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ISSUE 107  MARCH 1996		© Windows OnLine, 1992-96


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	About the WinOnLine Review™   The Masthead, Copyright  Information, and Where to find WOLR
	How to Read the Review Handy Hints for the New Reader
	Publisher’s Desk, by Frank Mahaney Flat rate!?!?!
	Red Pencil Ponderings, by Bob Gollihur To come, and still more complaining?
	Cache La Byte Commentary, by Thom Foulks Virtually a Nightmare
	Letters Where did the HTML go?
	Thoughts on Cumulative Trauma Injuries, by Gary Karp We can’t be seriously injured while we’re sitting down, can we?
	Shareware Briefs, by Wolly “Is your zipper being undone?!?”
	Review Updates and Quick Takes The latest from the WinOnLine Review™ staff • Deluxe Bible • SafetyNet
	New Files at Windows OnLine™ (BBS), by Kirk Amspoker A generous sampling of the files recently made available to our members
	TSS WordContact, by Ed Hoffman “..Both the novice and experienced Word user will find this a ‘must have’ utility.”
	VuePrint 4.3 Pro/32 Edition, by Ted Tatman Slideshows, bitmaps, uuencode --there’s plenty to like about this program
	Drag and View for Win32, by Steven Justice Saving the best for last
	Symmetoy, by Lisa J. Martin Have an inkling for painting or drawing? Experience Symmetoy.
	Geography USA & Geography Europe, by Chris McKittrick Could you point out Bosnia-Herzegovina on a map?
	Personal Tax Edge, by Ed Rasimus Tax preparation software is like those cars of the fifties -- it changes every year.
	QmodemPro 2.0 for Windows 95, by Ted Tatman Ten fully multithreaded protocols keeps the file transfer cookin’
	Echo Lake, by Chris McKittrick A new way to relive those family memories
	Felix, by Bob Gollihur A different kind of mouse gets even better
	PrimeraPro Color Printer, by Ed Rasimus Wax Transfer/Dye Sublimation Printing for the home
	Handwel Gloves, by Bob Gollihur Are gloves the answer? What’s the question?
	Network Presentation Audio, by Ted Tatman Just the ticket for great music for a great presentation
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RED PENCIL PONDERINGS

comments from Bob Gollihur, WOLR Managing Editor

Yes, I’m still on the hand/wrist thing. Can’t help it, since I’m reminded by too many pills, contraptions, and this most effective reminder or all, pain. I’ll spare you the details.

I won’t, however, spare the details on some of the neat ergonomic gadgets I’m playing with. Right now I’m typing on a Maltron keyboard (pictured), which I’ll tell you about next month, along with some other interesting stuff. Meanwhile, we have reviews on Felix, the latest version of a mouse of a different sort, personal experiences with Handwel gloves, and a great article entitled, “Thoughts on Cumulative Trauma Injuries,” by Gary Karp. It’s information you can use.

Don’t miss Thom Foulks’ pickle of an adventure this month — it’s guaranteed to make you smile, and maybe even think.

We have quite a real treat of an issue this month, with more reviews than any of our magazines to date. I have to pause to sincerely thank all of our staff and freelance writers for their consistently great contributions. If you see something you like, let us know — each writer has contact information at the close of their article, with some further information in popup form. If you disagree, you can take it up with them, or send a Letter to the Editor for possible publication.

Thanks for being a reader!

Bob Gollihur, Managing Editor

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Bob’s heard that he’s not alone. Seems that road workers are refusing to paint those diamond highway markers inside tunnels, being concerned about getting carpool tunnel syndrome.


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G. B. Reilly, Australia, via the Internet

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<BG>

I am absolutely new to Windows OnLine (signed on with my new membership only yesterday, so am using another, more familiar bit of software, not to mention another BBS to send this).

I have read many articles about RSI's and ergonomics over the years and am intrigued that no one ever mentions the one thing that I, as a pianist and organist (another group often afflicted with RSI's), have found to be the single most helpful thing that anyone can do to help especially in the area of wrists and hands.

GET YOUR KEYBOARD OFF YOUR DESKTOP!

I prefer a free-standing keyboard stand, which allows more freedom, but a 'drawer' with a swivel that allows height and tilt adjustment is good.  Even a 'typing height' return is preferable to standard desktop height.

Use a position that puts your forearms as nearly parallel to the floor as possible.  If you must compromise, try to put your hands slightly lower than your elbows.  It will minimize the tendency of your wrists to 'sag' and that will provide easier movement of the tendons through wrists and hands.

I did not ever have wrist problems but I had shoulders that got so sore that I had to back into revolving doors because it hurt too much to push them.  My doctor, puzzled, sent me to a physical therapist who was equally puzzled but noticed that as I did my exercises, I always seemed to keep my shoulders high, in a sort of “shrugging” position.  I finally realized that it was an effort to protect my wrists that did it and moved my keyboard down. Within a week, my shoulders stopped hurting and I have not had a moment's difficulty since.

Second, if your monitor is sitting on anything other than your desktop, move whatever it is sitting on and move the monitor as far back on the desktop as you dare.  Once adjusted for brightness, contrast and tilt, you'll probably never again have to touch it except possibly to turn it on and off. An additional benefit is that you will probably only need to glance downward, rather than tilt your head, to see your keyboard, saving some awkward neck extension, especially if you are not the greatest touch typist in the Western World and need to watch your hands.

In addition to the benefits of a better arm position and body posture, you gain some center-stage copy space on your desktop (where your keyboard used to be). Copy is positioned between the monitor and keyboard and you need only shift your eyes slightly to switch from any one to another.

It is ironic that everyone seemed to know this  a century ago but when we switched to computers, we were content to just pile all that gear on the desktop and start typing. Thanks for your article and thanks to WOL for this forum.

Ze’ev Ben-Haim, via the Internet

Thanks for your comments and sharing your experience. Sadly, there are too many folks out there with old Steelcase desks as their computer stands. Hope you enjoy Gary Karp’s article this month on the subject.

<BG>

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CACHE LA BYTE COMMENTARY

commentary by Thom Foulks

The female lion on one of my Win95 machines had jumped off the screen, and was sauntering around my office, its swinging tail knocking books off the shelves. As my BBS users typed in messages on another machine, I was hearing a real-time voice playback. Two of my users were adding yet another chapter to a name-calling political discussion. I briefly pondered whether they were violating the new Federal telecommunications laws, and decided I couldn’t do anything about it.

I was having a nightmare.

On the windowsill, several hundred of my abandoned 5-1/4" floppy disks were staging a “right to work” rally. Out the window, I saw that the haunted house screen saver from another Win95 machine had moved across the street -- its creaking door swinging in the breeze. The bat flying over its roof had a mouse cord dangling from it.

On the workbench, an old single-speed CD ROM drive was noisily choking on Grolier’s edition of the “Guinness Book of Records.” When I logged onto the Internet for email, I watched as my mail file expanded with all the bulk mail that should have been going to my curbside USPS mail box. From my spare parts closet, I heard a bunch of Ethernet cards arguing about interrupts.

To drown out the din, I flipped on my little office TV -- up popped a Netscape Navigator screen with an image of Bill Gates and a voice saying: “Where do you want to go today?” I grabbed a mouse and clicked on the Start icon, only to be logged to a Web page where Pat Buchanan was interviewing Dan Rather. I changed channels, er, pages, and Mark Andreesen was interviewing Michael Kinsley.

I clicked to my family-oriented Web home page, and found my grandchildren having an impromptu game of football. Looked ordinary enough, but the goal lines were located in California and Wyoming. (We don’t all live in Colorado.) It was only getting noisier, so I turned off the TV.

Just then, my aging i386DX33 turned itself on and began nasally wailing a C&W song about how I didn’t love it any more. Scampering for the machine’s switch, I was too slow -- the circuit breaker popped, and...

...Everything got very quiet.  This awakened me, with a fresh memory of how salmon sticks and pickles do not mix well. But the nightmare was unsettling.  I’d really been through a taste (more than the pickles) of some of what virtual reality holds for us in the future. Not wanting to awaken my wife, I went to the kitchen table to quiet my nerves with a glass of ice water.

It had been only a few weeks earlier that I had surfed to one of the virtual reality demonstration sites on the Web and found myself linked to a programmer who was updating the site.  I had clicked on an avatar which appeared to be waving at me, and suddenly a voice popped out of my speakers: “Do you have voice?” A small input box had also popped up on screen, into which I typed, “Sorry -- no mike on this machine.” We nonetheless chatted by keyboard for several moments, and he tipped me to a couple of things at the site I’d not seen. I’d not seen him, either, but the software already exists by which I could have, in real-time video.

This is the stuff of movies, like “Full Disclosure” and “Network” -- fiction, not real life.

Oh, yeah? Microsoft links up with NBC, then MCI, promising a full Internet presence and promises a virtual giveaway of Web server software; Compaq links up with Netscape, which is fresh from acquiring its own virtual reality software firm; IBM begins marketing Superscape’s virtual reality software; and everyone except my Aunt Maxine has licensed Sun’s Java applet technology. Oracle wants to put an “Internet appliance” on everyone’s desk, and may buy Apple hardware to do just that.

I ruminated on all this briefly, but it was time to get back to bed. Still trying to dispel the nightmare images from mind, I used the remote control to click on the bedroom TV to find something to bore myself back to sleep. A commercial, of course, popped onto the screen. I started to pull a pillow over my head, when I noticed the message scrolling across the bottom of the screen:

It said: “For more information on our Amazing Potato Peeler, surf to http://www.peeling.com TODAY!” I clicked off the TV.  Once a night is enough.

All that was yesterday. So far today, I’ve resisted the temptation, but after I get through sending this to Editor Bob, well...

commentary by

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Thom Foulks

thom@usa.net

http://www.usa.net/~thom

Thom says many surfers apparently had the wrong impression as to what they’d find at the “peeling” site.  It was overloaded, and he couldn’t get to it.


THOUGHTS ON CUMULATIVE TRAUMA INJURIES

an essay by Gary Karp

After sitting for a few hours, you get up and discover how stiff your body is. While you work you probably stretched your neck or rubbed your hands and wrists a little. Perhaps even worse, you felt some tingling in your fingers. But you are so busy or having such a good time or driven by a deadline so that you barely notice these small discomforts. Besides, they clear up as soon as you move around a little. And if they persist the next day, a couple of aspirin will do the trick, won’t they? After all, we can’t be seriously injured while we’re sitting down, can we?

Unfortunately, we can.

At the least, there is an epidemic of sore necks and shoulders amongst computer users. At the worst, people are being disabled and careers are ended as a result of chronic pain syndromes which can take years to recover from or even be permanent. None of this need happen.

Why Now?

We are the first generation of human beings to spend so many hours sitting in limited postures doing small movements under stress as part of our daily work routine on such a large scale. Already, estimates are that nearly 50 million people have computers on their desks at work. The number is growing steadily. By now almost everyone has heard of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as a computer-related problem. The seemingly sudden appearance of these “cumulative trauma injuries” is directly related to the evolution of desktop computing in the modern workplace.

The United States bureau of Labor Statistics reported more than three hundred thousand cases of cumulative trauma in American business in 1993, up from a steady annual rate of around seventy thousand in the early 80s. Some of those include work settings with a history of the problem such as meat packing houses, grocery clerks, sign interpreters, and others. But looking at the numbers it is clear that the level of reported cases has dramatically increased beginning in 1984 when desktop computers began to appear. As processing speed increased, prices came down, and the software market matured, computers spread into our work environment at an amazing pace.

So, unfortunately, did cumulative trauma injuries.

What’s happening now is typical of the appearance of any new technology in human history. It took the industrial revolution for us to learn that as a society we wanted safe places to work, free of the dangers of falling into vats of molten steel or having to breathe toxic chemicals. At first, most people didn’t give it much thought until the scale of the injuries became clear.

It may seem strange to compare the current situation to the industrial revolution, but the analogy makes sense. Once again we have jumped into a new technology and allowed our economy to rely on it, and now we have some lessons to learn from the first generation of users. Just as the captains of industry discovered that it made business sense to protect workers in the factory, so must executives and managers learn the lesson today.

There is risk in the very nature of extended computer use. To not respect these inherent boundaries is to risk losing the most dedicated and hardest working employees, to pay out exorbitant costs for insurance, overtime, rehiring and retraining, and be required to pay for accommodations - sometimes under enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It means to lose productivity and creativity from people who are unnecessarily working with discomfort and pain.

It just makes a lot of business sense to make sure that people are comfortable at their computers and protected from the risk of injury. Comfort is no longer a luxury in the workplace. It’s a necessity.

What’s Different About Computing?

People have been using typewriters for a long time. Why didn’t they get injured?

Well, some of them did. But it is happening to more computer users for some very clear reasons.

A typist would push the carriage return over, change the paper, stop to correct mistakes, and get up to go to filing cabinets. These small breaks in the nature of the work and the opportunity to get up and move around served to protect people from injury because it allowed the body to replenish itself throughout the day. These breaks are crucial to the health and resilience of our tissues.

Using a typewriter also involved more movement of the arms and hands because of the extra pressure typically needed to press the keys. This meant that more and larger muscles could share the work. Now, the light touch of computer keyboards require only movement of the fingers putting the load on fewer, smaller muscles.

So picture how we work at the computer. We sit and, thanks to word wrapping, page breaks, and hard drives, we don’t get these small breaks but just keep pecking and clicking away, and doing it with only our fingers, staying in the same posture for long periods of time. We simply use our bodies in a different way at the computer, and unless your habits are adjusted there is increased risk of overusing your body.

The Experience of Disability

Far too many people have already been hurt from computer work. Many have been dealing with chronic pain for years, some are so disabled they are unable to work - or at least not with computers. While they are the minority of all computer users, their numbers are significant. So that you don’t take this for granted, I’m going to describe what it’s like not to be able to work while living with pain every day.

I have had my own experience with this problem, and when I approached a period of disability I grossly underestimated the unpleasantness of the experience. I thought I would take three months to recover and return to my previous career. I thought it would be a sort of vacation, catching up with friends, reading, enjoying the relaxed pace. One year later I was still in pain and facing beginning a new career, unable to go back to where I was injured.

During that time I learned a lot about the importance of work in our lives. Our self-esteem is deeply connected to our work. We need to feel we have something important to contribute, and it is the place where we get to experience our ability and creativity.

Other endeavors in your life may be seriously curtailed, such as hobbies, sports, or other pleasures. These things are not only fun, they are a way of processing emotions and giving balance to our lives.

Imagine being unable to cook for yourself, drive a car, or do the laundry. It is natural to avoid many of these essential daily activities simply believing they might interfere with the process of recovery. The result is dependence on friends and family. While at first it is a wonderful thing to experience their loving support, it gets old pretty fast to have to rely on others, to have to take more than you can give.

Chronic pain itself has some serious psychological effects. The pain doesn’t have to be very severe to become quite terrifying and depressing once it has continued for a period of months. It is another form of water torture, and can be quite insidious. There may be a day or two of relative improvement, luring you into the feeling that you could do a bit more, only to have the pain return. And a wave of deep despair along with it.

The psychological ramifications of the problem are badly underestimated. Since this is not a very visible injury, it is often taken for granted by others so that the injured person fears they may not be in enough pain to be entitled to the treatment and benefits they truly need. These injuries often become disabilities exactly because someone delayed speaking up at the early stage when the problem could be effectively addressed. Now we have the added regret of feeling responsible for the severity of the problem. Often someone will carry all of this inside of themselves, only adding to the stress and interfering with the very process of recovery.

This is no way to get rich. Suffice it to say that disability benefits are limited and some people find it very difficult to support themselves. Some even have to battle insurance companies which have been known to deny benefits to people clearly living with a chronic, painful condition.

In fact, your life will fall under the influence of many other people, from doctors and therapists to insurance adjusters and attorneys. It’s no fun.

What to do?

There’s no panacea, and there are no absolutes in terms of prevention. However, here’s a list of items to consider when analyzing your workstation and work habits:

The Screen

•	Top of screen just below eye level.

•	Position close enough to allow sitting back in chair with head relaxed.

•	In front of body to prevent turning trunk or head.

•	Set optimal contrast and brightness.

•	Position to prevent glare from windows, light fixtures.

•	Keep clean of dust and smudges.

The Keyboard -

•	Position so that wrists are straight, shoulders are relaxed, arms at side.

•	Use “feet” of keyboard only if wrists are straighter.

•	Do not allow wrists to be in contact with edge of desk or hard surfaces.

•	Use wrist rest only if needed and comfortable.

•	In front of body to avoid twisting or bending wrists.

•	Move hands and arms rather than stretching fingers or bending the wrist.

Other Workstation Elements -

•	Consider trackball, programmable mouse, or other alternative inputs.

•	Headset phone for people who talk while using arms.

•	Keep oft-used objects close to avoid long reaches.

•	Use document holders to prevent craning neck looking down to desk.

Prevention Strategies -

•	Practice good diet, sleep, and exercise habits.

•	Balance lifestyle - work, social, spiritual.

•	Learn principles of ergonomics and the potential causes of injury.

•	Stretching for hands, arms, shoulders and neck.

•	Learn breathing and relaxation methods.

•	Take ten-second “micro-breaks” several times per hour.

•	Don’t continue intense computer work when fatigued.

•	Mix tasks to allow breaks from computing and the chance to get up and move around.

•	Manage time to avoid crises and times of stress.

•	Keep temperature comfortable.

•	Keep arms warm with long sleeves, sweaters, etc. Consider fingerless gloves.

•	Promote a relaxed atmosphere to reduce stress.

•	Minimize loud noises, distracting sound in work environment.

•	Streamline office processes and production systems to reduce stress.

•	Don’t allow jobs to be overloaded or over-specialized.

•	Don’t maintain “flattened” posture of hands when not actually keying.

•	Reduce impact on fingers at the keyboards.

•	Look away from monitor when waiting for printing, files opening, etc. Allow eyes to focus on distance or close them to rest.

•	Learn the computer and software properly to avoid frustration and stress.

•	Take advantage of shortcuts, automated features, and efficiency utilities.

•	Pay attention to your body.  Do not ignore pain!

Scary Things, These Computers?

No, not really. What’s scary is what happens when we use them incorrectly and ignore early signs of possible injury. None of this need happen. By learning the principles of ergonomics, how to sit properly, and by adopting some common sense work habits, we can take advantage of this miracle of human ingenuity and progress safely and productively. All of this is not to scare you away from computing, but simply to emphasize that there is another set of skills required to use it - the most important skills, in fact, because your quality of life and the future of your career depend on it.

written by

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Gary Karp

gkarp@sirius.com

http://www.sirius.com/~gkarp/onsight

Following his own experience with a work-related disability in 1991, Gary founded Onsight Technology Education Services.


Onsight
	Onsight Technology Education Services
	Ergonomics Training/Consulting/Tools 1510 Eddy Street, Suite 1511 San Francisco, CA  94115-4185 415-749-1983 415-292-7822 fax


SHAREWARE BRIEFS

Quick Takes and Pure Opinion from Wolly

 Wolly asks, “Is your zipper being undone?!?”

Wolly warns the Win95 crowd to check out their unzipping program. More 32-bit shareware is being compressed with long filenames, and their install programs won’t work when they can’t find the filenames they expect, like LONGFILE32.EX_. LONGFI~1.EX_ doesn’t cut it. Wolly even found an unzipping program that dealt only partially with the problem — while the front end was handled, the HTM_ (four character extension) came out as HTM, tripping up the works. Don’t be embarrassed — check your zipper!

 POWER TOYS  2/96 — HTML Printer Driver

Thanks, again, Microsoft

The Redmond folks in the lab have let another set of freeware Power Toys loose again. In addition to the usual suspects already released last year, this release includes two new toys you’re sure to like. One is a TapiTMA that will let mobile users switch dialing locations, a great help for the laptop users in the group. However, cooler than cool is version 1.0 of the Microsoft HTML Printer Driver. Select this honey as your printer, and it lets you specify a file for output. Yep, it actually produces an editable HTML file from just about any application, supporting tables, font sizes and styles, puts horizontal rules at page breaks, and --- converts embedded BMPs and DIBs into JPEG files. Well, almost. Wolly’s first, text try was super. However, another shot using two embedded graphics caused the second, black and white BMP, to come out in garbled technicolor. Hmmm, but the first graphic came out just fine. Regardless, this is a super tool, and Wolly even spit out a short Quattro Pro spreadsheet into it, and it did pretty well. This means all we web weenies can take more meaningless output from most any application and ZAP! Instant HTML -- just add the contents of POWER296.ZIP (219K), and we can continue to clutter the web with our own endless drivel!

LITERI LITE

The Scrabble folks will be envious

This computer version of Scrabble is extremely well done. It keeps track of scores (no cheating), and you can even swap tiles (ok, cheating). Up to four people can play and the computer can join in, if it is bored. It has optional MIDI background music, skill levels for the computer can be chosen, statistics are available -- wow! The extract from the board shows the level of detail, and you can drag and drop tiles to their places, undo moves, and the built-in dictionary checks your words. LITLI116.ZIP (317K) can be registered for $24.95, and is definitely on a commercial level of finish and function.

FONT TEST

No, but it will look at and print them

This 32-bit Visual Basic 4.0 program (it includes the support files) is a simple but effective way to view and print your installed fonts. Fire it up and scroll among the candidates, and highlight several to print them in your choice of sizes. Okay, FONTTEST.ZIP (990K) won’t win any “Overwhelming Features” awards, but it does the job, and well. Not to mention the fact that it’s proclaimed as EmailWare by the author, who will give you a registration when you email him with comments.

 FUNKY WORLD SCREEN SAVER

It’s a Cheesy World, too!

If you’re like Wolly and have a thing for cool screen savers that don’t take up a lot of disk space, especially freeware ones, then you’ll love the Funky World Screen Saver from by Eric Caps. We’d love to show you a screen shot, but help’s 16-colors just won’t do it justice, so we won’t even try. As a matter of fact, if your system isn’t configured for at least 256-colors, when you run it all you’ll see is a black screen. So, we’ll show you the setup screen and describe it as a fast moving kaleidoscope of psychedelic colors. As a matter of fact, Wolly thinks it is pretty funky in a cool sorta way, like a cheesy special effect you might see on the original Star Trek TV series. (That’s pretty, right? -- Wolly’s a pretty cheesy Trekker, so it’s right up his phaser bank.) It’s a 32-bitter, so you’ll need to be running Win95 or NT to use it. FUNKYWOR.ZIP (31K) has no password protection, so it’s a good thing Wolly’s not paranoid.

FASTYPE

Not lately... well, maybe not ever

Wolly has never been accused of being too fast or too accurate on the keyboard. Maybe if he’d worked with FASTYP50.ZIP (699K) he’d be better at it. This professional grade program is only $29.00, yet it offers different levels from beginner to advanced for both capabilities and lessons. Choose from two keyboard styles, and note the illustration — its keys are animated during drills, and meaningful results are delivered at their conclusion. There’s a flock of great options, and this could turn you into a great typist if you stick with it.

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 SNAGIT/32

Quick! Get a net!

If you do a lot of screen captures, then sometimes you wish you had something a little more flexible than a Windows built-in Print Screen or Alt/Print Screen feature. If so, and you’re using Win95 or NT, check out the 32-bit version of SnagIt 3.0. It gives you seven different screen capture options (you can even include the cursor). Send images directly to the printer, save as a file, send as a mail note or, of course, copy to the Windows clipboard. SNAGIT32.ZIP (247K) lets you do screen captures as monochrome, grayscale or color; color levels can be boosted, and images can be scaled. Registration is $39.95.

TIMES SQUARE SCREEN SAVER

Keep your money in the open

Here’s a nifty little freeware screen saver that expands on the idea of the Marquee saver that’s included with Windows 3.1 and higher. The Times Square Screen Saver displays your custom message and the date & time in random colors and positions on your screen. You can pick separate fonts for your message and the date & time, and non-encrypted password protection is included. Wolly likes the direct link to Character Map so he can use a picture typeface like Wingdings, but the link didn’t seem to work with Win95. And, boy, is it fast. Unlike Marquee, different instances of your message flash all over your screen in various colors. The author, Isaac Brumer says the effect is, “Sort of like walking through Times Square, but with the sound turned off, and besides, you don’t have to watch your wallet.” Wolly couldn’t have described it any better. You’ll need VBRUN300.DLL in your Windows System directory to run TIMESQUR.ZIP (22K) but what doesn’t nowadays?

WASTE FOR WINDOWS

No, it was actually quite helpful

Many shareware programs Wolly sees could easily earn this title, but in this case it is descriptive of what often happens at disk partitioning time. This program gives you some insight about cluster sizes and such — for the uninitiated, the larger your partition size, the larger your clusters. So, if your gig+ hard drive is unpartitioned, the clusters are 32K each, and a 766 byte icon file requires 32K to be stored. Yikes! WASTE200.ZIP (226K) scans your drive(s) and gives you projections, based on the files stored, of the percentage wasted space at each cluster level, and the help file fills in the blanks if you’re unfamiliar with the whole game of repartitioning. You can register the program for $5.00 if you find it useful and/or enlightening. Remember, as Wolly says, “A hard disk is a terrible thing to waste.”

PHONICS READING & SPELLING SYSTEM

Careful, don’t get hooked

If you are from the X-generation or a late boomer with little ones, you’re probably caught up in the “bright kid battle” among your peers. If so, PHONWIN2.ZIP (1384K) might give your budding stockbroker a headstart on the competition in the reading department. It’s cute, playing annoying kiddie MIDI music behind the clear WAV file recitations of letters, vowel and consonant sounds, and the illustrated word. There are a few variations, it’s repetitive, moves pretty quickly --- hey! It’s MTV!! While the illustrations are a bit funky (Wolly admits his graphic is reduced from 256 to 16 colors and by 50%, but that’s little comfort), it’s a pretty good effort and worth a parental look. Registration is $49.00 — take it out of the college fund.

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 AWALE

Beautiful

Wolly regrets that he couldn’t reproduce this board game in full size and 256 colors, instead of this miserable dithered, reduced version. This nicely crafted board features animation of the hand that moves the stones around in this African game that originated in ancient Egypt. Two variations are available for play, and you can play in English or French. Wolly was impressed with AWALE.ZIP (488K), which you can register for just $10.00, and you, too, will appreciate its craftsmanship and history.

Wolly’s Whys ???????

