Try This   Over the years I have come across various programs on the web, that I found useful or that just raised my interest. Some I came across while looking for a particular function, others I found by sheer coincidence. All programs are available as freeware, yet most of them are of equal or better quality than similar commercial or shareware programs. 'The Music in the Numbers' is a program to generate music that can be described as an audible fractal. It uses a very simple algorithm, but with that algorithm is able to create some interesting tunes. 'Fractal Harmonies' also generates music, but this program uses Mandelbrot's fractal as a starting point. It is an easy to use program that does not require a lot of user interaction to generate quite nice sounding pieces. 'POV-Ray' is a ray-tracing program. Ray-tracers create images of a virtual world, described in terms of geometrical figures. They do so by tracing back the paths of all light rays that make up an image. 'IrfanView' is an image viewer with many possibilities, supporting a wide range of image formats. Features that I particularly like are the batch conversion between graphic formats and the support of dynamic GIF images. 'Programmer's File Editor' is a plain text editor, but one with a lot of options. It is particularly useful for writing programs or control files, as it has auto lay-out features and supports the launch of external compilers or interpreters. I have used it for instance in conjunction with the DOS version of the 'POV-Ray' program. Alas the program is no longer supported by its author. 'WXTide32' is a tide calculator that produces tide tables or tide graphs for many places around the world. The correctness of the tidal data has not been verified by an authorizing agency, so you don't want to use it for life or death decisions. But the program is ideal when you want to go for that coastal walk and need to know when to expect the next low or high tide. 'Ghostscript' and its graphical interface 'GSview' make an easy to use tool to view both Postscript and PDF documents and to convert between the two formats. Does the above list not contain what you are looking for? Have a look in the Software section where you find my own freeware programs.

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