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[Cataloger] [Cataloger: Web Site Index Maker] [Calendar-Reminders] [Organizer: Notes-Rich Text] [Organizer: Notes-Text] [Reminders; Scheduler] [Calendar] [Clock] [Clock Customizer] [Time Synchronizer]

Cataloger

Cathy
Company: -- Author: Robert Vasicek
(Requestware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Single file executable, no install needed.
Languages: English; earlier version available in French; German; Spanish; Italian; Dutch
Description: An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CD-ROMs, LS120, Iomega Zip and Jaz disks, or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media. Searching capabilities are based on file name, date and size. Additional features include filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customizable date format, etc. Found files can be opened (executed) or deleted directly, if they are present. Drag and drop support. Directory trees, MP3 album/song lists can be printed, disk space usage can be investigated.
Home Page: download v 2.24 (2006-06-08) [ Cathy.zip (45 KB)]
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/
2006PL CD files: Cathy.zip            
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28)

Catfish
Company: Equi4 Software Author: Jean-Claude Wippler
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: No installation required. No registry entries.
Languages: English
Description: CatFish is a disk catalog browser. It allows you to save snapshots of the directory/file structure of your disks and to search through them at anytime. The catalog files maintained by CatFish are very compact and fast, and can easily handle the huge directory trees often found on large disks, removable disks, and CD-ROMs. CatFish will calculate total subdirectory sizes, and lists the date of the newest file found inside each directory. You can search all catalogs by file name (wildcards), size, and/or date. When used in Win 95/NT, CatFish will recognize and store long file names. Furthermore, CatFish can be used as an application or document launcher.
Home page:
http://www.equi4.com/
Program description:
http://www.equi4.com/catfish/
download v 1.9 (1999-12-20) [ catfish.zip (113 KB)]
http://www.equi4.com/pub/cf/catfish.zip
2006PL CD files: catfish.zip            
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-05)


Cataloger: Web Site Index Maker

dirhtml
Company: -- Author: Eric Nitzsche
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP NOTES: v 4.73 is the last version that supports Windows 98
Languages: English
Description: Dirhtml builds index.html files from a folder branch, optionally using a built in scripting language. It runs from a GUI or the command line and creates customizable index files. Dirhtml is xhtml compliant. With dirhtml, your index pages can have anything valid in html or xhtml, including: a title; a background image; inline or <head> based styles; meta tags; any kind of external scripts, including perl, javascript, php
Home Page, download v 4.77 (2006-08-15); v 4.73 (2006-01-15) [ dirhtml.zip (317 KB) Windows NT/2000/XP] [ dirhtml_4-73.zip (307 KB) Windows 98/NT/2000/XP]
http://home.pacbell.net/nitzsche/dirhtml/dirhtml.html
2006PL CD files: dirhtml.zip   dirhtml-setup.zip        
(desc. rev.: 2006-09-11)


Calendar-Reminders

UK's Kalender
Company: -- Author: Ulrich Krebs
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English; German
Description: UK's Kalender" is a MS Windows program intended to remind you of upcoming events and todos. There are several views for your dates that are organized similar to a calendar sheet. Dates and appointments can be entered into the calendar via an input form.You can enter a forewarn time, so as long as "UK's Kalender" is running in the background you'll be reminded of your dates as soon as the forewarn time is reached. Independent from the calendar function there is also a todo list where you can enter tasks with a deadline and a forewarn time. If the forewarn time is reached, "UK's Kalender" will inform you of the due tasks with symbols and colors.
Home page:
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs/
download page v 2.0.1 (2006-05-20) [ Setup.exe (1258 KB)] [ Kalender_English.zip (307 KB)]
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs/english/download.html
2006PL CD files: Setup.exe   Kalender_English.zip        
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-04)


