- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- StudioLine Photo Classic: Intuitive Enhancement and Archiving — What’s the good of over-enhancing a photograph if there is no way to find it when it is most needed? On the other hand, browsing through a streamlined gallery of sloppy snapshots doesn’t do a pleasure either. How would you like to resolve both these issues with a single shot? Check out StudioLine Photo Classic. Unlike «heavy» and sophisticated image editing applications, StudioLine…
- 15 Puzzle: Endless Fun of Mind Rating — No one knows for sure when and where the 15 Puzzle has been invented. But the invention was truly a success: it’s hard to think of any other puzzle game that has gained such popularity. The whole world, both children and adults, have been playing it even these days. The idea of the game is to sort the 15 randomly placed numbered square pieces in the ascending order without taking them out of the 16-cell box. But although…
- DriverScanner - keep your hardware drivers up-to-date with a single mouse click! — Most users simply do not realize that hardware drivers are not just a necessary prerequisite for normal operation of their hardware, but very often also a factor that determines its quality and stability. Whether it’s poor video performance in a new game, stuttering sound in a new audio application or inability to use your webcam in a new version of your favorite IM — the problem is most likely in the…
- Blocker Plains - a great version of the all-times classic — A lot of people play games and thoroughly enjoy it. Some prefer serious titles that take weeks or months to beat and some like simple and fun «time killers» that can be started and stopped at any time and that can be played during short breaks between tasks. If you are a gamer of the second type and like playing simple arcade games just for fun, check out Blocker Plains — another great incarnation…
- ShiftN – straighten up your photos in a couple of mouse clicks! — Although modern digital photography has reached an amazing level of advancement and keeps surprising us every now and then when new products or concepts are presented, it is still based on the same optical principles as conventional film photography. Affordable mainstream point-and-shoot cameras and even professional SLR cameras without appropriate lenses suffer from common problems, one of the major ones being the distortion of vertical lines…
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