- 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…
- 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…
- Auto Power-On Shut-Down. Set the Time. — No one can deny that it is really convenient to have a powered on computer when you are ready to work or not to get up early in the morning to shut it down when, for example, all downloads are complete. Auto Power-on Shut-down can make your life convenient and easy. Auto Power-on Shut-down is software that gives you an opportunity to auto-startup your computer and automatically log on to the system…
- 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…
- 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…
- Setup Builder 6.04, Which Sets the Things Up — Any respect-worth program should help user not to think «where it is and how to run it»; once your user has downloaded the software from the Internet (or bought it on a CD), he should be only few clicks away from having the program running. In the simplest case, of course, you can say something like «just unpack the files and take them to any place you wish», but it prevents your program from the…
- OLEDB Direct - a great set of COM interfaces for database-driven applications — When you are creating a database-driven application, interaction with the database becomes one of the key pieces of the overall functionality that requires significant time to implement. If you are using multiple data sources, this task becomes even more complex due to the complexity of database connections and related routines. That is the exactly the case when a universal database interface would come very handy. If you are exploring the…
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