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Miscellaneous Software : Freeware Typing Tutor with Aquarium Animation
The freeware Rapid Typing Tutor displays animation while taking users through a succession of keyboarding drills.
March 17, 2010, at 5:05 P.M. EDT
Rapid Typing Tutor for Windows aims to help speed up your typing through a series of lessons. This freeware application will have you start out with just a few letters, work your way through punctuations and short syllables, tackle capital letters, key in longer words, and then run through digits and finally longer blocks of text. More advanced typists can jump around to specific lessons if desired.
While typing, to keep you entertained an animated aquarium scene appears behind the characters to be keyed (this can be turned off if you find it distracting). A visual keyboard appears below, with transparent hands moving as you type....
Miscellaneous Software : Extract Icons from Files
Obtain icons stored in executables or other files with Icons from File. The software supports command-line extraction.
March 17, 2010, at 2:48 P.M. EDT
Icons From File is a Windows application that can help you obtain icons stored inside executables and other files. Icons can be saved as standard .ICO files, or may be saved in other graphics formats such as .BMP, .EMF, or .JPG.
Multiple icons may be exported to an HTML document or Dbase 5 file (DBF). Icons can also be copied to the clipboard or printed. Plus, the software can be run from the command line for batch file or automated icon extraction. ...
Text Editors - Notepad Replacements : Text Editor with Integrated Web Browser and HTML Toolbar
EditPlus offers features useful for web programmers such as syntax highlighting, code folding, an integrated browser, and a color picker.
March 17, 2010, at 12:58 P.M. EDT
EditPlus is a Windows text editor with multi-document support. The software contains programmer-centric features such as syntax highlighting for HTML, Java, and PHP, and pre-made templates for C/C++, HTML, Java, and Perl files. Files can be previewed in the integrated web browser.
Features include document spell check, an integrated FTP client, code folding, line formatting features such as splitting lines and converting tabs to spaces, find and replace with regular expression support, brace and tag matching, and a cliptext window (view ASCII characters, control characters, and tags for HTML, XHTML, and CSS)....
Sites to Browse - Misc : Word Pronounciations, Example Usage, Synonyms, More
Wordnik provides a wealth of information about English words, even related Twitter messages and Flickr photographs.
March 16, 2010, at 5:21 P.M. EDT
Crossword puzzle solvers, Scrabble(r) players, scholars, "An Exaltation of Larks" readers, and those who enjoy playing other word games may find the Wordnik website entertaining and enlightning. Search for a word using the tool and you will find a wealth of related information.
Among some of the details provided by Wordnik - multiple definitions, example usage, related words, pronounciation, and etymologies. You may also see how many times your word has been queried, Twitter messages including your word, and related photos from Flickr. You can also leave comments about a word or share the Wordnik information via Facebook or Twitter....
iGoogle : Match the Falling Colored Balls in an iGoogle Game
Clear matching colored balls in Trio before they reach the top of the screen.
March 16, 2010, at 3:23 P.M. EDT
Trio is a variation of a "Match 3" game that you can add to your iGoogle page. Balls in groups of three continually fall down the screen. Your job is to match three balls of the same color horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to remove them from the playing area. Once the balls reach the top of the screen, the game is over.
The cursor left and right keys move the falling Trio, and cursor down drops it. The cursor up key rotates the colored balls in the Trio so you can align three matching colored balls. Since games can last a long time, you may pause the action. The game keeps track of the top score and your rank....
Miscellaneous Software : priPrinter for a Universal Print Preview and More
priPrinter lets you preview printouts as well as alter previews, allowing for the addition of page numbers, watermarks, text, and more.
March 16, 2010, at 12:48 P.M. EDT
priPrinter for Windows acts as a go-between for applications and your printer. After installing the application, "printing" to priPrinter allows you to preview documents, helping make sure they will appear on paper as desired.
During the preview process you can switch from portrait to landscape, toggle double-sided printing, adjust margins and gutters, choose to print multiple pages per sheet, and change the page print order. You can print the current job in grayscale, change the page color, add borders, remove graphics, and/or make all text appear in black. ...
File Splitters : GSplit Creates Self Uniting Split Files
GSplit can split up large files for distribution and contains a variety of options. An optional file joining wizard can be distributed with the split pieces.
March 15, 2010, at 4:42 P.M. EDT
GSplit is a freeware file splitting/joining application for Windows, useful for splitting files for distribution via electronic mail, instant messaging, portable media such as CDs and DVDs, or other means. The software supports the creation of disk spanned pieces, or you can create block pieces with a pre-determined size.
GSplit can add "Self-Uniting Functionality" to the spanned set, creating an executable that acts as a wizard in uniting the pieces together. This way you do not have to include GSplit with the re-united pieces, just a much smaller distributable executable. However, GSplit itself (via the GUnite tool) can re-unite pieces without the wizard....
Microsoft Visio 2007 : Double Underline Text to Make it Stand Out
Focus on important text in a Visio 2007 document by underlining it twice.
March 15, 2010, at 1:09 P.M. EDT
One way to focus a reader's attention onto certain text in a Microsoft Visio 2007 document is to underline the text, something easy to do by pressing the underline button in the toolbar or pressing Ctrl + U. But what if you want to really draw focus to an important word or phrase? Underline it twice - here's how.
1. Select the text you wish to double underline....
Calculators : Open Source Bignum Calculator with up to 306 Decimal Digits
TTCalc performs calculations with a high degree of precision, and also supports user-defined functions and variables.
March 15, 2010, at 12:05 P.M. EDT
If you need a Windows calculator with a high degree of decimal precision, consider the open-source TTCalc. This bignum calculator supports precision from 26 decimal digits all the way to 306. Numbers up to having an exponent of 99 can be displayed normally before being shown in scientific notation.
TTCalc supports basic mathematical functions as well as trigonometric (sine, cosine, tangent, plus hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions). Several pre-made functions are included such as rounding, floor, ceiling, average, minimum, and maximum. The software also supports user-definable variables and functions....
Digital Image Resizers : Image Resizer and HTML Page Creator
ThumbNailer can resize your images and optionally create HTML galleries. Many customization options are available.
March 12, 2010, at 2:31 P.M. EST
ThumbNailer is an image resizing application for Windows. The software can resize images, saving the results in a variety of formats including .png, .jpg, and .tiff. Multiple resize options include "Auto Crop", "Best Fit" for maintaining proportions, "Exact Size", and "Percent". Simply choose the source and destination directories, the desired image size, output settings, and click the "Start" button to resize the images.
Accessing the "More Options" button provides advanced features such as outputting web pages with the thumbnails. A multitude of options include changing the font, body tag colors, image hspace and vspace, table appearance, label appearances for the next and previous pages, as well as text inside the <head>, <title>, <body>, and <img> tags, and more....
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