- ArtBorders 1.3.2. Frame Makes the Picture — A frame really makes the picture. This is the unconditional truth, and this is twice the truth for photos. The most artistic and outstanding photos will look like newspaper sheets without an appropriate frame or border. A standard boring home-made family photo may be changed completely with a pretty frame or border and become the best beautifier for your walls. More practically, with a good digital photo editor (like the famous Photoshop) you…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- AS HDTEMP WIN32 DLL 2.1 — Although modern hardware is built to stay for long and average MTBF values are quite impressive, some components are still fragile if placed in harsh conditions. Hard drives are crucial components of our computers, as they hold the most important — valuable information that costs much more than the medium is stored on. If you are developing an application that intensively uses the hard drive to retrieve, write or cache data…
- Quick Photo Resizer, Images Will Fit the Frame — A great picture doesn't fit the frame? – Not that big of a deal; you can just resize it. What if you've got a dozen of such pictures? – Probably, the easiest way out is just doing the same thing. But what if you've got a whole bunch of great pictures that need to be resized different way for each of the diverse projects? With Quick Photo Resizer, you can resize any number of images at once by simply dragging the originals to the application window. As soon as they are in the…
- Vista Style Elements Icon Set, Do You Have a Dream? — As a developer, don’t you have a dream that the day will come when users will be able to comprehend the logics of your programs without your assistance, and your technical support service will finally take a break from those round-the-day silly questions like «How do I go around this menu?» or «What is that button for?» or «What do I do next?» Who knows when that GUI…
- 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…
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