- Active Desktop 1.043, No More Desktop — Do you really love that boring Windows «desktop» concept? I personally don?t. Even if I could believe there were desktops in size of a stool, I still wouldn?t believe that a handful of icons are the only things I could place on my desktop. I want some more of dynamics, I want some more of information, and I want some more of beauty, after all! If you feel yourself the same way…
- Amazing Mahjongg 3D 1.2.6, Ancient Breath in the Modern Skin — The original Chinese Mahjongg game is thousands of years older than the chess. Its origins are attributed to the famous philosopher, Confucius, who traveled through China provinces near 500s BC, populating his doctrines, sights, and the game. He called the new game «Mahjongg» (hemp bird) simply because he loved birds. The traditional Mahjongg is very widely spread in its homeland. The game even appears to be a part…
- StarSkin, Get Their Best from Themes — Windows Themes, introduced by Windows XP, are really a cool thing. The bound of interface changeability was nearly completely broken. Nearly: StarSkin does one more step to the boundless interface theming. First of all, it allows changing appearance — of either the entire Windows or of individual elements — more comfortably, then Windows itself does. One or two clicks — and your environment is altered…
- Docker Sokoban. Another Brick in the Wall — «This brick we would move left… OK, here, we can move second brick up, three steps… But we will move it only one step, to leave place above it and then move the third brick one step right…. Ooops, the third brick is in the blind alley; I can’t move it more :(((((» The above strange text is my today’s morning thoughts. No, I’m not crazy (at least, not *completely…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- ClockWise 3.30b, Tune Your Time! — ClockWise is an ultimately wise time control center. It plays as an all-in-one smartly organized app, handling all accounting, scheduling, and informational functions related to dates and times. The program’s main window shows as much information as you really need in as small amount of screen space required to not bothering you. There is the Expanded View, showing you a large evident clock with a bit smaller…
- Video DVD Maker, Quit Running, Start Watching — DVD — what a great thing it is! It can store a whole lot of video. It takes so little of space on your shelf. It is so easy to share even through the regular mail. And it «lives» almost forever, compared to good old video tape. The only trouble I recall thinking of DVD is that it takes so much of effort to get a movie off a tape and burn…
- Startup Master 1.4, Letting Them Start? — There are applications that you use every day, and you start them when you need them. There are other applications, which you’d want to start with Windows (autostart) and let them run for as long as you keep using the computer; those are utility ones. And, certainly, there are applications that you DON’T want to start automatically; nevertheless, they just do it regardless to your opinion. You’d like to control that…
- Input Director, Quit Driving – Start Working! — If you’ve ever operated two, three or more computers at the same time, you will really appreciate this application. Remember getting tired of driving a chair through the room to reach another computer, fingers entangled because of jumping from one keyboard to another and feeling dizzy because of all that mess? Now imagine-the same two, three or more computers, same chair, same number of monitors, but… Just one keyboard…
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