Stupid stuff Wolly downloaded and wished he hadn’t

HELPMATE.ZIP (1257K) gets a double WollyWhammer for bad taste in dialogs and imagined usefulness. It’s based on the theory (Wolly thinks so, anyway) that you can’t find your help files and have lots of duplicates of them spread about your machine. Funny, Wolly usually accesses help files from a program’s dialog or an icon, if provided, and has never had much of a problem with duplications. This extract from one of seven (yes, count ‘em --- seven) help files says as much about the concept as it does the author. Perhaps he should write a program to locate his grammar- and spell-check program. You may also note that he is particularly fond of italics (his, not Wolly’s, follow):

“...about why I spent so much time in the dos environment and or the windows winfile program trying to findout information on a peticular windows file and in the file manager  manager trying to find a file and also trying to maintain enough space on my harddrives so that I didnot have to purchase and install a larger drive. Also at any time of the day or night wondering where in the heck is that peticular help or zip file or how did I get [ 5 ] copys of the HLP file WORD.HLP scattered all over the place. Well I said to self " I think I will attempt to overcome these and other problems by designing and building a windows help and zip file manipulator and file locator program" that I can utilize so I sat down and......

  I designed and wrote the  HELPMATE  program with the idea and purpose of allowing anyone even if they are not adept in the use of windows programs or even DOS to quickly and easily view and fully utilize a windows help file or the help file topics and other pertinate help file information on any windows styled help program, to locate duplicated HLP and ZIP , and then to determine which file is most the most recent and needed, and then to zip and or remove or move the duplicates to another location including to floppy removable disks for storage and later retrieval. This pertains to all of those which are no longer required by any program even if it is a dos program.”	(sic)

I can guess that you find the double-3-D italicized dialog as easy to read and comprehend as Wolly (sorry to waste the space, but Wolly just had to share this). In all his years with all kinds of programs, this may very well be the worst example of violating every conceivable shareware tenet yet. Big, designed for a need that exists only in the author’s mind, unreadably ugly, full of nagging popups, and ultra-unprofessionally documented. Perhaps some shareware organization should consider filing attempted murder charges against author Jonathon B. Taylor for endangering the life of the genre.

Wolly welcomes nominations for “Wolly’s Whys,” which highlights the speedbumps on... oh, I just can’t say it!!! Absurd, worthless, or both are bound to make the cut. You can e-mail nominees, with files if not already on WOL, along with your comments, to: wordsmit@acy.digex.net, with the subject: Wolly’s Whys.

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bob.gollihur@wol.com

as told to Bob Gollihur

Wolly thanks Ted Tatman for passing on some of his more interesting discoveries this month.


Review Updates
REVIEW UPDATES & QUICK TAKES

The latest from the WinOnLine™ Review staff

Deluxe Bible 2.0

Insofar as books are concerned, the unrivaled best seller of all time is the Bible. However, despite the widespread appeal of this book, many people have a tough time studying it, since it is so large and often difficult to find the topics or passages you want to review. To aid in this study process, many computerized versions of the Bible are available today.

One of the best examples of the computerized Bible is the Deluxe Bible. We examined the Deluxe Bible, in version 1.2 some time ago, in WOLR 87. Now, a new version, 2.0, of this program is out, and like the first offering, this version certainly deserves another examination.

For obvious reasons, none of the base text of the Bible in this version has been changed. Instead, several new features have been added and enhanced to make using the program easier and more intuitive. Frankly, when I learned of this update, I was concerned. Too often, program updates today seem to be more concerned with features rather than function. I feared that in their zeal to update this program, the authors might have made a good program worse by tinkering, or overloading the program with unnecessary features. After all, I thought the earlier version was rather well done. After installing the program however, I am truly impressed. While a couple new features have been added, they add to the overall functionality and make the Deluxe Bible an even better study tool.

Most notable among these features is a Bookmark option. These Bookmarks allow you to create links to important verses and include a brief comment. There is also a Notes feature that allows you to record longer passages or comments. Together the Bookmark and Notes features allow a host of personalized comments to be tied directly to scriptural references. The basic look and feel of the program are the same but there are now a few new entries on the Menu. There are also three new buttons on the main window: Print, Copy and Jump to Verse. These buttons, allow you to perform these common operations without going through the menu.

This upgrade really makes an excellent product better. The program is available in three different versions. The King James version (Red Letter), is the subject of this update, but the New King James version, and the New American Bible version (Catholic Edition) are also available. If you’re looking for a tool to make your Bible study easier, the Deluxe Bible 2.0 is certainly worth the download to test drive the program. The authors, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, can be reached at 970-282-9278, and the latest release is available as DNT4W.ZIP on Windows OnLine™ (BBS).

update by Ed Hoffman

Safety Net  4.3

An earlier version of the SafetyNet program was reviewed several months ago, in WOLR 102, where I discussed its advantages for backing up important system files. The release of version 4.3 of SafetyNet adds support for Windows 95 and its critical files to this helpful backup system.

The program is furnished with one preset setting and three optional settings. The preset setting will backup your critical Windows and system files, copying all your DAT (Windows Registry), INI, and INF files from both your Windows and System directories, along with your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. This preset also allows you to add up to five of your own custom extensions to the preset backup.

The three optional backup sets may be used to make copies of virtually any other files on your system. Here you can make backup copies of your database files, word processing documents, spreadsheet files, graphics, or any similar important files. SafetyNet also allows you to copy complete directories and their associated sub-directories. This greatly simplifies making copies of your work files. When making your backup, you can also select the optional Zip Files box, to compress your files before copying them.

This newest version is available as SFTYNT43.ZIP, and can be registered for $12.00. CT Software is at 759 Galleon Ln., Elk Grove, IL 60007, where 1-800-617-7740 is the number for orders only.

update by Ed Hoffman


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NEW WINDOWS FILES

File Name - Size in Bytes - BBS Date - File Description  (Comments in RED)

The following file listings became available on Windows OnLine recently, but may not yet be available on some other online systems. Many more files were added to our library during that time, but only files of general interest and most recent date are listed here. Callers of Windows OnLine can download WOLRECNT.ZIP, and other files in our free download area to obtain complete or selected listings.

This list is heavily edited to limit list size. New Windows Files are held in Directory #500 on Windows OnLine™.

WINDOWS - NEW UPLOADS from January 16, 1996 through February 15, 1996

02NAV96.ZIP 334,351 02-04-96 Feb update for Norton’s NAV95 from Symantec (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

20UP_D.ZIP 1,093,000 02-06-96 PCAnywhere 2.0 upgrade "d" from symantec. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

32WFD210.ZIP 210,045 01-19-96 (v2.10) WFTPD - Winsock FTP Server. Allows you to administer an FTP site from your own Windows machine. Easy to use and configure, and notoriously stable. Costs only $15 to register the 16-bit version, $20 for the 32-bit version ($5 extra for disk shipment as opposed to ftp/email delivery). Author: Alun Jones, Texas Imperial Software (Newest File Date: 11-05-95)

3DMAZE.ZIP 1,055,830 01-28-96 Generate and solve mazes under Win95. The mazes are displayed in three dimensions. (Newest File Date: 11-04-95)

ABOOL23A.ZIP 183,852 02-11-96 Boole Text Searcher Ver 2.3a for Windows Search, display files and directories. Auto save settings. file preview window. Many options to tailor searches. Supports AND OR conditions. Works with editors. (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

ACT2062.ZIP 952,780 01-21-96 Installation instruction for Act! 2.0.6.2 Update 1/3/96 This update will only work with an existing installation of Act! 2.0.6 for Windows. If you are using 2.0.6.1 without problems, there is no need to use this update. You should ONLY use this update if you are using Act! 2.0.6 with WinFax Pro 7.0. In addition to this update, you will also need the update for WinFax 7.0. Contact WinFax Technical Support for availablity information on that update. (Newest File Date: 01-03-96)

AD302.ZIP 453,674 01-27-96 Anno Domini v3.02 for MS Win3.1. View a monthly calendar between the years 1753 and 2153, national holidays for the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Australasia, Christian festivals, moon phases and sunrise and sunset times for any location around the world. Also On This Day feature which shows 8 historical events and birthdays for the current date. Country specific details can be chosen from a database of 700+ cities around the world. (Newest File Date: 01-03-96)

AGAVB25.ZIP 355,705 02-03-96 agauge.vbx v2.50 <asp> - angular gauge custom control. A highly customizable angular gauge or meter vbx for use in VB, visual c , and delphi. Properties are included to modify the gauge’s scales, tics, needles, annulars, captions, fonts, border, background, bevels, frame, and hubs. allows multiple scales and needles. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

AHANDY12.ZIP 817,060 02-11-96 Handy for Windows v1.12 <ASP> : Essential for Windows users! Over 30 utilities and games including Typing Tutor, Unit Conversions, Cheque book totaller, Font Utilities, Graphic Utilities and Arty Fun, 7000 Year Calendar, World Clock, Timer, Logger, Lottery Utils & Games (6/49), US State Code look-up, Element Table, Hi-Lo Game, SkillStop Game, Mouse Trainers, Simon Says Game, Secret Store, and lots more. A real "must have"! (Newest File Date: 01-04-96)

AIRVB25.ZIP 274,610 02-03-96 Aircraft Instruments VBX V2.5 <ASP> - Aircraft Instrument Custom Control (VBX) This control displays a variety of small aircraft flight instruments for use in VB, Visual C , or Delphi. Instruments include compass, heading indicator, altimeter, vertical speed indicator, airspeed indicator, HSI, artificial horizon, turn coordinator, RMI, ADF, and OBI. Global Majic Software, Inc. P.O. Box 322, Madison, AL USA 35758 (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

ALRM951B.ZIP 248,717 02-12-96 Alarm 95 Complete alarm program that lets you schedule one time alarms or recurring alarms. Recurring alarms can be set to occur daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. The intuitive interface lets you view your scheduled alarms by day, week, month or year. Alarm 95 is totally integrated into Win95. You can use the date and time format as specified in the Control Panel, or override this and use one of Alarm 95’s pre-defined formats. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

ALTR_101.ZIP 819,452 01-24-96 Altair v1.01 - The FIRST 32-bit FidoNet compatable mail tosser for Windows NT and Win95. Converts from *.PKT to PCB 14.5, JAM, MSG style bases. Supports both BinkleyTerm and FrontDoor. Includes the option to create BlueWave packets for the sysop to read. Archive includes all necessary DLLs and executables. (Newest File Date: 12-29-95)

AMBR32D1.ZIP 2,041,437 01-16-96 Acrobat Amber Reader Prerelease for Win95. PDF plug-in reader for Netscape (Newest File Date: 12-08-95)

ANZL106.ZIP 129,405 01-18-96 (v10.6) Anzio Lite - Windows Telnet Client Terminal emulation for the Windows Sockets (Winsock ) environment. Includes sizable fonts, 80/132-column support, pass-through print, function keys, color, line-drawing, and more. Shareware (US$25, volume disounts available; (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

APPBAR91.ZIP 32,081 02-10-96 AppBar for Windows NT/95 Beta release. AppBar is a simple, fast and easy-to-use menuing system for Win32. My idea behind AppBar was threefold: 1) I wanted a version of FileBar for OS/2 that ran under Win95; 2) I wanted to write a menu system for Win95 that was as small as possible to show that Win32 programs do not have to be 1 MB to do something effectively; 3) I wanted to learn C better. (Newest File Date: 02-07-96)

ASCIIC13.ZIP 81,916 01-27-96 AsciiConvert v1.3 <ASP> (Dec-20-95) AsciiConvert converts and restructures comma-delimited and fixed-width ASCII files. Functions include: field re-sequencing, new fields, constants, dates, field concatenations/merge, ‘line- wrap’, reformatting, trimming, etc. $19.00. Req. Vbrun300. (Newest File Date: 01-10-96)

ASPELL20.ZIP 381,429 02-10-96 AcropSpell v2.0. A spelling checker component for Borland’s Delphi! Easily add spell checking to your apps by just dropping a component on your form. Existing TMemo, and TDBMemo, and Turbo Power’s Orpheus editor checkers included with access to the lowel level functions to make spell checkers for other objects. Context sensitive help and both US and UK dictionaries. Registration is only $45 plus Shipping & Handling. (Newest File Date: 01-19-96)

AST51WIN.ZIP 511,026 01-21-96 * Astrolog 5.10 is a many featured and customizable astrology chart calculation program for DOS, Windows, Mac, and Unix, used in 25+ countries on six continents. It is 100% freeware and requires no registration fee. :) The complete source code is available. Astrolog features: wheels, aspects, midpoints, relationship charts, transits, progressions, some interpretations, astro-graphy, local horizon, constellations, planet orbits, dispositors, various influence charts, biorhythms, different zodiacs, central planets, 14 house systems, 8400 year ephemeris, asteroids, Uranians, fixed stars, Arabic parts, script files and macros, interactive PC & MS/X11 Windows graphics, smooth animation of charts, graphic files in PostScript, Windows metafile, and bitmap formats, and more! (Newest File Date: 12-31-95)

AUTO29.ZIP 133,262 02-12-96 Auto Maintenance Pro V.2.9 - Win3.1/95 Auto Mtc Pro tracks mtc on your vehicle(s). AMP tracks mtc by mileage and informs you when mtc is next due. Automatically builds a history report. Full loading, saving, and printing capabilites. New icon toolbar and 3-D interface. Requires: Vbrun300 (Newest File Date: 01-22-96)

AVPWW103.ZIP 15,297 02-04-96 AVPWW 1.03 Freeware Antivirus for Word detects / disinfects known MACRO viruses for MS Word documents Protect yourself today! with AntiViral Toolkit Pro (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

AWALE.ZIP 498,827 01-18-96 AWALE v1.0 African Strategy Game for Win95 Fully Graphic (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

AWAVE25.ZIP 221,592 02-12-96 Awave 2.5 Audio & Wavetable Instrument File Format Converter, Editor & Player for Win95 or Windows NT v3.51 or Win3.1 with Win32s v1.3(Newest File Date: 01-21-96)

AWORLD.ZIP 58,565 02-13-96 Windows game. (Newest File Date: 02-05-96)

B110.ZIP 225,246 02-13-96 Beanisms v1.10 Windows program with three modules: Find Duplicates, Back Off!, and EzLocate. All hard disk users should use this program to keep your hard disk lean and clean. (Newest File Date: 01-30-96)

BIBN220.ZIP 425,296 01-24-96 GEK ProSoft BibNotes v2.20 is a management software of "handwritten" notes, of articles or all kinds of text documents like imported text files. BibNotes is also a text editor with powerful features. The notes are classified by folders, and by themes.Each theme is accompanied by an abstract or keywords furthering the search. Needs Vbrun300 and Msajt110.dll. Shareware. (Newest File Date: 01-16-96)

BICWIZ10.ZIP 275,524 02-12-96 BIC Wiz 1.0 Background Image Catalog Wizard. Using the familiar Windows’ wizard motif, this app generates HTML image catalogs for web page developers. Requires VB40032.DLL (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

BKMKNTRO.ZIP 34,596 02-08-96 Bookmark2 v1.2 Intro for Netscape Navigator. Whether you are just getting started, or have been cruising the Net for some time, this file will save you the hassle of typing, and give you HUNDREDS of places to go on the Net. (Newest File Date: 02-03-96)

BKSETUP.ZIP 1,325,547 02-11-96 Brother’s Keeper For Windows Genealogy Program Update 1/16/96 (Newest File Date: 11-29-95)

BKUPDATE.ZIP 976,219 02-11-96 Brother’s Keeper For Windows Genealogy Program (BKSETUP.ZIP) Update 1/16/96 (Newest File Date: 01-16-96)

BOXTWO11.ZIP 1,155,090 02-05-96 Boxes II v1.1 <ASP> from DynoTech Software. Fun, challenging, and addictive puzzle game for windows. Eliminate colored crates by maneuvering and dropping boxes on them. But, watch out for falling stones, bombs, and anti-gravity boxes. Smarts are more important than speed. It’s not as easy as it looks! Req:386+; 4MB RAM; Win 3.1, Win95, or OS/2; 4MB RAM; 256 color VGA; Joystick (opt); Sound Card (opt, but recommended). [$20] (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

BOYER04.ZIP 40,166 01-27-96 Fast String Search Algorithm (Boyer) for Windows C/C Programmers v0.4; supports MSWin 3.x; Patrick KO Shu-pui. (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

BPUT95S.ZIP 661,678 02-03-96 Barry Press Utilities for Win95 Included in this version are a simple monthly calendar, a drag-and-drop ASCII file printer (also capable of spooling Postscript files to a Postscript printer), an icon for printer orientation control, an ASCII file comparison program, a shell extension to add a command line option to the Explorer (like the old File.Run), a digital clock, and a lot more. (Newest File Date: 11-21-95)

BRIDGE31.ZIP 483,372 02-12-96 Bridge Assistant v3.1 <ASP> is a Windows program for all bridge players. It enables you to improve your game by study and practice away from the table. The program can save and restore hands and also deal hands of chosen types enabling you to study aspects of bridge where you are weak. It requires Win3.1 and is Shareware. For additional information contact: SoftTech, CIS Mail - 100116,3254. (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

BTRWIZ16.ZIP 175,551 02-12-96 BTRWIZ v1.6 VB 4.0 Add-in that gives developer ability to work with Btrieve data files (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

BTWMGR15.ZIP 223,068 01-20-96 Windows Manager v1.5a allows fast, safe and easy customization of your Windows Environment. Change Help Text Colors, DOS Screen Lines, Icon Title Wrapping, Secure Program Manager, more. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

BTWZIP23.ZIP 196,222 01-21-96 Button Works v2.3: MSWin task bar that both launches and/or activates Windows apps w/a single mouse click, similar to the Task Bar in Win95 - only better; visible and invisible modes; has a professional look and feel & it includes a host of features so you can tailor things to your liking; Hermco Systems, Inc. (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

CAL32.ZIP 63,098 02-08-96 DameWare Cal32 OCX is a calendar custom control for use with VB and Visual C . It incorporates many customizable properties (3D, colors, fonts, tool tips, context menu, etc.) and has a date range between Jan 1, 100 through Dec 31, 9999. Easy to use with customizable date format, event notification and many method functions to get the return date as desired. Shareware. (Newest File Date: 02-05-96)

CALC32.ZIP 1,018,986 01-21-96 Metric Conversion Calculator 1.0 Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

CCHECK.ZIP 88,211 01-28-96 Classic game for Win95 (Newest File Date: 11-05-95)

CCM302.ZIP 267,918 01-21-96 Scott Craig’s Connect Time Monitor for Win95. A utility to help keep track of connect time to various services. Allows multiple services, automatic start, and many other features. Perhaps the best feature is that it is FreeWare! (Newest File Date: 11-12-95)

CD55W95F.ZIP 23,755 02-14-96 TEAC CD Rom Win95 driver for 4x Super Quad final version (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

CDICT2.ZIP 478,139 02-03-96 Computer Dictionary For Windows v2.00 <ASP> - This compendium of over 1001 computer definitions is available at the click of a button. These are definitions of the first 1001 terms that every computer user should know. Easy to install and easier to use, this is a program that belongs on everyone’s hard disk. Sample DELUXE version has terms organized in categories or groupings of related terms. (Newest File Date: 12-01-95)

CDPLAY23.ZIP 124,853 02-13-96 Samsona Deluxe Audio CD-Features include floating remote control for working in other apps, timed CD playing,slick 3D buttons,artistic look and feel,technical support,upgrade and product line info, and more.Visually resembles a real CD player w/remote. Lots of ergonomic and human factors research. (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

CDR96V21.ZIP 1,085,889 02-13-96 CDRunner96 V2.1 was designed to make the digital life easier for all of us. CDRunner96 makes Win95’s AutoRun/AutoPlay behave as it should. While CDRunner96 is active all you now have to do to run that favorite CD is put it in the drive! CDRunner96 will take it from there. (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

CED.ZIP 379,886 02-03-96 The E-Z C Editor was born from the need to constantly correct for bad memory and the often cryptic syntax which makes up the C programming language. I have attempted to bring into one editor the most commonly used functions of the C programming language. This editor was primarily concieved for the use of the hard core C programmer, but during it’s development evolved into what I hope is a tool for everyone. Win3.1 (Newest File Date: 12-15-95)

CEDEMO1.ZIP 1,443,209 01-21-96 Controls Estimator Demo (12/19/95): A Building Automation Systems and Temperature Controls Estimating Program. For Win3.x and Win95 Disk 1 of 3 (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

CEDEMO2.ZIP 1,451,790 01-21-96 Controls Estimator Demo (12/19/95) Disk 2 of 3 (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

CEDEMO3.ZIP 1,244,742 01-21-96 Controls Estimator Demo (12/19/95) Disk 3 of 3 (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

CF1614F7.ZIP 265,402 01-16-96 Cuteftp Win 3.x 16-bit Internet FTP file transfer utility. Widely hailed as one of the best. Also comes in 32-bit mode (here.) (Newest File Date: 01-10-96)

CF3214F6.ZIP 301,927 01-21-96 CuteFTP V1.4 Final Beta 6 FTP client for Win95 (Newest File Date: 12-14-95)

CHANGEXT.ZIP 7,884 01-21-96 Change Extension 2.0b Win95 has made a lot of things easier, but should you ever have a file with the wrong extension, it can be extremely tedious trying to get Win95 to let you change its file type. Changext makes this simple. (Newest File Date: 12-23-95)

CHESSU3.ZIP 78,501 02-09-96 ChessU3 PGN Tree Searcher Demo for Windows. Part of the "U4" family, by Paul Onstad. (Newest File Date: 01-24-96)

CHKLIST.ZIP 47,693 02-08-96 DameWare CheckList OCX is a 32bit "Check" List-Box custom control for use with VB and Visual C . Offering many customizable properties (fonts, colors, 3D, etc.), it is very end-user friendly versus the old multiple select list-box. Easy to use with configurable options, event notification and many "method" functions. Shareware. DameWare Development (Newest File Date: 02-05-96)

CHMCALC3.ZIP 37,106 02-07-96 ChemCalc 3.0 Chemistry Calculator for Windows Adds MW() (molecular weight) and %() (percent composition functions along with a flexible and expandable numerical constant database and an efficient simple equation-solver for equations such as x^2/(.1-x)=0.001 in acid/ base and solubility problems. Constants include Ka, Kb, Ksp, and general chemistry- related. hansonr@stolaf.edu Freeware by Integrated Graphics, Nfld, MN (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

CLINE95.ZIP 32,400 01-21-96 Command Line95 V1.0 People who like to use Win95 apps but miss the DOS style navigation will love Command Line95. The graphical interfaces of the new operating systems, like Win95, have replaced DOS commands with the mouse. Copying files, changing directories and executing files are reduced to a mouse click or two. Although this is easier for newer computer users, it can become slow and annoying for people who prefer the command line(DOS) for maneuvering around their system. Command Line95 allows the user to use commands and execute files as is done in DOS while staying in the graphical environment. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

CLIPFILE.ZIP 31,327 01-18-96 Win95 shell extension which copies the paths of selected files to the clipboard. Allows selection of long or short names, with or without quotes, and will optionally recurse folder contents and list full file details. Can save a lot of time browsing round file-open dialogs (if you can see the object in a folder or explorer, just copy and paste the path), or overcome Explorer’s lack of a "print" option. (Newest File Date: 12-07-95)

CLPPRN11.ZIP 42,502 01-27-96 Clipboard Print v1.11a for Windows. This is a small program that allows you to print text and BMPs that are copied to the clipboard. It can run as a small 2 button form, or as an icon. Other funtions include clearing clipboard contents and running the Clipboard Viewer. Requires Vbrun300. Shareware $10. (Newest File Date: 01-02-96)

CM95B20.ZIP 1,218,266 02-13-96 ClockMan95 Ultimate Win95 automation utility. ClockMan95 lets you take back control over time itself! Automate mainframe data downloads, backups, e-mail runs, disk optimizations, virus scans - all those things you KNOW you should be doing regularly. Keep yourself on time and prepared with ClockMan95’s handy reminder messages. And see the date & time, all the time, with ClockMan95’s DateBar and TimeBar. (Newest File Date: 01-17-96)

CMD68.ZIP 679,693 02-12-96 (v6.8) WinOne - Command Shell for Win95/NT WinOne is a Command Language Interpreter, similar in concept to the shell CMD.EXE, except that WinOne has been designed to enable you get the most out of your Windows operating system. WinOne provides a rich set of commands, including additional convenience functions accessed via the System Menu. (Newest File Date: 01-07-96)

COMMX125.ZIP 219,018 02-13-96 CommEx v1.25 <ASP> - Common Dialog Extensions for Win3.1/3.11. Adds file Find, Copy, Delete, Rename, Move and MakeDir functions to most Windows apps’ Open and Save dialogs, plus easily access the last 25 files and directories used. (Also adds 3-D look.) Fully functional shareware evaluation copy. By Cottonwood Software (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

CONNMAN.ZIP 211,961 02-09-96 ConnMan is a Novell Netware utility program for MSWin that allows for easy and fast management of file server connections. It has a built-in scripting tool and allows for network connections to be freed once a targeted executable pgm completes. Requires VBRUN300. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

COUPON29.ZIP 95,913 02-07-96 Coupon Pro Version 2.9 for Win3.1/95 Coupon Pro tracks and sorts your coupons. Has over 15 categories to track your coupons. FULL loading, saving, and printing capabilities. Many other options included. 3-D interface. Req: Vbrun300 (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

CP16_090.ZIP 146,068 02-09-96 CyberPhone v0.9: 16-bit MSWin tool that allows users to talk to one another in realtime over the Internet; server based; easyto-use interface; cross-platform support; full duplex audio; Caller ID; selective call blocking; automated login/logout; 8-bit soundcard support; CyberScience, Inc. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

CPIC111.ZIP 569,736 02-13-96 CPIC Multimedia Viewer v1.11 CPIC ends viewer frustration with blazing speed, features, ease of use and phone support! View-Play-Convert-Thumbnail-Edit-Wallpaper-Slideshow-Copy- Print. Supports ALL common graphic/sound/video file types (21+). "Maxishow" slideshow (many images). Picture Indexes/Catalogs. (REQ:386+,WIN3.1,NT,95). Fully functional evaluation. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

CRAPS10.ZIP 1,878,746 01-23-96 Craps for Win95 Basic game of craps for Win95. VB40032.dll included. (Newest File Date: 01-07-96)

