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WI-02: Desktop Utilities ------------------------- 12351 Calendars/Reminders Small Programs Disk ------------------------- Alarm 1.11 (ALRMPMS) Perpetual Motion Software $15 is an advanced desktop reminder system. Alarms can be set for a specific date, for specific days of the week, and for certain repetition intervals. An adjustable snooze bar is provided for each message. Messages can have up to six lines of free-form text. Julie 1.0 Montoro, Anthony R. $7 is a Julian date converter and range finder. Click on a day in the calendar to get its Julian date. Click on two dates to get the number of days between them. VBRUN required. mgCAL Gillie, Mike $0 is a simple, but handy, calendar display. Clicking on the scroll bar changes the display a year at a time. Clicking on the scroll arrows changes a month at a time. Requires VBRUN. Nag 5.0 (NAG5) Denam Systems $15 is a desktop date reminder and time tracking system. It is designed to be run at start-up and can be set up to activate only when an event is scheduled. Events can be categorized as business, medical, miscellaneous, etc., and assigned priority codes. A tickler function lets you enter recurring events that fall on a particular day of the week. A time-tracking feature will keep a log of time spent on a project. PopCal 3.0 Nathaniel Johnson Associates $0 is a small monthly calendar display. You can page forward a month or a year at a time. Other features include an always-on-top option, a digital clock display, and a button for highlighting the current date. Requires VBRUN200. QuikCal 3.0 (10-93 CD) Johnson, Alan $10 is a small calendar/appointment utility. It displays a month at a time. Up to five events can be entered per day. A list of events for the month can be printed. TimeToo 1.3.s (11-93 CD) Wizard's Toybox, Inc. $1 will run a program or display a message on a user-specified time and date. Up to 50 message/program selections can be maintained. An optional beep can be sounded when the message pops up. WingDate 3.3 (WINGDAT) Silverwing Systems $5 [March 1994 CD] is a simple desktop reminder system. It provides a quick visual reminder of upcoming important events. A list of events is displayed in Month/Day order with the current date or next most significant date highlighted. Requires VBRUN300. Year 1.1 Software Professional $20 lets you see a year at a glance. You can view any Gregorian calendar year from the range 1 to 32767 A.D. It also offers useful information about a particular day in a year, and it will calculate the time-span between any two given dates. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12351 --------------------------------- ----------- 3795 Clocks Small Programs Disk ----------- Astronomy Clock 1.12 (ACLOCK) Pocket-Sized Software $5 displays local mean time, universal time, local sidereal time, and Greenwich sidereal time for your location. A database of cities is provided for easy setup. The hourly chime can be customized. Clock of Doom 1.0 (CODOOM) Neon Softworks $0-$10 displays a variety of interesting information instead of the time. On a second-by-second basis, it can show military spending, how many acres of the world's irreplaceable forests are being destroyed, the increase in the Federal deficit, the number of barrels of oil being used by automobiles. You can also customize it to display less depressing statistics, like the number of miles being ridden on bicycles. Crito's Clock 4.1 (CRITCLK) Philippatos, Crito P. $4 displays the day of the week, date and time. You can change colors of the text and background, and you can customize the size and location of the display box. You can also force the display to stay on top of other apps. VBRUN is required. Elephant Clock 2.1 (ELEPHNT) Samarkand Software $7 [Feb. 1994 CD] is a stay-on-top time display guaranteed not to get in your way (it moves as the mouse cursor approaches it). Liberal Clock 1.10P (LIB-CLK) Sands, Richard R. $0 displays the approximate time in English ("about ten til five"). It will optionally display time in Day-Date-Time format. Nanji Desu Ka 1.0a (NDK) Bells and Whistles Software $0 displays the time in Japanese with the English translation underneath as a tool for learning some Japanese. An option is provided for showing the Japanese text only. VBRUN is required. Project Clock 1.0 (PROJCLK) Heath, Robert A. $7 allows you to monitor and optionally record time usage on various projects. It runs unobtrusively as a digital clock icon and shows elapsed time rather than wallclock time. You can also create and view a project log file with optional comments. StopWatch 1.0 (STOPWAT) Brody, Evan $0 is a stopwatch that shows elapsed time. Pushing the start button displays the current system time, and pushing stop displays the elapsed time. VBRUN reqd. Timelin3 (TIMELN3) $0 displays the date and time in the lower right corner of your monitor. The right mouse button terminates the application. WClock 1.0 Rhodes, Dylan $10 displays the time in an approximate, English language format. Instead of an analog or digital readout, it will display "It's around ten thirty," etc. World Clock 1.2 (WRLDCLK) Narwhal Budgie Software $5 displays local time, along with the current time in all U.S. time zones. Several European and Asian time zones are also displayed. Up to three separate alarms can be set, and each alarm can display a text message or launch an application. When minimized, the program's icon displays the local time. VBRUN is required. WorldTime for Windows 2.1e (WTIME) Pegasus Development $16 [Feb. 1994 CD] displays the current local time, Greenwich Mean Time, and the time in each of the five continental U.S. time zones and in any of over 100 locations around the world. Other features include local time and date display, a database of over 170 international locations, 12 or 24-hour display, network support, and more. Requires WIN31 and VGA. World Time A.1.3 (WRLDTIM) Hallock, Dan $0 (formerly Time Zone) displays the current time for your location, the Greenwich Median time, and the time for any location you select. Requires VBRUN200. