- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- paxScript.NET .A Script Might Be Everywhere — The implementation of many software projects requires at least two different languages: an industry-level one for the project’s core, its powerful «engine», and a scripting language, which would be interpreted when the program is running. Scripting languages are typically simpler and slower than the industrial ones, but they have their own area of application. These languages are often used when the advanced users or third-party…
- Fast EBook Compiler. Book-for-Sale! — If you feel like a writer (fiction writer, technical book writer or even cookbook writer) you can not easily turn your writing into money. The fact is the «traditional» publishers are conservative and are stuck to «writing stars». Even if a paper publisher would be interested in your writings, the contract he would offer to a young unknown author would not be very liberal or even fair. But…
- 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…
- TheSage 1.4.0, Language Reference Complete — TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus (or just TheSage for short) is a good demonstration of how slick and innovative user interface can contain a full and complicated reference and still preserve the ease-of-use and strength of an information reference. At first glance, TheSage is «just» a dictionary. You enter a word, the exact meaning of which you want to know, then press Enter and obtain the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Aml Maple 1.92, Dancing In Languages — The world is completely multi-cultural now, it’s just a fact. But this fact is a pain for those who have a non-English alphabet (like Cyrillic or Greek), because they should use several keyboard layouts (native for conversations and English for URLs, technical information etc.). These people should not only switch layout every several minutes, but also they should always remember their «current» layout inside every individual application…
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