Organizer: Notes-Rich Text

KeyNote
Company: Tranglos.com Author: Marek Jedlinski
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public Licence)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. With its (optional) trayicon feature, it can be accessible with a single keypress. You can include many separate notes within a single Keynote file. This means that you can create only one file and hold all your notes inside it and make it a three- dimensional notebook: many notes within one file and a multi-level, nested pages within a single note. Optionally, KeyNote can encrypt your data securely using the Blowfish or Idea algorithms. Keynote's interface and behavior are extremely configurable (e.g., full hotkeys support, customizable toolbars buttons). The feature of "virtual nodes" allow linking of a tree node to a file in the drive. Importing and exporting notes from richedit format and text formats are supported. The program also supports per-file configuration settings, multiple backups and WordWeb dictionary integration. More features are included such as styles, macros, plugins, and templates. It can be used as a NOTES keeper, a diary, an outliner, a knowledge base and other different types of information managers as the user prefers.
Home page:
http://www.tranglos.com/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keynote/
download v 1.6.5 (2003-11-13) [ kntsetup.exe (1630 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23214
2006PL CD files: kntsetup.exe            
(desc. rev.: 2005-09-18)


Organizer: Notes-Text

TreePad Lite and TreePad Asia
Company: -- Author: Henk Hagedoorn
(Liteware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English
Description: TreePad Lite and TreePad Asia are very intuitive, small yet powerful personal database programs. They allow you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier! TreePad can be run directly from a floppy, if necessary, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. You can also use the internal search engine to find any piece of information swiftly. While TreePad Asia supports non-western/Asian fonts through the Windows IME system, TreePad Lite is made for Western users.
Home page:
http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/
download page TreePad Lite v 3.0 (2006-04-15) [ treepad.zip (864 KB)]
http://www.treepad.com/download
download page TreePad Asia v 3.0 (2006-06-17) [ treeasia.zip (862 KB)]
http://www.treepad.com/download
2006PL CD files: treepad.zip   treeasia.zip        
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-04)


Reminders; Scheduler

nnCron LITE
Company: nnSoft Author: Nicholas Nemtsev
(Liteware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Small, freeware, full-featured scheduler, that can launch applications and open documents at specified time or with specified frequency. nnCron LITE can be started as a system service or as a regular standalone application. This is a UNIX Cron/Anacron ported to Windows. It is not resource demanding, and it can run even on very older PCs without any noticeable performance degradation. We have never seen it's service to allocate more than 150k of operative memory.
Home page:
http://www.nncron.ru/#nncronlt
download page: v 1.17 build 119 (2005-07-09) [ nncronlt117.exe (242 KB) English and Russian help files are included]
http://www.nncron.ru/download.shtml
2006PL CD files: nncronlt117.exe            
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-14)


Calendar

Rainlendar
Company: -- Author: Rainy
(Donationware) (Liteware) (free) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English; language packs for many other languages
Description: Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.
Home Page:
http://www.rainlendar.net/
download page v 2.0.2 (2007-01-01) [ Rainlendar-Lite-2.0.2.exe (2438 KB) Windows]
http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_download
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/Rainlendar.html
2006PL CD files: Rainlendar-0.22.exe   Rainlendar-0.22.zip        
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-01)

