Newmanager is an application that gives you a central location from where you can access all drives and folders on your computer. You can then do things like copying, and renaming files and directories. It also lets you format your drives.

Directory Lister is a very basic application that displays the contents of a drive or directory you choose. Once displayed you can copy and paste the listings into other applications or even print them.

Accessories

The calculator allows you to do simple mathematical calculations. It also has scientific calculator features for things like exponential calculations and factorials. An interesting feature of the calculator is worksheets for common calculations. These are divided into four groups of household, retail store, statistical functions, and financial calculations. Each of these groups has many worksheets in which you just have to enter the values and you will get your result. For example, the financial calculations group has a worksheet called compound rate in which you have to enter the present value, future value, and the number of years, and it will give you the required compound interest.

Character Map is a very useful utility that displays the complete set of characters available in a font. This can be useful if you need a specific character such as an under-root and don’t know its keyboard shortcut. You can copy it from here and paste it in your document. For example if you select under-root, then it displays Ctrl+Alt+v.

NewDex is basically an address book to store names, addresses, and phone numbers of your contacts. You can easily search for any contact, print any contact, which is useful for creating labels. If you have a modem, it will also dial the number of any selected contact.

NewPlanner lets you schedule your daily events so you don’t forget your meetings or appointments. You can schedule events for a day, a week, or even the whole month. You can also set it to remind you before the event is actually supposed to occur. For example, if you have a meeting at 2 pm then you can set it to remind you 15 minutes before the meeting. Once set up, even if you are working on a different application, it will prompt you with a message reminder.

Games

You don’t have to wait for the morning newspaper to dig into a crossword anymore. You can do one right on your computer. Though it has only five categories, each crossword is pretty big. You can also save your crossword and continue with it later. NewDeal also has the game Solitaire.

Other utilities

File Finder is a very useful utility to search for files on your hard drive. You can use wild card characters and specify the drive and the directory to search.

Scrapbook, as the name suggests, is a place to keep bits and pieces of information, which you use often. For example, your address or a graphics file such as your company’s logo, which you need to use frequently can be placed in the scrapbook. You can then assign names to each piece of scrap, which makes it easy to retrieve again.

This is a very simple utility like Notepad in Windows to type in small bits of information. You can also open text files for editing and printing.

Media Viewer is a graphics program that lets you view BMP, PCX, and GIF files only. You can copy these images and paste them in NewWrite or NewDraw. You can zoom in and out to view images at different percentages of their original size. You can also quickly find out information such as height, width, and file size of your image.

Applications in NewDeal are stored with reference to the World folder, which resides in the NDE directory. A lot of third-party applications are available at www.newdealinc.com that can also be installed. For this, you just need to copy the GEO files into the World folder. The rest is up to your own exploration.

Ashish Sharma and Sachin Makhija