- Crazy Poker 2: Return to Paradise — Las Vegas, Nevada. Known as Vegas, Gambling City, or Paradise. Vegas was founded in the middle of 19th century, and back then it was a quiet and usual place — place for ranchos, cowboys and farmers. But since 1930s Vegas started to become a place for hazard, adventures and gambling, as we know it now. Not all of us can come to Vegas to try their luck — but anybody can play with Vegas’ luck…
- Boulder Dash. Hello from the Past. — The game known as «Boulder Dash» or «Rockford» originates from 1984 — the good old times of ZX Spectrums, when one diskette, 16 colors and PC Speaker were really ENOUGH for playing really COOL games. Today’s people, with their «strategies» and «3D-shooters» can’t even imagine what it was. For Those Who Remember, as well as for Those Who Want to Feel what…
- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- CC File Transfer, File Exchange Made Easy — Doesn’t it drive you crazy that to just swap a few files with your friends you’d have to be a computer expert, capable of deploying a file server, handling permissions settings, comprehending a lot of stuff you’re likely to never use afterwards? How about just uploading the files you want to exchange through your web browser and downloading your friends’ files just the way you’d normally…
- Holding Pattern, Don't Get Late for the Boarding — Remember that breath-taking picture you saw in the window of the airplane during the last flight? Or are you just dreaming of your first flight and count days till that exciting moment? Or maybe you’re in love with airplanes and just can’t wait until the next boarding just to see again that blue sky, marvelous sunset or the unknown land floating beneath the silver ring again? Why wait? — With Holding Pattern Coach Class…
- VeryDoc PDF to Word Converter - create fully-editable DOC files from protected PDF files — Normally, people are more concerned with turning .doc files into PDF’s for document exchange. However, what would you do if you found a great PDF file and now want to use it in a report or a research paper? Buying the necessary professional PDF editing tools is slightly on the expensive side, so you need an inexpensive way to pull this text out of the PDF... If you have faced and keep facing such…
- File Security Manager - full control over file and folder access permissions (even in Windows XP Home) — Being an overall excellent operating system, Windows XP does have some versions that limit user’s control capabilities to a bare minimum. For instance, Windows XP Home offers a great set of multimedia and general features, but lacks the degree of flexibility that many advanced users would definitely appreciate. For instance, the Home version will not allow you to set file and folder access right, which is a common method…
- Remote Files Server - an affordable alternative to expensive and cumbersome file sharing systems — As your corporate or community network grows in size, you may eventually bring some order to it and get rid of hundreds of randomly named folders clogged with thousands of file with equally indecipherable names. This would be a relatively easy task for an experienced network administrator using a server operation system. But what if you are not that advanced and just need to configure proper access to shared files for…
- Index Your Files - lightning-fast file searches that won't cost you a penny — When regular users want to give a solid boost to their computers, most of them head straight to the nearest computer store to purchase faster CPU’s, more RAM, faster hard drives and even RAID arrays. Unfortunately, most of them don’t even realize that the same results can be easily achieved with the help of specialized software that indexes files on their hard drives and results in much faster, almost instantaneous…
|
