Is your Newton™ all that it can be?  Are you missing out on the best (or nearly best or, perhaps, merely good) utility applets out there?  The Figgles Utilities may be the answer to your Newton™ prayers.  These utilities help you enter, edit and manipulate data on your Newt,  access your Extras Applets, monitor and massage the Newt memory stores and perform dozens of other tasks which make your Newt a lizard of another color.

What are the Figgles Utilities?

• Keyboard PRO, formerly the immensely popular freeware “Keyboard”, is an application for the Newton™ which not only dices, slices and julian fries but gives you immediate access to multiple convenient built-in or custom keyboards.  With Keyboard PRO you can
               
• Define your own keyboards and macros
               • Paste notes from your folders into any application
               • Call any Applet from your Extras Drawer at any time 
                              -- even from other applications.
               • Edit your text using cursor movement keys, "select all" and
                              direct access to the Styles slip
               • Organize your thoughts using "Superbullets"
               • Clean up your Newt's memory by straining the system 
                              "soups" or doing a "Garbage Collection".
               and much, much more!

• Typomatica lets you type into any Newt field from any computer with a serial port. Just hook up with a null modem cable, your favorite communications software and go!  Perfect for entering notes, names, appointments and to do lists before you hit the road.  Typomatica alone is easily worth the shareware price! (Don't forget to listen for the "all clear" beep before making another serial connection)
• KeyQUICK gives you instant access to Keyboard Pro from any application.  Just turn it on to activate the "KeyQUICK Dot" in the upper left hand corner of the Newt.
• KeyMAKER lets you build custom Macros for Keyboard Pro, install prebuilt keyboards and remove unwanted prebuilt, custom or third party keyboards from the Newt's stores. A tap on the KEYS icon previews eight useful prebuilt keyboards.
• Third Party Keyboard Access provides sample code for creating third party keyboards for Keyboard Pro.  Create a set of keys, macros or common words for your own application and have them accessible through Keyboard Pro.  With the developer toolkit, you can customize this code for your own keyboard installation programs.  You might notice that a version of this code is being used already in keyMaker... 
• TikTok is a teenyweeny clock that takes up almost no screen space but is suprisingly convenient for keeping track of the hours. Monitor lets you keep track of  time, temperature, memory usage and battery levels.
• 24 is a fun (and non-trivial) brain teaser game which challenges you to add, subtract, divide and multiply four numbers to come up with a total of twenty-four.  Every puzzle has an answer--but try not to give up too quickly.  Lots of these puzzles are very tricky.  There are several thousand puzzles--don't be put off by the 6+6+6+6 puzzle which appears everytime you open the game.  Games are chosen randomly.

Application Size  (Thanks to Jon Spear)

Figgles Utilities Release v.1.0
KBDPROpkg:Figgles  - 41,992 bytes
Typomatica:Figgles - 26,764 bytes 
Monitor:Figgles    -  5,284 bytes
TikTok:Figgles     -  4,672 bytes
KeyQuick:Figgles          -  3,316 bytes
keyMaker:Figgles   - 40,620  bytes
3PKBPKG:FIGGLES,   -  8,956 bytes

Acknowledgements

The Figgles Utilities would not be possible without the wonderful feedback of my beta-testers.  A big big big Thank You to all you guys.  Thanks especially to Jesse Devine who iconfied me in the best way possible, to Jon Spear who gave detail a pedestal and to the inspirational help of David Dunham. More thanks to Igor Livshits, Bob Cunningham, Rob Bruce, Jon Conradt, Chris Hanson, John Zaharychuk, Larry Slack, John Martellaro, Mark "NANUG" Underwood and  David E. Frank.  And super special thanks to KENT SANDVIK, MIKE ENGBER  and WALTER SMITH whose Llamas whoop in particularly fine ways.

The Business Stuff and all the small print too

If you find that you may use The Figgles Utilities, please please please take the time to send in the $25 shareware fee.  (And its only $20 until 3/1/94!!).  My address is at the bottom of this README file.

LICENSE & FEES:

This distribution containing the Figgles Utilities package and this notice may 
be freely distributed but may not be altered in any fashion. This 
distribution is shareware and those who regularly use this product must 
pay the shareware fees to register their copies.  Licenses are issued
to individuals and not to sites.

I do not warantee this product in any way.  It may or may not 
meet your intended purposes.  There are no implicit or explicit
guarantees.  You use this software at your own risk. If you enjoy 
it and thus use it regularly you are obligated to register 
your copy and pay the shareware fees.  This registration fee helps 
support my education as well as the development of other shareware 
and freeware items.  Anyway, the program is both cheap and useful, 
so why not just send in your check?

To register this program before 3/1/94, please send $20.00 
(after 3/1/94, the fee is $25.00) by check to

                Erica Sadun
                 112 Hampshire Court
                 Avondale Estates, GA 30002
                 attn: Figgles Utilities
 
Please be sure to send your name, contact information 
(address, phone, fax, email), platform information and 
any comments or suggestions for this or future products.