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=====News & Views <psl_logo.pcx>
Contents:
-----Software for the Home
-----Windows Book Bundles CD-ROM
-----CD-ROM Drive for $75/Month
-----New Retail Products
-----Letters
-----Starlite Acquires PC-Write
-----Does Not Compute...
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-----Software for the Home
This month we have included all the home-related applications
(excluding games, which were on the January CD) for DOS and Windows
from our disk-based library on the PsL Monthly CD, so we will use this
opportunity to discuss these programs. For the benefit of non-CD
users, we have included the disk numbers for programs mentioned.
The categories included under Home include home accounting, investing,
financial analysis (mortgages, etc.), education, astrology and the
occult, collecting, diet & nutrition & health, food & drinks,
genealogy, home management, cataloging movies & music & books,
science, weather, maps, vehicle management, and other miscellaneous
programs.
---Home Accounting:
There are countless high-quality, effective home accounting programs
which range from bare-bones checkbook balancing to powerful accounting
programs as good as or better than those available in the retail
market.
Disk #1010 contains several simple checkbook balancing programs, like
Bank Statement Tamer, which don't require you to record checks and
deposits.
MegaDisk Set #20076 contains two of the most powerful, yet easy and
efficient to use programs for home accounting, Cash Control and Tree
Based. The latter has a unique interface which is a combination of a
spreadsheet, an outliner, and a checkbook.
MegaDisk Set #27011 has four other very popular, high-quality home
accounting programs: Checkmate, Cheque-It-Out, FastBucks, and
Ultra-Check.
Accounting-101 (#1296) is a home accounting program which supports
subaccounts, making it suitable for business as well as home. For
example, you might have an account for "Auto Expense" and subaccounts
for each individual car. This lets you see expenses by car as well as
in total.
Bankbook and PC Allowance (#20298) are accounting programs for kids to
use in keeping track of their allowances and to learn financial
responsibility. PC Allowance works like an ATM.
CCI Home Budget, Personal Budget Tools, and Personal Budget (MegaDisk
Set #27354) are home accounting programs with an emphasis on
budgeting. (Many of the other programs mentioned in previous
paragraphs also offer budgeting.)
---Financial Analysis:
This category includes numerous programs for comparing and analyzing
mortgages (Homebuying and Refinancing, #27108), planning for
retirement or for college (#27339), and other financial analysis such
as present value, depreciation, etc. (#27110).
MegaDisk Set #27110 contains very sophisticated mortgage analysis
programs which support different types of loans and repayment
schedules, as well as showing the results of periodic prepayments
(additional payments towards principle).
---Income Tax Software:
MegaDisk Set #27596 is a collection of income tax return programs for
the latest tax year, 1993. The form-on-screen approach makes entering
data as easy as writing it on a printed form, and the automatic
calculations make the programs faster and more reliable than doing a
return by hand. (But we recommend entering your data into two
different programs and comparing the results to guard against possible
errors in the software.)
---Investment:
We have a great many programs for keeping track of and analyzing
stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and other investments. PFROI
(on #27043) is a highly regarded program for analyzing the return on
investment for a portfolio. Stock Portfolio Record Manager, Portworth,
StockTrack, and StockTrax (all on #27202) keep track of and chart the
performance of your stocks.
---Education:
The education category in PsL is quite extensive. In the area of
computer education, there are programs for learning to use the PC,
DOS, and Windows.
Tutor.Com (in set #27032) is one of the most popular computer training
programs. Other programs in that set let you practice DOS commands in
a controlled environment so that a novice does not put the contents of
a hard disk at risk while practicing.
Other categories in Education include government & geography, history,
languages (Asian, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish and
others), literature (eg: the text of some of Shakespeare's plays is on
#27457 and #27552), math for grade school (#27655: Math for Kids) to
college (#27654), reading & spelling & vocabulary, science,
pre-school, and other.
We also have a large collection of programs to aid teachers in keeping
class rosters, seating assignments, and test scores, as well as to aid
in generating tests of different types.
---Astrology & Occult:
Astrology programs have always been popular disks with PsL's
customers. Set #27045 contains several such programs: Astro,
Astrology, and AstroMart.
Rosemary West is the Queen of Occult Software. Her programs include
Wynter Stone's I Ching, By the Numbers (numerology), Crystal Ball,
Fortune Teller, Geomancy, Personal Tarot, Webster's Aura Reading and
Quick Numerology, and Your ESP Test.
---Collecting:
For those of you who like to collect things, we have programs for
managing collections of stamps (#27810), coins (#27595), books (#27281
- these are programs more for libraries, not individuals), movies
(#27837 - these are movie information databases), tapes & records
(#27222), trading cards (#27563), video tapes (#27223), and
miscellaneous items (#4183).
---Diet, Nutrition, and Health:
The 6-Step Stress Manager (#2534), Depression-Free (#2361), and
Headache-Free (#2287) have been hot sellers (which worries us a
little).
Set #27215 has five disks of programs for managing your diet,
including a dietary analysis of the offerings of fast food chains.
This section also contains programs for keeping track of miles run,
walked, biked, etc.
---Food & Drinks:
Meal Master (in set #27218) is something of a standard for recipe
programs. Set #27219 contains five disks of programs for planning
trips to the grocery store. Set #27365 keeps track of coupons. Set
#27217 has Home Bartender's Guide and Vino:File Cellar Master for
serious wine imbibers.
---Genealogy:
Keeping track of family trees is a job for which computers are ideally
suited. Family members and relations can easily be entered and printed
out for others or viewed and searched on-screen. Family History System
(three disks in set #27220) and Brother's Keeper (four disks in
#27046) are two popular genealogy programs.
---Home Management:
MegaDisk Set #27360 contains four disks of home inventory type
programs which can be of great assistance for police or insurance
purposes should fire, flood, hurricane, thieves, or other disasters
befall your home.
Other programs in this section include home remote control software
(for X10 type controllers), home maintenance, home insulation
calculators, and more.
---Science, Weather & Maps:
Most of the Science programs are related to astronomy. Programs like
Starside, Starware, and Our Cosmohood, (in Set #27731) and SkyGlobe
(set #27227) let you view the stars on screen as they would appear
from various points and times on earth.
Weather prediction and tracking can be done with the programs in set
#27228. Hurricane tracking programs on set #27226 include Tracker,
Storm, and World29, the latter of which also serves as a general
purpose world globe.
---Other:
Vehicle Management programs for one or more cars let you keep track of
expenses by car and plan scheduled maintenance.
Gardeners will want MegaDisk Set #20035, which help plan and maintain
gardens.
Specialty programs are also included in this section for learning
speed reading (#3746), resume writing & job hunting (#27722), fishing
and boating (#27358), organizing weddings (#27524), analyzing
handwriting (#1538), designing knitting patterns (#4186), Origami
(#0583), HAM radio (#27357), Cub and Boy Scouts (#27702)