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Brainstorming

MindMan Personal
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 95+
Languages: English
Description: Mind mapping software for brainstorming sessions. NOTES: This is an early version of what grew into MindManager.
Author: -- Company: --
Program description:
http://www.observetory.com/surveyor.htm
Download v 3.02 (870 KB)
http://www.byteraider.com/download/files/mmpersonal30-2e.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)

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Calculator

Calc98
(Earlier version of $ware) (unsupported) (Registerware: name, address, email, questionaire)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP and WindowsCE (Pocket PC)
Languages: English
Description: Calc98 is an engineering, scientific and financial calculator for Windows. The calculator includes functions for statistics, use of different number bases (binary, octal, hexadecimal and base-n), metric units conversions and physical properties and constants. It has financial functions including investment, loan and mortgage calculations. It also calculates time functions and has a stopwatch feature and RPN (Reverse Polish Notation). NOTES: If you use a code page other than Latin-1 some symbols may map incorrectly. If your operating system supports Unicode (NT4/2000/XP) you can use the Unicode version of the software. You should then be able to see all the correct button legends regardless of your language settings provided your fonts contain the appropriate glyphs. You may need to select an appropriate font, e.g. Arial, for the keypads using the Options/View tab.
Author: -- Company: Flow Simulation Ltd.
Home Page:
http://www.calculator.org/
Download page:
http://www.calculator.org/download.html
Download Windows v 5.3 (500 KB) (self-extracting zip file)
http://www.flosim.co.uk/fsi/c9853w.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-23)

ShowCalc
(Freeware) (last available Freeware version)
OS: Windows 9x
Languages: English
Description: 32-bit calculator that, in addition to basic arithmetic, memory and scientific functions (hex, trig, and log modules), includes an extremely useful, scrolling "tape Window" that allows you to easily view your work. You can then print this adding machine-like tape, or copy the data onto your clipboard for use in other applications.
Author: Mark Chatters Company: --
Home Page: n/a
Download v 3.01 (710 KB)
ftp://ftp.jaring.my/pub/simtelnet/win95/calc/scalv301.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)

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Converter: Currency

Currency Converter 2
(Freeware) (open source)
OS: Windows 95 with IE4+ or newer
Languages: English
Description: Currency Converter 2 is a freeware program to convert between over 200 currencies. You can keep all the exchange rates up-to-date by using the one-button Internet Update-function (with proxy support) to load the Exchange Rates from the Internet. NOTES: Do not worry about registry settings, or redundant DLLs or whatever. It doesn't use any of it. The Inno-Setup installer does of course make a registry entry for uninstalling. If you use the supplied uninstaller then, of course, it'll automatically remove that registry entry on uninstalling.
Author: Alexander Belgraver Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.geocities.com/currconv2/
Download v 2.3.1 (2003-10-14) (1.0 MB)
http://www.geocities.com/currconv2/currconv2.zip
Download v 2.3.1 (2003-10-14) (1.35 MB) (with installer)
http://www.geocities.com/currconv2/currconv2-setup.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-23)

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Dictionary

Pardon
(Freeware) (free for non-commercial use)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP plus IE 4 or newer (for some functionality)
Languages: English, conversions available for: Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Interlingua, Italian, Turkish
Description: Pardon is an extensible electronic dictionary for your computer. An extensive English dictionary is included containing nearly 150 000 cross-referenced entries. It provides comprehensive English definitions for almost any English word. Pardon now supports links in dictionaries, and complete cross-references. For example, you can look up a word and ask to get a list of synonyms or antonyms for that word. Pardon is integrated with the Internet. Users can easily extend their searches onto the Internet.
Author: -- Company: SoftBear
Home Page:
http://www.softbear.no/
Download page:
http://www.softbear.no/pardon/download.shtml
Download v 2 (2003-01-06) (5743 KB)
http://www.softbear.no/pardon/dd/pardon.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-23)

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Spell Checker

ieSpell
(Freeware) (free for non-commercial use)
OS:
Languages:
Description: ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.
Author: Sidney Chong Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.iespell.com/
(desc. rev.: x)

