Hermetic Systems — PC Software for Intelligent People Hermetic Systems offers over twenty Windows programs which either help you do what you want to do, allow you to do what you had not thought of before, provide you with useful or engaging information, entertain you, or all of these. The software is listed below at right (click on a title to go to the full description), and screenshots and short descriptions are given below. This website also has many informative articles concerning calendars, date conversion, encryption, computational science and other topics (see the title index).
What's new: Ordering and Activating has been revised. Currently most popular: Hermetic Word Frequency Counter An activation key can be sent immediately if purchasing via PayPal or Share-it. The FAQ, including a section on reinstallation after a hardware upgrade Please see the testimonials from our customers
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Data Destroyer A program for secure file deletion and disk wipe which destroys (or purges, by overwriting many times) data in multiple files and multiple folders on floppy, ZIP drive, hard disk or memory stick so that the data cannot be recovered. Single-file or batch-mode operation. User-specifiable purge type. Estimates of purge time given.
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Index Files Search Words For indexing and searching multiple text files, HTML files, XML files or files of a similar type in multiple folders on a hard disk, memory stick, CD-ROM or similar storage medium.
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Prime Number Spiral Software for exploring the Prime Number Spiral (a.k.a. the Ulam Spiral), which is formed by marking the prime numbers in a spiral arrangement of the natural numbers.
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Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder A program to search for eclipses (lunar, solar, total, annular and partial), to calculate the phase of the Moon at any given date and time and to convert between dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars and dates in various lunar calendars: Meyer-Palmen Solilunar, Hermetic Lunar Week, etc.
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Easy Email Encryption Lite A program to encrypt a message to send by email, and to decrypt encrypted messages received.
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Easy Graphics File Converter Software to convert from GIF, JPG, PNG and BMP graphics files to JPG, PNG and BMP files. Allows single or multiple (batch) file conversion. Can convert to JPGs over a range of quality/compression values for optimization. Converted files can be displayed in your browser.
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Easy HTML Construction Kit This program includes an interactive TABLE generator which handles COLSPAN and ROWSPAN, and provides an easy way to create HTML code from lists and tables in textfiles, and to convert data in textfiles to finished HTML documents.
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Index Files Search Words Lite For indexing and searching a single text file, HTML file, XML file or similar. Any word or all words in a set of words, or an exact phrase, can be searched for, with results displayed in web browser.
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Hermetic Word Frequency Counter This software scans a file, or text on the clipboard, and counts the number of occurrences of the different words. The words which are found and displayed can be ordered alphabetically or by frequency. Supports non-English text.
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Five Cellular Automata Software for exploring five cellular automata: q-state Life (a generalization of Conway's Life), the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction, Togetherness, Viral Replication and Diffusion-Limited Aggregation.
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Hermetic Stego This program allows you to encrypt and hide a file of any size in one or more BMP image files, with or without the use of a user-specified stego/encryption key, so that the presence of the hidden file is undetectable, even by forensic software using statistical methods.
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Chinese Calendrics A program to convert between dates in various Chinese calendars and dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars, and to find (among other things) lunar new year's day and leap months for any year in the Chinese Calendar.
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Data Destroyer Disk Wipe A disk wipe program which overwrites many times data in the free space on a disk and in all files and folders (except selected top-level files and folders) so that the data cannot be recovered. The type of purge is specifiable, and the program provides an estimate of the time needed for the disk wipe.
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Fractal Time Software for exploring the theory of Timewave Zero (a.k.a. Novelty Theory).
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Keywords Meta Tag Generator A web authoring tool which acts on an HTML document, counting the number of occurrences of words and how they are used, and produces an appropriate keywords meta tag for the document (which can be automatically inserted into the document).
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Mayan Calendrics Software for conversion among Maya (tzolkin, haab, long count) and European (Gregorian, Julian) calendar dates.
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Cryptosystem ME6 A program for the encryption and decryption of single or multiple files for secure storage or transmission. It uses a symmetric key encryption method with a 500-bit key for security, and has numerous safeguards against user error.
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Factorizer A program to find prime numbers and pairs of primes, to decompose numbers into their prime constituents, to find all factors of any positive integer up to 2,147,483,645, and to plot Erdos-Kac and Palmen Color histograms.
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Easy Date Converter Adds a number of days or months to a date, calculates the number of days between two dates (with or without weekend days), and converts among Common Era (Gregorian) dates, Julian dates, ISO 8601 Week dates, Hermetic Leap Week dates, Julian day numbers and day-in-year dates of the form yyyy-ddd.
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Modified File Backup Software to back up files in a folder and selected subfolders of that folder; all files, or just new and modified files, can be backed up. Can delete obsolete backup files.
Most of these programs (all written for Windows PCs but they can also be run on Macs with a Windows XP emulator) can be downloaded as trial or demo versions, which can be converted to fully-functional after purchase of a user license. For prices and current version numbers for all programs click here. Technical support is available from support@hermetic.ch.
Discounts: For PayPal purchasers a discount of 32% - 48% is possible by ordering three or more programs.
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