- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- 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…
- Game Cheater ArtMoney 7.21. Funny Tricks. — Game cheating is not so fair, but sometimes it’s a very joyful thing. When you have hundreds of monsters in the next room, and only five ammos — is it a fair play? So, who can blame you for such a natural wish of having five THOUSANDS of ammos or, better one big bad RPG? There are much more examples — like «not enough money» in strategy games, or «not enough mana»…
- Vextractor 3.91, Pretty lines — The dichotomy between raster and vector image formats is like dichotomy between physical and logical shapes. When you want to do something «physical» (like print the images, or show them on a webpage, etc.), you use raster images. But for many other operations, like «fix this line on a logotype» or «remove this curve», or «open this scheme with AutoCAD», or «analyze this map», you…
- Image to PDF Command Line Tool, Just Type-In the Assignment — What does it take to convert an image from one format to another? — Just open the source in a converter application and then save it in the format you need. That simple! Or is it really? For a handful of pictures, it’s a great approach indeed. But what are you going to do with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of images that are to be converted… to PDF? Not many…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- 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…
- WebSoft CourseLab 2.3, Constructing E-School — Assignment in brief: create an electronic learning course. Assignment in detail: Create a learning course, which guides student step-by-step through textual and graphical information, with interactive elements (like «point a term with the mouse to see the corresponding element on the picture», or interactive animated demonstration of the processes); embed video and audio information; capture and embed the demonstration of working with…
- Mono-a-Mono, If You Love the Clear Sound — Despite that vinyl discs and tapes often hold precious music masterpieces, the wear-out noise and clicks that usually accompany old records rather hurt an ear than give pleasure. And although it’s literally impossible to remove scratches and other signs of aging from vinyl and magnetic media, the digitized sound, taken off those discs, can produce a great result — noiseless compositions that actually please one’s ear. The «magic…
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