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3795 [20] -------------------------------- --------------- 12429 Clocks #2 Small Programs Disk --------------- Astronomy Clock 1.02 for NT (AC-NT) Pocket-Sized Software $5 displays the current time in local mean time, universal time, local sidereal time, and greenwich sidereal time. Requires March Beta or later version of Windows NT. StarBar 3.1.2 09-93 CD Ambient Systems $8 is a clock for Windows 3.1 with a distinctive Star Trek flair. It can display the time in a variety of formats (standard, military, stardate, or stardate with TNG sync). Other features include a system resource monitor, Windows shutdown/restart options, WAV sound file support, live DDE link to other applications, and more. This is a must-have for all Star Trek fans! Requires VBRUN200. Stopwatch for Windows NT (SW-NT) Pocket-Sized Software $5 is a computerized stopwatch and clock. SysClock 2.2 (SYSCLK) (10-93 CD) Green Lantern Software $0 is a powerful, multi-function clock. Its small display shows the date/time and free system resources. Other features include multiple alarms, file launching, system info display, exit/restart Windows options, and a file finding utility. Requires VBRUN300. Timer for Windows 3.0 (TIMRWIN) Smart Typesetting $10 keeps track of elapsed time. Each timer can be individually named, and that name is displayed beneath the icon when the timer is minimized. You can use the timers to keep track of the length of phone calls, projects, the time it takes to execute programs, etc. VBRUN is required. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12429 [33] --------------------------------- --------------- 12827 Clocks #3 Small Programs Disk --------------- BarClock 2.3 (BARCLOC) Breen, Patrick $5 [Dec. 1993 CD] displays a clock in the caption bar of the active window. You can specify the position of the clock, the time format, and the date format. Other features include hourly chimes, a popup calendar, full-featured alarm capabilities, multiple time zone support, and more. This is an excellent way to keep track of time without losing any desktop space. Requires WIN31. Clock/Cal (CLK_CAL) Makuch, Brian $0 [March 1994 CD] is a small, icon-sized combination clock and calendar. The display is an attractive digital clock above a simulated tear-off calendar page. Global Time for Windows 1.3 (GLOBALT) Brown, Conan L. $7 [February 1994 CD] displays current time and travel distances throughout the world. It also includes a handy Metric measure converter. Requires VBRUN300. Travel Clock 1.03 (TRVLCLK) Hurd, Brooks $10 [Nov. 1993 CD] helps you track the date and time in multiple time zones. The small unobtrusive display is perfect for laptops. This is an excellent utility for travellers or persons that do business with foreign countries. Win Bar Clock 4.0 (WBARCLK) G. L. Liadis & Associates $13 [February 1994 CD] displays information such as the time, date, free resources, free memory, or any text message in the title bar of the active window. Other features include a speed dialer with phone number database, exit/reboot options, timers, alarms, a calendar, and more. Requires WIN31 and VBRUN300. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12827 --------------------------------- ------------------ 3348 Desktop Tools Small Programs Disk ------------------ 3348 Calculators ---------------- Babylonian Calculator 1.0 (BABCALC) Wagner, Richard J. $10 is used for adding, subtracting, and finding opposites and inverses of angles in degrees-minutes-seconds measure using the base 60 number system of ancient Babylon. This is useful to surveyors and other users of optical measuring equipment. It converts base 60 angles to radian units and vice versa. VBRUN is required. Big Number Cruncher 1.05 (BNCRNCH) 09-93 CD Ivory Tower Software $0 lets you perform math operations on very large numbers without round-off errors. You can add, subtract, or divide two numbers of up to 45-digits. You can also multiply any two integers as long as the product is 45 digits or less. VBRUN300 is required. Date Calculator (DATECAL) Leithauser, David $10 performs several useful date calculations. It can tell you the number of days between two dates, the date it will be a certain number of days after a given date, and the day of the week that a given date falls on. VBRUN is required. HPCalc 3.20 Patey, Eric $15 is an HP-style scientific calculator for Windows. Line Calculator (LINECAL) Vass, Garry J. $0 is a calculator that accepts text/line oriented input (like 5+6+7). It performs simple mathematical functions, along with 11 trig functions. Stay-On-Top Calculator 2.01 (SOTCALC) 09-93 CD CheckBox Software $30 is a small desktop calculator that always stays on top of other applications. It can be configured to stay in any part of your screen, and supports all standard calculator functions, including memory functions. It also features robust Scientific, Business, Unit Conversion, and Statistics modules. VBRUN200 is required. Timecode/Footage Calculator (TCFEET) Most, Michael D. $0 is a handy utility to correlate film footage and video timecode. It can calculate properly using either drop frame or non-drop frame code. Requires VBRUN. Tynee-Calc (TYNCALC) Wilson, Michael $0 is a very small (about 1"x1") 4-function calculator that is operated with a mouse. Keyboard entry is also supported. You can copy/paste to and from the clipboard. VBRUN is required. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3348 -------------------------------- --------------------- 3350 Desktop Tools #2 Small Programs Disk --------------------- 3350 Desktop Quotes ------------------- Cookie 1.0 Le Blang, Russ $10 outputs a bit of wisdom every time it is run. The quotation file can easily be edited with Windows NotePad. Lots of Love 1.0 (LOTSOFL) Merriman, David $0 displays messages of affection on your monitor when invoked. Slip it into your mate's Startup window. VBRUN is required. Pundit 1.0 Bienstadt, Jeff $5 pops up a window every so often and displays a quotation. C source code is included. 