- ConteXt: A completely different sight at DBMS — ConteXt is effective, highly scalable, and industrial-strength DBMS with an innovative data model. Rapid application development environment, which is included in ConteXt, allows you to speed up the development of complex data-manipulating applications. The powerful, but lightweight, engine makes possible any usage of the system, from embedded one-user DB to large solutions with hundreds of simultaneous connections. ConteXt is meant for…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- Poker Analyzer, Software Trump Card — You may be professional or amateur; you may play once a month or once every evening. You may play for money or just to kill your time; you may play an incredibly risky strategy or just a guaranteed win. Nevertheless, if you play *poker* one day you will certainly think of strategies, intuitions, game secrets, and… You know, all the strange things somebody *does* and somebody *doesn’t have*, some strange things that are…
- Noki 1.4, Opening Nokia — Transferring essential data between a PC and a mobile phone isn’t an easy task. Typically, we have to get on with two «independent» information storages, the main (PC) and a mobile (phone) without any connections. Software provided by a phone manufacturer usually can’t fully solve the problem. For Nokia phones, we have Nokia PC Suite (made by Nokia), which can easily make *backup* of all…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- Open Fitness 2.0, Caring For Your Body — Careful work with your own body requires, eventually, an extensive work with information. It doesn’t really matter whether you are an athlete with everyday workouts, or another sportsman, or you do some aerobic exercises, or you even just care about the diet, anyway you should know exactly what and how you did yesterday (a month ago, a year ago), and therefore you should plan what do today (tomorrow, next month). Of course, you can…
- Managed Extensions for VCL - a great solution of the Delphi Win32/.NET communication problem — Anyone familiar with software development knows how different the .NET framework is compared with older development platforms. The problem of framework interoperability has been vexing many developers who wanted to use .NET components in their Delphi and C++ applications. Finally, there is a solution for the problem. Managed Extensions for VCL enables you to interact with any .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.Net, JScript.Net, Delphi .Net and others) from your…
- Video Snapshot Wizard - an excellent piece of software for movie reviewers and devoted fans — If you do your living writing movie reviews or just love Edward Norton’s movies, you definitely grab movie screenshots from time to time to use for your reviews or animated forum avatars. There are plenty of frame capture applications on the market offering all kinds of features, necessary and unnecessary, but there is one that has an excellent balance of functionality and simplicity — Video Snapshot Wizard…
- PDF Analyzer - an all-seeing PDF analysis tool that is a breeze to use — Users who work with large collections of PDF files on a regular basis — publishers, editors, technical writers, webmasters — often need to obtain detailed information about the files they deal with. Apparently, large PDF editing applications can be used for this purpose, but it’s not comfortable at all. If you would like to be able to quickly extract the necessary file attributes from your PDF files, all you need…
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