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 Productivity trialware and shareware for Windows 95, 3.1 and
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| Shareware of the month World Clock 98 If you need to know what time it is in various parts of the globe, World Clock 98 is a clever (and free) utility which gives you date and time information for up to 12 locations around the world. All you need to do is set your local city and your 12 locations can be made up of any world cities you choose -- select from over 1000 locations. The program displays either full screen or as a rollup.
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 World Clock 98 is a free Australian world time and date utility. |
| Eclipse Personal Version 3.0 URL: www.active-media-online.com The ultimate Screen Saver Toolkit. With Active Media Eclipse v.3.0 you can create your own Windows Screen Savers. Incorporating a range of powerful Transitions, Screen Savers take just a few seconds to create. With a Developer or Professional Licence, you can also copy to unlimited numbers of other PC's. No programming required.
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| TurboProject 2.0 Professional Ease of use:  Project design:  Scheduling: Diagrams: Reports: Manual & help: Overall value: System requirements: Windows 3.1, 95 or NT 3.51 or later or OS/2 with Windows support, 386 or higher, 8Mb RAM, 30Mb hard disk space, VGA or higher, CD-ROM drive. Support: Ongoing free support From: IMSI Australia (02) 9319 7533 URL: http://www.imsi.com.au List price: $599.95 TurboProject Professional is a heavyweight project management tool designed for experienced as well as novice users. This software doesn't aim to teach you about project management. It assumes you have some knowledge of the process involved in defining and managing a project. If you aren't experienced in project management then you'll need to do some reading before you begin. However, for a powerful package aimed at the professional project manager, the interface is surprisingly easy to use once you become familiar with it.
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 TurboProject Professional's constrain function reschedules your project to meet constraints which you impose on resource usage. |
| Microsoft Project 98 Ease of use: Project design: Scheduling: Diagrams: Reports: Manual & help: Overall value: System requirements: Windows 95 or NT (3.51 Service
Pack 5, 4.0 Service Pack 2 or later), 486 or higher, 12Mb RAM (Win 95) or 16Mb RAM (NT),
20 to 40Mb hard disk space, VGA or higher (Super VGA recommended), CD-ROM,
Microsoft-compatible mouse. Microsoft Project 98 offers beginner project users a range of different forms of assistance beginning with Quick Preview, which is a simple text-based explanation of what the program can offer. Other options include 'Learn while you work', 'Navigate with a map' and 'Microsoft Project 101:Fundamentals'. Microsoft Project has everything you need to design and manage your project. It is easy to use and will appeal to the novice as well as the experienced user. While its high price tag drops its 'overall value' rating, one function that will set it apart from its competition is the ability to publish HTML and GIF files for uploading to an Intranet.
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 Microsoft's Project includes a range of charts for tracking your project, including this calendar view. |
| Project KickStart for Windows Ease of use: Project design: Scheduling: N/A Diagrams: N/A Reports: Manual & help: Overall value: System requirements: Windows 3.1, 95 or NT, 386 or higher, 4Mb RAM, 1.6Mb hard disk space, VGA or higher, mouse recommended. Support: Ongoing free support From: StepUp Systems (03) 9427 0168 URL: http://www.stepup.com.au List price: $169 Project KickStart is not a scheduling program, it doesn't maintain any project costing, it doesn't allow you to link completion of one task to the commencement of another, it only offers a single Gantt chart diagram, and it doesn't maintain a diary for you. It simply provides a procedure for you to brainstorm your project which you can then download to Microsoft Project or another scheduling program. So, why would you buy Project KickStart when its functions are so narrow that you may need to buy a scheduling program anyway? It's an ideal tool for people who are new to project design and those who manage projects as a part of their job, not the entire focus of it.
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 Project KickStart's strength is its simple interface which allows you to spend time brainstorming your project rather than learning to use the software. |
| Agenda 98 URL: http://www.idyle.com/agenda98 Registered price: $35 Rating: Agenda provides the usual PIM functionality: a calendar, scheduler and a task list in a clear, attractive interface. The program's big benefit is its Internet integration -- you can send e-mail and surf the Web from within it. Unfortunately, however, it doesn't include an address book, which limits its usefulness as a work tool.
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 Agenda 98 is a good PIM with Internet capabilities. |
| StickyNote URL: www.hotfiles.com Registered price: Free Rating: If you've tried other sticky note programs and haven't found one that's right for you, give this freebie a try. A click on the system tray icon gives you a new note which you can leave on your desktop or hide. Notes can have any number of fonts, colours and sizes, and you can send them to any computer on your LAN or on the Internet. When you send a note, it will open on your recipient's computer screen in real time.
