Monday, October 23, 2000		Downloads of the week

Online call

If you want a tool for instant communication over the Internet using your voice, text and video, then this is perfect software for you. Using this software all you need to do text chatting, or voice chatting or even video conferencing is a microphone and a Web camera. You can also maintain a list of all friends and relatives on the Internet and once they come online you get a message about their presence on the Web and thus can initiate a voice/text/video chat with them almost instantly. You can also save your chat in this program for later reference. You can also send voice/video e-mail to users even when they are not online. This is a feature-packed software and has all qualities of perfect chat software, thus it also provides the capacity to search through a community to search for people of special group or interest. One can make new friends on the Net. Their IDs can also be added to contact list. Transfer files, send URLs, and send and receive e-mail using this software. This free software can be downloaded from http://www.onlinecall.com.

SMS centre

E-mail is history. SMS is the new buzzword. SMS, popularly known as short message service, is a service, which can be used to send instant messages to any mobile or hand-held device in the world, free of charge. Though in some cases the service provider may levy some charges, but in a majority of cases it is free. Yes! This is a free communication tool for wireless messaging. This software uses the TAP protocol to send messages via the dial-up modem. However, there is maximum length of message, which is limited to 160 characters. Though, if one exceeds the limit of 160 characters, then it will be considered as a new message. To send a quick message, simply enter the country code, number, and the text message. A great feature is one can keep up to six pre-written notes, and add these to the message window with a click. One can also add date and time stamps to messages for making it more informative. Well! That’s not all. You can also pick the text from the hard disk by opening text files and use it with this software. This has a full-featured address book. One can save frequent contacts in the address book, which is a standard part of this software and can thus save yourself from the botheration of remembering all contact and also ease life by simply clicking on them in the address book to send message. This software can be downloaded from http://www.desoft.co.uk.

Swot

With the Internet revolution catching on, the world has become a very small place. One can now communicate freely anywhere in the world using the Net power. In order to communicate well, one needs to know various languages. Thus, in order to understand various languages, Swot comes handy. This is a small program that allows sharpening the language learning skills. This software is basically designed for English-speaking users and has files for studying Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Macedonian, Slovak and Spanish. Many of the languages include files to cover certain subjects, such as food, days of the week and more. Because the languages are rendered as plain text files, one can easily add support for more languages. This program has a user-friendly interface that lets easy selection of language and also a time interval for the quiz. So once you are ready to take the test, the software minimises all open windows and pops up a new window to present a word. Once you write the correct answer, the program indicates the correct translation and also the current score. Download this software from http://www.imageapps.co.uk.

Snappy fax 2000

This has a user-friendly interface. Using this software you can convert the modem into a fully functional fax machine. Moreover, you can also add the power of a Twain-compatible scanner, to further add a lot of value to faxing requirement. Thus, using the scanner and software you can quickly fax or copy any kind of scanned document or photograph with minimal effort. One can also design the cover sheet, using the cover sheet designer tool. One can also receive faxes when away from the PC, and have the document forwarded to an e-mail account. So, now no matter where you are, you can actually get your faxes by e-mails. Since, Snappy fax 2000 also operates as a Windows printer driver, so it’s accessible directly from a word processor, spreadsheet application and other productivity programs. You can also use this software for sending a document by e-mail to a recipient or even using the FTP. This has own address book, which maintains contacts. However it can even utilise the data from other address books like Outlook Express and Netscape. Overall, it’s complete software for meeting your requirements relating to fax. You can download this software from http://www.snappysoftware.com for a 30 days free evaluation.

Tolken99

Tolk" for word processing applications, using which one can create, edit and spell check documents in six languages. This is a full-featured software, which may prove to be useful for users who have to create multilingual documents. By default, this program allows you to translate English and Swedish. However, you can easily download file sets for the Spanish, French, German, Norwegian and Danish languages. This has complete dictionaries and user-configurable vocabulary tests for easy use of the language. Using this software you can open existing documents irrespective of their file sizes. You can even use the clipboard feature of the Windows, thus you can import/export text from any utility. This software uses user-friendly interface, thus with the click of a button, you can translate an entire document or highlighted sections of text. This software offers all features of a word processor like different fonts, styles, formatting, inserting pictures graphics and even supports HTML documents. You can also encrypt or decrypt the document with the help of this software. There are several other features, which you can explore by using it actually. This can be downloaded from http://www.algonet. se/~hagsten/engindex.htm

VoiceNet VRS 2000

This is a great Web-based utility, which allows you to navigate the Windows OS and also browsing the Internet using your voice. Using this software, you can exchange voice messages with other Net users. This software is actually your personal assistant, whom you can train to take commands using voice. Depending upon the accent, you will have to customise this software for requirement. Thus, you can use this software to run windows application, open Web sites/ pages, and also initiate keyboard and mouse actions. Normally, we all perform some repetitive task on our computer and wish it could be done automatically. Well! Now doing repetitive task automatically is no longer a dream as this software can record the keyboard and mouse commands for future automated tasks. By just giving one command, you can actually perform the whole task. All you need to start using this software is down it from http://www.groverind.com, a good quality microphone, and a sound card. After installing this software on your computer, you can start using it. However, you need to take care of a few things, like you should not use this software in noisy environment, as you may not get desirable results. Moreover, you will also have to give this software some time in order to customise it to the voice and accent. Once this software is fully customised, then it’s a great pleasure working with it. You can also enter commands of your choice, which this software will get acquainted with. Using this software’s user-friendly wizards, you can really find things very easy and relatively fast.

Talkymail 2000

Since now voice plays a major role in the Internet, thus, in case of e-mail also, you can add the power of speech in your e-mail client. The use speech can actually let you listen to e-mail rather than reading. Talky e-mail is one such software, using which you can send and receive e-mail in voice. This means you can send voice e-mail to anyone using this software and can actually listen to e-mail along with reading it. However, if you wish to reply a mail in text, then you can also use its built in text editor for composing and sending the messages. You can download this software from http://www.talkysoft.com.