- DOSprn 1.77: Long Life of old programs — The program solves the problems of printing from old DOS programs to modern bubble jet and laser printers. Modern printers are working in so-called graphic mode while DOS programs were all designed to print in text mode (as matrix printers do). The purpose of DOSprn is to solve this compatibility problem. If you use an old DOS program you can’t update it (due to lack of new versions or because of its…
- iRadioNet 2.01 Cool Software Receiver — iRadioNet is just the OCT, as I like saying. «OCT» stands for «one cool thing», and when I say so, I mean «something extremely pretty-looking, useful and easy-to-use; the thing, which would really help me live». iRadioNet is just that kind of thing. iRadioNet works as receiver set for almost all formats of modern online radio. You can listen to the streaming Internet audio (currently mp3, wma, and asf…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- 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…
- Anyplace Control 4.0, Long Caring Hands — It happens quite often in the big world of people that you need to walk ten steps every three minutes to show your wife or your child how to get around «something» on their computers. Another thing that happens just as often is when you need to walk ten rooms to solve a really simple problem with the secretary’s or accountant’s software. And just as often, it happens that you need…
- SMS-it! 3.6.6, Talking To Mobiles — There are two basic symbols of today’s information and communication technologies: obviously, a computer and a mobile phone. Unfortunately, they aren’t very friendly to each other: Typically you can establish connection between your own phone and computer, but connecting from a computer to a remote phone (and vice versa) is another story. Therefore, it’s like having two parallel communication worlds: computer networks versus…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- Oxy Cube, When a Mobile Meets a PC — By itself, a cell phone is just a device for, basically, making calls. A computer also has nothing special in it when it’s by itself. But what happens when you put these two together? Briefly, they make a feature-packed mobile digital assistant, with no need to buy an expensive PDA or anything else tricky and expensive — just grab a copy of the Oxy Cube software, and consider it’s done…
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