- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- Visual Money. Smart and Ambitious. — All software developers know: There are certain areas in the market where one would never try to compete — there are some Old, Greedy Huge-Budget and Long-History Monsters out there already, and «you’ll-never-bit-them». The trick is -there is a small share of presumptuous developers who still try to take their steps in such markets — and they win! (Much more often than you might think, actually.) Sometimes they even…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- TurboZip Express 7.1, Easy Zip Everywhere! — Zipping files is one of the necessary things for dealing with files (actually, you ALWAYS deal with files when working on a computer). Today, with our huge disks, 2 Gb flash sticks and broadband Internet channels, Zip still matters as a tool of organizing file transfers (you definitely would not be happy, if somebody asked you to «download these 50 tiny files» instead of placing them into a single Zip…
- ALZip Speed Extractor — Have you ever wished that one day all file archivers were unified and their best qualities fused in a single compact and powerful tool that wouldn’t flash dozens of dozens of options that you don’t really need? Remember the days when file archivers were small, simple and fast? Getting nostalgic already? Wipe your eyes, the time for that hasn’t come yet, as there is some software out there that will make you recall the good old times and…
- TextGRAB SDK 2.1, It's All About Text — Today’s user interfaces are mostly textual still; and if you understand this, you can suppose several software ideas based on this fact. Screen readers and translators are the most evident, though not only ideas. The things became much easier, if you have a software component able to take all tasks of obtaining the text from windows and buttons, so you can be concentrated on the main idea of your program. So, TextGRAB SDK really…
- AutoWallpaper - a kaleidoscope of wallpapers with stunning visual effects — If you are a proud owner of a shop or a multi-monitor system, you may eventually want to use your monitors to decorate your display case or workplace. A single panoramic screensaver or synchronized switching of several wallpapers would be ideal for a vivid demonstration, but setting it up using standard OS means is quite problematic, if not impossible. If you would like to breathe new life…
- ALZip Speed Extractor: Easier than Ever, Faster than Ever! — Keeping files archived saves lots of space. Extracting files from archives takes extra gestures, adds slowness and inconvenience to the file browsing process. Wouldn’t it be great to browse archives as if they were regular folders and never notice the archive extractor? — ALZip offers archive extraction at the speed of a lightning; you’ll never notice it’s there. After a few moments…
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