- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- 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…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- Convert Monkey 1.02, Dexterous as Monkey, Smart as Human — Convert Monkey is file conversion software, which allows converting MSWord, Excel, Word Perfect, plain text and rich text files to various formats. You can remember many solutions I’ve talked about as «strong», as well as software I’ve called «easy», the best word for Convert Monkey is «dexterous» or «smart». I mean, with Convert Monkey, some complex operations aren’t «done…
- FileMonkey 10.50, Let Monkey Do All The Work — What would you do when you need to copy certain files from several folders to other ones, and with renaming (not-so-often yet not-so-rare task)? You’ll do it «by hands»? Or you’ll look for some software which can do the trick for you. OK, there’s next day, and now you have to split several files in parts. Hands again? But how? OK, you’ll look for other software. The next day: select and…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- 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…
- Konst Pinger: Are They Online? — Or, «Who are they?», «Where are they at?», and «How do you connect to them?» — When it comes to investigating a certain network address, you’ll want to find out everything about that host. With Konst Pinger — a multi-purpose network utility — you will be able to get all that and even more. The application can ping, trace-route hosts and retrieve the hosts? Whois…
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