Gudrun is a celebrated German popular epic belonging to the end of the 12th century, receiving its name from its heroine Gudrun, daughter of King Hettel of Hegelingen. Hettel is defeated by Hartmut, son of King Louis of Normandy, who carries Gudrun off, and on her steadfast refusal to marry him, has her subjected to various kinds of ill treatment, and in particular lets his mother keep her for years engaged in the lowest kinds of drudgery. At last she is released and revenged by her brother and her betrothed, king Herwig of Seeland. The poem also deals with the fortunes of Gudrun's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc, and the scene is partly in North Germany, Denmark, Friesland, partly in Ireland and Normandy. Research Gudrun
The cornea is the bulge at the front of the eye. It is clear and glassy and lies under the conjunctiva, a thin protective membrane. The cornea lets light rays into the eye and bends, or refracts, them. The iris lies just behind the cornea. Research Cornea
A sling is a primitive projectile weapon comprising a short piece of leather to each end of which cords are attached. A stone is placed in the pocket formed by the leather, and, gripping both cords, the slinger whirls it. When he lets one cord free the stone is thrown out by the momentum. The sling is frequently referred to in Biblical history, and in classical times the Balearic islanders were renowned slingers. Research Sling
602Pro PC Suite is an integrated office suite for the PC that is compatible with Microsoft Office documents (types DOC/XLS) and is designed for computers running Windows 95, 98, and NT. The suite includes a word processor, spreadsheet, graphic editor, and visual desktop. It also includes a visual file manager that lets you preview documents before you open them. The suite offers processing of all types of information: text, numbers, pictures, mass fax/email communication, Web pages, and labels or bar codes. 602Pro Suite supports creation of templates with guides. It also offers a simple way of creating HTML documents, even if you don't have any knowledge of the language, and is designed to perform well even on slower PCs. This version includes increased support for DOC/XLS and HTML documents, the added ability to password protect documents, updated thumbnail printing features, and a photo album print option. Research 602Pro PC Suite
Aldus Persuasion is a full-featured desktop-presentation product for the Mac that lets you create graphics presentations using slides, transparencies, speaker notes, audience handouts, and on-screen slide shows. It includes an outliner, freehand-drawing tools, and business-charting capabilities. presentations can be created from scratch, or can include charts created in a spreadsheet or any graphics imported from another package.
Aldus Persuasion includes an outliner to begin creating presentations. Once the outliner and slide masters are set, the program automatically creates your slides. The outline text and slide text are hot linked, so changes made to one are automatically reflected in the other. Speakers notes can be created from the outline. Aldus Persuasion lets you create multiple masters for slides, notes, and handouts. You define page orientation, background colour and pattern, and the graphics to be placed on the master. You can add a title, body text, charts, tables, or organisation charts to the master. More than one master can be used in a presentation. This means that a company can intersperse master text slides, master chart slides and master table slides in a single presentation. New masters can be created based on existing ones. The drawing tools are very advanced and allow editing of all characteristics of an object. Although Aldus Persuasion does not do calculations, it includes powerful chart editing capabilities and provides full control over axes, tick marks, legend placement, formatting of axes, switching of axes, and numerical formats. Persuasion lets you import worksheets from spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel and generate charts using the data.
Aldus Persuasion outputs to a number of slide services as well as printers and film recorders compatible with the Apple System. The slide-show generator lets you set the delay between slides and layers on slides. You can set the show for full screen, partial screen, or continuous cycle, where the show automatically repeats, or set it to stop after it has gone through the show once. You can also set the show to either automatic advance where you can set the timing, or manual where you click the mouse to move from slide to slide. Research Aldus Persuasion
AutoCAD Release 10 is a two and three-dimensional computer aided drafting and design system. The product lets you define screens and optional pull-down menus and create parts libraries by drawing them, so the system can be geared to a specific requirement. The product is a general-purpose system suitable for a wide variety of applications including architectural and landscape drawings; drafting for mechanical, electrical, chemical, structural, and civil engineering; and printed circuitdesign. Drawing and editing features include move, copy, modify, dimension, scale, mirror, hatch, rotate, fill, and erase objects in a drawing. Repetitive patterns such as brick walls, memory arrays, or office components can be generated automatically. Colours and an unlimited number of layers may be used, allowing selective viewing or plotting of drawings as if on transparent overlays. The full bi-directional zoom facility allows you to work at any level of detail.
