- Radio Explorer 2.6.3. Browsing the Ether. — While having more and more of those new sexy digital media every day, we still remain attached to our good-old «real-world» ones. This is true for books (can those e-books touch us like those made of the real paper?), but this is ten times true for the radio. This good old media, ether, diversity of stations, round-the-clock voices — what can digits and the Internet oppose to it? OK, the digital world has nothing…
- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- Amateur Invest 2007, Market Game for the Rest of Us — Market games with investments, securities, stocks, currencies, seem to be a mix of magic and science. Tons of terms, objects, graphs — all to make novices and amateurs to lose their interest in participating in those dainty games. This is why we (the mere mortals) should be so thankful to Amateur Invest — the investment software for the rest of us. It will speak with you in the plain…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into account the amount of time they waste when to find a byte of frequently-used data…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear. Is there a way to edit a code block without having to run those heavy development…
- Vypress Tonecast 1.3, Turn On The Radio! — Local computer networks (both office and home ones) have brought an interesting medium to us. Before networks have entered our lives, nobody could experiment with this kind of communication, where a huge crowd of people was firmly interconnected into one tight substance and each person could reach another one with any information in a second. Since LAN has become a mainstream, a great variety of software appeared to utilize this…
- 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…
- 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…
- StationPlaylist 4.12, Professional Radio On Your Own — StationPlaylist is a software suit ready for professional radio design and broadcasting. Surprisingly full-features package (in fact, StationPlaylist is all software you need to have your own radio station), and surprisingly easy and pleasant to use at the same time. StationPlaylist suit consists of two packages: a «design» part (StationPlaylist Creator) and a «run» part (StationPlaylist Studio), though each of the…
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