- StarSkin, Get Their Best from Themes — Windows Themes, introduced by Windows XP, are really a cool thing. The bound of interface changeability was nearly completely broken. Nearly: StarSkin does one more step to the boundless interface theming. First of all, it allows changing appearance — of either the entire Windows or of individual elements — more comfortably, then Windows itself does. One or two clicks — and your environment is altered…
- 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…
- GenealogMap 4.01. Genealogy and Fun — First: Genealogy studies are useful, interesting and exciting. Is it the study of your own family («Grandma, do you remember your grandma’s birth place? I should know!») Or that can be the biography of Great Poet’s grandchildren (irrespectively of who the «Great Poet» was). Or that might be some less-known Civil War hero’s life. Collecting the data, names, dates, and cities, organizing…
- 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…
- BookPrintXP 2.1.03, More Printing Fun — During the last 5 or even 10 years, home and office printers have become good enough to print something with the «professional» level. I’m not talking about boring reports now (150 pages, 3 copies for your boss to review in 3 minutes and throw away) or work documents to «work with» (because you get headache because of your monitor but still need to work). I’m talking about things that are…
- ChatterBlocker 1.1, Friendly Audio Space — If your main working tool is your own mind then concentration is your friend and noise is your enemy and the enemy of your concentration. Though the concept of «noise» is not that easy: quiet conversation of two colleagues is much more annoying than loud sounds of rain and thunder. So, when you have to work in not-so-quiet conditions (like working in a huge office with many different people with different…
- STAR Exam 1.2, Friendly and Playful Examiner — Presumably, the best type of teachers are those who know how to use games in their work. Of course, this doesn’t mean things like «when you are done with your homework, I will let you play football» — nothing like that. I’m talking about the cases where the entire process of studying something becomes a game, and the higher level you’ve completed successfully, the higher is the level of your…
- Matryoshka 2.40, Colouring and Fun! — Matryoshka doll is one of Russian traditional handycrafts; typically it means a set of nested dolls, each one made of two parts. The Matryoshka game takes from this famous doll the idea of nesting, and makes a funny puzzle from the idea. Not very doll-like, so don’t think it’s a «game for girls», even a mature mind will find a task worth thinking here! At the beginning of the game you have…
- Magic Camera, Amaze Your Friends — They say, one picture tells a thousand of words. In video chats, the picture comes from a webcam hooked up to the computer. But where is one supposed to get the picture if the webcam is still in the store? If buying a new device is not an option at the moment, give a try to Magic Camera. The software adds a virtual camera to your Windows system and allows using it the way…
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