Real monks are those who live by the labor of their hands.
Goods of the monastery should always be sold
at a price a little lower than the current market-price.
(Rule of St. Benedict)

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Download any software clicking on the relevant platform-icon:

(these applications are also available and downloadable for Apple Macintosh Classic).

AskPoirot  (Shareware)

Very fast engine for searching in one go one or several sets of words in hundreds of files created by wordprocessors, pagemakers etc. In fact, if you write a lot, there may come a time when you are in doubt whether a certain word has always been spelled correctly: here comes AskPoirot’s usefulness, since you can make a search of the mispelled word and after a while you will see which of your files contain the mispelled word. Again, through AskPoirot it is possible to know how many times a given word/sentence occurs in all of your files and in each file.

• To speed up the process, it is possible to tell AskPoirot which kind of files and which folders are not to be processed.
• Text-font and -size of the Search field and of the Result list may be modified (i.e.you are not bound to the System Font!): this approch is very convenient for users who have often to switch from texts in Roman characters to texts using, for example, Cyrillic etc. characters.
• Previewing of the context of the words/sentences found supported.
• The Favorites Menu helps speeding up the process of accessing folders containing documents that require frequent checking.

  • Download AskPoirot 3.1.8 for Macintosh (3.7 MB)

Calculus  (Shareware)

Useful calculator that besides the usual converting functions (Temperature, Pressure, Speed etc.) handles currency-convertion. A useful Log-window allows to see operations as they are performed. If used only to get x-rates from the Net, it is a freeware application.

• Double display in conversion mode: it shows both the entity converting from (i.e. currency, degrees etc) and the entity converting to.
• Updating x-rates from the Net.
• Base-rates management for particular currencies.
• Auto Decimals-Management for particular currencies.
• Delta variation in currency calculation.
• Saving and printing functions.

  • Download Calculus 1.3.1 for Macintosh (4.2 MB)

mp3Player  (Shareware)
Small audio-player application to listen to songs from several sources one after the other: insert one or more CD-Rs, mount external Drives (ex. pendrives) and drop one or several folders containing audio-files, and watch mp3Player list all of the songs in a single virtual Playlist and play them continuously.
Supports playback of all Quicktime-supported audio-files and will display QuickTime pictures or movies. Smart auto-detect, auto-play, auto-eject CD-ROM options. Loop, Replay, EQ, 3D Effects, random play. Favorites folder for easy access to favorite songs. Disk-burning, importing Playlists from iTunes and iPod, quick access to the content of the Music folder supported.
  • Download mp3Player 1.6.1 for Macintosh (5.1 MB)

eTunes  (Shareware)
eTunes (i.e. easyTunes) is a small application that allows even non-professional musicians to create and play their own tunes. In fact it is enough to click the piano-keys and eTunes will take care to code your inputs for the right output.
eTunes’ songs can be converted into audio-files (MP3/AIFF/WAV) to be played by other audio applications (ex. iTunes), or may be used as Ringtones for cellphones (for ringtones, make sure you first read the eTunes Help file).
  • Download eTunes 1.3.8 for Macintosh (4.7 MB)

Mailbox Manager  (Shareware)

Utility to remote-check in one go one or several POP3 Mailboxes (i.e. Mailboxes you access through Emailer applications such as Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora and the like, or through a browser) and fully manage their messages (inspect, delete, forward/redirect etc.) before downloading them.

• Mailbox: it is possible to get the list of all its messages or a selection of them (ex. the last five messages, or messages from 7 to 11); and if you leave copy of them on the server, you can retrieve only the last (new) ones.
• Messages: of each message you can view its partial or full content; and when necessary, the message can be redirected/forwarded. Should you find any undesired message, you have the option to mark it as SPAM and to delete it.
• Databases: the SPAM database offers criteria to mark as SPAM incoming messages; while the White List database holds the addresses of friendly mails that --when checking mail-- will be marked as such.
• Quitting Mailbox Manager, your Emailer application can be automatically launched to retrieve the remaining messages (or your browser may automatically connect to a site supporting Mail OnLine).
• Scheduled mail-checking supported.

  • Download Mailbox Manager 1.5.9 for Macintosh (6.1 MB)

Download Manager  (Shareware)
Apart from being a reliable ftp/http multi-file downloader (25 files at a time), Download Manager’s usefulness lies in resuming interrupted downloads.
Scheduled downloads supported. The miniBrowser function allows to connect to a site and download its files.
  • Download Download Manager 1.4.3 for Macintosh (5.3 MB)

Website Manager  (Shareware)

Handy utility to manage in a friendly way a WEB Site through the FTP protocol: you can upload/download files, change their name etc.

