- ConteXt: A completely different sight at DBMS — ConteXt is effective, highly scalable, and industrial-strength DBMS with an innovative data model. Rapid application development environment, which is included in ConteXt, allows you to speed up the development of complex data-manipulating applications. The powerful, but lightweight, engine makes possible any usage of the system, from embedded one-user DB to large solutions with hundreds of simultaneous connections. ConteXt is meant for…
- True Launch Bar 3.2. Effective Environment Embodied — A typical computer user, when he becomes a bit «advanced» (which means, he uses applications beyond Word and Minesweeper), suffers a lot from the ineffective standard Windows environment (Desktop). Windows lacks Information on the system state, lacks Control over running processes, and lacks Tools in user’s hands. To perform, view or change Something under Windows, we would need to do a lot of useless…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- Launch Pivot, The Power On Your Desktop — Wouldn’t it be just great to do all (or almost all) of our computer tasks with just a single keystroke or click of the mouse and not have to wonder through a million of clicks on the Start menu? Check this out: From this moment on, to look at a collection of your new photos, run an office application or your favorite computer game, search the Web or listen to your favorite…
- HS WinPerfect 5.73, Make Your System A Perfect One! — Many of us can feel that as time goes by, our Windows operating system becomes slower and slower. The disks are filled up with the garbage; some weird applications are being run without our intention, and so on. Unfortunately, Windows’ tools for analyzing the system and providing user with the necessary information are very poor. And even worse, the information that does reach user’s attention is not intended for an «average…
- Macro Scheduler 9.2.01e, Don't Bother Your Hands — A hundred years ago, machines first arose to automate routine operations that humans didn’t want to do. It is now the 21st century, and what do we see? How many exactly identical, exactly routine «point-and-click», «switch-and-type», «drag-and-drop», «cut-and-paste» operations do you perform on the desktop of your computer every day? A lot, I guess. But shouldn’t the…
- HandyFile Find and Replace: Text Workbench — Imagine creating a large website consisting of dozens or hundreds of pages with the company’s name topping each of them and lots of identical links in the HTML code. Now imagine that your client urgently requests that these links be modified due to the change of the site address and that the company’s name has to be written in a slightly different manner due to recent organizational changes. Doing…
- RQ Search and Replace, Needles in a Haystack: Found, Replaced — What can be easier than editing a file? — Simply open it and replace a block of text with a better one. Well, true, if there’s just one file to be edited. But doing the same with a few or, even better, a whole bunch of files that require the same replacement? Then you’ll need something like a batch editing tool. A great choice is RQ Search and Replace. What it does…
- 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…
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