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Microsoft Visual Studio

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

New tools tailored to help you take on your software development challenges.

Visual Studio provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams:

• Be more productive and obtain faster results
• Build dynamic Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions
• Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams
• Ensure quality early and often throughout the development process

CoCreate OneSpace.net

Company / developer:
  Parametric Technology Corporation

Today’s product development environment now involves geographically distributed teams—with partners, sister companies, suppliers, manufacturing sites, customer locations—who need to review 3D models instantly.

CoCreate OneSpace.net is a powerful Internet-based collaboration solution created exactly for this environment. It’s composed of three integrated collaboration components: real-time online meetings; secure Web-based project management; and 2D and 3D CAD visualization. Product development teams can securely collaborate on 3D models with remote team members located anywhere in the world.

Paradox

Company / developer:
  Corel Corporation

Paradox

Paradox is a relational database management system currently published by Corel Corporation. It was originally released for DOS by Ansa Software, but a Windows version was released by Borland in 1992.

Unix

Company / developer:
  The Open Group

Unix

Unix operating systems are widely used in both servers and workstations. The Unix environment and the client-server program model were essential elements in the development of the Internet and the reshaping of computing as centered in networks rather than in individual computers.

Both Unix and the C programming language were developed by AT&T and distributed to government and academic institutions, causing both to be ported to a wider variety of machine families than any other operating system. As a result, Unix became synonymous with "open systems".

Unix was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user in a time-sharing configuration. Unix systems are characterized by various concepts: the use of plain text for storing data; a hierarchical file system; treating devices and certain types of inter-process communication (IPC) as files; and the use of a large number of software tools, small programs that can be strung together through a command line interpreter using pipes, as opposed to using a single monolithic program that includes all of the same functionality. These concepts are known as the Unix philosophy.

Under Unix, the "operating system" consists of many of these utilities along with the master control program, the kernel. The kernel provides services to start and stop programs, handle the file system and other common "low level" tasks that most programs share, and, perhaps most importantly, schedules access to hardware to avoid conflicts if two programs try to access the same resource or device simultaneously. To mediate such access, the kernel was given special rights on the system, leading to the division between user-space and kernel-space.

The microkernel concept was introduced in an effort to reverse the trend towards larger kernels and return to a system in which most tasks were completed by smaller utilities. In an era when a "normal" computer consisted of a hard disk for storage and a data terminal for input and output (I/O), the Unix file model worked quite well as most I/O was "linear". However, modern systems include networking and other new devices. As graphical user interfaces developed, the file model proved inadequate to the task of handling asynchronous events such as those generated by a mouse, and in the 1980s non-blocking I/O and the set of inter-process communication mechanisms was augmented (sockets, shared memory, message queues, semaphores), and functionalities such as network protocols were moved out of the kernel.

Linux operating systems

Company / developer:
  Linux Online Inc.

Linux

Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel, at the heart of all Linux systems, is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. It is this kernel that forms the base around which a Linux operating system is developed. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. More information on the kernel can be found at our sister site, LinuxHQ and at the official Linux Kernel Archives. The current full-featured version is 2.6 (released December 2003) and development continues.

Apart from the fact that it's freely distributed, Linux's functionality, adaptability and robustness, has made it the main alternative for proprietary Unix and Microsoft operating systems. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing development. Well into its second decade of existence, Linux has been adopted worldwide primarily as a server platform. Its use as a home and office desktop operating system is also on the rise. The operating system can also be incorporated directly into microchips in a process called "embedding" and is increasingly being used this way in appliances and devices.

Throughout most of the 1990's, tech pundits, largely unaware of Linux's potential, dismissed it as a computer hobbyist project, unsuitable for the general public's computing needs. Through the efforts of developers of desktop management systems such as KDE and GNOME, office suite project OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser project, to name only a few, there are now a wide range of applications that run on Linux and it can be used by anyone regardless of his/her knowledge of computers. Those curious to see the capabilities of Linux can download a live CD version called Knoppix . It comes with everything you might need to carry out day-to-day tasks on the computer and it needs no installation. It will run from a CD in a computer capable of booting from the CD drive. Those choosing to continue using Linux can find a variety of versions or "distributions" of Linux that are easy to install, configure and use. Information on these products is available in our distribution section and can be found by selecting the mainstream/general public category.