CSW212.ZIP 956,298 01-28-96 CompuSlave For Windows V2.12 <ASP> CompuSlave imports CompuServe forum messages from a capture file into a database. Search the entire database for keywords or phrases. Create your own tech support resource using the combined knowledge of the CompuServe forum members. Ideal tool for tech support personnel, programmers, network administrators, or any user who searches the CompuServe forum messages for information. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

CURFIT11.ZIP 567,321 01-21-96 CURVEFIT 1.0 Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

DGD3.ZIP 219,351 02-03-96 Grab-a-Dial 1.0 Allows you to schedule a Win95 dial-up session (Newest File Date: 12-04-95)

DISASM32.ZIP 166,375 02-03-96 Visual Disasm32 (free limited demonstration version) is a symbolic visual disassembler for 32 bits Portables Executables (PE) used by Win95/NT and Win32s. This new version 0.46 add somes improvements and had many bugs fixed and has been tested on many more misc. executables and work on Win95/NT 3.5, Win32s 1.2 or more. (Newest File Date: 01-16-96)

DISCDB16.ZIP 177,816 01-24-96 Win3.1/Win95/NT compact disc player/database. Plays tunes in single/ continuous/shuffle format. Does auto backup of new or edited database records Has directional search feature and can also auto format data text entry. Includes help file and user manual in WRI format. Network aware. (Newest File Date: 12-08-95)

DM13_0.ZIP 169,593 02-12-96 Documill screen shots and list of features. Documill is a complete Document Imaging Management System. Fetures found only in high quality commercial programs. if you like it download DM13-1.ZIp, DM13-2.ZIP, and DM13-3.ZIP. DM13-4.ZIP contains documetation in Word 6.0 format. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

DMSGEW10.ZIP 28,539 02-03-96 Descent Master V 1.02 can modify saved games for Descent 1 shareware, Descent 1 registered, and Descent 2 shareware. Descent Master is a Windows app. (Newest File Date: 12-30-95)

DNT4W.ZIP 1,237,417 02-08-96 The Deluxe New Testament for Windows - Shareware version of the Deluxe Bible writen up as an update for WOLR107. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

DOCU4A15.ZIP 423,512 01-24-96 Docuthek Document Imaging v1.50 <ASP> Comprehensive document imaging system for MS-Access. Business and personal use. Industry-standard format and compression. TIFF, DCX, GIF, JPEG and other formats. Multiple pages. Easy to use, intuitive, powerful SQL-based query method. AutoText. Requires VBRUN300. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

DOCUDX15.ZIP 912,116 01-27-96 Infothek Docudex v1.5 <ASP> Document imaging system and image catalog for business and personal use. Industry-standard format and compression. TIFF, DCX, GIF, JPEG and other formats. Multiple pages. Fixed database with 5 keyword fields, drawer,folder and date fields. (For document imaging system with complete relational database, use the Infothek Docuthek system.) Requires Vbrun300. (Newest File Date: 01-13-96)

DOCUTK15.ZIP 960,612 01-27-96 Docuthek Document Imaging v1.50 <ASP> Comprehensive document imaging system for business and personal use. Industry-standard format and compression. TIFF, DCX, GIF, JPEG and other formats. Multiple pages. Popular relational database engine. Easy to use, intuitive, powerful SQL-based query method. AutoText. Scan documents with fax or scanner. Requires VBRUN300. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

DRVMAN10.ZIP 160,045 01-19-96 DRVMAN10.ZIP: DriveMan 1.0 DriveMan is a 32-BIT Win95 app that provides a quick, comprehensive, and convenient way to access and care for the various storage devices available on your computer. You are provided with instant access to any device on your system, your favourtie folders, and the tools you need to maintain your system. Shareware. This program is not crippled in any way. (Newest File Date: 01-10-96)

DTCAD12.ZIP 1,446,684 01-27-96 DeltaCad v1.2 <ASP> - DeltaCad is a powerful, easy to learn, CAD (Computer Aided Design) program. It can produce accurately scaled drawings, or just pretty pictures to paste into your favorite word processor. DeltaCad can be used for Drafting, House plans, Decks, Business Cards, Forms, Signs, Labels, Maps, Flow Charts, Home or School Projects, etc. DeltaCad is a true 32-bit program compatible with Windows, Windows NT, or Win95. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

DUDEN32I.ZIP 1,552,785 02-13-96 Duden Spelling Dictionary 1.0 Spelling dictionary for popular word processors. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

DUNCE201.ZIP 52,068 01-21-96 Dunce (or Dial-Up Networking Connection Enhancement) allows for much easier dial-up networking than Win95 currently provides. The program will automatically press "connect" for you on the "Connect To" dialog box, redial your Internet Provider indefinitely (even from within another app), and auto-reconnect if you get unexpectedly dropped. Furthermore it can optionally run apps when you are connected and force connections at a given time. 2.0 Also adds MSN Support and support for international versions of Windows. Dunce will also type in your password in the Connect To Dialog. (Newest File Date: 01-08-96)

DWHTML20.ZIP 66,468 02-08-96 A Freeware HTML Editor for Win95 -32bit program! (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

EARTHTIM.ZIP 930,025 02-12-96 EarthTime Plug-in for Netscape. This plug-in shows you the local time and date in 8 global locations. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

ECOCLASS.ZIP 100,932 02-05-96 Windows Program: Classify Games in PGN Files by ECO Codes. By Paul Onstad. (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

ECPD3233.ZIP 253,098 02-04-96 Ecopad32 V3.31 <ASP> Text Editor for Win95 Windows Notepad replacement which can print up to 8 pages of condensed text on one sheet of paper. Supports any printer that is compatible with Win95/NT * Shareware version is now fully functional. * Ecopad can now load/print files up to 32MB * Two sided printing. Requires Win95 or WindowsNT 3.51 (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

ED22U3.ZIP 236,960 01-24-96 Editeur V2.2 text editor for Win3.1x. Full-featured, all-users text editor. Handles Windows, Dos, and Unix files. Multitext, no size limit. Font choice. Tool and status bars. Editing options incude word wrap and viewing of tabs/paragraphs/spaces. Unlimited undo/redo, multitext search/replace , bookmarks, macros, sortings, help. (Newest File Date: 11-27-95)

EDPART10.ZIP 340,004 01-25-96 EditPartner v1.0. Windows NotePad replacement text editor. Spell checking, search and replace, edit files up to 16 megabytes in size, Undo/Redo and FAST! US and Britsh English dictionaries available. Registration is only $25 plus S&H. (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

EIW232.ZIP 139,519 02-04-96 Encrypt-It v2.32 for Win3.1! Fully compatible 16 bit secure encryption program featuring three way proprietary and Data Encryption Standard (registered version) encryption methods. Up to 1,000 files can be encrypted, decrypted, or securely wiped at a time in a batch mode. Provides protected key entry, auto key clearing, and email conversion. Extensive built in help, color toolbar, status bar, plus lots more. Very powerful and easy to use! Available for DOS, Win3.1, and Win95 versions with file interchage. (Newest File Date: 01-22-96)

EIW302.ZIP 321,421 01-21-96 Encrypt-It v3.02 for Win95! High performance - 32 bit - file encryption program featuring three way proprietary and Data Encryption Standard (registered version) encryption methods. Up to 2 billion files can be encrypted, decrypted, or securely wiped at a time in a batch mode. Provides protected key entry, auto key clearing, and drag & drop support. Extensive built in help, color toolbar, tooltips, status bar with prompts, plus lots more. Very powerful and easy to use! (Newest File Date: 01-19-96)

EM141.ZIP 206,517 01-25-96 Event Manager vs 1.41 - Win3.1 Task/Alarm Scheduler Event Manager is an easy to use, low cost Win 3.1 "Task" and "Alarm" scheduler. Its purpose is to let your computer do things (like download files / perform backups) while you’re away (or asleep). * Schedule up to 40 "Events", "Tasks" or "Alarms" to be run anytime. * Alarms can either stay on screen, or go away if you don’t respond. * Reqs. Vbrun300 (Newest File Date: 11-19-95)

ESTD_EX5.ZIP 176,865 01-25-96 Steel Estimator for MS-Excel is a structural steel estimating program that provides a complete building design, including beam, column and OWSJ sizes, etc., & a complete structural steel estimate for estimating purposes only. Allows the user to design a complete building in seconds, providing the user w/total weight of structural steel required to be used for budget pricing purposes. (Newest File Date: 11-24-95)

ESYRUN11.ZIP 171,571 01-23-96 EasyRun V1.1 Release 1 Minimal filelauncher buttonbar. It is designed to be small, quick, and unobtrusive to desktop real estate. EasyRun supplies 27 configurable buttons and a run box with browsing abilities and a 10 item run history. EasyRun also supplies time and date as well as percent system free resources. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

EWJCODE.ZIP 2,731 02-08-96 Here are a couple of cheat codes for Activision’s Win95 version of Earthworm Jim. Just type them in during gameplay. (Newest File Date: 01-25-96)

EXPR_11.ZIP 700,052 02-08-96 Search Express V1.1 With Search Express nothing stays hidden. Users can search through thousands of Word Processing files, E-Mails, Faxes, Text files, Database files and more to find the information needed. Also searches for files using many wilcard parameters. Uses NORMAL, FUZZY, AND, OR, NOT, DATE & NUMBERS Search parameters in a very fast, sophisticated search engine. Windows 3.x or Win95. (Newest File Date: 01-19-96)

EZIRC131.ZIP 59,896 01-19-96 EZIRC v1.31 is a simple and easy to use IRC chat client for Windows 3.x/NT/95. Now with the Go-Moku game built-in. Includes a visual game board and a waiting room so you can find other players on the Internet. Chat and play at the same time. Includes a 16 bit and a 32 bit version. New chat features as well. (Newest File Date: 12-27-95)

FASTYP50.ZIP 715,022 01-27-96 FasType for Windows v5.0 <ASP> - FasType is the only full-featured Windows typing tutorial marketed as Shareware. FasType is for computer users who want to become more productive with their PC by learning how to touch type. FasType shows 3D keyboard image and uses animation plus TTFs to prompt typist to type correct keys. Regist. US$29.00 + S&H (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

FAX_V503.ZIP 721,559 02-06-96 Complete faxing program for Win3.1x, 95 and NT. Allows printing from any program that can print. FaxMail for Windows makes creating high quality faxes as easy as printing. Includes a Fax/Modem-tester. -timed sends - broadcast queue holds 32,000 -works in DOS and Windows -GOOD help system -all functions very fast -background FAX printing (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

FIXREC.ZIP 64,422 02-10-96 FixRec is a utility for the Windows for Pen Computing operating system. This program may be used in place of the corrector window that is displayed when you use the check mark gesture. Shareware $10 (free to registered PenEzra users) (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

FONTTEST.ZIP 1,013,246 01-23-96 Font Test 1.0 Win95 program that will allow you to view and print some or all of your fonts. Its very simple and easy to use. It is not freeware, but EmailWare, which means to register you need send me an email message with your comments and your name. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

FORM96BA.ZIP 1,361,601 02-11-96 FormPowerPRO Rel.96ba 4Win 3.1x & 95 Visual EZ-Forms/SuperForms (eForms) processor! Create, fill-out(external), fill-in(internal) ANY FORM. WYSIWYG, multi-forms, CALCULATIONS, VALIDATIONS, pick-lists, prot. fields, OLE2, MAPI, more. Scan (TWAIN) forms & fill-out! Single, multi, LAN versions available. (Newest File Date: 02-07-96)

FORMGX34.ZIP 638,154 01-27-96 FORMGX 3.4 Professional authoring software for Win 3.1 and 95. Graphical interface with bitmaps, animations, sound, video and hypertext. 256 colors with dynamic palette management and 24 bit color. Object oriented multimedia language with animated sprite based games engine. Ideal for CDROM titles and action adventure games. Includes online documentation and demo presentation. (Newest File Date: 12-16-95)

FP211SW.ZIP 442,434 02-14-96 File PLUS multi window file manager. Shareware For Win95/NT (Newest File Date: 01-09-96)

FUNDMN84.ZIP 362,965 02-03-96 (v8.4) Fund Manager for Windows FM is a portfolio management app. FM is designed to help individual investors monitor and analyze their investments with a wide variety of easy to use graphs and reports. FM accepts as input: price, investment, and distribution information. Prices may be entered manually, or imported from AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, or Quicken. Shareware (US$ 20), beiley@aol.com (Newest File Date: 12-19-95)

FUNPK121.ZIP 68,699 01-19-96 Funpok (tm) Ver 1.2. 192 video poker machine Completed winter 1996. A Windows video poker game. Each machine has its own database. Double-up, progressive jackpot, eight denominations, pay tables, casino mode, get new cash game, sound. Logging of wins, losses, types of wins, streaks and more. (Newest File Date: 12-13-95)

FWDMAILS.ZIP 149,413 02-05-96 ForwardMail 1.0 Win95 Scans your inbox for all incoming mail. (Newest File Date: 11-16-95)

G32E20B1.ZIP 3,194,788 02-07-96 Netscape Navigator Gold Edition 2.0 Beta 1 Netscape’s 2.0 browser, combined with easy-to-use editing and Web publishing capabilities. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

GC0196.ZIP 194,329 02-11-96 Garbage Can (01/96) for Win95 & 3.1 A secure file delete program guaranteed to make a deleted file, completely unrecoverable. Includes routines that process the ‘Slack Area’ associated with a file. Also includes a File Manager extension DLL version. Shareware by Denam Systems. You can register this program for $19.95 (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

GC309.ZIP 707,540 01-21-96 The Grocery Consumer 3.09 - Powerful recipe/meal plan/shopping list/cost manager for Windows. Prepares shopping list from your weekly menu created using personal recipe databases. User-defined categories; auto-categorizing. Add misc items to shopping list, remove items on hand. Get shopping list by aisle; cost of shopping list at stores. Quickfill data entry; expanded format for large recipes. All new database engine; cuts hours off organizing/converting recipes, creating menus, making shopping list(s). Converts Meal Master (tm) recipes. Requires Vbrun300 and PKZIP.EXE. Food-for-Thought Software(c) 1994-95; $25 plus shipping/handling. (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

GEOUSA20.ZIP 732,600 02-09-96 GeoUSA 2.0 <ASP> An educational Windows program intended for grade school children to adults. It tests/teaches U.S. geography in an entirely visual way. Learn about state locations, capital cities, state birds, flowers, nicknames and lakes and rivers simply by clicking the mouse. No typing is required. Registered users receive a FREE copy of GeoEurope. $20. (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

GIFWEB12.ZIP 194,128 01-17-96 Gif+Web v1.2 Transparent GIFs <ASP>. Converts GIF, bitmap, JPEG, and TIFF files to transparent GIF files Essential for web pages. Supports dithered color backgrounds. Option to make background grey. $19.00. Requires Vbrun300 . (Newest File Date: 01-07-96)

GPHMN1_5.ZIP 196,590 01-17-96 (v1.5) Graphic Manager Plus - allows for management of bitmap, metafile, icon and run length encoded (rle) graphic files. Extract icons from executables and dll’s. Load an entire directory of different images of varying sizes then review, edit or remove selected ones. Shareware (US$ 15.95 (Newest File Date: 01-07-96)

GROUCHO1.ZIP 254,543 01-18-96 Classic insults and quips from Groucho Marx! 9 WAVs in this collection, all sampled at 11K in 8-bit mono in January, 1995. Have some fun listening to these lines from the master! Sampled by Ted Tatman. (Newest File Date: 01-10-96) There are far too many WAV files added each month for them to be included in this list. Call Windows OnLine for our free file lists which are located in directory 497. <W>

GRVUTL4.ZIP 182,749 02-12-96 Advanced gravis win95 joystick utility. (Newest File Date: 01-25-96)

GSWPRO.ZIP 246,397 01-22-96 Grammar Slammer v1.00 <ASP> Grammar Help that answers the questions the grammar checker can’t. Get Answers, not Questions, & real grammar help for Windows. Handy & Easy. Use ready-made Word Pro script commands and Gramm Answers appear in the file format you already know how to use, the Windows Help File. Easier than online books. Useful for anyone who writes English with Word Pro for Windows. Shareware. From James Bair. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

GWAVE303.ZIP 467,349 02-05-96 (v3.03) GoldWave - Audio editor for Windows GoldWave is a digital audio editor for Win3.1. It has realtime oscilloscopes, intelligent editing, and numerous effects such as echo, flange, distortion, mechanize, and reverse. The intuitive user interface makes GoldWave easy to learn and use. Author: Chris Craig (chris3@cs.mun.ca) http://web.cs.mun.ca/~chris3/goldwave/ (Newest File Date: 01-08-96) Reviewed in WOLRS42 <W>

HANGMAN.ZIP 210,581 02-04-96 MS Foundation Class Library : Hangman32 AppWizard has created this Hangman32 app for you. This app not only demonstrates the basics of using the MS Foundation classes but is also a starting point for writing your app. (Newest File Date: 01-16-96)

HARC155F.ZIP 873,012 02-08-96 Harpoon Classic CD-ROM for Windows 1995 game by Alliance Interactive update to V1.55f (Newest File Date: 01-28-96)

HGREP150.ZIP 259,374 01-27-96 WinGREP v1.50. GREP searching integrated W/IDE’s. WinGREP is a program that makes searching for strings and Regular Expressions simple and fast. It is integrated with several different IDE’s such as Borland C 4.X, Delphi 1.X, MSVC 1.5. It can open and syncronize the IDE’s editor window with the results of a search. Full online help and regular expression button bar make the creation of regular expression searches easy. (Newest File Date: 01-04-96)

HHWIN95.ZIP 596,019 02-08-96 Mustek handheld scanner drivers for WIN95 (Newest File Date: 11-17-95)

HIDEWND.ZIP 17,041 02-14-96 HideWindow 1.02 Simple program that is able to hide and "unhide" an app’s window. If the window is visible, the program will hide it, otherwise, it will make it visible again. Win95 (Newest File Date: 02-07-96)

HLPMKR32.ZIP 918,245 01-19-96 HelpMaker v3.2 - With Help Maker anyone who knows how to use MS Word 6.0 can create their own windows help files! Create regular topics, popup topics, simple jump destinations, hypertext jumps, fixed regions etc. with the ease of point-and-click! You can also compile and view your finished help file without ever leaving Word! $20 (Newest File Date: 01-08-96)

HLP_WZRD.ZIP 183,978 02-14-96 Component’s Help Wizard 1.0 Simplify the development of Help for Visual Component Library.(VCL) Component’s Help Wizard build for you a full skeleton of help project base only on your Delphi source code. Component’s Help Wizard generate all need topics for properties, events, methods, types and exceptions. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

HMCKBK4.ZIP 468,927 01-25-96 The Home Cookbook Recipe & Shopping List Mgr. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

HOTSPT15.ZIP 616,226 01-23-96 (v1.5) Htspta15.zip - Screensaver utility Create hotspots which will allow the user to turn his screensaver on and off simply by placing the cursor in a predefined corner. The VB4 Runtime Module, VB40032.DLL, is included to run this program. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

HTMST512.ZIP 78,031 02-08-96 (5.12): Goes through downloaded pages from the Web and removes imbedded HTML commands. Reflows paragraphs and tries to make it basically readable. Can be used in conjunction with the PAGINATE command to produce even more finished output. Freeware. (Newest File Date: 12-11-95)

ICNCT455.ZIP 406,693 01-25-96 ICNCT455 - Displays 100 icons at a time for quick viewing, printing, copying, renaming, moving, deleting, editing, converting, extracting using drag&drop, mouse clicks, hotkeys. Extracts icons inside DLL/EXE files. Converts BMP>ICO, ICO>BMP. Captures ANY area of the screen into an icon/bitmap. Turns any icon areas transparent. Powerful editing tools including flip/shift. Shareware (Newest File Date: 01-17-96)

ICONEXT.ZIP 43,607 01-18-96 Icon Extractor - freeware program to view and save icons from many file formats, including 32-bit programs. (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

IDEX219.ZIP 736,706 01-20-96 Infodex v2.19 <ASP> Multipurpose Database! Infodex is a versatile database manager used to keep track of names and addresses, equipment, computer software, books, and more! Includes a FREE-FORM layout. Add, delete, or rearrange fields EASILY! Search for text in any field. Import and export to a delimited text file. Easy push button interface w/mouse support! Now with drag & drop support & improved printing! (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

IMG_US.ZIP 2,088,162 02-14-96 Imaging for Win95 V01.00.00 Imaging is a new Win95 accessory that allows users to create, annotate, view and print TIFF, BMP and MS Fax (AWD) image documents. Users can also view and print JPEG and PCX/DCX images with this app. It is built using several OCXs (also included with this kit) that can be used by developers to build custom imaging apps. (Newest File Date: 12-21-95)

INFOP55.ZIP 1,396,291 02-08-96 InfoRecall Pro 5.5 v5.50 Not crippled! No Nag Screens! Store and find Information FAST and EASY! A few words to 30K plus in a FREE-FORM, Variable size database. Developed for the Power User. Has very sophisticated search engine with Boolean Logic, Search- Anything Total Hard Disk Search Hypertext, Hypergraphics, Print, Print Preview, DDE, Delimited Import/Export, Spell Checker, Templates, Help/ Sample file Win3.x/95 (Newest File Date: 01-19-96)

INSTGA20.ZIP 61,806 01-17-96 InstallGuard v2.0 - Finds changes after SW Install - A powerful and yet simple to use Windows utility which tells you exactly what changes are made to your system when you install any DOS or Windows program. Detect all new, changed or deleted directories, files, Program Manager groups and icons. V2.0 includes bug fixes, more flexible and faster operation plus improved user interface. $14. (Newest File Date: 01-09-96)

IPHONE21.ZIP 1,013,739 02-06-96 Internet Phone Build 3.2 Talk voice over the internet! This is a self extracting - Instal EXE for Windows. (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

ITD119.ZIP 1,218,939 01-22-96 Investors Toolbox v1.19. Win95 (32 bit) . How to Get Rich and Stay Rich . A comprehensive personal financial program. Provides calculations, projections, graphs for Saving, Investing, Retirement, Net Worth Mortgages, Loans, Stocks, Mutual Funds and 401(k) Plans. All aspects of financial life. Investment management system records, tracks and graphs your investment performance. Excellent On-Line Help. For Win95 only. Requires VB40032. Rated: (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

JAPIDOC.ZIP 374,962 02-12-96 Java app programming interface - User’s Guide (Newest File Date: 01-19-96)

KEYNOT16.ZIP 564,399 02-06-96 KeyNote Music Drills 16-Bit v1.51 for Win3.1 was designed to help music students learn to identify the notes of the bass clef, treble clef, and grand staff, and to locate their positions on the keyboard or guitar fingerboard. Also, there are additional drills for the alto and tenor clefs. Options include timed drills, set drill item count, and visual feedback for elapsed time via progress indicator bar, and sound playback. (Newest File Date: 11-18-95)

KICKER60.ZIP 315,681 02-10-96 Kicker for Windows v1.0 (Shareware) By Black Swamp Software. PIM, Utilities and more! Calendars, Addresses, Notes, Calculator, Clock, Alarms, and System Information. Win3.1, Win95 compatible. (Newest File Date: 11-03-95)

KK302.ZIP 416,913 02-04-96 Kith & Kin V3.02 : Windows genealogy (ASP). Shareware Industry Award 1995 nominee . Excellent shareware program for documenting and storing family trees. Graphic interface, timeline, zoom, stats, relationships, etc. Pictures, maps, diagrams, sounds, etc may be embedded in or linked to a person or family. Many more new features. Win95 ready. Needs 286+, Win3.1+, VGA+. By SpanSoft. (Newest File Date: 01-08-96)

KN32V16B.ZIP 686,785 02-11-96 KeyNote Music Drills 32-Bit v1.60 Beta 2 for Win95/NT 3.51 was designed to help music students learn to identify the notes of the bass clef, treble clef, and grand staff, and to locate their positions on the keyboard or guitar fingerboard. Also, there are additional drills for the alto and tenor clefs, and bass guitar. Options include timed drills, set drill item count, and visual feedback for elapsed time via progress indicator, and sound playback. (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

KNOBVB25.ZIP 334,528 02-04-96 v2.5 <asp> - The knob control is a highly customizable knob or dial control for use in VB, visual c , or delphi. Properties are provided to modify knob style, mark, scale, tics, annulars, captions, border and background. The mouse may optionally be used to change knob values. additionally, there are snap and multiturn functions. global majic software, inc. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

LEDVB25.ZIP 233,852 02-04-96 v2.5 <asp> - Highly customizable led custom control interface for use with VB, visual c , and delphi. The user can configure many leds with a variety of shapes. User-supplied bitmaps may also be used to define and led’s appearance. Horizontal or vertical arrays of leds may be used to display meter levels or dip switch settings. The mouse can be used for input when the mousecontrol property is set true (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

LFNSNW11.ZIP 207,715 02-14-96 LFNsNow! 1.10: Allows the use of long filenames with most Windows 3.x programs running under Win95 including MS Word 6 and MS Excel 5. Features: configurable, fast, easy to use, run at Windows startup, display as icon on the Task Bar, Explore from Open/Save As dialogs, easy to install/uninstall. Does not modify your system. Shareware. Smartt Software Corp. $18.95 +S&H.(Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

LGAVB25.ZIP 287,013 02-04-96 Linear Gauge Custom Control vbx v2.5 - A versatile (generic) linear gauge custom control which may be used as a slider or meter indicator for use in VB, visual c , and delphi. The pointer can be configured to display a discrete value or a range. Multiple scales and pointers can be incorporated in a single instrument to indicate multiple values or max/min values. The mouse works as an optional input device. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

LITFR116.ZIP 327,452 01-25-96 Literati Lite for Windows: French Dictionary Edition by MVP Software. Do you like Scrabble(tm)? If so, you’ll LOVE Literati Lite, the crossword board game for 1-4 players. Rack up extra points with double and triple letter and word scores. Two skill background music, and neat graphics. Requires VGA, Windows, and a mouse. Version 1.16. (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

LITLI116.ZIP 324,338 01-20-96 Literati Lite for Windows by MVP Software. Do you like Scrabble(tm)? If so, you’ll LOVE Literati Lite, the crossword board game for 1-4 players that will have you playing for hours. Rack up extra points with double and triple letter and word scores. Two skill levels, built-in dictionary, cool background music, and neat graphics. Requires VGA, Windows, and a mouse. Ver 1.16. (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

