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Showoff
Easily create your own beautifully landscaped yard


Start with our model yard or a photo of YOUR OWN YARD! Add shrubs, trees, annuals, hedges and more. You've just designed a realistic, printable image of your finished landscape! All this for Free!

Easy to use-runs under Windows or MAC!
Like having a designer at your fingertips!
Uses real color photos, not illustrations
Includes a photo library of real homes-or use a photo of your own!
Select your hardiness zone
Watch the plants grow in one year, two and five years!
Includes today's most popular materials
Video tutorial
It's easy to put pictures of your home in Showoff.com


Win NT/2000/XP
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Garden with Insight

The Garden with Insight garden simulator is an educational simulation that uses weather, soil, and plant growth models to simulate a simple garden in an open-ended microworld setting. You can plant vegetables and grow them to learn more about plants, the soil, the weather, gardening, and science.
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

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4.1 MB
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Bradstone Garden & Driveway Designer Light

The Garden & Driveway Designer 2005 'Light' allows you to design and plan your garden using all of the Bradstone products and includes a database of over 1,000 of the most popular plants in British gardens.
The new 2005 version has increased flexibility, the latest products, new undo and design features.
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

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2.8 MB
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Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
Virtual telescope software


Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is a virtual telescope software that enables you to explore the universe with the help of interactive star charts and high resolution imagery from some of the best land and sky based telescopes.

You can manually explore the night sky for your geographical location or enjoy one of the many interactive tours that will take you on an educational journey across the universe, to visit the solar system, black holes, star clusters, nebula, cosmic events and more.

WorldWide Telescope also supports the ASCOM platform which allows you to connect and control a compatible telescope directly to the software. Other features include real-time tracking of the night sky in your location, a finder scope to reveal details for any object, multiple sources for imagery, object search and filtering, and morel. WorldWide Telescope provides a user friendly interface, and is well suited for casual night sky explorers as well as more advanced star gazers and hobby astronomers.

Requires .NET Framework 2.
Win XP

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MyCar-Monitor
Track the vehicles service, repair and maintenance expenses

As today's car are very reliable, you may think that it is not necessary to take care of them too much. You are not right! Proper maintenance is the key to the long life, reliability and optimal vehicle related cost. In normal circumstances it is not an easy task, as you have to pay too much things with attention, but MyCar-Monitor helps you to do it.

MyCar-Monitor is a complete software that will help you to organize all your vehicle related records, including fillups, maintenances, payments, trip details, tyre and accident information.

MyCar-Monitor can be used for any motorized vehicle. e.g. cars, motorcycles, trucks or power machine. Performing a free registration MyCar-Monitor can be used freely without any limitation.
Win 98/Me/2000/XP

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Sweet Home 3D
A free interior design application


There are people reading this who will appreciate this scenario: you pay thousands of pounds for an architect to design your loft extension or new kitchen, to find that you spend far too long trying to tell them how you expect it to look and feel. Of course, time is money and whilst you’re trying to portray your opinion, your architect will be charging you for this consultation.

A better solution would be to do the basic design yourself. It’s not that difficult. If you studied design technology at school, grab some gridded paper sketch out your plan and then layout where you want your walls, doors, windows, units and more. Write a specification document including an idea of the materials you require and your architect should be able to design up a plan. There might be a good chance that your architect may ignore your plan entirely, so why not go one stage further and take your 2D plan and design up a 3D render using specialist software?

Sweet Home 3D is a tool that you can use to design a 3D plan of your intended room or extension. As it’s an opensource free application, users are allowed to create their own objects, so if you take a look at the Sweet Home 3D website you’ll find various objects which you can download and drop in to your new design.

Note that this requires Java. The download here is for the Windows version, although Mac and Linux versions are also available from the Sweet Home 3D website.

Reviewed by Chris Wiles, vnunet.com


Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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AirCompare Gadget
Compare air ticket travel prices on thousands of flights


Our staff has developed this FREE Windows Sidebar Flight Gadget so that you can find great airfare deals anytime... right from your computer desktop.

What is Windows Sidebar?
Windows Sidebar is a pane on the side of the Windows Vista desktop that organizes gadgets and makes them easy to access.

