- J2K-Codec: Size Matters — There is an image-compression standard named JPEG, which is quite good, but rather old. And there is a new, modern and progressive successor — JPEG2000. Respectively to JPEG, the new standard gives a smaller file size and better image quality, and some new possibilities, such as transparency and translucency (alpha-channel). With J2K-Codec any developer can easily add JPEG2000 support to his/her application. If you are a game…
- AVIedit has incredible power in a small package. — Sometimes we look on the software and say «It’s a good program». Sometimes we say «it’s a great program», or «it’s a useful program» or «It’s my favorite one». But it is a very rare case in which we say only «wow!» With AVIedit you have this opportunity. Judge it for yourself: a video capturing and editing utility…
- 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…
- Clever Internet Suite 6.0. Paradise for VCL Network Programmer — Every professional Windows programmer knows the eternal dilemma: which library is to be used for the advanced networking? There is a number of OS-based APIs for different network tasks, but they are well-known for their uncoordinated and incomplete set. There are numerous third-party libraries, but you can hardly find a fully-functional and comprehensive one. Moreover, if you are VCL programmer, and your tool is Delphi or C++ Builder, your…
- Bigmail 2.1. Size Does NOT Matter — Despite of all spam, anti-spam, viruses, blah-blah-blah, e-mail still remains the most common way of transferring something in the digital environment. If you know somebody, and that somebody is connected to the Internet — you’ll always have that person’s e-mail address, even if no other contact information is available. This universal communication channel, however, is not free from problems, and not the least one…
- CheckQuota 2.1, Size Under Control — A major problem with computers shared by several users (either locally, or through a network) is disk usage. Badly-tempered, non-experienced or forgetful users are used to storing huge files in their home or common file-exchange directories; sometimes they even do not store huge files, instead, they just never delete them. And all computer users can suffer the lack of disk space just because of a single «bad» user…
- Image Sizer 1.04, Change Your Pictures! — Since computers became personal and obtained ability to process images there is a huge bunch of image-related software written and solved. One may think you can easily find the best software for any image processing task. But it is not the plain truth. There is a common lack of one type of image processing software: something which does the most frequent tasks in the most easy and effective way. The typical needs for images…
- Aurora Web Editor 2.2, Site Editor with a Human Face — Nowadays, the term «website» is really diffused. Google «is a website»? Amazon «is a website»? A personal homepage of an Oxford professor or New-York worker «is a website»? Then, what does it mean «to create a web-site»? OK, let’s turn back from the philosophy to the practice. Suppose, you want to have a simple, few-page website…
- AGS RSS Editor, RSS Feeding Made Simple — Creating an RSS feed or a podcast from scratch by a hand at least takes some knowledge of XML. Maintaining it on your website requires the knowledge and hands-on experience in Web mastering. Well, what if you just need to set up an RSS feed and don’t have the passion for studying XML? For this case, consider the RSS Editor application by AGS. With RSS Editor, you can create, modify, view and publish RSS feeds…
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