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for the small business
and the individual computer user - world
wide !
Freeware, Shareware and public domain
see also: http://smbtools.tripod.com/tbsctools.html
FREEWARE is an excellent opportunity to enhance your computers functionality with tools and applications normally not included with your operating system. SHAREWARE gives you the opportunity to try software before you buy it. Shareware requires you to register with the author(s) for a mostly reasonable fee to compensate them for their efforts.
Nowadays we will often find a mix of FREEWARE and SHAREWARE - the excellent Office Suite from:
www.software602.com - 602Pro - PC SUITE 2000
is a good example for this approach. The main modules: 602
Text (word processor), 602 Tab (spreadsheet)
and 602 Photo (photo editor) cover everything
what the normal business user can expect from an office suite (and it is
totally free of charge). Some add-ons can be bought for a reasonable price
(and you can try them out for a period of 14 days before you commit yourself
to a product). This is not only a great deal - this is a fair deal !
Below we list links - mainly to
FREEWARE which we have downloaded over time ...
( and most of it we use ourselves)
:
We list only links to products which are not crippled and don't put the user under any pressure to pay royalties.
Important:
If one of the links doesn't work - PLEASE let us know by E-MAIL!
Thank you.
Accounting / Cash Books / Cost Accounting
CALCOM - Cash Flow Software ( http://www.calcom.de )
Mortgage
Calculator (freeware) - http://www.netiv.com/vinnie/vinnie.exe
Personal
Finance 2000 (freeware) - http://www.iic.cc/pf2000.zip
Billing
Time 2000 (freeware) - http://www.gratisware.com
WINGS 2000
Lite - Accounting Package (freeware) - http://www.wings2000.com
3S Windows
Accounting (freeware) - http://www.clarisys.ca
Banana
Cash / Cheque Book application (freeware) - http://www.banana/ch/base/eng/welcome.html
POS - Point of Sale
We recommend POSITIVE for Windows which is
also available in a FREEWARE version ! They even send you a
CD-ROM with everything on it. Excellent -
and if your needs increase or if you want a web store - this is the
way to go.
We are working together with many small retailers
in our target group, see what they are using at the moment -
and most important: what use they make of
their existing software. POSITIVE for Windows
beats ALL other
POS Software available
for our target group - even in the FREE version !
To know more go to : www.gopositive.com
If you are setting up a new business,
have existing systems in place - even if you are very happy with what you
have: do yourself a favour and check
this one out ! You probably discover a whole new world.
Backup Utilities
Books and booklets
KNOWWARE,
Denmark - offers FREE computer booklets (in English and other languages)
(http://www.knowwareglobal.com)
Business Planning
Business Planning Tools from
PLANWARE (incl. lots of FREEWARE) from: www.planware.org
(download eguide.zip - very recommended)
B-Plan - the mother of all Business Planning Tools ( www.b-plan.com ) (great shareware version available)
Calculators
Financial
Tools at www.download.com
Data Base Applications
[ to be
continued - list is under construction ]
Desktop Publishing
[ to be
continued - list is under construction ]
Dial-Up Networking
www.helmig.com The best resource regarding Windows networking !
[ to be
continued - list is under construction ]
Disk Utilities
[ to be
continued - list is under construction ]
File Utilities
File Manager:
Salamander from
www.altap.cz
[ salam152 is FREEWARE - we are using it too
]
FREEWARE Web Sites
SIMTEL - Shareware, Freeware, Public Domain (our favourite)
www.thefreesite.com
www.download.com
(very large shareware site - contains also a lot of "freeware")
Graphics tools
IRFAN
Image Viewer ( www.irfanview.com )
Internet related Freeware
[ to be continued
- list is under construction ]
Label Printing
NOT FREEWARE - but a professional package from New Zealand (Demos available):
Not only if you are living in New Zealand / Australia we recommend to have a serious look at the following “KIWI” made product range from HEXCOM :
TICKET 2000 Professional Bar-coding
and Labelling Software for Microsoft Windows
from : HEXCOM Software Limited, Christchurch,
New Zealand
www.hexcom.com
[We mention them with more details because they are a New Zealand company. We are however not affiliated in any way with HEXCOM Software Limited.]
Shareware:AVERY
Labels (www.avery.com)
Download also the file: av-prod.hlp
from their web site - very useful.
LAZLAB at: www.softseek.com or: The Softcentre web site ( http://www.softcentre.com )
(Freeware - you will find it under category: 'Business
and Productivity' and then under: 'Labels and Business Cards' listed
as: LazaLabl(32bit) v. 2.7.
top.
or from the : Softcentre web site
By downloading the FREE office suite from Software602
you can also create labels from within the word processor
application. A good idea is to set up ODBC for our
applications - or export the file(s) to .csv format - then apply
if required queries from with the Software602 spreadsheet
application and use the resulting records to create labels.
