ACDSee (now called: ACDSee Photo Studio) was ever one of the long-standing (first released in 1994), most popular image browsing software that came with friendly UI, simple & humanized operation, high-quality and very fast image decoding method, comprehensive image formats support and powerful graphics file managing functions. All this won and accumulated the most users around the world for it (it basically was must-have especially for architecture and image processing related industries, including photography enthusiasts and professional graphic designers.

When I read some electronic version of books or magazines, occasionally I find some interesting pictures that I want to collect. In addition to the most commonly used approach of making screenshots, if they exist in a PDF file, we have a better method - Using software to extract them out. This comes with two benefits: First, the extracted image is complete (including definition); Second, the operation is simpler and more efficient.

Project I.G.I. (AKA: Sneaked, IGI is short for Institute for Geotactical Intelligence) is a series of tactical first-person shooter (FPS) PC game with realism elements and excellent graphics & sound effects design. In particular, the whole game comes with fantastic sandbox maps and playing methods, there are even dedicated servers built by fan players for online play. That's why it's so popular that it got numerous positive reviews from players around the world the time it came out (it has been 18 years as of this post, but AppNee is still willing to give it good praise).

Virtua Cop (AKA: Virtua Squad) is a series of first-person light-gun shooter games with 3 works Virtua Cop (1994), Virtua Cop 2 (1995) and Virtua Cop 3 (2003). Virtua Cop: Elite Edition (AKA: Virtua Cop: Re-Birth) is a bundle edition of Virtua Cop and Virtua Cop 2 (along with bonus unlockable artwork) released for PlayStation 2 in 2002.

Oriental Legend (西遊釋厄傳) is a series of 2D side-scrolling action arcade games produced by IGS (鈊象电子) from Taiwan in China. Oriental Legend 2 is neither Oriental Legend Super / Special released in 1998 nor the Oriental Legend Special Plus released in 2004. It is a brand-new and the real 西遊釋厄傳 II that only released on PGM2 platform in 2008.