- 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…
- emu8086 4.00: my complete assembler sandbox. — emu8086 is a complete, and easy-to-use interactive system for studying assembler language. Being very low-level and simple, the assembler of 8086 AMD and Intel microprocessors is an excellent starting point for studying «how a computer thinks». The software has an extremely usable code editor, a step-by-step debugger. It can also generate binary code just like Masm or Tasm. But really, it is not enough…
- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- 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…
- 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…
- Download Accelerator Plus 8.5, Just Does Faster — Downloading files you’ve found online too often becomes a pain if a file is large (in some cases, it can become a pain for EVERY file). Downloading takes too much time. Downloading fails by timeouts and disconnections, and you stay with a useless file part. In most cases, you can’t even figure out for sure whether the file has been downloaded completely! Want to solve it? Asking for my advice? Here…
- 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…
- 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…
- Download Studio 4.0, A File Grabbing Combine — The good old times, when most of us had slow, unreliable Internet connections, were the times of the rise of «file downloaders». The first ones of them were naive, and all they could do was «download this file, in spite of disconnects and low download speed». But the software kept undergoing the development, became smarter and more automated, and mature downloaders suddenly became really useful programs EVEN in the times…
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