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 StickyNote is an excellent free stickies program. |
| Activity Log URL: www.hotfiles.com Registered price: Free Rating: This small, free program allows you to log the time spent on various tasks. It takes up very little room on your screen and basically all you need to do to type in what you did. You can create a file for each project, and your logs can be printed, or exported to other programs, such as your word processor or a spreadsheet.
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 Activity Log is a small, free program that allows you to log the time spent on various tasks. |
| Prime 97 for Word 97 URL: http://www.primeconsulting.com Registered price: $39 Rating: Prime 97 is an add-in program for Word 97. It's a collection of utilities, including Bookmark Manager to manage your bookmarks in each document; Create Program Shortcut to create a shortcut to the current document in any Start/Program menu group; File Delete to safely or permanently delete the current document; File New to manage template features; Find My Dot which shows you the current template and allows you to perform tasks such as creating a new document based on or editing the template; and Zoomer makes it easy to control your document's Zoom setting.
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| StratusPad URL: www.winfiles.com Registered price: Free Rating: StratusPad is a freeware text editor. If you run a lot of programs at a time, or if you're on a slow machine, you may find it easier to use StratusPad than a high-end word processor or WordPad, since it's quick to load, opens multiple large files, has a spell checker, a word counter and a case converter, as well as column and line indicators. Additional major features include drag and drop between files; open documents in a number of formats, including Word 6.0, WRI, RTF and TXT; three toolbars; a status bar; font support; print preview; and one level of undo.
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 StratusPad is a freeware text editor with lots of useful features. |
| CompuPic 32 URL: www.photodex.com Registered price: $70 Rating: CompuPic is a multimedia file manager, thumbnail creator, viewer and image-editor. The program supports various file formats, including AVI, BMP, DIB, FLC, FLX, GIF, JPG, MID, MOV, MMM, MPG, PCD, PNG, PCX, RLE, RMI, TGA, ASCII, TIF and WAV. It offers an Explorer-like interface, and you can easily create slide shows and picture indexes. The program also has built-in screen capturing, digital camera/scanner support and it lets you create Windows wallpaper from your images.
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 CompuPic 32 is a multimedia file manager. |
| Backer URL: www.leanware.com Registered price: $65 Rating: Backing up can be a chore but Backer makes it so simple that you'll actually do it. Use the program to keep folders synchronised; keep backups of important files; and transfer files between machines or transfer files to removable drives. The program can also be set up to monitor specific folders, including or excluding customisable file patterns, then you can click to make the source and destination folders identical.
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 Manage file backups easily and simply with Backer. |
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| WriteExpress Easy Letters URL: http://www.WriteExpress.com Registered price: $60 Rating: How do you decline to accept a gift? Confirm an oral agreement? Request confirmation of an authorisation to take action? Announce a layoff? Our business and personal lives are filled with situations which leave us struggling for the right words or for any words at all. WriteExpress Easy Letters helps you to write both business and personal letters with confidence, with information on how to gracefully handle around 500 tricky situations.
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 WriteExpress Easy Letters you can write business and personal letters simply and easily. |
| TimeWin URL: www.thundercreek.com Registered price: $80 Rating: TimeWin allows you to track your billable time. The program's interface is simple and intuitive in a File Manager-style. You can track your time both for individual clients and for entire projects. Invoices are easy -- you can opt to have TimeWin generate a detailed invoice at any time. The program includes lots of additional features and is ideal if you work for many clients or if you subcontract work out.
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 With TimeWin you can track your billable time, both for individual clients and for entire projects.
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| DOS DOS program should normally be run from the DOS prompt. Any links we have provided below are for Windows users to try running or installing the program in a DOS Window. If this fails to work however you will need to exit to DOS and try from there
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| ShareCon URL: www.shareware.com Registered price: $27 Rating: ShareCon is an easy-to-use DOS contact manager. You can use it in either a work environment, because the program makes it easy to share data with others, or at home. You'll find several features that make searching thousands of records easy: an alphabetical search, a plain word search, as well as a keywords system. If you opt for keywords, each ShareCon record may contain up to three keywords.
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 ShareCon is an easy to use DOS contact management program. |
| VDE URL: www.shareware.com Registered price: $55 Rating: VDE is a tiny, speedy and powerful DOS text editor with excellent features for its size, including multiple open files; auto-format; macros; lots of customisation options and more. It's an ideal word processor for use on your portable -- even on your palmtop. Registration benefits include a spell-checker.
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 VDE is an excellent small DOS word processor. |
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