- Database Tour Pro 5.1.0.715. Manage your database with variety of functions! — For a software developer, a «Swiss knife»-style tool can be incredibly useful, but only when that?s the «right» tool. The problem is, nobody can tell you exactly, how to determine whether a tool is «right». A right tool must be full-featured, but it must not be overloaded with features; a right tool must have laconic and functional interface, but it must be easy to learn and understand…
- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into account the amount of time they waste when to find a byte of frequently-used data…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- Download Accelerator Plus 8.5, Just Does Faster — Downloading files you’ve found online too often becomes a pain if a file is large (in some cases, it can become a pain for EVERY file). Downloading takes too much time. Downloading fails by timeouts and disconnections, and you stay with a useless file part. In most cases, you can’t even figure out for sure whether the file has been downloaded completely! Want to solve it? Asking for my advice? Here…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear. Is there a way to edit a code block without having to run those heavy development…
- TurboZip Express 7.1, Easy Zip Everywhere! — Zipping files is one of the necessary things for dealing with files (actually, you ALWAYS deal with files when working on a computer). Today, with our huge disks, 2 Gb flash sticks and broadband Internet channels, Zip still matters as a tool of organizing file transfers (you definitely would not be happy, if somebody asked you to «download these 50 tiny files» instead of placing them into a single Zip…
- 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…
- Enterra Download Manager — Those of us who regularly download large amounts of data from the web, and especially those who pay for their traffic, know well that a download manager is a must have if you don’t want to lose money, time and nerves. Unfortunately, the standard managers integrated in most popular browsers leave much to be desired and lose a lot to commercial applications. If you need a functional download manager that would…
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