3350 DOS Access and Quick Exit/Shutdown --------------------------------------- DOS Button (DOSBUTN) $0 puts a little button on the desktop with which you can quickly open a DOS window. Requires VBRUN. DOS Doorway 1.0 (DOORWAY) Wall & Associates $0 lets you open a DOS window by clicking an icon on the desktop. EzyExit 1.34 (EZEXIT) (12-93 CD) Arvesen, Ralph $0 allows you to quickly close any window currently beneath your cursor by double-clicking the right mouse button. This is a very handy little utility. Quick Restart for Windows 1.0 (QRFW) Mare, Jorge G. $0 quickly restarts Windows for when Windows has become corrupted or you want to change configurations. VBRUN is required. Restart SP Services $0 shuts down, then restarts Windows - just like Setup does, which is sometimes necessary for making changes in Windows take effect. TPW source code is included. Roger's Rapid Restart 2.0 (RRR) Planet Crafters Inc. ASP $10 provides extensive control over exiting and restarting Windows 3.1. Options include: Exit Windows; Restart Windows without having to go to the DOS prompt; Exit Windows, run a DOS app, and restart Windows; and Exit Windows and reboot. Terminator 1.0 (TRMNAT) Micro-Bytes\Wordware $0 is a quick exit utility for Windows. It positions a "hot spot" in the lower right hand corner of your desktop. Clicking on this spot produces four buttons that allow you to exit Windows, restart Windows, cancel, or exit Terminator. VBRUN200 is required. WinExit 1.1 Silver, Howard $0 lets you quit Windows quickly by double-clicking on an icon, it can also be run from the Program Manager. WinStop $0 is a quick exit for Windows. It appears as a stop sign icon. Clicking on it will close all open Windows applications and exit back to DOS. #3350 Misc. Desktop Utils ------------------------- DDEDial 1.0 (DDED10) (12-93 CD) DameWare Development $20 is a dynamic data exchange dial server intended for use with Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1 database, spreadsheet and word processors which support DDE. This will eliminate the need to have separate telephone dialers for programs such as Microsoft's Acces, Excel, and Word. It also supports clipboard dialing. SmartTop 1.1 (SMRTTOP) Oakley Data Services ASP $19 [March 1994 CD] allows you to quickly and easily mark any Window as ôAlways-on-Topö even if it wasn't programmed that way. It can also program applications to always start on-top. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3350 -------------------------------- --------------------- 12428 Editors/Viewers Small Programs Disk --------------------- Draggin' Viewer 1.00 (DRGVIEW) Chefalo, P.M. $5 lets you view text files by dragging them onto a desktop icon. It will invoke Notepad or Windows Write depending on file size and extension. Features include an "always on top" option, support for multiple file dragging, and more. Requires WIN31 and VBRUN100. HexEdit 1.51 (HX-EDIT) Funk, Al $10 is a hexadecimal viewer and editor. Editing can be done in hex or text. Features include character counting, searching, and insertion/deletion functions. Powerbar/Write 5.5 (PBWRITE) (12-93 CD) Stewart, David $12 is a powerful add-on package for Windows Write. It provides Write with a toolbar of the most commonly used menu features. Other features include a clock, a file finder, a directory maker, application launching, a printer page orientation toggle, timed automatic file saving, and much more. Requires VBRUN200. Russian Notepad (RUSSPAD) (10-93 CD) Tavolga, Bill $0 is a simple English/Russian editor. A special TrueType font is included that allows you to toggle between fonts. A Russian keyboard layout display is also provided. VBRUN200 is required. SCFile 2.0 [SCFILE] 01-94 Software Assist Corp. $30 allows you to view very large multi-megabyte text files in Windows 3.1. It also provides high-speed text searching, and can extract portions of files to the clipboard or to another file. Support is provided for Windows for Workgroups. Requires VBRUN300. Text Manager 2.0 (TXTMGR) (12-93 CD) Digital Software $10 is a nice replacement for NotePad. It allows you to open multiple files, and has a handy toolbar for most commands. Requires WIN31. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12428 --------------------------------- ----------------------------- 12094 Misc. Desktop Utilities Small Programs Disk ----------------------------- Clipbox 2.0 Smith, Gordon L. ASP $10 allows you to capture text and graphics from the Clipboard to a retrievable stack file or save the text in a log file. Up to eight text items can be held in a single session. You can also print what is currently on the Clipboard and easily edit the Clipboard contents. VBRUN is required. Hider 1.0 SAYWare Development $0 is a handy little utility that allows you to hide any window or icon on your desktop. This is an excellent way to clean up a crowded desktop. RateClock 2.0 (RATECLK) LeMay, Andy $5 [Feb. 1994 CD] helps calculate the amount of money you are spending on online services such as CompuServe and Prodigy. After you enter the hourly rate and press start, a clock display shows elapsed time and cost. An optional tiny "RateView" window with the current charges can be made to stay on top of other windows. Requires VBRUN200 and WIN31. Right Click 1.0 (RCLICK) Fitzpatrick, Joe $0 lets you call up the Task Manager by clicking the right mouse button while in any Windows application. Requires WIN31. TimeFrame (TIMEFRAM) Braeuchi, J. $0 displays the time on the caption bar of the current application. WinDex 1.1 (WIN-DX) EastWin Software $25 is a combination address book and phone dialer. It can store names, addresses, several phone numbers, and free form notes. Searches can be performed on name, company, state, and keyword. Addresses can be copied to the clipboard for easy importation into any word processor. Other features include an always on top option, autosave, display order options, and more. WINhide 1.0 Skamser, Erik $2 allows you to run many Windows programs invisibly, without even a desktop icon. This will also work with