- 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…
- StatPlus 3.6.1. Stats for Everybody — The «statistical package» class of software is widely known to be the «thing not for everyone». Such programs typically require long period of learning, reading manuals, training and so on before you can actually start using them. Thus, a «regular» computer user needing one or two simple statistical instruments per a month, cannot afford using those huge, overloaded, unfriendly packages. On the other hand…
- Spring Simulation 1.03. Physics in Electronics. — Science of Physics and Electronics are in the strange relation. On one side, Electronics is, certainly, only part and derivative of Physics, and the first cannot exist without the latter. One the other side, in the urban human being’s everyday life, day after day there is less room for the simple physics and more room for the complex electronics. Why would I have to think about the boiling process if my electric kettle boils water…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- 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…
- True BoxShot 1.6.3, Excellent Virtual Boxes — The so-called «box shots» (images of 3D boxes with a logo and a description) is a haut ton of software vendors. But, despite the apparent simplicity of the task, a surprisingly small number of websites can take pride for their box shots. The problem is that the «shoot the real box» way requires a great deal of post-processing of the shots (not saying that it requires a real box…
- 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…
- Internet Connection Counter 7.1 – comprehensive traffic statistics made easy — Despite the advent of the new millennium, the bigger part of the worldwide Internet public still cannot feel the bliss of having access to unlimited network connections for a fixed monthly fee. These people, unfortunately, have to pay for their Internet traffic and monitor their surfing expenditures. If you are one of these people and are seeking a way to monitor your traffic consumption, Internet Connection Counter will be an ideal…
- Bluff Titler DX9 - an easy way to add impressive 3D titles to your videos — If you use your camcorder a lot to make movies about your family, parties, vacations and other memorable events and have lots of great footage waiting to be edited and added to your collection, you must be looking for a way to exercise your creativity and add a couple of cool things to your home-made films. Every movie starts with an introduction of some soft, so if you still at a crossroads about…
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