Jingle Keyboard is a unique novelty desktop program that can make your typing sound like a real typewriter (for those of us who remember REAL typewriters). The program is a simple install that that runs in the task tray. In addition to typing and carriage returns, Jingle Keyboard also lets users assign sounds to the Esc and function keys, and even to mouse clicks. Users can choose from different sound schemes, including bird singing.
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MB Free Runes Dictionary is an extensive collection of words related to the runes methodology of divination. This includes the meanings of the different rune stones, spreads, and other esoteric meanings. This free online Runes dictionary is a very useful guide for easy and immediate reference. This explains the basics thus making runes more accessible to the layman.
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus
A Comprehensive and Easy-to-use Language Reference System
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.
TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable.
Feature List
Well Beyond Traditional Dictionaries
TheSage allows you to look up words directly from most applications, offering multiple detailed definitions each coupled with its own thesaurus.
Some of the most interesting characteristics of TheSage are:
| Features | Description |
| Comprehensive Dictionary | Multiple detailed definitions (+210,000) |
| Complete Thesaurus | Nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...) |
| Example Sentences | A large collection that already includes approximately 50,000 examples of usage. |
| Pronunciations | +70,000 phonetic transcriptions. |
| System Integration | Look up words directly from most applications. |
| Information Integration | Each definition has its own specific thesaurus. |
| Cross-Referencing | Any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a new lookup. |
| Wildcard Search | Match single/multiple characters as well as filter by single/groups of vowels and consonants. |
| Anagram Search | Only valid english words are returned. |
| Portability | Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB. |
| Clipboard Support | Copy search results, examples, thesauri, definitions. |
| Tabbed Interface | Previous lookups and searches remain readily available. |
| Structured Display | Clean, flexible, fast, and easy to use presentation of information. |
| Custom Appearance | Choose your own font and color for each aspect of the display. |
| Multi-Session History | Quickly available via dropdown or the 'History' tool. |
| Concordancer | Definition and example concordancer tools (so-called 'reverse search'. |
| Semantic similarity | User-defined custom thesaurus. |
| Online search | Search Wikipedia, Google define/translate, or any other web address directly from TheSage. |
| 'As you type' tool | Browse TheSage's index real-time. |
| Phonetic search | Carry out relatively sophisticated pattern searches of the phonetic transcriptions (pronunciations) in the database./td> |
| Spell-/sounds-like assistant | TheSage will help you if you can't quite remember the word you are looking for. |
| Speech | TheSage can be turned into a speaking dictionary. Click on the phonetic transcription of a lookup to hear how it is pronounced or have TheSage read all or part of any lookup. |
GCompris is an educational software which propose different activities to children from 2 to 10 years old.
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.
> computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
> algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
> science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation ...
> geography: place the country on the map
> games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
> reading: reading practice
> other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, ...
Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere.
