- AVIedit has incredible power in a small package. — Sometimes we look on the software and say «It’s a good program». Sometimes we say «it’s a great program», or «it’s a useful program» or «It’s my favorite one». But it is a very rare case in which we say only «wow!» With AVIedit you have this opportunity. Judge it for yourself: a video capturing and editing utility…
- 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…
- Art of Japanese Crosswords — It’s a game. Moreover, it’s a Japanese game. Created not so far (1987) by the Japanese puzzle-master Tetsuya Nishio, the game, however, soaked up the ancient culture and civilization. It’s an art. The pictures are simple, the drawing is logical, not creative; but when the puzzle is solved, you suddenly see some small piece of art created by your mind and your hands from the plain and unpretentious…
- PolyEdit 5.0 Worder than Word — PolyEdit can be called a «new word» (in some sense) in the word processing software. It provides rich functionality, pretty and consistent user interface and some non-trivial but very useful, tricky capabilities. The small setup file (only 1.5 MB to download) would really surprise you after the installation; all of the common features for the complex document editing that we are used to are here. Compare the program with…
- Fast EBook Compiler. Book-for-Sale! — If you feel like a writer (fiction writer, technical book writer or even cookbook writer) you can not easily turn your writing into money. The fact is the «traditional» publishers are conservative and are stuck to «writing stars». Even if a paper publisher would be interested in your writings, the contract he would offer to a young unknown author would not be very liberal or even fair. But…
- 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…
- WordQuiz 5.4, Words Flashing! — There are numerous methods for studying foreign languages in general and for studying foreign words in particular. But (fortunately or unfortunately) still no word learning method exists that is more efficient than the simple «see word — try to translate». WordQuiz is an outstanding example of software embodying the old world learning idea. WordQuiz allows you to work with any dictionary in any language(s), either…
- TheSage 1.4.0, Language Reference Complete — TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus (or just TheSage for short) is a good demonstration of how slick and innovative user interface can contain a full and complicated reference and still preserve the ease-of-use and strength of an information reference. At first glance, TheSage is «just» a dictionary. You enter a word, the exact meaning of which you want to know, then press Enter and obtain the…
- Aml Maple 1.92, Dancing In Languages — The world is completely multi-cultural now, it’s just a fact. But this fact is a pain for those who have a non-English alphabet (like Cyrillic or Greek), because they should use several keyboard layouts (native for conversations and English for URLs, technical information etc.). These people should not only switch layout every several minutes, but also they should always remember their «current» layout inside every individual application…
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