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The Devil's Gallery A combination of wise words and images which will make you think. - FREEWARE.
Screen Capture Capture images from your screen. A replacement for the old Windows Snipping Tool, but with new features. Optional image editor. Can automatically name saved image files. Capture either partial screen or full screen. - FREEWARE. Quick Calendar Organize your life with this simple calendar, with alarms/notifications, and search. You can also configure public holidays. - FREEWARE. Quick Camera Capture still images or video from your USB webcam or camera. Snapshot delay option. Motion detect option. Change colors, or brightness and contrast. - FREEWARE. FTP Downloader Automate the downloading of files by FTP using scripts. Useful for backing-up important files from your websites that may be changing. - FREEWARE.NEW SOFTWARE FOR 2021
PaintBucket Paint and edit images, scan, process, and print images - FREEWARE.
MySpreadsheets A spreadsheet program for all your spreadsheet needs. Includes all normal spreadsheet functions, and graphs. Manage your finances, keep track of sports results, etc. - FREEWARE Notify Automatically notify people when you have been either active or inactive at your computer. This is useful for people who live alone and may be either unwell or aging. If something is wrong, this software can let other people know about it, so they can check up on you. - FREEWARE Plain Catalog Create catalogs of the files on your disks, like backups or MP3s. Once catalogs are created you can then create useful lists of the files in your catalogs, such as MP3s, and search the catalogs for the files you are looking for. File numbering is compatible with many modern MP3 players and amplifiers. - FREEWARE Archive Incremental Produce backup archives and incremental backup archives, compressed in either ZIP or RAR format. Use to create small, incremental backups of only changed files, so you don't have to upload huge files to your backup repository on the web. Recommended for use in backing up specific folders, rather than entire modern hard drives. - FREEWARE Runner Run programs and commands from menus for power users. This program allows you to quickly access your favorite programs, and very quickly edit or modify menu entry details from a simple text editor. Create a menu for your favorite system utilities or commands. Unlimited menus. Easily run programs with a timer, or with Administrator privileges. FREEWARE Quick Graph Create and view graphs from data supplied in text files. Can display up to eight series of graph data on the same graph. Line graphs, bar graphs, stacked bar graphs, and pie charts. Print with labels. View and edit raw data. FREEWARE MyEdit Create and edit a variety of files from plain text, RTF, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, and PHP. This program can display HTML files in a browser, as you type, so that you can see what they would look like when viewed on the web. You can also create applications with PHP and execute them. This program can create and edit html help files for use with both Solway's Help Dialog and Solway's HTML Viewer, which use HTML and support basic CSS styling. FREEWARE HTML Viewer - Help Viewer This program is a basic HTML viewer which is designed for displaying basic help documentation, which can have a table of contents, using a subset of HTML and CSS instructions. This program comes as part of the MyEdit Editor package. FREEWARE Startup Manager Manage those programs and files that open at system startup. You can disable or delete programs and files that run at system startup. You can also add files to open or run at startup. 64-bit. FREEWARE Search Filenames This program is designed for searching the filenames of all files in a particular folder, and listing the results. Chosen files can then be opened. A typical use would be for searching a folder full of screenshots taken from the web. FREEWARE Mouse Tester: Test mouse buttons, scroll wheel, and show mouse polling rate. Stand-alone, portable application. FREEWARE.Plain Duplicate Finder (Find duplicate files that clutter-up your hard drive - FREEWARE)
Recent favorites:
Solway's SD Card Tester (Test SD cards before using them for something important - FREEWARE)
Solway's File Patcher (Patch files, create patch files, or find and replace in files - FREEWARE)
Solway's Electricity Cost Calculator (Keep track of electricity usage, solar production, and costs - FREEWARE)
Solway's Script Reader (Read scripts from your screen without unwanted screen glare - FREEWARE)
My Personal Planner (Personal diary, planning for the future, financial management)
Solway's Audio Recorder (FREEWARE)
Solway's Expression Calculator (FREEWARE)
Solway's Deskew (FREEWARE) (Deskew images)
* Update * Solway's Plain Backup (Backup your files)
* Update * Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player (FREEWARE)
* Update * Delete Doctor (Delete files that resist your attempts to delete them - FREEWARE)
* Update *Task Scheduler (Schedule tasks such as virus checking, backups, alarms, etc - FREEWARE)
* Update * CONTROL3 - File Manager - With .ZIP and .RAR support.