LKTALKOP.ZIP 12,124 02-08-96 Delrina commsuite95 talkworks modified script (Newest File Date: 01-30-96)

LLV_141.ZIP 23,632 01-18-96 (1.4.1) LaTeX Launcher - tex/latex/win/util A configurable Windows launch utility specialized for the LaTeX user. Purpose is to give an integrated "feel" to a LaTeX session. LL will pass info to other progs: file names, pg nums. These params are configured w/ dialog boxes at run time. LL can launch both DOS and Win apps, it has been tested with Emtex using Win 3.1 and Win 95. Install and use info included. (Newest File Date: 12-29-95)

LPC9525.ZIP 1,879,276 02-08-96 Lotto PC v2.5 for Win95 Universal Lottery Generator/Tracker can be configured for any game including Powerball lotteries. Simple but powerful analysis features and attractive graphics have made Lotto PC a favorite. Win95 install/uninstall functions are supported. Shareware $9.00 (Newest File Date: 01-27-96)

LST32.ZIP 549,043 01-24-96 Lightning Strike for Netscape Plug-in Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

LTRACK16.ZIP 273,036 02-10-96 League Tracker v1.6 is an MSWin program that allows you to track one or more Football league tables through the season. You can track your own tables (local league for example) or the four English tables provided. Also allows you to predict the results of future matches and analyze their impact on league table positions. Nigel Thomas. (Newest File Date: 01-08-96)

LUNA222.ZIP 268,458 01-22-96 The clySmic Lunar Almanack V2.22 <ASP> Displays the current moon phase; rising, southing, and setting times, the constellation & signe of the moon, and more. Easy to use, with beautiful, colorful graphical display with moon icons and scanned bitmaps. Can be run as an icon displaying the moon phase only. Takes advantage of >16-color displays, if present. Shareware, $9.95. (Newest File Date: 11-30-95)

LVSPRO23.ZIP 573,742 02-14-96 Las Vegas Slots - PRO v2.3 - The most realistic slot machine simulation. Includes running jackpot that continues to update. As much as 8 chances to win on each spin. Comes with outstanding graphics and sound effects. If you only use one slot machine for Windows, this is it! Shareware (US $19.95) (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

MAILX3.ZIP 2,142,384 02-07-96 Win95 Ocx Vbx Mail Extension For Vb4 (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

MAR32B.ZIP 1,849,366 01-25-96 Mariner 1.0 32-bit Beta 1 for Win95. Collection of Internet apps. (Newest File Date: 01-22-96)

MARKXY00.ZIP 18,896 02-04-96 MarkXY is a graphics-to-ASCII extraction/conversion util that lets you mark data points in the picture & saves the pixel data in one or more text files, which may be imported in data pkgs and converted back to the original units, analyzed, processed, etc.; requires Vbrun300; Hartmut Mueller. (Newest File Date: 01-22-96)

MAX301N.ZIP 512,223 02-04-96 Maximus 3.01 - BETA Win32 executables. A flexible BBS package incorporating RIP support, an advanced extension language, hierarchical message and file areas, a message tracking system for handling technical support, and more. (Newest File Date: 12-30-95)

MBBSCOMM.ZIP 124,933 02-07-96 MBBSCOMM - Absolutely Free Program! Fully-functional telecommunications pgm! Built-in Zmodem! Access 15,000 GIFs/JPGs! Works much better than Windows Terminal! Install, it auto-configures & auto-dials! Courtesy of The Movie BBS, Inc. (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

MBS103.ZIP 389,905 02-04-96 MicroFox Baseball Statistics for Windows. Keeps track of multiple years, leagues, teams, players, fields, umpires, standings, hitting, pitching, fielding, and schedules. User defined sorts, custom screen, help. Prints team standings and player statistics. Schedules and Prints teams, fields, umpires. Keeps any notes on teams, players, etc. like phone numbers, addresses, and reminders. (Newest File Date: 01-19-96)

MC100.ZIP 21,828 01-24-96 MailCall V1.0 for Win95 EMail client that can be configured to connect with up to 3 EMail accounts. It will retrieve the number of messages waiting to be read. This program runs in the area of the Win95 taskbar called the ‘tray notification area’. This is the area that contains the clock. (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

MC32V7B6.ZIP 239,122 02-14-96 MicroChart/32 7.0 Beta 6 Drill design and charting aid system for marching bands. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-24-96)

MCDESK17.ZIP 113,063 02-03-96 McDesk (MoonComet Desktop) v1.7A: MSWin app that provides configurable multi-desktop shell with a powerful task manager & folders each desktop can have it’s own backdrop &/or color; desktop password protection; animated icons; cut/paste icons across desktops; startup/shutdown sequences; Mandar (Newest File Date: 01-18-96)

MEDBILLS.ZIP 11,505 01-20-96 The Medical Bill Analyst Shareware program that tracks your medical bills, insurance payments and your payments. For Windows. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

METZP16E.ZIP 693,136 02-12-96 METZ Phones 16-bit 5.62 Beta 7 EXE only. Need previous installed. (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

METZPH32.ZIP 2,398,292 02-13-96 METZ Phones 32-bit for Win95 - Version 5.62 Beta 7 (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

MICROMIX.ZIP 99,968 02-14-96 MicroMixer v0.1 Win95 app. It should function with all audio cards that are Win95 compatible. It aims to replace Win95’s SndVol32.exe app that so often takes up too much of our valuable desktop space. (Newest File Date: 02-07-96)

MIMA32E1.ZIP 171,866 01-22-96 MIMA Midi Masterkeyboard Controller V2.01 32-Bit Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

MIRC392.ZIP 547,476 01-16-96 mIRC v3.92 Internet Relay Chat Client. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

MLITE10.ZIP 22,020 02-10-96 MODEMSTA LITE 1.0: A minimal modem status ind (Newest File Date: 01-27-96)

MMBINGO.ZIP 581,711 02-10-96 (v1.0) A Multimedia BINGO game announcer and BINGO card printer for Win 3.1 Let MMBINGO call the games at your next Bingo Party. Features: Adjustable calling speed - 5 to 30 seconds. Manual call mode. Colorful 3d balls, and sound effects. Print an unlimited supply of Bingo cards. Select male or female announcer. Multiple game types (little diamond, etc.) (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

MMMWIN10.ZIP 1,423,406 02-14-96 Multimedia Maker For Windows Ver1.0 MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Combine images, video, animation, sound, music, text and control buttons jump on the Multimedia band wagon! Produce state of the art talking interactive presentations, tutorials, tests, advertising & courseware authoring. Use this package to create dynamic attention grabbing interactive AUDIO/VIDEO shows. VGA required DareWare Inc. (Newest File Date: 01-28-96)

MRTERM.ZIP 315,592 01-22-96 MrTerm is a program designed to make terminal use in the Internet environment easy and accurate. MrTerm will walk you through setup, so configuration is simplified. (Newest File Date: 11-14-95)

MSXLPTCH.ZIP 20,614 01-17-96 MS Excel v7 bug fix (from MS). (Newest File Date: 12-21-95)

N16E20B5.ZIP 2,392,764 01-20-96 Netscape Navigator V 2.0 Beta 5 (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

N32E2B6A.ZIP 3,232,421 01-25-96 Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 6a 32-bit Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-21-96)

NANOSEC.ZIP 1,854,024 02-14-96 NanoSecond V1.1 Win95 app that updates a computer’s system date and time based on a time standard from either NIST or the USNO. This product will allow approximately 10 system time updates before requiring registration. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

NC4595.ZIP 159,698 02-14-96 NetClock 4.5 Keeps track of your time logged into your server. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

NCOM12.ZIP 88,382 02-05-96 (v1.2) NCom - win/file/document Norbert Commander is a file/document manager with some simularities to the DOS age Norton Commander. It implements a true file oriented approach with template files and is also able to handle long file names even in MSWin V3.1. It does not require a mouse and is thus usefull for Notebooks. In this several bigs of v1.1 are repaired. Shareware (US$25.- MC/Visa/AmEx) (Newest File Date: 01-13-96)

NEODRW.ZIP 816,431 02-05-96 NeoDraw: a vector-based drawing app for Windows 3.x and Win95. Construct charts, brochures, invitations, catalogs, and other illustration projects quickly and easily. Allows import of bitmap and plotter files, and contains such features as: clip art stamp pad, dimensioning, warp shapes, masking, distortable text, align to path, vector splatter, and much more. Requires Windows 3.x, 95 or +, mouse, 4MB RAM. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

NETLIST.ZIP 48,327 02-08-96 DameWare NetList OCX is a 32bit Network Resource Browser custom control for use with VB & C++ . It incorporates many customizable properties (resource type, comments, context menu, etc.). Easy to use with customizable resource options, event notification and many method functions to get the network resource as desired. Shareware. (Newest File Date: 02-05-96)

NETPOPUP.ZIP 77,493 01-24-96 NetPopup 1.0 for Win95 / WindowsNT. 32-bit winsock utility for sending notes over internet (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

NETR110.ZIP 1,096,161 01-26-96 NetRunner 1.1 provides web, news, mail, ftp and gopher client services for Win95 (Newest File Date: 12-22-95)

NN95FAQ.ZIP 18,001 01-16-96 Norton navigator frequently-asked questions. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

NOTEBK35.ZIP 1,161,820 01-26-96 (v3.5) Notbka34 - Win95 Large File Editor Notebook is a Notepad replacement which will (1) It will open VERY large files (2) It has a toolbar (3) Supports DRAG and DROP editing; (4) Features full font control (5) Supports overtype mode (6) Will allow printing and saving to file SELECTED text. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

NOW!315.ZIP 38,301 02-11-96 NOW! Version 3.15! NOW! recognizes Win3.1x and Win95. It lets exit, restart Windows or restart your computer now, or later! Features selectable confirmation and Extended Pseudo-3D graphics. New version changes online-help call for network compatibility! Handy program! Requires Vbrun300 (not supplied) This is FREEWARE! (Newest File Date: 01-27-96)

NSNOOP1C.ZIP 133,067 01-27-96 NetSnoop - Works With Netscape - Gives access to WWW resources that are viewed through Netscape first. Easy to setup and use. Runs under Windows 3.x, Win95 and Windows-NT. Works with any good graphics viewer and text editor or viewer. Has built in text viewing for HTML files. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

NST32121.ZIP 328,737 02-07-96 (v1.21) NetScanTools 32Bit Win95 TCP/IP Network Utils. Works with netcards and/or SLIP/PPP dialup connections. Resolves hostnames and IP addresses. UNIX Finger. Port ID. Requires active net connection to run. (Newest File Date: 12-08-95)

NT281.ZIP 538,961 01-17-96 NetTerm v2.9 Internet Telnet OVID Zmodem SLIP NetTerm is a Windows based terminal emulator with fast zmodem file transfers. It can also be used as a dialer program for SLIP/PPP & includes a built in scripting language. For Internet hosts, the telnet protocol is enabled with VT100 & full ANSI graphics. A ftp server is included. Transparent printing & local host editing is supported for UNIX. (Newest File Date: 01-07-96)

NTZ323.ZIP 153,868 02-07-96 NoteZ V3.23 varient of the Post-It idea for Windows NT and 95. It provides the usual pop up notes on the desktop, but also a diary and a calendar for reviewing appointments and reminders. Notes are organised into folders and can be sorted and searched, so they can be used as a simple flat file database. V3.23 is a bug fix release with no new features over 3.22. (Newest File Date: 01-04-96)

NUMBCHAL.ZIP 124,234 01-17-96 Windows game for ages 4+. Use 6 sided dice to add, subtract, multiply, divide to get a row of numbered squared before your oppenent does. Good game to practice those math skills! (Newest File Date: 12-17-95)

ODOMVB25.ZIP 192,392 02-04-96 Odometer v2.50 <ASP> - The Odometer Custom Control VBX provides a numeric display similar to an automobile’s odometer or tripometer for use with VB, Visual C , and Delphi. The font, number of digits, colors, number of decimals and reset button are user-definable. The control includes bevels for a 3D appearance. Global Majic Software, Inc. (GMS) P.O. Box 322 Madison AL USA 35758 (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

OFSPDB03.ZIP 53,794 01-22-96 OmniFSPd for Win95 v1.0b3 High performance 32 bit FSP server designed specifically for Win95 and Windows NT. (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

OL4WIN10.ZIP 469,760 02-08-96 Ohm’s law calculator for windows. (Newest File Date: 01-24-96)

ORAPB95.ZIP 1,739,705 01-26-96 Oracle Power Browser beta 0.9b Combination Web browser and WYSIWYG drag & drop Web page creation tool. Win95 (Newest File Date: 12-30-95)

ORIGN151.ZIP 1,141,195 02-14-96 Origins of Mythology explores the beginnings of religion and ritual with hunter/gatherers in the Upper Paleolithic and the Dreamtime experience of Indians in the Amazon. An E-Book for WIN 3.1+ from Reality Software. Double click setup.exe to install. (Newest File Date: 02-04-96)

OSETUP95.ZIP 666,366 02-10-96 O’Setup95 is a powerful app setup toolkit with zip decompression, extended registry access, uninstalling, start menus/short cuts, and much more! (Newest File Date: 12-21-95)

PALNSVGA.ZIP 5,687 02-10-96 Win 3: Use 15khz PAL on SVGA Monitors (Newest File Date: 01-02-96)

PAYWIN12.ZIP 827,429 02-15-96 PayWindow v1.2 Payroll for Windows <ASP> - Pay by any pay period; hourly, salaried, commissioned, non-employee workers; prints Checks, W2s, 1099-MISC forms and reports galore! Builtin data backup and restore with file compression. You can pay an employee in as little as three clicks of the mouse! Password protection. From the creators of the popular ZPAY 3 Payroll System for DOS. (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

PCSWP32.ZIP 2,510,211 01-22-96 Pc-sweep 3.51; file zip manager for win95. (Newest File Date: 01-04-96)

POSTER23.ZIP 149,788 02-07-96 Win util makes posters/signs/banners (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

PPRO9520.ZIP 1,247,867 02-12-96 PrimePro ‘95 v2.0 32-bit math app Win95. Generate all primes less than 1 trillion. Generate primes between a specific range of numbers (instead of always starting at 2). Factor any integer between 3 and 999,964,000,324 in a few seconds or less. Test any integer up to 999,964,000,324 for primality in just seconds. Use the text editor of your choice. Built-in calculator. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

PPTVW32.ZIP 1,540,601 01-25-96 MS powerpoint viewer for Win95. (Newest File Date: 01-17-96)

PRCTVB25.ZIP 343,228 02-04-96 PCTVBX25 v2.50 <ASP> - Versatile percentage bar custom control used to indicate a level or progress meter for use with VB, Visual C , or Delphi. Properties are provided to select orientation, direction, style (linear or radial fill), shape, colors, bitmaps, fonts, and bevels. The percent level can be set directly by the percent property or indirectly by allowing the control to calculate percent for you. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

PRINT26.ZIP 133,984 01-19-96 ShareWare New Print Dialog, for Winword 6.0 Version 2.6 Replaces WinWord default print dialog. If you have more than one printer attached to your system, then this program is must hav one. Printer selection made much easier, directly from the dialog. (Up to 16 printers. If you, more than once, wanted to print a fil but it was send to the FAX instead, then this program will make sure it wont ever happen a The default printer will be restored after th print job ends. Changing various settings like Reverse Print and Draft Output done in the dialog itself, without going to the Print Options. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

PROCHEAT.ZIP 154,217 01-24-96 Pro Cheater 1.0 Freeware Cheat your games with Pro Cheater! Pro Cheater is a large database of cheats, tricks, and more. for your games and apps. This version contains cheats to 583 games/programs. Totally FREE, no registration needed. NEEDS Vbrun300. (Newest File Date: 12-08-95)

PROLIX.ZIP 219,218 01-16-96 - Prolix Windows Text Editor ver 1.02 - Can handle multiple files up to 16 megabytes in size. Features a speedbar, right-click menu, search and replace, drag-and-drop file opening, 16k undo/redo buffer, bookmarks, split-window editing, floating hints, Word- star keystroke commands, and a clean, simple interface with no external dll’s or vbx’s. Freeware for private non-commercial use. From Kobayashi Software. (Newest File Date: 12-01-95)

PWRPGP10.ZIP 176,844 02-05-96 *PowerPGP 1.0 * Windows Shell for the DOS PGP program designed to make it possible to encrypt & decrypt Email with any Windows based E-mail program. Including Power Access for PowerBBS Requires the DOS Based FREEWARE program PGP to be installed prior to PowerPGP! (Newest File Date: 12-23-95)

QCAL10.ZIP 237,029 02-15-96 QuikCal 1.00 Simple reminder program designed to be easy to use and to configure. QuikCal runs under all current 32 bit versions of MSWin, including Win95 and Windows NT (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

QCKFTP21.ZIP 56,215 02-09-96 With QuickFTP 2.1 you can get or put ascii or binary files from a server repetitively on a cycle of 10-sec to whatever. In addition, with command line options you can set up an icon in a windows group that runs a complete logon-get or put-logoff session automatically. Uses SocketWrench VBX Source included. FREEWARE (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

QT32INST.ZIP 1,464,129 02-07-96 QuickTime for Win95 2.1.1 Beta 32-bit version of Apple’s QuickTime Movie Player! It now has a Control Panel applet which allows you to change all of the parameters without manually editting the QTW.INI file. (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

QTPLAY12.ZIP 23,325 02-03-96 QuickTime Movie Player For Windows v1.2 - Win3.1 or higher. (Newest File Date: 01-04-96)

REEDME.ZIP 107,076 02-11-96 VB 4.0 questions and answers. (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

REGMAG10.ZIP 1,409,758 02-05-96 Registration Magician! 1.0 <ASP> This Windows program allows a shareware author to build a registration capability into their program and then brand their apps with a customer’s registration information. Customizable registration fields, customizable encryption, program tracking (including cost, shipping cost, and sales tax collected) plus sample code in the help file and with the registered version make this a must for all shareware authors. (Newest File Date: 11-25-95)

RKEEP150.ZIP 266,106 02-10-96 Win 3: Recipe Keeper v1.50 for Windows (Newest File Date: 01-18-96)

RSMON150.ZIP 55,443 02-15-96 Resource Monitor! Win 3.1x and ‘95! Version 1.40/1.50! Monitor your system resources so you don’t run out! New-Improved versions! Features low- resource alarm, and taskbar-integrated monitoring system! Both Win3.1x and Win95 versions are included! (It’s better than the one that comes with Win95!) Now has the program manual in .HLP format! Requires file Vbrun300. This is Freeware. (Newest File Date: 01-27-96)

RTVREC50.ZIP 32,401 01-20-96 RtvReco from the U.K. utility for Win95 that will push buttons, perform menu select, or run a batch job in response to W95 dialog queries. Useful for punching the "Connect" button from the "Connect To" dialog in your Dial-Up Networking module - thus automating internet access for all your Winsock32 apps. Superior to Dunce, plus it’ll automate ANY dialog, not just D.U.Networking. (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

RWW32.ZIP 2,020,491 02-05-96 ReVoL Web Worker freeware HTML editor for Win95. Includes HTML 3.0 & Netscape 2.0 support,drag and drop text editing,home page wizard, HTML code builders,long filename support and tight integration with the Win95 shell. (Newest File Date: 12-23-95)

SADISTIC.ZIP 28,539 02-11-96 Dan’s Sadistic Animated Cursors v1.1 (for Win95) Here’s a whole bunch of disgusting cursors for you to use. They’re not much good for use as pointing devices so I suggest using them as your "busy" cursor (default is usually the hourglass). (Newest File Date: 01-30-96)

SBLAST30.ZIP 1,749,018 02-15-96 Windows Internet Site Blaster v3.0 The Site Blaster goes visual! Now save screens from your favorite Internet Sites in the Site Blaster Database. Enjoy and be productive with your time on the Internet. With this database, you can put all of the power of the Internet at your fingertips. Search thousands of sites and addresses, and navigate easily to different sites of interest on the Net. The Registered version provides a searchable database of over 30,000 Internet Site Descriptions and Addresses in URL format. The intuitive interface allows both the Internet Novice and Internet Guru to quickly search the database and locate topics from games and entertainment, to art, news, sports, business, government info, and much more. Shareware, for Windows. SoloTech Software. (Newest File Date: 02-03-96)

SCLCK200.ZIP 1,734,026 01-26-96 Super Clock 2.0: Super Clock is a handy little app with the following features: 12/24 hour clock, 99:59:59 countdown/ countup timer, WAV/CD/MIDI player, memory monitor/ alarm, and many more including a whole set of alarm functions! v2.0 adds too many things to mention! For Win95 or WinNT (Newest File Date: 01-10-96)

SCLIP250.ZIP 46,591 01-19-96 SuperClip for Windows screen-capture program pops up when you press PrtSc to capture the screen to the clipboard. Save all or any rectangular portion to a BMP GIF PCX or TIF file, or send output to printer. Options: stretch or reverse x and/or y axes; invert colors. Also capture text from DOS apps and save in ASCII or graphical format. Supports 24-bit color. Andromeda Software (Newest File Date: 01-09-96)

SCRAP10.ZIP 16,967 01-25-96 SCRAP for Windows 1.0 Place scraps of text on your desktop for use (Newest File Date: 11-03-95)

SCRNPR12.ZIP 33,314 02-15-96 Scrnpro 1 .2: an automated Word 6 for Windows template which gives you all the tools you need to produce a professionally formatted screenplay. Has a reprogammed Style-TAB key and Style Formatting toolbar.SCRNPRO anticipates the styles you’ll need next! New features: Quick Cast Adds and Scene Cards template. Registered users get Script Analysis Tools. (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

SDRAW203.ZIP 515,235 01-20-96 SmartDraw v2.03 Draw & Flowchart for Win31 Winner Best Graphics Program 1995-Shareware Industry Awards. SmartDraw is the Windows program that lets anyone draw great looking flowcharts,diagrams and business graphics. Better value and easier to use than Visio, SmartDraw provides drag & drop drawing and lines between shapes that stay connected. Works with the MS Office and other programs as a OLE Server, and much more! (Newest File Date: 11-13-95)

SECWIN17.ZIP 160,078 02-03-96 Win 3: CW15 Datasoft’s SecWin - Add security to your Windows apps. Powerful features. 16 bit version is free. (Newest File Date: 01-25-96)

SELVB25.ZIP 320,559 02-05-96 Select25 v2.50 <ASP> - The Selector Control is a knob style control that can be used to choose between discrete options. It is intended for use with VB, Visual C , and Delphi. It can be used as a replacement for option buttons and provides the user with an easy-to-use and intuitive mouse input device. Global Majic Software, Inc. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

SFTYNT42.ZIP 146,323 01-20-96 (v4.2) Sftnt42.zip - Backup Utility Safety Net is a utility for backing up key files. It has 1 default setting - to backup key "windows" & system files - & 3 user configurable options. SafetyNet could easily backup all of your .DOC and/or .MDB files, for example. Also the files can be ZIPped to disk. It can print your directory tree & make a boot disk. Vb40032.dll required. (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

SHOVEIT1.ZIP 17,773 01-18-96 ShoveIt is a freeware Win95 add-on that keeps window control points from being covered up by taskboard or from disappearing off the right or left edge of the screen. Very cool and totally free! (Newest File Date: 01-02-96)

SIR_HM10.ZIP 1,238,070 01-28-96 Ssorg Software’s Sir Hangman v1.0 <ASP> Is an educational game for Win3.1. Based on the classic hangman word game with subject related words and hints. Create your own subjects or use existing ones. Set levels, sound, and animation. Shareware. Registration fee: $20. (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

SLIDVB25.ZIP 331,611 02-05-96 Slider25 v2.50 <ASP> - The Slider Custom Control is a versatile input/output control to allow the user to create sliders, gauges, meters, etc. that incorporate a sliding mechanism (for use with VB, Visual C , and Delphi). The control includes properties to change the On/Off characteristics of the sliding bar, the background, tic marks, the knob handle, direction and orientation. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

SLW95B2.ZIP 978,634 02-15-96 Stoplight 1.0b2 Lets you enable file and directory-level protection for your folders, maintain security profiles, and more. Win95 (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

SMAN_10.ZIP 191,482 02-11-96 StockMan(F1.0) A stock analysis tool Need: Win3.1, Vbrun300, and VGA (256) color. StockMan is a powerful stock analysis tool which allows users to analyze, watch, and summary stock market. (Newest File Date: 01-10-96)

SMPLMAPI.ZIP 26,270 02-03-96 Example 32bit MAPI class app. Besides encapsulating the API, the class handles the loading and unloading of the MAPI DLL (16 or 32 bit), shielding of some reserved parameters and of course a lot of error help. (Newest File Date: 01-17-96)

SMTBRD10.ZIP 354,405 02-11-96 SmartBoard R1 - a Windows Clipboard Extender supports all clipboard formats. Collect items copied to the clipboard and paste back days or weeks later with a single mouse-click. Create boilerplate text items, add templates, grab graphics and metafiles. Assign system- wide hotkeys for items to autopaste. Merge text together while capturing or after. No icon but access with a single mouseclick or hotkey- looks built in to Windows! (Newest File Date: 02-01-96)

SMTSTK12.ZIP 158,238 02-07-96 Smart ‘n Sticky V1.2 - Labelling for Windows with FULL OLE CLIENT SUPPORT - giving you the power of packages such as Corel Draw, MS WordArt and hundreds more! Easy to use with MDI, Undo, Mark & Revert, Bitmaps, Metafiles, TrueType with rotation & justification, Color Graphics, Serial Numbers, Date & Time fields, import from ASCII & DBF, vast range of predefined labels or add your own, toolbar, status bar, small & fast (not VB) and more! (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

SNAG3230.ZIP 254,630 01-25-96 SnagIt/32 v3.0 - Easy to use Windows Screen Capture & Print Utility for Win95 and Windows NT. SnagIt/32 captures your screen, window or region to the printer, clipboard, or a variety of file formats, including PCX, JPG, TIF and BMP. Fully supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and MAPI for easy integration into your apps. Supports all Windows video modes and rastering printers. (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

