- 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…
- Extremely Awesome Lotto, Increasing The Chances — It is a common opinion that any «fair» lottery gives you a chance to win with any number, but in fact your chances to guess are as low as «one of all number series». It is almost true. But, after thinking about it thoroughly, we can understand that by analysing previous lottery winnings, you can increase you chances in several times! Such kind of analysis can show up some…
- Global Network Inventory, Examining The Network — Any computer network administrator has a large responsibility area concerning all network computers configuration. This area includes both hardware and software configurations, and control of all them is really important for network safety, reliability and stability. But as soon as the number of computers in the network exceeds about 7, no administrator, even a genius one, can control them all timely without an automating tool. There are…
- Web Form Anti-Spam 1.00, Don't Let 'em Any Chance! — Spam and other automated and unwanted messages are a pain. The most painful aspect of the problem is that there is no 100% reliable method to fight the spam completely. But the progress is moving on, and today there are some hope-giving approaches; one of them is «do not let spammers know your contacts». But, if spammers can’t know them, how can others contact you? The trick is: professional spammers…
- Absolute Farkle 3.1.3, Fortuity and Fervour — Farkle is a dice game which originated in folklore. In fact, the game is very special because successful play is a result of both chance and foresight: you have a huge degree of freedom during your turn; the game rules describe many variants of scoring. It’s up to you to decide which of six dices to score and which continue to throw further. Only foresight and intuition can help you: if you stop…
- Intellexer Summarizer, Stay Focused! — «Readers are leaders», — they say. However if you keep reading for hours, you can just get overloaded with information and «lose the sight of the forest in the midst of the trees». It would be nice to have just brief summaries of the humongous texts you are to go through and get the clear picture of what’s in there and whether or not you need it for your work. Believe…
- Race Lap Timer Professional TE 5.4 — Specific professional software typically requires from its author much higher attention to detail and knowledgebase workthrough than to «general-purpose utilities». But there are even more special cases, like software for lap timing — this kind of program has to be very precise in all its features. Race Lap Timer Professional TE is a serious, well thought-out lap timing solution and therefore it is easy and pleasant…
- Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor - the shortest way to keyboard mastery — The ability to type quickly today is not just a benefit — it’s an essential need of any active user. If you type quickly, you raise your performance to a whole new level. Long emails are no longer a burden that you have to live with, IM chats become as efficient as phone conversations and, which is most important, you can finally concentrate on what you are typing instead of how you are…
- ShiftN – straighten up your photos in a couple of mouse clicks! — Although modern digital photography has reached an amazing level of advancement and keeps surprising us every now and then when new products or concepts are presented, it is still based on the same optical principles as conventional film photography. Affordable mainstream point-and-shoot cameras and even professional SLR cameras without appropriate lenses suffer from common problems, one of the major ones being the distortion of vertical lines…
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