Process Tamer: My New Favorite AppThe third item I’d like to mention is my new favorite app. I’m sure just about every computer user who uses Windows has, at least once, had an application freak out and chew up all your cpu cycles leaving you with the most sluggish machine you’ve ever seen. Enter Process Tamer. This little app will save you countless hours of frustration and dollars spent on getting rid of that windows inspired headache. Its a very small (140k) app that sits in the system tray and monitors processes and how much of the cpu they are using. When a process rises above a certain level (that you set), that process is automatically lowered in priority. It doesn’t kill the process entirely. So if it is a legitimate, normally functioning process, it will continue to operate. But if it is being a bad seed, having its priority lowered will allow the normal execution of other apps and allow your computer to function normally. I can’t begin to tell you how much time and frustration this saves me. The very same day I found and installed this on one of my computers, I had a process go ballistic on another computer. I meant to install Process Tamer first change I got on my second computer, but being my procrastinatory self put it off. After fixing that rogue process I installed Process Tamer and have never had a problem since!
W.H.
THE 2006 DONATIONCODER.COM C++ BUILDER DONATIONWARE PROGRAMMING CONTEST RESULTS
About C++ Builder
We are huge fans of Borland's C++ Builder here at DonationCoder.com. It's used in many of our more elaborate windows programs, and it's one of the most powerful tools for C++ programmers that want to do rapid development of rich Windows GUI applications.
About Judging The Results
There were many excellent submissions to the contest, and choosing winners was difficult and several of the decisions could honestly have gone either way. Judging was based on a number of criteria including completeness, documentation, polish, the existence of alternative free tools, the possibilities of improvement, the estimated difficulty of implementation, the usefulness/fun of the entry, and more. We categorized entries as described on our contest rules page, in order to ensure some diversity, but also awarded prizes to individual coders based on multiple entries.
Download and Try For Yourself!
One of the main points of this contest was to encourage the development of donationware software. On behalf of the authors we invite you to download and use these programs. If you find them useful, will you please consider making a donation to the authors to support their continued development?
Soduku Game, Editor, Solver
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Virtual Keyboard ToolVirtual Keyboard Tool let's you type into programs using only the mouse: Download available soon. |
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SQL Advanced ManagerSQL Advanced Manager is a great solution for: -professionals and amateurs who in any manner work with databases, especially MS ACCESS -students -people who would like to learn SQL It’s main purpose is to work with database via SQL queries. However, it also provides many other things such as fast accessing to all the tables in the database, and also to all the fields in those tables… Some main features are: -Quick access to all the data in any table with just one mouse click -Many tools and wizards which simplify working with your database -Syntax assistant is also integrated into the program, so the beginners would not have any problems while learning SQL, and the professionals, on the other side, would have a quick reminder on basic SQL syntax. -Many more.. Download: Here See more screenshots and read more about SQL Advanced Manager.. |
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Minimal Website"Minimal Website" is a program to make a complete websites from plain texts. The texts are translated to formatted HTML contents automatically which then are embedded in a common layout for the website. A navigation menu is generated automatically too. Colors, fonts etc. can be adjusted in corresponding dialogs. Special attention was put on search engine optimization.
As a special feature you can call your own HTML converters. That's where the the TextTransformer components are used. You can see, how such a website looks like at: http://www.texttransformer.org There you also can download Minimal Website or download it directly from: http://www.texttrans...s/MiniWs_Inst_en.exe |
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SkyIDE - a Free C++ and Java Integrated Devlopment EnvironmentSkyIDE is a free integrated development environment for C++, Java, and other projects. SkyIDE stands for Sky Integrated Development Environment.
* Multiple project support * Multiple C++ compiler support * Each project of type C++ can be set to use a different C++ compiler * Tabbed document Interface implemented using MDI with drag-tab support * You can have different projects open at the same time. You can have HTML, C++, Java, PHP and JavaScript projects all open at the same time. * Powerful text manipulation functions: Project URL and DOWNLOAD: http://www.skyide.com Main Screenshot: http://www.skyide.com/images/main.png Other screenshots: http://www.skyide.com/screenshots.html |
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FlashCard ProFlashCard Pro is a tool to help you study. Works great for high school and college students. I used it for my Spanish class last semester! Download: Documentation: http://www.xhirl.com...flashcardpro/webhelp |
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