- OlmiChess 2.63, Plug and Play! — Chess is an intellectual pair game the humanity has known for thousands of years. But during the last 15 or 20 years, it seems, chess sometimes becomes a «solo» game with the second partner being soulless machine with playing abilities based on the «smart calculation» only, not on the intuition, complex associations or vivid imagination (like every chess master has). Thanks to the progress, computers and computer…
- xplorer2 1.7.0.5, Classic Goodies and New Strengths — File Managers have a long history. Both their strengths and weaknesses have been strongly associated with the operating system they had been running under. In the old times, inexperienced users often thought Norton Commander *was* DOS; nowadays, they think Windows Explorer *is* Windows. The reasons for that are natural: file manager is the most frequently used utility in any OS. But, hear me, guys, Windows Explorer is not your obligatory tool…
- VH Player — These days, the number of popular video codecs is so large that even the most experienced of us find it hard to tell whether the file that has just been downloaded from the Internet will play normally in any of the players installed in the system. The only way out is to keep downloading new codec packs and hope that they contain the right library. Fortunately, there are players out there that solve most of these problems and play…
- Flash Player Pro, Watch It Online, Watch It Locally — Even the simplest, most basic flash movie or animation gives a lot more excitement than the most sophisticated static document. The only trouble about this awesome technology is that all those exciting movies that can be watched online can hardly be saved to a local disk, so that we — or others — could watch them later. Flash Player Pro completely eliminates the problem of saving flash animations to disk; with…
- Passion Audio Player - a high-quality alternative to familiar audio players — Although the market is dominated by a bunch of most popular audio players, new competitors show up every day and give customers the freedom of choice they want so much. If you are a novice trying to choose the right player for everyday use or an experienced user seeking an alternative to familiar applications, try Passion Audio Player! Passion Audio Player is a free audio player with a great set…
- StudioLine Photo Classic: Intuitive Enhancement and Archiving — What’s the good of over-enhancing a photograph if there is no way to find it when it is most needed? On the other hand, browsing through a streamlined gallery of sloppy snapshots doesn’t do a pleasure either. How would you like to resolve both these issues with a single shot? Check out StudioLine Photo Classic. Unlike «heavy» and sophisticated image editing applications, StudioLine…
- Blocker Plains - a great version of the all-times classic — A lot of people play games and thoroughly enjoy it. Some prefer serious titles that take weeks or months to beat and some like simple and fun «time killers» that can be started and stopped at any time and that can be played during short breaks between tasks. If you are a gamer of the second type and like playing simple arcade games just for fun, check out Blocker Plains — another great incarnation…
- M View 2.8 - a great media player with a minimum of bells and whistles you don't need — Don’t you sometimes think that some programs should’ve stayed in their early versions forever? They were small, quick to install, highly focused and gave you everything you needed without tons of add-ons and unnecessary features. Most media players, photo viewers and instant messengers were perfect in their minimalism, but then they got stuffed with dozens of extras that made them cumbersome, slow and buggy. If you like the concept…
- OnLine TV Live - the whole TV world on your palm — Today, conventional TV technologies are being aggressively replaced by digital broadcasting and the boundaries between familiar television programs and the ones being streamed from the Internet are getting extremely thin. So if you have the whole Internet at your disposal, why not use it to turn your computer into a worldwide television receiver? If you have a connection that allows you to watch video online, you have a great…
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