* Update * Multi-Reminders (Reminds you of birthdays, bills, shows, appointments, etc - FREEWARE)
* Update * Disk Investigator (Discover all that is hidden on your hard disk - FREEWARE)
- Plain Duplicate Finder - Find duplicate files that clutter-up your hard drive. Freeware.
- Solway's SD Card Tester - Test SD cards before using them for something important. Freeware.
- Solway's File Patcher - Patch files, create patch files, or find and replace in files. Freeware.
- Solway's Electricity Cost Calculator - Keep track of electricity usage, solar production, and costs. Freeware.
- Solway's Script Reader - Read scripts from your screen without unwanted screen glare. Freeware.
- My Personal Planner - Personal diary and planner, including financial plans.
- Super Magnify - Powerful zoom viewer. Freeware.
- Solway's Audio Recorder - Record any sound that is played on your sound card.
- Solway's Expression Calculator - Calculate expressions, e.g, sqrt((2 + 3) / 4.56). Freeware.
- Solway's Deskew - Deskew scanned pages of text. Freeware.
- Solway's Plain Backup - A simple, fast, and powerful backup program.
- Solway's Internet TV and Radio player - Listen to free radio and TV from all over the world.
- Password Kernel - Store all your passwords securely.
- EndProcess - Terminate processes or applications with this small utility.
- Delete Doctor - Delete files that are hard to delete
- Easy Loan Calculator - Work out the real cost of loans, and the best ways of payment.
- BookSearch - Search the Internet for new or used books.
- Software Gun - Software submission aid for software authors.
- Multi-Reminders - Reminds you of birthdays, bills, shows, appointments, etc.
- GETrans - German to English translator.
- Control3 - Fast File Managment times three.
- Muret-Sanders Legend German to English e-Dictionary, and the Köhler Classic German-English e-Dictionary on DVD-ROM. Great for translators of German.
MULTI-REMINDERS
A program to remind you of birthdays, bill payments, and appointments. Reminders can be periodic (eg, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, yearly). And you can specify how many days notice to give you. Checks for reminders every time you startup your computer. .
v2.2DOWNLOAD Multi-Reminders (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
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MY SPREADSHEETS
A free spreadsheet program that does all the normal spreadsheet functions. Can save in .XLS format (Excel format), or export as .CSV or text. Extensive formatting, graphing, and printing options. Includes sparkline functions, as well as transpose, text to columns or rows, cell merging, fixed rows and columns, etc. Detailed pop-up help and examples.
DOWNLOAD My Spreadsheets (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
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STARTUP MANAGER
Manage those programs and files that open at system startup. You can disable or delete programs and files that run at system startup. You can also add files to open or run at startup. 64-bit.
DOWNLOAD Startup Manager (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
NOTIFY
Automatically notify people when you have been either active or inactive at your computer. This is useful for people who live alone and may be either unwell or aging. If something is wrong, this software can let other people know about it, so they can check up on you.
DOWNLOAD Notify (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
PAINT BUCKET
A simple-to-use paint program which can also be used for scanning documents or images, converting document images to text (OCR), and for all manner of image processing. Has built-in shapes, image stamps, lines and arrows, highlighting, image filters, etc. Manage your web graphics or your personal photos. Can handle the latest WEBP graphics format images.
DOWNLOAD Paint Bucket (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
PLAIN DUPLICATE FINDER
Find duplicate files in any folder or its subfolders. You can then select which of the duplicates you want to keep, and which to delete. This program will automatically mark which files to delete, but you can change the settings to suit yourself, such as applying a filter for certain file names, sizes, dates, etc. There is also an option to protect critical system files and folders.
