- 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…
- 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…
- TheSage 1.4.0, Language Reference Complete — TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus (or just TheSage for short) is a good demonstration of how slick and innovative user interface can contain a full and complicated reference and still preserve the ease-of-use and strength of an information reference. At first glance, TheSage is «just» a dictionary. You enter a word, the exact meaning of which you want to know, then press Enter and obtain the…
- 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…
- Aml Maple 1.92, Dancing In Languages — The world is completely multi-cultural now, it’s just a fact. But this fact is a pain for those who have a non-English alphabet (like Cyrillic or Greek), because they should use several keyboard layouts (native for conversations and English for URLs, technical information etc.). These people should not only switch layout every several minutes, but also they should always remember their «current» layout inside every individual application…
- 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…
- 2000 Kanji - an excellent educational tool for Japanese language students — Japan is a country full of contrasts and surprises — and its language is not an exception. For most westerners, the hieroglyphic language of the Land of the Rising Sun is absolutely indecipherable and inscrutable. However, everything is possible and the most persistent and diligent gaijins study the language for years and become decent speakers. If you are just in the beginning of your journey to fluency, you must…
- Learn Chinese 2008 - learning a unique language a unique way — Chinese is undoubtedly one of the most sophisticated languages on the planet. Besides obvious phonetic difficulties, learners of Chinese inevitably face the problem of having to remember and write hundreds and thousands of unique characters. If you are learning Chinese at home and don’t have a dedicated tutor, Learn Chinese 2008 will give you everything necessary to improve your language skills — no matter…
- TightProjector - share the content of your screen with students, colleagues and partners! — The need for sharing on-screen content with multiple viewers is well-known to instructors, trainers, presenters and other professionals who regularly need to explain a single concept to a large audience having only their laptop or desktop at hand. Apparently, there are a number of ways to do this (from whiteboards to high-definition wall projectors), but they are hardly as efficient, time-saving and affordable as direct…
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