- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- Liveye BladeBox eXtreme 4.0.1. Secrets behind Your Fingertips — Let’s talk about secure storages. A secure storage, for a «mere mortal», definitely should have some obvious properties. The number of those properties is small, but all of them should exist, and all of them should be at an ultimate level. In a few words, there should be the ultimate reliability of the protection and the ultimate ease of use. The first one is about data safety; so is the…
- Advanced WindowsCare Professional 2.51, Cares. — Who cares? Who cares of your Windows to be always fast and healthy, clean and tuned up? You think Windows ought to care of that itself? This idea makes sense, but the plain idea can’t make your Windows smarter; it just CAN’T take care of itself at an appropriate level. Instead, Advanced WindowsCare Professional will do that for you. The best I can say about this software is it’s made for human…
- xplorer2 1.7.0.5, Classic Goodies and New Strengths — File Managers have a long history. Both their strengths and weaknesses have been strongly associated with the operating system they had been running under. In the old times, inexperienced users often thought Norton Commander *was* DOS; nowadays, they think Windows Explorer *is* Windows. The reasons for that are natural: file manager is the most frequently used utility in any OS. But, hear me, guys, Windows Explorer is not your obligatory tool…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- 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…
- Advanced Network Search — If using search engines on the Internet has long been a habitual action for millions of users worldwide, doing the same in local networks still seems to be quite exotic. It is assumed that users know where the necessary files are located and keep the names of the frequently visited systems in their memory. However, these days local, area and corporate networks may get extremely large, so the task of finding the necessary music…
- Advanced XML Converter — Today, XML is probably the most popular open markup language for sharing structured data across various information systems, especially on the World Wide Web. Nonetheless, despite being well suited for purely programmatic usage, a typical XML file with a moderately complex structure is quite hard to read because of the entanglement of multi-level tags with bits of information scattered across the document. If you work with XML files and need…
- Watermarking – protect your images on the web with a few mouse clicks — If you upload many images to the web or actively trade on Ebay, you are probably quite concerned with protecting your content from unauthorized use and distribution. After all, some of your images, if used in an inappropriate context, may compromise you or create an awkward situation that will be hard to deal with afterwards. Apparently, adding a mark to the photos you make public is a good way of solving this…
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