Directory Toolkit

Company / developer:
  Funduc Software

Directory Toolkit is a multipurpose directory and file utility for Windows 95/98/ME NT/2000/XP, and Windows 2003. If you ever work with more than one file or more than one directory at a time, or if you use ZIP, TAR, GZ, CAB, or LZ archives, then Directory Toolkit is a must have. Directory Toolkit's utilities do what you simply can't do any other way. Any one of the features make it worth the price, together they make an unbeatable value!

Directory Toolkit displays a single or side-by-side directory comparison using color coding for alike, different, or missing files. You can copy, move, & rename files while retaining long filenames. Built-in ZIP, TAR, GZ, LZ & CAB archive functions, with Explorer shell extensions, let you easily create & manage archives (LZ is extract-only). All of Directory Toolkit's file & directory compare functions work seamlessly on files in archives - no need for you to manually extract files first. Directory comparisons can be based on dates or a binary file analysis. Network administrators and advanced users will appreciate the command line and script operations, which let you process multiple comparison & synchronize operations within a single script file. You can also create short scripts on the fly from the program's View Menu to quickly save/retrieve the current settings. Other features include: Customizeable toolbar; Explorer compatible OLE drag n Drop (including archives); Encode and Decode UUENCODED, Base64(MIME), Binhex files, quote-printable, and XXE files; Split and Concatenate files to/from diskettes; An integrated file compare viewer for a color coded display of the actual differences in files; Safe physical sort of directories; Touch files (change time/date stamp); Finds duplicate files on your hard disk; Opening files and launching applications; Wild card functions include file name numbering.

ArchiCAD

Company / developer:
  Graphisoft

ArchiCAD

ArchiCAD gives users the ability to create great architecture and increase productivity. From day one, ArchiCAD has been designed by architects for architects, and over the years it has gradually become more and more refined to allow its users to better:

• Focus on design,
  
• Manage change,
  
• Evaluate design alternatives,
  
• Collaborate,
  
• Coordinate.

ArchiCAD® offers a different approach to your workflow process, which gives you more control over your design, while maintaining accuracy and efficiency in documentation. While you raise walls, lay floors, add doors and windows, build stairs and construct roofs this Building Information Authoring Tool creates a central database of 3D model data. From this you can extract all the information needed to completely describe your design - complete plans, sections and elevations, architectural and construction details, Bills of Quantities window/door/finish schedules, renderings, animations and virtual reality scenes. That means while you're designing, ArchiCAD is creating all the project documentation so there's little repetitive and tedious drafting work. And unlike designing in 2D software, the Virtual BuildingTM approach also means that you can make changes at any time maintaining the integrity of your documents, without risking costly errors or costing you productivity.

ScriptMaker

Company / developer:
  Free Film software

ScriptMaker

ScriptMaker is software for automatically formating screenplays and produces professional quality printed output comparible with equivalent commercial tools costing hundreds of dollars.

ScriptMaker stores a list of character names and even guesses which character-name you want to use next.

With ScriptMaker, you can transform your screenplay or small sections of it into XML, for collaborating with other ScriptMaker users or for transforming your screenplay into a web-page.

ScriptMaker stores much more than just your screenplay. You can store synopsis and treatment data, and link it with the relevant portion of your screenplay. This data can then be used to generate RTF files containing a one-page synopsis, detailed treatment as well as the screenplay itself. You can also save and load individual scenes.

Adobe ExtendScript

Company / developer:
  Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe ExtendScript

The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.

Adobe ExtendScript

Company / developer:
  Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe ExtendScript

The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.