- 3D Load Packer: Box to Box, Box to Box — 3D Load Packer from Astrokette Algorithms is professional-strength planning software for rapid and accurate placement of various boxes inside containers. Assume you have a huge number of objects with the near-rectangular shapes and significant difference in sizes (boxes), and you need to load them into one or more containers (for transportation or storage). The common solution for the problem is to plan the placement of the objects…
- Spring Simulation 1.03. Physics in Electronics. — Science of Physics and Electronics are in the strange relation. On one side, Electronics is, certainly, only part and derivative of Physics, and the first cannot exist without the latter. One the other side, in the urban human being’s everyday life, day after day there is less room for the simple physics and more room for the complex electronics. Why would I have to think about the boiling process if my electric kettle boils water…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- Radiotracker 3 Platinum, Music From the Air — Radiotracker Platinum is a unique software suite for collecting your favorite music right from the «ether». Without the poesy, Radiotracker Platinum allows you to record music from Internet radio stations to supplement your own collection. But if all the program did was only «setting up the station and pressing the Record», we’d have no way to talk about uniqueness. But I will say it again —…
- 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…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- Duplicate File Finder .NET - a jolt of fresh air for a clogged hard drive — Since the majority of today’s hard drives are measured in hundreds of gigabytes or even in terabytes, we rarely pay attention to how we keep our data organized, if at all. A visit of a friend with a portable hard drive full of movies, photos and music or a LAN party leaves chaos on your data storage and you may be quite surprised to find several copies of the same folders and files…
- Realsoft 3D - a flexible and extremely powerful 3D tool with an attractive price — Although there are numerous 3D modeling and animation tools on the market, they generally tend to have a common flaw — they are either inexpensive and amateur or extremely expensive and excessively powerful for an average user. Finding the «golden mean» is a surprisingly hard task, especially if you want to have a fully-functional and modern tool and not overpay for the features you will never need…
- 3D Button Visual Editor - create awesome-looking 3D buttons for your site in seconds! — Clear, unambiguous and intuitive navigation is one of the key elements of a high-quality website. No matter if you are developing a brand new site or redesigning an existing one, you must take navigation seriously. If, however, you feel much more confident coding than creating your site graphics, there seems to be only two options: either outsource this part of the work or learn to use professional graphic editors, such…
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