- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- Amateur Invest 2007, Market Game for the Rest of Us — Market games with investments, securities, stocks, currencies, seem to be a mix of magic and science. Tons of terms, objects, graphs — all to make novices and amateurs to lose their interest in participating in those dainty games. This is why we (the mere mortals) should be so thankful to Amateur Invest — the investment software for the rest of us. It will speak with you in the plain…
- Schematic 3.23, Diagrams For the Rest of Us — Schematic is a rich diagramming tool, combining powerful capabilities of creating, changing and controlling diagrams with logical and easy user interface. Creating complex and pretty diagrams with schematic is not harder than creating complex and pretty documents with your favorite text editor. Schematic’s diagrams consist of widgets connected with connectors. Widgets are selected from Schematic’s rich objects repository, providing you with many…
- ProPoster 2.0.1 - Homemade Posters for the Rest of Us — The quality of today’s home and office printers allows making virtually any type of printed production at home. The only sad exception seems to be the large (colorful) posters, banners, wall-photo and schemes — something you can’t print without a large enough printer or plotter. But you can! ProPoster is software, which takes on itself the tasks of print planning. The application would split your large image into…
- Batch Picture Resizer 1.6, Automate It! — In today’s multimedia environment, when digital cameras, Internet and clip-art CDs are almost universal features, there are several frequent tasks, which should be done with a huge amount of pictures at once. It can be something like «resize all my photos», or «watermark my own clip-art», or «rotate and scale images for design» and so on. The idea is: there are multiple images, and you…
- AscToHTM, Web Designers, Take a Rest! — What options do we normally have when it comes to posting a document online? Not much, really: a plain-text editor with the knowledge of HTML (a good bargain but with a bit of headache for the bonus), WYSIWYG HTML editor (a less achy solution that pulls cash out of our pocket) or… How about using a converter for that? Suppose, you have a plain-text file laid out in a certain format. You could just load…
- FantaMorph Pro 3.5, Image Morphing For The Rest Of Us — Those of us who have serious video-effects software are happy people (of course, if they really CAN use their software). Besides the serious creative works, they can create small but cool effects for web pages, presentations, and entertainment. But the rest of us, who don’t like to buy and study those «professional packages», can still Do The Effects with small, pretty and easy software tools that feature narrower but yet sufficient…
- Registry Clean Pro, Keepin’ Clean For The Rest Of Us — Our computers are much more complex things than other «household appliances». There are so many ways to interact, so many visual and audio possibilities, and so many complex operating system inside it. We should already feel our computers not as «just a tool», but as a «virtual home», which we can enhance, furnish, share — and CLEAN. Yes, even if you feel like…
- File Backup Watcher Professional 2.8.17 - an easy-to-use backup solution with a twist — Being able to regularly back up you crucial files is equally valuable for computer rookies and skilled professionals. After all, not everything depends on our ability to control the behavior of the system and perform the right actions — sometimes information get lost to unexpected power failures, hardware crashes and other factors that are generally referred to as Acts of God. That is a reason weighty enough to start…
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