• Uploading and downloading of queued files and folders (i.e. directories) supported.
• Resuming of interrupted uploads/downloads supported.
• Creation of desktop-links to specific addresses supported (i.e. double-clicking an address opens the specified directory of the website).
• Interface customizable (single/double paned window).

  • Download Website Manager 1.3.9 for Macintosh (4.2 MB)

BigBen  (Shareware)
Suppose you have a friend on holiday in some remote part of the globe and you want to know the right time to call him up: fine! Let BigBen show you at a glance the current date and time of one or more (max. 12) cities all over the world. Two hundred and eightyfive selectable cities, and users may replace the default locations with locations of their own choice. Auto Light-Saving Time supported!
  • Download BigBen 2.1.5 for Macintosh (3.6 MB)

4getMeNot  (Shareware)

Electronic agenda to store email/web addresses, phone-numbers and text-data (postal-addresses, personal/confidential data etc.). It dials phone/mobile-numbers and launches your emailer/browser. It can import relevant data from Address Book, Eudora, vCards and ldif/csv formats (i.e. Thunderbird etc.), and export data in vCard and ldif/csv formats (i.e. importable by Address Book, Thunderbird etc.). Supported features:

• All user-entered data are encrypted.
• Password protection.
• Data-Backup (encrypted).
• Dialing via modem or through the speakers.
• Sending Mail (To, Cc, Bcc).
• Reduced Rate code (012) supplied when necessary.
• Phone-line security by relevant code.
• Portability (i.e. moving from a country to another will set the right phone country-code).
• 'Reminder' function to remind dates/times.
• Printing of mailing labels and envelopes supported.

  • Download 4getMeNot 3.1.9 for Macintosh (5.9 MB)

miniWEBEdit  (Shareware)
miniWEBEdit is a (X)HTML editor that allows you to easily create pages (i.e. html documents) for a website.
It contains tutorial samples to add buttons, tables, lists, Google-search code, JumpMenus and other useful stuff; and in its CSS Editor you may create new styles, and import and create .css files. Adding Tags, colors and accented characters too is a very simple process.
While creating a page, you can at any time:

• switch to preview mode to see how it looks in a browser
• validate your code at different Markup Validation sites
• access the W3C site to get online help when in doubt how to apply tags, attributes etc.

  • Download miniWEBEdit 2.1.1 for Macintosh (4.4 MB)

English&Fun  (Shareware)

Program designed to improve one’s listening- and comprehension-level (American-English and Spanish-Mexican pronunciation supported).

• Voices and their attributes (i.e. pitch and modulation) can be easily changed in a Control Palette.
• Speed may be varied to suit the user’s comprehension level (beginner, advanced, proficient).
• Option to highlight each word of the text while being read.
• Check-Spelling: besides the internal default English Dictionary, custom Dictionaries may be created by the user.
• Function to look up definition/meaning of words supported.
• Find/Replace functions supported.
• Table of irregular verbs.
• A text, or part of it, can be read in a loop (i.e. several times).
• Tutorial showing how to write a play (i.e. a text with different voices, pitch etc.) and listen to it.
• Tips showing how to add emphasis etc. (see English&Fun Help).

  • Download English&Fun 2.2.0 for Macintosh (4.2 MB)

Slides&Movies  (Shareware)
Watch movies and slide-shows with background music and have each slide speak its title, or its own text, or a longer text (ex. the text of a conference) throught the whole show (American-English and Spanish-Mexican pronunciation supported).
During a show or while watching a movie (Theater mode supported), you can change the monitor’s ColorSync profile and adjust its brightness in order to watch each slide or movie at its best; if necessary, the dimension of the slides can be scaled.
Fading effects supported and fully customizable.
Eventually, necessary tools are available for creating/editing movies, and for inserting sound-tracks and special effects.
  • Download Slides&Movies 3.1.2 for Macintosh (4.7 MB)

Majordomo  (Shareware)

Home-database created in order to have always and easily at disposal personal and/or family-related data and info: anniversaries, dated to be reminded of, bank accounts’ and Insurance’s data, Credit Cards, login-strings and passwords, email and website addresses, and so on and so forth.
You can view records by their ‘Category’, search for words, make the application remind you (even automatically!) of anniversaries and expiration-dates, retrieve a picture or any other file or folder related to a given entry (for instance, copy of your Passport, Driving License...), connect to Internet etc. Supported features:

• All user-entered data are encrypted.
• Password protection.
• Internet (email/browser).
• ‘Reminder’ function to be reminded of dates.
• ‘Pre-alert’ function (i.e., you may choose to be reminded one day, three days, one week and/or one month ahead of a given date).
• Printing.

