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Software of the Month Club August 1996 CD-ROM Windows Master Program Guide - WINDOWS BUSINESS - 401KALCULATOR by Mark E. Busha It's never too late to plan for retirement. Track your 401k savings investments with this program. Enter your starting investment, yearly contribution, expected interest rate, return percentage and the number of years before retirement and the program does the work. It figures the projected plan value in current and inflated dollars. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). GAS MILES v1.1 by SmartCo Enterprises Hit the road with this gas milage tracking system. Enter the number of miles driven and the number of gallons used and it calculates miles per gallon (MPG). You can even view a graph of your calculated MPGs. Featured Windows 95 Program KAZSTAMP v6.0a by Kaczynski Software Whether you're writing to a friend, paying bills or conducting business, give your envelopes a stylish look with different fonts, sizes, graphics and colors. It even prints the bar codes used by the post office to route your letters. NOTE: Requires Windows 95. OASIS v4.0 by Otto-Williams, Ltd. OWL Automated Sales and Invoicing System (OASIS) is a complete sales management system. It handles your invoicing, automated billing, customer correspondence, mailing lists, and sales tracking by customer and product. Print invoices and bills on plain paper or on your letterhead. OUTHOUSE ESTIMATOR by Anthony Jacob Set up and manage basic databases to handle estimating. Calculate total hours, hours per unit, dollars per unit and more. The only restriction is the size of your hard disk storage system. RESSCHED v1.0c by Madrigal Soft Tools, Inc. The ultimate project management system! Organize everything including people, equipment and facilities. Features schedule groupings, event repeating, flexible conflict verifying, drop listing for routine booking information and more. Sophisticated, and easy-to- use. Feature Program SOFTWARE INVENTORY v1.2 by Daniel M. Rose Organize your corporate software library with this powerful, easy-to- use software inventory system. Record all serial numbers, titles, purchase dates and more. Search for titles by field definitions. Perfect for businesses that revolve around computers and have ever- increasing software libraries. SUPERFORMS v96fa by EZX Corporation Work with standard forms the easy way. This program offers tools for form design, production and processing. Its drawing tools are specifically tailored for form design and manipulation. Create, modify, save and print any form in minutes! Work with font size, typeface and printer options (including FAX transmission) available under your Microsoft Windows v3.11 or later. TIMECARD v1.1a by Needs Creek Software The perfect companion to any payroll program that doesn't figure time calculations. No more adding minutes and dividing by 60 on your calculator! It calculates total time from weekly timecards. Enter time in a variety of formats, including a quick 10-key format. - WINDOWS CHILDREN - BERT'S DINOSAURS v5.0 by Wierenga Software Kids love dinosaurs, and they'll love to color this collection of prehistoric creatures. Includes a Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops, that you can place in a variety of jungle backgrounds. These dinosaurs also speak their names. DOMINO SOLITAIRE v1.1 by Astro Computing Play dominos by yourself. Place dominos on a game board. To win, all dominos must be set of the board. The game can be played over and over as the computer scrambles the board each time. Use the game to teach number recognition and logic -- or just for fun. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). LINE DESIGNER v2.0 by David F. Eisenberg Let your children create amazing line art resembling the classic "Spirograph." Choose from a variety of different line colors and background patterns like stars, circles and squares. Line Designer also includes a pattern editor that allows you take your line art pattern and blends it into a much larger masterpiece. Kids of all age will enjoy Line Designer. NOTE: Requires Windows 95. MR. PRESIDENT by DJ Games Who was the twenty-third president of the United States? If you didn't guess Benjamin Harrison, check out this program. It features a wealth of information about American presidents, including political party, term dates, and interesting pieces of trivia about presidents and presidencies. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). PC KID MATH v1.0 by Uniproducts Co. Improve your math skills with this application. Covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers and real numbers. Generate thousands of different questions with correct answers. Set your own test time and numbers of questions for each test session. The test results are automatically logged into a file. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). Feature Program THE APPLE TREE v1.0 by Greg DeBacker This is a kinder and gentler Hangman-style game. Guess the randomly selected word one letter at a time before all of the apples fall from the tree. Includes digitized sounds, multiple players, three skill levels and three word lists. You can even create your own word lists. