Shareware Night at DACS

In keeping with the last several General Meetings of using DACS’ own members to present, the Tuesday, September 6 meeting will be no exception. The topic for the night will be Shareware our members like. Several of our DACS members will present products that they use and find invaluable.

Bruce Preston, Jamie Yates, Marc Cohen, and Jim Scheef will each one or more of their favorite Shareware applications. These applications will be ones that they find useful in running their systems or useful in their daily lives.

Bruce Preston will present TextPad. Whether you simply need a powerful replacement for Notepad, a tool for editing your web pages, or a programming IDE, TextPad does what you want, the way you would expect.

He will also spend a few minutes showing some simple additional tools such as Cool Ruler which allows you to measure things on your screen in pixels, cm, inches, etc. MouseZoom provides a 50x magnification of parts of your screen and a color dropper to find the exact color of a pixel. And Clic*Pic which will resize and compress your images, make thumbnails, a project folder, and create a professional looking gallery.

Jamie Yates will present Roboform, the top-rated password manager and web form filler that completely automates password entering and form filling. This product encrypts your passwords for security and can run entirely from a USB key.

Marc Cohen will present Sun Clock which is a computer screen version of the very expensive wall sized sun clock. It graphically shows, on a world map, the position of the sun and moon and the rise and set lines as they change with the seasons. The program also shows moon phases, a clock face, and the local star field indicating the position of the sun and moon and stars.

Jim Scheef will present xReminder Pro. This elegant looking, multi-featured, tray-based reminder software allows you to organize important dates and times. Keeping track of your important dates and events has never been easier with this program.

Be at this meeting or you will miss out on some very useful software that you may have overlooked and bring a guest or two with you to show them what DACS is like.

Also, if you or someone you know uses a program that they find helpful and would like to present it to the DACS audience contact Jamie Yates in person or send an email to vpprograms@dacs.org.