- ApacheConf 5.0 Bring the Usability to Features — Apache HTTP server is known to be the most popular, reliable, and modern Web server. The program?s only «defect» seems to be its ultimate unixoidism: despite its cross-platform nature, the Web server gets all of its settings through one huge «httpd.conf» file, and even if you need to change one sma-a-a-ll thing in the settings, you would still need to read through all 1000 lines of httpd.conf and much more…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- Antamedia Internet Caffe 5.6, Customers Would Be Happy! — Antamedia Internet Caffe suite has amazed me. Really. For a system administrator with an average experience and common sense, there are obvious minimal requirements for the Internet café management. As well, it’s obvious that creating software that would meet at least those minimal requirements is a rather hard job. Even harder is to create something «more than the minimum», capable of handling non-obvious cases, and…
- Access Folders. Useful File Dialog Utility For Windows. — It is really important to keep all of your folders and sub-folders within an easy reach if you want to get your job done fast and easily, waste no time and efforts on the furious mouse clicking trying to find what you need and not get nervous every time when your search is vain. Access Folders can easily handle all of these problems. Access Folders is a unique tool that can help you find all of your folders and…
- Tordex Wheel 1.0, Heroes of Usability — There are always many different opinions on the usability of operating systems (which means the ease and pleasure of use, ease of understanding, and many other things). Each OS has its fans, critics and pragmatics; basically, each solution has its pros and contras related to its user interface. The first versions of Windows, despite the wide adoption, were highly criticized for the lack of usability; over the last years, Windows has passed through major…
- OTK Custom dbinstaller 2, Database Comes Along — Have you ever installed an application that required a database, but had no database in the setup file? What a hassle it was to find the database software, install it on the computer and finally configure it the way that it would actually work with that software! When the preparation was finally over, no strength or desire to continue with the software had remained in the body. And all that had happened just because the…
- Customer Backup – a solid foundation for establishing great relationships with your clients — Any business, be it a one-man company or a large enterprise, depends on clients. Constant communication with your customers, including newsletters, announcements, special offers and follow-ups, helps increase sales and improve customer loyalty, which is extremely important today, when competition and customer mobility is high. If your customer base is growing and you start experiencing problems with keeping in touch with all of them…
- Turning the Face to the User. DJ Java Decompiler — Don’t be disappointed when instead a mono-color alphanumeric screen with a lot of mysterious characters, which make sense only to those “chosen” ones called “hackers” or “coders”, and control commands hidden behind the never-would-guess keyboard shortcuts you will see a feature-rich GUI-based editor with colored source code of your application loaded in it. — That’s DJ Java…
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