- Dolphin Aqua Life 3D Screensaver 2.9. Ocean on Your Desk. — Times when «screensaver» programs were actually used for screen saving (i.e. for prevention of «phosphor burn-ins») are way back in the past. It is no longer a goal for screen savers. Now we have screensavers that demonstrate one’s humor and art capabilities, screensavers that stimulates one to work hard and screensavers that help one rest and relax. And — one the most precious types of screensavers are…
- 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…
- MetaCompress 2.0. Make Sites Compact — Despite the latest trends with video, podcasts and other media, the Internet and the Web still remain the place of information (especially textual). Despite the latest trends of broad-band access and unlimited tariffs, the overwhelming majority of Internet users still have not-so-fast connections (down to dial-up ones). So, while providing large amount of information on Web pages a good web-site owner should think of ways to save…
- Antamedia Internet Caffe 5.6, Customers Would Be Happy! — Antamedia Internet Caffe suite has amazed me. Really. For a system administrator with an average experience and common sense, there are obvious minimal requirements for the Internet café management. As well, it’s obvious that creating software that would meet at least those minimal requirements is a rather hard job. Even harder is to create something «more than the minimum», capable of handling non-obvious cases, and…
- Qengine. Test Your Web Site. — Nowadays, when the role of the Internet in carrying on the business can hardly be overstated, it is really important to organize the functioning of your web sites and web applications properly. In order to get that done, you would need a powerful automated testing tool, such as QEngine. AdventNet’s QEngine is a complete automated web testing tool for the functional, performance, load, web-servicesá and regression…
- DynSite 1.11, My Home Is My Site — When somebody decides to create a personal web-site, he/she has many options of how to host it. Selecting the right option is not an easy task: you need to look for the «right» compromise between the availability of the website, the number of available features and settings, and the cost. Cheap «virtual» hosting has normal or good availability on one hand, but it has a typically weak feature set…
- KDT Site Blocker 2.1, Just Reliability — There are several approaches to protecting your family from non-appropriate Internet content. All of them have their advantages and their drawbacks (except the «just say Don’t» approach, which just doesn’t work). And typically you need a software solution which embodies the approach you think as the most reliable one. And if you need something as simple as «Just DON’T visit those sites», and also you need this…
- The RSS feed Scroller Converter - a new way of putting your RSS feeds into action — For most Internet users, RSS is a technology which allows them to quickly download news from various sites into a single news aggregator without having to visit each and every of them on a daily basis. This approach saves a significant amount of time and allows you to focus on specific areas you are interested in as opposed to regular rather chaotic and time-consuming web browsing. However, it is also…
- Turning the Face to the User. DJ Java Decompiler — Don’t be disappointed when instead a mono-color alphanumeric screen with a lot of mysterious characters, which make sense only to those “chosen” ones called “hackers” or “coders”, and control commands hidden behind the never-would-guess keyboard shortcuts you will see a feature-rich GUI-based editor with colored source code of your application loaded in it. — That’s DJ Java…
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