- The Bat! 3.65 Postmaster of the High Standard — Suppose you are choosing a new e-mail client (don’t ask me «why?» — You’ll understand in a second). What would you want from it if you could request absolutely anything you wanted? May be your wish list would look a bit like mine: my email client must be: pretty and convenient; flexible and wise; secure and reliable. The order of these requirements may vary, but the entire list is constant…
- 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…
- x Chat Free. Just Talk! — There are many types of how people can communicate over network. Sometimes you need a huge collaborative system; other times you bet on old remote and reliable protocols; and sometimes you need «just to talk». If you and your interlocutors are all in the same local network, if you want to communicate without any setup difficulties (like installing and setting up servers), but with a certain level of flexibility (much better…
- 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…
- Solixa Chat Service 6.4.9, Very Special Chat — Solixa is a very cute and modern chatting service with an excellent Windows chat client. The key features are its strong community, wide range of features and interesting gaming elements. When you first see Solixa’s chat client, you’ll definitely fall in love with it. It is so elegant, ideally designed, and all of its numerous features are intuitively understandable. Small, pretty message alerts, changeable color schemes…
- 360 High Definition Screensaver Version 2, The Beauty Is Around — When you are looking at your computer’s screensaver, it’s about the same as if you were looking through a virtual window. You see something there, that thing may be pretty or scary, but it’s «behind the monitor». Many screensavers try to convince you, «you’re not in a stuffy office, you’re outside», but instead, you just see «one more window». 360 High…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- ProxyShell Hide IP 2.2.1, I Have Nothing To Show — Internet as a communication and information medium is all about the anonymity. Some tend to see it as a «defect» (and even as a «critical defect» sometimes), but the fact is: the Internet has changed our world, and the Internet anonymity has added a great value to this change. But the other fact is: Internet anonymity is not full. There is a numerical IP address assigned to your…
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