- Protaxis BestFonts 1.1: everything about your fonts — Are you tired of searching suitable fonts, copying font files and other nasty font-relative stuff? There is a small utility for everyday use named «Protaxis BestFonts». Using this program, you can do anything you like with fonts installed on your system. First, you can view all your fonts and test them on any custom text. For example, you are a designer and want to choose an appropriate font for your new banner, a web-site menu…
- Spices.Net Suite: All about .Net Visual Studio Can't Do — Spices.Net Suite is a collection of utilities, which brings all the strength the .Net platform *potentially* has right in a developer’s hands. Unfortunately, the functionality of the tools created by Microsoft for their own platform is always much poorer than what it could be, and Spices.Net is addressed to fix this drawback. Once installed, Spaces.Net Suite will provide you with pretty and usable environment, completely…
- 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…
- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- 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…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- JC&MB Quicknote 5.3, Concentrate on Content Rather than Form. — When you need to write something down — a brilliant idea or Web address, would you rather use a pencil and a sticky note or a computer and a text editor? I could bet you’d rather choose the first option in a great majority of cases, simply because it’s much easier and quicker to grab a pencil, write a note, and then stick it on a visible spot than launch a text editor…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
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