- As Simple As Photoshop — The phrase above is not just a slogan. First, it is the name of the program I’d like to tell you about and second, the declaration of this program’s possibilities. You may think that Adobe Photoshop, which is an industrial standard for image processing, is rather hard to learn. Who said «I know it from cover to cover»? OK, this article is not for you. If you think so, you may need somebody…
- paxScript.NET .A Script Might Be Everywhere — The implementation of many software projects requires at least two different languages: an industry-level one for the project’s core, its powerful «engine», and a scripting language, which would be interpreted when the program is running. Scripting languages are typically simpler and slower than the industrial ones, but they have their own area of application. These languages are often used when the advanced users or third-party…
- DynSite 1.11, My Home Is My Site — When somebody decides to create a personal web-site, he/she has many options of how to host it. Selecting the right option is not an easy task: you need to look for the «right» compromise between the availability of the website, the number of available features and settings, and the cost. Cheap «virtual» hosting has normal or good availability on one hand, but it has a typically weak feature set…
- ChatterBlocker 1.1, Friendly Audio Space — If your main working tool is your own mind then concentration is your friend and noise is your enemy and the enemy of your concentration. Though the concept of «noise» is not that easy: quiet conversation of two colleagues is much more annoying than loud sounds of rain and thunder. So, when you have to work in not-so-quiet conditions (like working in a huge office with many different people with different…
- STAR Exam 1.2, Friendly and Playful Examiner — Presumably, the best type of teachers are those who know how to use games in their work. Of course, this doesn’t mean things like «when you are done with your homework, I will let you play football» — nothing like that. I’m talking about the cases where the entire process of studying something becomes a game, and the higher level you’ve completed successfully, the higher is the level of your…
- Magic Camera, Amaze Your Friends — They say, one picture tells a thousand of words. In video chats, the picture comes from a webcam hooked up to the computer. But where is one supposed to get the picture if the webcam is still in the store? If buying a new device is not an option at the moment, give a try to Magic Camera. The software adds a virtual camera to your Windows system and allows using it the way…
- ZZEE PHPExe - the easiest way to turn your PHP applications into standard Windows .exe files — If you always treated PHP as a web-based language, you were quite right. However, you did not know the whole truth. If you are a PHP developer and have created a number of great PHP applications that you’d love to use on your desktop, rejoice — there is now an easy way to turn them into standard Windows applications. All you need is ZZEE PHPExe! ZZEE PHPExe is an amazing tool that compiles PHP…
- @SwIt Printfil: Console Applications Make Friends with Windows Printers — There is not much in common between DOS and USB — one knows nothing about the other. So, if you use those good old DOS programs, and you happen to print from of them on a matrix printer — make sure your technicians don’t «evacuate» that noisy box during an upgrade; or else the printing may become a major challenge; at least, until you get the Printfil utility. It adds just…
- Bot Boy: Friends Gotten Together — Free Friend Finder. «A friend in court is better than a penny in purse»,-this is equally true in the real life and on the Internet. Having many friends in your online community is beneficial. The challenge is making friends or, in the online terms, adding friends to your network. With Bot Boy, a completely free friend adder application for MySpace, the job of finding and adding essential numbers…
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