- Quake I port for Nokia Series 60 — The speed of digital hardware progress is really amazing. Moore’s law (doubling of CPU speed every 1.5 year) is still alive, typical time-to-live of personal home computer is not more then 2-3 years, after that it is considered *ancient* and can hardly be sold for any money. More and more often, there are voices standing against this speedy hardware revolution; they say, most of us can use not more than the tenth…
- Advanced Web Ranking 5.0.3 – Know Your Search Engine Ranking! — While working on improving our websites’ marketing return, we must always have the overall picture of what’s going on with the website before taking another step toward the improvement. What is your website’s current page rank, keyword rank, visibility? It may take you days to check the rankings by hand. Are you willing to spend that much time and effort just to grow a pile of new optimization assignment…
- FreeKapture 2.00, Just Scan It! — Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling wrote: «Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet». 100 years later, the same problem (of where and how software and hardware shall meet) has brought us the TWAIN technology. It’s an industrial standard of how any image scanner should behave: if you have a scanner, it definitely can run as a TWAIN device. OK, every scanner can work the…
- aZebra Search Server. Search It! — Life is a constant search. We search for necessary information everywhere. Now, with the advent of the Internet, it’s become possible to find information about just whatever we want. All we need for that is a powerful search server like @Zebra. @Zebra is a universal search server that can help you to find things inside local networks, on ftp servers or you can just use it as a brilliant Web search…
- Network Searcher, Dig Deeper — Every modern operating system has a built-in file search engine; some of them can even search network resources. They are pretty, well-animated, and impressive. However, they are extremely slow, and when it comes to the real «get me something I don’t know what exactly» job, they imitate the search process, but all they can normally find is something that lies right above the surface and doesn’t actually require search —…
- Advanced Network Search — If using search engines on the Internet has long been a habitual action for millions of users worldwide, doing the same in local networks still seems to be quite exotic. It is assumed that users know where the necessary files are located and keep the names of the frequently visited systems in their memory. However, these days local, area and corporate networks may get extremely large, so the task of finding the necessary music…
- ProxyShell Hide IP 2.2.1, I Have Nothing To Show — Internet as a communication and information medium is all about the anonymity. Some tend to see it as a «defect» (and even as a «critical defect» sometimes), but the fact is: the Internet has changed our world, and the Internet anonymity has added a great value to this change. But the other fact is: Internet anonymity is not full. There is a numerical IP address assigned to your…
- Antispam Scanner, Get Rid of It Before It Gets to Your Computer — Getting rid of SPAM messages by hand often becomes a job of its own, which takes an essential amount of our productive time. Using the automatic SPAM removal tools, on the other hand, kills a great deal of valid e-mail messages, which hurts the business not less than the waste of time. Where’s the golden mean between quickly getting rid of unsolicited e-mail and keeping valid messages? Antispam Scanner might be just what…
- Advanced Host Monitor – keep your fingers on the pulse of your network — Being a system administrator is somewhat similar to being a doctor — servers and websites can go down unexpectedly and at any moment and you can be woken up at night by an emergency. The problem gets especially serious when you are in charge of a large network of geographically distributed servers located in different time zones. If you’ve been dreaming about centralized monitoring…
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