- RegOrganizer 3.1: Powerful weapon in safe hands — Microsoft Windows Registry is an interesting and useful, but unappreciated thing. Tons of wonderful system enhancements could be achieved without any «special» software: All you would need in the majority of cases is to know, which value in the registry is to be changed, and where it is hidden. Or, as a very good alternative, you would have to use software, with which your registry became…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- Instant Housecall, Support 'em All! — If your work is about providing support to users of some computer system (for example, you sell the system or sell consulting services, etc.), you can think of it as of almost unsolvable problem. Typical users have an extremely wide range of qualifications and experience, so your recommendations (provided through email, phone or some messaging service) can be easily misunderstood, ignored, forgotten and…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- Fairy Christmas Day 3D Screensaver 1.0, Saving Screen, Saving Mood — Screen-savers became popular in the good old days when they addressed an important, even vital, problem of — you’ll laugh! — saving the screen. In those sad old days, CRT screens had to change their picture frequently enough to prevent pixel burnout. Those sad times are long gone, and nowadays screensavers are just an entertainment: when you aren’t using your computer, why should it look like a boring workplace…
- DTMF Dial 1.0.0.14, It Dials! — Our phones haven’t always dialed with tone that we are used to today. Before the sixties, that was pulse (and still IS in some places and countries), a series of clicks, which was about as many clicks as the dialed digit was. Tone dialing (correctly called Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, or DTMF) is about an individual tone for each digit; it is faster, more reliable and allows dialing automatically with nothing else but just…
- Excel Merge Tool: Few Clicks that Save Hours — Merging a report out of a multitude of Excel spreadsheets is quite a challenge. Although data from a couple of spreadsheets could be merged by hand, with the copy/paste command and a bit of patience, merging data from a few dozens or hundreds of tables requires totally different approaches. Excel Merge Tool provides the functionality you need to merge a multitude Excel spreadsheets and cells…
- ClockIt: Easy Schedule Creator - Save Time, Save Nature — How many pencils do you wear out each month on putting up a shift schedule for your staff? A similar question about the number of sleepless night hours spent over the same job would probably be an excess. How about «hiring» an automatic (well, almost) schedule creator? — That would bring that scheduling hassle to the end. Check out ClockIt: Easy Schedule Creator. It’s a fast and user-friendly employee and…
- Blank Page Remover: Save Time, Save Paper — Operating a copy machine doesn’t take much — even a child can cope with that «phenomenon of technology»: tuck in the cartridge with blank paper in the container, stack up the paper queue on the cover, hit the green «Copy» button and stay near-by back, sipping fresh hot coffee and talking about stuff. But that peace shatters as soon as the originals turn into a mixed sequence of single and…
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