- Art of Japanese Crosswords — It’s a game. Moreover, it’s a Japanese game. Created not so far (1987) by the Japanese puzzle-master Tetsuya Nishio, the game, however, soaked up the ancient culture and civilization. It’s an art. The pictures are simple, the drawing is logical, not creative; but when the puzzle is solved, you suddenly see some small piece of art created by your mind and your hands from the plain and unpretentious…
- AIT_Trains 1.8. Train on the Trains — AIT_Trains I want to talk about today is a dangerous thing. It is a very effective and pitiless time-killer: I’ve spent several days with those trains, railways, freights, rail-stations; and I’m afraid those days were not the last portion of my time stolen by this game. So, read on only if you are positive that you can stand the temptation. OK, several words about the game’s plot. You have your…
- Fast EBook Compiler. Book-for-Sale! — If you feel like a writer (fiction writer, technical book writer or even cookbook writer) you can not easily turn your writing into money. The fact is the «traditional» publishers are conservative and are stuck to «writing stars». Even if a paper publisher would be interested in your writings, the contract he would offer to a young unknown author would not be very liberal or even fair. But…
- Mimoza 4.09.3, The Scheduling Kung Fu — A typical university scheduling is a very complicated logics and logistics task. The reason is the number of objects «interoperating» with each other (teachers, classes, rooms, courses), each with its own properties, and a number of factors need to be taken into account. Course length, teachers’ abilities, teachers’ vacations and global holidays, room availability, sudden changes… Number of combinations arising…
- MultiExtractor 2.70a, Media from Deep Internals — How often do you think «I’d like to have an icon set of this program for my use? I like the picture; may I extract it, please? The sound in presentation is cool, I want to get it,» and so on? Let’s ask more concrete question: do you want to have an ability to extract media (animations, pictures, sounds) from almost any complex format containing them such…
- Museum of New Psychedelic Art — Although screensavers only occasionally appear on our displays, they greatly add to the aesthetic appeal of our computers, especially now, when the functional role of screensavers has drastically diminished due to the overall dominance of LCD monitors. Standard Windows screensavers are not even nearly as impressive as commercial products available on the market. If you are looking for a bright, eye-catching and unusual screensaver, check out…
- Perfect Clock, It's an Art — Numerous times a day we look at the clock — on the wall, on the desk, on our computer desktop… And what do we see? — A pair of arrows in a circle or a few digits around the blinking dots? Perfect Clock gives a whole different idea on clock and timing, presenting time as a perfect combination of punctuality, power and art. Perfect Clock is a very flexible desktop…
- Mandala Painter, An Entertaining Art — Even the prettiest flower on earth is actually a great combination of simpler shapes (petals), symmetrically repeated around the circle. This is also true about other «tricky» masterpieces — snowflakes, shining stars, and even the most unrealistic designs capturing our eye through the glass of a kaleidoscope. Too sad — all of those exciting figures soon just pass away, and the best we can do about that…
- 15 Puzzle: Endless Fun of Mind Rating — No one knows for sure when and where the 15 Puzzle has been invented. But the invention was truly a success: it’s hard to think of any other puzzle game that has gained such popularity. The whole world, both children and adults, have been playing it even these days. The idea of the game is to sort the 15 randomly placed numbered square pieces in the ascending order without taking them out of the 16-cell box. But although…
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