all DOS programs run from a PIF file with the "windowed" option selected. Window Control (WCONTRL) Desktop Utilities $10 allows you to control the start-up position and size of programs that cannot remember them on their own. After you start up an application and adjust its size and location to your satisfaction, you tell Window Control to add it to its list, then the next time you start the app, WC works in the background to return it to the same place. (We were expecting to have to start up the app through a menu in WC, but that is not necessary, which is nice.) WC also will optionally display date, time and system resources. Requires Windows 3.1. Workspaces 1.9 (WSPACE) Lekha $15 allows you to have up to six virtual desktops on your screen. Each workspace can have applications automatically opened when it is selected, have shared apps (File Manager, Program Manager, etc.), and its own specific wallpaper. This is an excellent way to unclutter your desktop while running multiple applications. Requires WIN31. 12094 Name/Address Management ----------------------------- Delevon 1.4 Wagner, Peter $0 is a simple, yet elegant program for maintaining a list of names and phone numbers. It can also dial numbers over a modem from the phone list or from manual entry. Practical PhoneBook (PFB_WIN) Chizhevsky, Gary $15 [Feb. 1994 CD] helps you organize and keep track of a personal phone directory. It allows you to store up to 1000 35-character names, and notes with any type of free-form information may be attached to each entry. Other features include dialing over a Hayes compatible modem, a search box that automatically pops up when you start typing, drag and drop file deletion, keyboard/mouse operation, and more. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12094 --------------------------------- HideIt 1.1 [HIDEIT] P-Ware $6 allows you to make any program invisible by simply clicking on it. Optional password protection is available to prevent unauthorized restoring of a program. Requires VBRUN300. (Special order from the March 1994 CD: 98k.) -------------- 3712 Reference Small Programs Disk -------------- 3712 Desktop Notes ------------------ Deskpad 1.0 Smith, Gordon L. ASP $10 is a desktop scratch pad for creating free-form notes. Up to eight 8K notes with descriptions can be accessed with a single mouse click. VBRUN required. NoteIt 2.2 (NOTEIT) Tardis DP Consultants $5 [March 1993 CD] allows you to quickly jot down any type of free-form information. Saved notes are automatically date and time stamped, and are saved in an ASCII log for later viewing or printing. This is a very handy little electronic scratch pad. Requires VBRUN300. Phone Messages 1.04 (PH-MESS) Eisenbud, Todd $40 is a system for keeping track of phone messages for one or more people. You type in a person's name or choose it from a scrollable list, and type in the message. You can browse through all messages in the order they were taken or bring up all messages for a specific person. Messages can be printed. VBRUN required. PinUp Notes 1.2 (PINUP) Reed, Jonathan $6 lets you create post-it notes on your Windows desktop. It supports both text and bitmap notes. Double-clicking with the left mouse button brings up a text note, and the right mouse button brings up a bitmap note. Both types of notes can have their captions changed to reflect their contents. Other features include full clipboard support, built-in screen capture, printing options, and archived note support. This is a very well designed utility. Windows Messages 1.0 (WIN-MSG) Hatton, Tim $8 is a simple "while you were out" message system for Windows. It automatically stamps the date and time of the message when you start entering information, and the caption of the icon reflects the name of the person who left the message. Messages can be printed. VBRUN is required. 3712 Conversion Programs ------------------------ Convert (CNVTWIN) Jerry $0 is a English/Metric converter. This is fast and simple with informative on line help, and includes several less common conversions (like tons per square mile to Metric tons per hectare). VBRUN is required. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8876) Converter 1.5 (CONVRTR) Smith, Michael $5 [Feb. 1994 CD] is a comprehensive measure converter. It allows you to convert all the way from angstroms (one hundred millionth of a centimeter) to parsecs (3.26 light years) and almost everything in between, including U.S., metric units, surveyor's units, and Biblical measures. The weight modules include standard and metric units as well as Troy and Apothecary weights. The time module converts from nanoseconds to millennia. There are also modules for household conversions, tire pressure, desktop publishing and more. F-C-K Conversions 1.0 (FCKCONV) Orion Software Company $5 performs conversions between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin units of measure. VBRUN is required. Large Area Conversions 1.0 (LA-CONV) Orion Software Company $5-$10 converts between Square Feet, Square Yards, and Square Miles to Square Kilometers, and Square Meters. VBRUN is required. Metric Converter 1.0 (METCON) Heath, Robert A. $7 converts between "customary" and metric units of measures. Categories include area, degrees/grads, degrees/radians, density, energy, length, mass/weight, nautical distance, power, pressure, temperature, units of time, velocity and volume. Small Area Conversions 1.0 (SA-CONV) Orion Software Company $5-$10 converts between Square Millimeters, Square Centimeters, and Square Inches, up to Square Meters. VBRUN is required. S-N-K Conversions 1.0 (SNKCONV) Orion Software Company $5 performs conversions between Kilometers, Statute Miles, and Nautical Miles. Ultimate Conversions 1.0 (ULTCONV) Renfro, Roger N. $15 performs conversions for 200 different units of measure. VBRUN is required. 