*** Catalog of Software *** ___________________________ Stand Alone offers the following software for the Newton MessagePad and compatible products. The first section includes programs written for the Newton 2.0 OS and higher. The second section has older applications written for the Newton 1.x OS. [Please note that prices are subject to change] ____________________________________________________________________________ Special Bundle Deals! BackDrop Plus and Package Popup: $30.00 Font Bundle: $25.OO Protektor and Control Panel: $34.95 Stationery Construction Kit and Super NotePad: $59.95 Stationery Construction Kit with Super NotePad and Stationery pack: $79.95 Writer's Block: Speed, KeyMan, More Folders, NoteMan, Big Notes, Note Pop, and Super Caps. $34.95 ____________________________________________________________________________ Software for the Newton 2.x OS Applications Backdrop Plus Backdrop Plus replaces the NotePad as the built in backdrop application on the Newton, saving as much as 10k in heap, and offering quick access to your applications. It lets you customize your backdrop display with graphics or a clock, and it gives you instant access to many vital Newton Functions. If you register Backdrop Plus at the same time as any other program, you receive $5 off the price. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $25.00 DateMan DateMan is the complete Contact manager for Newton, which lets you arrange your schedule around the way you work. It offers drag-and-drop creation of new items from almost anywhere on the Newton, full integration with all built in Newton applications, and a customizable agenda display. DateMan 3.1 also includes new agenda items such as web pages, faxes, emails, and goals. DateMan has a special price of $39.95 when you upgrade from any other contact manager. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $54.95 Drop To Do Drop To Do is an enhancement to the standard To Do list on the Newton. Drop To Do allows you to jot down To Do items in the note pad and drag and drop them onto a small button, adding them to the To Do list. It also lets you set priorities on various To Do items (from 1 to 100) and can be set to alert you when you have an upcoming To Do. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 Fax Cover Creator Fax Cover Creator allows you to create customize fax cover sheets, right on your Newton. You can lay out text, shapes, lines, fields of information filled in from the current fax, and pictures. Create your fax cover with an easy to use creation page. After building your cover sheet, you can beam it to another Newton running Fax Cover Creator. You can create as many different cover sheets as you like, and they will all be available in the cover sheet selection of the fax slip. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $34.95. Order Form If you're in the retail business, fret no more! Order Form allows you to record orders directly on your Newton. You create a custom list of all your products, and choose a customer's purchases from a popup list. All of a customer's information can be recorded right on the form, along with credit card or check information. Product lists can be beamed from one Newton to another. Order Form can handle taxed and non-taxed items, with two levels of taxation. It can also give discounts and shipping costs. It has multiple forms of printing, and orders can be printed as invoices, packing slips, or price quotes. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $35.95 Order Form Pro It has everything you need to use your Newton to help you run a small business. You can use it to record sales, track your inventory, and it even supports bar code scanning. It is easier to use and much more powerfulI than Order Form. If you use your Newton in a sales environment, Order Form Pro is for you. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $89.95 PaperBoy PaperBoy is a threaded off line news reader used to read and keep track of Usenet news. Use it to retrieve your unread news, and then disconnect your Newton and read your news at will. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $29.95 Protektor Gives your applications sophisticated password protection to prevent unwanted access to sensitive data. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $29.95. Periodic Table Periodic Table puts the periodic table of elements right on your Newton. Clicking on an element brings up the data, such as atomic weight and volume. Also, molecular weights of compounds can be found. It also calculates the molecular weight of compounds that you enter. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Stationery Construction Kit Allows you to use powerful tool palettes to create your own stationery items for the NotePad. This stationery shows up as a choice when you create new notes, and can be beamed, mailed, faxed, and printed. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $39.95 Stand Alone Menu Editor (SAME) SAME allows you to create and edit popup menus. You can edit the caret menu, as well as create a popup menu in each corner of the Newton screen. From the menus you can call up keyboards, paste text items, launch applications,control system functions, and much more. Newton OS 2.x Price: $29.95 Super Names Super Names is a set of enhancements for the Newton's Names file. It gives new viewing windows, and a new search engine to make Names searches fast. Newton OS 2.x Price: $34.95 Super NotePad Adds a navigation bar to your NotePad to make it easy to get around from note to note. It also lets you password protect folders, encrypt notes, and set up custom filters. