- Fast EBook Compiler. Book-for-Sale! — If you feel like a writer (fiction writer, technical book writer or even cookbook writer) you can not easily turn your writing into money. The fact is the «traditional» publishers are conservative and are stuck to «writing stars». Even if a paper publisher would be interested in your writings, the contract he would offer to a young unknown author would not be very liberal or even fair. But…
- Virtual Stopwatch 3.0, Like Real, But Much Better — Many years ago, a multi-functional watch was a dream and a charming attribute of virtually any «real man». It was a relatively huge thing, which had to have a multitude of functions and displays, be elegant and reliable. In today’s computerized time, every man can have a Virtual Stopwatch, which does all the best the «real watch» has done, and a much more. I’d like to call…
- True BoxShot 1.6.3, Excellent Virtual Boxes — The so-called «box shots» (images of 3D boxes with a logo and a description) is a haut ton of software vendors. But, despite the apparent simplicity of the task, a surprisingly small number of websites can take pride for their box shots. The problem is that the «shoot the real box» way requires a great deal of post-processing of the shots (not saying that it requires a real box…
- CD-Cover Editor 3.0, Covers Like Breeze — Nowadays, almost any computer has the capability to write CD or DVD. But for the discerning of the written media, most of us still use only one known option: CD markers and hand-written labels. When you just need to bring data from one computer to another, that’s more than enough; however, when you want to store your documents or music archive, create a family photo album or a presentation for an investor, you…
- iTAB, Real Look for Your Virtual Music Collection — Remember, in the good old days, when the most advanced high-tech player was a huge boom-box, you opened a CD rack at home, and dozens of your favorite artists’ eyes stared at you from those CD cases, pictures taken during their feature concerts pleased your sight, and lyrics of your favorite songs recalled the most precious melodies in your memory? Things have worsened with the advent of digital technology. Now, if you open…
- NAntBuilder 1.1, Handy Cover for Handy Tool — The make tool was cool. But this «was» is twenty years old. Today’s programmers don’t cherish the old make not because they are dumb, but because they live in the new time with a new mind and new habits. Today’s build and automation tools are XML-based, because XML is universal. .Net environments and .Net programmers are in love with free and open-source NAnt tool. But, as modern developers, we want not only…
- Belkasoft Screen Capturer 1.01, Just Take A Shot — There are several different approaches for implementing «software with simple function» concept. Unfortunately, the majority of software authors tend to see their software as a «future ultimate combine», where each new version brings in tens of new dialogs, tricky multi-level menus and other «feature-list extenders». That’s why we appreciate so much those rare brilliants, which allow to perform their main…
- CD-Cover Editor 3.0 - the simplest way of adding style to your CD or DVD collection — If you start burning at least several disks each month, you will enter the next year with an impressive stack of CD’s and DVD’s containing music, movies, backups and other data. If you don’t label each and every of them properly, finding the necessary compilation will be more than difficult. Apparently, a magic marker can help, but not too much. If you are seeking a way to create nice-looking CD and DVD…
- Magnus Choir VSTi: Make It Sound Real — What gives a soundtrack the most charming look? Doubtfully, it’s anything other than the accompaniment of real singers’ voices. With modern sound track editors, however, the major headache isn’t the «what» — it’s the «where»: where to get the natural sound for your composition? At best, they offer synthesized, sounding «similar», but still distant from the natural «clones»…
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