SORCAV11.ZIP 311,834 02-04-96 Sorcerer’s Cave v1.1 is a simple, fast playing dungeon adventure for all ages, based on the author’s card game once called "the best game since Diplomacy". Explore a six-level labyrinth w/30 types of characters, treasures and magical artifacts, along with cave-ins, traps, and other hazards. Requires MS-Win3.1 or 95 with 256 colors. (Newest File Date: 01-09-96)

SPEAK95.ZIP 45,440 01-17-96 Win95 PC-SPEAKER driver kit from MS Software Library plus installation info from MS Knowledge Base shows how to get sound effects for those without sound cards. Includes .WAV player WPlayAny 0.9b (Newest File Date: 01-09-96)

SPLT231W.ZIP 364,084 02-09-96 SPLOT V2.31 for Windows, the HP-GL/2, HP-GL and DXY-GL pen plotter simulator. It supports more than 50 HP-GL/2 or HP-GL instructions and 20 DXY-GL instructions. SPLOT has many features as comfortable user interface with on-line help, exporting a picture to the HP-GL, DXY-GL and DXF formats, printing a picture, trim, zoom, pan and rotate functions, variable line widths etc. SPLOT requires the MSWin ver. 3.1 or higher. (Newest File Date: 01-28-96)

SPLTW104.ZIP 40,755 01-27-96 (ver 1.03) SplitWin WIN3: Split large file into smaller chunks or merge chunks back to original file in Win3.1 & 3.11 env. This can be useful, when coping big files to floppy diskettes, or transferring files via e-mail or modem. Each of the chunks has header information. This allows to eliminate errors which are difficult to eliminate in the existing programs used to divide big files. Shareware 10 US$ or A$ 13 or equiv. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

SPRSOL12.ZIP 583,122 02-11-96 Super Marble Solitaire v1.20 <ASP> Challenging puzzle for Win95. This game not only allows you to play on different style boards with animated pieces, you can even design you own board! Name your board design and enter your name as the designer! There is extensive online documentation that explains how to play well by using "move patterns". From Wrenware (TM). (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

SQRLJ3.ZIP 612,685 01-20-96 Win95 sqURL 32-bit - new kind of Winsock App - your own personal search engine. The sqURL client drives multiple internet engines to FIND your key word(s) AND phrases. After all the crawlers are done, results are put in an .HTM document; you open this page of URL’s with your browser and surf all the links. (Newest File Date: 01-13-96)

SSFX0124.ZIP 423,244 02-12-96 Release version of SoundScape Elite Effects Toolkit for Win3.1 (MIDI) and Windows ‘95 (MIDI and WAVE). Released on 1/24/95. (Requires Ensoniq SoundScape Elite sound card). Ensoniq Web site still calls this a beta, but the readme file calls it a release version. (Newest File Date: 01-24-96)

STIKN15.ZIP 201,188 02-11-96 Sticky Notes 1.5 Implements PostIt like notes on your Win95 desktop. (Newest File Date: 01-28-96)

STIME100.ZIP 752,951 02-06-96 SmallTime (v1.00) SmallTime is a handy little utility timer designed specifically for Win95!. It will remind you of an event occurring up to 99 minutes and 59 seconds later. It features five unique alarm sounds, four display types, drap-and-drop custom sounds, and more! All this in an attractive package that looks nice on your Win95 desktop. Shareware. Registration fee: $5.00. From GadgetWare. (Newest File Date: 01-21-96)

STRIP101.ZIP 1,297,973 01-17-96 Video Strip Poker Game for Windows v1.01 Rated PG - No nudity. (Newest File Date: 12-26-95)

STRTCL11.ZIP 20,709 02-11-96 Start Clean v1.1 for Win95 Cleans the Start Menu by removing unneeded links and directories. A must have for any power user. (Newest File Date: 01-14-96)

SUPRM21A.ZIP 35,432 01-19-96 (v2.1) SuperMenu. Popup access to Win95 StartMenu. SuperMenu is a popup-menu which makes it possible to select the Win95 StartMenu button from wherever the hand is at the moment when clicking the right mouse-button (alternate mouse-button). Shareware (US$ 15.- Visa/AmEx, Transfer) Jarle Pettersen, jarlep@telepost.no (Newest File Date: 01-04-96)

SURF95.ZIP 164,181 02-04-96 Surf’s Up 95 - Win95 has the ability to add sounds to different events, but the same sounds play for each event in all programs. Surf’s Up 95 extends Win 95’s sound support to enable you to configure different sounds for each event for all your programs. (Newest File Date: 12-17-95) Reviewed in WOLRS21 and in WOLRS8 <W>

SVI313C.ZIP 202,210 01-27-96 SVINSTAL v3.13 Developer’s installation utility for Windows. Installs files, creates program group, inserts icons. Fast and easy to use, supports multi-disk (no file splitting), file compression and screen bitmaps. Runs on Win3.1x, Win95 and WinNT. ‘C’ source code incl’d with registration. US$39.95 or CDN$49.95 Uploaded by author.SVInstal v3.13 (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

SYSCHK04.ZIP 46,456 01-27-96 System Checker For Windows v0.4 - Gives you all the Windows information you need to troubleshoot problems you have. It will tell you about your disk, screen, memory, network, keyboard, COM ports, Windows setup and more. (Newest File Date: 01-12-96)

TBAR16.ZIP 43,779 01-21-96 ToolBar 1.6 reviewed in WOLR106 (Newest File Date: 01-12-96) Reviewed in WOLR106 <W>

TCPSW31.ZIP 78,034 02-15-96 TCP/IP Switcher V3.1 Utility to allow the changing of a Win95 DialUp networking connection’s hostname, domain name, and nameserver values. This change can be made anytime (even after connecting). It is most useful to those who use more than one internet service provider which requires different settings for the above values. (Newest File Date: 02-07-96)

TNOCX100.ZIP 1,462,168 02-12-96 The TrayNotification OLE Control(OCX) is a 32 Bit OLE Control for adding icons to the Win95 TaskBar. Some examples would be the modem lights icon and the ATI video driver icon. (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

TOGVB25.ZIP 241,437 02-04-96 Toggle25 v2.50 <ASP> - The Toggle switch control is a TRUE/FALSE, YES/NO, or ON/OFF indicator for use with VB, Visual C , and Delphi. It displays captions or pictures to represent the toggle state. It is capable of playing wave files to indicate the switch turning on or off. It includes bevels for a 3D appearance and blinking capability to draw attention to the control. It also has a built-in shut-off capability. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

TRIDW95.ZIP 132,653 02-08-96 Trident drivers v1.30.02 for Win95 9320/938x/9440/9470/9660/968x chipsets (Newest File Date: 11-22-95)

TTIP700.ZIP 941,883 02-10-96 Tooltips V7.00 For Access7. Add Tips to Your Buttons - Multiple Lines, Custom Colors, Custom Fonts And More. Wizard Has Remove, Copy And Paste. (Newest File Date: 01-21-96)

TTL35.ZIP 99,672 02-03-96 Win95 Label maker and printer. (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

TUNIT120.ZIP 108,921 02-09-96 (v1.20) Tune!it - Musical Instrument Tuner. Tunes musical instruments or voice using a a microphone or instrument pickup. Features chromatic tuner with automatic pitch detection, Midi or Wave reference tone and 2D or 3D spectrum for viewing harmonics. Requires PC 386 upwards, Windows compatible soundcard, microphone and Win3.1 or 95. Shareware (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

TVNOW406.ZIP 920,093 02-05-96 Cable TV Schedule Search and Review for Win3.1. Use it with a TVNOW data file such as TV0116.ZIP for Jan 16-31. Shows for over 80 cable channels are detailed. Channels such as HBO, CIN, A&E, FAM, USA, ESPN, TBS, and many more. Search by actor or movie title. A very easy and powerful system. (Newest File Date: 01-26-96)

TWSK95B1.ZIP 132,093 01-19-96 Trumpet Winsock Ver. 2.95b1 for Win95 The industry standard and long awaited release of Trumpet For Win95. A TCP/IP dial up front end. (Newest File Date: 11/13/95)

TXTREC11.ZIP 32,616 02-09-96 Text ReCall v1.1 (18-Jan-96) <ASP> Easy to use global autotext clipboard and speed-write system. With ReCall you can retrieve/paste text to in any Windows program by simply pressing a shortcut key and entering or selecting an abbreviation code. Super efficiency tool for everyday use. Registration $12.50. Requires Vbrun300. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

UBX20W.ZIP 86,269 01-19-96 UBX v2.00W - Windows version of the popular binary-text converter. Allows you to send ANY type of file thru "text only" services, such as Email. More efficient that UUENCODE! Fully functional shareware version, with limited file handling. US$11.95 registration for v3.00W (unlimited file capabilities). Works with Win3.1 or Win95. From Satori SoftWorks. (Newest File Date: 11-08-95)

UUCODE15.ZIP 48,143 02-11-96 UUEncode & UUDecode, v1.5 Fast, free, 32-bit, HPFS & EAs-Ok (Newest File Date: 01-31-96)

VB_ADDIN.ZIP 244,626 02-15-96 Add-Ins for VB 3.0 (Win3.1) featuring: Up to 10 saved Code Window Bookmarks per project. Load Picture/Icon Dialog has Picture Preview Find and Replace Dialogs save previous text entries (up to 100) View Procedures Dialog resized to show many. (Newest File Date: 12-29-95)

VB_ICONS.ZIP 5,375 02-15-96 VB Icons Replacement. Includes 16 And 32 Bit Distinctions, And 3D Icons. (Newest File Date: 02-02-96)

VCALC26.ZIP 475,799 02-15-96 VCalc, The Vehicle Calculator Ver.2.6 <ASP> Stores, calculates, and analyzes the cost and efficiency of your vehicles (including aircraft and watercraft). Simple in use, yet sophisticated in features. Requires Win3.1, and the file "Vbrun300" (available separately through most all on-line services). By Hansen Software. (Newest File Date: 02-06-96)

VCRCLOCK.ZIP 427,269 02-05-96 VCR Style Software Timer v1.0: MSWin utility that launches any file at specific times on any day of the week, just select a file, determine what time you want it to launch, and set the day(s) to run. (Newest File Date: 01-21-96)

VECD20D1.ZIP 1,239,217 01-26-96 Vector reality Demo disk 1/2 3d modelling/rendering package for Win95 (Newest File Date: 11-28-95)

VECD20D2.ZIP 1,117,497 01-26-96 Vector Reality Demo disk 2/2 3d modelling/rendering package for Win95 (Newest File Date: 11-28-95)

VEGASPBJ.ZIP 263,594 02-14-96 Vegas Poker and BlackJack v2.0 (Win/Win95 shareware): The ultimate gambling challenge. Does everything except spit coins out of your floppy drive when you win! Play Video Poker and Blackjack against the house. Includes double-down and split betting options. Full digital sound effects and color graphics. All the fun on the casino without having to keep going to the ATM machine. Galt Technology. (Newest File Date: 02-06-96)

VS95120H.ZIP 699,511 02-09-96 Stb vision 95 control panel/card drivers v1. (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

VS95I21E.ZIP 1,154,223 02-04-96 ViruScan for Win95 ver 2.01 from McAfee Assoc (Newest File Date: 01-28-96)

VSRC15.ZIP 558,366 02-11-96 VisibleSource v1.5 - RCCO Research. Developers’ code listings repository for Win3.1 or 95. Provides a storage and cataloging system for code fragments or listings from different projects. Source items may be copied and pasted to/from projects and files. Listings are sorted in any of five different choices. (Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

VTI269.ZIP 288,098 01-20-96 Value Trend Indicator v2.69 Successful Investors program with databases. Compare and determine the Value of company share prices and recognize Growth Stocks and Mutual Funds in advance of the Market. Record, track and graph all popular Stock Market Indices such as the DJIA. Calculations, projections and graphs for Saving, Investing, Retirement and 401(k). Excellent On-Line Help. For Win 3 or Win95. Rated: Requires Vbrun300 (Newest File Date: 01-16-96)

VUGRAF13.ZIP 285,897 02-03-96 VuGrafix v1.3 Image Viewer <ASP>. View, convert, print and file graphics. Support for BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, IMG, WPG, WMF, DCX, PCX, EPS file formats. Thumbnails, color adjustments, copy and paste, multiple images on the screen. Requires VBRUN300. (Newest File Date: 01-13-96)

W95BOOT.ZIP 5,316 02-11-96 Quarterdeck Tech note on using Win 95’s startup menu to Optimize a previous version of DOS. (Newest File Date: 01-30-96)

WASTE200.ZIP 231,266 02-14-96 Waste for Windows v2.0 quickly analyzes a specified disk and reports the total amount of space in use, and total amount of slack or "wasted" space on the specified disk. Allows you informed, intelligent choices for disk partitioning. Also reports the prospective disk wastage for various hypothetical disk sizes. Shareware $5. (Newest File Date: 12-11-95)

WB16-96A.ZIP 1,405,879 02-03-96 WinBatch 96A (ASP) Windows System Utility Language. Structures, floating point, file manipulation, OLE2.0 Automation, DDE and over 350 functions allow you to program this tradional, procedural basic-like language. A must for the power user. Includes dialog editor and handy utilities. Only $99.95+s&h (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

WB32-96A.ZIP 1,412,028 02-03-96 WinBatch 96A (ASP) Windows System Utility Language. Structures, floating point, file manipulation, OLE2.0 Automation, DDE and over 350 functions allow you to program this tradional, procedural basic-like language. A must for the power user. Includes dialog editor and handy utilities. Only $99.95+s&h (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

WCP7HLP.ZIP 468,364 01-17-96 Updated help file for wincomm pro 7.0. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

WD221.ZIP 330,492 02-05-96 WinDupe v2.21 Windows Disk Duplicator! High performance diskette duplicator for Win3.1+ featuring single pass operation, copy/format/compare, diskette image files, smart loading, format translation, DMF support, and much more. Extensive built in help, color toolbar, tooltips, status bar with prompts, plus lots more. Very powerful and easy to use! (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

WE16-95G.ZIP 1,184,183 02-03-96 WinEdit 95G (ASP) - Programmable Editor for Windows Environment. Fast, full featured editor, or simple file browser. High speed, super powerful. Edits large files. Color- coding. Macro language. 16 & 32 bit exe’s WinEdit for Win3.1/95/NT $99.95 (Newest File Date: 12-09-95)

WEBMED25.ZIP 1,907,465 02-12-96 Web Media Publisher 2.5 32 Bit HTML Editor for Win95 and Windows NT. HTML 3, Netscape 2.0 and MS Explorer features. Easy Tables, Forms and Frames Creation. Support for Shockwave. Full JAVA support. WYSIWYG Background text and background color selection. (Newest File Date: 01-30-96)

WEBPAR15.ZIP 90,838 01-20-96 WebParse v1.5 <ASP> (05-Jan-95) WebParse extracts, parses and formats the relevant data from web mailto survey form replies in the in-box files and creates comma-delimited ASCII files for easy import to databases, or for reports. Global scan of email inbox or individual message parsing. SWREG # 7260. Requires Vbrun30 0. (Newest File Date: 01-11-96)

WEBSAV13.ZIP 415,281 02-05-96 (v1.3) WebSaver - Off-line WWW reading. Websaver is a utility to reconstruct the World Wide Web pages that you have browsed with the Netscape navigator so you can view them off-line. You can also find again the locations of all the pages you visited. Version 1.3: Adapted to Netscape 2.0b4. Email Jos Maas: jm@igr.nl (Newest File Date: 01-01-96)

WIDEN168.ZIP 89,174 02-07-96 WideOpen v1.6 Win95 Long File Name Support for Word 6 (Newest File Date: 01-17-96)

WIDXL152.ZIP 62,010 02-07-96 WideOpen v1.6 Win95 Long File Name Support for Excel (Newest File Date: 01-17-96)

WINCIRC4.ZIP 945,709 02-03-96 Wincircuit 4.0 allows for the simple layout and construction of electronics printed circuit boards. (Newest File Date: 12-05-95)

WINCPY14.ZIP 214,774 02-03-96 WinCopy v1.4 Screen Capture <ASP> Easy to use screen capture program creates BMP, GIF and TIFF files. Print. Tiff Compression Group 4. (Newest File Date: 01-13-96)

WINSAN.ZIP 127,749 02-06-96 Windows Program: Clean up PGN Files. From Keith Fuller (Newest File Date: 01-21-96)

WINSC101.ZIP 368,564 01-24-96 WinScript v1.00 [J M Technical Services] A simple interpreted programming language for creating batch scripts and simple utilities under Win3.1 and Win95, complete with interactive editor and debugger. Include several example script utilities. Shareware, 25.00 UK / $39.00 US. (Newest File Date: 11-21-95)

WINU201.ZIP 175,817 02-07-96 WinU 2.0 <ASP> Win95 menu system with timeout and security access features. Ideal for parents who want to limit children’s access to the family PC, or computer stores that want to let the shopping public try their featured software without allowing access to the entire computer. NEW: much more robust security, multiple password- protected desktops, more customizable. (Newest File Date: 01-24-96)

WINU202.ZIP 174,267 02-11-96 WinU 2.0 <ASP> Win95 menu system with timeout and security access features. Ideal for parents who want to limit children’s access to the family PC, or computer stores that want to let the shopping public try their featured software without allowing access to the entire computer. NEW: much more robust security, multiple password-protected desktops, more customizable. (Newest File Date: 01-29-96)

WLDCLK65.ZIP 190,995 02-11-96 A Windows global time program that displays a colorful map of the world and tells the date and time for any location, recognizing Daylight Savings Time "on-the-fly". Great educational tool for teaching Time Zone relationships. Select your displayed Map Clocks and Ticker cities. Search for the time-of-day via City, State, Province, Country, Areacode, or Country International telephone code. (Newest File Date: 12-01-95)

WORDW11.ZIP 827,827 02-10-96 Word Wrestle V1.1 <WIN> [ASP] is a word game similar to the popular Boggle(tm) game. Set timer, set scoring options, 100000 word dictionary (American or British), modify dictionary, print puzzles, save puzzles and more. Generate puzzles in various sizes, bitmaps and fonts. Improve your spelling and word recognition. Teachers and parents can design puzzles to include the words you want. (Newest File Date: 01-09-96)

WPIM51.ZIP 1,309,955 01-19-96 AMF Daily Planner & P.I.M. Personal Information Manager v5.1 - This PIM is perhaps the easiest one you will ever use. A full drag and drop interface is included with a perpetual calendar & planner to the year 9000. Store up to 30,000 entries in the Rolodex Style Phonebook. Dial, Fax Documents, Create business letters, schedule appointments, Edit, save, & print text files, Create beautiful reports of all. Fits many standards. Create envelopes, labels & MORE. <ASP> (Newest File Date: 01-07-96)

WPPAD.ZIP 53,330 02-03-96 Win PostPad 96 - Win95 utility that minimizes itself to the system tray next to the clock in the Task bar on Win95. The right mouse allows you to add sticky notes, save, view, edit and paste in any other app. You can also place the time, date,memory & resources in the Title bar on the active Windows. It also has an built in calendar, calculator, view images, access the control panel and much more. (Newest File Date: 01-20-96)

WPWINFIL.ZIP 878,995 01-20-96 A writing program for windows. (Newest File Date: 01-13-96)

WSC-229E.ZIP 655,870 01-18-96 VirusScan for Windows McAfee, Inc. Scans and cleans PC’s/LAN’s for known and new viruses. Requires Win3.1+. Version 229 (9601) (Newest File Date: 01-05-96)

WSOK9512.ZIP 620,550 02-15-96 Easy Win95 Internet Step-up v1.2 A no-bull guide to configuring Win95’s 32-bit winsock, includes complete walk-through help with over 60 screen shots and a cross-referenced trouble- shooting section, full-text search, tree view, improved Winsock conflict eraser utility, extremely small install size, printable essential information checklist. A free resource from First Train for the Internet (Newest File Date: 02-10-96)

WSPELL11.ZIP 908,049 01-16-96 Weekly Speller v1.10 for Windows <ASP> An excellent way to encourage children to practice weekly spelling lists. Provides an easy mechanism to quickly input spelling lists that can immediately be used for spelling practice. Printed reports allow parents or teachers to monitor progress. Optional password protection can be enabled on the spelling list editor. Makes spelling lessons fun for children or adults. (Newest File Date: 01-02-96)

WW95.ZIP 367,086 01-20-96 Wordware ‘95: The hottest collection of 60 macros and templates. Everything from copying a file, to managing your projects to managing your business contacts. A full- fledged PIM and a full-function CD Player are included. Has a Multimedia Player which will play all multimedia files, a quick command line, Windows Exit/Restart/Reboot Computer, Lock, Close All and Exit, Print Summary Info WinFax Macros AND SO MUCH MORE! Word 7 Replaces Ww2.zip, Ww3.zip, And Ww4.zip files. (Newest File Date: 01-06-96)

WXI95-20.ZIP 1,184,869 01-28-96 Win-eXpose-I/O v2.00 Win95 Files I/O Tracer/Debugger. Gives REAL-TIME report on files I/O all over the system (even DOS BOXES) A MUST HAVE tool for anyone who tries to find out which file an app is using or missing. Great tool for also for dev. tracking file operation by an external utility, and for improving windows performance.(Newest File Date: 01-15-96)

WZ60A.ZIP 319,299 01-23-96 WinZip 6.0a for Win3.1 & Workgroups<ASP> *Win95 users: use WINZIP95.EXE instead* Brings the convenience of Windows to Zipping External pgms not needed for ZIP, tar, gz, z This is a maintenance upgrade to WinZip 6.0. "MVP Award Finalist" PC Computing 12/95 "Best Utility" 1994 Shareware Industry Awards Winner: Windows Magazine’s 1993 WIN100 Award "Recommended Download" Windows Magazine 8/95 "Cadillac of Unzippers" PC Magazine 3/14/95 (Newest File Date: 12-04-95)

WZSPNB32.ZIP 125,992 02-05-96 WinZip add-on for built-in disk spanning Beta This file REQUIRES WinZip 6.0a for Win95 After installing these files, WinZip 6.0a will no longer require PKZIP and PKUNZIP when working with archives that span multiple floppy disks. WinZip’s built-in ZIP and UNZIP handle normal ZIP files - these files are used only for ZIP files that span disks. (Newest File Date: 01-30-96)

XFON413I.ZIP 333,952 01-28-96 x-FONE4 Network Phone Directory System for Windows(R) version 1.3i dated 12/18/95 from Extensions Software Corporation. Network software app that provides an easy-to-use system for tracking names and numbers. Includes customized fields, multi-level security access, and built-in administration. Network-aware of Novell NetWare(R) and Banyan VINES(R). Five-user evaluation version expires 03/31/96. (Newest File Date: 12-18-95)

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TSS WORDCONTACT

a review by Ed Hoffman

Contact Managers and Personal Information Managers are rising in popularity, judging from the marketplace. However, the wide range of these products’ capabilities can make the genre confusing. Too many that I’ve seen are either minimalist address books or overblown and flabby applications that are too clumsy to use and an even bigger challenge to integrate into your work habits.

I have long been a fan of Total System Solutions’ DocuPower Pro and Fileware software for Microsoft Word (both reviewed in the WOLR Shareware Edition WOLRS44), each certified Microsoft Office Compatible® programs that make Word more powerful and easier to use. So when TSS introduced their latest product, TSS WordContact, I had to check it out immediately. While many add-ons typically use macros to accomplish their various tasks, this program is written in straight C so it’s fast and small, and hooks seamlessly into Microsoft Word. It’s been a while since any program earned the coveted “Works for Me” award, but as you will see, this new system undoubtedly deserves it.

TSS WordContact turns Microsoft Word into a contact management powerhouse that is as simple to use as it is powerful. The program delivers remarkably rapid performance with an interface that is both intuitive and simple to set up. This Word for Windows add-on is a combination address book, phone dialer and form letter generator that works completely within Word (version 6.0 at present — a 7.0 version is in development). Whether your needs are for relatives and Christmas Card lists or prospecting the Fortune 500, this is the program for you.

Don’t be deceived by its simple appearance — within this seemingly innocent exterior beats the heart of an aggressive yet cunning animal, ready to spring forth to provide automated solutions that will impress you and solve your contact management problems. Its power and flexibility are simply amazing.

Want to send a letter to Dan Goodman? Double-click on his name and TSS WordContact will insert the name, address, and custom salutation right into your document, in the format you want. Need an envelope? One click is all it takes, and you can even dial the telephone. If you’ve ever tried to do a mail merge with Microsoft Word 6.0, you will be amazed when you find out that this system can do with by simply dragging your mouse across the names you want, and it goes even further. You can merge names and addresses with letters, letters with matching envelopes, just envelopes, or any kind of mailing label. These are powerful features that Microsoft forgot and that you will find extremely useful.

It’s easy to print out comprehensive and fully customizable reports for all your contacts. You can even print out industry standard Rolodex cards, create envelopes, form letters, custom reports, and labels in many popular Avery formats. The graphic at left demonstrates the ease with which a custom report is created. You simply choose from the list of fields that TSS WordContact offers, and place them where you will. Freeform text can be also be added, and the system has nine custom fields that can be named for your purposes and incorporated into any output. You can create as many different layouts as you’d like, then name and save them for another day. Since you are not stuck with just one static layout, TSS WordContact handles not just American, but European and other international address layouts and salutations.

The best thing about these incredibly flexible output features is that it all goes right into Microsoft Word. A document is created, ready to you to preview, edit, customize further, etc., and to use the incredible power of that product to make it even better. This makes doing letters, envelopes and labels a snap, and also lets you fine tune the output further, if need be.

You can create an unlimited number of different address books for as many purposes as you wish. Include personal information for each contact such as birthday, anniversary, spouse, and children. Lawyers and other professionals can include special industry specific information such as RE:, File, Account Number, Case, etc. Create and format your own different address books to suit your individual requirements, and copy data back and forth between them.

TSS WordContact allows you to instantly sort and display any information from any address book, and the main screen can be customized to show any four items in its basic data display. The main screen listing can be customized to display different fields for each book, so, for example, in the “Business” book you could display separate columns for Company, Last Name, First Name and Work Phone 1. The “Personal” book could display Last Name, First Name, Spouse, and Home Phone 1, and if you really want to get creative, there are account numbers, not to mention the custom fields that are available. Think of the possibilities.

