This self-improvement tool helps you become more proficient at
reading both on and off your computer. AceReader helps you break bad
habits, such as (1) subvocalization (pronouncing the words in your
mind while you read), and (2) re-reading (letting your eyes wander
back and re-read text that you previously read). The program paces you
to read at higher speeds, and because it displays text by flashing
word sets, you won't have the opportunity to re-read.
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This recipe program looks like a three-ring binder. You can enter
an unlimited number of recipes and ingredients. Ingredient quantities
are automatically adjusted based on the number of servings. You can
print recipes and search for a recipe based on recipe name,
ingredients, keywords, origin, time to prepare, instructions, notes,
or nutrition information.
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This software incorporates the latest developments in Artificial
Intelligence and Interval Analysis to optimize the mathematical
functions of Excel. Interval Solver lets you bound worst and best
cases for spreadsheet formulas, back solve arguments, and solve
equations and inequalities. For Excel 95 and 5.0 users, go to
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This first-rate astronomy program creates an amazingly realistic
simulation of the night sky. It features planets, comets, DSOs, and
over 15,500 stars. From your virtual observatory, you can view the sky
from between 0-90 degrees of elevation and 0-360 degrees of the
compass; you can also advance or retard the sky by years, months,
days, and minutes of both sidereal or solar time. Each star has its
tint, each planet its hue, albeit cast over with tropospheric blue.
The cosmos is at your fingertips.
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If you are carrying a few extra pounds, trying to get in shape, or
want to feel better, then Life Form can help you. The program is
divided into eight sections that include Information, Food, Exercise,
Measurements, Chemistry, Ratings, History, and Graphs. You can tailor
the program to meet your individual health-tracking needs by using as
many or as few of the sections as you like.
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Produce impressive animated 3D text with eye-catching special
effects. Cool 3D's drag-and-drop editing makes creating slick-looking
titles, logos, and animated graphics for Web pages, digital video, and
presentations fast and easy. Work from fonts and logos already on your
system or import them and transform them into bouncy, animated 3D
titles. Supports a variety of graphic formats including GIF, JPG, BMP,
TGA, and AVI.
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Create movies from captured video and clips imported from other
applications with this video editor. VideoMan lets you create a truly
multimedia product, replete with titles, sounds, and graphical
effects. Features include a multitrack SMPTE timeline, extensive
previews and transitions, filters, trimming functions, titling, and
motion path controls.
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This educational software helps you memorize spelling words with
interactive spelling lists. Spelling Buddy lets you create custom word
lists and arrange them into categories. Talking function lets you
record words in your own voice, then your "buddy" administers practice
sessions, quizzes, and games.
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This program features an extensive source of information about
herbs, homeopathy, nutrition, and other alternative medicine. It
covers over 60 ailments, including allergies, high blood pressure,
colds, heartburn, hemorrhoids, and sunburn. For each ailment, it
provides herbal remedies, vitamins and minerals, homeopathy, and yoga
poses.
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This Palm OS software lets you keep track of your darts without
getting chalk on your hands. CricketKing allows tap scoring and
automatically saves scores when switching between applications.
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GetRight automates your downloads by starting a session at a preset
time, dialing your modem, and hanging it up when the files are
downloaded. GetRight supports graceful error recovery, download
resumption, and other advanced downloading features.
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This full-featured recipe manager lets you display ingredients and
directions in a scrollable window. Each recipe shows you the number of
calories and amount of protein, carbohydrates, fat, cholesterol,
sodium, and fiber in each serving. You can create separate cookbooks
and attach BMP images to each recipe.
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Use this program to see how your Web page will look at different
window sizes, including 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. BrowserMaster
takes into account the Windows Taskbar, and you can choose whether it
should assume the user places the Taskbar horizontally or vertically
on the screen or minimizes it altogether.
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Keep track of your stocks and mutual funds. Stock Manager is also a
useful tool for when you do trading or investing. This program enables
you to calculate how much you need to buy stocks and to follow and
assess purchases and sales transactions. It also allows you to see
which shares of stock you have available to sell and how much you paid
for them.
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Enter keywords and run searches on Usenet job postings and job
listings at Web sites. The program runs quickly, searching several
sites at the same time. Matching results are displayed and
automatically ranked, and the full text of the documents for
top-ranked listings are displayed. You can refine your results further
by typing in additional keywords. You can also use Career infoFinder
to run searches on Web search engines, and to search company and
industry news.
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This program allows you to simultaneously search 11 of the
Internet's best MP3 engines. Just set the search terms and MP3 Fiend
quickly gathers all pertinent links. MP3 Fiend lets you save search
results and supports downloading utilities such as GetRight and
GoZilla for easy downloading.
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for Windows View over 3000 drink recipes by name, by liquor, or by
glassware and add or remove drinks as you like. The extensive search
capabilities let you search by any combination of name, liquor,
ingredient, glass type, and recipe. For example, you could make a list
of all the drinks that require a blender to make by searching the
recipe field for the word "blender".
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This interactive globe puts the world at your fingertips. My World
integrates with your Internet browser, allowing you to double-click
your way to any country or place. My World offers a customizable
interface and maintains a database of cool links and files.
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This software lets you cut and paste a series of items and save it
for later use. The "ClipMate Explorer" interface enables you to
select, preview, edit, and manage clips. It even gives you a thumbnail
option for viewing and selecting images and text. Updated version
offers drag-and-drop functionality.
