- ConceptDraw MINDMAP 4 Professional: Think! — Human’s thinking is non-linear. This fact is well known, but it is rarely taken into account. Plain top-to-bottom text or list of facts or hierarchical outline cannot reflect the thinking process properly; therefore, that is a very ineffective way of summarizing or brainstorming. However, do other ways exist? Yes, and some are also rather well-known: the «mind maps», invented by Tony Buzan, is known…
- Visual Money. Smart and Ambitious. — All software developers know: There are certain areas in the market where one would never try to compete — there are some Old, Greedy Huge-Budget and Long-History Monsters out there already, and «you’ll-never-bit-them». The trick is -there is a small share of presumptuous developers who still try to take their steps in such markets — and they win! (Much more often than you might think, actually.) Sometimes they even…
- 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…
- OpenSebJ, Free Creative Sound — OpenSebJ is a free open-source sound mixer, especially good for creative experimenting and serious sampled music writing. OpenSebJ supports loading up to 255 sound samples from standard WAV files. Once loaded, the samples can be played and mixed all in the real time, using the software as a cool and cheap performance instrument. For each sample loaded, you can set individual settings of pan, volume and frequency for each of them, loop…
- Acoustic Labs Multitrack Plus, Being Creative! — Acoustic Labs Multitrack Plus is a unique combine for the musical and other sound-related creativity. The software unites the professional strength of its capabilities with the humanity of its understandable user interface. There are only three tabs/sections in the interface, but don’t let this small number to fool you: those three sections contain an entire sound studio! The first section, Track View, is the «bird’s eye»…
- Heroglyph 2.5, Creative, With Easy Motion — Trivial Facts: Creativity is the main activity of any human being. Computers have become the primary tool for today’s mere mortals’ creativity. Insufficiency: The majority of the creativity tools provided by computers (virtual tools) are just the «old real-world tools on steroids». It’s all about still «writing text, but having it pretty formatted», «drawing a picture, but beautifying it with cool…
- Graham Process Mapping — A lot of companies these days realize that conventional management is not efficient enough anymore and switch to process-driven workflow management. Lean Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints are just a couple of examples of process-oriented quality and performance management techniques. However, smart process management requires you to have a clearly-outlined process map, which is a challenging task without proper process mapping tools. If you are seeking an affordable solution that will help you…
- 1001 Lines - a fairy-tale for thinking casual gamers! — If you are not the kind of person who gets excited about every new useless shooter going gold and prefer small games where logic and calculations are more important than virtuosity in mouse handling, this great product will be a surprising and endlessly pleasant discovery for you. 1001 lines is an amazingly versatile casual game that fuses the best elements of classic titles and yet manages to combine them in the most unexpected…
- 15 Puzzle: Endless Fun of Mind Rating — No one knows for sure when and where the 15 Puzzle has been invented. But the invention was truly a success: it’s hard to think of any other puzzle game that has gained such popularity. The whole world, both children and adults, have been playing it even these days. The idea of the game is to sort the 15 randomly placed numbered square pieces in the ascending order without taking them out of the 16-cell box. But although…
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