The Calves' head club was instituted in ridicule of Charles I. The great annual banquet was held on the 30th of January, and consisted of a cod's head, to represent the person of Charles Stuart independent of his kingly office; a pike with little ones in its mouth, an emblem of tyranny; a boar's head with an apple in its mouth to represent the king preying on his subjects; and calves' heads dressed in sundry ways to represent Charles in his regal capacity. After the banquet the king's book (Icon Basilike) was burnt and the parting toast was 'To those worthy patriots who killed the tyrant'. Research Calves' Head Club
John Ritchie (Sid Vicious) was an English musician. He was born in 1957 at London and died in 1979 of a heroin overdose. As Sid Vicious he joined the punk rock band the 'Sex Pistols' as bass guitarist when Glen Matlock left the band, and immediately became a youth icon. Research John Ritchie
In Celtic mythology, Cernunnos was the god of the underworld and of animals. He was a principal god depicted as a man with the antlers of a stag. He was the model for the later Christian icon of the Devil. Research Cernunnos
Cli-Mate is a sharewarecomputer program for the IBMPC providing an easy, convenient way to receive up-to-date weather information on your desktop. Cli-Mate allows you to retrieve weather forecasts from hundreds of cities and towns in all fifty US states and from major cities in countries around the world. You also can generate assorted full-colour weather maps. Cli-Mate can be configured to update weather information at set intervals, and resides in the system tray. The system tray icon changes to reflect the current weather. Research Cli-Mate
Concorde is an all-in-one graphics program for business and presentation applications. It combines text, business graphics, free-form drawing and also painting and has a slideshow capability with animation, into one integrated program. There is also a large clip-art library of images spanning almost 20 diskettes. Concorde has an image database of over 2000 symbols, maps, icons and pictures which can be incorporated into charts or you can create your own drawings. All images can be flipped, rotated or cut and pasted. The product includes a library of animations for show-time presentations. Slide shows can be created as self running or manually controlled. A library of catchy tunes is included to accompany any portion of the presentation. Concorde creates numerous graphs, including three dimensional, clustered, stacked, single and multiple line bar charts, pie and exploded pie charts, x-y, scatter, stretched and stacked icon and also multiple area graphs. You can automatically label and size any chart and can select colours and textures.
Text can be moved, copied, merged with images and graphs or saved as a text slide. Any graph can be edited horizontally and vertically or rescaled. There are fifteen medium and high resolution font styles, which can be scaled to any size. All text is proportionally spaced. Concorde reads DIF, Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony and SYLK files. You can capture any graphics or text screen with
Concorde's Capture program. While Concorde offers a multitude of presentation capabilities, its strength is in putting together PC-based slide shows. Copied to self-running disks, these shows produce effective marketing or training tools. Concorde is useful for creating tutorials or program demonstrations. Research Concorde
Corel Draw is a powerful, vector-based graphics package that works under Microsoft Windows. It includes a variety of well-integrated features and offers extensive compatibility with other Windows-based programs. The drawing tools are icon-based and are very powerful. Although there are fewer basic tools in Corel Draw than in other graphics programs, each tool has multiple capabilities. The toolbox lets you draw freehand; AutoTrace or import images; scale, rotate, mirror, and edit images; and fill, pattern, or colour images. The program automatically smoothes Bezier curves, and includes calligraphic pen shapes and special fountain fills with radial or linear effects. Type can be added to any image, skewed, stretched, rotated, mirrored, fit to a curve, kerned, or altered to create custom letter shapes, or printed in any of 102 fonts. Corel Draw supports the Pantone Colour Matching System and colour blending. The program is compatible with many popular word processing and desktop publishing programs and has extensive
import/export utilities. Users can cut and paste graphics between Corel Draw and other Windows applications via the Windows clipboard and output to slide makers via the SCODL format. Research Corel Draw
Digital pad is a computer program for the PC designed as a smart alternative to pen and paper, it allows you to leave a message on your bosses computer. An notification icon will appear in the system tray notifying him or her of the new message. This program supports in-box, history, background running, multi-user functionality, and various other features. Research Digital Pad
IBM Storyboard Plus is a graphics tool for creating, editing, arranging, and presenting slide shows on your computermonitor. This program lets you use special effects, graph manipulation, text, paint, and timing features to produce impressive presentations. Picture Taker, the first of four modules, captures screens from other applications programs and saves them on a file which can be called up within the Picture Maker or Story Editor modules. Picture Maker is an icon-oriented freehand-painting module for creating graphic images and modifying images captured with Picture Taker. You can create images by drawing and colouring text and shapes, or you cut and paste pictures from a library of clip-art. This module makes extensive use of function keys if you are not using a mouse. There are eight text fonts, each with five sizes. A zoom feature allows detailed editing. Story Editor lets you display and sequence screens created in Picture Maker or Picture Taker. Research IBM Storyboard Plus
IconShop is a librarian program for the Windows operating system that offers the tools to manage ICLicon libraries. The program can read and write ICLicon libraries. The program is easy to use, featuring a drag and drop facility from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them.
IconShop can also extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMPbitmaps, GIFbitmaps, TIFFbitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables and libraries.
IconShop can even extract icons from Macintosh iconlibs, resources, executables, IconDropper icon packs and Kaleidoscope schemes, including MacOS 8.5 24-bit icons. IconShop allows the user to export icons to icon, cursor or BMPformat. Research IconShop
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