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Abby Converter - Developer's Site Description: If you've ever been caught out wondering "how much is that in metric?" when you're baking a cake or buying lengths of timber at the hardware store, you'll bless Abby. Abby converts weights, distances, temperatures and time, and does it instantly. Price: Freeware Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=abby Size: 487 KB

Dreamscape Analysis - Developer's Site Description: Dreamscape Analysis quickly helps you to work out the meaning of your dreams. The program is simple to use - you enter a brief description of your dream and the program analyses it for you within seconds, using a form of artificial intelligence. You can print out and save your interpretations. Price: Trial Version (15-day trial) Platform: Windows 95/98 Download: http://www.directlogic.com/dreamscape.htm Size: 2.62 MB

Earth Explorer - Developer's Site Description: Earth Explorer is the ultimate atlas. The program incorporates high-resolution three-dimensional satellite images of the earth. When you start the program, you see the earth spinning in space. Earth Explorer shows you 267 countries and 40,000 cities. You can zoom in and out, change the earth's rotation and calculate the distance between any two points. Price: Trial Version (Limited use trial) Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.motherplanet.com/ Size: 5.04 MB

Homeschool P.R.O. - Developer's Site Description: This home school management software helps you plan, record and organise your home school. Price: Trial Version (30-day trial) Platform: Windows 98/2000/XP Download: http://www.vision-harvest.com/hspro/download/trial/ Size: 3.05 MB

InSight - Developer's Site Description: If you're looking for a feature-rich all-purpose note manager like Microsoft OneNote, InSight is worth a look. This powerful program is an information manager, a document manager (there's no limit on your document size), and a working environment. You can create projects, which are workspaces in which you can open documents and other programs. Your documents can feature document formatting and can be exported to HTML, and much more. InSight suits small business, as well as high school and university students. Price: Trial Version (30-day trial) Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP; Mac Download: http://www.dataomega.com/insight/index.htm#Trial_Version Size: 2.42 MB

Label Designer Plus DELUXE - Developer's Site Description: With Label Designer Plus DELUXE you can create your own customised, personalised labels for many different kinds of items, including CD and DVD labels and inserts. The program lets you create numerous graphic effects, including transparent backgrounds, and you can save your design as a graphic and take it to a printer to be professionally printed. Price: Trial Version (15-day trial) Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.camdevelopment.com/designer/label_deluxe/download.htm Size: 3.24 MB

Mathematics Worksheet Factory - Developer's Site Description: Over 60 mathematics worksheet activities can be produced to advance and reinforce skills in number operations, number concepts, fractions, numeration, time, measurement, money, problem solving and more. Price: Trial Version (30-day trial) Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Download: http://www.schoolhousetech.com/products/download.htm Size: 7.52 MB

My Reward Board - Developer's Site Description: My Reward Board makes it easy and fun to motivate kids to do their chores and homework (and improve their attitude and behaviour) without nagging. The kids earn reward points for doing their tasks, and the Goal Gizmo lets them see how close they are to meeting the goals they've set. The Kids' Allowance and Bank lets them track their allowance and set their own savings targets – no more arguments about what they've earned and what they've spent. Demerit points are tracked via the Demerit Tracker, which lets kids learn the consequences of their actions. My Reward Board is a great investment for any family. Price: Trial Version (15-day trial) Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.myrewardboard.com/main_tryitnow.html Size: 15.7 MB

Pathways Personal Life Planner - Developer's Site Description: Create meaningful goals with Pathways Personal Life Planner. You can set goals for your personal life, for a home budget, or for a group project. The program is also a personal information manager, with a calendar, task list, and address book, and has two modes, for new users, and for Advanced users. Price: Shareware - Trial Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.pathwaysplanner.com/Download_Pathways.htm Size: 4.39 MB

Quizer (Mac) - Developer's Site Description: Quizer is a computer tool for authoring and administering multimedia quizzes or content fit for interactive instruction and learning. Target users include teachers, students and general Mac users. Price: Trial Version Platform: Mac OS X 10.3 or later Download: http://www.mlearningtools.com Size: 18.1 MB

Time Zone Helper - Developer's Site Description: Don't wake your boss at 3am! Time Zone Helper shows you the working time overlap between you and colleagues or friends overseas or in different time zones. Price: Trial Version Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.datamystic.com/timezone.html Size: 1.45 MB

Ultra Recall - Developer's Site Description: Ultra Recall is a knowledge management application that helps you to consolidate all your information, whatever its format. Easy to use and with a built-in Web browser, and optional encryption, Ultra Recall is useful for students, teachers, business people and researchers. Price: Trial Version (30-day trial) Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.ultrarecall.com/download.html Size: 4.94 MB