3712 Miscellaneous ------------------ Area Code 1.1 (A-CODE) Vergos, Yorgo $0 returns the state and a sample city for a given long distance area code. ASCII Table (ASCII-W) Wilder, Greg $5 is a scrollable ASCII table for Windows 3.1. Executive Decision Maker 1.0 (EXECDEC) Mezaros, Mike $0 is an electronic version of one of those silly gadgets that answers "definitely", "maybe", etc, when you ask a question and shake the gadget - only you don't have to shake your computer, just click a button. VBRUN required. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3712 -------------------------------- Jot-It [JOT] Spaeder, Roger C. $5 is a personal notepad for Windows. It can be used for recording any type of free-form information. The program stores its data in a dedicated file and remembers dimensions, font size, font type, and color scheme between sessions. Requires VBRUN300. (Special order from the March 1994 CD: 24k.) All the Time 3.01 [ATT] Smith, Wilson and Rogers, Carole $0 #4926 (01-94 CD) is a versatile desktop clock for Windows 3.1. It can display the date and time in a variety of formats, and can also display free memory/resources. Other features include an optional graphic representation of the seasons and moon phases, a night/day indicator, pop-up task menu, WAV sound support, the ability to call the atomic clock for updating, and more. VBRUN300 is required, and VB source code is included. Archon Ergosoft $77 #4357 is a powerful desktop information storage/retrieval system for Windows. It features full text retrieval not only for text documents but also for spreadsheets and archive files. Support is provided for numerous file formats including PKZIP, ARJ, LHARC, ARC, WinWord, MS-Word, WordPerfect, Excel, Lotus, Symphony, CorelDraw, Designer, Pagemaker, Paintbrush, TIFF, and more. Custom file formats may also be used. It lets you delete files by dragging them to the trashcan and start queries with a double-click on the file cabinet. Other features include virtually unlimited storage capacity with floppy disks and optical drives, file descriptions, long filenames, function key support, and more. Barry Press Utilities [BARRYUTL] 08-93 CD Press, Barry $20 #27884/3767 is a set of utilities for Windows: CALPOP: a simple calendar showing any month from 1980 through 2037. RUNNER: a Windows/DOS command line accessible from an icon. MATCH: a text file comparison program for Windows and DOS. FLIPPER: lets you change the default printer's orientation from an icon. PORTRAIT: forces the current default printer's orientation to portrait. LANDSCAP: forces the current default printer's orientation to landscape. TIME: a digital clock that also displays the date. MELTDOWN and VHOLD: two add-on modules for AfterDark. WAVER: randomly plays sound files. Six-Pack for Windows Lucas Systems $10/each #27884/3475 contains the following six useful utilities for Windows: SNAPSHOT - an easy to use screen capture program; LAUNCHER - a file launch program that allows you to search for files; RUNNER - a launch program that looks like Program Manager's Run Dialog but runs as a window and is always available; WALKER - a minimalistic version of Runner with just the command line; PAYOFF - calculates the payoff amount of a loan; and RED BUTTON - a "get out of Windows quick" program. All of these programs are very well done, and the included installation program makes getting started easy. BizWiz CalcTech $40 #27881/3679 is a desktop financial calculator that is fully compatible with the HP-12C handheld calculator. It also includes leasing functions, actuarial functions, modified internal rate of return, markup functions, and much more. It allows the creation of programs which can be saved as disk files, and be up to 999 steps. PC Week called BizWiz "an outstanding value" with "gorgeous on-screen emulation of the HP-12C". Business Calculator for Windows 2.20 [BCALC] 11-93 CD Etling Software $25 #27881/4119 is a powerful financial, accounting, and statistical tool for WIN31. Financial and accounting computations include net present value, internal rate of return, present value, future value, interest rate, payment, growing annuity, effective annual rate, annual percentage rate, amortization, selling price, margin, markup, and cost. Statistical functions include mean, standard deviation, sums, correlation coefficient, intercept, and slope. It also features the ability to predict x and y variables in two variable statistics. Feet Inch Dimensional Calculator CLAW Software $49 #27881/4506 performs arithmetic with fractions as well as decimal numbers. Both types of numbers are displayed simultaneously, with fractional numbers rounded to the nearest sixteenth of an inch. The program is designed for carpenters, engineers, etc. VBRUN is included on this disk. RCalc Pocket-Sized Software $5 #27881/4511 is a full-featured talking calculator for Windows. If you have a sound card that can play WAV files, it will speak each keystroke as it is entered, as well as the answer. Mouse or keyboard may be used for input. Rcalc for Windows NT [NT_RCA] 08-93 CD Pocket-Sized Software $5 #12411 (WI-02) is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator. On systems with sound cards it will speak each keystroke as it is entered. Requires the March Beta or later version of Microsoft Windows NT. Classic Timepieces HiColor Brown, Richard $20 #27879/3547 displays the time on a grandfather clock, a "den" clock (next to a lamp that you can turn on and off), or a "clock under glass". Requires VBRUN (available on PsL's Reviews Disks) and over 800K of hard disk space. ClockMan Graphical Dynamics, Inc. $50 #27879/3680 is an easy to use, yet comprehensive alarm clock and event scheduler. Alarms can be set for specific days as well as recurring weekly, monthly, and yearly alarms. The alarms can play several different attention-getting tunes and can also display a text box with your message. ClockMan will also schedule unattended operation of any application, complete with automatic keystrokes. When iconized, it provides a digital display of the current time. Other features include a TimeBar which displays the current time on the active window's caption bar, LAN support, and much more. SuperClock 1.1 [SPRCLK] 09-93 CD SouthBay Software $25 #27879/4594 is an excellent desktop clock/alarm