- CS Desktop Notes v 3.6, Stick Them *Inside* the Monitor — Those pieces of paper, swarmed all over your monitor, desk, keyboard, walls around, and doors and windows — yes, those motley things with illegible, crooked pen marks, which you call «sticky notes». Aren’t they really ugly? Don’t you want to have a different kind of notes on your Windows desktop — those that you could fill out with neat, printed letters, those that you could copy text to and from? They would…
- 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…
- Landscapes Online Wallpaper — This may strike you every day. It comes unexpectedly and fills your mind. This thought seems to be simple, insignificant, and «I-have-more-important-tasks» dumb. But once you have allowed it in your mind, you won’t be able to escape. Whether you are a complete novice or old sysadmin, a pretty schoolgirl or severe ascetic — once in a while you do think, «WHY NOT CHANGE MY DESKTOP…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- TurboNote+ 6.2, Stick 'Em All! — There is one interesting and valuable kind of software: Programs, which grow from some small «real-world goodie» imitation, but then, enriched with all the abilities today’s computer provides, these programs suddenly become multi-purpose, useful and competitive software suits. They are the example of how a «small real-world idea» can be re-born as «serious business application». TurboNote+ is a good example…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- 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…
- Konst Pinger: Are They Online? — Or, «Who are they?», «Where are they at?», and «How do you connect to them?» — When it comes to investigating a certain network address, you’ll want to find out everything about that host. With Konst Pinger — a multi-purpose network utility — you will be able to get all that and even more. The application can ping, trace-route hosts and retrieve the hosts? Whois…
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