- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 3D Button Visual Editor - create awesome-looking 3D buttons for your site in seconds! — Clear, unambiguous and intuitive navigation is one of the key elements of a high-quality website. No matter if you are developing a brand new site or redesigning an existing one, you must take navigation seriously. If, however, you feel much more confident coding than creating your site graphics, there seems to be only two options: either outsource this part of the work or learn to use professional graphic editors, such…
- 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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