- 1001 Lines. Train Your Brain — Can you imagine the approximate amount of time people spend playing the «simple» games like Minesweeper or Tetris still by much exceeds the time spent on playing the «cool and modern» strategies and MMORPG? You aren’t surprised or may say, «OK, the simple games always would be more popular as they are _simple_.» It’s the point, but it’s not the complete picture. The simple logical games are…
- AIT_Trains 1.8. Train on the Trains — AIT_Trains I want to talk about today is a dangerous thing. It is a very effective and pitiless time-killer: I’ve spent several days with those trains, railways, freights, rail-stations; and I’m afraid those days were not the last portion of my time stolen by this game. So, read on only if you are positive that you can stand the temptation. OK, several words about the game’s plot. You have your…
- All about RFID - Training CD — Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a relatively new technology. But it is rapidly becoming popular. This technology for noncontact identification of goods, people and vehicles has many evident advantages over the more traditional schemes of identification (like infra-red barcode readers and so on). Virtually the only drawback of transfaring business processes to using RFID is the fact that some technical skills are required. The bad news…
- AptiQuiz 1.42c, Just Testing — AptiQuiz is all about creating, taking and reviewing knowledge tests. It has enough but not annoying level of features, which makes the learning-to-use process fast and easy. AptiQuiz has multiple-user system, where one user (Administrator) has all privileges, and others can have different sets of privileges. Typically, you would have some users (teachers) allowed to create tests and review results, and others (they would be students) only allowed to take…
- Personal Chess Trainer 2007, And Now, It's Possible! — The chess game is one of the most ancient, non-trivial and brain-changing game since the humanity’s origin. It is well-known that it is much easier to «understand the rules» (how each figure moves, and what to do basically) than to really «learn chess». Some have even argued that there’s no way to learn chess on your own by just playing or reading books. But now, it’s possible! You…
- Scale Trainer Guitar Edition — Scales are the base of the music. All musical abilities, all combination, all melodies, all moods are based on scales, so scales are just the basic musical *skill*. But the problem is, before you can try to teach yourself playing scales, you need to know a lot of boring «theory» — terminology, note writing and so on. Scale Trainer Guitar Edition is an ideal teaching program, which does two main things…
- STAR Exam 1.2, Friendly and Playful Examiner — Presumably, the best type of teachers are those who know how to use games in their work. Of course, this doesn’t mean things like «when you are done with your homework, I will let you play football» — nothing like that. I’m talking about the cases where the entire process of studying something becomes a game, and the higher level you’ve completed successfully, the higher is the level of your…
- TCExam 5. It Tests. — Automation of students educational process and employees testing is a hot topic. The task seems to be pretty easy and useful: some users (teachers, examiners) create tests, others (students, examinees) take the tests, the process of calculation and reporting the results is also necessary… The more you’ll think about this, the more you’ll understand: a GOOD software program which aims to solve this task completely is not…
- Speed Test Gold — Knowing that the nominal speed of your Internet connection is high is a great thing, but knowing that it’s high in fact is much better. The actual bandwidth of your connection can be influenced by a great many of factors — from the mode your ISP equipment is working in to your modem settings and the proximity of communication nodes. Exact knowledge of your system’s performance…
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