- HotMail+ 2.0. Email Must Be Convenient — Hotmail.com, the free e-mail service operated by Microsoft, provides a good-quality e-mail service at no cost. It is a default e-mail provider your Windows operating system would suggest using during its first start. But unfortunately, Hotmail forces you to read and write e-mail messages through your web browser, which seems to be not a very convenient way; and that’s because of Hotmal’s failure to support some…
- OpenSebJ, Free Creative Sound — OpenSebJ is a free open-source sound mixer, especially good for creative experimenting and serious sampled music writing. OpenSebJ supports loading up to 255 sound samples from standard WAV files. Once loaded, the samples can be played and mixed all in the real time, using the software as a cool and cheap performance instrument. For each sample loaded, you can set individual settings of pan, volume and frequency for each of them, loop…
- Acoustic Labs Multitrack Plus, Being Creative! — Acoustic Labs Multitrack Plus is a unique combine for the musical and other sound-related creativity. The software unites the professional strength of its capabilities with the humanity of its understandable user interface. There are only three tabs/sections in the interface, but don’t let this small number to fool you: those three sections contain an entire sound studio! The first section, Track View, is the «bird’s eye»…
- Heroglyph 2.5, Creative, With Easy Motion — Trivial Facts: Creativity is the main activity of any human being. Computers have become the primary tool for today’s mere mortals’ creativity. Insufficiency: The majority of the creativity tools provided by computers (virtual tools) are just the «old real-world tools on steroids». It’s all about still «writing text, but having it pretty formatted», «drawing a picture, but beautifying it with cool…
- Interface Traffic Indicator 1.5.0.2, Just Monitoring — There’s a really simple idea lying under the Interface Traffic Indicator software, yet the software built on the idea is excellent. The idea is: You have a computer, or a network, where you’d want to monitor the amount of the network traffic. It can be done in many different ways with different levels of complexity and reliability, but the Interface Traffic Indicator uses probably the most basic and reliable…
- AELLA Mass Email Campaigner — When the number of your customers exceeds a certain threshold, individual approach suddenly becomes a task of ultimate complexity, be it a matter of sending product updates, company news, invitations or newsletters. This might be the point when you start thinking about using specialized software that will help automate the mailing process. Ideally, this software should be easy to install, configure and use. If you can relate…
- 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…
- 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…
- Email plus Voice for Microsoft Outlook - an easy way to say more in an email message — It often happens these days that you and the recipient of your messages (for instance, your client) live in completely different parts of the world. It creates certain difficulties for live communication and emails are not always informative enough to convey your thoughts. In this case, sending a sound recording solves the problem — you can quickly express your ideas, support them with attached documents and drop a couple of lines…
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