DOWNLOAD Plain Duplicate Finder (Setup file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
SOLWAYS SD CARD TESTER
Check and test the integrity of SD cards before you use them. Cheap SD cards purchased online are sometimes faulty. Make sure they work properly before you rely on them. This program can also test the speed of the card, to make sure that the its speed matches with the advertised speed or class of the card. Can be used to test any kind of disk.
DOWNLOAD Solway's SD Card Tester (Setup file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
MY EDIT
Create and edit a variety of files from plain text, RTF, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, and PHP. This program can display HTML files in a browser, as you type, so that you can see what they would look like when viewed on the web. You can also create applications with PHP and execute them. This program can create and edit html help files for use with both Solway's Help Dialog and Solway's HTML Viewer, which use HTML and support basic CSS styling. There is optional highlighting of the different syntaxes.
DOWNLOAD My Edit (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
Solway's File Patcher
Create patch files which contain the differences between two files, to avoid distributing bulky updates. This software comes with a small "patcher" program you can release with your patches. In addition this software has a function to find and replace both text and binary digits in all kinds of files.
DOWNLOAD Solway's File Patcher (Setup file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
Solway's Electricity Cost Calculator
Keep track of electricity usage, solar production, and costs. Especially useful for those with solar panels. Enter your meter readings and your costs or profits will be calculated.
DOWNLOAD Solway's Electricity Cost Calculator (Setup file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
Solway's Script Reader
Read scripts for your videos from the screen, while avoiding unwanted glare from the screen. The glare from the screen can cause unwanted reflections which spoil the video quality - especially if you wear glasses. This program can be expanded to fill the entire screen with a dark background, eliminating the glare.
DOWNLOAD Solway's Script Reader (Setup file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
EASY LOAN CALCULATOR
Work out the real cost of loans, and the best method of repayment. This program calculates any of the following items: Monthly payment, Number of years, interest rate, and Loan amount.
DOWNLOAD Easy Loan Calculator (460 kb setup file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
SUPER MAGNIFY
Magnifies portions of your screen up to 15 times. With special interpolation routine to maintain detail when magnifying. 32 bit Freeware program. You can copy images to the clipboard, or capture color information of pixels.
DOWNLOAD Super Magnify (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
Plain Catalog
- Create catalogs of the files on your disks, like backups or MP3s - Create catalogs of the files on your disks, like backups or MP3s. Once catalogs are created you can then create useful lists of the files in your catalogs, such as MP3s, and search the catalogs for the files you are looking for. File numbering is compatible with many modern MP3 players and amplifiers.
DOWNLOAD Plain Catalog (4Mb setup program for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
My Personal Planner
- Personal diary, planning for the future, financial management - Keep a daily journal, or organize your days ahead of time. Plan for the future with both short-term and long-term plans. Keep track of your finances and prepare for the future. Financial calculations are automatic. Your diary entries can contain links to web addresses, email addresses, or other files on disk. Navigate easily between all diary entries. Diary entries can contain text of different styles, such as boldface, underline, or highlighted.
DOWNLOAD (4Mb setup program for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
Solway's Plain Backup
- Keep your files safe - A simple, fast, and powerful backup program. Customize the program to your needs. Allows you to backup whole folders/directories, or individual files, or files matching a search pattern. Organizes your backup tasks into groups to keep you on top of what would otherwise be a complicated job.
DOWNLOAD (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
Solway's Audio Recorder
Record any sound that is played through your sound card or from other sources like a microphone, CD/DVD, or line-in. You can capture the audio from videos or music that you are playing in a media player or which you are streaming from the web. You can record audio directly to MP3 format.
DOWNLOAD setup program (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
Solway's Expression Calculator
Calculate expressions, e.g, sqrt((2 + 3) / 4.56). This is a calculator which enables you to see exactly what you are doing. Simplify your calculations, and easily save them for later use. You can use an unlimited number of brackets. Trigonometry, logarithms, inverse, square, square root, power, etc.
