- 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…
- 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 Java, 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…
- Integrated Notification System 7.0.0, Communications Automated — Integrated Notification System (INS) is an extremely powerful suite for sending and receiving faxes, mails, SMSs, voice messages and automating of all kinds of things in this area. The best way to explain how useful the suite is and how smart it is designed is to overview its components. In the heart of our system is a message server, the powerful message queuing, sending and receiving engine. With the same ease…
- 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…
- Attribute Manager 2.35, Auxiliary Automation — The basics: your computer stores information in files, files are organized into folders and subfolders, making filesystem structure. When we are speaking about more than one file, information is stored not only inside files, but also filenames and folders organization ARE information. And sometimes, even more important information is stored in file attributes: For example, file creation and change dates are useful for time-related organization, and attributes like…
- 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…
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