- ScreenVirtuoso 1.91: A real virtuoso of "learning by looking" — Explaining something to somebody is really a big problem. But to explain how to use a complicated program to a user sitting on the opposite coast is even a greater problem. It would be much easier to explain everything if there were an opportunity to demonstrate an example. But, you can’t travel 300 miles away, or more, to show somebody that «All you need to save your…
- 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…
- PolyEdit 5.0 Worder than Word — PolyEdit can be called a «new word» (in some sense) in the word processing software. It provides rich functionality, pretty and consistent user interface and some non-trivial but very useful, tricky capabilities. The small setup file (only 1.5 MB to download) would really surprise you after the installation; all of the common features for the complex document editing that we are used to are here. Compare the program with…
- 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…
- WordQuiz 5.4, Words Flashing! — There are numerous methods for studying foreign languages in general and for studying foreign words in particular. But (fortunately or unfortunately) still no word learning method exists that is more efficient than the simple «see word — try to translate». WordQuiz is an outstanding example of software embodying the old world learning idea. WordQuiz allows you to work with any dictionary in any language(s), either…
- TheSage 1.4.0, Language Reference Complete — TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus (or just TheSage for short) is a good demonstration of how slick and innovative user interface can contain a full and complicated reference and still preserve the ease-of-use and strength of an information reference. At first glance, TheSage is «just» a dictionary. You enter a word, the exact meaning of which you want to know, then press Enter and obtain the…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- Crossword Express, Do You Have a Clue? — Love playing word puzzles? Solved everything you could find and ready to come up with your own brain-twisters? In this brief, you will learn how to turn the creation of word puzzles into pleasure and generate crosswords of any type, style or level of difficulty in a snap. Probably the most pleasant thing about this job is that you won’t have to twist your brain to get it done, as pretty much everything has…
- PolyEdit Word Processor - a powerful alternative to conventional word processing tools — If you have been growing increasingly irritated by the monstrous size and obvious excessiveness of each new version of Microsoft Word that you tried over the past few years, you have definitely wondered about the existence of efficient alternatives. If you can relate to the above, you should definitely check out PolyEdit Word Processor. The name of the software speaks for itself — it’s a versatile word processing application…
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