- Cutter 1.42. Let Your Computer Compute — Back in the sixties, there were many scientists and journalists (both pessimistic and optimistic ones) supposing computers in near future would do artistic work. They still don’t, so, in today’s world there is a widespread pragmatic sight: computer certainly can’t do the art, but a human artist with a computer can sometimes do outstanding things, primarily because a computer would automate all the repetitive and…
- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- Magic DVD Ripper 5.0.1, DVD Becomes Anything — If you have several (more than one :) movie DVDs, you possibly not contented by the standard DVD usage options your computer has. All you can normally do with YOUR disks is just view them. No copying, no backing up, no converting, no extraction of favorite moments… (Even if a disk has no protection on it, specific DVD formats and directory structures leave you without any idea of what to do with all…
- ImTOO DVD Ripper Platinum v4.0, Rip-It-Now! — DVD and DVD-video are basically good. Never before we have seen such level of quality in «video for people», never before we’ve felt this level of comfort while controlling the playback… But nothing is perfect, and even this great stuff has some drawbacks. You can’t just copy a video to view it on a different media, to back it up, or to add it to your catalog, which used…
- Aurora Web Editor 2.2, Site Editor with a Human Face — Nowadays, the term «website» is really diffused. Google «is a website»? Amazon «is a website»? A personal homepage of an Oxford professor or New-York worker «is a website»? Then, what does it mean «to create a web-site»? OK, let’s turn back from the philosophy to the practice. Suppose, you want to have a simple, few-page website…
- VH Player — These days, the number of popular video codecs is so large that even the most experienced of us find it hard to tell whether the file that has just been downloaded from the Internet will play normally in any of the players installed in the system. The only way out is to keep downloading new codec packs and hope that they contain the right library. Fortunately, there are players out there that solve most of these problems and play…
- Accord CD Ripper, Digital Made Crystal-Clear — Although CD audio is the de-facto standard format for storing audio in the digital form, it’s got its own shortages. The major ones are the large size of audio tracks and the impossibility of handling the tracks as files, as they’d have to be converted to another format first. This often turns into a major pain when you need to transfer your favorite CD to a portable player or copy the disc…
- Flash Player Pro, Watch It Online, Watch It Locally — Even the simplest, most basic flash movie or animation gives a lot more excitement than the most sophisticated static document. The only trouble about this awesome technology is that all those exciting movies that can be watched online can hardly be saved to a local disk, so that we — or others — could watch them later. Flash Player Pro completely eliminates the problem of saving flash animations to disk; with…
- File Backup Watcher Professional 2.8.17 - an easy-to-use backup solution with a twist — Being able to regularly back up you crucial files is equally valuable for computer rookies and skilled professionals. After all, not everything depends on our ability to control the behavior of the system and perform the right actions — sometimes information get lost to unexpected power failures, hardware crashes and other factors that are generally referred to as Acts of God. That is a reason weighty enough to start…
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