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $29.95 Super Sorter Super Sorter is a fast, usable list manager for Newton! Keep an unlimited amount of lists, each with an unlimited number of items and (you guessed it) an unlimited amount of information associated with each item. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 TimeMan TimeMan lets you use your Newton to help manage your time. It tracks the time you spend on tasks and projects, and displays the information in several convenient ways. It also makes it easy to keep track of how much to bill clients for the time you spent on their projects. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $44.95 Wake Up Week Wake Up Week is, at heart, a replacement for the built in overview in the calendar application. However, it can be configured to appear in other places besides just the calendar, and is much more powerful than the built in overview. Basically, when you open Wake Up Week you are presented with a list of all upcoming Meetings, Day Notes, and To Do's over a particular period. Initially this is one week (just like the overview in the calendar) but it is easy to change this to view either a longer or shorter period of time. You can also file To Do Tasks and date items in your folders, and view only a particular folder's contents. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $30.00 Utilities AppMan AppMan places a small button in one of the four corners of the screen. Tapping this button pops up a list of all currently running applications as well as Notes, Card, and Connection. Select one, and it will be brought to the front of all the other applications. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Alarmed and Dangerous Alarmed and Dangerous is a set of enhancements for the alarms function of your Newton. It adds new sounds, new buttons, and new options for the Snooze button: everything you need to take control of your alarms. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Big Notes Lets you have notes in the NotePad up to 32k in size. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: Free Card Creator Card creator gives you a variety of fonts, sizes, and drawing tools to create your own cards for the Names file. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Clip Art Clip Art contains a library of over 200 images for your Newton. Using it and the included Scrapbook, you can add images in your notes. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $19.95 Clipper Clipper lets you drag and drop text clippings, share clipboards with KeyMan and Scrapbook, and edit clippings in the Clipper Clip Editor. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 Control Panel Control Panel gives you control over your Newton's alarms, sleep delay, back lighting, and work site. It can also open applications automatically depending on the time or the work site. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Font Bundle The Font Bundle includes Font Pack Vol. 1, Font Pack Vol. 2, and the Styles Pack. It includes 18 new fonts, support for postscript printing, and quick access to the styles palette. Over $60 of software at a special bundled price. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $25.00 Font Pack Vol. 1 Font Pack Vol. 1 adds an additional 12 fonts to your Newton, many of which are ready for printing on postscript printers. Special discounts are available when purchased as part of the Font Bundle. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $20.00 Font Pack Vol. 2 Font Pack Vol. 2 includes 6 new fonts. All of the fonts are ready to print on postscript printers. Special discounts are available when purchased as part of the Font Bundle. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $20.00 Freeze Utilities A package of enhancements for the new freezing function built into Newton 2.0. It does the following: - Turns on package freezing - Grays frozen icons (turns them gray, rather than making them snowflakes.) - Allows you to launch a frozen application by tapping on its icon, rather than first tapping to thaw it, then tapping again to launch it. -æFixes a bug in the OS, where frozen packages are refiled into their original (pre-frozen) folder upon thawing. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Shareware: $20 Graph Paper Graph Paper allows you to create ruled notes from the built in NotePad application. You can set the spacing of the lines, or even create notes with no lines at all. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Heap Check Heap Check includes a small floating window on your Newton that shows you your free heap, and lets you perform garbage collections. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Heap Saver Heap Saver saves you between 5k and 20k of your Newton's valuable heap. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $19.95 HWRWorks HWRWorks enables hand writing recognition in the Newt Works program. Newton OS: 2.1+ Price: Free KeyMan Keyman modifies the built in keyboards by adding quick drag and drop copying, a multi-function calculator with memory to the default typewriter, and numeric keypads. It also has special phone and date keyboards and a Dvorak keyboard. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $20.00 Keep Time Every time you restart your Newton the internal clock loses about 50 seconds. Keep Time solves this problem. This is only needed with MP 120s and MP 130s. Newton OS: 2.0 Price: Free Librarian Librarian for 2.x Newtons is an enhancement for Newton books. It lets you turn a page in the book by sliding the power switch. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Mailing Labels Mailing Labels lets you print out mailing labels from your Newton's Names file. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 More Folders More Folders is a utility designed to improve the accessibility of the filing on the Newton, as well as to allow for more filing categories. When you want to file an item, you tap on the folder icon, and a pop up list pops up. The current folder has a check mark next to it, and you can file an item simply by tapping on the new folder. To edit your folders, you tap on the "Edit Folders" item (the last one on the list.) Included in the package is Scroll Menus, so that if you want more than 19 folders you can view them all on screen. Best of all, it gives you hierarchical folders, so you can have folders inside other folders. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 Names Fixer The Names Fixer goes through your Names file and fixes corrupted data. Newton OS: 2.x Cost: Free NoteMan NoteMan gives quick and easy access to the NotePad from any Newton application. Now includes 4 placement settings and built-in preferences. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 NotePad Converter Allows you to convert one type of note (Note, Checklist, Outline, or Graph Paper) to a different type of note. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 NotePop NotePop places a button in your statusBar that will pop up a list of notes to which selected text can be appended. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Package Organizer Package Organizer makes it easy to manage your software packages. You can now drag packages between your card and your internal memory, and it makes it easy to work with large groups of packages. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 Package Popup Quickly popup a list of all installed packages, and launch any with a tap. It automatically thaws and re-freezes packages if they're frozen, and also lets you rotate the screen from the NotePad, and restart or put the Newton to sleep. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Paper Lines Paper Lines automatically adjusts the lines in the NotePad so that they align with the text, no matter what font size you are using. You can also choose to have no lines in lists. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 Person <-> Co. Allows you to change name cards from person to company, a capability the built in Names file lacks. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free PersonURL PersonURL adds a URL slot to the Names file, so the information can be included on Names cards. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Prefs Cleaner Prefs Cleaner cleans up your Newton's Prefs, removing any preferences left behind by old, removed applications. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Route To Works Route To Works lets you import text to either the NotePad or NewtWorks. Route To Works routes text from any program that can mail text. These include Email, Names, NewtWorks, the NotePad, and any third part application that can mail text. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 Scrapbook The Scrapbook lets you cut and paste graphics or text, and works just like the scrapbook on a desktop computer. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Scroll Menus Scroll menus allows any menu with too many items to fit on screen to scroll. If there are more items after the items shown, tapping on the down arrow will show the next screen full, and tapping the up arrow will show the previous screen. The most common use for this is the card app in the extras drawer. Now, if there are more than 23 packages installed on your newton, you can get to all of them to delete those you no longer want. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10 Sound Sleep Sound Sleep lets you put your Newton to sleep, so you can turn it on with a tap of the pen. You can also use it to take notes that include both sound and text with a flip of the power switch. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Speed Speed introduces new quick access methods for searching your Names file, as well as maintaining all the old methods. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 SpellMan SpellMan lets you use check your spelling anywhere you can write on the Newton, instead of just in Newton Works. Newton OS: 2.1+ Price: $15.00 StartBar StartBar creates a bar at the bottom of the screen that shows all of your open applications. Tap on a program button at the bottom of the screen to move to the application. Newton OS: 2.1+ Price: $20.00 Stationery Pack Stationery Pack is a collection of seven pieces of NotePad stationery. These are: Blank Note, Graph Paper, Location Note, Phone Message, prioritized Note, Shopping List, and Time Card. You can install these as individual packages, allowing you to only use the ones you need. They all behave like the built in note types (note, outline, and checklist,) and can be printed, faxed, beamed, and emailed. