Stand Alone offers the following software for the Newton MessagePad and compatible products:[note: prices subject to change]____________________________________________________________________________El'barqs: El'barqs is a crossword letter game for the newton. It allows you to place various letter tiles on the board to create words. You can play against up to three other human or Newton players. (shareware, $20)Backgammon: Backgammon is a Newton implementation of the classic board game. You can play against the computer or a human opponent. (shareware, $20)Speed: Speed is a collection of improvements to the built in names file. The main one is a modification to the filing system that speeds it up by as much as 1000%. It also allows emails address to be viewed in the card view, and provides several methods of quickly accessing the names file. Speed also speeds up the Note Pad by a similar amount. (shareware, $25)Jumble: a word search game. Jumble will create puzzles with words hidden within. There are preset word lists, or you can create completely random puzzles. (shareware, $15) Big Notes: Lets you have notes in the note pad up to 32k in size (the standard limit is 4k.) Completely transparent, just keep writing. (shareware, $10)KeyMan: Adds a row of keys to the normal keyboard (select all, cut, copy, paste, open Grafitti, front-delete,) a calculator display to the numeric keypad (for small calculations,) and a month view to the date keypad (to paste a selected day into the current text view.) (shareware, $15)More Folders: More Folders is a utility to improve the accessibilty of the filing on the Newton, as well as to allow for more filing categories. When you want to file an item, you tap on the folder icon, and a pop up list pops up. The current folder has a check mark next to it, and you can file an item simply by tapping on the new folder. To edit your folders, you tap on the "Edit Folders" item (the last one on the list.) Included in the package is Scroll Menus, so that if you want more than 19 folders you can view them all on screen. (shareware, $15) PackFix: PackFix is a small autopart (no extras drawer icon) which will check each installed store (on a message pad these are the internal RAM and a single PCMCIA memory card, if installed) for bad package data. If such bad data exists, if could be causing -10401 errors when your newton starts up or the storage card is inserted. PackFix will remove this bad data and report to you it's findings. (freeware)Wake Up Week: Wake Up Week is, at heart, a replacement for the built in overview in the calendar application. However, it can be configured to appear in other places besides just the calendar, and is much more powerful than the built in overview. Basically, when you open Wake Up Week you are presented with a list of all upcoming Meetings, Day Notes, and To Do's over a particular period. Initially this is one week (just like the overview in the calendar) but it is easy to change this to view either a longer or shorter period of time. You can also file to dos and date items in your folders, and view only a particular folder's contents. (shareware, $20)Drop To Do: An enhancement to the standard To Do list on the Newton, Drop To Do allows you to jot down To Do items in the note pad and drag and drop them onto a small button, adding them to the To Do list. It also lets you set priorities on various To Do items (from 1 to 100) and can alert you when you have an upcoming To Do. (shareware, $15)User Picker: Allows you to store multiple configurations (handwriting recognition, name, address, etc.,) in the same newton, and switch between them. (shareware, $15)Clipper: Clipper places a button in the status bar of the notepad, or a floating, draggable button anywhere on the newton screen. You can select text and drag it onto the button to 'clip' it. Tapping on the button will bring up a list of all such clippings. Selecting one will paste it after the current insertion point. (shareware, $10)Kwoter: A simple applet that will put up a humorous or insightful quote when you turn on your newton or awaken it from sleep. It can be configured to wait for a specific length of time before showing, using the prefs. (freeware)Mail Edit: Offers a new way to read and reply to email on the Newton. It allows you to read messages in a variety of fonts and sizes, and allows easy access to the keyboard and, if it's installed, GraffitiȘ It also makes use of more of the screen, allowing you to edit more of a message at once. (shareware, $10)Note Man: Places a small button in the upper left of your screen that will close the note pad, or, if another app is in front of it, will bring the note pad to the front. (shareware, $10) Constants: Places a new entry in your formulas app that allows access to a variety of physical constants. (freeware, for now)Periodic Table: Adds a new entry to the formulas app with a periodic table. Clicking on an element brings up the data (such as atomic weight and volume) of it. Also, molecular weights of compounds can be found. (shareware)NotePopper: places a button in your statusBar that will pop up a list of notes to which selected text can be appended. (shareware, $5) Score Pad: lets you keep score in two player games. (freeware)Icon Editor: A (very) simple icon editor for the Newton (look for an improved version, coming soon to an archive near you! currently freeware)What Error: Gives more information when an error message pops up. (shareware, $10)Names To All Overview: Sets the name file to open to all names in the overview mode at startup, so that names app opens faster. (freeware) In Box Expander: Allows mail and beamed items to be received on the card or internal store. Also makes in and out boxes, connection, and card slips draggable. (freeware)Librarian: Saves your place in books and bookmarks you make through hard restarts. Also allows you to use the power switch as a 'next page' button (on the MP100 only :-( (shareware, $10)NameSelector: Pops up a window in which a single character can be entered. After writing that letter, it opens the name file and moves to the name which starts with the letter written. (shareware, $10)Store Keeper: Changes the default store whenever you're in Names or Dates so that information entered there always ends up on the internal store. (shareware, $10)Capitalizor: Allows you to change the case of an entire note to all upper or lower case, or capitalize all words in a note. (freeware) Graph Paper: Places a button in the notepad that will make the notepad look like a sheet of graphpaper (note: does *not* show up on printing or faxing.) (freeware)Hourly Chime: Allows you to make the newton chime periodically, on the hour or at some other interval. (freeware)Scroll Menus: Scroll menus will allow any menu with too many items to fit on screen to scroll. If there are more items after the items shown, tapping on the down arrow will show the next screenful, and tapping the up arrow will show the previous screen. The most common use for this is the card app in the extras drawer. Now, if there are more than 23 packages installed on your newton, you can get to all of them to delete those you no longer want. (shareware, $10)No Lines: Removes the lines from the Note Pad application. (free)QuickyBlackjack: 21 for the Newton. Free! Go play a game. (free)