system. It allows you to create an unlimited number of alarms with optional attached notes. It can also play a user-defined sound file at the top of the hour or as alarm reminders. Other features include a snooze bar feature, stay-on-top option, recurring alarms, and more. The program's icon displays the current time. Also included on the disk are WAV files for use with SuperClock. Several nice chimes and an attention-getting "red alert" sound are included. XClock 2.3 [XCLOCK] Kienemund, Wilfried $25 #27879/4520 (02-94 CD) is a world clock with time zones and alarms for any city or country in the world. It provides eight clock windows and a local clock window with stay-on-top options for Win31. Other features include user-defined colors, a notepad, up to 250 alarm settings, support for Windows calendar, daylight savings time adjustments, and more. VBRUN is required. The Desktop Set, Jr. 4.0a Okna Corporation $0 #20211 [4 disks] is a set of desk accessories for Microsoft Windows 3.x. Phone Book is patterned after a traditional personal phone book, complete with a custom cover that you can design. Features include mail merge, data import/export, reminders, printing, dialing, "yellow pages", unlimited entries, network support, and "fuzzy" searches. Memory Dialer lets you quickly select and dial phone numbers from a pull-down menu or by entering numbers on the numeric keypad. A phone log may be kept. Colorful icons are included for Fire, Police, Doctor, etc. A Hayes compatible modem is required. The calendar features Year, Month, Day, and Month-at-a-Glance modes. Support is provided for multiple alarms, floating and recurring events, user-defined holidays, reminders, phonetic search, event templates, and more. The Calendar is fully integrated with Phone Book and Dialer. This is a very well done package. Hard disk, EGA/VGA and 512k+ required. Dial-It Pro 3.0 [DIALIT] Collado, Louis $20 #12569 [March 1994 CD] is a desktop phone dialing package for Windows 3.1. Features include the ability to "pluck" and dial numbers from most Windows applications, keyboard telephone number entry, phone log listings, 40-number memory dialer, call timer, and more. Requires a Hayes-compatible modem and VBRUN300. Distribution Functions and Probability Calculator [DFUNCTNS] 08-93 CD Mark Von Tress $10 #12402 calculates several statistical distribution functions and some simple power calculations for statistical hypothesis tests. The distributions are the normal, t, chi-square, F and beta distributions. It also calculates some non-central distributions and their inverses. The power functions are for z-tests and t-tests on means. The power function for the comparison of two proportions is also calculated. DTPBrowser SJHDesign $29 #4365 is a viewer for both bitmaps and text files. It can display 2, 16 or 256 color bitmaps and copy them to the clipboard and other applications. It can also perform simple text editing on ASCII files or create new ASCII files. Case sensitive search and replace is supported, and as many as 8 files can be loaded from a command line. Editeur 1.3 [EDIT13] Menicucci, Jean-Pierre $20 #12861 [March 1994 CD] is a powerful and easy-to-use text editor for Windows 3.1. Features include the ability to view and edit multiple files in the same session, a handy toolbar, and font support. One of the nicest features of this package is the unlimited undo/redo, which allows you to go backward and forward through a document to review your changes. There are also powerful multitext search/replace functions. This is an excellent replacment for Windows NotePa Journal Program 3.0 [JOURNL] 08-93 CD Smith, Gordon L. ASP $25 #20230/4684 [2 disks] is a free-form text information manager. Up to 400 topics can be stored in up to eight different user-defined categories. Information can be directly typed in, copied from the clipboard, or imported from existing text files. Topics can be easily moved from category to category, and search features allow you to search on any word. VBRUN is required. Judy's Tenkey 2.1 [JTENKEY] Stickel, Dan & Judy ASP $15 #12241 (01-94 CD) is a powerful replacement for the default Windows calculator. The main features include scrolling tape, selectable syntax (RPN, tenkey, normal), and a customizable display. It can also easily calculate monthly payments for most loans and perform various other financial calculations such as expected investment growth, necessary retirement savings, and inflation adjustment. Other features include intelligent cut and paste, decimal point selection, red negative number display, and much more. INotepad Smith, Gordon ASP $0 #27882/4461 is a Windows Notepad look-alike with many improvements, including font selection, word wrap, macros, and the ability to strip carriage returns and linefeeds from text. Visual Basic source code is provided, and VBRUN is included on this disk. Mega Edit 2.08 [MEGAED] (12-93 CD) Computer Witchcraft, Inc. $39 #27882/4534 is a Notepad replacement that can handle files of any size in ASCII, binary, UNIX, and Mac formats. A split-screen feature lets you see two different parts of the file at once. Multiple files may be opened at once, with a list of open files appearing in the File menu. Other features include user-selectable fonts, search and replace, word wrap, DOS shell, and more. MicroEMACS for Windows 1.1 Lawrence, Daniel & Perret, Pierre $0 #4827 is a powerful tool for creating and editing documents, programs, and other text files. Features include multiple document/split-screen editing, string search and replace, paragraph reformatting, word wrap, automatic word counting, macro support, file encryption, and much more. Message Center for Windows Graphical Bytes $62 #27883/4207 is a comprehensive telephone messaging system. Features include multi-level password protection, a frequent callers section, attached notes, network support, a message monitor, and a telephone directory section. Windows 3.1 help files are also provided. VBRUN is required. Stikum-Up 2.01 Clear Pane Consulting $25 #27883/4394 is an impressive Windows 3.1 message system. It allows you to create stand-alone message/reminders complete with graphics. A setup program is provided for quick installation. Support is provided for the OLE object packager, and you can embed pop-up notes in Windows Write and Cardfiles. WinPost 3.2b [WPST32] 09-93 CD Higashiyama, Nobuya ASP $30 #27883/4393 lets you have multiple on-screen "Post-it" notes. Notes can easily be hidden and recalled. Upon quitting, the notes are saved to disk and when the program is restarted, they are displayed in the same screen locations. Other features include printing and searching facilities, Alarm notes, Always-On-Top notes, resizable note windows, OLE support, hotkey functions, an icon toolbar, auto-save options, and much more. Stickies! 