- Token Frenzy. Small Car in the Big City. — "OK", you thought after reading title, "just one more street racing or something like this. What the interesting they can offer me?" And you have missed it com-ple-te-ly! Because Token Frenzy game, is, first of all, *not* a racing of any kind (though there *is* the car and the road); and, second, it is *really interesting*. What you need to accomplish this game's levels is not feverish button-pressing to avoid walls and other cars and run to finish. Token Frenzy is much trickier thing, and…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into account the amount of time they waste when to find a byte of frequently-used data…
- xplorer2 1.7.0.5, Classic Goodies and New Strengths — File Managers have a long history. Both their strengths and weaknesses have been strongly associated with the operating system they had been running under. In the old times, inexperienced users often thought Norton Commander *was* DOS; nowadays, they think Windows Explorer *is* Windows. The reasons for that are natural: file manager is the most frequently used utility in any OS. But, hear me, guys, Windows Explorer is not your obligatory tool…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- 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…
- ProxyShell Hide IP 2.2.1, I Have Nothing To Show — Internet as a communication and information medium is all about the anonymity. Some tend to see it as a «defect» (and even as a «critical defect» sometimes), but the fact is: the Internet has changed our world, and the Internet anonymity has added a great value to this change. But the other fact is: Internet anonymity is not full. There is a numerical IP address assigned to your…
- Live Desktop - remote assistance from any location — How many times over the past year did you have to explain a simple task to a computer novice on the phone? And even if you thought that the task was extremely easy and self-explanatory, your vis-à-vis probably had a totally different opinion and couldn’t grasp your ideas. When verbal instructions are no longer efficient, you end up driving over to the unfortunate user and fixing the problem in a couple of clicks…
- Blocker Plains - a great version of the all-times classic — A lot of people play games and thoroughly enjoy it. Some prefer serious titles that take weeks or months to beat and some like simple and fun «time killers» that can be started and stopped at any time and that can be played during short breaks between tasks. If you are a gamer of the second type and like playing simple arcade games just for fun, check out Blocker Plains — another great incarnation…
- AllNetic Working Time Tracker - simple and efficient personal time tracking — Those of us who get paid for the time we spend on our customers’ tasks know well what a problem it is to keep track of our hours and then create accurate reports for the clients. Of course, you can submit approximate values or use your own wristwatch as a meter, but these methods can hardly be called elegant or accurate. If seeking a tool that will take the time tracking burden off your shoulders, look…
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