- J2K-Codec: Size Matters — There is an image-compression standard named JPEG, which is quite good, but rather old. And there is a new, modern and progressive successor — JPEG2000. Respectively to JPEG, the new standard gives a smaller file size and better image quality, and some new possibilities, such as transparency and translucency (alpha-channel). With J2K-Codec any developer can easily add JPEG2000 support to his/her application. If you are a game…
- Bigmail 2.1. Size Does NOT Matter — Despite of all spam, anti-spam, viruses, blah-blah-blah, e-mail still remains the most common way of transferring something in the digital environment. If you know somebody, and that somebody is connected to the Internet — you’ll always have that person’s e-mail address, even if no other contact information is available. This universal communication channel, however, is not free from problems, and not the least one…
- Active Backup Expert 1.93. Universal, Reliable, Clear — Universal, reliable, clear — these are necessary features of a good backup program you’d like to use everywhere and for all you backup tasks. Universal, reliable, clear — are also the features of one particular program I’d want to propose: Active Backup Expert. Active Backup Expert is Universal: It supports multitudes of places you can use for storing backup — local and network disks, FTP servers, e-mail…
- CheckQuota 2.1, Size Under Control — A major problem with computers shared by several users (either locally, or through a network) is disk usage. Badly-tempered, non-experienced or forgetful users are used to storing huge files in their home or common file-exchange directories; sometimes they even do not store huge files, instead, they just never delete them. And all computer users can suffer the lack of disk space just because of a single «bad» user…
- Image Sizer 1.04, Change Your Pictures! — Since computers became personal and obtained ability to process images there is a huge bunch of image-related software written and solved. One may think you can easily find the best software for any image processing task. But it is not the plain truth. There is a common lack of one type of image processing software: something which does the most frequent tasks in the most easy and effective way. The typical needs for images…
- Mono-a-Mono, If You Love the Clear Sound — Despite that vinyl discs and tapes often hold precious music masterpieces, the wear-out noise and clicks that usually accompany old records rather hurt an ear than give pleasure. And although it’s literally impossible to remove scratches and other signs of aging from vinyl and magnetic media, the digitized sound, taken off those discs, can produce a great result — noiseless compositions that actually please one’s ear. The «magic…
- Accord CD Ripper, Digital Made Crystal-Clear — Although CD audio is the de-facto standard format for storing audio in the digital form, it’s got its own shortages. The major ones are the large size of audio tracks and the impossibility of handling the tracks as files, as they’d have to be converted to another format first. This often turns into a major pain when you need to transfer your favorite CD to a portable player or copy the disc…
- AmphiSoft Photo Detailer, Get the Clear Picture — How to you judge whether a certain photograph is good or bad? — By its subject? Or by the quality of the image? Well, what would you do if the subject is just great and yet some important details on the image are blurred, the picture is too flat or has the lack of brightness or contrast? Shall we just give up on it and trash it? How about trying to recover it first…
- PowerShrink, Bring Office Documents to the Real Size — Have you ever wondered how a Word document with just couple of sentences of text could take up to a few hundreds of kilobytes on disk? Or how a PowerPoint presentation of a few slides could take quite a few megabytes of diskspace? Could you imagine exchanging such puffed up files with someone over e-mail or posting them on a website? — Doubtfully; or, at least, that would…
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