- RegOrganizer 3.1: Powerful weapon in safe hands — Microsoft Windows Registry is an interesting and useful, but unappreciated thing. Tons of wonderful system enhancements could be achieved without any «special» software: All you would need in the majority of cases is to know, which value in the registry is to be changed, and where it is hidden. Or, as a very good alternative, you would have to use software, with which your registry became…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- Genie Archive for Outlook — Every active email user knows what it’s like to receive dozens or even hundreds of messages every day. When their number reaches several thousand, most people start thinking about an efficient way of storing their messages in an organized and orderly manner. As a rule, such ideas occur to us when we are drilling down into a vast array of messages accumulated over the past couple of years trying to find…
- #7Z 0.7.2, Archiving With Grace And Power — In essence, #7Z (reads as «sharp seven zet») is an interface for free and effective 7-Zip compressing/extracting algorithm and library. But in fact, #7Z software is powerful general-purpose archiver software; I even tend to think it is the ONLY archiver software you’ll ever need. A small, fast, customizable, universal tool — that is how #7Z behaves in your hands. There are separate…
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