- ShadowSecurityScanner 7.55, The Weapon of Defense — Hackers are a common danger that no one can feel oneself safely with. They can break into your personal computer, steal you confidential data and the money you have faithfully raised, hurl malicious software or demolish your entire system. Our best efforts to defend ourselves are locked on the software and hardware-based firewalls and other «anti-hacker» solutions; but how do we know for sure that the firewalls we rely on have…
- 10-Strike LANState 2.0, Healthy & Wise Networking — There are numerous solutions to make the system administrators’ work (and life) easier. Different approaches can be used for network deployment, tracking, and observation. And the most intelligent (and therefore rare) tools for that are the ones that provide methods for network visualization and mapping. Such tools make the network management a very easy and vivid job. Perhaps, one of the newest and comfortable network mapping tools is 10-Strike LANState. This…
- Addressinator! Your Address Book. — Are you having hard time quickly finding a telephone number you need deeply? Do you frequently forget your business partners’ names? Or may be you never remember your colleges’ dates of birth? The number of people you work or communicate with is enormous and you have to keep in mind all the information concerning them? — No problem. Addressinator! is the tool that can easily help you. Addressinator…
- Mimoza 4.09.3, The Scheduling Kung Fu — A typical university scheduling is a very complicated logics and logistics task. The reason is the number of objects «interoperating» with each other (teachers, classes, rooms, courses), each with its own properties, and a number of factors need to be taken into account. Course length, teachers’ abilities, teachers’ vacations and global holidays, room availability, sudden changes… Number of combinations arising…
- PixClip, Clip It, Paste It, Save It — Does it make sense to learn or use those full-featured image processing monsters when all you need to do is to just clip a picture off the screen and then paste it to a document or save it to file? With the right tools, the job can be completed in just a few clicks. Check out the PixClip software by António Maria Torre do Valle. This handy «gadget» starts with your operating system and…
- Immortal Defense — Some jaded gamers will probably say that they have seen one arcade and thus have seen them all. In fact, this rule can be applied to virtually any type of games. Each new title has its own twist and its own charm that make it different from the multitude of similar games available on the market. Arcade games are popular for their simplicity and casual nature — whenever you want several minutes of pure action and entertainment, just start one…
- RIP: Strike Back, Christmas Under Attack — It’s hard to imagine a battle while keeping thoughts on Christmas scenes. Christmas, as we know it, is about peace, love, unity, and synonyms of such. But it doesn’t make everyone happy when everything just goes good, and those envious folks bear cruel plans on taking your joy away from you and then ruling over you in the new world of darkness and evil. When dark times approach us, and the values that…
- Photo to Cartoon - taking reality to the fun side! — If you always thought that the great-looking realistic cartoons that you came across on a great number of sites and in numerous publications were meticulously drawn by the artist’s hand, you’ll be surprised to hear that there is a much easier way to reach the same result. If you would like to be able to turn digital photos into professionally looking cartoon-style illustrations, a tool called…
- Titan Backup: Save It before Disaster Strikes — Life throws at us lots of surprises, and not all of them are fun. An example of such not-so-great «surprise» is the loss of valuable data. Despite all the encouragement we hear about backing up what we value, we fail to follow the advice; mainly because the backup routine is often too sophisticated and the performance of backup and recovery utilities leaves much to be desired. Titan Backup seems…
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