- All My Movies 3.8: Movie-Related Data Harvester — Choose this, choose that. Choose drama, choose comedy, choose horror, and choose the alternative art movie. Whatever you have chosen — if you love movies, if you have plenty of them — you do need to organize them. Which movies you have, and where do you store them (CDs, DVDs, VHS or so)? What movies you heard of and would like to see? Which actors starred in which movies («honey, I want to watch something…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.2, Very Special — In a short, Page Curl Pro by AV Bros. is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that allows creating realistically looking «page bends» — curling and folding. It has many options, pretty interface, and works fast with any host application that supports Photoshop plugins. In not-so-short, Page Curl Pro has gone beyond the boundaries of just a «curl this image» thing. In a handy dialog with instant preview, you can…
- Beneton Movie GIF 1.1.1, Mature Tool For Small Movies — Despite the new cool competing technologies, simple GIF file animation is still widely used, especially in the web. There are many reasons to prefer GIF-based «movies» — they are lightweight, supported by a wide range of browsers, they don’t require any plugins or browser additions and advanced users can work with them just like with other «normal» images. Though, there is a huge lack of right tools…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- Intellexer Summarizer, Stay Focused! — «Readers are leaders», — they say. However if you keep reading for hours, you can just get overloaded with information and «lose the sight of the forest in the midst of the trees». It would be nice to have just brief summaries of the humongous texts you are to go through and get the clear picture of what’s in there and whether or not you need it for your work. Believe…
- Net.Ex Pro 1.0, Browser For Information Overflow Age — Once Internet browsers were invented, they’ve targeted one-page-at-a-time model: you have window with address of «current place» and a web-page itself. With Web gaining popularity, browsers organized this way have shown themselves as insufficient: when you browse dozen ща pages at a time, it’s not too handy to have dozen separate browser windows. The solution had trusted to be «tabbed browsing»…
- Autumn Time Screensaver, Sweet Memories of Bright Sunny Days — Autumn is not just rainy weather, muddy roads, dark and longer nights and the anticipation of the first snow. Autumn also pleases us with countless baskets of juicy fruits, bright colors of seasonal landscapes, and never-ending chains of exciting fairs and festivals. It’s a really unique time of year, which flies by within a few bright, sunny days, which we’d hope to last until the next summer. But the most we can…
- M View 2.8 - a great media player with a minimum of bells and whistles you don't need — Don’t you sometimes think that some programs should’ve stayed in their early versions forever? They were small, quick to install, highly focused and gave you everything you needed without tons of add-ons and unnecessary features. Most media players, photo viewers and instant messengers were perfect in their minimalism, but then they got stuffed with dozens of extras that made them cumbersome, slow and buggy. If you like the concept…
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