- 1001 Lines. Train Your Brain — Can you imagine the approximate amount of time people spend playing the «simple» games like Minesweeper or Tetris still by much exceeds the time spent on playing the «cool and modern» strategies and MMORPG? You aren’t surprised or may say, «OK, the simple games always would be more popular as they are _simple_.» It’s the point, but it’s not the complete picture. The simple logical games are…
- Cutter 1.42. Let Your Computer Compute — Back in the sixties, there were many scientists and journalists (both pessimistic and optimistic ones) supposing computers in near future would do artistic work. They still don’t, so, in today’s world there is a widespread pragmatic sight: computer certainly can’t do the art, but a human artist with a computer can sometimes do outstanding things, primarily because a computer would automate all the repetitive and…
- OscilloMeter 5.57. Computer As Tool — Many years have passed since computers were invented as tools for scientific research and engineering tasks. The lucky invention has been widely accepted; it has changed our world and the course of progress completely. Now computers play the role of rather an «everyday tech», «personal communicator» or «stationery» than a serious engineering tool. Sometimes, we don’t even remember that…
- EnTren - Learn Through Fun. — EnTren is the ingenious foreign language trainer you’ll never get bored with. It is very easy and funny to work with, and through the game-like process all your foreign language skills will seamlessly grow to a much higher level. The most valuable thing is that many skills (like grammar understanding, working vocabulary, speech) are trained simultaneously, in complex. The other goodie is that there is no boredom in the…
- FLV Downloader 1.01, See It On Your Own Computer — Suddenly, flash video became the heart of modern Internet. Rare blogs or commercial sites can live without those rectangle with «play» and «pause» buttons. YouTube and sites like it are incredibly popular, the thing nobody could imagine two years ago. The only problem with a Flash video in the Internet is the Internet itself: that means, if you want to see again the movie you saw last week, you should have the page…
- 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…
- Auto Power-on & Shut-down - flexible work schedule for your computer — Wouldn’t it be great if your computer automatically started at 7.30, connected to the Internet, checked your mail, downloaded fresh news and turned on your favorite «morning» music all by itself? Does that sound like science fiction? If you believe it’s not possible, you are very, very wrong. Auto Power-on & Shut-down is a fantastic piece of software that can do all that and much more…
- Antispam Scanner, Get Rid of It Before It Gets to Your Computer — Getting rid of SPAM messages by hand often becomes a job of its own, which takes an essential amount of our productive time. Using the automatic SPAM removal tools, on the other hand, kills a great deal of valid e-mail messages, which hurts the business not less than the waste of time. Where’s the golden mean between quickly getting rid of unsolicited e-mail and keeping valid messages? Antispam Scanner might be just what…
- 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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