- ScreenVirtuoso 1.91: A real virtuoso of "learning by looking" — Explaining something to somebody is really a big problem. But to explain how to use a complicated program to a user sitting on the opposite coast is even a greater problem. It would be much easier to explain everything if there were an opportunity to demonstrate an example. But, you can’t travel 300 miles away, or more, to show somebody that «All you need to save your…
- 1001 Lines. Train Your Brain — Can you imagine the approximate amount of time people spend playing the «simple» games like Minesweeper or Tetris still by much exceeds the time spent on playing the «cool and modern» strategies and MMORPG? You aren’t surprised or may say, «OK, the simple games always would be more popular as they are _simple_.» It’s the point, but it’s not the complete picture. The simple logical games are…
- AIT_Trains 1.8. Train on the Trains — AIT_Trains I want to talk about today is a dangerous thing. It is a very effective and pitiless time-killer: I’ve spent several days with those trains, railways, freights, rail-stations; and I’m afraid those days were not the last portion of my time stolen by this game. So, read on only if you are positive that you can stand the temptation. OK, several words about the game’s plot. You have your…
- All about RFID - Training CD — Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a relatively new technology. But it is rapidly becoming popular. This technology for noncontact identification of goods, people and vehicles has many evident advantages over the more traditional schemes of identification (like infra-red barcode readers and so on). Virtually the only drawback of transfaring business processes to using RFID is the fact that some technical skills are required. The bad news…
- EnTren - Learn Through Fun. — EnTren is the ingenious foreign language trainer you’ll never get bored with. It is very easy and funny to work with, and through the game-like process all your foreign language skills will seamlessly grow to a much higher level. The most valuable thing is that many skills (like grammar understanding, working vocabulary, speech) are trained simultaneously, in complex. The other goodie is that there is no boredom in the…
- Personal Chess Trainer 2007, And Now, It's Possible! — The chess game is one of the most ancient, non-trivial and brain-changing game since the humanity’s origin. It is well-known that it is much easier to «understand the rules» (how each figure moves, and what to do basically) than to really «learn chess». Some have even argued that there’s no way to learn chess on your own by just playing or reading books. But now, it’s possible! You…
- Scale Trainer Guitar Edition — Scales are the base of the music. All musical abilities, all combination, all melodies, all moods are based on scales, so scales are just the basic musical *skill*. But the problem is, before you can try to teach yourself playing scales, you need to know a lot of boring «theory» — terminology, note writing and so on. Scale Trainer Guitar Edition is an ideal teaching program, which does two main things…
- Ambrose G. Bierce Selected Works, Teaching From an Astonishing Person — Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was a strange and a wise American. Even his life was unusual: he resigned a very successful Army career to become a journalist, an editor and a writer. He was a public atheist in the XIXth century, when it was a bad fortune; he had published sarcastic «Devil’s Dictionary» just before the time when sarcasm became popular. He divorced with his wife to join Pancho…
- Speed Test Gold — Knowing that the nominal speed of your Internet connection is high is a great thing, but knowing that it’s high in fact is much better. The actual bandwidth of your connection can be influenced by a great many of factors — from the mode your ISP equipment is working in to your modem settings and the proximity of communication nodes. Exact knowledge of your system’s performance…
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