Alf Interactive Talking Character and Chinese Character Stroke Order Animator Software for Windows

AlfaClock2
$29.95 - AlfaSoft Research Labs

There are many software products available today that pretend to enhance your standard Windows tray clock. Unfortunately, most of them are concentrated on form and not on content. Normally, they use graphical "skins" to customize the look of the tray clock. They may also have other bells and whistles that are of little practical consequence to the user. After playing a while with these toy clocks, you realize that they do nothing but slow down your PC, interfering with full-screen applications or extending your task panel to occupy almost half of your screen.

AlfaClock enhances your tray clock functionality. Of course, you can customize the look, adjusting fonts, colors, backgrounds and more. But, the main goal of this program is simply to extend the tray clock functionality.

AlfaClock allows you to fully customize the content displayed in your tray clock area. There is a wide range of predefined templates to show the time, date, day of week and other info, and in various formats too. Advanced users can even define their own custom templates.

AlfaClock is a computerized watch. In addition to the info normally shown by a watch, AlfaClock can show statistics about your PC, processor and memory loads, etc.

The program can even synchronize your PC clock with atomic clocks via the Internet. But, in addition, AlfaClock has some unique features. For example, it can speak the time at specified intervals. The AlfaClock alarm mechanism has some advanced features as well. It will not only notify you at a specified
time, but can also start Windows applications for you.

A built-in calendar and floating panels that show time in different time zones, makes this a perfect office application.

Tired of toy-clocks? Give AlfaClock, a really useful Windows tray clock, a try.

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Halftone
$24.9 - VanDerLee

Halftone patterns made easy.

You can apply perfect, smooth dots, tightly aligned to a grid. Use Halftone for pre-press work or use any of it's features to create artistic work.

Halftone uses it's own way to generate the patterns and dots. This allows Halftone to render very precise results. Using fully correct 2D models for all the shapes, enables a number of features not found in other plug-ins.

Almost everything in Halftone can be changed. From simple things like changing the color of the dots to deforming the grid alignment in a number of different ways. You can use custom shapes, user-created pictures that can be used as shapes. You can precisely control size and scale. Some of the effects can even be randomized for an even more life-like look. Twist and turn the alignment of the pattern in a number of different ways.

For serious users, Halftone can scale and place the dots between pixels for top results. Halftone draws smooth, anti-aliassed edges for all the built-in shapes. The custom shapes are also processed in a way that makes them look smooth. All this in 16-bit color depth for those who need it.

Use Halftone to create anything from plain and simple to weird. If you can imagine it, Halftone will do it!

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RoyalFTp
$0 - RoyalFTP.com

Transfer files with ease using this intuitive and powerful FTP client. RoyalFTP is a multithreaded FTP client for Windows that's easy for beginners to use and has enough features to be useful to power users as well. Using its intuitive drag-and-drop Explorer-like interface, RoyalFTP lets you update a Web site with a single click and resume interrupted downloads or uploads.

RoyalFTP features included Crash recovery--no more lost transfers due to power outages or system crashes, support for new firewall/proxy and host types, SOCKS 4.0 and 5.0 support, remote file viewing and editing, corrections to FTP servers for year 2000 compliance, Input Command, which allows you to directly input any command an FTP server supports, complete recursive directory upload/download/overwrite or delete. a progress rate display, default transfer mode option in session parameters, prompts for file overwrites and preserving file date and time, a favorites list similar to that of Internet Explorer, resume broken downloads or uploads, background transfers, time-outs, the ability to delete to the Recycle Bin, port numbers and passive file transfers.

RoyalFTP also includes transfer panes, Smart Reconnect, and advanced file-filtering parameters. RoyalFTP's Connection Manager comes preloaded with lots of popular FTP sites and adding your own FTP sites is easy.

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Talking Event Scheduler
$9.99 - RWF Talking Software

Talking Event Scheduler is a simple yet very effective speech enabled scheduler. It allows you to schedule limitless events (or alarms) with associated message text and is an invaluable tool for those who have trouble getting organized and those who do not like to forget their appointments, meetings, and so on.

Like all of oursoftware products, Talking Event Scheduler is designed to be used as a stand alone program. What this means is that you do not need any kind of screen reading software or anything else to use this program. Your PC must run Windows 95 or greater and you must have a sound card or speakers. Talking Dictionary has been tested on Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

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Chinese Character Stroke Order Animator
$29.5 - MonkeyKing Soft

Maybe you already can speak Chinese perfectly, even reading, but when it comes to writing it would be a really tough job.

Yes, Chinese characters are difficult. They are totally different from western letters. Don't mention the intimidating stroke orders.

That's exactly why "Chinese Character Stroke Order Animator" can help you a lot. With this software, you may learn characters like watching a movie! The features include:

1 Show how to write Chinese characters stroke by stroke (more than 6,000 most used characters.).
2 Get all Pinyin of a character and read it with real person voice.
3 Get the English explanation.
3 Drag an icon to the interface of other applications, such as internet explorer, to get the characters and learn.
4 Load and save a character list from/to a text file.
5 Multi-language interface including English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and more.

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Interactive Voice Guide
$49.95 - Pingram Software

A powerful, easy-to-use system that quickly implements a professional voice response system into your business, Interactive Voice Guide was designed to provide easy to configure automated call handling systems which can be tailored to individual needs. Setting up any of the IVR systems below is now fast and straightforward using the Interactive Voice Guide software.

Get started in minutes using one of the many supplied demonstration templates. Quickly modify the details to suit your own requirements thanks to Interactive Voice Guide's Graphical Script Writing Interface. Incoming call data is logged in MS Access format, allowing information to be used by your other MS Office utilities.

The intuitive Graphical System Designer can create your system in a matter of minutes, and the rich functionality and the ease with which Interactive Voice Guide can be customized provides you with the means of creating the system you want.

Interactive Voice Guide is fully TAPI compliant, and can work with a wide variety of voice modems and telephony cards (e.g. Dialogic).

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