- 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…
- 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…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- SMS-it! 3.6.6, Talking To Mobiles — There are two basic symbols of today’s information and communication technologies: obviously, a computer and a mobile phone. Unfortunately, they aren’t very friendly to each other: Typically you can establish connection between your own phone and computer, but connecting from a computer to a remote phone (and vice versa) is another story. Therefore, it’s like having two parallel communication worlds: computer networks versus…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- File Encrypter Rijndael 1.01.12, Secure Like the Government — In 1997, the United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the contest for the best block cipher, which would become the successor of the not-so-strong DES (Data Encryptio Algorithm). The government had a need for the new algorithm, which would be publicly known and well-tested with the community of cryptographists, proving its strength. The winner of the contest was to be named AES (Advanced Encryption Algorithm…
- HS CleanDisk Pro 5.73.7, Keep the System Clean — HS CleanDisk Pro is an ultimate system cleanup and tweaking software (it will give you much more than just a clean DISK). All the features are clean and simple, easy to understand for any user; but the overall feature count exceeds several dozens! First, HS CleanDisk Pro, of course, can make your disk clean. That means deleting all kinds of temporary and garbage files, which otherwise would pile up on your disk for years! Also, duplicate…
- AS HDTEMP WIN32 DLL 2.1 — Although modern hardware is built to stay for long and average MTBF values are quite impressive, some components are still fragile if placed in harsh conditions. Hard drives are crucial components of our computers, as they hold the most important — valuable information that costs much more than the medium is stored on. If you are developing an application that intensively uses the hard drive to retrieve, write or cache data…
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