- 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…
- 3D Load Packer: Box to Box, Box to Box — 3D Load Packer from Astrokette Algorithms is professional-strength planning software for rapid and accurate placement of various boxes inside containers. Assume you have a huge number of objects with the near-rectangular shapes and significant difference in sizes (boxes), and you need to load them into one or more containers (for transportation or storage). The common solution for the problem is to plan the placement of the objects…
- Textanz 1.4.5.9. Science for People — Textanz is a really unique and must-have tool for everybody involved in writing texts. It is not important, whether the text you are writing is a unique sales offer, or post-modern novel. If you want not only to have your text WRITTEN but also have READ by someone and FELT through — you must use Textanz. What’s the magic of this program? Let’s discover it along. Suppose you have written some…
- 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…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- NoteMagic 6.7.11, Not A Science, A Bit Of Magic! — I think, plain text (txt) editing is NOT a rocket science. So, a plain text editor should be like something … errr… so small and simple, and easy, and always in touch. But when I see something as «small and simple» as the standard Windows Notepad, tears are coming out; that is, definitely, an over-simplification case. Faithfully, this «pad for notes» can do almost nothing. The new idea…
- Math Mechanixs — Computers were initially created for solving mathematical problems. However, these days we rarely use our PC’s for this purpose. If your activities involve complex calculations that cannot be performed using a calculator or standard applications found in your operating system, you need specialized mathematical software, which, unfortunately, is expensive and requires a lot of time to learn. Fortunately, there are alternatives that…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
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