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). THE PRECIOUS YEARS by Centsible Software Co. Record the precious years of your child's life. This easy-to-use software package tracks your children's health, growth, achievements and more. Add basic information to register them into the database and give your family the security you want by having easy access to all important information about your children. WINFLASH v3.1 by Open Windows WinFlash v3.1 is a flash card delivery system that allows you to create flash cards sets. It uses fonts, colors, BMP graphics and WAV sounds. Questions and answers can contain up to 1000 characters and can be edited from within the program. Memorize coursework or professional material fast! Six additional flash cards sets are also included. WINPRICE v1.0 by Open Windows Learn the value and benefits of comparison shopping with this ingenious learning tool. It selects the best price between two alternatives, automatically accounting for differences in sizes. Get results in either metric or English units. Great for everyday life skill development. - WINDOWS DESKTOP PUBLISHING - CRYPTAPIX v1.0 by Kent Briggs Protect your files with this encryption software. Supports GIF, JPG, PNG, PCX, TIF and BMP images. Secure 40-bit, 80-bit PC1 (RC4 clone) and 160-bit Blowfish encryptions. Supports encrypted thumbnails and WAV sounds. Complete with converting, printing and wiping features. Keep your private image collection away from unauthorized access. NOTE: We've included both 16- and 32-bit versions of the program. GIFWEB v1.7 by Informatik, Inc. Convert image files to transparent GIFs for your Web pages. Just click on a color and it saves the index as a transparent color. Converts GIF, bitmap, JPEG and TIF files and supports dithered color backgrounds. GRAFFIX v5.0 by Roger Willcocks Manage your Clipboard contents quickly and easily with this Clipboard viewer. The entire screen can be captured to the Clipboard at any time by pressing the PrtSc key -- or just the currently active window by pressing Alt+PrtSc. Save these screen shots in BMP, GIF, PCX, TIF and ASCII files. NOTE: We've included both 16- and 32-bit versions of this program. LVIEW PRO v1.0d by MMedia Research Edit image files with this full-featured program! Its impressive set of tools includes gamma correction, color balance control, hue correction, saturation, value and more. It features an embedded calculator to evaluate user-defined expressions. It loads and saves image files in JPEG JFIF, GIF 87a/89a, TIF, Truevision Targa, Windows and OS/2 BMP, PCX, PGM, PPM and more formats. NOTE: We've included both 16- and 32-bit versions of this program. ROPS by Roger Willcocks View and print PostScript documents with this program. It implements level one PostScript programming language interpretations. NOTE : Requires Windows 95. VIDFUN v1.8 by Applied Insights A fantastic multimedia program -- it's a player, slide show, screen saver and image viewer. It plays all popular digital and audio formats. Open several files and windows with its flexible File Browser. Supports JPEG, BMP/DIB, CMP, KQP/PIC, MAC, PhotoCD, PICT, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, TGA, TIF, WPG and Multipage DCX/TIF fax files. This application also serves as a perfect helper application for your WWW browser (like Netscape or Internet Explorer). NOTE: Requires Windows 95. Feature Program WEBMANIA! v1.2 by Q&D Software Development This HTML editor and form generator makes Web page authoring a breeze -- requires little or no HTML knowledge! Supports frames, forms, tables, images and more. It will never become outdated, because it includes 60 programmable buttons which you can easily change as HTML standards evolve and as you learn new tags. -Clip Art- BRIGHT IDEAS CLIP ART a Software of the Month Clubr Exclusive! This month's collection of clip art contains seven images, including a classroom scene, a golfer and a whale. Includes both EPS and TIF images. For more information about how to receive even more original Bright Ideasr clip art, along with fantastic fonts, original backgrounds, 3D wire--frames and useful desktop publishing tips and tricks, call Customer Service at (619) 930-7302. -Fonts- BUJARDET FRERES (TrueType) by Match Software, Inc. This font has the distinct feature of French publications. It's great for old-style newspapers and historic designs. (TrueType) NAHKT (TrueType) by Match Software Egyptian hieroglyphs are endlessly fascinating and this collection is no exception. Each hieroglyph is mapped to the keyboard key closest to it phonetically. This means you can type in a word to get a close translation into Egyptian glyphs. Use this font to add the mystery of Egypt to newsletters, cards and brochures. (TrueType) - WINDOWS EDUCATION - GRAPHMATICA v1.50a by Keith Hertzer Generate graphs and charts with this easy-to-use and powerful equation plotter. Supports six types of graphs, including