Monday, December 25, 2000		Downloads of the week

If you are a busy person, then typing long pieces of text is often a tiring job. It can also become very monotonous to bash the computer keyboard for long hours. You can now effectively overcome this drab work by using "wave to text". All you will need is a mike and sound card in your computer. As this software converts the voice into text, you will just have to speak, while the software will automatically type text it in its own word processor. You can then copy the text anywhere you want. This software has an English Speech Recognition dictation pad with a Wave to Text Wizard. Using dictation pad you can convert your voice in into text. While using the wizard a pre-recorded Windows WAV file-containing speech can be converted to text in English. You can download this file from http://www.research-lab.com

It is quite usual to see people with multiple e-mail addresses that they use for different purposes. Some people have different e-mail ids to differentiate between office and personal e-mail, or even in business, a personal wishes to keep different web e-mail accounts to track his various business interests and clients. However, it is very difficult to keep a track of all the e-mails. But now using ePrompter, you can retrieve and view all of your messages in one place. The usage and features of ePrompter are many as it supports many types of accounts. It can be configured to work with a number of standard POP3 accounts that you usually receive from your ISP like Glide, Satyam, VSNL etc. Besides, the regular POP mails, it also supports accounts from Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, AltaVista, Earthlink, E-mail.com, GO, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, Netscape, Rediffmail, Switchboard, USA, etc. The software is very user-friendly and employees a simple colour-coded mini-window interfaces. It can be configured easily and also lets you set password to secure your e-mail accounts. This software gives you the power to check your e-mail accounts at a regular interval, which can be user defined. Once the messages arrive, this software indicates the number of new messages for each account, and gives you the option of viewing them. You can read the entire text or, can see just the sender and the subject of the mail. This program stays in your system tray and swings into action, when a new message arrives besides being a good e-mail client; it is a good screen saver too. Working as a screen saver, it shows the status of all your accounts. You can download it from http://www.eprompter.com

Microsoft Excel is powerful program that allows you to fiddle with numbers. You can further enhance the power of Microsoft Excel, by incorporating the Edwin’s Power Tools. Edwin’s Power Tools is an excellent add-on to the Microsoft Excel, which adds speed and usability to its operations. Basically have the features of Microsoft Excel, it provides many additional features for formatting, text manipulation, range navigation and workbook management. This software is very easy to install and can be added to the Excel’s menu. However, the main distinguishing feature of the Edwin’s Power Tools is in the area of 3D and 2D formatting and filtering as it gives the options for inserting columns and rows, as well as selecting regions and areas. Using this software you can also combine, count and randomise words. In addition, you can perform unit conversions and translate numbers into "dynamic" English. Yet another outstanding feature of this software is its Navigator, which gives you the option to switch between all your open workbooks. Moreover it also gives you the option to sort sheets and zoom at different ratios to view them clearly and toggle between sheets. Using this software you can also work on the hidden sheets in the workbook and also save them appropriately. This software is suitable for use with Microsoft Excel versions like Excel 97 and Excel 2000 and can be downloaded from http://users.vol.net/edwintam.

Information is power. In this fast moving world one often gets an urge for more information and its sharing is imminent. In such an environment, it is a boon to get access to your files far away from your own computer through any other computer available to you, which is connected to the Internet. In this way you can establish your own private network of sorts. You can achieve this by downloading the program "ON SHARE" for free. This software has on share File Manager, which works as navigator and also helps in selecting files, which are made web accessible. Further password-protected can also be enabled. There is no restriction on type and sizes of files to be shared. If access requires permission, the response is sent through in built messenger. It works with a Napster-style tool with versatile uses. All communication between server and File Manager are encrypted. The software opens floodgates opportunities through sharing of information on trade, audio-video, images, games etc. It also helps you set-up rapport with those who have interests similar to yours. The software can be downloaded from http://www.onshare.com/