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Google Translate Desktop
Google Translate Desktop helps users quickly translate any typed language into the one they want. With this powerful translation tool uses are able to write emails and documents in other languages, communicate with foreigners and read foreign articles easily. It works together with Outlook, Word, IE and Instant Message tools such as MSN, Skype, AIM, AOL, ICQ, etc. It also supports websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Digg and BBS.
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Celestia
Celestia is a real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, it doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in it is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it...
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Periodic Table
Periodic Table is an application containing all the elements of the Periodic Table along with images of the elements in their natural states.
The Standard version is designed to be used on desktops set to 1024x768 or better. Contains many small images of most of the elements.
shareware ($29}
WordWeb
WordWeb includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs. Features of the free version include, definitions and synonyms, proper nouns, related words, pronunciations, 140,000 root words, 115,000 synonym sets, and look up words in almost any program.
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Rapid Typing Tutor
RapidTyping is a free touch typing tutor help you learn quick and blind keyboard printing. Program benefits: - Game plot. Training takes place in virtual picturesque underwater world. Variety of underwater fauna will make fun of your training. The more you improve your printing level the more nice underwater creatures will come to light; - Training statistics shown both in tables and diagrams. Statistics reflects printing speed, mistakes quantity; - Keyboard emulator will help you learn blind printing...
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Translate.Net
Translate.Net is free and open source client to many language services available online (translators, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries). 53 services, 70 languages, more of 4000 translations directions.
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BOINC
BOINC is an open source software platform to allow distributed computing projects like SETI@Home and Climateprediction.net (CPDN) which use volunteered computer resources to run. Why leave a computer idle when it could be doing something beneficial?
You can participate in several projects, ensuring that your computer will be kept busy even when one project has no work. You can control how your resources (such as computer time and disk space) are divided among these projects.
shareware ($20}
MultiTranse
MultiTranse is a software that employs free online resources to translate to/from English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Korean, Norvegian and Japanese. The program can translate specific words, phrases, sentences or even small texts, up to 6000 symbols at a time. The program is 100% Unicode compatible, automatically determines font, encodes Unicode text into any ANSI format and the other way around. If the...
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Stellarium
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
shareware ($20}
Rapid-Pi
Rapid-Pi is an add-on for Microsoft Word (and other word processors) that will transform the way you enter mathematical formulae, equations and expressions into documents. It is designed to save you time when editing math in documents. Rapid-Pi's text-based input is a simply faster way to input math.
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RapidTyping
RapidTyping is a free touch typing tutor help you learn quick and blind keyboard printing. Program benefits: - Game plot. Training takes place in virtual picturesque underwater world. Variety of underwater fauna will make fun of your training. The more you improve your printing level the more nice underwater creatures will come to light; - Training statistics shown both in tables and diagrams. Statistics reflects printing speed, mistakes quantity; - Keyboard emulator will help you learn blind printing...
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TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus
TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language. It runs locally, and does not use your Internet connection. The essential functionality includes the following: tabbed interface allowing multiple definitions and searches to be readily available, quick cross-referencing; standard and advanced wildcard search functionality; anagram search; history and session record keeping; options that allow customization of the appearance of TheSage;...
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XNote Stopwatch
XNote Stopwatch is a tiny desktop stopwatch utility to measure time periods in decimal seconds, seconds, minutes, and hours. It has a digital display like real stopwatches and clocks. Also, it can be resized to achieve your preferable size of digits and even be switched to a compact state, in which it doesn't show controls and stays on top of your desktop.
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Dictionary .NET
Dictionary .NET is a tiny, easy and smart multilingual dictionary translating from/to 60 languages using Google's services. Integrates Google Dictionary, Translate, Search, Suggest 4-in-1 without installing them. Auto-detect any languages > Dictionary > Translate > Search with just One-Click or a Hotkey. Features: Smart Translation, Translate selected text with a hotkey, Single click without selected text, Full-Text Translation, Text suggestions, Translate documents, Translate a web page,...