- ChatterBlocker 1.1, Friendly Audio Space — If your main working tool is your own mind then concentration is your friend and noise is your enemy and the enemy of your concentration. Though the concept of «noise» is not that easy: quiet conversation of two colleagues is much more annoying than loud sounds of rain and thunder. So, when you have to work in not-so-quiet conditions (like working in a huge office with many different people with different…
- STAR Exam 1.2, Friendly and Playful Examiner — Presumably, the best type of teachers are those who know how to use games in their work. Of course, this doesn’t mean things like «when you are done with your homework, I will let you play football» — nothing like that. I’m talking about the cases where the entire process of studying something becomes a game, and the higher level you’ve completed successfully, the higher is the level of your…
- Personal Passworder – more than a simple password storage for an active Internet user — If you spend more than 5 minutes on the web every day, it is very likely that you are registered in several online services, numerous forums, conferences, user various IM clients, email accounts and other solutions that require user authorization. Using a single password for all of them is plain unsafe, as a single hack or leak of information will give the lucky intruder access to all of your accounts. On the…
- BillingTracker Pro - an affordable and feature-packed billing tool for all types of users — There are many categories of users that get paid on a non-standard basis — freelancers of all sorts, consultants, lawyers, project managers, translators and many others. These people need reliable and accurate time tracking tools to be able to correctly bill clients. If you are one of these users or even work for multiple clients (with different hourly rates), you are definitely looking for a billing system that will satisfy both…
- Advanced Tracks Cleaner – an indispensible tool for any privacy-conscious user — Whenever you perform an action on your computer — open a file, install a program, visit a webpage — your operating system records it. This logging is done for different purposes, but the most important consequence of this process is that your activities may be recreated quite accurately — even if you think you have been very discreet. If you want to protect yourself from this and be always sure…
- Email plus Voice for Microsoft Outlook - an easy way to say more in an email message — It often happens these days that you and the recipient of your messages (for instance, your client) live in completely different parts of the world. It creates certain difficulties for live communication and emails are not always informative enough to convey your thoughts. In this case, sending a sound recording solves the problem — you can quickly express your ideas, support them with attached documents and drop a couple of lines…
- 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…
- Dr.Explain: User Guides Done Right — No matter how great is the value hidden in your program, it won’t worth a penny until user figures out how the program works and how to get started. Manuals of all kinds are supposed to help users get along with software; however, the composition of a decent user guide can easily turn into a full-time job by itself, if all the operations are done by hand. With Dr.Explain, the job of creating manuals can just…
- Turning the Face to the User. DJ Java Decompiler — Don’t be disappointed when instead a mono-color alphanumeric screen with a lot of mysterious characters, which make sense only to those “chosen” ones called “hackers” or “coders”, and control commands hidden behind the never-would-guess keyboard shortcuts you will see a feature-rich GUI-based editor with colored source code of your application loaded in it. — That’s DJ Java…
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