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This anti-virus program is a fix for Win95.CIH (also known as CIH,
Spacefiller, Win95.Spacefiller, and Win32.CIH), which infects
executables files having the .EXE extension. Once the virus becomes
memory resident, it quickly spreads to all files that are opened or
being copied. The virus will trigger on the 26th of any month,
damaging the contents of the BIOS flash memory chip and making data in
all hard disks unreadable.
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This package utilizes the omni-popular AudioGrabber ripping
technology to convert sound files into MP3 format in one easy
ripping/encoding step. AudioCatalyst offers CDDB support, WAV and MP3
file support, definable encoding start and stop times, normalizing,
and multiple data rate support. Updated version includes the XingMP3
Player.
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Want to make the date and time more prominent on your desktop? This
utility adds the date and/or time to the caption of the window that's
currently active. The date and time format can be configured to use
regional formats. It's also possible to set three alarms and to choose
different weekdays at which the alarms have to occur.
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Keep track of your movie collection, sorting the videotapes or DVDs
by category, rating, actors, tape number, playing time, synopsis, and
four custom fields. Movie Organizer will also print videotape labels
for you, and if you have a color printer, you can color-code your
library.
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Analyse-It offers extensive parametric and non-parametric
procedures for calculating descriptives, and comparing means,
correlation, and regression. Two statistical modules are available:
General statistics module and Clinical Laboratory statistics module.
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This Web resource manager makes it easy to store, organize, and
distribute media files, applets, HTML snippets, and more. WebGal's
built-in browser lets you quickly find HTML snippets or images and
supports applets and ActiveX. Latest version includes support for
style sheets and offers a thumbnail viewer for images.
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Record your repetitive keystroke information using Macro Magic and
recall your stored words and phrases by pressing a few keys. By
assigning Web site and e-mail addresses, programs, and even entire
mouse or keystroke recordings to hotkeys, you can access Web sites,
send e-mail, launch applications, and more. (This version will run 30
times.)
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This menu management and analysis program lets you develop an
individual meal plan. Mealformation calculates the dietary allowances
for calories, total fat grams, cholesterol, dietary fiber, and
protein. It comes with a large database of popular food items and
their related nutritional values.
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This multimedia player lets you organize your favorite files and CD
tracks in play lists that can be played in the background. You can
create a database of your audio CDs and save the names of tracks. MM
Player also features a floating palette, a miniature version of the
main window, that stays on top of other windows and lets you access
the most frequently used features.
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This personal-productivity tool creates shortcuts to e-mails,
contact information, and memos. You can customize keywords and
organize critical information. The software comes with detailed,
easy-to-follow instructions.
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Retrieve information from the Web and corporate intranets directly
into your handheld. AvantGo uses HotSync to synchronize content from
the Web onto your Palm device. The client is compatible with ASCII
text, HTML documents and GIF or JPEG images.
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Join the MP3 craze and put digital music on your PC with this
search utility. MP3 Star Search combs 12 separate search engines and
gives you query results in an Explorer-like interface. It tests all
results so you can avoid dead-end FTP servers, and it supports CuteFTP
for quick file transfer.
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This compilation of Windows 95 tips is a little different than
usual because most of the information cannot be found by using Windows
95 from day to day--we don't dwell on simple things that most people
will figure out on their own.
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This image viewer for the Palm OS allows you to view 16 gray-scale
images. ImagerX includes a conversion program that enables you to view
bmp, jpeg, and gif files from your Palm device.
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This application performs two functions. First, it simplifies the
process of backing up critical system files, such as Registry and
configuration settings. Second, it restores configurations, such as
desktop icons, wallpapers, and start menu items, every time Windows is
started. This is ideal for public computers where users are constantly
changing configurations. All configurations are automatically restored
when Windows is rebooted.
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So you have no life, preferring to live instead in a robust
fantasyland of comic books and computer gaming. Combine your two loves
with this theme based on a popular cartoon series.
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Sick of actually having to go outside to find out what the weather
is like? WinWeather brings hourly weather reports, satellite images,
Weather Cams, and ski reports right to your PC.
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This screen saver is more animated fun from those wacky folks who
brought you "Hey, Macaroni!". Bacardi Cuba Libre features an animated
drink glass dancing to the new latin/ salsa rave "Cuba Libre".
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This application allows you to enter Quicken-specific financial
data on your Palm device. QMate creates "QIF" files, which can then be
imported into Quicken or MS Money.
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If you've ever had a strange resentment for those
"rats-with-wings", otherwise known as seagulls, this is the theme for
you. This humorous theme includes images and sounds of a few seagulls
on their last wing.
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This software replaces your Palm device's built-in memo
application. Memo Plus allows you to attach drawings to memos, create
memos from models, set alarms for memos, sort memos by category, and
more.
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files using two advanced algorithms: BLOWFISH and IDEA. The utility
can also encrypt e-mail. This trial version is limited to 15 uses, and
you can't save e-mail messages.
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Manage your image files and view whole directories that contain any
number of images, including JPEGs, GIFs, TIFFs, RLEs, PCXs, Targas,
bitmaps, and more. You can use this evaluation version up to 35 times
before it disables itself.
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Point this screen saver at any directory containing your JPEG, BMP,
GIF, or PNG images, and it will float those images across the display
while protecting your screen. Choose the speed and movement of your
images' display, and resize them to your liking. A built-in scrolling
marquee applet lets you display personal messages.
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This Web mapping and traffic analysis software helps maintain
polished and professional Web sites. Smart Site simplifies site
quality control, enabling users to find broken links, slow loading
pages, spelling mistakes, and more. The traffic analysis feature helps
increase the potential effectiveness of sites by creating
comprehensive, customizable usage reports.
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