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SimCoupe emulates the SAM Coup?*A* - a British Z80-based home computer released in 1989 by Miles Gordon Technology. Platforms: Mac

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below). A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them ???*a*? colorful images... Platforms: *nix

Both of us were busy during Pyweek 8, so we made a rather small game. To our own surprise, it turned out to be a quite fun and complete game. This is a top-down zombie-shooting game where you get experience points for shooting zombies. After each levelup you gain a random perk (faster movement,... Platforms: *nix

The Web Curator Tool (WCT) is an open-source workflow management application for selective web archiving. It is designed for use in libraries and other collecting organisations, and supports collection by non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the web harvesting process. It... Platforms: *nix

Flip HTML5 for Mac is a perfect flip book maker software to create and publish digital HTML5 page-flipping magazines, brochures, catalogs, flyers, presentations, e-books, newspapers, photo albums, etc. that are available across desktop, tablets and mobile devices. Flip HTML5 for Mac... Platforms: Windows, Mac, Windows 7, Windows Server

WinUnit is a flexible unit conversion utility. It understands ?Number Unit? text input with auto-completion and menu selection. WinUnit is totally data driven from a simple text file definition, allowing new units to be added. It also understands unit classes and systems. Dimensional analysis is... Platforms: Windows

Ideal for any business traveler, for home, school and office, this reference contains an extensive vocabulary, covering a wide range of topics relating to stock market and accounting terminology in English, German, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. The Multilingual Dictionary of Stock... Platforms: Windows, Mac

Ideal for any business traveler, this glossary covers topics relating to banking and finance - from office practice to stock market and accounting terminology. The Glossary of International Banking & Finance Acronyms and Abbreviations (En-Ru) will be of value not only to professional traders,... Platforms: Windows, Mac

Converter is a simple utility for converting currency. Based on the British pound, converter can work out one countries equivalent of any currency within its database. Countries and Exchange rates can be added, edited or removed completely. Commission can also be calculated for every conversion.... Platforms: Windows

Billy Budd, by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is an allegory of good vs. evil, with innocence standing by as the helpless victim. A naive young man is pressed into the service of the British Navy at the very end of the 18th century. He views first hand the cruelty and extreme brutality of the ship... Platforms: Windows

Free truth in lending software for mortgage loan rescission prequalification checklist. Program also explains: debt, debt elimination, mortgage, mortgage elimination, debt dispute, debt cancellation, mortgage cancellation, mortgage rescission, truth in lending act, debt relief, credit card... Platforms: DOS, OS/2, BeOS, Palm OS, Windows, Mac, *nix, Windows CE

The ultimate currency calculator! Calculate for free between 37 currencies, e.g. EUR, US Dollar, Japanese Yen, British Pounds, Swiss Francs or South African Rand. Including latest exchange rates from the European Central Bank. And the best of all: This software is freeware! Platforms: Windows

Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled. Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean. You can select text using your... Platforms: Windows

Jarte is a free, tabbed word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows. Like WordPad, Jarte is fast starting, easy to use, reliable, requires little screen space, and creates documents perfectly compatible with Word. But Jarte reveals the WordPad engine's... Platforms: Windows

See and hear time through antique Chimer. A clock with all the flavours of yesteryear and today+s modern technology. After download right click clock face for menu/Help. Features: *Analogue hour/minute/second hands *Chime hourly/quarterly *Click and drag positioning *"Always on screen" safety... Platforms: Windows

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of... Platforms: Windows

The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.In 1916 the US Montrose is fired on and sunken by a German U-boat. However the survivors manage to sneak aboard and capture the U-boat. In between subsequent coups, the British and Germans agree to an uneasy truce until they can reach a neutral... Platforms: Windows

TTSBuilder allows engineers to create their own Text To Speech Voice or Language using High Quality Open Festival Speech Synthesis Research. A complete step-by-step manual for such a creation is included in the retail version. The evaluation version has one such British Voice created using the... Platforms: Windows

Converse is the ultimate converter covering (currently) 1310 different units from the usual Kilometers, Meters, Millimeters etc. to the old British units of measurement, Rod, Pole or Perch. Platforms: Windows

WildSpeller is an English spelling aid for Windows that can help when you know how to spell part of a word. Type the word, using wild cards "*" and "?", into WildSpeller, Asterisk (*) replaces any number of letters, including none; question mark (?) replaces exactly one letter. Click once and you... Platforms: Windows