polar, parametric and inequalities. Work with up to 25 graphs at once. Copy charts to the clipboard (bitmap and WMF). Includes online help and demo files. Great for algebra through college calculus. JIGSAWS GALORE v1.1 by Gray Design Associates The ultimate jigsaw puzzle game! This version comes with 10 puzzles with up to 4,000 pieces. Sorts pieces by color and shape. Change piece size on the fly -- no need to scroll. Select difficulty level and number of pieces. You can even make your own puzzles. Feature Program KIWI VOCABULARY TRAINER v3.0 by Matthias Stripf Brush up on foreign languages with this translator. Supports English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. You can create your own word lists! All dialog and menu texts are available in English and German. Includes many outstanding functions, like file managing, searching, sorting and printing. PC BASIC TRAINING v2.0ns by Barbara A. Brown Get more out of your computer. Learn the differences between hardware and software, how to use a mouse and how to connect to the Internet. It's highly interactive. Also includes a full-featured glossary to expand your computer vocabulary. If you are a new or even an experienced user, this valuable reference tool will expand your computer knowledge. RELATIVITY THEORIES by Eric Baird Discover the Theory of Relativity with this help file. It takes a general scientific and philosophical point of view so everyone can understand Albert Einstein's complex theory of relativity. WINDOWS SLIDE RULE MODEL 640 by SLG Data Systems and Analysis This program emulates the common slide rule. Choose from several scales printed on the slide body. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). WINTERTREE THESAURUS v1.2 by WinterTree This reference tool is perfect for business and essay writing. Copy and paste words from this comprehensive thesaurus. With an intuitive interface, simply enter a word, select the context and a list of alternatives appear. The program also lists antonyms. - WINDOWS GAMES - BRAINSTRAIN v2.02 by Soleau Software This word guessing game is a cross between MasterMind and Hangman. You choose the word length and difficulty level, and the computer chooses a word from its master word list. Guess the unknown word by guessing words of the same length. It tells you how many letter you have correct. By using logic and deduction, you should be able to figure out the unknown word. Feature Program FLAPS v1.1 by Soleau Software You might lose your marbles with this game. Use flaps to guide marbles into their correct slots at the bottom of a game board. With only a limited set of marbles and flaps, you'll need quick reflexes and a planned strategy to complete your quest. Great fun for the whole family! Note: Requires a 486 or greater processor. FLASHBACK! v1.0 by Wind Swept Software This fast-paced card game tests your memory skills. Race against the clock as you try to match cards and increase your score. Famous quotes are revealed as you remove matched pairs. Complete with a hint feature, show all cards, and four difficulty levels. PC/SLOT2 by WL Camesi Place your bets! Bring the fun of Las Vegas to your computer with this slot machine! Choose from six types of machine faces -- ranging from blank to funny. Choose what the minimum stake the machine requires. RADIATION v1.0 by MoraffWare Games Play this great rendition of Mine-Sweeper. Find mines scattered throughout a battle field. Choose between a 16x12 or 20x16 grid and two tile sets. Comes with two difficulty settings. Includes ray-traced graphics for photorealistic images. NOTE:We included both 16- and 32-bit versions of this program. ROBOT BATTLE v1.1 by Brad Schick Build robot warriors and challenge other robots in head-to-head battles. To survive, you must possess better weapons, intelligence and adaptability. Watch your robots come to life with awesome animation and stunning sound effects. Complete with many game levels. If you are up to the challenge, enter your robots in the Contest. Send in your robots to compete in a tournament against machines written by others from all over the world. ROLLEM v1.0 by Soleau Software A great strategy game! Push marbles to the bottom of a maze in this wild arcade game. Try to block a computer opponent by rotating the blocks within the maze. ULTIMATE SOLITAIRE COLLECTION v2.3 by Ultimate Software The Ultimate Solitaire Collection for Windows is a collection of three of the most popular solitaire card games (Klondike, Monte Carlo and Four Seasons). Included on-line help covers rules of the game, strategy and odds of winning a total of nine solitaire games. Fun game for one with great help and playing card graphics. WARFARE v1.0.7 by Carric Moor Games Become the next world leader in this game of conquest. Gain control of towns to gather taxes and build combat units. Leaders are eliminated from play when they are destroyed or surrender, giving the attacker its entire army and all ruled towns. - WINDOWS LATEST & GREATEST - 401KALCULATOR by Mark E. Busha It's never too late to plan for retirement. Track your 401k savings investments with this financial calculator. Enter your starting investment, yearly contribution, expected interest rate, return percentage and the number of years before retirement, and the program does the work. It figures the projected plan value in current and inflated dollars. