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WorldWide Telescope

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country.

A web-based version of WorldWide Telescope is also now available.

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Natural Medicine - (FREE e-Book)

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I have had many persons over the years who have had cancer and have come to my clinic and were told they had just a short time to live. Many had gone through the regular cancer treatments of radiation, chemo and surgery, but they were not healed.

I put them on this special program at my clinic using many simple natural things that you are about to read about on this website. If you or a loved one has cancer I strongly advise you to faithfully follow what I have outlined here and you will see improvement in less then two weeks. If your cancer is in an advanced stage you also will see improvement.

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ManyBooks.net

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Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader.

Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 21,775 eBooks available here and they're all free!

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Task Coach

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Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of Frank's frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

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Schmap Guides

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Schmap Guides are brought to life offline by Schmap 2.0, a powerful desktop application that gives you a world of additional trip planning convenience, including options to take virtual tours and custom print full-color guides.

We've schmapped ~200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - just pick and click to get schmapping!

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Digita Organiser

Organiser is a Personal Information Manager (PIM). A PIM is a program that helps you organise your life, just like a real-world Diary. Digita Organiser is different from most in that it looks and works just like a FiloFax®, complete with pages and 'tabbed' sections.

There are five sections to Organiser: Calendar, Diary, Tasks, Address Book and Supplements. Organiser also conforms very closely to Windows 95 Interface Guidelines with extensive context sensitive help on dialogs, icons, menus and objects and the use of pop-up menus throughout the program for common commands.

Support for scheduled audio alerts w/ pop-up. Holidays included as well as a wealth of other nice info such as smilies, and health facts. Does not support auto-dialing.

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Faith Comes By Hearing - Audio Bibles

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The world's largest catalog of Audio Bibles, reaching and discipling the world's poor and illiterate with the pure Word of God.

Audio Bibles connect modern technology to the Word of God, with the timeless result of sharing God's Word with people who hunger for spiritual knowledge. Faith Comes By Hearing has been at the forefront of this movement, working tirelessly to compile the largest catalog of Audio Bibles in the world with ongoing translations being worked on as we speak. Thanks to these efforts, listeners from around the world can now hear the Scriptures in pristine digital recordings in 278 languages.

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BibleGateway.com Online Bible

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From BibleGateway.com, a free service for reading and researching Scripture online--all in the language or translation of your choice! We provide advanced tools you can use to search the Bible by keywords or verse, as well as other tools to enhance your study.

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Snopes.com

Snopes.com is a useful resource to help verify the accuracy of various stories and other information. Before you forward that next juicy email, do yourself a favor and check it out first - you might save yourself some embarrassment.

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Q: What are 'snopes'?

A: Snopes is the name of a family of characters who appear throughout the works of American writer William Faulkner.

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iDailyDiary

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iDailyDiary provides a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing and much more.

The iDailyDiary editor is "richtext" with the ability to insert graphics, URL's, Hypertext links and links to other diary pages. iDailyDiary is fully searchable so you can always track down those important dates and reminders.

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- Works with MS Windows 9x, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
- Data files encrypted and password protected
- Richtext Editor
- Fully Searchable
- Insert Pictures, URL's and Hypertext
- Multiple "pages" for each day
- Export to HTML format to create web pages
- Supports Unicode (non-western character sets)

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PC Webopaedia

Easily find reliable definitions for computer terms and acronyms. It contains clearly written definitions of more than 3,000 computer terms and literally thousands of cross-references, conveniently cross-linked.

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Quick Info

Quick Info is a reference lookup tool for three things: U.S. telephone area codes and time zones, international direct phone-dialing codes and time zones, and Internet domain suffixes.

With more than 2000 cities worldwide, 320 area codes, and 250 national Internet suffixes listed, you're sure to find some piece of information that you need to get your hands on quickly.

A quick find feature jumps to the proper section of the area code listing as you enter the numbers. Quick Info gives you the following information:

1. US area codes for all 50 states and territories. This includes a description of the general location of the area code and the time zone of the area code.

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Bible Plus

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A lightning fast search engine powers the system. Easy to use. Create notes about any chapter. Great for quick and easy searches of the entire Bible (both Old and New Testaments). This is totally free Bible study software ... This free Bible study tool comes without advertising or nags.

It is totally free. Bible Plus is also very quick and easy. Since it's so small you can easily use it in conjunction with more powerful Bible study tools.

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ACRef - Area Code Lookup

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We have created a product called ACRef which allows you to look up area codes from your desktop. You do not need to be connected to the Internet to run this.

Easy to Use & Informative: You just enter an area code and it will tell you the primary cities within that area code, along with the time zone that area code is primarily in, plus the local time. Note that some area codes cross time zones, so the local time may be off by an hour in those cases.

Free Updates*: This product has an option where you can click a button to go to our web site and update the data to the latest version. Lately, the number of new area codes has slowed down dramatically, so new versions may only be released about once or twice a year.

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Unit Conversions 2000

Unit Conversions 2000 is a small utility that will allow you to quickly convert units of measure from one system to another.

Facilities are included to convert various Lengths, Weights, Volumes, Areas, Density, Power and Scale measurements.

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Periodic Table & Misc Tools

Downloads are split in to two main sections:

The educational section includes a high quality and highly informative Periodic Table application, for Windows and Pocket PC, as well as Earth's Core, a comprehensive and detailed list of minerals, rocks and gems.

The tools and utilities section contains many useful programs such as Xinorbis a powerful hard disk analyser and Pyxis, the easy way to store important information about the important things in your house, garden, office or business.

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Everest Dictionary

Everest Dictionary is the greatest of the free dictionaries available to the public. There are 35 dictionaries available to date.

- Greater than 176,000 English words
- Covers all main european languages
- The possibility to search words in many dictionaries
- It is possible to search words across many dictionaries
- It is possible to sesarch words using an index
- Speech agent; in the beta version, only the English words are correctly pronunced
- Intuitive aspect
- The search of the words can be customised
- The double-click-ing on a word will generate the automatic search of that in the active dictionaries
- Back button to return to the previous definition

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WordWeb

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words from in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include:

Definitions and synonyms
150,000 root words
120,000 synonym sets
Proper nouns
Related words
Pronunciations
Look up words in almost any program

The software has a full dictionary and thesaurus for American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian, and global English.

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Convert

Unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!

Convert runs quite well on Linux and UNIX using Wine. If you do this, you will need to change the tab layout to use a single row by going into Options > Preferences > Tabs, and uncheck the Multiple Lines option.

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XTerm Medical Dictionary

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XTerm Medical Dictionary is a quick reference tool that can help you any time. Its database of medical terms is updated twice a month, so every time you download a patch there will be new and updated/corrected terms. This medical dictionary is freeware.

All definitions are embedded in an Windows compatible application, which has an built-in search engine. This allows fast search with wildcard or incorrect spelling. It is also possible to search for definitions which contain one or two desired words joined by a logical operator.

The database of medical terms includes definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, eponyms, mnemonics of medical conditions, anatomical structures, procedures, drug mechanisms, chemicals, medical associations, measure units etc.

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