Other Labelling Software (Shareware and Evaluation Copies) :
BARTENDER
(Shareware) - www.seagullscientific.com
NICE Label
Suite from EuroPlus (Shareware) - www.nicelabel.com
Networking
www.helmig.com
The best resource regarding Windows networking !
Office Suites
We
have downloaded both suites and would suggest to our visitors to give them
both a go. Please have a look at both
websites and study the specifications
before you download them. 602Pro - PC SUITE 2000 is only ~ 14 MB to
download and runs well even
on older machines.
602Pro
- PC SUITE 2000 From what we have seen
so far it is our favourite. What else do you really need ?
(www.software602.com)
No longer free - but worth to have a look:
Star
Office from SUN
Fast machine required for good performance; huge download ~ 60 MB
(www.sun.com/staroffice)
PDF - portable document format
Most of us probably know the freely available ACROBAT Reader from www.adobe.com .
ADOBE has a huge range of sophisticated applications including the application to create files in .pdf format. For many businesses it has become a must to create documents in .pdf format to distribute them internally, over the web or to their customers. We really recommend to have a look at their web site. There are even trial versions for most of their applications.
However - esp. for our target group - there is a big hurdle to overcome; it is the price for these applications. There is nothing wrong with setting such high prices - the packages are worth each cent - but it puts them out of reach for most users.
The ADOBE Acrobat package is listed at around US $ 250.-- at their web site. In this part of the world you have to fork out around US $ 375.-- to get it (if you find it). Are there alternatives ? Yes - there are.
You may wish to visit the following web sites:
www.jawssystems.com
www.zeon.com.tw
http://www.amyuni.com/pdfpd.htm
win2pdf from: www.daneprairie.com
(free for non-commercial use - you need Windows 2000)
and download some demos.
That's all nice and fine - but YOU want to make this trip to Fiji, buy a new VCR or go this Saturday on a shopping spree with wife and kids instead of buying one of these packages.
Your wishes are granted. Just do the following :
(1) Go to http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost and download Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (or later version) for Windows 95 etc.
You will find the file gw601w32.exe
under 'Obtaining Ghostscript ... or download a .zip file
Also download GSView gsv34w32.exe
!
Install both of them.
(2) Install a NEW printer on your computer (just the driver - not physically of course)
Go to Settings, Printers, click on 'Add
new printer'
Select the APPLE LASER Writer II NT
select 'Print to File'
(3) Open the document you want to make a .pdf file for
Issue the PRINT command from the FILE
menu (select the APPLE printer) and save the file as a .prn file
Start the Ghostviewer and OPEN the .prn
file
Select CONVERT from the FILE menu (Device
= pdfwrite, resolution = 600), click OK
Output filename: Select a file name
with the .pdf extension
It is totally FREE (and legal of course).
Now you may go on your trip to Fiji (or
alternativly: your wife and the kids will love you for going shopping with
them
this weekend ....).
POS - Point of Sale
We recommend POSITIVE for Windows which is
also available in a FREEWARE version ! They even send you a
CD-ROM with everything on it. Excellent -
and if your needs increase or if you want a web store - this is the
way to go.
We are working together with many small retailers
in our target group, see what they are using at the moment -
and most important: what use they make of
their existing software. POSITIVE for Windows
beats ALL other
POS Software available
for our target group - even in the FREE version !
To know more go to : www.gopositive.com
If you are setting up a new business,
have existing systems in place - even if you are very happy with what you
have: do yourself a favour and check
this one out ! You will probably discover a whole new world.
Printing Utilities
Download
"Print File" - www.zdnet.co.uk/software/utilities
Project Management
[ to be continued - list
is under construction ]
Query Tools
WinSQL32
from www.indus-soft.com
The most versatile Query Tool we have seen
- works perfect with the files from our applications. Download
also the documentation from their site !
From G. Poulouse: QTODBC.zip (on our web site - shareware)
Query
Tool from Chisel Software Australia This product is SHAREWARE
- you are expected to register;
(www.chiselsoftware.com)
but it is worthwhile from the price / performance ratio !
The query functions in MS-EXCEL or in the spreadsheet
application of the Software602 office suite are also
excellent.
Report Writers
Seagate Analysis / Seagate Info ( from SEAGATE Software ) - www.seagate.com
Excellent FREE tools - require
a good performance machine with 32 MB, better 64 MB RAM.
At the time of creating this page
a CD ROM could be ordered FREE from Seagate.
Also from the SEAGATE Company:
Some years ago
we have received on a promotional CD ROM from PC PRO Magazine a FREE copy
of
CRYSTAL Reports
(older version 4.5) - it still covers all the information retrieval needs
incl. the processing
of ODBC databases;
if you are interested in the CD which is clearly marked as FREEWARE please
contact us
(registered
users only).
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for the small business
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