- Spices.Net Suite: All about .Net Visual Studio Can't Do — Spices.Net Suite is a collection of utilities, which brings all the strength the .Net platform *potentially* has right in a developer’s hands. Unfortunately, the functionality of the tools created by Microsoft for their own platform is always much poorer than what it could be, and Spices.Net is addressed to fix this drawback. Once installed, Spaces.Net Suite will provide you with pretty and usable environment, completely…
- 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…
- Batch Picture Resizer 1.6, Automate It! — In today’s multimedia environment, when digital cameras, Internet and clip-art CDs are almost universal features, there are several frequent tasks, which should be done with a huge amount of pictures at once. It can be something like «resize all my photos», or «watermark my own clip-art», or «rotate and scale images for design» and so on. The idea is: there are multiple images, and you…
- 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…
- 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…
- Easy Net Switch – a dream come true for real net-hoppers — If all networks were absolutely the same, they would’ve called it network utopia. No network-specific IP addresses, passwords, DNS servers, drive mappings, proxy and gateway addresses — all these things that may take hours to configure, especially when there is not system administrator around. Unfortunately, networks are all different and active users that commute between offices, building, departments, home and corporate networks know very well…
- LeaderTask, New Quality of Life — Just 24 hours a day and a truck load of things to be taken care of, and no matter how hard you try, the to-do list doesn’t seem to diminish. Sounds familiar? If your daily life is full of can’t-wait chores, and you can’t find a moment to enjoy the living, it’s a certain sign that the time has come to... Organize! It’s not about entering your activities…
- Video Snapshot Wizard - an excellent piece of software for movie reviewers and devoted fans — If you do your living writing movie reviews or just love Edward Norton’s movies, you definitely grab movie screenshots from time to time to use for your reviews or animated forum avatars. There are plenty of frame capture applications on the market offering all kinds of features, necessary and unnecessary, but there is one that has an excellent balance of functionality and simplicity — Video Snapshot Wizard…
- CRC .NET Control - a native .NET component for fast CRC calculation — Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) calculations are used by the majority of developers to validate the integrity of files and binary streams, which makes them an important part of applications working with multiple input and output files. Despite the great number of available CRC algorithms utilizing various initial polynomials, CRC32 is by far the most popular one. If you are a .NET programmer and want to use a CRC library…
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