DOWNLOAD (800kb) setup program (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
Solway's Deskew
Deskew images containing lines of text by rotating the images so that the lines of text are made horizontal. This program is useful for deskewing scanned pages of text.
DOWNLOAD (1Mb) setup program (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
Solway's Internet TV and Radio
Listen to free radio and TV from all over the world. You'll need to find the station URLs, since they can change frequently.
DOWNLOAD (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
EndProcess
EndProcess is a command line utility that can be used to terminate running processes. Best of all EndProcess attempts to close processes gracefully before terminating them forcibly.
On it's own page
DOWNLOAD EndProcess (40kb executable file for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
DELETE DOCTOR
Delete Files that are hard to delete
v1.1
Delete files that are difficult to delete, such as some files left by viruses and trojans, or files with corrupted file names. This program can also delete files like the "index.dat" files, which store Internet history, by scheduling them for deletion upon system restart. Select a file to delete from the built-in file browser or drag a file to the application's icon or window from Window's Explorer.
DOWNLOAD Delete Doctor (150 kb executable for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
CONTROL3 - Fast File Management
DOWNLOAD Control3 (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
SCREEN CAPTURE
Capture images from your screen. A replacement for the old Windows Snipping Tool, but with new features. Optional image editor. Can automatically name saved image files. Capture either partial screen or full screen.
DOWNLOAD Screen Capture (for all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
THE DEVIL'S GALLERY
A combination of wise words and images which will make you think. Over 600 images, with text.
DOWNLOAD The Devil's Gallery (for all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
QUICK CALENDAR
Organize your life with this simple calendar, with alarms/notiifications. With search function. You can also configure public holidays.
DOWNLOAD Quick Calendar (for all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
QUICK CAMERA
Capture still images or video from your USB webcam or camera. Adjust image colours, contrast, and brightness. Has a snapshot delay function, as well as a motion-detect function.
DOWNLOAD Quick Camera (for all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
FTP DOWNLOADER
Automate the downloading of files by FTP using scripts. Useful for backing-up important files from your websites that may be changing.
DOWNLOAD FTP Downloader (for all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
SOLWAY'S TASK SCHEDULER
Run programs or open files or tasks to a schedule.
v1.2
Solway's Task Scheduler is a small program which enables you to start other programs automatically, or play (say) music files, or run batch files, periodically and at pre-defined times. This program functions very well in combination with backup software, disk fragmenters, virus scanners and other regularly scheduled system maintanance utilities.
DOWNLOAD Solway's Task Scheduler (240 kb executable for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
SOLWAY'S MULTIMAIL
Send a message to multiple recipients
v1.3
Send an email message to a number of individuals, so that they each receive a personal message (ie, not CC'd). Messages can have attachments. The message can also be in HTML format.
DOWNLOAD Multimail (519 kb executable installation package for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
PASSWORD KERNEL
v1.6- Securely save and manage your password information -
Securely save and manage your password information. Seven levels of encryption makes sure that your password information is safe. Fast access to your passwords when you need them. Automatically launch login web sites. Store notes with your passwords.
DOWNLOAD Password Kernel (480kb executable installation package for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)- Freeware -
BOOKSEARCH
- Search the world for books -
A small and fast FREEWARE program enabling you to search a number of large book search engines on the Internet for new and used books. Ideal for finding rare or hard-to-find books, or for comparing prices. Search by keyword, title, or author name.
DOWNLOAD BookSearch (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Freeware -
SOFTWARE GUN
- Software Submission Aid for Software Authors -
DOWNLOAD Software Gun (for Windows 10 and all versions of Windows)
- Shareware -
$20
GETrans German to English Translator
- Shareware -
$25
Solway's Book Viewer ™
This software can be used to display any kind of book that has been scanned into images. Whereas Adobe Acrobat is used primarily to display text, this viewer exclusively displays page images. This software is especially suited for displaying information-rich pages, such as dictionaries and maps, that cannot be easily converted to text.
Indexing the pages can be done automatically, or we can develop a custom method for you. Contact us for more details at software@theabsolute.net
Price per licence: $195
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