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). BERT'S DINOSAURS v5.0 by Wierenga Software Kids love dinosaurs, and they'll love to color this collection of prehistoric creatures. Place them on a variety of jungle backgrounds. Includes a Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. These dinosaurs also speak their names. FLAPS v1.1 by Soleau Software You might lose your marbles with this game. Use flaps to guide marbles into their correct slots at the bottom of a game board. With only a limited set of marbles and flaps you'll need quick reflexes and a planned strategy to complete your quest. Great fun for the whole family! NOTE: Requires a 486 processor. PC BASIC TRAINING v2.0ns by Barbara A. Brown Learn how to get more out of your computer. Learn the differences between hardware and software, how to use a mouse and how to connect to the Internet. It's highly interactive. Also includes a full-- featured glossary to expand your computer vocabulary. If you are a new or an experienced user, this program is a valuable reference tool for expanding your computer knowledge. RADIATION v1.0 by MoraffWare Games Play this great rendition of Mine-Sweeper. Find mines scattered throughout a battle field. Choose between a 16x12 or 20x16 grid and two tile sets. Comes with two difficulty settings. Includes ray-traced graphics for photo-realistic images. NOTE:We've included both 16- and 32-bit versions of this program. Feature Program SOFTWARE INVENTORY v1.2 by Daniel M. Rose Organize your personal and corporate software libraries with this powerful, easy-to-use inventory system. Record all serial numbers, titles, purchase dates and more. Search for titles by field definitions. This program is perfect if you spend a lot of time keeping track of your software purchases. SUPERFORMS v96fa by EZX Corporation Work with standard forms the easy way. This program allows you to design, produce and fill-out forms. The object-oriented drawing tools are specifically tailored for form design and manipulation. Create, modify, save and print any form in minutes! Work with font size, typeface and printer options (including FAX transmission). WINTERTREE THESAURUS v1.2 by WinterTree This reference is perfect for business and essay writing. Copy and paste words from this comprehensive thesaurus. With its intuitive interface, simply enter a word, select the context of the word, and a list of alternatives appear. You can also list antonyms. -Clip Art- BRIGHT IDEAS CLIP ART a Software of the Month Clubr Exclusive! This month's collection of clip art contains seven images, including a classroom scene, a golfer and a whale. Includes both EPS and TIF images. For more information about how to receive even more original Bright Ideasr clip art, along with fantastic fonts, original backgrounds, 3D wire-frames and useful desktop publishing tips and tricks, call Customer Service at (619) 930-7302. -Fonts- BUJARDET FRERES (TrueType) by Match Software, Inc. This font has the distinct feature of French publications. It's great for old-style newspapers and historic designs. (TrueType) NAHKT (TrueType) by Match Software Egyptian hieroglyphs are endlessly fascinating and this collection is no exception. Each hieroglyph is mapped to the keyboard key closest to it phonetically. This means you can type in a word to get a close translation into Egyptian glyphs. Use this font to add the mystery of Egypt to newsletters, cards and brochures. (TrueType) - WINDOWS 95 BONUS SECTION - KAZSTAMP v6.0a by Kaczynski Software It's in the mail! Whether you're writing to a friend, paying bills or conducting business, give your envelopes a stylish look with different fonts, sizes, graphics and colors. It even prints the bar codes used by the post office to route your letters. NOTE: Requires Windows 95. VIDFUN v1.8 by Applied Insights A fantastic multimedia program -- it's a player, slide show, screen saver and image viewer. It plays all popular digital and audio formats. Open several files and windows with its flexible File Browser. Supports JPEG, BMP/DIB, CMP, KQP/PIC, MAC, PhotoCD, PICT, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, TGA, TIF, WPG and Multipage DCX/TIF fax files. This application also serves as a perfect helper application for your WWW browser (like Netscape or Internet Explorer). NOTE: Requires Windows 95. WINDOWS SOFTWARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AUGUST 1996 - SRI WINDOWS BUSINESS - GIZMO by William Turner Organize and track names, phone numbers, CDs, video tapes and more with this simple database. Don't let its simplicity fool you -- this program offers the flexibility of a professional database. It performs query searches, saves specific records or whole databases, edits records and fields, outputs to ASCII text files and copies specific