- 3D Load Packer: Box to Box, Box to Box — 3D Load Packer from Astrokette Algorithms is professional-strength planning software for rapid and accurate placement of various boxes inside containers. Assume you have a huge number of objects with the near-rectangular shapes and significant difference in sizes (boxes), and you need to load them into one or more containers (for transportation or storage). The common solution for the problem is to plan the placement of the objects…
- 3D Drunken Clock Screensaver — The corporate culture has its own idol; Time is the name. «Time is money», right? — However, it is much more than just money. Time is reputation; if you don’t value the punctuality, you don’t value your good name. Time is command playing; when you are in production relay race, a single latecomer in your team may lead the entire plan to the crash. It would not be a gross…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- 3D Graph Generator 2.4, Visualize Smart! — The rapid development of modern computer-graphics hardware and software is a merit of computer games and other entertaining things. However, all those «entertainment-oriented» features can be effectively used for «serious» data visualization and analysis, completely changing the level of understanding of huge data arrays. A good illustration for the thesis is 3D Graph Generator. The program does exactly what the name…
- xplorer2 1.7.0.5, Classic Goodies and New Strengths — File Managers have a long history. Both their strengths and weaknesses have been strongly associated with the operating system they had been running under. In the old times, inexperienced users often thought Norton Commander *was* DOS; nowadays, they think Windows Explorer *is* Windows. The reasons for that are natural: file manager is the most frequently used utility in any OS. But, hear me, guys, Windows Explorer is not your obligatory tool…
- Galaxy Journey 3D Screensaver 1.3, Falling Through The Space — The deep space, with its stars and galaxies, asteroids and planets, is an incredible beautiful sight. Unfortunately, this sight is not for eyes of most of human beings: we can see the smallest part of the beauty, not only because of Earth atmosphere and lights of cities, but because of leaving far away from galaxy centers. There are special men like astronomers who can see something, but they typically can’t value what they see…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- StudioLine Photo Classic: Intuitive Enhancement and Archiving — What’s the good of over-enhancing a photograph if there is no way to find it when it is most needed? On the other hand, browsing through a streamlined gallery of sloppy snapshots doesn’t do a pleasure either. How would you like to resolve both these issues with a single shot? Check out StudioLine Photo Classic. Unlike «heavy» and sophisticated image editing applications, StudioLine…
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