2.5 [STICKIES] Looking Glass Technologies $30 #20436/4889 [2 disks] [March 1994 CD] is a powerful note manager. It allows you to easily create and print up to 45 on-screen notes and store up to 1,000 notes in a "file cabinet". Features include date range and text searches, full color and font configuration, automatic expiration dates, alarm notes, Microsoft E-Mail support, and import/ export capabilities. WIN31 specific features include drag and drop file importing, sound support, "on top" notes, keyboard shortcuts, and much more. This is a very useful utility for keeping track of any type of free-form information. Also on this disk: Stickies! Note Compiler 2.0 (SNC) Looking Glass Technologies $0 converts plain ASCII files into Stickies! export files. It also gives you control over each note's configuration, including color, size, position, and all alarm and expiration settings. Also included is SNDC, which converts Stickies! export files into plain ASCII files. On This Day for Windows 1.5 [WINOTD] 09-93 CD The Software Construction Co. ASP $25 #12323 is an event database/calendar that can print historical information about a specific date. The date can be displayed in Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic, and Julian format. The databases supplied include information on famous birthdays, religious holidays, and monthly events. You can also create your own personal database with any text editor. The date of Easter can be calculated for any requested year. The program can also calculate the phases of the moon, solstices, and equinoxes. A DOS version of this program is available on disk #3983. The Pagan Daybook for Windows 1.0 [PAGANW10] Alchemy Mindworks Inc. $0 #12822 [February 1994 CD] displays the time and date, current tides, and festivals and celebrations from the pagan calendar which occurs on a given day. This unique calendar provides a wealth of information on ancient traditions that are still observed in modern times. PhoneVu 1.0 White, James J. $? #4843 is a phone call tracking utility. It allows you to type in information regarding a phone conversation, organize the information after hanging up, and later recall conversation details by searching a call database. VBRUN200 is required. QRead 1.2 [QREA12] DS Products ASP $20 #12247 [March 1994 CD] is a text file viewer that offers many improvements over Notepad. QRead automatically adjusts lines to fit the viewing window, so you'll never have to use a horizontal scrollbar to view lengthy lines. Text files can also be displayed in any font available on your system. Tools are provided to search for text strings, place a bookmark, copy information to the clipboard, and delete files. All customized viewing options (fonts, window size, etc.) can be saved with a document for recall on future viewing. Requires WIN31. QUICK Calculators 2.0 Faircloth, Phillip $10-$15 #12325 is a set of three calculators for Windows. The Algebraic Calculator has six basic functions (+, -, /, *, square root, percent) and also has a scrollable tape. The Financial Calculator is compatible with the Texas Instruments BA-35 Business Analyst calculator and offers a wide range of financial, algebraic, and statistical capabilities. The Scientific Calculator is compatible with the Texas Instruments TI-30 SLR+ calculator and offers over 63 functions related to algebra, chemistry, physics and other math problems. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Quickdex 1.08a [QDEX] (10-93 CD) Suche, Steve $5 #12652 is quick and easy-to-use replacement for Windows CardFile. It allows you to enter several lines of free-form text, with full cut-and-paste functions. Other features include multiple data file support, fast forward/backward string searches, block edit commands, sound support, and more. QuickDial 2.0 [QDIAL] (11-93 CD) Spaeder, Roger C. $0 #12651 is a telephone dialing utility for voice calls. Features include a handy toolbar, user-defined dialing directory with a maximum of 750 entries, a scratch pad for note-taking while on the phone, and much more. A modem is required. VBRUN300 is included on this disk. Resource Bar 1.0 Denihan, Timothy J. $2 #4954 displays the time, date, memory and percent of free resources on a bar at the bottom of the screen. It has the best grandfather clock chimes we've heard, complete with a winding sound. Requires Win31 and a sound card to take advantage of the clock sounds. (VBRUN100 is included on this disk.) Quote for the Day Tuerke, Thomas $? #4442 will display an interesting quotation a day on your desktop. It chooses one randomly at first and can choose another at regular intervals. You can add your own quote files. Sage 2.2 Services Rendered $10 #27858 displays gems of wisdom on your desktop. You can add your own quotes or extract quotes via Clipboard for inclusion in other documents. A Find option lets you search only quotes or authors if you choose. This is one of the best Windows quote programs we have seen. This is available on 1.44MB 3.5" MegaDisk only. Talking Clock Pocket-Sized Software $5 #27880/4515 is a talking desktop clock for Windows 3.1. It announces the time every 15 minutes using digitized speech in WAV files. It works even when you are in a full-screen DOS window. When minimized, the icon displays the current system time. Sound card is required. Winchime Farpoint Software $0 #27880/3962 will announce the time of day in digitized human speech. You can set it to announce at 15 minute, 30 minute, or 1 hour intervals, with three different volume settings. It automatically calibrates itself to your CPU speed during startup for optimum vocal clarity. The sound quality is quite good, and it even spoke while our test system was in a 386 mode full-screen DOS window. Softline World Clock 4.5 (W_CLOCK) Softline Inc. $19 #27880/12572 (02-94 CD) is a global time utility for Windows. It displays a colorful map of the world and tells the date and time for any particular time zone relative to your selected "home" time zone. Major cities with the current date/time are scrolled in a Ticker Time Bar. Other features include stay-on-top options, a comprehensive help file, the ability to import graphics, and more. A mouse is required. <WTIME.PCX> Yakkity Clock 1.04 [YC104S] Pegasus Development $17 #27880/4456 (01-94 CD) is a talking clock for Windows 3.1. It can provide digitized voice time updates at the touch of a button, or at any interval you specify. A library of sound effects is provided, including a barking dog, cuckoo clock, tower bells, and more. Talking Clock NT [NT_TCL] (08-93 CD) Pocket-Sized Software $5 #12412 displays the current time in 12 or 24 hour format. It can optionally announce the time every 15 minutes using a Windows compatible sound card. Requires the March Beta or later version of Microsoft Windows NT. WhizNotes for Windows 1.2 [WHIZNOTE] (12-93 CD) Kanade, Sanjay ASP $55 #12632 is a super-notepad with convenient topic creation/management facilities to organize your text. Use it to prepare documents, make your own hypertext notes, organize tasks, or use it as a HELP authoring tool. WinClock 3.21 Feinleib, David A. $16 #12018 is a comprehensive digital alarm clock system for Windows 3.x. Features include display of time and date in a variety of formats, four alarms which can be set for daily or only a specified date, optional hourly beep, easy setting of date and time, two stop watches and two countdown timers. An alarm can also be set to run a program at a specified time. WinDial Corporate Edition 2.0 [WDCE] 11-93 CD DameWare Development $28 #20296 is a powerful phone book/dialing package for Windows 3.1. In addition to the standard name and address fields, you can enter title, company, location, business/home/fax numbers, and put free-form information into a scrollable note field. Other features include network compatibility, very large record capacity, foreign language support, extended background search capabilities, user-defined field names, and much more. This is available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. WinDiary 1.6a [WINDIARY] Johnson, Nathaniel S. $30 #4927 (01-94 CD) is a combination appointment calendar/diary for Windows. You simply click on any given day and enter any type of free-form information you wish. Information can be exported to any Windows text processor, including an Auto export function to Word for Windows. A "thumbnail" view of activities can be printed on a single page. You can also set Alert-Reminders for important events up to six days in advance, and important days can be color-coded. Requires VBRUN200. WinEdit 2.0N [WE_20N] (12-93 CD) Wilson WindowWare ASP $30-90 #20336 is a fast, full-featured programmable editor for Windows with special features designed for creating and maintaining program source code. Lite, Standard, and Pro versions with increasing functionality are included on the same disk. Now available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Features include unlimited number of document windows, word wrap, the ability to run compilers (or other tools) from within WinEdit with automatic capture of error messages to a window, search and replace, access to SDK and C 6.0 help, and fast operation. It updates itself to cope with multiple instances and quitting Windows sessions, and lets you view Next/Previous Error of compiler output. WinPhone 2.1 MacFarlane, Ian C. $25 #12093 is a phone dialer, address book, and call log book for Windows. The address book can be accessed alphabetically or by key word searches, and two phone numbers can be included for each name. The log book keeps track of your calls and the time consumed by each call. Double-clicking on the background brings up a keypad for direct dialing. VBRUN100 is included on this disk. WinWisdom 4.0 [WINWISDM] (12-93 CD) Pitts, Richard $15 #20339 displays a pop-up quote every time you start Windows. There is also a timer option that displays a new quote at a user defined interval. You may also customize the colors and fonts of the display. A quote reference/editor is also provided that allows you quick and easy access to all of the quotes in your database. You can search by subject, author, or any text string. Quotes can easily be added, edited, or deleted. All quotes can be copied to the clipboard for export to other programs. VBRUN300 is included. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips for Windows 1.0 [WOTA_WIN] Micro Computer Resources $49 #20442 [March 1994 CD] is an electronic book of quotes, sayings and ideas. It contains 6,561 carefully selected thoughts from over 1,000 of history's greatest American, European and Asian minds. Features include a handy toolbar interface, colorful iconic subject menus, word searching capabilities, custom fonts and text colors, subject finder, and more. You can also add, edit, and delete entries. Requires WIN31, VGA, and a hard disk. World Watch 1.0 [WWATCH] 11-93 CD Express Technologies Corp. $35 #12637 displays a world map and indicates those regions experiencing daylight and darkness. Several clocks can be displayed on the bottom of the screen indicating the current time in your choice of cities. Xpress Note 1.0 Xpress Software $29 #4735 is a powerful messaging system for Windows 3.1. It allows you to send yellow Post It notes, Phone Pad messages, and Memo Pad messages to other users on a single computer or on a network. Each user is assigned a password to keep messages secure. ]]]]]]]]]]