records to the clipboard! LIFETIME by Amber Timbre Software Organize your life with this exceptional personal information manager. Complete with drag `n drop interface, an animated tutorial and extensive online help. Features include a Scheduler, ToDo list, Phonebook with contact info, Notes and more. Once you start using this program, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. TIME KEEPER by Custom Computer Solutions Time Keeper is business software for attendance record keeping. Entering attendance or payroll records regularly will give you instant access to employees' regular time, overtime, vacation, personal, sick, holidays, or whatever benefit time your company uses. Employees can be tracked working on different projects and in different offices. Professional reports are included with the Time Keeper. These reports are well designed to give access to all the information that has been stored in the database. These include benefit time reports, schedule reports, overtime reports, and attendance reports. VISTACALC by Brandon Fridly Create a wide range of documents with this spreadsheet program. Everything from your own personalized budget plan to financial and accounting presentations for the office. You'll enjoy its many features and user-friendly interface. - SRI WINDOWS CHILDREN - A LITTLE PAINTER by PSG-HomeCraft Software A wonderful drawing program for kids. Seven safari-themed images provide your children with hours of fun. This program also uses animated images and icons to bring the program to life! Pictures can be printed or copied for use with other programs. EARTHWORDS FOR ALIEN DINOSAURS by Right to Left Software Learn English with the help of prehistoric creatures. Alien dinosaurs land on earth and are amazed to discover that we speak many different languages. This program uses colorful graphics, a cute story line and speech to help children learn English. It uses animated dinosaurs to guide you through several games. Picture Dictionary displays color pictures and pronounces the words. Multiple Choice is a fun game of matching words to pictures. Spelling and Letter Invasion are both spelling and letter recognition programs. Each game has three levels of difficulty. Earthwords has fantastic sounds, graphics and animations that keep you and the kids entertained and educated! NOTE: Use Earthwords language add-ons (included in this volume) for additional languages. EARTHWORDS FOR ALIEN DINOSAURS LANGUAGE ADD-ONS by Right to Left Software These are add-on language modules to EarthWords for Alien Dinosaurs. With these add-ons, your children can learn German, Hebrew, Portugese, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish! NOTE: Requires the program EarthWords for Alien Dinosaurs, included in this volume. LARRY'S LEARNING MATH MACHINE by Lawrence Goetz Learn arithmetic with this fun, educational tool! Input your own math problems to solve. The computer tells you if your answer is correct. Since the program doesn't solve the problem for you, it's a great way to test your math knowledge. MATH CASTLE FOR WINDOWS by Northwest Software Engineers The setting is a medieval castle and the student is the ruler who defends it by answering math problems. It teaches basic math facts using a fun-filled, video arcade game format. The colorful graphics, animation and digitized sound make Math Castle interesting and fun to play. Input the problems or select from one of 160 built-in sets. MULTIPLICATION#1 by K.P.C. Software Corporation MULTIPLICATION#1 helps your child improve their skills in MULTIPLICATION, with more than 5 million problems presented in colorful graphics. The great number of possibilities gives you a different problem each time. You can choose from 4 levels of difficulty, and level 5 with the capability to print the math problems to a printer. An input box to select from 1 to 50 problems per session. - SRI WINDOWS DESKTOP PUBLISHING - ABC SNAPGRAPHICS ABC SnapGraphics is a very useful program. Use it for school, personal or creating a business presentation for work. CAD/DRAW Powerful CAD and drawing application. Features numerous drawing tools, associated dimensioning, library management, user defined hatching and more. NOTE: Requires Windows 95 MICROLATHE by Daniel S. Baker æLathe (MicroLathe) is an easy to use modeling tool that allows you to create three dimensional objects using the metaphor of the carpenter's lathe. Once you've created the 3 dimensional object copy and paste it into your publication and give it zing of 3D. TOPDRAW by Top Software Powerful yet easy to use object-oriented drawing program. For desktop publishing, illustrations, diagrams, logos, brochure, newsletters, and more. - SRI WINDOWS EDUCATION - 1ST CLASS by First Class Software This wonderful program is an invaluable utility for teachers. Organize your class schedules, activities, subjects and students. Graph your information and quickly spot trends that may otherwise escape your attention. A must-have program for teachers. COMPUTER DICTIONARY FOR WINDOWS by Gary FitzGerald Expand your computer vocabulary with