- 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…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- Unreal Media Server 5.0, Media to Universe — Unreal Media Server is an almost-universal highly-customizable media streaming solution. It can be used with the equal ease either inside a LAN or for the Internet, in an on-demand or live modes, with any level of interactivity and any media format. On the server side, Unreal Media Server supports a huge multitude of media formats (for ex., sound: WMV, MP3, OGG, video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Apple mp4…), and…
- MidWavi Pro 2.98, What Can Be Done with Media Files? — «What can be done with media files?» — The question in the title is not rhetoric. I really want you to think about it: you have got multimedia data (CD-Audio, sounds as WAV and MP3, video in a multitude of formats, pictures in even a greater number of formats); now, what do you want to do with this media? The reason I am asking that is because MidWavi Pro can do really…
- TextGRAB SDK 2.1, It's All About Text — Today’s user interfaces are mostly textual still; and if you understand this, you can suppose several software ideas based on this fact. Screen readers and translators are the most evident, though not only ideas. The things became much easier, if you have a software component able to take all tasks of obtaining the text from windows and buttons, so you can be concentrated on the main idea of your program. So, TextGRAB SDK really…
- Media Center for TomTom - turn your favorite TomTom navigator into a powerful media center! — TomTom’s product are well known for their excellent quality and even more so — for the software supplied with their navigation systems. A capable navigation device coupled with a great software package — could it possibly be better? Surprisingly, the answer is «yes»! You can turn your GPS navigations system into a full-fledged media center that can show photos, play music and movies! All you need is any(!) TomTom…
- Image SXM - a comprehensive tool for managing microscope images — If you are a scientist working in the medical, pharmaceutical, physical, biological, chemical or other hi-tech industries, you must know how to handle a scanning microscope. Today’s scientific equipment allows scientist to observe samples on the atomic level and even take pictures for immediate processing and printing. If you work with a variety of microscopes in different labs, you may be interested…
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