- DOSprn 1.77: Long Life of old programs — The program solves the problems of printing from old DOS programs to modern bubble jet and laser printers. Modern printers are working in so-called graphic mode while DOS programs were all designed to print in text mode (as matrix printers do). The purpose of DOSprn is to solve this compatibility problem. If you use an old DOS program you can’t update it (due to lack of new versions or because of its…
- ScreenVirtuoso 1.91: A real virtuoso of "learning by looking" — Explaining something to somebody is really a big problem. But to explain how to use a complicated program to a user sitting on the opposite coast is even a greater problem. It would be much easier to explain everything if there were an opportunity to demonstrate an example. But, you can’t travel 300 miles away, or more, to show somebody that «All you need to save your…
- 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…
- InfoAngel 3.2. Pretty Personal Program. — InfoAngel is a personal organizer, which you need precisely 0 minutes to learn and start using. Once you’ve downloaded and installed this elegant application, you can instantly begin using it and enjoy its great advantages. Everything in the program works just the way you assume it must work; every menu item is clear, and every button is decorated with an icon that makes its function naturally understandable. Despite its natural…
- EnTren - Learn Through Fun. — EnTren is the ingenious foreign language trainer you’ll never get bored with. It is very easy and funny to work with, and through the game-like process all your foreign language skills will seamlessly grow to a much higher level. The most valuable thing is that many skills (like grammar understanding, working vocabulary, speech) are trained simultaneously, in complex. The other goodie is that there is no boredom in the…
- TheSage 1.4.0, Language Reference Complete — TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus (or just TheSage for short) is a good demonstration of how slick and innovative user interface can contain a full and complicated reference and still preserve the ease-of-use and strength of an information reference. At first glance, TheSage is «just» a dictionary. You enter a word, the exact meaning of which you want to know, then press Enter and obtain the…
- 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…
- Euphoria Programming Language, Software Development Made Easy — Do you like the modern software? I’d doubt that and don’t know anyone who does — today’s software sucks, to put it mildly; it’s crooked and works not the way it’s supposed to. If you were to re-write all the software that’s installed on your computer, you would have definitely made it a lot prettier, more natural and intuitive — simply better. Just because you know what…
- Aml Maple 1.92, Dancing In Languages — The world is completely multi-cultural now, it’s just a fact. But this fact is a pain for those who have a non-English alphabet (like Cyrillic or Greek), because they should use several keyboard layouts (native for conversations and English for URLs, technical information etc.). These people should not only switch layout every several minutes, but also they should always remember their «current» layout inside every individual application…
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