- Art of Japanese Crosswords — It’s a game. Moreover, it’s a Japanese game. Created not so far (1987) by the Japanese puzzle-master Tetsuya Nishio, the game, however, soaked up the ancient culture and civilization. It’s an art. The pictures are simple, the drawing is logical, not creative; but when the puzzle is solved, you suddenly see some small piece of art created by your mind and your hands from the plain and unpretentious…
- PolyEdit 5.0 Worder than Word — PolyEdit can be called a «new word» (in some sense) in the word processing software. It provides rich functionality, pretty and consistent user interface and some non-trivial but very useful, tricky capabilities. The small setup file (only 1.5 MB to download) would really surprise you after the installation; all of the common features for the complex document editing that we are used to are here. Compare the program with…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0. Go in Pieces! — Puzzles are universal things. A 3-year old child loves playing her big colorful 3-piece puzzle, a 30-year old woman spends hours and days with a 3-thousand piece puzzle of a Scottish castle. A big colorful puzzle is a great present. However, a «personalized» (i.e. unique) puzzle is also stylish. Just imagine giving your girlfriend the cool puzzle, which, when solved, becomes a memory photo with you and her in some romantic…
- WordQuiz 5.4, Words Flashing! — There are numerous methods for studying foreign languages in general and for studying foreign words in particular. But (fortunately or unfortunately) still no word learning method exists that is more efficient than the simple «see word — try to translate». WordQuiz is an outstanding example of software embodying the old world learning idea. WordQuiz allows you to work with any dictionary in any language(s), either…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- 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…
- Crossword Express, Do You Have a Clue? — Love playing word puzzles? Solved everything you could find and ready to come up with your own brain-twisters? In this brief, you will learn how to turn the creation of word puzzles into pleasure and generate crosswords of any type, style or level of difficulty in a snap. Probably the most pleasant thing about this job is that you won’t have to twist your brain to get it done, as pretty much everything has…
- PolyEdit Word Processor - a powerful alternative to conventional word processing tools — If you have been growing increasingly irritated by the monstrous size and obvious excessiveness of each new version of Microsoft Word that you tried over the past few years, you have definitely wondered about the existence of efficient alternatives. If you can relate to the above, you should definitely check out PolyEdit Word Processor. The name of the software speaks for itself — it’s a versatile word processing application…
- DemoBuilder - a great way to present your ideas when words are not enough — There are a number of situations when the ability to demonstrate something visually is much more important than any description. You may be a university professor, a trainer or a developer willing to highlight the best qualities of your brand-new product — no matter who you are, a well-made demonstration or tutorial will efficiently complement your primary description and make for a much steeper learning curve…
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