- As Simple As Photoshop — The phrase above is not just a slogan. First, it is the name of the program I’d like to tell you about and second, the declaration of this program’s possibilities. You may think that Adobe Photoshop, which is an industrial standard for image processing, is rather hard to learn. Who said «I know it from cover to cover»? OK, this article is not for you. If you think so, you may need somebody…
- 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…
- Able Graphic Manager — Life is slipping by, but photos remain and remind us of the dearest moments. Everybody has his own favorite pictures. But what should you do if the photo is too small or too large for the frame? You may go to a distant photo center and pay a good amount of money for the result you may not like or buy an expensive program with a number of intricate features you may never use in your lifetime. What did…
- Sketsa SVG Editor 4.2.1, Modern Easy Graphics — Sketsa SVG Editor is modern lightweight cross-platform vector graphics editor with strong relation to the open format known as Scalable VectorGraphics or SVG. Sketsa combines easy user interface, familiar to any digital painter or designer, with deep capabilities to utilize the SVG ideology and features. Sketsa has modern tabbed interface, where you can edit any number of SVG files simultaneously. The application’s toolbox consists…
- Interface Traffic Indicator 1.5.0.2, Just Monitoring — There’s a really simple idea lying under the Interface Traffic Indicator software, yet the software built on the idea is excellent. The idea is: You have a computer, or a network, where you’d want to monitor the amount of the network traffic. It can be done in many different ways with different levels of complexity and reliability, but the Interface Traffic Indicator uses probably the most basic and reliable…
- MemoryShow Pro 1.1, Brilliant Effect of Easy Idea — Half an hour ago, I thought there’s nothing better for browsing photos than the good old dumb viewers, which just take and show your photos one-by-one (by a key press or automatically — doesn’t matter here). Half an hour ago, I downloaded and installed MemoryShow Pro. Now, guess, what have I been doing since that moment? Most of all, it was like a slow pleasant meditation; I have reviewed an entire…
- Gadgetbar Toolbar, Preserve Security, Boost Productivity, Improve Communication — What, in your opinion, would be necessary to maintain one’s computer in the proper, working condition? Are you thinking of a long list of expensive utilities? Or, maybe, guessing about a special university degree? — Believe it or not, all you’d need to have in order to get the job done is a bit of faith and a one-Meg setup file for Gadgetbar Toolbar. It helps, protects…
- OLEDB Direct - a great set of COM interfaces for database-driven applications — When you are creating a database-driven application, interaction with the database becomes one of the key pieces of the overall functionality that requires significant time to implement. If you are using multiple data sources, this task becomes even more complex due to the complexity of database connections and related routines. That is the exactly the case when a universal database interface would come very handy. If you are exploring the…
- AutoWallpaper - a kaleidoscope of wallpapers with stunning visual effects — If you are a proud owner of a shop or a multi-monitor system, you may eventually want to use your monitors to decorate your display case or workplace. A single panoramic screensaver or synchronized switching of several wallpapers would be ideal for a vivid demonstration, but setting it up using standard OS means is quite problematic, if not impossible. If you would like to breathe new life…
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