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The SAT Word Mage prepares you (or your students) for the verbal SAT. With engaging graphics and sound, this program takes the learner through a variety of learning and quizzing scenarios with complete data tracking and high classroom usability. It teaches 360 SAT words (with high potential recurrence) in all with 10-word groups taught in 15 to 25-minute sessions each, depending on the learner. Thus, total learning time is about 14 to 18 hours, depending on the learner. It also features a screensaver that randomly pronounces and defines the words. It is self-paced instruction and works well for the home, the classroom, or the computer lab. Of course, you don't have to be studying for the SAT's to get serious use out of this program. It also works for the GRE, the ACT and for simply improving your working vocabulary. It can be run from a server, the CD-Rom disk, or your hard drive. Forget the flashcards! The SAT Word Mage is all you need to boost your verbal scores or to simply learn those "five dollar" words to have handy when you most need them.
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Controls4J Library is a set of improved graphical controls for the Java/Swing. Here is brief description of the library's components.
JFontChooser is this dialogue is intended for fonts selection. The distinctive features are as follows: increased control over user actions (for example, a user cannot enter letters or negative numbers in the digit entry fields) and enabled auto addition in the font name field.
JBasicFindDlg is a simplified implementation of a dialogue for text searching.
JBasicFindReplaceDlg - is a simplified implementation of a dialogue for searching and replacing of the text fragments.
JIntegerField is a control intended for input of numeric values. It allows setting upper and lower limits of legitimate values; restrict editing, if the user enters false information; or highlight the contents of the field if not allowed value is entered. Control over the focus is provided as well.
JSortedList is a control for selecting values from a big data list, including countries, cities, etc, for example. Auto completing upon user input is enabled, as well as auto scrolling through the list.
JOutlookBar is implementation of the well-known OutlookBar control. It has two work modes. It also allows selecting animation effects for the drop-down action.
JInternetLink is a control that looks like a usual link in the HTML page. It allows launching the browser installed in the system with an assigned URL as a default browser location.
JTreeComboBox is a combo-box in which the drop-down list is replaced with a drop-down tree.
JCheckBox is a check box with three status modes instead of two ones.
JCheckBoxPane is a panel which has a check box in the title and which is used to control a disabled and enabled state of the panel's child elements.
JHeapManager is used to show JVM memory usage at the moment. Control also allow activating the garbage collector.
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Speed up development of communication products and services and enhance the usability of your new project with ready-made Phone Icons.

Telecommunications is a hot topic in today's world of global connectivity. The communications market is growing faster than ever. In order to be a successful player in this hot market, you have to be the first to offer a perfectly usable product or service.

A graphical user interface plays an important role in the usability of software products and services. By providing clean, easily recognizable graphics in your application, you can build a perfectly usable product. But where do you get the right graphics if you are on a tight schedule and an even tighter budget?

Hiring a designer to be part of your team may be the quickest solution, but it's also the most expensive. Contracting a third party is less expensive, but you are not guaranteed satisfactory, timely results. Can you afford putting your project at risk because of a third party contractor?

Ordering a set of readily available icons is the best possible option for your development. With Phone Icon Library you get icons that are professionally designed and are assembled as a matching set. To place a custom order for icons of similar quality you would have to spend over ten times as much! Phone Icon Library only cost $69 for a set of 42 different icons, or just $4 for a single icon.

Phone Icon Library includes icons that represent typical symbols and actions that are often used in telecommunications development. There are icons to represent different kinds of phones including mobile, download and upload icons, fax, modem, PDA, phone card, battery, signal strength, and more!

Phone Icon Library icons are available in BMP, GIF, ICO, and PNG formats, in 256 colors and True Color with semi-transparency. Each icon comes in several sizes including 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 32x32, 40x40, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128, and the newly defined Windows Vista standard of 256x256 pixels.
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Learn (teach) vocabulary through a study of Greek- and Latin- based word parts (affixes, roots, prefixes). TANGIA takes the learner through a variety of learning scenarios with complete data tracking and high classroom usability. This give you a full classroom license to use on stand-alone computers or from a server with all of your students for one low price! TANGIA Teaches hundreds of words and their parts for total vocabulary comprehension! Students get excited when they learn to dissect words in terms of the individual meanings of their word parts. Try the demo. and check out the first part of the first unit. Then, once you find that it meets your needs as a teacher or learner, buy the full version from our site using Paypal, a major credit card, or a faxed in purchase order from your institution. If you buy TANGIA as a download, we'll send a key code to you in an email within 12 hours, which you'll simply enter into the program you've already installed! Completely safe. We don't mess with registries or adware. Win 95 through Vista.
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Fast, multi-language Windows text editor that blends usability with simplicity. Experience the power to edit the way you want without interruption. Features color syntax highlighting, tabbed interface, regular expression searching, and more.
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