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

Mailbox Manager  (Shareware)
Utility to check in one go one or several POP3 Mailboxes (i.e. Mailboxes you access through such Emailer applications such Eudora, Outlook Express and the like, or through a browser) before downloading any message.
It is possible to look at the partial or full content of messages; then should you find any undesired message (as SPAM messages or possible virus-attachments), Mailbox Manager gives the option to delete them at once.
Quitting/exiting Mailbox Manager, your Emailer application may be automatically launched to retrieve the remaining messages (or your browser may automatically connect to a site supporting Mail OnLine). In this way, no virus will ever reach and threaten your PC any more. On the other end, if you do have addresses that you NEVER want to be marked as SPAM/Virus, you may enter them into the White List database, and Mailbox Manager, when looking for SPAMs, will skip them.
Scheduled mail-checking supported.
Each account may be locked, so that even if several users share the application on the same machine, locked accounts will be operational and their data will be modifiable only by supplying the right password.
  • Download Mailbox Manager 1.2.9 for OS X (1.62M)  Windows (1.22M)

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.
  • Download Download Manager 1.3.0 for OS X (1.42M)  Windows (1.10M)

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).
• Supporting both Macintosh and Windows platforms, Website Manager is rather useful, especially if you want to manage your site from whatever platform you may happen to be using at a given time.

  • Download Website Manager 1.2.9 for OS X (1.40M)  Windows (1.07M)

English4Fun  (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 English4Fun Help).

  • Download English4Fun 2.1.1 for OS X (1.38M)

Calculus  (Shareware)

Useful calculator that besides the usual converting functions (Temperature, Pressure, Speed etc.) handles currency-convertion. 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 supported.
• Base-rates management for particular currencies supported.
• Auto Decimals-Management for particular currencies supported.
• Delta variation in currency calculation supported.
• Saving and printing functions available.

  • Download Calculus 1.1.9 for OS X (1.28M)  Windows (1.03M)

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 3.0.4 for OS X (1.35M)

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 are not to be processed.
• Text-font and -size of the Search/Replace fields 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.
• Replace function available for text-files.
• The Favorites Menu helps speeding up the process of accessing folders containing documents that require frequent checking.

  • Download AskPoirot 3.0.3 for OS X (1.14M)  Windows (904.74K)

Library db  (Shareware)

Very powerful database to organize one or more libraries. By library one should understand Collection of...: in fact you can customize the various default 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 available.
• Data-export/import supported.
• Several printing options available.

  • Download Library db 2.0.8 for OS X (1.64M)

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 2.0.3 for OS X (1.38M)  Windows (1.11M)

mp3Player  (Shareware)
Small audio-player application to listen to songs from various 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 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 options. Loop, Replay, EQ, 3D Effects, random play. Favorites folder for easy access to favorite songs. Disk-burning (Mac OS X only) and importing Playlists from iTunes supported (Mac only).
QuickTime required. If you do not have QuickTime installed, mp3Player can download it for you.
  • Download mp3Player 1.5.1 for OS X (1.43M)  Windows (1.15M)

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.
Files created by eTunes may be used as RingTones for Cellphones, or may be send to anybody to listen to. And since eTunes is available for both Windows and Apple-Macintosh platforms, its files can be easily reproduced on both platforms.
  • Download eTunes 1.2.1 for OS X (1.24M)  • Download eTunes 1.2.1 for Windows XP (1.02M)

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 2.0.5 for OS X (1.05M)  Windows (965.53K)

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 1.3.1 for OS X (1.11M)

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. Eventually it can import/export relevant data from/to Eudora, Oulook Express, Netscape, Beckey/Rebecca and Address Book (Address Book only for Mac OS X). Supported features:

• All user-entered data are encrypted.
• Info-field with no text-limit.
• Group several contacts into a single record.
• Password protection.
• Data-Backup (encrypted).
• Dialing via modem or through the speakers.
• 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).

  • Download 4getMeNot 2.0.5 for OS X (1.56M)  Windows (1.35M)

Galileo  (Freeware)
In which day of the week were you born? In which day of the week did the French Revolution start? Which day of the week will 2.2.2044 be? Feed Galileo any date, and you will get the weekday of such date.
Moreover, what is the current Islamic year? or the current Bengali year? Or what were the Islamic and Bengali years in 1759? Galileo is able to provide you with this kind of answers too, and lets the user add/remove other Eras besides the default (Bengali and Islamic) ones. Eventually you may retrieve the dates of Easter Sundays, etc etc.
  • Download Galileo 1.1.4 for OS X (1.06M)  Windows (910.93K)

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.
  • Download Psalms and Ragas 1.0.3 for OS X (978.21K)  Windows (832.78K)

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 1.0.4 for OS X (963.11K)  Windows (819.17K)

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 1.0.5 for OS X (983.85K)  Windows (833.17K)

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 1.0.1 for OS X (984.08K)

ScriptEncoder  (Freeware)
ScriptEncoder, out of a source file, creates a new file encoded according to your choice. 64 encodings supported, icluding Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
  • Download ScriptEncoder 1.0.4 for OS X (904.82K)  Windows (774.61K)