- DoubleSafety 3.3: A few clicks, which save your life — It is a cruel world. It is the world in which your weekly, monthly, or even yearly work can be lost in a moment due to a virus attack, power failure or another unfortunate event. It is the world in which a chain of bits we call a «file» can contain vital information. What can we do? The only smart thing we can do is to make backups of our data…
- Battle screen saver 1.6. Let Them Die!!! — One of the coolest features about the old science fiction movies was space battle. Those naive but grandiose battlefields, thousands of different spaceships, huge asteroid-like battle-cruisers and small nimble fighters, explosion flashes and laser traces… Yes, those battles sometimes do return in the modern movies (for ex., the «new» Star Wars trilogy is quite a good one), but still they were born in 1980’s, with Star Trek and the…
- PixClip, Clip It, Paste It, Save It — Does it make sense to learn or use those full-featured image processing monsters when all you need to do is to just clip a picture off the screen and then paste it to a document or save it to file? With the right tools, the job can be completed in just a few clicks. Check out the PixClip software by António Maria Torre do Valle. This handy «gadget» starts with your operating system and…
- Belkasoft Screen Capturer 1.01, Just Take A Shot — There are several different approaches for implementing «software with simple function» concept. Unfortunately, the majority of software authors tend to see their software as a «future ultimate combine», where each new version brings in tens of new dialogs, tricky multi-level menus and other «feature-list extenders». That’s why we appreciate so much those rare brilliants, which allow to perform their main…
- Clock Screen Saver — Although screensavers are mostly used for decorative and entertainment purposes these days, there are some of them that can really help you do your work better and faster. If you are tired of looking at the same old screensaver all day long, make it work for you and do something useful — for instance, show current time on your screen during idle times. If that is something that you would like to do, check out Clock Screen…
- Active GIF Creator - everything you need to create attractive and lightweight GIF animations — Although Flash and Silverlight technologies are what most advanced web designers think of as the future of web interfaces, there are situations when using them is not reasonable. First of all, these technologies are quite complex and are not well suited for beginners. Secondly, there are situations when animation has to be added to a Flash-free site. Finally, seamless integration of a Flash movie into an existing design is not…
- Fairy Christmas Day 3D Screensaver 1.0, Saving Screen, Saving Mood — Screen-savers became popular in the good old days when they addressed an important, even vital, problem of — you’ll laugh! — saving the screen. In those sad old days, CRT screens had to change their picture frequently enough to prevent pixel burnout. Those sad times are long gone, and nowadays screensavers are just an entertainment: when you aren’t using your computer, why should it look like a boring workplace…
- WeiserWare Screen Saver Manager, Never Recurring Beauty — The job is done, and you won’t need the computer for a while. You wish you wouldn’t see its desktop stuffed with countless windows while you’re taking care of something else; however, seeing the same screen saver showing the same picture over and over while you’ve been around can just as well drive you nuts. How about a screen saver that never repeats? It has nothing in common with cycling pretty photos or messing…
- Turn Off Monitor Utility, 5 Bucks to Save the World — A monitor shining a flashy screensaver or uncompleted job is a whole lot of distraction. On a hot day, a needlessly working monitor contributes its extra portion of heat. It converts to kilowatts of wasted electricity, additionally polluted environment and countless extra dollars out of your pocket. Turn off your monitor when you don’t need it! Although it may sound somewhat odd at first, using…
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