- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- Antamedia Internet Caffe 5.6, Customers Would Be Happy! — Antamedia Internet Caffe suite has amazed me. Really. For a system administrator with an average experience and common sense, there are obvious minimal requirements for the Internet café management. As well, it’s obvious that creating software that would meet at least those minimal requirements is a rather hard job. Even harder is to create something «more than the minimum», capable of handling non-obvious cases, and…
- OTK Custom dbinstaller 2, Database Comes Along — Have you ever installed an application that required a database, but had no database in the setup file? What a hassle it was to find the database software, install it on the computer and finally configure it the way that it would actually work with that software! When the preparation was finally over, no strength or desire to continue with the software had remained in the body. And all that had happened just because the…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- Vista Style Elements Icon Set, Do You Have a Dream? — As a developer, don’t you have a dream that the day will come when users will be able to comprehend the logics of your programs without your assistance, and your technical support service will finally take a break from those round-the-day silly questions like «How do I go around this menu?» or «What is that button for?» or «What do I do next?» Who knows when that GUI…
- CD-Cover Editor 3.0 - the simplest way of adding style to your CD or DVD collection — If you start burning at least several disks each month, you will enter the next year with an impressive stack of CD’s and DVD’s containing music, movies, backups and other data. If you don’t label each and every of them properly, finding the necessary compilation will be more than difficult. Apparently, a magic marker can help, but not too much. If you are seeking a way to create nice-looking CD and DVD…
- Anyplace Control - control remote systems no matter where you are — Most probably, there have been situation in your life when you had to explain something computer-related to another person on the phone. The task seems easy when you are talking to somebody with experience and knowledge in the area — in this case, the whole process may take mere seconds. But imagine having to explain the process of configuring an Outlook account to your mother-in-law and you’ll instantly realize what…
- Customer Backup – a solid foundation for establishing great relationships with your clients — Any business, be it a one-man company or a large enterprise, depends on clients. Constant communication with your customers, including newsletters, announcements, special offers and follow-ups, helps increase sales and improve customer loyalty, which is extremely important today, when competition and customer mobility is high. If your customer base is growing and you start experiencing problems with keeping in touch with all of them…
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