- Road Rush 1.7.0. Rushes the Roads — This world is cruel. At the same time, it is generous. It is cruel because it is full of rules, laws, and morals — you can’t «just do» some things you’d want to do. Yet it is generous because there are many opportunities to feel all you want through artificial alternative realities like books or TV. Or computer games. You can choose your world (game) virtually…
- Radio Explorer 2.6.3. Browsing the Ether. — While having more and more of those new sexy digital media every day, we still remain attached to our good-old «real-world» ones. This is true for books (can those e-books touch us like those made of the real paper?), but this is ten times true for the radio. This good old media, ether, diversity of stations, round-the-clock voices — what can digits and the Internet oppose to it? OK, the digital world has nothing…
- x Chat Free. Just Talk! — There are many types of how people can communicate over network. Sometimes you need a huge collaborative system; other times you bet on old remote and reliable protocols; and sometimes you need «just to talk». If you and your interlocutors are all in the same local network, if you want to communicate without any setup difficulties (like installing and setting up servers), but with a certain level of flexibility (much better…
- Vypress Tonecast 1.3, Turn On The Radio! — Local computer networks (both office and home ones) have brought an interesting medium to us. Before networks have entered our lives, nobody could experiment with this kind of communication, where a huge crowd of people was firmly interconnected into one tight substance and each person could reach another one with any information in a second. Since LAN has become a mainstream, a great variety of software appeared to utilize this…
- SMS-it! 3.6.6, Talking To Mobiles — There are two basic symbols of today’s information and communication technologies: obviously, a computer and a mobile phone. Unfortunately, they aren’t very friendly to each other: Typically you can establish connection between your own phone and computer, but connecting from a computer to a remote phone (and vice versa) is another story. Therefore, it’s like having two parallel communication worlds: computer networks versus…
- News by Keywords, Relevant News in the Relevant Place — Since desktop widgets/gadgets (those small rectangles, each having one handy function) gained their popularity on a great deal of platforms, like an explosion they turned the software world upside down. Thousands of programmers got obsessed with the idea of «embedding a gadget» into virtually any existing software, often without thinking of the usefulness of those «weird» things. But no doubt, there are areas where the…
- Trust Toolbar — Trust and reliability is something we strive to find in both real and virtual worlds. This is by far one of the greatest problems in our lives, but it truly becomes a challenge of ultimate complexity in the exponentially growing online space. Hundreds of millions of websites, hordes of hackers, credit card fraud, meticulously crafted website clones used by perpetrators for phishing — all these factors make…
- RoboMatic X1 2.0, Someone To Talk To — RoboMatic X1 is your new software companion, which incorporates the modern approach to «talking artificial intelligence» and can entertain you and execute some commands and orders. The software envelope, in which RoboMatic X1 comes, is pretty beautiful and usable itself. You can enter as a guest for «just talking» or register as a frequent user and companion, so RoboMatic X1 can get used to your…
- StationPlaylist 4.12, Professional Radio On Your Own — StationPlaylist is a software suit ready for professional radio design and broadcasting. Surprisingly full-features package (in fact, StationPlaylist is all software you need to have your own radio station), and surprisingly easy and pleasant to use at the same time. StationPlaylist suit consists of two packages: a «design» part (StationPlaylist Creator) and a «run» part (StationPlaylist Studio), though each of the…
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