Turbine and Nuclear Power Plant Simulator Software for Windows

GenesisIV
$0 - Geomantics

Your a GIS professional, not a professional 3D artist, but you want to create great landscape visuals for your clients. Or you're a teacher trying to enthuse and educate your students about maps and landscapes. GenesisIV. It's landscape software for people who've got better things to do than be professional artists. And you won't need a professional budget.

GIS Professionals: GenesisIV understands GIS concepts like layers, shape objects and georeferencing. It interfaces to industry standard GIS systems such as MapInfo and ArcView so you can use your existing data without having to learn new concepts, and there's reams of documentation to get you started.

Teachers and students: GenesisIV is the only landscape product designed specifically to help teach geographical concepts. You're up and running immediately comparing 2D and 3D maps and students can be looking at historical maps, satellite photography and learning about grid references within minutes. GenesisIV's multimedia hotspots are ideal for projects to get your students out of the classroom collecting data.

A user interface that lets you explore: If you've ever been perplexed by the blank sheet of modeling software then you'll appreciate GenesisIV's immediate interface. Don't be deceived, there's powerful database and graphics software underneath, but you can get results straight out of the box.

Documentation and tutorials galore: Need to see what the visual impact of that turbine will be? Want a lesson plan for your 14 year old students? We've numerous tutorials online with step-by-step guides to common tasks.

Eye-catching visuals: GenesisIV's photorealistic renderer brings landscapes to life and because we using modern OpenGL techniques you won't be waiting hours for your images to complete.

Import, export, extend.
GenesisIV is open. Import and export between GIS applications, data and renderers. Our database uses Open Source software and we've many plug-ins to extend the system.

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Nuclear Power Plant Simulator
$9.95 - AE4RV.com

Nuclear Power Plant Simulator is a simulation game of nuclear power generation - see how much electricity you can generate without causing a meltdown! You will run the plant to it's limits but do not to push it too hard or warning lights will appear. Many things can go wrong if you are not careful. If you don't push the plant too hard it will not break down but your energy output and rating will be lower.
Addictive and educational, the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator is suitable for all ages. It includes an animated plant diagram which shows the reactor, the primary and secondary cooling loops, the heat exchanger, turbine, generator and cooling tower.
In the game you have a general purpose CRT screen showing all vital statistics as well as seperate temperature guages, controls and warning lights.
Fortunately this game is entirely safe. You will learn a lot about nuclear energy (and power plants in general) and have fun in the process. It looks really cool, too.
The demo version is free and does not expire but can only play 40 turns per game, which is plenty to cause a meltdown if you are not careful!

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PostgreSQL Join Two Tables Software
$19.99 - Sobolsoft

Horizontally merge two PostgreSQL tables into one by a common column (field) of data. The two tables are not changed, a new table is created with the results. Access 2000 or higher required.

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SI ColorPicker
$0 - Pingram Software

Pick pixel colors as HTML, HEX or RGB values.

Are you designing a Web page, and need to match borders or background color against a picture? Sure you can open that picture in a graphic editor, pick a color and convert it to the format accepted by HTML standard. But why bother? Let SI ColorPicker do it for you in just one motion! Drag the eyedropper tool onto a picture - or other Web page, if that matters, - and SI ColorPicker will display the exact value of that pixel in HTML format. It takes just another click to place that string to a Windows clipboard, ready to be pasted into your Web page.

Are you a software developer programming an application that has to look in line with other products? Pick any part of any window on your desktop, and you'll see if that color is a WinAPI system constant beginning with COLOR_, or some arbitrary color chosen by the developer of that software. In any case, you're just one mouse click away from pasting a necessary color value from Windows clipboard!

Get RGB color values in decimal or HEX formats, as system color constants or as HTML values with a single free tool. You can configure SI ColorPicker to sit silently in the system tray near the clock when it is closed or minimized, ready to be accessed with a single click. If you need SI ColorPicker to appear on top of other windows, there?s that option, too! Should you need to run it fast, there's a Windows shortcut to launch it quick: press Win+R and type "sicolor", followed by ENTER.

SI ColorPicker is small, light and free. No software or Web developer or designer should live without a color picker!

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BREAKTRU PAYROLL 2007
$24.95 - BREAKTRU SOFTWARE

Ever wonder if your pay check is correct? Are the deductions and withholding too much or too little? Payroll 2007 software makes it easy to keep track of your weekly or bi-weekly pay checks. Enter the hours worked as well as overtime, holiday, sick leave, and other pay categories, then Payroll 2007 applies the withholding tax rates for federal, state, and city or non-city resident based on your exemptions claimed and marital status. Print pay checks. Vary your K-plan deduction to see what percentage is right for you. Check medicare, SDI, SUI, Cafeteria Plan and social security payments. Print out (Excel or Text) year-to-date chart shows your week-by-week earnings and is updated with just a mouse click. The overtime chart saves your last year's pay periods and calculates overtime percentage, so that you can track whether you are pushing company limits. This is a neat little program for one or more individuals. USA only.

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SI Lookup
$0 - WinCatalog.com

If you have a domain name, you can use one of the numerous Whois tools to determine its owner. Whois provides complete information about the owner of any domain name, up to the level of mailing addresses and telephone numbers. But what if you don?t have a domain name? What if all you have is a mere IP address? Or what if you don?t need information about the domain name, but are much more interested in who owns the Web server where it?s hosted?

Quite often it is still possible to determine the owner, or, rather, the assignee, of an IP address. IP addresses in North America are assigned by ARIN, an independent, nonprofit corporation that provides IP registration. It is possible to unveil details about the organization that uses a particular IP address, or, to be precise, a block of IP addresses.

There are no tools that come with Windows which can look up information about an IP address. Instead, you can visit ARIN database, learn about its query syntax, and fire up search on an IP address. If the address does not belong to the North American block, you will quite often see only the basic information specifying the country and organization responsible for assigning IP addresses there. To discover owner information of your original IP address, you then will have to visit a whois server of that organization and repeat the whole process.

While there?s nothing wrong in doing all these queries, it takes an awful lot of time. We at Soft Institute wrapped the same thing into a convenient package. SI Lookup queries the right server right automatically, and returns clearly legible, well formatted output. It displays all the vital information and allows you to query more than one IP address by simply selecting it from a combo box. Thanks to its user-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Lookup is much more convenient to use than the online tools that Unix-age non-profit organizations provide on the Web.

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