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"Necessity is the mother of invention."
Living in a shared house it often makes sense to eat together. It reduces washing up and stops people fighting over who gets to use the oven. Sharing the cooking is of course a fertile source of blazing rows, normally over whose turn it is. Rotas often quickly break down as everyone has lives to lead and it can quickly become impossible to track who has swapped nights with who. Also how do you account for those who do not eat in the house as often as others? Creating a fair system that is not too rigid or too petty can be a nightmare, ruining everyone's fun.
The Chef-A-Matic was written is to solve this problem and version 1.0 has successfully kept the peace in a fractious household for 2 years and counting. The system simply records who cooks on what day and who they cook for. It awards a point each time you cook. Each time you eat it deducts a fraction. This fraction is simply one over the average attendance at meals. This means those who have cooked more than their share have a positive score and those who have cooked less have a negative score.
The Chef-A-Matic therefore has the following advantages:
--Clear representation of relative performance.
--Gives confidence that the system is fair.
--No need for strict rotas.
--Whoever is available to cook can cook without fear that the effort will not be remembered.
The Chef-A-Matic will also aid in keeping track of a cooking budget. It is possible to enter the amount spent by the chef on communal food for each meal. Using the totals page is then possible to see who spent what over a period.
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Checkbook is an electronic checkbook register. You enter transactions into Checkbook just as you would on your paper version. But instead of pulling out your calculator each month and struggling with the chore of balancing your checkbook, mark off the items in Checkbook that are shown on your monthly statement and Checkbook will calculate it for you. Without the learning curve of a complicated accounting program, you get the job done.
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Silhouette is a plugin for Adobe Illustrator 8, 9 and 10 to convert bitmap images to vectors images with unique correction tools.
It instantly converts black and white or colour bitmap images into vector designs ready for use. Graphic artists are faced every day with the problem of having to redesign logos or illustrations because the files they have to use are less than perfect (faxes, visiting cards, low definition files) or the original fonts have gone missing.
Unique correction tools:
* righting a logo so it is perfectly horizontal: a logo is never perfectly aligned in a scanner.
* sharpening corners: these are very often rounded or truncated and amending this in a standard program can be a very time-consuming operation.
* suppressing unnecessary points: simplifying outlines and streamlining the touching up process, thereby saving time.
* converting "flat curves" into straight lines: an enlarged flat curve always reveals defects.
* aligning segments on the same axis: all logo base lines or letters aligned in one fell swoop.
* smoothing tangents: when two curves are not tangent they create bumps that affect the harmony. Detecting them and correcting them can be quite a chore with standard programs.
* suppressing unnecessary points in curves whilst retaining their shape: curves will have an optimum number of points and will be quite straightforward to manipulate.
The smartest way from bitmap to vectors!
Silhouette is available for Windows and Macintosh.
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ProUpdater v5.0, Open Window's latest release of its highly regarded file backup and synchronization program, makes it easy to set up a customized backup routine to protect your irreplaceable data files. In addition, the program excels at the task of keeping your various machines "in synch". Using this double-threat capability, the user can set up a backup routine and a multiple-machine synchronization system with one review of their file system.
ProUpdater can handle up to 1000 directories, each containing up to 5000 files in a single "Update" operation! Using the Batch File mode, dozens of Update operations may be chained together and launched with a single button push. Because ProUpdater is designed to intelligently backup or synchronize only those files that have changed, it is extremely fast. A backup of thousands of files may be maintained in under a minute making it much less of a chore to keep your data safe. The program is also compatible with the Windows Task Scheduler and can be set to run automatically, accomplishing your backup and synchronization operations unattended.
ProUpdater will work with any Windows-compatible network and can be an indispensable tool for the harried network administrator. The program is perfect for the power user or IS professional with complex file synchronization and manipulation tasks, but its easy-to-use interface makes it an accessible tool for the average user as well.
ProUpdater can be configured to perform backup operations, directory re-alignment operations, general multi-computer "house-cleaning" and a host of other tasks requiring efficient operation on files based on their names, extensions, sizes, ages and attributes.
Most options may be stored on a directory-by-directory basis, within the source directory itself, assuring that the appropriate settings will always be used when servicing that particular directory.
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Keeping track of files and protecting them from loss or damage is a never ending chore for any active PC user. Here is a simple utility that will take some of the insecurity and the tedium out of finding, deleting and copying over duplicate or version files. With Comparator, you won't need to open two Explorer windows to make painstaking comparisons but you'll still have the Windows system menu available to you by right-clicking a file. Here, too, is an alternative to the Microsoft® Briefcase -- install this program everywhere you go to keep shared files in sync. Finally, don't neglect full backup routines, but do make use of Comparator to quickly update a small backup set before you get down to some serious work. You can also run Comparator in multi-language interface (all menus, dialog texts and messages). Or create your own language by editing the language file directly.