Calendar Magic
Company: EuroSoft Author: Alex Balfour
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/XP NOTES: Requires VB6 runtime
Languages: English
Description: Full year and monthly calendars for 23 different calendar systems. Alternative planning calendars. A month-by-month, side-by-side comparison of any two of the 23 calendar systems supported. The display remains synchronised as you change day, month and year values in either calendar system being viewed. Date conversions among the 23 calendar systems supported. British regnal date conversion. Lists of Western Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Baha'i and Sikh festivals. "Observed Days" for any year from 1990 for around 230 countries worldwide. "Date Detective" command button to tabulate the weekday on which a specified Gregorian date d/m occurs for each of the years in the specified range y1 to y2. The ability to create, display, update and delete reminders for events (birthdays, anniversaries, meetings etc.). A Quick Notes facility. Alarm clock and stopwatch facilities. A time calculator for performing arithmetic with times. "This is your life" information including day-of-the-week on which you were born, number of days you have lived etc. Continuously updated display of date, time and Julian day. Number of days between any two dates in the Gregorian calendar. Calculation of the date n days, weeks, months or years before or after a specified Gregorian date, where n is a whole number. An analysis of the Gregorian 400-year cycle, after which the Gregorian calendar repeats itself. Special calendars for 1582 and 1752. Solar and lunar astronomical data. Shortest (great circle) distances between any two of 8000 locations across the world. Current local time and date in any of these 8000 locations. Seven major utilities (scientific calculator, expression calculator, geometry calculator, factor calculator, pregnancy calculator, unit converter, magic squares).
Home page:
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/
download page v 16.4 (2006-12-07) [ calmag164.zip (2174 KB)]
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=136
alternate download page
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Diary-Organizers-Calendar/Calendar-Magic.shtml
2006PL CD files: calmag157.zip            
(desc. rev.: 2006-12-31)


Clock

WorldTime
Company: PawPrint Author: --
(Betaware) (Donationware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Dubbed "The 'Swiss Army Knife' of world clocks" with unlimited configurable clocks, each with it's own time zone, configurable Daylight Saving Time, Lat Long, and description in a 12 or 24 hour analog/digital user configurable display, that minimizes to the system tray; 2D/3D World Map with day/night display and ability to plot any/all locations. SwatchBeat support, unlimited time zone savvy alarms with AutoSnooze, and repeat for display, Sync, Dial, and Launch App; Uses NTP to synchronize your computers system time (UTC) to a time server; Allows user configurable optional chimes every 60, 30 and/or 15 minutes. Calculates and displays the Julian Date, Sun Rise, Sun Set, Moon phase, Hours of Daylight, Provides unlimited count up/down stopwatches accurate to 1/100 sec with unlimited lap times and lap average - hidden until used, and a module that tracks the amount of time since or until an unlimited number of events specified date down to the second at any location.
Home page:
http://www.pawprint.net/
Program description:
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/
download page v 6.0.0.941 (beta) (2004-02-10) [ wt600941.exe (2364 KB) ]
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/beta.php
(desc. rev.: 2005-09-20)


Clock Customizer

TClockEx
Company: -- Author: Dale Nurden
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French
Description: TClockEx enhances the standard Windows taskbar clock, adding the ability to display the date, time and lots of other information in any format you like. TClockEx is highly customizable, from the format to the font and colour, and even the tooltip information (e.g., CPU usage and system resources).
Home page:
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/
download page v 1.4.2 (2000-03-09) [ tclockex.exe (457 KB) English] [ tclockex.zip (190 KB) English]
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/download.htm
2006PL CD files: tclockex.exe   tclockex.zip        
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-10)


Time Synchronizer

Dimension 4
Company: Thinking Man Software Author: Rob Chambers
(Donationware) (free for personal use/non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Dimension 4 is the fastest and easiest way to synchronize your PC's clock for Windows-based operating systems. Once Dimension 4 is installed, you'll most likely forget that it's even running. It's that automatic. Dimension 4 will monitor your Internet connection and automatically adjust your PC's clock when you're online at an interval you specify.
Home page:
http://www.thinkman.com/
download page v 5.0.35.0 (2004) [ d4time50.msi (206 KB)]
http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/download.htm
2006PL CD files: d4time50.msi            
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-05)

Neutron
Company: -- Author: Robin Keir
(Donationware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Neutron is a very simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it. Options in the program enable you to automatically obtain the time from the time server and set your clock appropriately at program startup. It is also possible to have the program automatically exit after the time has been set.
Home page:
http://keir.net/
Program description: download v 1.03 (2002-03-12) [ neutron.zip (6 K)]
http://keir.net/neutron.html
2006PL CD files: neutron.zip            
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-10)







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