- Database Tour Pro 5.1.0.715. Manage your database with variety of functions! — For a software developer, a «Swiss knife»-style tool can be incredibly useful, but only when that?s the «right» tool. The problem is, nobody can tell you exactly, how to determine whether a tool is «right». A right tool must be full-featured, but it must not be overloaded with features; a right tool must…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few…
- Instant Housecall, Support 'em All! — If your work is about providing support to users of some computer system (for example, you sell the system or sell consulting services, etc.), you can think of it as of almost unsolvable problem. Typical users have an extremely wide range of qualifications and experience, so your recommendations (provided through email, phone or some…
- Personal Passworder – more than a simple password storage for an active Internet user — If you spend more than 5 minutes on the web every day, it is very likely that you are registered in several online services, numerous forums, conferences, user various IM clients, email accounts and other solutions that require user authorization. Using a single password for all of them is plain unsafe, as a single hack or leak…
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