- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- 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 VC++ MFC, 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…
- Addressinator! Your Address Book. — Are you having hard time quickly finding a telephone number you need deeply? Do you frequently forget your business partners’ names? Or may be you never remember your colleges’ dates of birth? The number of people you work or communicate with is enormous and you have to keep in mind all the information concerning them? — No problem. Addressinator! is the tool that can easily help you. Addressinator…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…
- Firehawk, Star Wars Went Mobile — If you’re not thirsty for blood and horror and just want to take a break shooting a few spaceships and flying a mission, consider Firehawk. Unlike those 3D meat grinders that most of us are used to seeing on desktop computers, this game lets you really enjoy the play, relax and still feel the adrenaline rush of completing a crucial life-saving mission. Board on your spaceship and take off for your mission. Certainly…
- Net Spy: Keep an Eye on Network Happenings — Do strange things happen in your network? Do you suspect your users to conceive something bad? Or do they just «harmlessly» waste time playing games or engaging in non-business activities while you are not looking at them? To be informed and in control of happenings taking place in your network, take advantage of NetSpy, a stealth remote monitoring and administration utility. Simply install a copy…
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