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This is a highly eclectic selection of offerings taken from around the globe offering you some of the more unusual Shareware packages for you to try out.
This is an engrossing game of International Test Cricket. Don't expect flash graphics or complex gameplay - this is a game for tacticians.
You will get a request for Disk 1, which simply needs OKing and Windows 95 users should note that there seems to be a problem on some machines, with no icons being inserted in the program group. You'll need to go to the folder you installed to yourself and load the program from there.
£15 Contact: Daniel Thomas, Tel: 0976 327590, E-Mail: daniel@tortyfoo.demon.co.uk, WWW: http://www.totalweb.co.uk/tortyfoo/itc/index.html
WXPNS was written to automate the entry, printing and historical reporting of business travel expenses required by most companies. Its purpose is to keep track of all expenses incurred by you while you were away on a business trip. Expenses are broken down into ten categories ranging from lodging, transportation, entertainment and meals just to name a few. All categories can be changed to suit your individual or employer's needs. Sub Categories may also be created within a Category to retain information on repetitive expenses such as Mileage, Tolls or Postage.
Every Expense Report line item will retain fields such as the Date, Category, Vendor, Charge To, Name of Persons Entertained, Time and Place, Nature or Purpose of the Item, Percent Allocated to Business, and whether the expense is reimbursable or not. An example of a non-reimbursable expense is an airplane ticket purchased by your employer but used by you on the business trip. You did not pay for the ticket so you should not be reimbursed for its cost, but your employer still wants the ticket itemized on your expenses for accurate record keeping and budgeting.
Currency symbols are displayed for totals on the expense report window display, and on the formatted expense report and the summary report. WXPNS interrogates the international currency settings in the WIN.INI file. These settings can be changed by executing the International command in the Control Panel.
$35 Contact: Treeless Software And Design, Voice & BBS: +1 (630) 372-0825, Fax: +1 (630) 372-0059, Email: CompuServe: 71210,2033 Internet: TreelessSW@aol.com WWW: http://members.aol.com/TreelessSW/index.htm
An interactive multimedia multiplication tutor for Windows. It uses digitized speech to call out the problems as well as provide encouragement. The Shareware version will only do tables up to six times; the registered version goes up to twelve times.
Requires VBRUN300.
£5 Contact: Tollside Ltd 42a, Wallingford Road, Cholsey, Oxon, OX10 9LB Email: CompuServe: 100673,275
This program generates color-enhanced pictures of diffraction patterns (diffractals). One might guess that a diffractal is some kind of fractal, but this is not quite correct. If you have ever looked through a toy microscope on high power, you must have noticed the wild colorful speckled patterns and rings which resist any attempt to focus. Have you noticed the strange patterns of a street lights through the finely rippled glass of a bathroom window? These too are diffraction patterns. They are caused not only by cheap lenses, rippled glass or poor eyesight, but also by the inherent wave-like nature of light.
Diffract lets you generate an unlimited variety of these patterns, manipulate them, and save them for reuse as background patterns and other kinds of ornamentation.
Requires Windows 95.
Freeware Contact: David Bleecker Email: bleecker@math.hawaii.edu
A program that generates fun ideas. You choose the type of activity that you want in terms of cost and time required, select the group of people you'll be with, and click the "Get Ideas" button. Quality of Life lists 8 ideas for fun activities that fit the parameters you selected.
Nothing grabs you? Click the "Get Ideas" button again, and 8 more ideas are listed. Or click the "Spontaneous" button, and Quality of Life randomly selects parameters and 8 fun ideas.
Use Quality of Life to spur your own creativity. Sometimes, seeing a few lists of fun activities is enough to get you generating your own ideas. If you wish, you may add your original ideas to the data base or add comments to any idea with Quality of Life's editing feature.
$9.95 Contact: Datasmiths, Tel: +1 (908) 707-8005 Email: CompuServe: 71270,3631 Internet: rhogan@cnj.digex.net WWW: http:/www.cnj.digex.net/`rhogan
This is part of the TRAVEL-MAX Travel Utilities software bundle available from Vista Research. Weather quickly and easily gives you the average high and low temperatures for more than 80 major world cities, along with expected rainfall. Hundreds more cities are available in the Weather First Class version. You can view the expected weather in either standard or metric formats and even graph the temperatures to a get a visual overview. Use Weather to plan and pack appropriately for your travels, make a print out of the weather and include in with your tickets when your pack for trip.
You are given a city selection screen. Select a city from the drop down list by scrolling through the list or typing the first few characters of the name of the city. To display the weather for that city, double-click on the city name with the mouse. When viewing this weather information, you can choose to display it in Metric (Celsius, also known as centigrade, and millimeters) or Standard English (Fahrenheit and inches) measurements. If you wish to view a graph of the temperatures, click on the graph button. The graph will use which ever measurements you selected on the previous screen. To close the graph and select a new city, simply double-click on the small rectangle in the upper left hand corner. To print either screen choose the Print option under the File menu.
Freeware Contact: Vista Research Email: CompuServe: 74710,1177
Provides monthly weather averages for 80 representative U.S. cities. It can display graphs of high/low temperatures, sunshine, rainfall, snowfall, humidity and sunrise/sunset times. Up to three cities can be selected on one graph for side-by-side comparison. Data can be printed.
$12 Contact: Salt Creek Software Email: CompuServe 71174,2436
Handy utility for travellers and geography students. World Distance lets you calculate the distances between two locations anywhere in the world. You can add own locations with your own coordinates, and the program will calculate the distances.
Requires VBRUN300.DLL.
$10 Contact: Eric J. van Dorp Fax: +31 1806 13956 CompuServe: 100337,3035
Two more outstanding collections of luscious Windows wallpaper designs from computer artist Gini Schmitz.
Geo Optrix features 75 optical illusion wallpapers. Your eyes will play tricks on you, and-the image will seem to change with parts floating in space.
Wallpaper Fantasy comprises 30 designs of patterns and colors, from understated elegance to bright and dazzling, and everything in between to make your desktop a beautiful work environment.
To use these programs, look in the Sharewre folder on the root of the CD-ROM - the folders you need are: "Optrix" and "WPFA".
$8 each Contact: Dingl Ware +1 (805) 486-5591, Fax: +1 (805) 486-5591, Email: honey@isle.net
TrayText allows you to specify up to 14 autotext items (stock phrases, addresses, signatures, or other or boilerplate text), available to any application by clicking the TrayText icon in the system tray. Makes common phrases available to any application with just two mouse clicks or key presses. Plus, a useful Spike feature for collecting text from different sources. Items can be up to 32kB each, plus a shortcut to the text stored as item number 1 - simply double-click the TrayText icon with the left mouse-button. You can store the phrase you use most often there, for ease of access.
Works in conjunction with Traydate 6.0, revised and updated version of Martin McKean's handy utility. Date, time and counter utility for the tray - displays the date (day of the month) next to the clock. Left-click to give a menu showing the date in various formats ready to be automatically inserted in any application. You can now define your own format with date, time and counters.
Require Windows 95 or NT 4.0.
£10 each Contact: Martin McKean/MJM_Software Email: martin@mckean.demon.co.uk Compuserve 101351,2115.