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $34.95 Styles Pack The Styles Pack adds new styles including outline, subscript, superscript, and italic. It also gives you a button at the bottom of the NotePad that brings up the Styles palette, for quick style changes. Special discounts are available when purchased as part of the Font Bundle. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 Super Caps Transforms text from all caps or mixed caps to properly capitalized text, useful for those who write in all caps. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 Tipper Tipper is a small program that figures out the appropriate tip at a restaurant, depending on the amount of the bill, and the percentage you want to leave. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Trash Utilities Allows you to turn off the animation that happens when you delete an item. Some people have grown tired of the crumple-toss effect that normally occurs, so this allows you to eliminate that. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free What Error Gives more information when an error message pops up. Newton OS 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Works Better Works Better enhances Newton Works, the word processor included with the MP 2000 and eMate. It adds headers, footers, page numbers, word counts, handwriting recognition, importing from the NotePad, columns, and more. Newton OS 2.1+ Price $29.95 Works Merge Works Merge brings mail merge capabilities to the Newton's built-in word processor. It lets you personalize individual items of such things as form letters, mailing labels, and legal documents. Newton OS 2.1 Price: $24.95 Games Arcade Pack Arcade Pack includes Birds with Lances, Frogs vs. Cars, Missile CommAnt, and Rocks in Space. Hours of arcade enjoyment in the palm of your hand! Newton OS: 2.x Price: $34.95 Backgammon Backgammon is a Newton implementation of the classic board game. You can play against the computer or a human opponent. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 Birds with Lances Take your mount on an armored bird and arm yourself with a powerful lance, then go out to fight the evil birds of the north! Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 BlackJack Black Jack Twenty-one for the Newton. Free! Go play a game. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: Free Boxer Arcade style boxing on the Newton! Punch, block, and jab your way to the title in this animated action game. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $20.00 Frogs Vs. Cars Similar to the old Frogger arcade game, in Frogs vs. Cars you take the role of a small frog trying to cross a busy street and swiftly flowing river. Move fast or you're road pizza! Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Jumble Jumble is a word search game. Jumble creates puzzles with words hidden within. There are preset word lists, or you can create completely random puzzles. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 Magic Pad: lets you keep score in two player games. Newton OS: 2.x Price: Free Missile CommAnt Protect your anthills from deadly pesticides, descending spiders, and killer bees. Three levels of skill, and many challenging boards. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 Rocks In Space You're the sole surviving space ship from your squadron of asteroid destroyers. It's now up to you to clear the massive asteroid field that you find yourself immersed in. Be careful, as some oddly shaped asteroids have been spotted! Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Solitaire Solitaire includes five different solitaire card games for the Newton. Play Klondike, Pyramid, Poker Square, Eight Off, and Bristol. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $15.00 Software for the Newton 1.x OS Applications Drop To Do Drop To Do is an enhancement to the standard To Do list on the Newton, Drop To Do allows you to jot down To Do items in the note pad and drag and drop them onto a small button, adding them to the To Do list. It also lets you set priorities on various To Do items (from 1 to 100) and can alert you when you have an upcoming To Do. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 Periodic Table Adds a new entry to the formulas app with a periodic table. Clicking on an element brings up the data (such as atomic weight and volume) of it. Also, molecular weights of compounds can be found. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Super Sorter Super Sorter is a fast, usable list manager for Newton! Keep an unlimited amount of lists, each with an unlimited number of items and (you guessed it) an unlimited amount of information associated with each item. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 Wake Up Week Wake Up Week is, at heart, a replacement for the built in overview in the calendar application. However, it can be configured to appear in other places besides just the calendar, and is much more powerful than the built in overview. Basically, when you open Wake Up Week you are presented with a list of all upcoming Meetings, Day Notes, and To Do's over a particular period. Initially this is one week (just like the overview in the calendar) but it is easy to change this to view either a longer or shorter period of time. You can also file to dos and date items in your folders, and view only a particular folder's contents. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $30.00 Utilities Big Notes: Lets you have notes in the note pad up to 32k in size (the standard limit is 4k.) Completely transparent, just keep writing. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: Free Capitalizer Allows you to change the case of an entire note to all upper or lower case, or capitalize all words in a note. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free Clipper Drag and drop text clippings, share clipboards with KeyMan and Scrapbook; and edit clippings in the Clipper Clip Editor. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 Constants Constants places a new entry in your formulas app that allows access to a variety of physical constants. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free Graph Paper Graph Paper allows you to create ruled notes from the built in NotePad application. You can set the spacing of the lines, or even create notes with no lines at all. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Hourly Chime Allows you to make the newton chime periodically, on the hour or at some other interval. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free In Box Expander In Box Expander allows mail and beamed items to be received on the card or internal store. Also makes in and out boxes, connection, and card slips draggable. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free KeyMan KeyMan is a keyboard Manager that enhances included keyboards and also includes new keyboards. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 Kwoter 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. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free Librarian Librarian saves your place in books and bookmarks you make through hard restarts. Also allows you to use the power switch as a 'next page' button. Newton OS: 1.x Price: $15.00 More Folders More Folders is a utility to improve the accessibility of the filing on the Newton, as well as to allow for more filing categories. When you want to file an item, you tap on the folder icon, and a pop up list pops up. The current folder has a check mark next to it, and you can file an item simply by tapping on the new folder. To edit your folders, you tap on the "Edit Folders" item (the last one on the list.) Scroll Menus is included in the package, so that if you want more than 19 folders you can view them all on screen. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 Names To All Overview Sets the name file to open to all names in the overview mode at start up, so that names app opens faster. Newton OS: 1.x Free NameSelector Pops up a window in which a single character can be entered. After writing that letter, it opens the name file and moves to the name which starts with the letter written. Newton OS: 1.x Price: $10.00 No Lines Removes the lines from the Note Pad application. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free NoteMan NoteMan gives quick and easy access to the NotePad from any Newton application. Now includes 4 placement settings and built-in preferences. Newton OS: 2.x Price: $10.00 NotePop NotePop places a button in your statusBar that will pop up a list of notes to which selected text can be appended. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 PackFix PackFix is a small autopart (no extras drawer icon) which will check each installed store (on a message pad these are the internal RAM and a single PCMCIA memory card, if installed) for bad package data. If such bad data exists, if could be causing -10401 errors when your newton starts up or the storage card is inserted. PackFix will remove this bad data and report to you it's findings. Newton OS: 1.x Price: Free Scroll Menus Scroll menus will allow any menu with too many items to fit on screen to scroll. If there are more items after the items shown, tapping on the down arrow will show the next screen full, and tapping the up arrow will show the previous screen. The most common use for this is the card app in the extras drawer. Now, if there are more than 23 packages installed on your newton, you can get to all of them to delete those you no longer want. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Speed Speed introduces a new quick access method, as well as maintaining all the old methods. The version for the 1.x Newton OS also significantly increases the speed of the filing system of both the Names file and the NotePad. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00 Store Keeper Changes the default store whenever you're in Names or Dates so that information entered there always ends up on the internal store. Newton OS: 1.x Price: $10.00 User Picker User Picker allows you to store multiple configurations (handwriting recognition, name, address, etc.) in the same newton, and switch between them. Newton OS: 1.x Price: $15.00 What Error Gives more information when an error message pops up. Newton OS 1.x, 2.x Price: $10.00 Games Backgammon Backgammon is a Newton implementation of the classic board game. You can play against the computer or a human opponent. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $20.00 BlackJack Black Jack Twenty-one for the Newton. Free! Go play a game. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: Free El'barqs El'barqs is a crossword letter game for the newton. It allows you to place various letter tiles on the board to create words. You can play against up to three other human or Newton players. Newton OS: 1.x Price: $20.00 Jumble Jumble is a word search game. Jumble will create puzzles with words hidden within. There are preset word lists, or you can create completely random puzzles. Newton OS: 1.x, 2.x Price: $15.00