- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- Landscapes Online Wallpaper — This may strike you every day. It comes unexpectedly and fills your mind. This thought seems to be simple, insignificant, and «I-have-more-important-tasks» dumb. But once you have allowed it in your mind, you won’t be able to escape. Whether you are a complete novice or old sysadmin, a pretty schoolgirl or severe ascetic — once in a while you do think, «WHY NOT CHANGE MY DESKTOP…
- 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…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- X2Net OneStore: Road to Efficiency — Our lives are packed with information, and every day its amount grows like a snowball. The further we go, the more of it we accumulate, and the more time we need to spend trying to organize and find a certain bit of it rather than to take advantage of it. The main reason for this organizational disaster is that the majority of our information comes from a range sources and is stored scattered all over…
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