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Text Wielder 1.0 is a full featured and advanced software which allows you to create your own services or use any of the 120+ provided including "Search Apple Help", "Translations", "Sort Text Lines" and many more. The Text Wielder service menu is highly configurable and allows you to add and remove services as necessary and rename menu items.

You can create services for applications that do not support services, including classic applications, by using AppleScript. Any services you create can be added to the service menu and you can easily share your services with other users.

Services can be easily configured to run AppleScripts, open a URL, modify text, display results in a dialog box, or create a new text file.

Text Wielder also includes an interactive text manipulation language called SFRL(Simple Find and Replace Language). SFRL uses a very powerful combination of a modified regular expression syntax and JSPs to modify text.

Plain Text Editor 4.1 is a comprehensive, user friendly word processing program. You miss a text editor able to open, edit and save plain text files? You want special features such as foreground and background colors? Text wrapping and unwrapping? Macintosh, Windows and Unix ends of lines? Spelling checking? Find and replace? Regular expressions? Unlimited number of undo? Then Plain Text Editor is what you need! Plain Text Editor allows you to edit plain text files with many options.

Major Features:

1. It works with any kind of plain text files (text, source code, HTML, ...).
2. You can automatically concatenate documents by dropping them on the same window.
3. You can open recently opened files.
4. You can scroll forward and backward through all opened windows.
5. You can reload files from disk at any time.
6. It has an unlimited number of undo.
7. You can find and replace text, even with regular expressions.
8. You can select the default font and default font size of the editor.
9. You can select the default foreground color and default background color of the editor.
10. You can print your documents.
11. You can wrap and unwrap the text in the windows.
12. You can swap between Macintosh, Windows and Unix ends of lines.
13. You can perform spelling checking in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
14. You can change the type and the creator of the documents.
15. It doesn't need any installation which makes it very easy to use.
16. It is available in English, French, German, Italian and many other languages.

Speak Text CM 1.1.1 is a beneficial and easy to use application which can let your computer read your e-mail to you. Have you noticed that reading a paper out loud helps to find mistakes? Speak Text CM will speak the selected text in any program. Speak Text CM and Speak Text Engine are not INITs, but are a Contextual Menu plugin and an application, respectively, so they should not cause any conflicts.

Clean Text '08 brings a useful and convenient online tool dedicated to webmasters, graphic designers and magazine editors to reduce text cleanup time. Clean Text eliminates all text formatting and performs other useful functions, such as removing empty lines, removing unwanted spaces, removing tab characters, converting smart quotes, tabs, returns, and more. It's a must when you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another, and you want the text to get the attributes (such as color, font, dimension and style) of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one. What's more, the brand new Quick Clean action let you solve with a single click the most common cleaning problems of text found in email messages, documents and web pages.

The Test Factory 4.8 is an application designing multiple choice tests for students to do in a computer network setting or on a single station computer. In the network version a single server computer may serve a Test Factory file to multiple students on networked computers. When students complete their test the score data is returned to the server and stored in a Test Factory file. In single station version a student may double click a Test Factory file, perform the test, and save his or her score in the Test Factory file.

The Test Factory Question Inspector can configure test to implement Apple's Speech Manager to speak questions. You may also configure a test to send score data directly to a printer when a student has completed his or her test. You may also configure a test to randomize question order. Every time a student takes a test the questions will be shuffled in a random order.
A teacher or test author may export his or her test in Rich Text Format, HTML (form), or PDF format. The Test Factory implements drag and drop picture files directly into the Question Inspector. Each question may contain any number of pictures.

After an test author has completed his or her test, and multiple students have performed and submitted their test, test data may be measured and evaluated. The Test Factory automatically calculates the mean score, minimum score, maximum score, deviations from the mean, a percentile rank for each student, the standard deviation, Kuder-Richardson 20 Formula, item discriminiation, and item difficulty.