  • Download Majordomo 1.0.4 for Macintosh (4.5 MB)

Pico  (Shareware)

Named after Pico della Mirandola (the 15th century philosopher renown for his amazing memory) Pico is a easy-to-use yet versatile and powerful database for organizing one or more libraries. By library one should understand Collection of...: in fact you can customize the predefined labels (Name, Title, Volume, Editor etc.) so that they reflect the kind of collection you wish to built; for instance, for your collection of CDs, labels could be set to: Composer, Title, Conductor, Genre etc.; for a store, labels could be set to: Product, Category, Manufacturer, Price etc.; for a hostel: Surname/Name, Address, Date of Entry, Room Number, Guardian, Fee etc., and so on and so forth.

• Number of records recordable: no limit.
• Data-finding: always less than one second.
• Data-protection by password and/or enchryption.
• Data-export/import supported.
• Several printing options available.

  • Download Pico 3.0.3 for Macintosh (21.7 MB)

Screen Fun-fair  (Shareware)
Cool Screen Saver and Energy Saver application that lets you see pictures and movies you created yourself.
A special function (‘Reminder’) reminds you at a fixed time or at regular intervals, either by voice or by a text-message, of anything you decided to be reminded of.
It also offers an option to repair monitors affected by the so called 'image persistence' and 'burn-in' effects.
  • Download Screen Fun-fair 1.3.6 for Macintosh (32 MB)

Chronos  (Freeware)
You may know the date of your birthday, but you may not know what day it was! Do you know whether the French Revolution started on a Monday or a Friday? What day will 2.2.2044 be? Feed Chronos any date from 1200 BCE to 2100 CE, and you will get its weekday.
Moreover, what is the current Islamic year? or the current Bengali year? Or what were the Islamic and Bengali years in 1759? Chronos is able to provide you with this kind of answers too, and lets you add/remove other Eras besides the default (Bengali and Islamic) ones.
Eventually you may get the day of the week of Christmas and Epiphany from 100 CE to 5000 CE, and retrieve the dates of Easter Sundays from the first Century up to 5000 CE.
  • Download Chronos 1.2.1 for Macintosh (Intel) (2.7 MB)

Psalms and Ragas  (Freeware)
Audio-application containing all the Raga-based (i.e. Indian musical tones-based) Psalm-tunes and Refrains for the Psalms and Canticles created at St. Benedict Monastery.
Just select a Refrain, a Canticle or a Psalm-tune and listen to its music, once or more times. Tunes can be saved as audio-files (MP3).
  • Download Psalms and Ragas 1.1.1 for Macintosh (3.5 MB)  Windows (840 KB)

iRemind  (Freeware)
Utility that at the user’s fixed time calls for attention by a customizable screen-message, or by saying ‘Hello!’ (or whatever you wish) or by playing a piece of music or a couple of beeps.
  • Download iRemind 1.0.5 for Macintosh (Intel) (1.6 MB)

iSchedule  (Freeware)
iSchedule makes it easy for you to build schedules; i.e. you can easily add and/or subtract hours, minutes and seconds.
Maestros like it to quickly and easily build concert-schedules.
  • Download iSchedule 1.0.7 for Macintosh (Intel) (1.5 MB)

Chronometer  (Freeware)
Utility to know how long it takes you to do a certain task. For instance, how long does it take you to type a text of 40, or 80, or 180 words? Or, last week, how long did it take Mabel to turn down Bobby at chess?
All results are logged, and they may be viewed in the appropriate Log Window.
  • Download Chronometer 1.0.8 for Macintosh (Intel) (1.6 MB)

Desktop Inspector  (Freeware)
‘Desktop Inspector’ detects whether, on the Desktop or in any other location, there are unknown invisible items, i.e. files or folders you created unwillingly or by accident, or were created by a third-party software. You may then decide to view or delete them.
  • Download Desktop Inspector 1.0.5 for Macintosh (Intel) (1.6 MB)

iTranslate  (Freeware)
Type a word and get its translation from web-based dictionaries. Languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin.
  • Download iTranslate 1.0.3 for Macintosh (Intel) (1.6 MB)

iEncode  (Freeware)
iEncode, out of a source file, creates a new file encoded according to your choice. 93 encodings supported, icluding Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
  • Download iEncode 1.0.8 for Macintosh (Intel) (1.6 MB)