The ratio between the largest and smallest objects in a drawing can be over a trillion to one. An alignment grid can be displayed. Distances and areas can be calculated and displayed. Three-dimensional drawing capability, AutoCAD's most notable feature, lets you represent an object so it can be seen from any angle. AutoCAD Release 10 also features associative dimensioning, which automatically updates the dimensions of a drawing whenever an object is scaled, stretched, or rotated. Release 10 allows you to construct objects in CAD much as you would build a structure. The approach is modular; that is, each piece of the final drawing is created as a separate object. To build an office building, you define the plane for the front of the building, move to that plane or a view of that plane to draw, then move to the side defining a new plane, and soon until a complete two or three-dimensional structure stands. An analogy to drafting does not work because a drafting table cannot be situated in a three-dimensional plane.
AutoCAD Release 10 supports the Intel Above Board, which increases the speed at which large, complex drawings can be created and edited. It supports the Initial Graphics Exchange Standard (ICES, Version 2.0) for both input and output, so translations can be made between AutoCAD Release 10 and other systems supporting IGES. You can transfer AutoCAD Release 10 drawing files among four operating systems: PC or MSDOS, SunUNIX, DECVMS, and ApolloAEGIS. Research AutoCAD
AutoDesk Animator is an animation program that lets you create desktop videos for promotion and training. The program includes a number of animation techniques, painting functions, text effects, and file-import capabilities that provide a workbench for creating impressive diskette-based presentations. AutoDesk Animator incorporates five types of animation. Each is specifically designed to make creating and displaying animation sequences as impressive and easy as possible. The program provides traditional cell-by-cell animation capabilities. This technique displays a sequence of individual cells or images in rapid succession resulting in movement. Optical animation is best suited for animations where objects swoop across the screen. This technique uses complex combinations of spline paths and full 3D transformations along with other optical functions to maximise this type of effect.
Polymorphic tweening is an animation technique used to blend between two completely different shapes. It can be combined with optical animation to
add three-dimensional effects. Colour cycling transforms the colour of various screen locations. Titling provides full text animation for incorporating text in any part of a desktop video. Titling effects include multiple-direction scrolling and type-on, where each letter of words appears in rapid succession. Paint functions combine image processing inks with over 20 tools for detailed image creation and editing. The image processing inks affect the dispersion and quality of onscreen colours. The inks can be applied to saturate, strengthen, and define colours and create effects such as opaque, soften, gloss, glaze, emboss, scrape-through, sheen, and highlight. The combination of Animator's painting tools and image processing inks lets you control the sharpness, illumination, intensity, and glow of on-screen presentation colours more effectively than with any other PC product. Research AutoDesk Animator
Battery Watch is a computer program for laptop computers. Because laptop computers run on batteries, they sometimes lose power at inconvenient times. Battery Watch monitors the amount of power left in the battery of a laptop computer. Although many laptops have power indicators, they may only give a 10-15 minute warning.
Battery Watch lets you check power level at any time, so you'll never be caught off-guard.
Battery Watch is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program which is activated by a hotkey. The hotkey displays the power gauge on-screen showing immediately how much time is left on the machine. The hotkey can be changed so it does not interfere with other RAM-resident programs that use the same key. Research Battery Watch
BRIEF by Solution Systems Inc. is a highly flexible, full-screen editor and macro generator designed for use with dBase or high-level languages such as C, Pascal, and COBOL. You can customise the editor by reconfiguring your keyboard, changing the command functions, and creating new commands as needed. BRIEF for OS/2 runs in OS/ 2 protected mode to take advantage of that platform's multitasking and virtual memory support. It is fully compatible with the DOS version of BRIEF. The
BRIEF macro language is a structured programming language similar to C. The macro language can be programmed and must be compiled to run the commands you create. BRIEF has unlimited variables and an IF/THEN/ ELSE loop feature found only in high-level on-screen languages.
BRIEF lets you undo your last 300 commands including deletions, insertions, cursor movement, cut and paste, global replacement, and read of file. There is no limit to file size, the number of active files, or the number of windows on-screen.
CA-Cricket Presents by Computer Associates is a desktop presentation package for the Mac that lets you conceptualise, create, and produce complete presentations including slides, transparencies, speaker's notes, and audience handouts. It includes a copy of Acta Outliner, which can be used during the conceptualisation stage of a presentation. A hotlink can be created between the Acta Outliner and the presentation so edits made to the outline are reflected in the presentation. You can produce charts, overhead slides, flipcharts, illustrations, and tables complete with legends and captions. The product includes freehand painting and drawing capabilities and a graded background feature for creating the background for your shows.
CA-Cricket Presents' basic business chart capabilities include a data-entry screen or importing files from spreadsheets and generating charts from the data. The tabling tool lets you create matrices to easily handle numbers and word charts. Research CA-Cricket Presents
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