Spell Checker For OE
(Requestware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: This is a free program, I made to allow people to use Spell Checker in Outlook Express. This is a stand alone application, that incorporates in Outlook Express. The purpose of this program, is to supply for free the ability to use Spelling in OE, without the need to purchase other software, such as MS Word,Works, or Office.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/
(desc. rev.: x)

tinySpell
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: tinySpell is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check the spelling of words in any Windows application. tinySpell monitors your typing on the fly and alerts you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It also checks the spelling of every word you copy to the clipboard. tinySpell installs itself in the system tray for easy access. It comes with an American-English dictionary containing more than 110,000 words. When a misspelled word is detected, click the tinySpell icon or press the hot-key to pop up a list of suggested replacement words from which you can select a correction. The selected word is inserted into your document, or is copied to the clipboard (so you can paste it in your document), or both (depending on your settings).
Author: -- Company: KEDMI Scientific Computing
Home Page:
http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/tinyspell.html
Download v 1.3 (548 KB)
http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/tisp13.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-23)

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CD Cover And Labels Creator

InterCover
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages: English (earlier version has multi-language support)
Description: InterCover is a simple program to print out a scanned CD Cover in the correct format with one doubleclick or by Drag and Drop on the appropriate field. It is then in the correct size send to the printer. Covers and pictures may be scanned directly into InterCover. In addition, you can insert text, use premade pictures or create with the designer. InterCover supports these formats, BMP, JPG, GIF, WMF, Ico, PCX, TIF.
Author: Lind and Thörnberg Company: minisoft
Home Page (Swedish language):
http://www.minisoft.se/
Download v 2.50 (1557 KB)
http://w1.404.telia.com/~u40423972/cover/intercover2.exe
Download v 1.24 (1327 KB)
http://w1.404.telia.com/~u40423972/cover/intercover.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-24)

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Scanner Utility

SimpleCopier
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: SimpleCopier lets you : Adjust brightness, contrast, hue, sepia, etc. Copy in black and white - greyscale or colour Preview the copy Reduce or Increase the copy Select a specific part and only print it's area Print a selection on entire page (Zoom) Save and load images in many formats Set up your own language file English and French (Français) included (NOTE : other languages are no longer included, they must be downloaded on this site. Please send me up to date translations if you want them to be available) Edit the picture with a coloured eraser Send the copy by email Queue pictures for mass printing Rotate the copy in many ways Use your scanner buttons And more...
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.neogie.com/simplecopier/
(desc. rev.: x)

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Astronomy

Hallo northern sky (HNSKY)
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, Windows 3.1
Languages: English, several other languages
Description: HNSky is an electronic planetarium program that shows an electronic version of the night sky. It can map a variety of stellar and non-stellar databases. It displays all stars to about magnitude 12 and 10607 deep sky objects. It also shows the all planets, Moon, Sun, moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, phases of the Moon and inner planets, solar and lunar eclipses, rings of Saturn and minor planets and comets. HNSKY has the ability to use the GSC or 'Guide Star Catalog' and USNO CD-ROM database with a limiting magnitude of about 15 or more.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm
Download (Win9x/2000/ NT/ME/XP) v 2.2.2 (2003-10-23) (2 MB) (basic package w/ databases)
http://www.hnsky.org/hnsky222.exe
Download (Win3.1) v 1.6.2f (2001-01-11) (229 KB) (w/o databases)
http://www.hnsky.org/hnskyp.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)

SETI Spy
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages:
Description: A small program to report progress and performance of the SETI@home client.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://cox-internet.com/setispy/
(desc. rev.: x)

SETI@Home
(Donationware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
(desc. rev.: x)

StarCalc
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, Russian
Description: StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium and star mapping program for Windows 95/98/NT today. It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images of semispherical whole sky or any of the user defined sub-areas. These images can be zoomed at different scales, rotated, screen-captured and printed. Extensibility: This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. These modules enable the program to use astronomy catalogs support and many others add-ons down the road or directly from other vendors. Fast performance:: extra efficient algorithms allow the program to calculate a sky image in a fraction of a second even just on very old computers. User friendliness: StarCalc has a simple interface, most operations are implemented by mouse. The program employees the WYSIWYG technology (What You See Is What You Get), which helps you to print a detailed image of any enlarged area of sky in its finest astronomical details.
Author: Alexander E.Zavalishin Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.relex.ru/~zalex/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/starcalc.html
Download page (English version) v 5.72 (753 Kb) (sc572en.zip) and various plug-ins
http://www.relex.ru/~zalex/files_eng.htm
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-23)