this collection of more than 1,000 terms. These definitions are the most important terms that every Computer user should know. Easy to install and use, this program belongs on everyone's hard disk. PERIODIC TABLE by SMI Corporation Learn the basic elements and more with this program. It offers 110 elements, 890 isotopes and more than 500 radioisotopes with decay trees. Calculate molecular weights, compare bond properties, list properties in sorted lists and graph the properties. Print tables, data and decays. Has more than 30 data items on each element, including abundance, melt/boil point, electronegativity, oxidation states and more. Complete with a quiz mode. THE EARTH CENTERED UNIVERSE Designed as an observing tool for the amateur astronomer, but is equally useful to the "armchair" astronomer. - SRI WINDOWS GAMES - MUD RACER by Andrew McNab Here's mud in your eyes! Race your sprint car in the mud, screeching around corners as you splash your opponents with mud. This fast- paced racing game has a two-player option, two levels of difficulty and tough race tracks. BRAINWAVE by Dexterity Software Your brain is being invaded! Nanobots (tiny robots created with nanotechnology) are implanted in your cerebral cortex to repair damage but something went wrong! Now, they are feeding on your brain's gray matter and it's up to you to destroy them before you lose your mind. This is a Space Invaders-type game where you move your ship from left to right and blast the robots. Special nanobots drop power-ups which increase your weapons' firepower. Contains hot graphics that will blow you away (if the nanobots don't get you first). PARADISE SOLITAIRE by Digital Paradise Corporation One of the best solitaire collections for Windows! Choose from eight games, including Klondike, Dutchess and Beleaguered Castle. Complete with six backgrounds and eight different card sets. This game has a commercial-quality feel and is a must-have for solitaire lovers. NOTE: We Included both 16-bit and 32-bit version of this program. WINCRAPS by Cloud City Software Come on snake eyes! Play this classic casino game, complete with different sets of chips and dice. This game follows the professional rules with only one objective: winning big! It records all statistics and allows auto-play, which automatically arranges your chips, checks your bets and adjusts them. Complete with colorful graphics and digitized male and female voices. PASSAGE PLUS by Gekko Software You won't get stuck between a rock and a hard place with this puzzle game. Place stones next to those with the same design or same color. Images including sail boats, bikes, helicopters and trains. You can even use the bombs to clear some stones. Learn the game in a helpful Training Mode. This game has stunning graphics and great musical scores. - WINDOWS UTILITY COLLECTION - DISKERS by Fineware Systems and Al Meadows An easy and user friendly way to create copies of diskettes or for copying files to and from diskettes. This is accomplished by first creating an image file of the diskette on your local hard disk. Once these images are created, you may use Diskers to re-create the original diskettes. Note: Diskers does not support the new Microsoft DMF format at this time. FONTSPEC PRO v7.1 by UniTech Manage your fonts with this advanced organizer. Preview fonts before you install them or view and print samples of your installed fonts. A great feature is the program's ability to organize fonts into groups. Create Font Groups for specific projects or different applications and install those groups when needed. Mix and match different groups of fonts as needed. PAGEPLUS INTRO by Serif Inc. Create spectacular publications limited only by your imagination. PagePlus builds on the classic desktop publishing principle: the direct manipulation of many objects on the page. This program enables you to break your text into many blocks for greater flexibility. It's particularly versatile, providing both free and frame text. Provides extensive typographic adjustment for fine-tuning text appearance. Letter and word spacing, variable line spacing (leading), kerning, variable slant (artificial italic), patterns, colors and rotation are all available. This DTP program lets you draw frames and link them together to control text flow. It's exceptionally flexible and allows you to use the mouse to visually adjust margins, and lay out multiple columns of varying widths and depths in any frame. This elaborate DTP program is perfect for the holiday season. With the included Bright Ideas clip art and fonts, you can create superb holiday greeting cards and newsletters. PAINT SHOP PRO by Jasc, Inc. This is the ultimate image editor. Its array of options include filtering, masking and color depth altering. Supports more than 30 file formats! VISUAL BASIC RUN-TIMES by Microsoft "Club" members occasionally receive fantastic Microsoft Windows applications written in Visual Basic. This set of .DLL files insure that these insure that these exciting new applications run properly. Includes Visual Basic's VBRUN100/200/300.DLL files. 
