Educational SoftwareAn Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

License: Freeware Version 1.0
For: Cross-Platform Size: 31 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Project Gutenberg

The complete work of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge in simple ASCII text; ready to download. File is in .txt format.


Educational SoftwareSight Words

License: Shareware ($5.00) Version 2.0.3
For: Mac OS 7.5+ Size: 936 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: PerLingua Language Tools

"Help your child learn to read. An easy to use program to practice sight words. A list of 132 Dolch sight words is provided, or you can easily add your own from any simple text file. Key features include; record keeping, spelling, scanning, matching, and speech recognition"


Educational SoftwareA-N-I-M-A-L-S

License: Shareware ($29.00) Version 1.1
For: Mac OS 7.5+ Size: 1,842 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Marc Moini

"A-N-I-M-A-L-S From Letters and Sounds to Reading! offers young children a dedicated environment in which to explore its library of hundreds of animals and everyday objects. While engaged in this exploration, children progressively learn to recognize the letters on the screen and type them on the keyboard. Eventually, they also learn to associate letters and words with their sounds."


Educational SoftwareSpeakAlong

License: 3-Trial Use Version 1.0
For: Mac OS X 10.3 - 10.4 Size: 2,500 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: ThingTone Software

"SpeakAlong is a talking storyteller for Macintosh. It's a book reader right inside your computer. And our first edition features hundreds of timeless children's classics, all included. This software is proven easy-to-use by kids 5 and up. Choose from a huge bookshelf of titles, pick a pleasing storytelling voice, then sit back and listen. It's that simple and before long you and your kids will be playing your favorites again and again."


Educational SoftwareDesktop Poet

License: 7-Day Trial Version 1.0
For: Mac OS 10.2+ Size: 1,240 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Mariner Software

"Desktop Poet presents you with your choice of hundreds of word tiles on your desktop or "virtual fridge" area. Compose imaginative prose by forming words into sentences or phrases or just take a break from the stresses of life and doodle or brainstorm to your heart's content."


Educational SoftwareMacJournal

License: 15-Day Trial Version 4.0.4
For: Mac OS X Size: 16,050 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Mariner Software

"MacJournal is the world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh. Create a personal journal with two level security (password protection and encryption), record daily ideas, manage scripts and novels and export them to multiple file formats, or generate blogs to any of the popular blogging services. MacJournal has the power and functionality to do it all."


Educational SoftwareBlurb BookSmart

License: Freeware Version 1.2
For: Mac OS X 10.3+ Size: 23,030 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Blurb

"BookSmart is a start-to-finish publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author--this means you. All you need to do is download BookSmart software, choose the book you'd like to make today, play--add photos, blogs, stories, works, publish as your book is ready."


Educational SoftwareRhyme Search

License: Shareware ($9.95) Version 0.0.0.2
For: Mac OS X Size: 3,800 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Paraboliclogic

"Writing a song, a poem or anything that needs a rhyme or two. Rhyme Search is just what you need. Simply type in the word you want to find rhymes for and either click the search button or press the [Return] or [Enter] key. Resulting rhyming words are displayed in a column manner that allows you to view and find just the right rhyme.

Rhyme Search is a local application and does not need or require a connection to the Internet. Does not need or require a Web browser. Rhyme Search comes complete with a dictionary of 185,000+ words to help you find just the right rhyme for your writing needs. "