- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0. Go in Pieces! — Puzzles are universal things. A 3-year old child loves playing her big colorful 3-piece puzzle, a 30-year old woman spends hours and days with a 3-thousand piece puzzle of a Scottish castle. A big colorful puzzle is a great present. However, a «personalized» (i.e. unique) puzzle is also stylish. Just imagine giving your girlfriend the cool puzzle, which, when solved, becomes a memory photo with you and her in some romantic…
- Quake I port for Nokia Series 60 — The speed of digital hardware progress is really amazing. Moore’s law (doubling of CPU speed every 1.5 year) is still alive, typical time-to-live of personal home computer is not more then 2-3 years, after that it is considered *ancient* and can hardly be sold for any money. More and more often, there are voices standing against this speedy hardware revolution; they say, most of us can use not more than the tenth…
- ABLsudoku - Solve Me, If You Can! — The Sudoku game is often claimed to be invented in the USA or in Japan in the middle of 80th. Though, sometimes we may hear about Leonhard Euler’s «Lating Square» (XVIII century) and other historical mathematical puzzles. Despite its unclear history, the Sudoku puzzle is a really brain-breaking quest played all over the world and being an obligatory part of many newspapers. The company with…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.2, I'm Fallen Into Pieces — There is common multipurpose design technique that allows making some obvious things less trivial: An effect of Puzzle. Puzzles are commonly drawn as images «cut» into several fancy-form pieces. In the real world, puzzles are very popular among both children and adults. In terms of computer design, a puzzle image is rather a «symbol», but very commonly used. Still, how can you create a realistic-looking and yet not…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- HashPass 1.6, Password Problem Solved Entirely — The password creation and storing problem still seams to be the greatest security hole in a diversity of systems. If you choose a password which is easy to remember, it will typically be something easy to guess and pick; if you generate or invent some hard password, you’ll never remember it and will either make it easy to be stolen (sticky note on your monitor) or you will have…
- 123-Flash-Chat-Server-Software, Exercise Your Fingers! — In the Rich-Media era, text chats seem to have to sink into oblivion — so much more communication opportunities offer modern multimedia chat applications. Surprisingly, users don’t even think about giving up good old text chats for lost, and they continue to evolve, while chat service providers never quit seeking and deploying even better solutions to promptly meet users’ endlessly growing demands. 123-Flash-Chat Software…
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