- 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…
- Radiotracker 3 Platinum, Music From the Air — Radiotracker Platinum is a unique software suite for collecting your favorite music right from the «ether». Without the poesy, Radiotracker Platinum allows you to record music from Internet radio stations to supplement your own collection. But if all the program did was only «setting up the station and pressing the Record», we’d have no way to talk about uniqueness. But I will say it again —…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- 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…
- Total Game Control, The Helping Edge — Is it even appropriate to compare the feeling of playing a dynamic action game with the keyboard and the feeling of playing the same game with an intuitive control device — like a steering wheel for racing or a joystick for an action game? When you have no time to think of your next move and have to take an action now, often by the intuition, do you have time for looking for the right shortcut…
- Duplicate File Finder .NET - a jolt of fresh air for a clogged hard drive — Since the majority of today’s hard drives are measured in hundreds of gigabytes or even in terabytes, we rarely pay attention to how we keep our data organized, if at all. A visit of a friend with a portable hard drive full of movies, photos and music or a LAN party leaves chaos on your data storage and you may be quite surprised to find several copies of the same folders and files…
- Magic Fingers Hot Key Launcher - being fast and efficient is easy! — If your job involves writing dozens or hundreds of emails a day, responding to numerous requests in a support system or using the same applications over and over again, you eventually realize that your efficiency could be manifold higher if you managed to automate or simplify your daily routines. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to instantly paste predefined responses or start applications with…
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