Ak Research Labs and Antenna - Web Design Studio Software for Windows

SoftMaker Office for Linux and FreeBSD
$69.95 - SoftMaker Software GmbH

SoftMaker Office 2006. Powerful, compatible, fast, reliable. Your office suite is the most important application on your PC for document creation, both on your job and for personal tasks. Choose SoftMaker Office 2006, and you will get the job done in less time, with more attractive results, and at drastically lower cost than with Microsoft Office.

SoftMaker Office 2006 contains the following applications:
Word processor TextMaker 2006 and spreadsheet PlanMaker 2006.

Both applications are designed to seamlessly read and write Microsoft Office documents ? TextMaker provides reliable access to Microsoft Word word processing files, and PlanMaker reads and writes Microsoft Excel spreadsheets perfectly.

TextMaker and PlanMaker offer a familiar user interface ? if you have worked with Word and Excel before, you will feel right at home. At the same time, TextMaker and PlanMaker are friendlier and easier to use than Microsoft Office.

TextMaker 2006 offers superior compatibility with Microsoft Word. In fact, you won't find another word processor that is as capable of handling intricately formatted Microsoft Word files as TextMaker 2006.

PlanMaker 2006 reads and writes Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, Excel 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh) with the highest fidelity, ensuring easy and safe file exchange with Microsoft Excel users. Thanks to the exceptional quality of our Excel filters, you can even set PlanMaker's default file format to Excel's .XLS format.

New in TextMaker 2006: imports OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument, opens protected Word files, supports Unicode, SmartText, extended table formatting, comprehensive drawing and graphic functions built in, and much more.

New in PlanMaker 2006: Unicode support, create and fill out forms with input fields, checkboxes, selection boxes etc., input validation, and much more.

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SoftMaker Office for Windows
$69.95 - SoftMaker Software GmbH

SoftMaker Office 2006. Powerful, compatible, fast, reliable. Your office suite is the most important application on your PC for document creation, both on your job and for personal tasks. Choose SoftMaker Office 2006, and you will get the job done in less time, with more attractive results, and at drastically lower cost than with Microsoft Office.

SoftMaker Office 2006 contains the following applications:
Word processor TextMaker 2006 and spreadsheet PlanMaker 2006.

Both applications are designed to seamlessly read and write Microsoft Office documents ? TextMaker provides reliable access to Microsoft Word word processing files, and PlanMaker reads and writes Microsoft Excel spreadsheets perfectly.

TextMaker and PlanMaker offer a familiar user interface ? if you have worked with Word and Excel before, you will feel right at home. At the same time, TextMaker and PlanMaker are friendlier and easier to use than Microsoft Office.

TextMaker 2006 offers superior compatibility with Microsoft Word. In fact, you won't find another word processor that is as capable of handling intricately formatted Microsoft Word files as TextMaker 2006.

PlanMaker 2006 reads and writes Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, Excel 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh) with the highest fidelity, ensuring easy and safe file exchange with Microsoft Excel users. Thanks to the exceptional quality of our Excel filters, you can even set PlanMaker's default file format to Excel's .XLS format.

New in TextMaker 2006: imports OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument, opens protected Word files, supports Unicode, SmartText, extended table formatting, comprehensive drawing and graphic functions built in, and much more.

New in PlanMaker 2006: Unicode support, create and fill out forms with input fields, checkboxes, selection boxes etc., input validation, and much more.

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Breaktime Personal
$0 - JPAF Consulting

Intoducing Breaktime v2 (Freeware)
As part of the company Health and Safety, an employer can provide well designed workstations and train staff on useage and good posture. There is however a dificulty in enforcing regular breaks from the computer, and even in a break an employee may decide to browse the internet or look at photos and so never leaves the workstation for long.
Breaktime v2 is an application to assist with the control of Health and Saftey policy encoraging users to take regular breaks from the computers at specified times. A log is kept of wether the user accepted or rejected the break. If the break is accepted the start bar is removed and the user is unable to access their pc for the length of the break. In addition Breaktime is programmed to provide regular breaks at intervals suggested by your Health and Safety Guidelines.
If an employee attempted to claim RSI damages as the employee you can proove that the design of the workstation met health and safety guidelines and that the employee was sent on training courses for posture and now using breaktime you can also proove that you have tried to enforce the employee to take regular breaks from their workstation, through the logfiles produced by Breaktime.
Building on the success of Breaktime v1Breaktime v1 was a freeware application. Within 18 months a user base of over 23,000 users worldwide was established. Due to its popularity it became clear that clients were using the software in different ways. Breaktime was rewritten in .Net based architecture to facilitate with deploymnet to Microsoft Windows Vista, and provide the ability to introduce different features dependent on company size.
Breaktime v2, is now available in two versions, Personal and SME. Currently under development is a Corporate Version which is schelduled for realease in Quarter 4 of 2007.

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WINner Tweak 3
$29.95 - WINner Tweak Software

WINner Tweak is a tools suite for tweaking, optimizing and tuning of Windows XP/2003/2000. It helps you increase performance and manage your system using various tweaks and utilities for settings including Windows, Hardware, Security, Network and Software. In addition to the tweaks, the program also offers several additional tools (Power Utilities) that include a Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Shortcut Cleaner, Uninstall manager, File Shredder, Start-up Manager, Popup Blocker, Password Generator, Internet Cache Analyzer, Process Explorer,Translucenter, Access Limiter and a Folder Protector to prevent access to selected folders.
The import and export feature enables to create an export file, that contains specifically selected settings and tweaks.This export file can later be imported into WINner Tweak on the same computer, or to another computer with WINner Tweak.

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Acme Photo ScreenSaver Maker
$39.95 - www.screensavermaker.net

Acme Photo ScreenSaver Maker is an excellent photo screen saver maker software. APSSM makes it easy to build a fully customizable screensaver with your favorite photos and music fast. This software is powerful to make cool effect photo screensavers. Whether you are a screen saver beginner or professional, the screensaver maker of choice for you will make your screensaver software experience more rewarding.

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Antenna - Web Design Studio
$59 - Stormdance

Antenna enables you to design and develop great looking professional web sites rapidly - without any coding or HTML knowledge. Using transparent layers, master pages and pixel accurate positioning, Antenna makes web site building a visual experience - more like using an art or desktop publishing package, instead of programming. Now you can concentrate on aesthetics and design - instead of spending hours just trying to make your HTML code work - have fun and make your own web site look stunning!

Antenna is a professional WYSIWYG web page editor designed for creative people. It's fun, easy to use, and has many powerful features. A multiple layers system, with layer transparency enables you to overlap objects and create translucent effects. Master pages enable you to include any page as a layer on any other page - brilliant for developing themes and a real time-saver when you need the same items to appear on many pages. Antenna's environment is drag and drop with pixel accurate positioning and a snap-grid to help you align objects. Powerful built in features include a button maker, professional photo gallery creator, styles editor, gradient designer, rollovers, audio & video controls, and special fx such as animation, shadows, motion blur, neon and water. An integrated FTP publisher with 'publish changes only' option enables rapid site updates, and on top of all that you can use Antenna to create a multilingual website from a single design.

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