- 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…
- Antamedia Internet Caffe 5.6, Customers Would Be Happy! — Antamedia Internet Caffe suite has amazed me. Really. For a system administrator with an average experience and common sense, there are obvious minimal requirements for the Internet café management. As well, it’s obvious that creating software that would meet at least those minimal requirements is a rather hard job. Even harder is to create something «more than the minimum», capable of handling non-obvious cases, and…
- DynSite 1.11, My Home Is My Site — When somebody decides to create a personal web-site, he/she has many options of how to host it. Selecting the right option is not an easy task: you need to look for the «right» compromise between the availability of the website, the number of available features and settings, and the cost. Cheap «virtual» hosting has normal or good availability on one hand, but it has a typically weak feature set…
- XP Tools 7.76, Rule Over Your Windows! — When you’re trying to enchance and control your Windows, you have many options and utilities. The two most common extremes are «one utility for each single function» and «a suite for all service tasks». XP Tools software follows the second approach, and I should say it does the best in the logical organization and effective control. Let’s take a short guide through XP Tools and its usage patterns. The program…
- Mines XP — There are games that were once created to stay for long. They do not demonstrate mind-numbing graphics, feature amazing soundtracks and cutting-edge in-game technologies that modern entertainment titles have to offer. On the contrary, they are simple, compact, have a rather straightforward «storyline» and are primarily intended for testing your skills and entertaining you during short breaks in your mundane activities. These are casual games, which have…
- The RSS feed Scroller Converter - a new way of putting your RSS feeds into action — For most Internet users, RSS is a technology which allows them to quickly download news from various sites into a single news aggregator without having to visit each and every of them on a daily basis. This approach saves a significant amount of time and allows you to focus on specific areas you are interested in as opposed to regular rather chaotic and time-consuming web browsing. However, it is also…
- Local Account Manager - comprehensive access rights management in Windows XP Home — Windows XP Home is a great operating system that offers everything necessary for a typical home computer for a price any household can afford. However, it lacks some of the more advanced features found in the Professional edition — and the ability to manage users’ access rights and permissions tops this «wanted» list. If you would like to stay with the Home edition and yet be able to efficiently manage…
- AlphaXP - all you need to have full control over transparency in Windows XP — Transparency is one of the coolest features that Windows Vista can boast. It creates the eye-candy effect that so many users expect to see in a next-gen OS, but, unfortunately, does not have much practical value. Although you can see through window elements, the underlying objects are blurred and the content of the window is not transparent at all — so, for instance, you cannot fill out a form by simply looking…
- Turning the Face to the User. DJ Java Decompiler — Don’t be disappointed when instead a mono-color alphanumeric screen with a lot of mysterious characters, which make sense only to those “chosen” ones called “hackers” or “coders”, and control commands hidden behind the never-would-guess keyboard shortcuts you will see a feature-rich GUI-based editor with colored source code of your application loaded in it. — That’s DJ Java…
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