- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- SpeedBit Video Accelerator 2.1, Speed-Up The Progress — Many huge technological changes are loud, but the real Progress, when those changes are accepted by the society, is quiet. Video streaming technologies, allowing (theoretically) to watch video online, are old enough. But when have they become the mainstream? When have millions of Internet users become video-viewers? Seems, it was not long time ago, and even this change is still in progress. The main requirement for video to become a real online media…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- Vista Style Elements Icon Set, Do You Have a Dream? — As a developer, don’t you have a dream that the day will come when users will be able to comprehend the logics of your programs without your assistance, and your technical support service will finally take a break from those round-the-day silly questions like «How do I go around this menu?» or «What is that button for?» or «What do I do next?» Who knows when that GUI…
- Anyplace Control - control remote systems no matter where you are — Most probably, there have been situation in your life when you had to explain something computer-related to another person on the phone. The task seems easy when you are talking to somebody with experience and knowledge in the area — in this case, the whole process may take mere seconds. But imagine having to explain the process of configuring an Outlook account to your mother-in-law and you’ll instantly realize what…
- File Security Manager - full control over file and folder access permissions (even in Windows XP Home) — Being an overall excellent operating system, Windows XP does have some versions that limit user’s control capabilities to a bare minimum. For instance, Windows XP Home offers a great set of multimedia and general features, but lacks the degree of flexibility that many advanced users would definitely appreciate. For instance, the Home version will not allow you to set file and folder access right, which is a common method…
- AlphaXP - all you need to have full control over transparency in Windows XP — Transparency is one of the coolest features that Windows Vista can boast. It creates the eye-candy effect that so many users expect to see in a next-gen OS, but, unfortunately, does not have much practical value. Although you can see through window elements, the underlying objects are blurred and the content of the window is not transparent at all — so, for instance, you cannot fill out a form by simply looking…
- Remote Administrator Control - stay in control, anywhere, any time! — If you have ever tried explaining anything PC-related to your mom or computer-illiterate friend, you have a perfect idea what a pain it can be. Even changing a small parameter may require a good half an hour on the phone, let alone more complex issues. Things get much worse, however, when it comes to supporting a couple of remote departments in your company with dozens of people regularly submitting requests…
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