Acronym and Thedictionary Software for Windows

Desktop Assistant
$0 - Sphinx Software

Desktop Assistant offers instant alt-click access from almost any application to the free online reference resource with English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, multiple Encyclopedias, Indexes of Acronyms and Idioms, a Thesaurus, and a Literature Reference Library provided by TheFreeDictionary.com. Also allows free access to simple arithmetical calculation, Zip Code lookup, IP address, Site/E-mail Tracking and City Lookup by selecting a word or phrase in almost any application with one click. No spyware, adware, or malware of any kind.

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Domain Name Pro
$64.95 - Backslash

Find the ultimate popular domain name using the powerful brainstorming features of a built-in automatic thesaurus, search engine popularity database with 500,000 terms, link popularity search, an advanced word search with word groups allowing mutually exclusive domain name parts and custom positioning and optional/mandatory settings, and an advanced pattern search with 6 wildcards and optional and alternative domain name parts.

For a simple word search for a domain name such as "home loan" with all options enabled Domain Name Pro can automatically generate and check almost 500 related domain names in less than a minute! Some example domain names generated include "homeloan", "equityhomeloan", "homeloancalculator", "homecredit", "houseloan" and many more, each checked in the domains selected (from a list of more than 500 including .com, .biz, .info, and .us).

Domain Name Pro also includes automatic acronyms, and Net Speak(tm), a feature that generates alternative spellings to domain names, such as "4kidz" for the words in the domain name "for kids".

Other features include automatic calculation of search engine popularity, web site competition rating and domain name effectiveness index (TM) for generated domain names, identifying expired and expiring domain names, direct trademark searches, direct registration of available domain names, browsing to the web site of registered domain names, filtering, sorting, printing, and exporting search results, free upgrades, 500+ domains including .info, .com, .co.uk, .com.au and hundreds more, configurable search performance, support for SOCKS firewall and HTTP proxy servers, built-in current domain name news, saving and loading custom word lists, patterns and domain selections, automatic data file updates, and much more!

For a comparison of Domain Name Pro with other domain name search tools see the Feature Comparison page at .

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PC Chaperone
$59.95 - Precipice Software

PC Chaperone provides the most complete parental controls available by combining powerful Internet filters, time management tools, instant messenger controls, and user monitoring tools.

The Internet filters include website lists and dynamic filters that analyze and categorize websites as they are loaded. Customized lists can also be created to allow or block specific websites, and all browsing activity can be monitored to help identify dangerous browsing habits. Access to specific websites can even be time limited to prevent excessive use. For example, using these scheduling tools access to sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com could be limited to a couple hours a day or to specific time periods. PC Chaperone is the only Internet filter with this type of scheduling ability.

The AOL (AIM), Windows Live Messenger (MSN), and Yahoo Instant Messenger tools give control over which contacts users can talk to while allowing the recording of these conversations. PC Chaperone will even decode common acronyms, meaning you no longer have to know what ?4col? means to understand what is being said.

The time management tools are used to schedule access to specific programs or groups of programs. For example, a schedule could be created to limit the amount of time children spend playing games. PC Chaperone is the only parental control that allows multiple programs to be controlled by one schedule.

PC Chaperone also includes an integrated keystroke logger to monitor activity in any program.

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DataparkSearch
$0 - Datapark Corp.

DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured open sources web-based search
engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search
within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.
DataparkSearch consists of two parts. The first part
is indexing mechanism (indexer). Indexer walks over html
hypertext references and stores found words and new references
into database. The second part is web CGI front-end to provide
search using data collected by indexer.
Key features:
Support for http, https, ftp, nntp and news URL schemes;
htdb virtual URL scheme support for indexing SQL databases;
text/html, text/xml, text/plain,audio/mpeg (MP3) and image/gif mime types built-in support;
External parsers support for other document types;
Ability to index multilingual sites using content negotiation;
Searching all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries;
Fuzzy searching based on acronyms and abbreviations.
Stopwords and synonyms lists;
Boolean query language support;
Results sorting by relevance, popularity rank, last modified time and by importance (a multiplication of
relevance and popularity rank);
Various character sets support;
Accent insensitive search;
Phrases segmenting for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai languages;
mod_dpsearch - search module for Apache web server;
Internationalized Domain Names support;
The Summary Extraction Algorithm.

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IPISD Weblet
$69.95 - Design 4 Instruction

Weblet edition of Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development (IPISD). The IPISD was first
published in five separate printed volumes in 1975. It is the classic reference for all subsequent instructional design
methodologies. Buy the full product and get a licence to install the IPISD Weblet on your personal PC's or your local
intranet. Provide your consulting firm or your educational organisation with a searchable reference and methodolgoy
to guide the development of educational materials. The weblet is in fully-linked HTM format. It performs best on the
Internet Explorer browser. The IPISD Weblet provides the convenience of electronic access to this seminal
document on you notebook PC, desktop PC, or local area network. The IPISD methodology has been in
continuous use since 1975 by military and commercial organisations. Use this edition with confidence as the basis
for your own ISD methodology, tailored to meet your local needs. The five phases: Analyze, Design, Develop,
Implement, and Control are contained in the full version weblet edition - along with a Subject Index, Acronyms and
Glossary, Bibliography, FAQs, Navigation Map, and a full search engine.

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WMI Explorer
$0 - KS-Soft

WMI is an acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation. WMI is the Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) - a new management technology that allows software to monitor and control managed resources throughout the network. Such managed resources include hard drives, file systems, settings of operating system, processes, services, shares, registry settings, networking components, event logs, users, groups, etc.

WMI Explorer allows you to
- Explore the full set of WMI management classes, objects and their properties
- Browse through objects and settings on remote machines
- Execute any WQL query and view the result set

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