- 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…
- Atropos-SB ver.2005.05.25. The Organizer for Voices — In our normal «text-based digital life» we have one (or a couple of) programs to organize all those different texts we have — e-mail messages and IM conversations, notes and to-dos, diaries, etc. But ***when we try to talk instead of typing, we always stumble over the problem: how to record and remember phone calls, meeting or conference, or just the thoughts we mutter during the day but always…
- The vOICe, Sound of Sight — Blind people lack one of the five human senses. Vision may be the main one out of the five, but it is not the only one. This is the thought on which the authors of The vOICe founded their invention: software which allows some kind of perception of visual information with ears instead of eyes. The vOICe («OIC» stands for «Oh, I See!») software analyzes information from streaming video (it works with…
- 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…
- IntelliScore Ensemble. Convert Your Files to MIDI. — Do you think it’s easy to denote surely, what instruments create this or that wonderful melody, or what notes is this melody made of? All you need for that is an absolute pitch either great software IntelliScore Ensemble. IntelliScore Ensemble is a program designed not only for professional musicians but also for those common users who like music. IntelliScore Ensemble is unique program with friendly interface that can easily…
- 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…
- Acoustic Labs Multitrack Recorder, Sing Me The Song — Some things shouldn’t change with the time. OK, in fact they should, but they are to become «the same thing, but better», not «the new thing». When your mind and your hands «remember» how to do something, you wouldn’t be too happy about teaching yourself to do the same thing a completely new way. The Acoustic Labs Multitrack Recorder shows the best abilities as a successor…
- 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…
- Email plus Voice for Microsoft Outlook - an easy way to say more in an email message — It often happens these days that you and the recipient of your messages (for instance, your client) live in completely different parts of the world. It creates certain difficulties for live communication and emails are not always informative enough to convey your thoughts. In this case, sending a sound recording solves the problem — you can quickly express your ideas, support them with attached documents and drop a couple of lines…
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