 
STRANGE & PSYCHIC
Part 1 of 2
PALMEDIA Babble Version 1.0 - PALMEDIA Babble is
a freeware demonstration application for Newton MessagePads running Newton OS 2.0. Babble
is a demonstration of video and sound playback with a decidedly offbeat twist. At the
press of a button, Babble will randomly select phrases from its (rather limited)
vocabulary of video/audio clips. These phrases will be combined to form one sentence which
will then be displayed as one video segment (with sound). Of course, the video/sentences
generated by Babble tend to be rather whimsical...
Biorhythms 1.1 - The biorhythm theory is based on the assumption that
the human body has inner clock or metabolic rythms with constant cycles of time.
Currently, three cycles starting at birth in a positive direction are postulated. The
23-day or physical cycle relates with physical vitality, endurance and energy. The 28-day
or sensitivity cycle relates with sensitivity, intuition and cheerfulness. The 33-day or
cognitive cycle relates with mental alertness and judgement. For each cycle, a day is
considered either high, low or critical. Now your Newton can display a two week biorhythm
after you input your name, birthdate and date to calculate. Biorhythms also takes
advantage of Newton's Assist function! You can write somebody's name into the name field
then click on the label, the list is updated with the new names found in the Names File.
Then you can select a name from this list to get his birthday.
Bomber (2) - Welcome to Bomber -- a tiny program of questionable taste.
It presents three radio buttons, an editable text field, and a push button. The buttons
are labeled "Moscow", "Washington DC", and "Other" where you
can write in anything you want to. When you push the button, a floating window pops up
saying that the indicated city won't bother you any more. Why on Earth would an ordinarily
compassionate and sane person write something like this. Over the last 12 years, the first
program the author has written for many computer systems and programming environments has
been Bomber -- a childhood weirdism gone horribly wrong.
Buzzword Bingo - Buzzword Bingo is based on an idea presented in the
Dilbert comic by Scott Adams. In the comic strip the manager was very pleased that people
were paying better attention in meetings, until someone shouted Bingo! Make a custom list
of buzzwords in the notepad and import it into the program to match your manager or maybe
the nightly news or Leno or Letterman. Have fun! 32k once installed. Dilbert is syndicated
by United Features Sydicate, Inc., copyright 1989 by Scott Adams.
Insults - is a small program that lives on your
newton and insults you. The system can generate several million different insults and you
can select and drag them to the clipboard or documents. Insults is FreeWare, but not in
the public domain.
Kwoter 1.0 - Kwoter is a simple applet that will put up a humorous or
insightful quote when you turn on your newton or awaken it from sleep. It can be
configured to wait for a specific length of time before showing, using the prefs. If a
quote is too long to be displayed on screen, you can scroll it using the scroll arrows at
the bottom of the screen. Tapping on the "Another" button will show a new quote.
There are two versions...Kwoter_s (for small) has about 350 quotes and takes about 70k,
and Kwoter_b (for big) has about 4200, and takes up about 800k of space.
Lunar Spirit 1995 - Spirit is the direct descendant of Inspire 1995, my
first venture into a "quotes" package for the Newton. In total, there are about
130 "general" type quotes, and 120 or so "friendship" type quotes
included from Inspire 1995. When you run Spirit, a random quote is chosen each time. With
the application running, you can display another random quote by tapping on the » next to
the x close box. You can also go backward and forward through the quotes using « and ».
Spirit also has 2 new enhancements. You can now select quotes and copy them to your
notepad. Also has an option to automatically open Spirit when you turn your Newton on.
Requirements - 65 kbytes free RAM space & 100 bytes Heap Space (while running).
Mr Advisador 1.4.2 - Mr. Advisador is a PDA, Personal Digital Advisor
for the Newton. If you are having troubles in your life and just don't know where to turn,
ask Mr. Advisador and he will gladly offer advice. Changes since 1.4.1 - Fixed spelling
errors. Changes since 1.4 - Fixed broken install script, which made Mr. A not work at all.
Other fixes - Mr. Advisador can now be installed on a RAM card and not complain when the
card is removed. Although, you must turn off the random appearance option to remove the
card; Mr. A will no longer forget your preferred option settings if the Newton is reset.
Shareware, enjoy.
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