TSS WordContact supports up to two million names, and the tabbed setup screens makes adding names very easy. The set up is divided into five categories: Work, Home, Telephone, Professional, and Custom. This will more than provide ample space for virtual any specialized requirement you may have, with space for up to nine phone numbers for each contact. The professional page, shown, is especially useful for specialized applications where this critical data is needed for reports or as a reference in a letter. The data import feature saves you the trouble of retyping your information — it’s simple to bring in contact information from any other program. Data is stored in this system using industry standard DBF files, which makes it easily adaptable for other uses.

The program offers a wealth of predesigned options for letters, reports, and several similar documents. Templates are provided for standard letters, envelopes, Rolodex cards, and labels. Both U.S. and European size formats are supported. You can easily create your own form letters and use TSS WordContact to add the contact information and merge as many copies as you need, envelopes and all. The program is network compatible and will allow you to share your data with others in your work group, across your network. However, any sensitive or confidential information that you may wish to keep private may also be protected with configurable security levels for each user.

TSS Word Contact 6  will operate with Word 6 under either Windows 3.1x or 95 and offers a complete range of features to make your copy of Microsoft Word much more productive. An online tutorial help file is included with the program to get you up and running very quickly. Although the included, context sensitive help file is not quite completed, the program is very intuitive and those items that beg further elaboration are already documented. The “Tips & Techniques” section is very well written and easy to follow, and the “Quick Start” tutorial already mentioned will help you to work your way to a quick understanding of just how deep this program really is, but also appreciate just how easy it is to use.

I’ve tried many similar types of Word add-ons, but none has even come close to this product. Both the novice and experienced Word user will find this a “must have” utility. I’m delighted to recommend the TSS Word Contact program above any similar product, for it’s in a class by itself.

TSS WordContact 6

TSSWCW6.ZIP

Registration: $49.95

contact information:

TSS Software / Total System Solutions, Inc.
718-375-2997

800-814-2300 (orders only)

718-375-6261 (fax)

718-375-6261 (BBS)

70154.2463@compuserve.com

CompuServe: GO TOTALSYSTEM (Library 14) or GO TSSFILES

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Ed Hoffman

ed.hoffman@wol.com

If this is any indication, we should all expect a form letter from Dr. Ed sometime soon. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


GEOGRAPHY
GEOGRAPHY USA & GEOGRAPHY EUROPE

a review by Chris McKitrick

How’s your European geography? Could you point out Bosnia-Herzegovina on a map? How about your U.S. geography? If you cannot point out the 40 countries of Europe or name all fifty states and state capitals, you are certainly not alone. Geography is one of those subjects in which many of us lack proficiency.

If you are like me, the last time you studied world geography was in the ninth grade. Geography was one of those subjects that students of my day didn’t exactly rush to sign up for. It seemed to lack a certain, oh I don’t know... appeal? The learning atmosphere seemed to be a little tense, and they always selected the monotoned, completely emotionless instructor to teach the class. It seems to me that if you create a more desirable method to teaching geography, then students or anyone for that matter, will want to learn it. Geography is one of those subjects that may not be all that exciting, but is a necessity to know.

Here are two programs that help in the ongoing learning battle that is geography. Simply titled Geography USA, and Geography Europe, they are a great way to learn the locations of all the 50 states of the U.S. and 40 of the countries in Europe. At the same time, you will learn the state capitals, the cities in Europe, and the flags that represent the country. These two programs offer a unique method of learning that is effective as well as interesting.

In Geography Europe, the map is displayed on the left, while the country or city names are shown on the right. With the mouse or pointing device click on a portion of the map, the area will light up, and the name of the country or city will be highlighted on the right hand side of the screen. The same option may be used in reverse as well. For example, click on the name of the country or city, and its location will be highlighted on the map. On the bottom of the screen, the name of the country is shown as well as the capitol city, and the flag.

In addition to the previously mentioned options, there is a test given to help you learn as well as to see how much you may or may not already know. The test has four different options. Your knowledge can be tested by the cities, states, capitols or flags. An area is randomly chosen in the map and you have to identify the country or city. The flag test shows the flags of the forty countries of Europe and your job is to choose the right flag for the right country. The test scores are then saved for later comparison.

Geography USA, has quite a bit in common with its counterpart in the way that states and capitols are displayed. The fifty states are shown to the left, with the state name or capitol on the right. The state capitols are recognized by small dots in the approximate area in the state. The same method of illustration is used on both of these programs. There are different test options given on this program. The idea here is to match either the state with the area on the map, or give the state capitol. The other option is to name the state that the capitol city resides in. While this may sound fairly easy, I found this to be a bit of a challenge.

 	Both of these shareware programs are very effective in assisting in the learning process. If your knowledge of geography leaves a lot to be desired, or if you know someone who could use some help, you ought to give these two a try. As for me, I’ll take all the help I can get.

GEOGRAPHY USA 2.0 GEO_USA.ZIP Registration Fee: $10.00	GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE GEO_EUR.ZIP Registration Fee: $25.00
contact information:

Van Dorp Educatieve Programmatuur

Eric J. van Dorp

Puccinistraat 2

2992 RK BARENDRECHT

The Netherlands

+31(0)180613956 fax

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Chris McKitrick

Now that Chris has gotten a better feel for his options, he reports that he’ll be moving even further away from Dr. Ed.


VuePrint 4.3 Pro/32 Edition
VUEPRINT PRO/32 EDITION

a review by Ted Tatman

VuePrint’s main mission is to let you view, print, convert, and provide minor editing of graphics files. GIF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PCX, TGA, JPG, and TIF formats are supported. You can also play -- but not edit -- sound (MID, WAV, and MCI) and movie (AVI, MPG, MMM, MOV, FLI,  and FLC) files. Plus, it reads and writes Uuencoded (UUE, UU1, 01, and MSG) files, and decompresses PKZIP 2.04-compatible files. File management capabilities like Copy, Move, and Delete are included in the program as well.

Version 4.3 comes in two flavors: a 16-bit edition, which works with all versions of Windows, and a Pro/32 edition, for use with Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 3.1 with Win32s. Both versions are virtually identical, but the 32-bit version is reviewed here. The Pro/32 Edition loads JPEG files faster than the 16-bit Edition, and includes support for Win95’s long file names.

VuePrint has a built-in screen saver, as well as a slide show feature with more than a dozen options. Multiple images can be displayed in a window, thumbnail-style. You can configure the program to have graphics jump on your screen in 12 different ways. All graphics displays are supported, including 16-color laptops.

Graphics commands let you Zoom In and Out, Crop, Rotate, Mirror, Flip, Adjust Brightness and Contrast, and Invert Colors. For sounds, you can play them synchronously, loop, replay, and adjust the volume playback (WAV files only). Movies can be played synchronously, looped and replayed as well. And, the Slideshow menu lets you adjust delay between images, sounds, and movies, and setup the order in which these appear.

If you wish to use VuePrint’s screen saver mode, it will display graphics files on the screen when there is no activity for more than 5 minutes. The default setup causes it to search out all graphics files on the same drive as Windows, and to display those graphics files in random order every 15 seconds. (The time between graphics can be changed, but the “startup time” for the screen saver can’t be adjusted.) Every time the screen saver exits, it remembers the last file that was displayed, and starts over again after 5 minutes of inactivity displaying this same file.

VuePrint can be integrated with Win95’s Explorer (or Windows 3.x’s File Manager) from within itself by choosing a pull down menu command. That way, you can double-click on any Image, Sound, Movie, or Slideshow file it supports, and VuePrint will start automatically started to display (or play) the file. If you double-click on an UUEncoded file, VuePrint will attempt to automatically decode and display any image contained within this file. You can use also use a pull down menu command to disassociate the program and restore the previous associations.

VuePrint’s Options menu lets you set the program’s display properties, including thumbnail display, graphics format characteristics, printing, auto-crop, auto-dither, passwords, and more. You can save, restore, and remember options, as well as resetting all options to the default values. The Utility menu lets you install and remove VuePrint’s Explorer and File Manager associations, make a backup of the program to a floppy disk (nice touch), and install, remove, configure and test the screen saver.

I’m sure the author, Ed Hamrick, wanted the program’s main screen to be as uncluttered as possible to provide the maximum screen real estate to view graphics. So, the interface isn’t much to look at -- just standard Windows pull down menus. (You can even get rid of the pull down menus by pressing the escape key.) But, this is one program that just screams for a toolbar (which, of course, the user could turn off). However, if you like to work more with your keyboard instead of your mouse, you’ll appreciate that nearly all of the commands in VuePrint have keyboard shortcuts. (You can see the shortcut keys for each command on the right-hand side of each menu.)

There’s a lot to like about this program -- if only it had a toolbar, it’d be pretty close to perfect in my book. If you frequently work with the most common bitmap formats, want to create your own slideshows or screen saver, play a bunch of sound or movie files back to back, or UUencode files, you’ll find VuePrint deserves a few sectors on your hard drive.

VuePrint 4.3 Pro/32 Edition

VUEPRO43.ZIP

Registration $40.00

contact information:

Hamrick Software

4025 E. Chandler Blvd., #70-F16

Phoenix, AZ  85044

E-mail: support@hamrick.com

http://www.hamrick.com/

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Ted Tatman

tedt13@aol.com


DRAG AND VIEW FOR WIN32

a review by Steven Justice

Drag and View for Win32 completes our reviews of Canyon Software’s Drag and… series, and happily, for it is the best of a good bunch. Its function is nearly identical to the QuickView utility that ships with Windows 95, but it is so much quicker and more versatile that I’ve already uninstalled Microsoft’s version, which can’t even compete.

Like QuickView, Drag and View installs so that it appears on the right-mouse menu for files, on the desktop or in Explorer. And also like QuickView, it allows you to view the contents of a file without opening the parent application (and even if the parent application is not even installed on your computer). But the similarities end there. QuickView, as most people have discovered by now, depends on the file extension (like “XLS”) to tell it what file filter to use. If you give your WinWord files any extension other than “DOC,” for example, QuickView is left helpless. Drag and View, by contrast, reads the “file header” information within the file, so that it recognizes any WinWord document no matter what it’s called. And, while Drag and View shows you the formatted text in the most useful readable form—it not only shows cells for spreadsheets, but shows row and column labels as well—it translates the file and presents it for viewing almost instantaneously.

Drag and View includes formats for all the major word-processing and spreadsheet applications, and for the Microsoft and WordPerfect “Works” suites. FoxPro and dBase are included, favorite minor and legacy applications, like Symphony and Q&A Write, compressed files, icon files, and True Type font files. Many major graphics and design formats are also accommodated, though many of these, like HPGL, AutoCAD, and CorelDraw, are available only in the registered package.

And once you’ve called up a file in the viewer, you can do everything you could do in the original application except edit the file. (Actually, in the case of ASCII files under 64K, you can even edit within Drag and View.) You can print it, search for text (very quickly, I should add), and select all or part of the text and copy it to the clipboard. You can rotate the file, or zoom in or out on it (especially useful with graphics). And you can do things that you can’t do in the original application (or, for that matter, in QuickView). The three buttons in the upper left offer the option of viewing the file in its native format (using one of Drag and View’s filters), or in Hex or ASCII form. You don’t ordinarily have any reason to do this with, say, a WinWord file. But it can be very useful if you’ve got an executable file, or a DLL, or some weird data file some old application has left on your system: you can often make out enough with the Hex or ASCII format at least to tell what the file is and what is in it. And you can launch the original application (assuming, of course, that you have it installed) directly from Drag and View by using the “Launch” button.

By the standards of Archilochus’ famous aphorism (“The fox has many tricks, the hedgehog only one—one big one”), Drag and View is a hedgehog of an application. And within the scope of its one big trick, it is as nearly perfect a utility as I’ve seen in some months. We have a tradition here at WOLR that we offer balanced reviews, praising strengths and criticizing weaknesses. So I will offer this one criticism: like Canyon Software’s others utilities, Drag and View has some of the tawdriest button icons in the business. But that’s sort of reaching.

Drag and View for Win32

DV95_122.ZIP

Registration: $35.00

contact information:

Canyon Software

Fourth Street Suite 131

San Rafael, CA 9490

415-453-9779

415-453-6195 fax

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Steven Justice

sjustice@violet.berkeley.edu

Steve wishes to thank Wolly, whom he’s given a hard time lately, for extending his deadline for this review….


SYMMETOY

a review by Lisa J. Martin

Symmetry -- a mutual relationship of parts as in size, arrangement, or measurement, etc., which beauty of form arises from such harmony. Symmetoy is symmetry at its finest.

In today’s growing computer-generated art world, you come across quite a bit of “wannabes” and not a lot of actually useful or fun programs. Symmetoy is an exception to the rule. My first reaction upon entering Symmetoy’s world was excitement and a true sense of wonderment. I actually thought to myself, “Wow, this one has got it!”

Symmetoy is the result of one man’s long-time dream to create a program that generates symmetric art and gives others the opportunity to be a part of that experience. With Symmetoy you can watch true symmetric beauty take shape and create art work that would give M.C. Escher a run for his money in the process.

This program comes with 25 pre-created symmetric pictures that are organized into four categories: pattern painting, symmetry roses, Escher type creations and 3D models you can decorate. You can view, repaint, redraw or create your own designs. From a snowflake type geometric pattern to a three dimensional triangle with cosmic like designs. The possibilities are endless and the enjoyment tremendous.

Symmetoy is simple and easy to use. And for those of you who, like me, tend to try before you actually read the manual, the online help is detailed for basic understanding and control over your art work. The manual is also easily understandable and is not so cluttered with technical jargon that you need a dictionary to decipher it. Symmetoy even has its own Art Show mode in which you may store and display your work, an easily accessible feature on the desktop.

To quote the author, “The Picture Editor is where the real power of the program lies.” This is were I began to realize just how much fun this program was going to be. I started simple by repainting a few of the enclosed designs and slowly worked my way up to redraw. Redrawing the accompanying patterns is an experience in itself. You can click on the redraw button any time you decide to change or redo your drawing. I played for quite a bit, stopping and starting the draw process to see what I could create. You will be pleasantly surprised at the number of creations available through this selection.

When I felt satisfied that I could venture into drawing a design of my own -- Symmetoy made it a breeze. The available tools range from circles to lines to curves -- which can either be drawn symmetrically or not. There is an option on the lower left-hand side of the screen that gives you the option of redrawing, painting or creating in either symmetric or “normal” mode. I must say I had fun with both but swayed towards the symmetry because of the graceful creations and style synchronicity this option gave me. See... after using this program for just a week and I am already using symmetric lingo.

This is the kind of program that gives you true artistic enjoyment, without being too difficult to grasp. After spending most of my free time lately playing with Symmetoy, I have come to appreciate just how much fun a program like this can be. And as an added bonus, I now have wallpaper on my desktop that would make even the most experienced graphic artist shudder.

Symmetoy lets you create some of the most beautiful designs that up until now were only accessible through mathematical applications.  And I for one, being an “average” user, was mostly clueless when it came to some of those more complicated programs circulating in cyberspace. Using Symmetoy will give you creative license to experiment, explore and create to your heart’s desire and even throw in a bit of education on symmetry.

A special added treat to this program is a companion book written by the same author. The companion not only educates you a bit more on symmetry, but is also quite a fascinating and entertaining explanation of his adventures with symmetry. Available for purchasing via the registration form, it is truly interesting reading.

The bottom line: If you are into graphic art or even slightly artistically swayed, Symmetoy is worth the cash. Anybody who has even the slightest inkling for painting or drawing needs to experience Symmetoy. It is adaptable to everyone; you don’t need to know diddly about graphic art or symmetry or even drawing for that matter. Symmetoy is made to be enjoyed by everyone. So... in my humble opinion, go for it! You’ll not only find fun and enjoyment... but like me, your wallpaper will be the envy of everyone you know. <wink>

SYMMETOY

SYMTOY10.ZIP

Registration: $40.00

contact information:

Hufnagel Software

PO Box 747

Clarion, PA 16214

814-226-5600

814-226-5551 fax

hank@penn.com

http://warren.penn.com/~hank

reviewed by

Lisa J. Martin

lisa.martin@wol.com


PERSONAL TAX EDGE

a review by Ed Rasimus

Consider the facts that you only file one tax return each year (or two if you’ve got a clingy mother-in-law) and that tax preparation software is like those cars of the fifties -- it changes every year. Why then would you want to pay a lot of money for a program that is going to be used for one or two days worth of weeping and gnashing of teeth? Sure you want the features, the information, the ease of use, the incorporated forms, the friendly interface, but do you also want bells, whistles, video and sound-clips? Personal Tax Edge by Parsons Technology may be the best bargain around in tax preparation packages.

Personal Tax Edge is a small program. Bucking the trend for bloated code that won’t run on many home machines, Parsons has built an application that requires a paltry 2 MB of RAM to work,  takes only 13 MB of hard disk space and comes with an “uninstall” that works in either Windows 3.1 or Win95. The manual is only 24 pages. But that doesn’t mean this is for short-form users only.

When you install and launch Personal Tax Edge there will be a certain eerie quality about the “introduction” screen and the “Guide” that takes you step-by-step through the completion of your tax return. It’s a clear case of “deja vu” all over again. It looks a whole lot like TurboTax. There are the same folder tabs across the top of the work area. There are the same graphic interface buttons to advance to the next step. What’s going on? Is this blatant plagiarism or piracy? Nope, no law-breaking going on here. What happened is that Intuit, the home of Quicken and TurboTax, became the parent company of Parsons Technology in 1994 and that’s good news for the software buyer. The result is that Personal Tax Edge contains a significant amount of the TurboTax program but without a lot of the extraneous whiz-bang.

Personal Tax Edge offers the user a “Guide” that takes you by the hand, filling in the required information and linking you to the necessary supporting forms. If you used PTE last year or any tax program that exports in TXF format, you can import relevant information to this year’s return. Similarly you can import information from most major financial management packages such as Quicken or MS Money.

After importing data, you can change any entry in the tax forms. You don’t, however, have the OLE links present in TurboTax to edit the original numbers. Calculations are all done automatically as you proceed through the interview. Stop at any time and return to the same spot to continue at a later date.

If you consider yourself fairly knowledgeable in completing tax returns, you can avoid the Guide and develop your own return by selecting the desired forms from the available list. If you decide that you are in over your head, simply select Guide from the menu and you can pick up the interview process from wherever you are at the moment.

To check your work there are several summary reports available. The program will do quick comparisons of this year against last year; married filing jointly vs. separately; comparison to U.S. averages and even on-screen tax saver suggestions based on this year’s report to help you be better prepared for next year. If you wish to adjust your withholding after seeing this year’s outcome, you can print a W-4 suitable for dropping off with your employer. Prior to filing the program has an audit function that will find form inconsistencies and point out possible problem areas in your return.

There is lots of help available online including J.K. Lasser’s tax pointers, IRS instructions, a summary of the current year tax changes and an array of tax tips. Tools at your fingertips include a basic numerical calculator as well as Interest Vision, a financial calculator that performs amortization and time-value of money schedules, and a Depreciation Calculator that helps you perform the appropriate asset depreciation gyrations and insert the outcome directly in your return.

Personal Tax Edge will print your return on plain paper with any printer in forms acceptable to the IRS. For ease of filing the program supports 1040 PC also. For $15, Parsons Technology will accept electronic filing by modem and forward your return to the IRS. (The IRS does not yet accept direct individual electronic filing.)

PTE contains 38 forms, 34 worksheets and 10 schedules in the latest IRS approved format. If these are enough for your return and you can do without sound and animation in preparing your taxes, Personal Tax Edge can be a real bargain at only $19. Call Parsons directly at 1-800-223-6925 or on the Internet at http://www.parsonstech.com.

Personal Tax Edge

List Price: $19.00

contact information:

Parsons Technology

One Parsons Drive

PO Box 100

Hiawatha IA 52233-0100

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Ed Rasimus

thunder@rmii.com

Ed Rasimus knew about the “flat tax” long before the current political campaign. Each year when it comes time to pay his taxes he winds up flat.


QmodemPro 2.0
QMODEMPRO

a review by Ted Tatman

Over the last few years I’ve been PC-ing, I’ve used several great communications programs. I started off in my pre-Windows 3.0 days with Telix, and later switched to Telemate with its friendlier menu system and full mouse support. But when I moved to Windows 3.1, I quickly got tired of shelling out to DOS just to call my favorite BBSs. So, I bought a copy of Procomm Plus For Windows, which I’ve used faithfully -- until now. Suddenly, with the advent of a 32-bit operating system like Windows 95, 16-bit communications programs don’t seem “good enough” anymore. Enter QmodemPro for Windows 95!

Qmodem has been around since the dawn of the BBS, it seems. For many years it was a shareware program, but a while back Mustang Software took it commercial. Now in its second Windows version, QmodemPro is a native Win95 application, complete with fast 32-bit multithreading, OLE 2.0 Drag & Drop, TAPI support, and high-speed file transfer. It has the look and feel of other Windows 95 programs, with long filename support and Win95’s familiar dialog boxes. (Its first Windows version featured built-in fax support, but that’s been jettisoned in version 2 since Win95 already includes a pretty decent fax program.)

QmodemPro’s TAPI (Telephone Application Program Interface) support lets you share your modem between multiple TAPI-aware applications (like the Microsoft Exchange Fax system, Dial-up Networking, and the Microsoft Network) without having to worry about port conflicts. And its built-in MAPI (Messaging Application Program Interface) support lets you transfer text right from its terminal window to many of the major electronic mail programs (like Microsoft Exchange).

Looking for a nice Telnet Client? QmodemPro uses Win95’s built-in TCP/IP support to let you Telnet across the Internet using the same phone book that holds your data numbers. You will need a 32-bit version of WINSOCK.DLL to do this. (I tried using my America Online Internet connection to do it, but it wouldn’t work with AOL’s 16-bit WinSock.) If you’re concerned about security, you’ll appreciate the built-in MD5 Message Digest Algorithm. This feature allows you to send encrypted passwords when logging on to Internet sites, Telnet sites and BBSs that support MD5.

Every new Windows application worth its weight in code has OLE 2.0 Drag &  Drop. With QmodemPro, you can drag phone book entries right to the Windows 95 desktop for quick and easy access to your favorite service or BBS. Or, mark the files you want to upload in Explorer and drag them to the QmodemPro Send Files window. And the program’s own file clipboard lets you drag filenames from the terminal window directly to a download list. You can save groups of filenames, ready for download. You’ll never have to manually copy a filename again!

International dialing and credit card billing numbers are supported automatically, using the dialing features built into Win95. If you use QmodemPro to dial voice calls, a dialog box pops up to show you the length of your call, lets you hang up, and keeps all the information in a log file.

Like any good communications program, QmodemPro has its own script language. It’s called SLIQ (Script Language Interface for QModemPro) and its compiler and debugger lets you develop custom applications, if you’re into that sort of thing. You can see it in action when you launch the program’s spiffy host mode.

QmodemPro comes with a built-in graphics viewer, which lets you look at GIF, BMP and JPEG files, complete with a nice Zoom feature that even works while the file is being downloaded. You can also use the Windows Clipboard to cut and paste images to other applications. And, since the viewer is a separate program, you can associate it in Explorer to display BMP, JPEG and JPEG files when you click on them.

Do you call BBSs that use the RIP emulation for displaying graphical images? Then, you’ll be happy to know that QmodemPro has full RIP support. Other neat features (that your current communications app may or may not have) include a remappable keyboard, macro keys (40 per dialing entry), iconized phone book entries, doorway mode, and 35 terminal emulations.

One feature I really like is the ability to hook WAV files to various QmodemPro events, like program startup and exit, dialing functions, and file transfer verifications. For instance, whenever a phone number is dialed, I have the program set up to play a sound effect of an old-fashioned rotary telephone being dialed. I also like how the program runs “full screen” without a masking box around it (unlike the last version of Procomm Plus I used).

I found QmodemPro both powerful and simple to use. Its interface (complete with customizable toolbar) is clean and graceful. I immediately noticed my file transfers to be faster and smoother than with my old 16-bit communications program. Since QmodemPro is a 32-bit application, it takes advantage of Win95’s 32-bit architecture to multitask. With its 10 fully multithreaded protocols, even when my PC is really busy, the protocol keeps the file transfer cookin’.

If you’ve made the Win95 plunge and haven’t gotten a 32-bit communications program yet, I highly recommend QmodemPro.

QmodemPro 2.0 For Windows 95

List Price: $129.00

contact information:

Mustang Software

PO Box 2264

Bakersfield, CA 93303-2264

800-663-7284

805-873-2427 fax

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Ted Tatman

tedt13@aol.com

Ted has always wanted to be referred to as “The Great Communicator.” Perhaps this will bring him one step closer.


1996 GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA

a review by Ed Hoffman

When it comes to encyclopedias, Grolier is one name that is quite familiar to many of us. In fact, when it came time for my children to have their first encyclopedia, the set I bought them was a Grolier. Today, my kids are adults, planning families of their own, and their first Grolier Encyclopedia  has long since been donated to some worthy group. Nevertheless, a couple of years ago, when I decided I needed an encyclopedia, just for general reference, I bought a copy of the 1994 edition of the Grolier Multimedia CD. I found this to be one of the more well used CD’s in my collection. So, when the 1996 edition of the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD was available, I quickly snapped up a copy. I was not disappointed.

For those familiar with earlier editions of this CD, the 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD, uses a completely new and updated interface. Though different, after using this CD for a few weeks, I’ve found it just as easy to use as the earlier edition and very simple to navigate. It did take a little time to master the new structure, but I am still able to find the information I need in a timely manner. Overall, this encyclopedia is quite an impressive offering. Most areas of the encyclopedia make wide use of a tabbed interface. These tabs point the reader to a variety of related information, pictures, video clips, maps, and similar materials. This design makes the encyclopedia extremely easy to use and puts all the necessary information about any topic right at your finger tips. This CD contains literally hundreds of thousands of hyperlinks that allow the user to jump from article to article, without returning to the index or table of contents.

The encyclopedia contains over 34,000 articles, of which 1,200 are new to this edition and over 6,000 have been updated. The text of over 150 historical documents, from the Magna Carta through the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other founding documents of the United States are also included. Many of the landmark decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court are also covered and explained. The quotations from a wide range of historical figures from Plato to Nelson Mandela help add a human touch and personal perspective to many of the topics contained in this encyclopedia. Many of the historical events contained in this encyclopedia include timelines in addition to the explanation of the events. This helps place the event in the proper chronological context.

