- Spring Simulation 1.03. Physics in Electronics. — Science of Physics and Electronics are in the strange relation. On one side, Electronics is, certainly, only part and derivative of Physics, and the first cannot exist without the latter. One the other side, in the urban human being’s everyday life, day after day there is less room for the simple physics and more room for the complex electronics. Why would I have to think about the boiling process if my electric kettle boils water…
- Galaxy Journey 3D Screensaver 1.3, Falling Through The Space — The deep space, with its stars and galaxies, asteroids and planets, is an incredible beautiful sight. Unfortunately, this sight is not for eyes of most of human beings: we can see the smallest part of the beauty, not only because of Earth atmosphere and lights of cities, but because of leaving far away from galaxy centers. There are special men like astronomers who can see something, but they typically can’t value what they see…
- 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…
- Open Fitness 2.0, Caring For Your Body — Careful work with your own body requires, eventually, an extensive work with information. It doesn’t really matter whether you are an athlete with everyday workouts, or another sportsman, or you do some aerobic exercises, or you even just care about the diet, anyway you should know exactly what and how you did yesterday (a month ago, a year ago), and therefore you should plan what do today (tomorrow, next month). Of course, you can…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- Server Monitor 3.4.0, Know The Problem In Proper Time — There are two kinds of system administrators: those who think «my system can’t fall» (optimistic kind), and those who thinks «if the system falls, I want to know it as soon as possible» (realistic kind). The second kind of sysadmins are more valuable: they can do wisely even in complex conditions. Server Monitor is a software for those wise realists: reliable server monitor, able to detect…
- Active GIF Creator - everything you need to create attractive and lightweight GIF animations — Although Flash and Silverlight technologies are what most advanced web designers think of as the future of web interfaces, there are situations when using them is not reasonable. First of all, these technologies are quite complex and are not well suited for beginners. Secondly, there are situations when animation has to be added to a Flash-free site. Finally, seamless integration of a Flash movie into an existing design is not…
- HashPass 1.6, Password Problem Solved Entirely — The password creation and storing problem still seams to be the greatest security hole in a diversity of systems. If you choose a password which is easy to remember, it will typically be something easy to guess and pick; if you generate or invent some hard password, you’ll never remember it and will either make it easy to be stolen (sticky note on your monitor) or you will have…
- Managed Extensions for VCL - a great solution of the Delphi Win32/.NET communication problem — Anyone familiar with software development knows how different the .NET framework is compared with older development platforms. The problem of framework interoperability has been vexing many developers who wanted to use .NET components in their Delphi and C++ applications. Finally, there is a solution for the problem. Managed Extensions for VCL enables you to interact with any .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.Net, JScript.Net, Delphi .Net and others) from your…
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