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Misc Software Downloads and Links

These Links are intended for personal use while I am away from my PC. Feel free to use them, but I don't guarantee that they will be here for ever! They will evolve.

Note that any data or files downloaded are used by you AT YOUR OWN RISK. I hope they are safe - I use them! If a source location is acknowledged, you may be better to use that site in preference to this one - it may be more up to date - if there is a copy here I will have put a copy here for my convenience and just in case the original site goes awol.

You may be better doing a right click and 'Save Target As' where indicated by *** ***!

MS Access
*** File Selection Functions Module for MS Access 97 *** (166kb mdb file) obtained from http://www.fabalou.com/Access/Modules/file_open_dialog.asp

*** MS Access Modules to display images in Forms and Reports *** (238kb Zip) based on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/148463/EN-US/

Photography, Graphics
PixVue 1.6 (6.28mb installer file) downloadable from http://www.pixvue.com/. This is an excellent way to organise and annotate your image files. I have only recently installed it and I am impressed so far. The program integrates with Windows Explorer and provides facilities that apparently vary a bit according to the Windows Version - it looks good with XP. See the web site for documentation. As with all such tools the trick seems to be working out a way of working that suits you. It has lots of facilities - either a profusion or confusion. The Wood Turning pages on this site have been generated using PixVue - its templates can be tailored if you are willing (or foolish) enough to tinker with some XSL coding.


Web Site
jEdit (1.9mb installer file and 0.4mb User Guide, needs a Java runtime but thats easy to get) downloadable from http://www.jedit.org/. A splendid text editor, but much more. Written in Java, so it runs on most platforms. Dozens of macros and plugins available. Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages including HTML. I've used it to edit this HTML, and used the jTidy plugin to check and tidy the result.