- Active Desktop 1.043, No More Desktop — Do you really love that boring Windows «desktop» concept? I personally don?t. Even if I could believe there were desktops in size of a stool, I still wouldn?t believe that a handful of icons are the only things I could place on my desktop. I want some more of dynamics, I want some more of information, and I want some more of beauty, after all! If you feel yourself the same way…
- Amazing Mahjongg 3D 1.2.6, Ancient Breath in the Modern Skin — The original Chinese Mahjongg game is thousands of years older than the chess. Its origins are attributed to the famous philosopher, Confucius, who traveled through China provinces near 500s BC, populating his doctrines, sights, and the game. He called the new game «Mahjongg» (hemp bird) simply because he loved birds. The traditional Mahjongg is very widely spread in its homeland. The game even appears to be a part…
- Change Folder Icons 7.5 - individualization of space — Permanent necessity in changing my working environment drives me crazy. I just can’t work without changing this boring «standard» appearance of desktop elements. If you feel just like me, Change Folder Icons is just for you. What does this program do? Oh, only one pretty simple thing. It allows you to replace the yellow folder icon with any other icon you want. Actually, you can set your own picture to any folder…
- StarSkin, Get Their Best from Themes — Windows Themes, introduced by Windows XP, are really a cool thing. The bound of interface changeability was nearly completely broken. Nearly: StarSkin does one more step to the boundless interface theming. First of all, it allows changing appearance — of either the entire Windows or of individual elements — more comfortably, then Windows itself does. One or two clicks — and your environment is altered…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- Desktop Icon Toy 2.4, Make It More Exciting — |Windows desktop concept is really toooooo old and soooo boring! Is that really all that I can do with my desktop in today’s dynamic, multimedia-driven, changing world — just move icons from one side to another? Hey, that isn’t even funny! What is really funny (and still very useful) is Desktop Icon Toy. What can you do with your icons using this beautiful software is a bit of art, a bit…
- 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…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- Vista Style Elements Icon Set, Do You Have a Dream? — As a developer, don’t you have a dream that the day will come when users will be able to comprehend the logics of your programs without your assistance, and your technical support service will finally take a break from those round-the-day silly questions like «How do I go around this menu?» or «What is that button for?» or «What do I do next?» Who knows when that GUI…
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