You can easily customise Windows Sidebar to suit how you want to interact with it - whether you want it always on top or resting below maximised windows. You can also move gadgets off the Windows Sidebar and place them anywhere on your desktop
Win Vista only

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cvbFT Family Tree Database
Plucky Duck Award
cvbFT is a simple to use application for the recording and viewing of information relating to family history. It was developed for my own personal use but is freely available to anyone else who wishes to make use of its features.

cvbFT supports a range of facilities to allow the creation, display and export of a family tree, including:
Adding and editing individuals
Specifying parents
Recording partners and marriage details
Recording life events eg. Baptism, Occupations
Recording sources for items of information Linking of digital photos, documents and multimedia
Displaying data as a family tree
Displaying diagrams of ancestors and descendants
Importing and exporting GEDCOM files
Creating files for use on a web site

cvbFT is built on Microsoft Excel so has has no specific system requirements other than MS Excel being installed. It was developed on MS Excel 2003 running on Windows XP and has not been tested on other versions of Windows or Excel.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

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The Genealogy Finder

Genealogy Finder is an application that contains more than 750 quality Genealogy links, divided into 27 easy categories. It is the result of hundreds of research hours to locate the most valuable Genealogy sites on the Net. Regardless if you are a seasoned veteran or a Genealogy newbie, Genfinder will no doubt save you time.

Genfinder is freeware. Help yourself to a copy and pass it around. And if you think it's as useful as we think it is, and your Genealogy related web site would care to distribute it, we'll be happy to custom brand a version for you, complete with your logo and link back to your site. Just ask us
Win 98/NT/2000

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Guitar Tuner

This is a simple and compact (64Kb) guitar tuner app.

It uses the Windows MIDI system to sound tuning notes. It only supports EADGBE tuning.
Win XP

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Pos Multiple Image Printing Wizard
Print multiple images on a single page


MRA (as we like to call it) is a full color, graphical, online, mutli-player, Pos Multiple Image Printing Wizard is a free app allows you to easily print multiple images on a single page/paper in various ways and effects.

It also helps you save expensive paper. The software comes with many build in templates and effects you can select from. With Pos Multiple Image Printing Wizard you can easily create impressive photo albums, artworks, posters, collages and much more.
Win 98/Me/XP/Vista

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Metacafe
Multimedia sharing community


Metacafe is a cool multimedia community software that automatically downloads quality content, including video clips, trailers, games and other fun items available on the Internet.

The program is easy to use and offers a professional interface that automatically shows you the latest available items. You can rate each item, post or read user comments, send it to a friend and more.

The program also allows you to customize the content channels to match your interest, and filter content. Metacafe is very easy to use, just install it and enjoy the goodies
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

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Poster Forge
Create posters quickly with this useful tool


Poster Forge is an easy-to-use poster generator. A motivational poster, a movie poster as well as a Old West "Wanted" poster can be created with its help in practically no time and totally for free! You can save your new posters and publish them on the Internet (myspace, livejournals, flickr, etc.). You can use a special built-in tool to print big-size posters and hang them on the wall.

Poster Forge doesn't require any knowledge of graphics or design and enables users to create posters in clicks. This software has a step-by-step wizard for each type of posters. You can customize each detail in a template the way you like it. For example, making a motivational poster, you can insert an inspirational image and text and use it as a daily motivator. Or, creating an old western "Wanted" poster, you can specify the criminal's name and the reward – an excellent idea for a funny joke on your friend who you haven't seen for ages or a colleague who is always late for business meetings.

Poster Forge has great advantages over online poster generators: it offers several poster templates all together and doesn't require an Internet connection. Impress your family, friends or office mates with your fresh, cool ideas – make your own brilliant poster
Win 2000/XP/Vista

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Movienizer
Personal movie organizer


Love watching movies? Collected so many that you´re getting lost among the many discs? Get your movies organized with Movienizer! Organize, track and research your movie collection for absolutely free.

Movienizer helps you account for all movies that you already have as well as those you wish you had. Never forget who´s taken that disc with memory-refreshing loaner tracker.

Features:
Create an interactive movie catalog the way you like it.
Find information about a particular movie, download DVD cover.
Find information about an actor, actress, director, screenplay writer, download photos.
List all movies with the given actor/actress, or by the given director, screenplay writer etc.
Easily navigate between movies, actors etc.
Customize the content (reviews, pictures, biographies, comments, rating) of each page.
Organize your movie collection by specifying the exact location of every DVD, Blu-Ray disc, HD-DVD, video cassette, or other media.
Inform yourself about future movies with your favorite actors, actresses, by your favorite directors, screenplay writers, and so on.
Easily select a movie you'd like to see again without searching through all of your physical media. Your collection is in one place and easily accessible.
Find and mark the movies you want to see in the future.
Take snapshots directly from your DVDs or video files.
Add a DVD using barcode.
Play your movies with the built-in player.
Search your database for a specific entry.
List your movies by genre, year, name, director, actor etc.
Take notes about movies that you give to your friends or acquaintances (loan manager).

What's New in version 1.6:
Added TV-series support!
Added possibility to skip downloading data for single movies in batch.
Updated scripts for some sites.
Fixed some minor bug
Win XP/Vista

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The Murderer

The Murderer is a graphic adventure game set in turn of the century England. In this interactive short story you are blamed for a murder you did not commit, and must both evade your captors and find the true killer. This game features a point and click interface, True Color graphics and sound effects.
Win 95/98/Me//XP

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