- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- Batch Picture Resizer 1.6, Automate It! — In today’s multimedia environment, when digital cameras, Internet and clip-art CDs are almost universal features, there are several frequent tasks, which should be done with a huge amount of pictures at once. It can be something like «resize all my photos», or «watermark my own clip-art», or «rotate and scale images for design» and so on. The idea is: there are multiple images, and you…
- Macro Scheduler 9.2.01e, Don't Bother Your Hands — A hundred years ago, machines first arose to automate routine operations that humans didn’t want to do. It is now the 21st century, and what do we see? How many exactly identical, exactly routine «point-and-click», «switch-and-type», «drag-and-drop», «cut-and-paste» operations do you perform on the desktop of your computer every day? A lot, I guess. But shouldn’t the…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- Integrated Notification System 7.0.0, Communications Automated — Integrated Notification System (INS) is an extremely powerful suite for sending and receiving faxes, mails, SMSs, voice messages and automating of all kinds of things in this area. The best way to explain how useful the suite is and how smart it is designed is to overview its components. In the heart of our system is a message server, the powerful message queuing, sending and receiving engine. With the same ease…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- Attribute Manager 2.35, Auxiliary Automation — The basics: your computer stores information in files, files are organized into folders and subfolders, making filesystem structure. When we are speaking about more than one file, information is stored not only inside files, but also filenames and folders organization ARE information. And sometimes, even more important information is stored in file attributes: For example, file creation and change dates are useful for time-related organization, and attributes like…
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