- Boulder Dash. Hello from the Past. — The game known as «Boulder Dash» or «Rockford» originates from 1984 — the good old times of ZX Spectrums, when one diskette, 16 colors and PC Speaker were really ENOUGH for playing really COOL games. Today’s people, with their «strategies» and «3D-shooters» can’t even imagine what it was. For Those Who Remember, as well as for Those Who Want to Feel what…
- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- Noki 1.4, Opening Nokia — Transferring essential data between a PC and a mobile phone isn’t an easy task. Typically, we have to get on with two «independent» information storages, the main (PC) and a mobile (phone) without any connections. Software provided by a phone manufacturer usually can’t fully solve the problem. For Nokia phones, we have Nokia PC Suite (made by Nokia), which can easily make *backup* of all…
- Amaze Copy — From the first glance, the issue of saving web pages to your hard drive doesn’t seem to be important at all. We all know the ‘File — Save as’ method and seem to be quite happy with it. However, have you ever given a thought to its obvious disadvantages? Sometimes it works and sometimes the browser apologetically notifies you that the page cannot be saved for some reason. Sometimes, when the page seems fully…
- PixClip, Clip It, Paste It, Save It — Does it make sense to learn or use those full-featured image processing monsters when all you need to do is to just clip a picture off the screen and then paste it to a document or save it to file? With the right tools, the job can be completed in just a few clicks. Check out the PixClip software by António Maria Torre do Valle. This handy «gadget» starts with your operating system and…
- Open Fitness 2.0, Caring For Your Body — Careful work with your own body requires, eventually, an extensive work with information. It doesn’t really matter whether you are an athlete with everyday workouts, or another sportsman, or you do some aerobic exercises, or you even just care about the diet, anyway you should know exactly what and how you did yesterday (a month ago, a year ago), and therefore you should plan what do today (tomorrow, next month). Of course, you can…
- EzPaste, Copy/Paste Made Easy — Excel and PowerPoint — these two often walk within one another’s reach but almost never do they meet one one’s desktop. It’s just way too hard to make them «talk», as hard as to copy something from Excel and paste it to PowerPoint, unless you’ve got EzPaste. The software fills in the communication gap between these office applications, providing the intuitive way to exchanging data…
- PhotoWatermark Professional - reliable protection from theft and unauthorized image copying — When you post images on the Internet, you must realize that this image will sooner or later be stolen (or borrowed, if you like it better). Digital content is easy to share and duplicate, so if you are concerned with your copyrights, you should think well in advance about a way to restrict or prevent unauthorized use of your intellectual property. When it comes to images, watermarking is the most efficient…
- A4 Video Converter - multi-format multimedia converter with eye-catching looks — If you are an active user downloading hundreds of video, music and image files from the Internet, your local network, your friends’ hard drives and other sources, you eventually face the problem of file conversion. Some file formats cannot be played on certain portable devices, some occupy less disk space and some cannot be opened with your favorite players or viewers — so all of these cases require conversion. Despite the great…
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