The computer applications are free to use. Some programs may have restrictions of usage. Before using any software on a corporate or business computer check the restrictions of the product and check your company policy. All of the software listed here is free for use by home users.MISC
Personal Ancestral File - Personal Ancestral File is top choice in terms of power and simple usability. This application is a Windows based, GUI, relational database with few if any limitations in size. The database input mechanism is hierarchical, showing the family relationships in a way that you can easily navigate to younger, or older generations simply by clicking links to the right or left.
- Link: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
e-Sword - Well designed and truly beneficial bible study software is hard to find, so it's unusual, and an outstanding value, to find such software for free. e-Sword is just that. A fast and effective way to study the Bible, e-Sword is feature rich and user friendly, with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package: And much more.
- All available Bibles, commentaries and dictionaries are readily viewed without having to "tile windows".
- Integrated editor for creating your own commentaries or study notes, complete with Spell Checking and a Thesaurus!
- Comprehensive print capabilities, including print preview, allow you to create impressive Bible study handouts from the Study Notes Editor.
- Strong's definitions and scripture references in the Commentary and Dictionary views are displayed as ToolTips! Just place the mouse pointer over the reference and the passage will then be displayed. To go to the passage, just click it!
- Link: http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html
QBrew
- For an excellent freeware homebrew recipe program, QBrew is the only, but very deserving, choice. It has an intuitive and simple interface and is excellent for formulating recipes quickly (about half the time as BeerSmith). Recipe entry and ingredient database management is extremely simple. Each recipe is stored in a separate file and can be exported in BeerXML format for sharing and/or importing into other BeerXML-enabled applications such as BeerSmith. The summary pane also lists the maximum and minimum gravity, bitterness, and color levels according to standardized style definitions published by the Beer Judge Certification Program. This is useful if you're brewing for a competition, or targetting a particular style.
- Link: http://www.usermode.org/code.html
TClock Lite....Tray Clock Replacement
- TClock Lite is a vastly improved replacement for the standard Windows tray clock. It provides all the benefits of the original as well as many enhancements and a number of useful additional features. It achieves this with a tiny footprint and doesn't even require installation. Given the tiny size, the power of this program is most impressive. Less impressive is the help file which is brief and not particularly helpful. However the program is so well laid-out and simple to use that it's not really an issue. You might get a warning from your security software that TClock is potential spyware. It's not. It's just picking up the fact that it modifies explorer.exe to display the clock. The 2nd link below is to the Japanese author's site. You'll see some strange characters displayed but the "donwload" (sic) link is clear enough.
LClock - LClock pops up its own calendar with a single click on the tray clock, which you can use it for reminders and to-dos. It all works marvelously well and you get a clock display that looks like the one in Vista. LClock is based on TClock lite but doesn't allow a simultaneous time and date display.
- Link: Direct Download http://fileforum.betanews.com/download/LClock/1092761816/1
World Clock - World clock has a small memory requirement at just 7Mb, is easy to use and gives me exactly what I want - a choice of virtually any number of time zones with customizable text to suit the cities or countries selected. Everything fits nicely in one small window and is quick and easy to change and view. Options are a little sparse, but that is what makes this such a simple and easy to use application.
- Configuring new cities is easy using either a drop down list of names and GMT offsets, or using a little world map and clicking the location which then displays the GMT offset and time zone name. The city name can be customized to be anything you choose so that you can add smaller
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