- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- ApacheConf 5.0 Bring the Usability to Features — Apache HTTP server is known to be the most popular, reliable, and modern Web server. The program?s only «defect» seems to be its ultimate unixoidism: despite its cross-platform nature, the Web server gets all of its settings through one huge «httpd.conf» file, and even if you need to change one sma-a-a-ll thing in the settings, you would still need to read through all 1000 lines of httpd.conf and much more…
- Spring Simulation 1.03. Physics in Electronics. — Science of Physics and Electronics are in the strange relation. On one side, Electronics is, certainly, only part and derivative of Physics, and the first cannot exist without the latter. One the other side, in the urban human being’s everyday life, day after day there is less room for the simple physics and more room for the complex electronics. Why would I have to think about the boiling process if my electric kettle boils water…
- Courier 3.5 - Easy and Pretty-Featured — Courier is a personal e-mail program, which combines pretty and easy interface with smart-features-when-they-are-necessary. It looks completely familiar to average user, but it can satisfy an fastidious one also. Courier provides you with the ingenious concept of the single-file mailbox, which stores all of your account settings, preferences, mails and addresses and all that is easily transferred between computers (for ex., home and office…
- CiDess 2, Easy Circuit Boards — CiDess is freeware, easy-to-use, not-resource-greedy printed circuit board drawing and layouting software. CiDess brightly stands out against huge over-bloated software suits for its clear-and-simple interface, fast-and-pretty drawing and yet having some very advanced capabilities. CiDess’ ease of use comes from its four simple operating modes: placing components, drawing tracks, modifying components, and group operations. In each mode, it shows only a limited…
- PassCryptor 1.0, Enough Features, Strong Security — Nowadays, software industry seems to SUFFER from over-progressive thinking of developers: any small, simple and reliable tool tends to grow up to a «software suit» state, when it has tons of buttons, icons, additional functions, settings hiding the primary functionality under secondary «cool goodies». Sometimes it’s not too obtrusive — you can just use your «20% of features», but…
- Holding Pattern, Don't Get Late for the Boarding — Remember that breath-taking picture you saw in the window of the airplane during the last flight? Or are you just dreaming of your first flight and count days till that exciting moment? Or maybe you’re in love with airplanes and just can’t wait until the next boarding just to see again that blue sky, marvelous sunset or the unknown land floating beneath the silver ring again? Why wait? — With Holding Pattern Coach Class…
- Fishing Simulator 2 - land your best trophies anytime, anywhere! — For millions of men and women across the world, fishing is the number one way of escaping the hustle and bustle of hectic city life and the easiest way to get closer to nature. Unfortunately, most fishing fans simply don’t have time to make frequent and time-consuming long trips to their favorite destinations. If you are one of those people who get carried away whenever they see a turbulent river or a placid lake and you…
- Chess-7 - the most popular board game in history in an attractive modern package — The game of chess dates back thousands of years. It has millions (if not billions) of fans and is available in various forms and shapes. Fortunately, with the advent of the computer era, playing chess became even more exciting and challenging. Now you don’t have to look for a decent partner to play — your computer is always ready to test your skills. Which is more, you can easily connect to the Internet…
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