- 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…
- SkinCrafter, Uniqueness of Visuality — Users love uniqueness; users love beauty; most of all, users love beautiful unique software interfaces. The previous passage sounds like a trivia, but it is truth, and it is the kind of truth the developers tend to neglect. In the context of the oversaturated market, your new cool software would be *taken* as new only when it *looks* as new. So, if you are an ambitious software developer, you do really need…
- Hardware Inspector 2.2 Where's My Hardware? — It?s a well-known fact that all modern computers come with the open architecture. That means, you can take any part of a computer and replace it with an analogous part, and the computer would still work correctly. Such architecture provides many great benefits (for example, you can renew only those hardware units that really affect you work efficiency). However, the open architecture has some drawbacks as well. For example, in a large office with many…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- TextGRAB SDK 2.1, It's All About Text — Today’s user interfaces are mostly textual still; and if you understand this, you can suppose several software ideas based on this fact. Screen readers and translators are the most evident, though not only ideas. The things became much easier, if you have a software component able to take all tasks of obtaining the text from windows and buttons, so you can be concentrated on the main idea of your program. So, TextGRAB SDK really…
- AS HDTEMP WIN32 DLL 2.1 — Although modern hardware is built to stay for long and average MTBF values are quite impressive, some components are still fragile if placed in harsh conditions. Hard drives are crucial components of our computers, as they hold the most important — valuable information that costs much more than the medium is stored on. If you are developing an application that intensively uses the hard drive to retrieve, write or cache data…
- HardwareID DLL - rock-solid license protection made easy — If you are a software developer working on a project that requires serious protection from unauthorized use and copying, you may want to focus on implementing a kind of protection mechanism that is really hard to hack. Despite the diversity of approaches and protection methods available on the market these days, unique system identifiers remain one of the most reliable methods of locking a software license…
- Learn Chinese 2008 - learning a unique language a unique way — Chinese is undoubtedly one of the most sophisticated languages on the planet. Besides obvious phonetic difficulties, learners of Chinese inevitably face the problem of having to remember and write hundreds and thousands of unique characters. If you are learning Chinese at home and don’t have a dedicated tutor, Learn Chinese 2008 will give you everything necessary to improve your language skills — no matter…
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