- MAPILab Toolbox 2.7. Get Its Best from Outlook — Microsoft Outlook is someway like an iceberg: What You See is much less than What It Is. Outlook is a thing of the type called Platform: in its heart, it can do virtually everything; but the «plain user» cannot make it do everything it can. Or — he can, if he is using MAPILab Toolbox. MAPILab Toolbox adds many small (and sometimes not so small) capabilities you want, but…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- SWF Toolbox 3.1.12, Obedient Flash — The Flash (SWF) and Flash Video (FLV) file formats are very common and useful on the Web. Their only drawback is their «thing in itself» nature: You hardly can change those files, extract their parts or convert them to other formats. You hardly can — unless you have SWF Toolbox! In this case, you can do virtually any conversion with Flash/Flash Video files. Here is an (incomplete) description of what SWF Toolbox allows…
- Video DVD Maker, Quit Running, Start Watching — DVD — what a great thing it is! It can store a whole lot of video. It takes so little of space on your shelf. It is so easy to share even through the regular mail. And it «lives» almost forever, compared to good old video tape. The only trouble I recall thinking of DVD is that it takes so much of effort to get a movie off a tape and burn…
- RegCOPA Registry Editor, The Professional Approach to the Registry — Windows registry is as important as the brain for a human being. It contains all the operating system is, can do, etc. Certainly, it is still far from being perfect, and from time to time we have to get into those fine registry matters and fix the bugs hidden in it. Sure, technically it can be done automatically. However, should there be you and not your precious operating system; would you agree…
- Startup Master 1.4, Letting Them Start? — There are applications that you use every day, and you start them when you need them. There are other applications, which you’d want to start with Windows (autostart) and let them run for as long as you keep using the computer; those are utility ones. And, certainly, there are applications that you DON’T want to start automatically; nevertheless, they just do it regardless to your opinion. You’d like to control that…
- Data Security Guard 1.2, Security Can Be Easy — One of the most basic requirements for personal security is ability to hide information onto computer you share with somebody else (your children, colleagues, boss or wife). You don’t need some huge bloated «security package for Professionals», no; typically you need only two features for this type of software: a) it should be easy and b) it should be reliable. That’s all. And that’s how Data…
- File Security Manager - full control over file and folder access permissions (even in Windows XP Home) — Being an overall excellent operating system, Windows XP does have some versions that limit user’s control capabilities to a bare minimum. For instance, Windows XP Home offers a great set of multimedia and general features, but lacks the degree of flexibility that many advanced users would definitely appreciate. For instance, the Home version will not allow you to set file and folder access right, which is a common method…
- AlphaXP - all you need to have full control over transparency in Windows XP — Transparency is one of the coolest features that Windows Vista can boast. It creates the eye-candy effect that so many users expect to see in a next-gen OS, but, unfortunately, does not have much practical value. Although you can see through window elements, the underlying objects are blurred and the content of the window is not transparent at all — so, for instance, you cannot fill out a form by simply looking…
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