Metronome Timer   v. 1.0   by Johannes Wallroth   Size: 228 K    Win95, Win98, WinNT    27-Jan-00   A special timer program, developed for speed reading training. Counts up or down (1 hour max.), with customizable metronome tick (emphasized or not, variable speed), plus extra sound every x seconds and when timer has run off. All settings are saved.

ReadRace   v. 1.0   by Andras Cser   Size: 94 K    Win95, Win98    17-Dec-99   Increase your reading speed and ability with ReadRace, which is capable of displaying an ASCII text file in a one-line-at-a-time, timed, fixed width fashion. You can set the Word Per Minute (WPM) rate for your texts and also the width of the virtual newspaper column you can grasp in one focus or fixation.

Book Reader   v. 3.0   by Mykola Rudenko   Size: 506 K    Win95, Win98, WinNT    10-Oct-99   Millions of electronic texts are available on the Internet, many of them free. However, trying to read them in your word processor is an excellent recipe for eye strain. Book Reader for Windows makes it easy to read e-texts, and you can read huge files: up to 5 megs in size. The program is simple to use, and has several handy features, which include: automatic removal of DOS formatting; support for CP866; storage of book filenames; storage of preferred font and colour settings; a visual reading progress indicator; and the program saves your position in the text when you exit. The Colour Scheme dialogue lets you view your choice of text colour and font colour with sample text, so that you can choose different colours with ease. The new feature is the ability to autoscroll text. Program requires IE4+.

Rachels Roby program for kids!   v. 1.0   by Rachel Sandbrook   Size: 118 K    Win95, Win98    13-Sep-99   This is a simple program from Rachel (age 11), she made it for small children who are around 4 to 7 years old. This program should help them learn about the alphabet and it challenges the childs thinking - This not one of our company programs, it is a fun program Rachel wrote for children.

Roxie's ABC Fish   v. 4.0   by LatticeWork Software   Size: 1.6 M    Win95, Win98, WinNT    26-Jul-99   Roxie's ABC Fish V4.00 offers an enjoyable 3D animated game environment in which children easily learn their ABCs and numbers. In Roxie's ABC Fish, Roxie, a friendly, animated, talking cat, plays "Go Fish" with a child, but, instead of asking for a number, Roxie asks for an upper or lower case letter, or for a number from 0 to 100. Roxie gently guides the child in selecting the correct word card. When a "Go Fish" game is completed, Roxie then sets up a fun music-composing game with singing 'Grumps'. This game was designed to teach preliminary music concepts while the child is having fun exploring the animted musical environment The child picks up a musical note by clicking once on the whole, half or quarter note at the bottom of the screen and moves it to a position on the staff, then clicks once more to place that note on the staff. After placing many notes on the staff the child clicks the "Play" button to hear their brand new song. To try something different with the same newly created song, they can then switch to a different "instrument" for a completely different sound. Then it's back to another round of "Go Fish" with Roxie.

AScribe's Guide to Reference Styles   v. 2E   by Dr. Abel Scribe PhD   Size: 305 K    Win95, Win98    25-Jun-99   AScribe's Guide to Style explains how to format ten popular reference styles used in academic research and writing. The Windows help file covers APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian styles as well as lead journal styles in the social sciences and geography.

WordWeb   v. 1.6a   by No Information   Size: 4.0 M    Win95, Win98    11-Feb-99   WordWeb is a free English thesaurus/dictionary that can be used from your word processor or as a standalone program. In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, WordWeb can also find sets of related words including: •Antonyms - Words opposite in meaning, e.g. bright/dull •Hypernyms - Less specific words, e.g. jungle/forest •Hyponyms - More specific words, e.g. forest/jungle •Meronyms - Words which denote a part, e.g. tree/forest •Holonyms - Words for a collection, e.g. forest/tree You can filter the synonyms by sense and by part of speech. There is also a program called WordWeb Pro which adds some features lacking in the free version. If you have difficulties with download, find more download links on the Home Page.

Spell Checker for Edit Boxes   v. 3.0   by Michael Quinion Associates   Win31    17-Feb-97   Important: Spell Checker is designed for Windows 3.1; though it will work on many Windows 95 and NT programs it was not designed for those platforms. We decided to list this application because it is really hard to find a free program with similar features. An invaluable add-on for any text-based application. Will check text inside most Windows applications. Master dictionaries are available for eight languages and custom dictionaries enable you to extend their scope. Principal features: Checks the spelling of any edit control in almost any application. Will even work within applications with totally non-standard edit boxes (like Microsoft Access). Runs in the background, with hot-key support. Custom dictionary support (can be language-tagged). Custom dictionaries can be made read-only. Custom dictionaries are fully editable and searchable. Option to show sample text around the flagged word. Standard text, Rich Text and HTML clipboard formats supported. Commands to undo and ignore all. A very fast auto suggest feature. Detects and offers to delete repeated words. Extensively customizable. Can exclude commented e-mail text with initial line tags. Can handle standard 7-bit ASCII tagging for accented characters. Can be added to other applications (developer kit available).