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Webroot Software's MacWasher® X provides security on Macintosh OS X by allowing you to power-wash your activity history, protecting your privacy online and offline. Many people do not realize that the operating system and other software programs store information about what they have done, what applications they've launched, what documents they've used, what web sites they've visited, and various other activities they've performed. Therefore, anyone else can see what you have been doing on your Mac, which raises privacy concerns. Furthermore, much of your activity information takes up valuable disk space, and recovering this space can be very beneficial to Mac system performance. Cleaning up the history of your activities can be a tedious chore of manually removing each history file or entry. If privacy and disk space are to be maintained, this process must be performed every time you use your computer. MacWasher X can automate this process for you! MacWasher X's AutoWash feature will automatically clean up whatever tracks you want removed, whenever you want. The improved bleach feature gives you security options that can be set over 11 times stronger than even the United States Department of Defense requirements. You will find a much more detailed list of wash choices, including application suites such as Microsoft Office X and the Adobe Design Suite, as well as full customization of your Recent Items cleaning. MacWasher X adds the ability to wash the chat history files of many major chat programs such as iChat, ICQ and AIM, as well as the popular "all-in-one" OS X chat programs Proteus and Fire. MacWasher X also offers cleaning of a much wider variety of browsers, covering the new Apple web browser Safari, AOL, Opera and Mozilla, as well as the current OS X versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape. Utilizing Webroot Software's Plug-in technology, MacWasher X gives users a more robust Custom Wash feature, including free Plug-in updates from Webroot.
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Your browser records your Internet surfing habits. Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL and many other web browsers all store copies of every web page you've visited, every picture viewed, and small text files called "cookies" placed by some web sites on your computer. These files not only take up valuable space on your hard drive, but they also slow down your browser over time and enable anyone with access to your computer to see exactly where you've been and what you've been viewing.
Cache & Cookie Washer is the award winning privacy and clean-up utility that eliminates all these tracks from your computer! Cleaning up the history of your activities can be a tedious chore of manually removing each history file or entry. If privacy and disk space are to be maintained, this process must be performed every time you use your computer. Cache & Cookie Washer makes cleaning up a breeze!
Cache & Cookie Washer can automatically clean up your browser's cache, cookies, and history! It can run in the background and clean up your tracks when you are done surfing the Internet or any other time you choose. Everyone from computer beginners to expert users agree: Cache & Cookie Washer is an essential tool for protecting your privacy and improving your computer's performance.
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Catfood CamSaver displays live video from any camera connected to your PC as a screensaver. CamSaver is easy to configure, just select the video device you wish to use and set the refresh rate in frames per second (FPS).
You could place a webcam in a window and enjoy the view when the screensaver runs, monitor a wireless camera or connect a camcorder - CamSaver works with any Video for Windows compatible camera.
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Back2Life is the smallest and simplest undelete utility for Windows. Looking similar to Windows Explorer, it provides access to erased files and folders that are beyond the reach of the Recycle Bin. No special skills are needed - treat erased files and folders just like normal ones. Supported file systems FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. Designed for MS Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2K/XP.
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JC Spyware Remover and Adware Killer - Scan your PC Today for Free
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Access Manager for Windows allows you to restrict access to to key features of Windows, such as Control Panels or Start menu, network, Taskbar, desktop, system tray, Network Access Control Page, Control Internet usage and more. It can also disable the Ctrl+alt+delete keys, the function keys at startup, allows to password protect Windows and restrict users to running specific applications only, control Internet usage, view statistics of computer
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Chemistry teaching software which simulates the bonding of Ionic compounds on screen. Learn how Ionic compounds are formed by atoms gaining and losing electrons. Includes a reference section to support students learning with basic facts and information. Price includes full site license.
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Gold Lace is a screen saver which generates spectacular abstract pictures. The screen displays images which look like exotic flowers, elaborate laces or jewels that continuously replace each other. The pictures never repeat, and each time you can see a completely new show! Any image can be stored on the disk in JPEG or BMP formats; you can choose its size over the range of 10*10 - 2000*2000 pixels.
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This game is an unusual remake of arkanoid game. Your goal is to destroy all alien turrets to complete each level. You don't need to always deflect the plasma sphere, but you really need to evade the alien shells and missiles to survive.
There are no time-expirations in the trial version, but only tutorial mission and the first levels of each other missions are available. Full version contains all levels and mission editor.
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