Zanussi's Low
Resource PC site

Welcome to 'Fresh-Toast'

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CaptionKit is a unique internet subtitle production site and tool

Brighteye performance
A site to promote personal, organisational and business change using NLP techniques

Coaching into Life
Personal development coaching

Bristol Roundhouse project
Neolithic settlement

Tux.co.uk:
Linux resource site

Owen Chambers:
Home page

Graeme Jones' fairly
Tidy homepage

Doctor Toast's amazing world of toast (yes, it's for real!)

CaptionKit is my latest project. It's a fully featured subtitle publishing solution for Real Player, Quicktime and Windows media. Timecode generation means you can hop into any point in your video by clicking a link. With CaptionKit, you can meet US 'section 508' targets for deaf-accessible web video, and search engines can index your video too !

Visit the Bristol Roundhouse project Built on a recently identified neolithic site, the Roundhouse is a collective educational project to reconstruct an early bronze age settlement. Building with traditional natural materials, the project was visited in 1999 by Ken Kesey as part of his 'Where's Merlin' tour of the UK.

Personal Coaching from Julie-Ann Blackmore Julie-Ann is a friend offering personal development coaching based on NLP (neuro linguistic programming) principles. A fully qualified RGN (nurse) Julie-Ann offers help in improving self esteem and life change management. Please take a look over her new site, which now has audio clips from her recent radio interview !

About Fresh-Toast : 3 years ago I picked up a 2nd hand 486 system.

Despite the apparent lack of power, I decided to see what I could squeeze out of it - mainly limited by cash. When you're on a budget, it focuses your mind more on what's important than on what's 'hot'. Since I have a playstation, I didn't need it to be too hot at games - for my web surfin', mail, word processing it's just fine.

The Rationale : How many people out there have access to old PCs - you know, your office is chucking out 486 & 386's which aren't 'y2k compliant' or are simply too old to run the latest bloatware from M$ and it's pals.

It's surprising what can be got from a limited machine - the playstation (PSX) has a 33mhz cpu, 2mb and a 2x CD drive. PSX games still match many PC games in quality, but don't need acres of hard drive real estate to run. Old PCs can work well as games machines so I have got together a bunch of downloads for you, which will run on anything from a 386/16 upwards.Young kids especially seem to enjoy more simplistic games so dust off that old clunker in the attic, or hassle your employer about the roomful of dusty 486's and try out some of this stuff.

Go to Dos downloads

Looking for productivity software that runs on a 286+ PC? NewDealInc had just what you're looking for. Their site currently seems to be discontinued, but you can still get the software from this Russian Site. The whole lot is only a 5Mb download

I've tried out the software on a 'mono' Toshiba 286 laptop and it's impressive even to be running in 640K of RAM. Their software has all the usual tools: Word processor, Web & eMail, Organiser, Spreadsheet, clock and card games. It flies on a 386 with 4Mb, and will do 95% of your day to day tasks.

Kept chugging along by Linux

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