The CD contains an interactive Atlas with almost 900 maps. Included are over 75 theme maps, 166 historical exploration maps and 64 new city maps. When looking at maps, the point and click features of the program make finding the necessary information quite simple. For example, when the map of the World is loaded, simply click on North America and another map appears. Then click on the United States and this map pops up. Then click on one of the states and the map of the state appears. As you move the cursor across any map, it changes shape as you cross over areas where additional information is available. When there is another map of the area, the cursor shows a map icon. A text icon is displayed beside the cursor where additional text on the subject is available. Clicking on this area will bring up the additional information. To find additional information about a city, for example, position the cursor over the city name and look at the cursor icon to see what information is available. If the text icon is displayed, clicking on the city will show a text window with data about the city. Depending on the city, if additional articles or media are available these can be accessed through the tabs across the top of the viewing window.

Over 15 hours of music including 150 national anthems, 300 classical selections, 100 U.S. historical and worlds ethnic music selections are also contained on the CD. For art lovers, a wide range of classic works of art are also part of the CD. A second CD, furnished with the encyclopedia, includes a collection of modern art from the Maeght Foundation. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD also offers a series of links between the CD and CompuServe. This will help the user find both historical and current information about any study topics.

If you’re in the market for a new multimedia encyclopedia the 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD is certainly one that should be at the top of your shopping list. This CD will operate under either the Windows 3.1x or Windows 95 operating systems. In addition to a CD, your system should also have a sound card to access the full multimedia features of this program. The power, features, and flexibility of this CD are very impressive. I only wish this CD was available when I was going to school. With a tool like this, I know I would have spent more time learning the information and less time looking for the information.

1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD

Version 8.03

Street price: $49.95

contact information:

Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.

90 Sherman Turnpike
Danbury, CT 06816

203-797-3530

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Ed Hoffman

ed.hoffman@wol.com

Ed wishes that there were CDs when he went to school???? We weren’t going to say anything, but Ed is the only staff member who used to take a chariot to school.


ECHO LAKE

a review by Chris McKitrick

When was the last time you took a look at your past and wished you had kept better records or at least organized your memorabilia? Whether it’s graduation, wedding, or baby’s first steps, we all have memories we would like to preserve. Typically, the repository for most of our historical documents, letters, or photographs, is a shoe box in the closet. While adequate, this method lacks sophistication and order, not to mention the fact that it is difficult to systematically organize a shoe box.

Having a computer, I’ve come to learn that this electronic beast is nothing, if not organized. The problem was finding the right software to help me transform my shoe box contents into a readable and organized collection of computerized memories. All of this and considerably more can be found in a program entitled Echo Lake. This software is not only entertaining and effective, but also easy to follow.

The initial environment surrounding the user is that of a cabin interior with a desk in front of you. The desktop is filled with an assortment of various tools to help you get your project off the ground. The drawers in front of you contain most of your options such as video and audio clips. The shelves hold previously made books, or you have the option to keep your book behind the picture in the wall safe.

Each individual book cover displays title, author, start-to-finish date, and optional place of birth and password. After editing various cover options, you open your book and begin typing or adding the media of your choice. One particular note of interest is the “Inspirator” that sits to the right of your book. Once chosen, the Inspirator is designed to help you recall points of interest or happenings in a particular time period. Lets say for example you would like to enter video or audio clip from the 60’s about space. You type in the word, "space," and the inspirator will present everything it contains about space in that time period. Echo Lake contains several video clips, audio clips, and news clippings on a wide assortment of happenings in the 20th century. After viewing these items you can put them in the view-matic idea holder for later use, or put them directly into your book.

Apart from the included media given to fill your album, Echo Lake supports a variety of other multi-media options. For example, adding wav files are as easy as “cut and paste,” or you can use your own voice to add a more personal sound. A simple microphone and sound board are all you need. Video clips are something you don’t see in most photo albums these days, but again this addition is easily accomplished. Echo Lake contains 80 video clips, or provided you have a video capture board, you can import your own video clips.

The software includes an illustrated tour map and users guide to help you get started, and to help direct you to selected applications. Events or stories can be retrieved by chronological order, or by specific date, so going through your newly created Echo Lake album to find certain places of interest is now easier and more organized than conventional photo albums ever were. While there’s a certain charm to those old photo albums, all of these features just may add a great deal more life to the experience of browsing the past.

Echo Lake

List Price: $69.95 (CD); $59.95 (Disk)

contact information:

Delrina Consumer Software

PO. Box 5190

San Jose, CA. 99150-9963

800-324-6525

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PRIMERAPRO COLOR PRINTER

a review by Ed Rasimus

“Well, Harry, its the bottom of the ninth and the home team is a run down. They desperately need a high quality color printer for home use. Do you think the Fargo Electronics team is going to be able to pull it out?”

“I don’t know, Steve, its been a rough season for color printers so far. A lot of major league names like Canon, Epson and Hewlett-Packard have been promising quality home color, but their hits never seem to measure up to their pitches. This PrimeraPro printer from Fargo seems to offer some slugging potential. You don’t see wax transfer printers or dye sublimation process in desktop machines very often. If it performs, it could bring home a winner.”

“Exactly right, Harry. Wax transfer has offered high quality, full color imaging, but at a pretty high price. It looks like the pitcher is ready and here comes the first try at the plate for the PrimeraPro. Let’s check first impressions.”

Opening the box, the PrimeraPro makes a great first impression. Trim, small, light-weight and with nothing more on the front face than a power and an on-line switch, this printer looks promising for ease of  operation. Oooppps, what’s this in the bottom of the box? It looks like a two pound brick of a transformer. Why would you want a separate transformer or power supply for a desktop machine?  “Strike one!”

“It looks like that first impression is struggling at the plate. Digging in now, he’s pulled out the software disk containing the print drivers. The disk is labeled for ‘Windows 3.1 and higher,’ but doesn’t seem to include Windows 95 drivers, even though the date on the disk is late November, 1995. Wow, could that mean they missed that significant change-up?” “Strike two!”

“Take a look at this, Harry. There are two separate ribbons and the  manual says you must use distinct media -- I guess that means type of paper -- for each of the ribbon types. If you want to change from wax transfer to dye sublimation printing, you not only need to make control panel changes, but you also need to open the printer and swap these great big ribbon holders.” “Strike three!”

“Well, Steve, there’s one down for PrimeraPro, but here comes their real power threat. Stepping up to the plate is image quality.”

Using 1200 dpi, 24-bit color scanned images of a portrait photograph in BMP, JPG, and GIF formats, images were printed in both wax transfer and dye sublimation mode. The first images in wax transfer were bright, clear, and comparable to four-color offset printing in a slick magazine.

“It looks like, it could be, it might be, it’s outta here. HOLY COW. It’s a home run for image quality. This game’s all tied up.”

“Just a second, Harry. The second base umpire is calling him back. That wax transfer image took a full twenty-five minutes to print on a 486 with 8MB of RAM, and that’s what Fargo said was required to get best performance. And, it took total control of the computer during that time, not even allowing Windows 95 to multi-task. It looks like that great image isn’t a home run, just a ground-rule double.”

“Tough break, but here comes the cleanup hitter. With the tying run in scoring position and the winning run at the plate, PrimeraPro could pull it out with a big hit from dye sublimation printing.”

After swapping the ribbon cartridges, resetting the Fargo print driver to four-color dye sublimation and changing the paper in the paper tray, the same image was printed for comparison purposes. The first image was attempted at higher resolution (600x300) although the manual advised that this could increase printing time. It wasn’t kidding. An hour and fifteen minutes later a squashed, distorted and very dark image plopped into the output tray. “Strike one.”

Although wax transfer printing had been flawless, it was now time to look at an enclosed sheet of “Windows 95 Printing Tips” to see if problems with dye sublimation could be corrected. Trying all three tips, in sequence and in combination resulted in five more unsatisfactory printings. One unrecognizable, two indicating no connection between the printer and computer, and two printing only the title of the graphic file but with no image. All of the failures took more than an hour to run and all of them held control of the computer during the print rasterizing phase as well as after spooling to the printer. “Strike two.”

Finally, the right combination was achieved and a proportionally correct, dye sublimation image was printed. Unfortunately this picture was quite dark and showed fuzziness in detail and considerable dithering. Flare in white areas was pronounced and skin tones were orange-reddish. “Strike three. Two outs.”

“Steve, it’s looking pretty bleak for quality home color printing. Will image quality be stranded at second? Here in the manual it says that PrimeraPro offers their high quality processes at less cost than color ink-jets. That certainly sounds like a power hitter to me.”

“It sure does look like competitive pricing could pull this one out. A strong at-bat here could be just what PrimeraPro needs.”

“Here’s the first pitch--it looks like a consumable cost check. For wax thermal printing, a four color ribbon is good for 80 prints and sells for $45. The paper sells for around $20 for a 200 sheet ream. That’s about 60 cents a page. But, take a look at dye sublimation costs. A kit containing a 4-color refill and 50 sheets of paper costs $165. That’s a bit better than $3 a page.” “Strike one!”

“Wow, that means that to get that photo quality you have to spend near photo-finishing prices. What about some of the specialty products the printer can make, like transparencies and T-shirt transfers? And, don’t they offer Adobe PostScript software and color matching software?”

“Sure. Transparency film and 3-color dye sublimation ribbon for 100 sheets is $350. Postscript software is $400, Candela Colormatching is $100 and if you need an Ethernet adapter it will set you back a cool $500. It sure looks like the fast ball is gonna blow by him again.” “Strike two!”

“It’s down to the wire here. Will competitive pricing pull this one out? What about the cost of the printer? It looks like, it might be, yep, it is…a street price of $1339. And that doesn’t even include a parallel cable to hook it up. You have to buy that extra.” “Strike three!”

Fargo has produced a printer for some very special functions. It is capable of producing very high quality color images, however, it does so at considerable cost. It will not serve as a printer for typical home use, although it could function quite nicely for special tasks when paired with a quality laser printer for text. For most of us who need this quality of print job it will be quicker and more economical to take our image files on disk to a service bureau.

“Somewhere people dance, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy at Fargo, PrimeraPro has struck out.”

The Tenth Inning:

When a product fails to meet expectations I always try to talk to the supplier to make sure there are no misunderstandings. My call to Fargo for additional information on the PrimeraPro got an answer ten days later. The company representative suggested that I check the Fargo Web site for the latest drivers. (I had done that, but the site was “down” when the review was written.) He agreed to send me the newest drivers and I agreed to take another look.

With the Win95 compatible drivers, printing time was reduced considerably; down from 25 minutes to 10 for wax transfer and reduced from 75 to around 40 minutes for dye sublimation. Rasterizing and spooling on a 486 were still extremely slow and nowhere near the promised performance in the owner’s manual. Dye sublimation output was considerably darker than either wax transfer or screen images. The light-dark adjustment in the print setup dialogue had no apparent effect. No images were successfully printed using the high resolution mode 300x600 dpi.

The PrimeraPro is a niche market machine that might be used by a graphic artist or advertising layout technician to provide single copy proofs for a client. It is considerably less expensive than professional quality dye-sub or wax transfer printers but it is plagued by slow output and high cost consumables. For most folks requiring high quality color a modem upload to the service bureau with the big bucks machine is the better answer.

PrimeraPro Color Printer

List Price: $1800.00

contact information:

Fargo Electronics

7901 Flying Cloud Dr.

Eden Prairie MN 55344

(612) 941-9470

Fax (612) 941-7836

http://www.fargo.com

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thunder@rmii.com

Ed Rasimus lives in Colorado Springs, where he watches every Cubs game that WGN broadcasts and hopes to live long enough to see the Cubbies win a pennant.


HANDWEL GLOVES

a review by Bob Gollihur

As I began to sense serious symptoms of hand discomfort, finger numbness, and wrist pain, my interest was piqued to look into all sorts of devices, exercises, gadgets, and information on solutions to my painful problems. A mention of Handwel gloves caught my eye, and a visit to their web site made me want to take a deeper look at the product.

The copy promised that “The overall effect of wearing the Handwel gloves is that the (repetition-induced) stress is evening distributed over the whole hand/wrist area instead of concentrating inside the carpal tunnel.” It further indicated that the materials have a heat insulation factor that kept the “hand/wrist area warm, improving the blood-flow to the fingers.” Sounded good to me.

Handwel support gloves are fingerless gloves made with two distinct sections. The area covering the palm is made of a very thin stretch material, while the wristband is a thicker material that is double-layered. Paltron states that “working against the stretch stimulates and strengthens the muscletone” because of the palm area material, while the wristband “allows very limited lateral expansion,” providing “firm, yet gentle support.” The wristband also has a Velcro strap to increase the tension. In order to minimize any negative comfort effect, the seams are sewn and sealed on the outside of the glove.

We thought it would be interesting for two of us to try a pair of gloves: me, someone in the process of discovering and trying to resolve a serious problem, and to Steven Jay Cohen, a WOLR writer who is not having any symptoms. We each made our own conclusions, but bear in mind that these are personal, not medical observations. Your mileage may vary.

From Bob:

When I first put the gloves on, I kind of liked them. They seemed a bit too tight; in fact, if I didn’t use the factory supplied measurements and determine that I was well within the tolerance of the medium size, I might have tried to return them for a larger size. However, I found that wearing them for any period of time became uncomfortable, as the fingerholes cut into the skin at the base of my fingers. The tightness of the wristband was a bit overwhelming at times, too. As a result, while I persevered for a period of time, I finally concluded they were not for me.

Did they meet my expectations? Well, I certainly didn’t expect a cure, but I did expect comfort from the Handwels. That is not something I experienced, and I cannot personally recommend them.

From Steven:

When Bob first told me we were going to have an opportunity to try out these gloves, I was excited. Though my “mousing” and unorthodox style of typing is currently causing me no discomfort, there was a period of time, not all that long ago, when I was experiencing extreme discomfort, suspecting the beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome. Fortunately that turned out not to be the case, but the experience greatly heightened my awareness of the potential physical difficulties.

I was excited because I reasoned that if the gloves were indeed viable treatment for such disorders, then the wearing of them might help stave off any problems, provide a little support, and increase the comfort factor while working long hours at the PC.

Though my assessment is certainly not the result of a controlled scientific study, I do have a medical background. For purposes of this evaluation, I endeavored to apply an appropriate degree of objectivity, aside from the subjective experience.

When I first put them on, I must say they felt quite good -- sort of “springy,” in fact - a quality undoubtedly imparted by the elasticity of the material. This good feeling unfortunately did not last. In fact, the longer I wore them, the more uncomfortable they became until finally, I was compelled to remove them. Allowing that perhaps I needed to give them more time, I resolved to wear them for several more sessions, in order to be fair.

Frankly, I was disappointed. I wore them for a total of six sessions with the exact same experience each time. The discomfort was simply too much for me. It may well be that their effect is rehabilitative or restorative only on already injured hands. But I cannot imagine wearing these if I was already experiencing pain in the area. I can’t believe that creating a more painful situation would help one to function better.

One thing that I’ve learned from monitoring various discussions on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of various maladies involving the hands, wrists, and related body parts: there are no universal answers. For as many potential or realized problems as you can describe or attempt to categorize, there are ten times the number of approaches for avoiding the problem or answers for treatment. I have seen a couple individuals’ letters of testimonial provided by Paltron, but I have also heard from users who have not been pleased with their experiences. A respected Orthopod from a large Philadelphia hospital with whom I consulted felt that they could possibly offer comforting effects in some cases, but took firm issue with their contention that they could have any preventative effect on carpal tunnel syndrome.

Whether Handwel gloves are the answer for you will depend on the question. If you are currently under treatment by a medical professional, an intelligent approach would be to describe the gloves and ask for a decision from that hopefully educated and experienced viewpoint. Perhaps you have had some symptoms and want to avoid getting in any deeper (and indeed you should act promptly). In that case, I’d consult with a medical professional in whom you trust to report these experiences, and also ask if the characteristics of the Handwels will help your condition. If you have no symptoms but are in the market for prevention, chances are you can find opinions in every area from their effectiveness to possible harm, depending on the source.

I didn’t have to search far for a final conclusion. Paltron Industries’ own statement says it all: “HANDWEL® gloves are not a form of treatment or a certified medical device, thus you are advised to wear them with caution and at your own risk.” It’s up to you, but consider that it will be an experiment with a cost, since the gloves are understandably not returnable.

Handwel

List Price: $20.00/pair (US$); $27.00 (CAN$)

contact information:

Paltron Industries, Inc.

PO Box 54554

1712 Avenue Rd

Toronto, ON

Canada M5M 4N5

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Bob Gollihur

bob.gollihur@wol.com

Let’s see, if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit? No, maybe if the glove fits, wear it? Nah. Perhaps caveat emptor. Yeah, that’s the one.


FELIX

a review by Bob Gollihur

Over two years ago, in WOLR 80, I reviewed Felix, the first tablet mouse I’d ever seen. I liked it and used it, on and off, for a while. This latest incarnation is fundamentally the same design but offers several very significant improvements I believe will cause me to use this new, improved version, permanently.

Like the original, Felix does it all in one square inch. The control handle is firmly attached to a smoothly floating plane, with a maximum movement of one square inch. It uses an internal microprocessor and optical technology, and is sealed, so no cleaning is required. Three buttons occupy the front third of the oval handle; there are two small protrusions on each side that resemble tiny wings, for orientation, since the movable portion can rotate ninety degrees. The right and left buttons are flush with the handle and not unlike typical mouse buttons in style; the center button a raised, piano key style button.

The entire unit measures about 5.5 x 6 inches, with the base height one inch at its highest. The base is stylish, with a rounded front, and the handle itself five-eighths of an inch high, with its 2.25 x 1.75 oval shape plus the .25 inch protrusions on each side. All measurements are approximate.

The new Felix is better constructed than the old unit. The heavier plastic housing gives it a feeling of firmness and durability, and the buttons are firm. Too firm, in my opinion — it takes more effort to engage these buttons than those of my conventional mouse. This is in opposition to the ergonomic marketing stance taken by Altra, since less effort would be a greater advantage in that context and in my opinion. Their stiffness may be in reaction to the older Felix’s levers and button, which were somewhat flimsy and non-distinct in their actuation. I would have preferred a compromise.

In my mind, one of the biggest advantages to the new Felix is that it is Microsoft Mouse compatible. Not only is it Windows 95 Plug and Play compatible, it means that if your current driver in Windows 3.1 or 95 is already the Microsoft standard, it really is plug and play. This compatibility is especially good if you like to work with graphics, for which I’ll explain my reasoning. While Felix is Microsoft mouse compatible, it also includes drivers for absolute positioning in DOS, Windows 3.0, 3.1, and 95, as well as one for AutoCAD.

With its 640 dpi resolution, precision graphics work in resolutions greater than 640x480 can be a problem, just as they were with the old Felix. Being able to affect only every other pixel in higher resolutions is not acceptable in my work, so it’s either move from my usual 1024x768 to 640x480, or put it aside in favor of my usual mouse. Faced with the same dilemma two years ago, I purchased an inexpensive serial port switch and a couple gender benders so I could switch between Felix and my regular mouse. As much as I liked it, the inconvenience of exiting Windows 3.1 and switching drivers every time I needed to move from one to the other caused the old device to fall into disuse. However, the new unit is compatible with my Microsoft mouse, so I can change units instantly. Keep in mind that if you don’t need that level of precision, and most don’t, you will want to use Felix full-time and forget the switch.

Felix does take just a slight bit of getting used to, but once you have the hang of it, it’s a pretty good feeling. Initially, I found myself grasping it too tightly, with my usual control freak attitude. Obviously, with only a square inch covering your entire screen, a bit more precision is necessary, but the key is relaxing with it, using a more casual grip. Moving the control handle requires very little effort, and not a lot of motion is required. Switching back and forth between the more extensive travel of a mouse is no adjustment, kind of when I move from bass viola to violin. Your brain figures it out without user intervention.

The Altra folks do press the ergonomic angle, which is what brought my attention back to this old favorite. No doubt there are less and different motions involved with using Felix, which may or may not be good. Altra states that “Felix won’t injure your wrist, arm or shoulder like a mouse or trackball can. You can use it all day without pain or strain.” Well, I suggest you take that boast more as marketing hyperbole than fact. You will have to at least use your wrist to operate Felix; true, it is not necessary to use your arm, and definitely not your shoulder. Whether this is good or bad could be a subject for debate among specialists in the field for the next decade or so.

No doubt Felix offers some other significant advantages that are worth considering. There is the issue of placement; you don’t need a good deal of desk space as you do with a mouse, and you could even place it on your lap.

I definitely recommend Felix to those who think they might find an alternative to a conventional mouse more to their liking. More than one trackball is stacked it my closet — I could never get used to them, although the space and minimal movement required always appealed to me. With Felix, I can have my cake and eat it, too — true mousing in a limited space with less movement. If you want to taste the cake, too, Altra has a 30 day trial offer to give this unique type of mouse a risk-free try.

Felix

Street Price: $69.95

contact information:

Altra

520 West Cedar Street

Rawlins, WY 82301-5639

800-726-6153

800-445-6778 (orders only)

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Bob Gollihur

bob.gollihur@wol.com

Yes, Bob is old enough to remember Felix the Cat. Aren’t you?


NETWORK PRESENTATION AUDIO

a review by Ted Tatman

One of the most important parts of an effective and persuasive multimedia production is sound, especially the music you use. If you’re producing a multimedia presentation, where do you get great music? Sure, you could pick something out of your CD collection, which means you’re violating copyright law and could get sued. Or, you can have music custom produced. (That tends to get expensive, unless you’re willing to settle for something that sounds as cheesy as that Canyon MIDI file that comes with Windows.) Or, you can go to a high-quality music supplier like Network Music.

Network Music has been producing music for broadcast commercials and audiovisual projects since 1979. Hundreds of TV and radio stations use their music every day. They’ve even produced stuff for the major broadcast networks and HBO, plus national advertisers like American Airlines, IBM, and General Motors. Now, after working with Microsoft to provide the sounds that were embedded in the Win95 version of PowerPoint, Network Music has decided to enter the PC multimedia field with a product called Presentation Audio.

Presentation Audio is a set of 5 CD-ROM discs designed for the multimedia producer. Each disc contains 30 original music beds, 100 sound effects, and 100 musical production elements (like audio logos, flybys, lasers and sweepers). The music beds come in 60 and 30 second lengths, as well as short tag and loop versions. All of the audio is furnished in standard Windows 16-bit WAV format, and is provided in both 22k and 11k sampling rates.

Each CD-ROM has a theme. Volume 1 is “Business/Office.” Volume 2 is “Pop Culture.” Volume 3 is “High Tech/Electronic.” Volume 4 is “Environments/Atmospheres.” And Volume 5 is “Comedy/Animation.” The musical styles and sound effects furnished in each volume reflect the theme. For instance, the music in Volume 1 is listed as “Corporate, Motivational and Industrial” and the sound effects are described as “Industry, Office Machines, Workplace Environments, Telephones.” Each disc is packaged separately, so you only have to buy the one(s) you really want. Included is a royalty-free license for non-broadcast, computer-based presentations.

Presentation Audio comes with a browsing and editing utility called Trakfinder. It can be installed on your hard disk or run directly from CD-ROM. Trakfinder lets you audition the content of each disc using descriptive words. Once you find the cut you’re looking for, Trakfinder lets you shorten, loop-edit, fade in or out, and copy the cut to your hard disk. You can even convert the file to mono, change the sampling rate and frequency, and choose the standard WAV or the compressed ADPCM WAV formats for your output.

So how’s the music? In a word, excellent. All music was recorded in Network’s 48-track recording studios in San Diego. The music is performed on real instruments, with real musicians. We’re talking orchestras and bands -- no Casio keyboard stuff here. The sound effects are fair-to-good, but the music is outstanding. Evidently Network has taken some of the best music they’ve produced over the years and put it in this series.

The Trakfinder program is also first-rate, making it a pleasure to browse the collection. My only suggestion would be to include a basic WAV editor to use for the fade-ins and fade-outs, as I found it awkward at first to use the current system of just entering in the times to perform the fades.

System requirements for Presentation Audio include Win 3.1 or Win95, 8 MB of RAM, 3MB of hard disk space (if you’re installing Trakfinder), a CD-ROM drive (2x or faster recommended), 16-bit sound card with speakers or headphones, and a VGA or higher monitor.

In short, if you need great music for a great presentation, Presentation Audio from Network music is the ticket. Let’s hope they make more!

Presentation Audio

Volumes 1-5 List Price: $49.95 each

Complete set: $199.95

contact information:

Network Music

15150 Avenue Of Science

San Diego, California 92128

800-854-2075

619-451-6400

619-451-6409 fax

reviewed by

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Ted Tatman

tedt13@aol.com


CLIP ART CRAZY

a review by Bob Gollihur

An occasionally wise friend of mine once said, “You can never be too rich or have too much clip art.” That may be so, but possessing great wealth or a massive collection of clip art does not insure good taste in the use of either. We won’t speak of Presidential candidates, but I will note that I’ve seen a few brochures lately that look like survivors from an explosion in a clip art factory. Too much of a good thing does not make a better thing.

There couldn’t be a better segueway to Clip Art Crazy, a new publication from Peachpit Press. It is an exercise in good taste. It is also an idea book, rather than a “how-to” manual. Fifty different projects, ranging from decorative envelopes to menus and T-shirts, are shown and explained. Each black and white illustration includes as little as three sentences, but there are some interesting concepts. It’s kind of a quick, illustrated course in desktop publishing, although it doesn’t provide much in the how department.

A CD ROM with 500 sample images is included, with groups from many different clip art houses. They really run the gamut, and each directory has a text file that describes the copyright conditions on their use. In fact, more than half of  Clip Art Crazy’s 350 pages documents the clip art samples and are advertisements for their providers. While the clip art CD ROM is very eclectic and organized only by publisher, the leads might even be a good resource for a more dedicated desktop publisher who would want to go deeper. However, I somehow suspect they’d know about them already if they’ve been in the business for a while.

What’s the verdict? On one hand, a fast reader could probably get all they needed from Clip Art Crazy from a leisurely ten minute scan in a bookstore. However, I had to ask myself the question — why did I review it myself so I could keep it, rather than pass it on to one of our clip art crazy staffers?? Well, it does have some good, albeit elementary examples of concepts, and for an occasional desktop publisher like myself (and maybe you), it is a good resource for ideas. Someone wanting to find out about and view artwork samples from a wealth of computer clip art companies would also find it interesting, but if you are at that level, the remainder of the book would be like a one session community night school course in DTP. As a result, we have a $35 dichotomy that I find hard to generally recommend.

