- ApacheConf 5.0 Bring the Usability to Features — Apache HTTP server is known to be the most popular, reliable, and modern Web server. The program?s only «defect» seems to be its ultimate unixoidism: despite its cross-platform nature, the Web server gets all of its settings through one huge «httpd.conf» file, and even if you need to change one sma-a-a-ll thing in the settings, you would still need to read through all 1000 lines of httpd.conf and much more…
- 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…
- Courier 3.5 - Easy and Pretty-Featured — Courier is a personal e-mail program, which combines pretty and easy interface with smart-features-when-they-are-necessary. It looks completely familiar to average user, but it can satisfy an fastidious one also. Courier provides you with the ingenious concept of the single-file mailbox, which stores all of your account settings, preferences, mails and addresses and all that is easily transferred between computers (for ex., home and office…
- 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…
- Cube Puzzle, Rubik' Big Brother — If you’ve caught the time of Rubik Cube’s popularity, you are very likely to have seen folks playing with it like if that was the only thing they could grab in the endless universe. But the time flew by, and the toy that used to keep folks captive magnificently was no longer interesting: all puzzles were solved, and the mind was seeking for something new. Well, what new or unexpected could be possibly pulled out…
- PassCryptor 1.0, Enough Features, Strong Security — Nowadays, software industry seems to SUFFER from over-progressive thinking of developers: any small, simple and reliable tool tends to grow up to a «software suit» state, when it has tons of buttons, icons, additional functions, settings hiding the primary functionality under secondary «cool goodies». Sometimes it’s not too obtrusive — you can just use your «20% of features», but…
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