainer you’ll never get bored with. It is very easy and funny to work with, and through the game-like process all your foreign language skills will seamlessly grow to a much higher level. The most valuable thing is that many skills (like grammar understanding, working vocabulary, speech) are trained simultaneously, in complex. The other goodie is that there is no boredom in the…
- LePlayer 4.d, Video on Your Fingers — LePlayer is an ultimate mix of a worldwide video browser and a video player. It takes and lightens all functions related to searching video and browsing the Internet; now you have one beautiful and easy-to-use desktop interface instead of tons of search engines, video hosting providers, catalogs and other sites. Inside LePlayer, you can search Internet video by keywords, browsing the results either in the thumbnail form…
- Arabic Typing Tutor 3.3, Type It Now! — There are many typing tutors/keyboard trainers in the world, though most of them address either English or European keyboards, leaving aside many popular languages and keyboard layouts. Many of those keyboard layouts «forgotten by major software developers» have a very different logic and relationship to language, so English/European typing patterns can do nothing for the fast and correct typing in other languages. Fortunately…
- Ambrose G. Bierce Selected Works, Teaching From an Astonishing Person — Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was a strange and a wise American. Even his life was unusual: he resigned a very successful Army career to become a journalist, an editor and a writer. He was a public atheist in the XIXth century, when it was a bad fortune; he had published sarcastic «Devil’s Dictionary» just before the time when sarcasm became popular. He divorced with his wife to join Pancho…
- Speed Test Gold — Knowing that the nominal speed of your Internet connection is high is a great thing, but knowing that it’s high in fact is much better. The actual bandwidth of your connection can be influenced by a great many of factors — from the mode your ISP equipment is working in to your modem settings and the proximity of communication nodes. Exact knowledge of your system’s performance…
- NJStar Communicator - teach your operating system and favorite programs to speak Chinese, Korean and Japanese in no time! — If you are a native speaker of any of the major Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, or a student learning them, you are probably very familiar with the problem of using these languages online. The non-western characters become a real problem in applications initially designed for more traditional markets of the West. If you are seeking a way to teach your software to recognize these languages, NJStar…
- Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor - the shortest way to keyboard mastery — The ability to type quickly today is not just a benefit — it’s an essential need of any active user. If you type quickly, you raise your performance to a whole new level. Long emails are no longer a burden that you have to live with, IM chats become as efficient as phone conversations and, which is most important, you can finally concentrate on what you are typing instead of how you are…
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