- 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…
- All about RFID - Training CD — Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a relatively new technology. But it is rapidly becoming popular. This technology for noncontact identification of goods, people and vehicles has many evident advantages over the more traditional schemes of identification (like infra-red barcode readers and so on). Virtually the only drawback of transfaring business processes to using RFID is the fact that some technical skills are required. The bad news…
- CD-Cover Editor 3.0, Covers Like Breeze — Nowadays, almost any computer has the capability to write CD or DVD. But for the discerning of the written media, most of us still use only one known option: CD markers and hand-written labels. When you just need to bring data from one computer to another, that’s more than enough; however, when you want to store your documents or music archive, create a family photo album or a presentation for an investor, you…
- PixClip, Clip It, Paste It, Save It — Does it make sense to learn or use those full-featured image processing monsters when all you need to do is to just clip a picture off the screen and then paste it to a document or save it to file? With the right tools, the job can be completed in just a few clicks. Check out the PixClip software by António Maria Torre do Valle. This handy «gadget» starts with your operating system and…
- NAntBuilder 1.1, Handy Cover for Handy Tool — The make tool was cool. But this «was» is twenty years old. Today’s programmers don’t cherish the old make not because they are dumb, but because they live in the new time with a new mind and new habits. Today’s build and automation tools are XML-based, because XML is universal. .Net environments and .Net programmers are in love with free and open-source NAnt tool. But, as modern developers, we want not only…
- 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…
- Total Privacy, Covering the Computer's Hill of Achilles — What are the first things that get into your mind when you hear words like «privacy» or «security»? Is that something like «password protection», «data encryption» and other hard-to-comprehend stuff? Well, how about getting down to earth and looking right under your nose. Things you don’t care about, such as cookies, browser cache, temporary and log files in a spiteful person’s hand can cause damage…
- CD-Cover Editor 3.0 - the simplest way of adding style to your CD or DVD collection — If you start burning at least several disks each month, you will enter the next year with an impressive stack of CD’s and DVD’s containing music, movies, backups and other data. If you don’t label each and every of them properly, finding the necessary compilation will be more than difficult. Apparently, a magic marker can help, but not too much. If you are seeking a way to create nice-looking CD and DVD…
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