Monday, November 6, 2000		Downloads of the week

At times you may wish, you could make an exact replica of your CD so that, you could distribute your work to others or carry it with yourself from one place to another. It’s possible now with the help of Clone CD software, which is a perfect replication programme. However, for using this programme you need to have a recordable CD-ROM drive, using which you can copy files from one CD to another. This software is capable of copying any type of disc, from music to data CDs. Because the program writes in raw mode, you’ll have full control over the output. Therefore the final result could be real 1:1 copies of discs. Thus, this software could be used for creating backups of important disks and also for maintaining library. You can also use this software for the purpose of business promotion by distributing CDs of your products. It has simplified toolbar interface, which allows a person to copy discs with just a couple of simple steps. Thus by specifying the CD Reader and the CD Writer, one can begin a copying session almost immediately. You can also set recording speed, fast error skipping and bad sector scanning. Apart from all features, this software has some limitations too as it supports only those CD writers, which can read subchannel, or hidden, data on a disc. Therefore, it does not work with copy protected disks. Download a trial version of this software from http://www.elby.de/english/corp/index.htm.

To forget is human. However, forgetfulness sometime comes with a heavy price, especially in case of taking medicine on time. With Pill Pal you can leave aside all worries of remembering your medicine schedule. This software reminds the user to take the medicine each day on time. Its graphical interface depicts a pillbox with compartments for each day of the week. The screen displays the current day, and prompts you to click a button whenever you take the pills. Once you have taken the pill the pillbox is marked for having taken the medicine. You can customise this software as per your requirement and can also reset it. This is a freeware and can be downloaded from http://www.austral.bizland.com

The Internet has not just brought the information revolution to the world, but has also brought in communication revolution. Nowadays, Internet is used as a cost-effective medium of communication. Though for text and graphics-based communication persons use e-mail, but for the purpose of voice communication, some specialised software is required. Communicate! Pro is one such specialised software. Using this software, one can handle everything including phone, fax, pager, Internet access, e-mail and voice mail. It has an attractive user-friendly interface with value-added features. This software can attend all incoming calls with greeting and personalised message. Set it to play music on hold and the software can maintain numerous voice boxes for the purpose of voice mail. It can broadcast pager messages automatically. What’s more this software can not only send faxes, but also schedule, edit and delete them. Needless to mention, it also works as a digital answering machine. It is also a Net communication tool. Using this software, you can maintain a complete list of contacts, including friends, family and business associates and can call them on the Internet You can even record conversation. Tie everything together with a mini-BBS, text chats and file transfers. Download the trial version of this software from http://www.01com.com

Reading from the computer screen is passé and listening to computer screen is haute. Now there are software which can use voice to give command to the computer for initiating a programme. Similarly, there is software, which speaks out the outcome or the final output of the task. TextAloud MP3 is software, which is versatile and rich in features. This is basically a text to speech converter and it can read out text from e-mails, Web contents and clipboards in computer-simulated voice. Though the default voice is of a male robot, but you choose from other voices too. This software also has a pronunciation editor, which lets you train the program on how to say certain words. This software has a feature, where any specific information can be transferred directly to the clipboard. Its looks resemble a VCR and have functions like play, pause, stop, rewind, and forward for reading out the text. Another great feature of this software is that it saves the audio contents in the wave or compressed MP3 file format, which gives you exceptional sound quality in small file size. Moreover, the use of this file format makes the file so versatile that it can virtually be heard on any good media player and can be easily distributable. This software can be downloaded from http://www.nextuptech.com

Excessive working on a computer involves a lot of health hazards. This software is especially for those persons who spend a lot of time in front of their computers. It’s real time 3D health and fitness software that presents the first virtual fitness instructor. It is user-friendly software, which has a "cybergirl" who demonstrates several exercises to help prevent backaches, headaches, eyestrain, tendon injuries and other PC-induced aliment. The softwa; also play music CDs during the break. Download this from http://www.fitatwork.com