- 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…
- 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…
- Able Graphic Manager — Life is slipping by, but photos remain and remind us of the dearest moments. Everybody has his own favorite pictures. But what should you do if the photo is too small or too large for the frame? You may go to a distant photo center and pay a good amount of money for the result you may not like or buy an expensive program with a number of intricate features you may never use in your lifetime. What did…
- Sketsa SVG Editor 4.2.1, Modern Easy Graphics — Sketsa SVG Editor is modern lightweight cross-platform vector graphics editor with strong relation to the open format known as Scalable VectorGraphics or SVG. Sketsa combines easy user interface, familiar to any digital painter or designer, with deep capabilities to utilize the SVG ideology and features. Sketsa has modern tabbed interface, where you can edit any number of SVG files simultaneously. The application’s toolbox consists…
- iTAB, Real Look for Your Virtual Music Collection — Remember, in the good old days, when the most advanced high-tech player was a huge boom-box, you opened a CD rack at home, and dozens of your favorite artists’ eyes stared at you from those CD cases, pictures taken during their feature concerts pleased your sight, and lyrics of your favorite songs recalled the most precious melodies in your memory? Things have worsened with the advent of digital technology. Now, if you open…
- The Collector's Crown, To Be Proud of Your Collection — You surely do want to index your very special collection and show it off in the best possible shapes and colors. Picture frames that look like the standard operating windows won’t work as they don’t please the eye. So, when choosing the collection management software, you do want to pick something a little more attractive, something comparable to the value of your collection. This is where The…
- Potolook, Expanding Outlook's Horizons — Despite that Outlook (not the «Express» edition) is certainly a great organizer, as an e-mail client it’s draggling far behind its companions in the field, as all it can offer is basically sending and receiving messages, not speaking of a bunch of kiddy options like message previewing, which, after all, exposes computers to malware threats. Oh, if it only could… This thought of mine was…
- 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…
- Vista Style Elements Icon Set, Do You Have a Dream? — As a developer, don’t you have a dream that the day will come when users will be able to comprehend the logics of your programs without your assistance, and your technical support service will finally take a break from those round-the-day silly questions like «How do I go around this menu?» or «What is that button for?» or «What do I do next?» Who knows when that GUI…
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