Clip Art Crazy

by Chuck Green

ISBN 0-201-88361-9

List Price: $34.95

contact information:

Peachpit Press

2414 Sixth Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

800-283-9444

510-548-5991

http://www.peachpit.com

reviewed by

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Bob Gollihur

bob.gollihur@wol.com

Why is it is so difficult to find exactly the right piece of clipart or sarcastic comment to accent a piece?


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Windows Files
Windows Applications/Utilities/Accessories/Drivers/Games

1.	WINDOWS	Reading, Info, Misc		166	20,594,235
2.	WINDOWS	Text Material		22	1,806,416
3.	WINDOWS	New Technology	[A-L]	49	13,387,093
4.	WINDOWS	New Technology	[M-Z]	101	11,531,610
5.	WINDOWS	New Technology	[A-Z]	32	4,964,106
6.	WINDOWS	Finance/Invest	[A-L]	46	8,143,631
7.	WINDOWS	Finance/Invest	[M-Z]	69	10,076,231
9.	WINDOWS	Printer Apps/Utils		123	12,277,463
10.	WINDOWS	Printer Drivers		80	15,233,083
12.	WINDOWS	Games	[A-L]	254	30,481,006
13.	WINDOWS	Games	[M-Z]	315	38,991,501
14.	WINDOWS	Games/Humor	[A-Z]	141	18,085,459
15.	WINDOWS	Games Misc	[A-Z]	130	27,399,742
16.	WINDOWS	Personal Info. Mgrs		156	35,897,102
17.	WINDOWS	Video Anim/Players		75	33,746,654
18.	WINDOWS	Video Util/Drvs	[A-L]	84	36,814,653
19.	WINDOWS	Video Util/Drvs	[M-Z]	121	37,509,117
21.	WINDOWS	Developers	[A-L]	172	17,080,910
22.	WINDOWS	Developers	[M-Z]	253	30,563,992
23.	WINDOWS	Programming	[A-Z]	42	5,413,068
25.	WINDOWS	Visual Basic	[A-L]	118	5,506,323
26.	WINDOWS	Visual Basic	[M-Z]	180	15,029,889
27.	WINDOWS	Visual Basic	[A-Z]	12	749,108
28.	WINDOWS	Word For Windows		176	12,747,875
29.	WINDOWS	WordProcess/DTP		186	30,570,643
30.	WINDOWS	Editors/WP Utils		87	14,653,243
31.	WINDOWS	Word Processing		31	5,772,831
32.	WINDOWS	Desktop Publishing		14	1,436,845
33.	WINDOWS	Graphics/Draw/CAD		102	19,697,624
34.	WINDOWS	Graphic Apps/Paint		84	24,107,418
35.	WINDOWS	Graphics/Utils	[A-Z]	60	11,752,964
37.	WINDOWS	Viewer/Conversion		34	6,065,437
38.	WINDOWS	Networking		148	17,633,407
39.	WINDOWS	Networks		21	5,104,436
40.	WINDOWS	Offline Readers/Mail		29	8,977,543
41.	WINDOWS	Communications	[A-L]	118	12,302,845
42.	WINDOWS	Communications	[M-Z]	188	29,594,319
43.	WINDOWS	Communications	[A-Z]	45	9,693,762
44.	WINDOWS	Icons		51	3,197,634
45.	WINDOWS	Icons	[H-P]	170	10,314,182
46.	WINDOWS	Icons	[Q-Z]	45	963,879
47.	WINDOWS	Icons/Libs	[A-Z]	77	2,025,811
48.	WINDOWS	Icon Apps/Utils		86	5,507,505
49.	WINDOWS	Screen Blankers		130	7,843,369
50.	WINDOWS	File/Shell/Arc	[A-G]	214	23,747,925
51.	WINDOWS	File/Shell/Arc	[H-M]	52	8,477,344
52.	WINDOWS	File/Shell/Arc	[N-S]	122	16,771,998
53.	WINDOWS	File/Shell/Arc	[T-Z]	143	18,898,107
55.	WINDOWS	File Managment	[A-Z]	33	5,082,039
56.	WINDOWS	Desktop	[A-Z]	130	12,104,662
57.	WINDOWS	Accessories	[A-G]	335	29,844,456
58.	WINDOWS	Accessories	[H-M]	135	13,602,875
59.	WINDOWS	Accessories	[N-S]	220	16,764,855
60.	WINDOWS	Accessories	[T-Z]	287	27,721,590
61.	WINDOWS	Utilities	[A-Z]	98	8,787,145
63.	WINDOWS	Apps/Business/Office		74	24,716,016
64.	WINDOWS	Business Apps		40	8,943,484
65.	WINDOWS	Spreadsheets		27	7,612,166
67.	WINDOWS	Apps/Sci/Math/Eng.		106	25,907,506
68.	WINDOWS	Engineering		13	1,491,558
69.	WINDOWS	Apps/Hobby/Home/Fam.		135	36,383,245
70.	WINDOWS	Home/Family		46	9,052,099
71.	WINDOWS	Windows Apps	[A-M]	235	47,923,898
72.	WINDOWS	Windows Apps	[N-Z]	237	37,131,127
73.	WINDOWS	Apps/Misc./Other		221	47,948,386
74.	WINDOWS	Database Apps/Utils		147	25,334,240
77.	WINDOWS	Applications		55	10,781,343
80.	WINDOWS	Education/Training		22	4,422,793
81.	WINDOWS	MultiMedia		14	2,933,872
82.	WINDOWS	MultiMedia/Present		23	7,326,991
Windows Font Files

101.	WINDOWS	ATM Type1 Fnts	[A-G]	395	40,107,914
102.	WINDOWS	ATM Type1 Fnts	[H-Z]	339	19,567,432
103.	WINDOWS	ATM Fonts		61	5,669,293
104.	WINDOWS	ATM Type1/PostScpt-1		85	4,481,040
105.	WINDOWS	ATM Type1/PostScpt-2		258	11,361,587
106.	WINDOWS	ATM Type1/PostScpt-3		213	8,625,340
107.	WINDOWS	TrueType-1		230	13,779,468
108.	WINDOWS	TrueType-2		232	11,408,214
109.	WINDOWS	TrueType Fonts	[A-L]	563	31,999,882
110.	WINDOWS	TrueType Fonts	[M-Z]	377	39,726,696
111.	WINDOWS	TT Fonts, Etc	[A-Z]	48	5,864,847
112.	WINDOWS	Font Progs/Utils		96	9,211,576
113.	WINDOWS	Font Programs		22	2,603,421
Windows Sound Files

126.	WINDOWS	Sound Players/MIDI		120	18,420,314
128.	WINDOWS	Sound Utils/Drivers		107	10,329,591
129.	WINDOWS	Sound Files	[A-F]	226	47,205,362
130.	WINDOWS	Sound Files	[G-P]	197	45,340,869
131.	WINDOWS	Sound Files	[Q-V]	157	29,193,687
132.	WINDOWS	Sound Files	[W-Z]	247	96,760,705
133.	WINDOWS	Sound SND	[0-9]	9	1,473,324
134.	WINDOWS	Sound SND	[A-E]	252	8,246,677
135.	WINDOWS	Sound SND	[F-J]	161	5,247,515
136.	WINDOWS	Sound SND	[K-O]	138	4,088,013
137.	WINDOWS	Sound SND	[P-T]	214	7,860,731
138.	WINDOWS	Sound SND	[U-Z]	77	1,894,342
139.	WINDOWS	Sound WAV	[0-9]	7	452,738
140.	WINDOWS	Sound WAV	[A-E]	218	10,531,844
141.	WINDOWS	Sound WAV	[F-J]	102	5,128,684
142.	WINDOWS	Sound WAV	[K-O]	65	4,396,046
143.	WINDOWS	Sound WAV	[P-T]	166	9,318,693
144.	WINDOWS	Sound WAV	[U-Z]	49	1,597,359
145.	WINDOWS	Sound Files	[A-Z]	427	68,216,351
Windows Graphics, BMP’s, Clip Art, PCX Files

159.	WINDOWS	BMP’s - RLE’s	[A-G]	298	29,446,217
160.	WINDOWS	BMP’s - RLE’s	[H-P]	169	14,963,757
161.	WINDOWS	BMP’s - RLE’s	[Q-Z]	203	23,022,752
162.	WINDOWS	BMP’s	[A-Z]	142	12,206,863
163.	WINDOWS	BMP’s	[A-Z]	353	20,825,192
164.	WINDOWS	ClipA - PCX’s	[A-D]	564	31,887,365
165.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	[E-M]	433	21,205,160
166.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	[N-S]	462	16,776,419
167.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	[T-Z]	227	8,036,277
168.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Accent	40	494,689
169.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Aircraft	59	2,245,350
170.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Ani-Toon	265	5,707,517
171.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Animals	275	15,568,079
172.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Aquatic	139	4,092,875
173.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Arrows	37	312,187
174.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Attire	156	4,234,675
175.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Banners	157	4,890,676
176.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Birds	92	4,259,544
177.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Birdtoon	44	1,125,235
178.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Boats	54	1,216,346
179.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Borders	219	16,767,091
180.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Building	132	7,217,299
181.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Business	138	4,261,818
182.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Cars	74	1,316,312
183.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Christms	275	6,401,831
184.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	In Color	367	26,972,299
185.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Comics	271	3,818,756
186.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Computer	101	3,168,992
187.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Culture	195	5,941,102
188.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Dog/Cat	128	5,399,002
189.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Equipmnt	38	639,964
190.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Family	65	4,627,906
191.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Famous	101	2,658,174
192.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Farm/Msc	105	6,512,825
193.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Females	57	2,882,443
194.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Fishtoon	20	586,378
195.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Flowers	376	35,904,908
196.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Food	195	4,308,961
197.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Fruit	154	6,443,797
198.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Hands	57	1,103,222
199.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Headings	125	2,792,899
200.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Holiday	132	4,472,298
201.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Home	85	1,339,446
202.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Humor	92	2,605,191
203.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Insects	104	2,783,135
204.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Kids	58	2,391,900
205.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Logo	62	834,265
206.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Logolibr	16	266,833
207.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Love	69	2,304,105
208.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Males	119	5,596,027
209.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Medical	156	4,691,173
210.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Military	334	11,225,912
211.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Money	46	2,431,965
212.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Multiart	148	5,591,109
213.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Music	70	1,587,836
214.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Mythical	75	3,231,679
215.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Nature	169	9,984,341
216.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Occupat	115	4,567,910
217.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Odd/Ends	98	3,361,359
218.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Party	72	1,636,268
219.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	PCX Fonts	132	846,982
220.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	People	24	2,361,773
221.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Peoptoon	130	3,397,127
222.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Plants	310	32,811,630
223.	WINDOWS	PrintShop	Graphics	57	5,447,068
224.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Religion	132	2,850,079
225.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	School	94	4,395,578
226.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Science	93	5,778,815
227.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Signs	131	1,436,014
228.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Sports	367	9,407,565
229.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Tools	213	7,002,771
230.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Transpor	63	2,133,357
231.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Travel	147	9,115,499
232.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Trees	154	9,070,506
233.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Trucks	49	1,227,078
234.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	US Maps	124	1,236,632
235.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	Vegetabl	215	9,831,205
236.	WINDOWS	ClipA-PCX’s	WLD Maps	279	13,859,373

Files In Area #500 Are All New Windows Files To WOL

500.	WINDOWS	NEW UPLOADS		375	82,696,648
		Totals For All Win Files		26,116	2,379,118,845


OS/2 Files
OS/2 Applications, Utilities, Drivers, Patches

245.	OS/2	Information		281	21,526,801
246.	OS/2	Drivers		168	30,982,713
247.	OS/2	Applications	[A-L]	201	49,855,913
248.	OS/2	Applications	[M-Z]	262	46,871,825
249.	OS/2	Utilities	[A-L]	287	29,146,859
250.	OS/2	Utilities	[M-S]	311	42,104,754
251.	OS/2	Utilities	[T-Z]	97	10,042,628
252.	OS/2	General Utils	[A-O]	79	9,338,573
253.	OS/2	General Utils	[P-Z]	70	23,576,747
254.	OS/2	Games		94	11,033,659
255.	OS/2	Networking/LANS	[A-M]	48	16,435,841
256.	OS/2	Networking/LANS	[N-Z]	52	6,621,020
257.	OS/2	Educational		15	1,801,985
258.	OS/2	Printer Drivers/Utils.		48	5,908,475
259.	OS/2	Communication		72	9,924,653
260.	OS/2	REXX code/utils		61	2,744,238
261.	OS/2	Disk Utilities	[A-M]	88	10,366,828
262.	OS/2	Disk Utilities	[N-Z]	67	3,843,623
263.	OS/2	Compression/Archiving		33	3,766,089
264.	OS/2	Fixes/Patches	[A-K]	71	9,212,648
265.	OS/2	Fixes/Patches	[L-P]	45	10,150,229
266.	OS/2	Fixes/Patches	[Q-Z]	90	31,017,632
267.	OS/2	Drivers	[A-N]	49	5,906,892
268.	OS/2	Drivers	[O-Z]	53	11,231,746
269.	OS/2	Graphics & Utils	[A-O]	88	9,257,251
270.	OS/2	Graphics & Utils	[P-Z]	56	4,738,067
271.	OS/2	Fonts		77	2,538,570
272.	OS/2	IBM Employee Shareware		51	4,389,724
273.	OS/2	Bulletin Board System		57	9,135,287
274.	OS/2	General Apps	[A-H]	63	10,599,904
275.	OS/2	General Apps	[I-N]	36	3,346,147
276.	OS/2	General Apps	[O-Z]	67	9,800,688
277.	OS/2	Icons		31	2,734,035
278.	OS/2	News and Info.	[A-O]	96	7,388,790
279.	OS/2	News and Info.	[P-Z]	33	6,424,908
280.	OS/2	Sound		13	1,114,632
281.	OS/2	Programs/Utils		193	30,358,758

Files In Area #499 Are All New OS/2 Files To WOL

499.	OS/2	NEW UPLOADS		133	23,759,390
		Totals For All OS/2 Files		3,636	528,998,522


DOS Files
DOS Graphics, GIFs, JPEGs

287.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[0-9]	82	12,583,609
288.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[A-B]	360	48,652,778
289.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[C-D]	294	42,787,766
290.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[E-F]	213	22,871,821
291.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[G-J]	250	38,031,287
292.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[K-M]	291	35,330,349
293.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[N-P]	357	42,130,169
294.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[Q-S]	483	61,128,245
295.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[T-V]	191	27,201,056
296.	DOS	GIF Graphic Files	[W-Z]	97	14,560,248
297.	DOS	GIF Pictures	[A-Z]	221	54,269,653
298.	DOS	GIF Pictures/Fractals		207	27,944,099
299.	DOS	GIF Cindy		65	13,230,203
300.	DOS	GIF Lingerie		97	17,239,959
301.	DOS	GIF Paula		36	5,908,964
302.	DOS	GIF Sport		90	15,240,387
303.	DOS	GIF Swim	[0-B]	226	47,965,638
304.	DOS	GIF Swim	[C-E]	198	47,599,502
305.	DOS	GIF Swim	[F-K]	100	19,516,156
306.	DOS	GIF Swim	[L]	270	37,962,580
307.	DOS	GIF Swim	[M-R]	174	24,300,179
308.	DOS	GIF Swim	[S]	257	57,711,022
309.	DOS	GIF Swim	[T-Z]	61	15,169,448
310.	DOS	WordPerfect Graphics		99	13,191,255
311.	DOS	ClipArt		255	31,686,992
312.	DOS	ANSI Graphic/Edit/View		95	6,334,928
313.	DOS	DTP/Clipart		88	9,728,274
DOS SOUND Apps, Utils, Drivers, SOU, MID, MOD, ROL, VOC,CMF Files

326.	DOS	Sound Files	[A-I]	309	26,812,469
327.	DOS	Sound Files	[J-Q]	184	10,886,789
328.	DOS	Sound Files	[R-Z]	219	15,655,719
329.	DOS	Sound Blaster Files		19	2,712,529
330.	DOS	Sound MIDI Files		118	20,597,200
331.	DOS	Sound Music Programs		59	6,502,305
332.	DOS	Sound Players/Edit/Drvs		350	34,293,266
333.	DOS	Sound Utilities		72	11,436,403
334.	DOS	Sound CMF	[0-9]	21	141,261
335.	DOS	Sound CMF	[A-E]	395	4,726,681
336.	DOS	Sound CMF	[F-J]	182	2,297,049
337.	DOS	Sound CMF	[K-O]	184	1,904,544
338.	DOS	Sound CMF	[P-T]	354	3,995,274
339.	DOS	Sound CMF	[U-Z]	87	960,346
340.	DOS	Sound CMS	[A-Z]	77	964,096
341.	DOS	Sound MID	[0-9]	185	997,558
342.	DOS	Sound MID	[A-E]	584	8,577,641
343.	DOS	Sound MID	[F-J]	305	4,787,798
344.	DOS	Sound MID	[K-O]	196	3,691,409
345.	DOS	Sound MID	[P-T]	330	5,516,106
346.	DOS	Sound MID	[U-Z]	74	1,212,550
347.	DOS	Sound MOD	[0-9]	13	1,887,092
348.	DOS	Sound MOD	[A-E]	330	36,938,872
349.	DOS	Sound MOD	[F-J]	178	21,861,472
350.	DOS	Sound MOD	[K-O]	185	21,778,538
351.	DOS	Sound MOD	[P-T]	262	26,832,099
352.	DOS	Sound MOD	[U-Z]	62	6,309,793
353.	DOS	Sound ROL	[0-9]	34	306,648
354.	DOS	Sound ROL	[A-E]	583	5,746,865
355.	DOS	Sound ROL	[F-J]	335	3,060,343
356.	DOS	Sound ROL	[K-O]	388	3,970,813
357.	DOS	Sound ROL	[P-T]	481	4,632,060
358.	DOS	Sound ROL	[U-Z]	124	1,095,859
359.	DOS	Sound VOC	[0-9]	43	4,460,943
360.	DOS	Sound VOC	[A-E]	599	66,673,325
361.	DOS	Sound VOC	[F-J]	379	43,226,088
362.	DOS	Sound VOC	[K-O]	271	31,886,159
363.	DOS	Sound VOC	[P-T]	546	80,260,089
364.	DOS	Sound VOC	[U-Z]	128	11,513,099
DOS Applications,Utils, Drivers, Games, Communications Files

380.	DOS	ASP Shareware	[A-Z]	67	11,307,693
381.	DOS	Demos Programs	[A-Z]	47	29,750,453
382.	DOS	Bible/Religious	[A-Z]	44	6,746,628
383.	DOS	Genealogy	[A-Z]	13	864,561
384.	DOS	Database Applications		204	42,140,932
385.	DOS	Database Mgrs Utils		290	42,208,765
386.	DOS	Database Programs		54	11,098,263
387.	DOS	Clipper		14	753,866
388.	DOS	Programs To Run BBS’s		324	27,125,181
389.	DOS	PCBoard BBS Programs		467	22,680,706
390.	DOS	BBS Programs		460	48,397,586
391.	DOS	BBS Door Programs		135	18,530,959
392.	DOS	BBS Doors/Utils		152	22,891,431
393.	DOS	BBS’s For You To Call		166	6,991,204
394.	DOS	OffLine Readers/Taglines		226	25,206,869
395.	DOS	Mail-Readers/E-Mail		154	17,028,437
396.	DOS	Mail Networks		90	6,182,225
397.	DOS	WordPerf Support Files		251	18,677,263
398.	DOS	WordPerfect		42	4,655,601
399.	DOS	WordProc/Edit/DTP	[A-L]	242	27,570,665
400.	DOS	WordProc/Edit/DTP	[M-Z]	279	37,787,437
401.	DOS	WordProcessing		46	7,521,244
402.	DOS	WordProcessing		140	17,247,018
403.	DOS	Mail-List/Managers		9	1,624,067
404.	DOS	Finance/Investment	[A-L]	124	20,160,077
405.	DOS	Finance/Investment	[M-Z]	131	22,752,076
406.	DOS	Spreadsheet/Accounting		237	38,574,349
408.	DOS	Math/Science	[A-L]	177	31,375,938
409.	DOS	Math/Science	[M-Z]	151	25,834,062
410.	DOS	Math/Science	[A-Z]	66	9,711,632
411.	DOS	Health/Medical		21	2,254,040
412.	DOS	Batch/Boot Files/Utils		374	21,266,104
413.	DOS	Batch/Boot Files/Utils		281	16,083,544
414.	DOS	Shells/Menus		258	36,702,018
416.	DOS	Hard Disk/Floppy Utils		658	51,046,855
417.	DOS	Hard Disk/Floppy Utils		71	8,458,703
418.	DOS	File Utils/Apps	[A-F]	425	21,974,236
419.	DOS	File Utils/Apps	[G-P]	211	11,847,739
420.	DOS	File Utils/Apps	[Q-Z]	291	19,083,610
422.	DOS	Legal Files		30	6,135,033
423.	DOS	Legal Prgms/Files		16	1,118,905
424.	DOS	Geoworks Programs/Files		239	20,056,789
425.	DOS	Geoworks	[A-Z]	37	1,713,583
426.	DOS	Home and Family		357	52,563,587
427.	DOS	Desk/Home Programs		71	12,829,489
428.	DOS	Sports & Hobby		298	40,472,338
429.	DOS	Misc. Applications		252	36,483,251
430.	DOS	Misc. Utilities		267	27,027,278
431.	DOS	Developer/Tools	[A-H]	387	49,729,452
432.	DOS	Developer/Tools	[J-P]	200	25,641,256
433.	DOS	Developer/Tools	[Q-Z]	247	29,294,782
434.	DOS	Programing/Languages		173	21,477,179
435.	DOS	Graphic View/Conversion		168	20,844,107
436.	DOS	Graphic Draw/CAD Apps		155	25,707,445
437.	DOS	Graphic Paint Apps		80	16,652,362
438.	DOS	Graphics Programs		96	14,007,848
439.	DOS	CAD Programs/Utils		16	2,151,420
440.	DOS	Presentation/MultiMedia		29	8,537,037
441.	DOS	Animation Apps/Util	[A-L]	160	40,910,776
442.	DOS	Animation Apps/Util	[M-Z]	96	16,266,642
444.	DOS	VideoApp/Util/Drvs	[A-L]	216	25,929,034
445.	DOS	VideoApp/Util/Drvs	[A-Z]	228	22,855,878
446.	DOS	Screen Utils		38	2,612,638
447.	DOS	Multitasking (DesQview)		111	7,672,985
449.	DOS	Networking/General	[A-L]	252	24,566,525
450.	DOS	Networking/General	[M-Z]	280	26,766,468
451.	DOS	Novell/LAN		61	8,415,735
452.	DOS	Magazine Programs/Utils		121	11,487,457
453.	DOS	Keyboard/Mouse/HWare/Drv		224	11,913,233
454.	DOS	Archivers Utils	[A-L]	204	17,210,963
455.	DOS	Archivers Utils	[M-Z]	247	22,718,057
456.	DOS	Archive Utilities		52	5,420,588
457.	DOS	Reading/lists-Technical		346	32,847,636
458.	DOS	Reading/Lists-Other		343	36,978,514
459.	DOS	Utils/Helps		271	25,059,224
460.	DOS	Education/Training/Learn		435	69,338,622
461.	DOS	Childhood Education		22	4,422,793
462.	DOS	Education Programs		124	19,564,618
463.	DOS	T.V./Movies/Entertain		166	17,690,373
464.	DOS	Get A laugh!		182	7,411,840
465.	DOS	Food/Drink		287	30,729,203
466.	DOS	Kitchen Aids		15	1,944,451
468.	DOS	Per. Info. Managers	[A-L]	214	43,428,485
469.	DOS	Per .Info. Managers	[M-Z]	140	22,950,109
470.	DOS	Home Office/Bus	[A-L]	232	46,889,295
471.	DOS	Home Office/Bus	[M-Z]	218	54,272,806
472.	DOS	Finance/Business		109	25,623,321
473.	DOS	Virus Protection Utils.		184	18,275,533
474.	DOS	Virus/Security		86	7,083,812
475.	DOS	Memory Management		282	15,252,477
476.	DOS	Computer Testing/BenchMk		194	18,448,777
477.	DOS	Games	[0-9]	137	33,118,172
478.	DOS	Games	[A-B]	229	33,046,713
479.	DOS	Games	[C-E]	259	42,846,754
480.	DOS	Games	[F-I]	251	43,139,034
481.	DOS	Games	[J-L]	109	18,233,305
482.	DOS	Games	[M-P]	203	31,965,359
483.	DOS	Games	[Q-T]	267	51,404,576
484.	DOS	Games	[U-Z]	146	28,702,736
485.	DOS	Games/Entertainment	[A-Z]	425	54,084,445
486.	DOS	Gambling	[A-Z]	24	2,839,034
487.	DOS	Printing/Utils	[A-L]	290	29,969,696
488.	DOS	Printing/Utils	[M-Z]	210	14,028,436
489.	DOS	PrinterUtilities	[A-Z]	39	4,790,243
491.	DOS	Communications	[A-H]	421	36,512,428
492.	DOS	Communications	[I-R]	308	34,687,432
493.	DOS	Communications	[S-Z]	247	25,577,391
494.	DOS	Communications	[A-Z]	144	12,319,105
495.	DOS	Ham Radio	[A-Z]	43	3,886,922
Files In Area #498 Are All New DOS Files To WOL

498.	DOS	NEW UPLOADS		691	96,461,365
		Totals For All DOS Files		35,610	3,904,734,957


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IDE Drives totalling 1.3gb

SoundBlaster AWE-32

Mitsumi EIDE CD ROM, Quad speed

Logitech ScanMan Color

US Robotics Sportster 14.4 fax-modem

Windows 95, networked

(Windows for Workgroups 3.11)

100 mhz. Pentium (Intel triton chipset)

16 megs RAM, 256K cache

17" .25 Sony CPD-1730 Monitor

Diamond Stealth 64 PCI, 2mb DRAM

IDE Drives totalling 2.5gb

SoundBlaster 16

Panasonic CD ROM 150kb, 390ms

Info ImageReader Scanner

US Robotics Courier Dual Standard 28.8

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