At last, after about a month of tweaking Windows 98 and my searching for freeware, I have everything set up the way I want them.
I spent hours downloading freeware and then installing and uninstalling them, and in between usually stalling. I finally got the bare freeware items I need.
I decided to junk Microsoft Office. Great set of tools, but very unwieldy for someone like me who’s not working in an office. All I need is a basic word processor with a dictionary. I finally found two elegant word processors — RoughDraft and Jarte.
I like RoughDraft because it’s designed by a writer — Richard Salsbury — for writers. Very simple design, with a notepad and other tools in a panel on the right side. It works well, as it happens, with another freeware I downloaded earlier, WordWeb dictionary by Anthony Lewis.
Jarte, by Carolina Road Software, is essentially the same program — a rich text word processor. But it’s got a nice interface that makes writing fun.
Both freeware use tabs for documents that you can open all at once and take turns working on.
And of course this Diary by Andre Slabber. Very elegant in its simplicity. No frills. Like the other diary I installed, iDiary, which however has more features — it’s a rich text processor that encrypts your entries, and you can even put a password. You can also make as many diaries as you want.
Am just not sure if I can install Diary as many times as I want. It has a 33KB limit per date entry.
© ATM
