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Adobe Acrobat Reader
The freeware version of Adobe Reader lets you view and print PDF files. Worth getting for anyone who uses a computer. Sooner or later you will probably need this program to view PDF files.
Adobe Acrobat Home Download Adobe Acrobat Reader AstroHelp
A tool for creating Windows Help Files with MS Word 6.x/7.x. No longer supported, but still available for download, free and with full source code. Requires MS Word 6.x/7.x.
AstroHelp Home Download AstroHelp cAPS dOWN
If you leave the caps lock key down, this program will recase the letters. It will also work to make properly formatted text look like you left the caps lock down, great for annoying people.
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Change file names to upper or lower case, a directory at a time.
DirCase dsFSR
A file search and replace utility. It can quickly and reliably search or replace the contents of all files in all subfolders. Offers essential features without confusing options and displays detailed processing log.
dsFSR Home Download dsFSR FreeBudget
A program designed primarily for translators and language professionals who estimate their work against the word/lines/character counting of the documents they handle.
FreeBudget Home Download FreeBudget Newspeak Translator
Automatically edits your writing to make it: either (a) Old Fashioned and Beautiful. or (b) fashionable and politically correct. Also included are
1. The Thinking Man's Reference of Politically Correct Terms
2. Essay: The New Social Canon of Political Correctness
3. The PC Manifesto (including
A PC Primer)
4. What people say and what they mean
5. Politically correct bedtime story
6. Comments on George Orwells 1984.
Newspeak Translator Home Download Newspeak Translator Spell Checker
A near-universal spell checker for Windows applications. Dictionaries in the following languages are available: UK English, US English, French, French-Canadian, German, Norwegian Bokmaal, Danish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Antarctican, and Italian.
Spell Checker Home Download Spell Checker SiberLink Resume Builder
This program will help you make your own resume. It tells you what data is needed, and where to put it. You will be able to exchange information with other users.
SiberLink Resume Builder Home Download SiberLink Resume Builder TinyEncrypt
Can encrypt either a whole text file, or anything given to it to encrypt. It can then show the results on screen, or save to a text file. It's pretty useful for easy encryption, but I wouldn't use it for anything where the highest security is required.
TinyEncrypt Home Download TinyEncrypt VG Quotes Database
Contains over 1100 aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, phrases, quotations, poems, speeches, sentiments, prose selections, and other influential or noteworthy texts from our intellectual, literary, philosophical, political, historical, religious, and scientific heritage. Can be edited in Access 97.
VG Quotes Home Download VG Quotes Database View HTML
HTML viewer and converter for viewing web documents off-line in easy-to-read DOS text mode. You can also use this program to simply convert HTML documents to standard text files and copy text to the windows clipboard. This program can save a lot of time.
View HTML Home Download View HTML Web2Text
HTML (web page) to ASCII (text) converter. Has an easy to use graphical interface, produces a nicely laid out text version (keeps url visible). A minimum of post-conversion editing required.
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