- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- HotMail+ 2.0. Email Must Be Convenient — Hotmail.com, the free e-mail service operated by Microsoft, provides a good-quality e-mail service at no cost. It is a default e-mail provider your Windows operating system would suggest using during its first start. But unfortunately, Hotmail forces you to read and write e-mail messages through your web browser, which seems to be not a very convenient way; and that’s because of Hotmal’s failure to support some…
- Pizzicato: Can You Write In Music? — Pizzicato is music writing software. «Writing» here means literally what it says: Pizzicato allows writing any music down, note by note, into staff and then playing the music you have written. It sounds simple, but Pizzicato is really multi-purpose, multi-possibility software. First, it is useful for studying the common principles: it allows writing specific notes, also by music keyboard (or a virtual one), creating simple…
- Direct WAV MP3 Splitter. Splitting easily. — Our life is inevitably connected with music. Music is needed as deeply as the air we breathe in, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Nowadays, we have an excellent opportunity to hear music every single minute of our life, using our CD and MP3 players, mobile phones, etc. However, what if your memory card is not large, or you do not like a part of a tune, or for example, you want…
- RIP: Strike Back, Christmas Under Attack — It’s hard to imagine a battle while keeping thoughts on Christmas scenes. Christmas, as we know it, is about peace, love, unity, and synonyms of such. But it doesn’t make everyone happy when everything just goes good, and those envious folks bear cruel plans on taking your joy away from you and then ruling over you in the new world of darkness and evil. When dark times approach us, and the values that…
- AELLA Mass Email Campaigner — When the number of your customers exceeds a certain threshold, individual approach suddenly becomes a task of ultimate complexity, be it a matter of sending product updates, company news, invitations or newsletters. This might be the point when you start thinking about using specialized software that will help automate the mailing process. Ideally, this software should be easy to install, configure and use. If you can relate…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- Fairy Christmas Day 3D Screensaver 1.0, Saving Screen, Saving Mood — Screen-savers became popular in the good old days when they addressed an important, even vital, problem of — you’ll laugh! — saving the screen. In those sad old days, CRT screens had to change their picture frequently enough to prevent pixel burnout. Those sad times are long gone, and nowadays screensavers are just an entertainment: when you aren’t using your computer, why should it look like a boring workplace…
- OLEDB Direct - a great set of COM interfaces for database-driven applications — When you are creating a database-driven application, interaction with the database becomes one of the key pieces of the overall functionality that requires significant time to implement. If you are using multiple data sources, this task becomes even more complex due to the complexity of database connections and related routines. That is the exactly the case when a universal database interface would come very handy. If you are exploring the…
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