- Cutter 1.42. Let Your Computer Compute — Back in the sixties, there were many scientists and journalists (both pessimistic and optimistic ones) supposing computers in near future would do artistic work. They still don’t, so, in today’s world there is a widespread pragmatic sight: computer certainly can’t do the art, but a human artist with a computer can sometimes do outstanding things, primarily because a computer would automate all the repetitive and…
- OscilloMeter 5.57. Computer As Tool — Many years have passed since computers were invented as tools for scientific research and engineering tasks. The lucky invention has been widely accepted; it has changed our world and the course of progress completely. Now computers play the role of rather an «everyday tech», «personal communicator» or «stationery» than a serious engineering tool. Sometimes, we don’t even remember that…
- The vOICe, Sound of Sight — Blind people lack one of the five human senses. Vision may be the main one out of the five, but it is not the only one. This is the thought on which the authors of The vOICe founded their invention: software which allows some kind of perception of visual information with ears instead of eyes. The vOICe («OIC» stands for «Oh, I See!») software analyzes information from streaming video (it works with…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- FLV Downloader 1.01, See It On Your Own Computer — Suddenly, flash video became the heart of modern Internet. Rare blogs or commercial sites can live without those rectangle with «play» and «pause» buttons. YouTube and sites like it are incredibly popular, the thing nobody could imagine two years ago. The only problem with a Flash video in the Internet is the Internet itself: that means, if you want to see again the movie you saw last week, you should have the page…
- 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…
- DTMF Dial 1.0.0.14, It Dials! — Our phones haven’t always dialed with tone that we are used to today. Before the sixties, that was pulse (and still IS in some places and countries), a series of clicks, which was about as many clicks as the dialed digit was. Tone dialing (correctly called Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, or DTMF) is about an individual tone for each digit; it is faster, more reliable and allows dialing automatically with nothing else but just…
- AdvancedRemoteInfo - a deep look into every computer on your network — If you are a system administrator or just a tech-savvy person that you friends or colleagues approach with computer problems, you may occasionally need to take situation under personal control instead of spending hours pointing them in the right direction. There are a number of ways to remotely control other computers, but one tool stands out from the crowd by offering a comprehensive feature pack wrapped into a clean and…
- PhoneSpy - a phone calls recording studio in your computer — Some situations require us to have a complete record of conversations with colleagues, partners or clients — no matter what the reason is. Recording phone calls can be useful for resolving support cases, protecting yourself in courts or safeguarding yourself from unexpected business situations. Although a great many of people would love to have such an opportunity, the technical side of the process is what…
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