Useful Tools

SCREEN CAPTURE SOFTWARE

Screencap, a portable but yet powerful software program, allows capturing any area of computer's screen, including system cursor shape and cursor highlight, just by click & drag.

The captured image is automatically placed on system clipboard to be available to other software applications, and can be saved to file using 'Save' command.

ECONOMETRICS PROBLEM SOLVING SOFTWARE

This application supports learning and solving basic problems of econometrics such as linear planning problem, transport problems, production problems... Problem is solved in steps with explanation. The result is exported in rich text format and, therefore, is easily copied to other word processing software.

AUTOMATED DICTIONARY SOFTWARE FOR BUILDING WORD LISTS

The software supports English word lookup, and automatically saving results to user's word list.
Usage:

Run English dictionary; "Lạc Việt MTD-300" for example.
Run a Unicode keyboard software, if needed.
1. Activate translation utility from the unicode software.
2. Select unicode table code.
Run WordPicker program. Using Ctrl+F3 to turn program off/on.
Run Microsoft Access, open a table with 3 text or memo fields. Enter the word to lookup in the first column, ending with F3 key. The transcription and explanation of words will be automatically filled in columns 2 and 3. Do the same for other words.

A list of words to look up can be entered in the first column of the table, then write a piece of code in VBA language to completely automate the lookup for phonetics and meanings of these words.