Quote of the Day description:

Get a year''s worth of daily thought and inspiration right on your Today screen with Quote of the Day!  Experience a broad range of quotes, from business advice to humor, from presidential addresses to poetry, from scientific observations to spiritual nourishment.  Each and every quote has been hand-picked and studied to ensure quality, thought-provoking material each and every day.  We''ve specifically designed the software to use up as little of your precious Today screen real estate as possible so you can see everything you need at a glance.  A few sample quotes:

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.  - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

• Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.  - Babe Ruth, baseball legend

• Everything should be made as simple as possible; but not simpler.  - Albert Einstein, Nobel prize-winning scientist

• Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.  - John Magee, pilot and poet

Installation and use is completely automated, no configuration is needed.  No fussing around with dozens of program options just to get things working.  Simply double-click on the program icon to install and activate it on your Pocket PC, and each day a new quote will automatically be chosen to be displayed on the Today screen.  Best of all, Quote of the Day takes up only 50 kilobytes (kB) of memory on your machine!  If you would like to re-arrange the order of items on your Today screen, simply go to Start->Settings->Today.  It''s that simple!  No configuration is required, and Quote of the Day is completely compatible with all Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002 and Windows Mobile (Pocket PC 2003) systems.  We also promise quick and helpful technical support through the email address given during the install after you make your purchase.  You will enjoy quotes and inspiration from these famous figures, among others:

• Benjamin Franklin, inventor and founding father

• William Blake, poet

• Henry Ford, businessman and inventor

• Martin Luther King Jr., humanitarian

• Isaac Asimov, scientist and prolific author

• Abraham Lincoln, former president of the United States

• Confucius, ancient Chinese philosopher

• Rudyard Kipling, author

• Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the United States

• Thomas Jefferson, former president and author of the Declaration of Independence

Thank you for purchasing Pocket Martian Software.

New version 1.4 features:  Click on a quote to copy it to the clipboard, ready to paste into your favorite word processing program (such as Pocket Word.)  Also added an about screen with further support information.

Word of the Day description:

Expand your word power each and every day right on your Today screen.  Experience a wide variety of words, from words you would use to describe people, to words handy in a variety of business situations, to words you may have heard but never admitted you didn''t know to meaning of, to words you may have never even heard at all!  Each and every word has been hand-picked from a variety of sources and studied to ensure quality material each and every day.  We''ve specifically designed the software to use up as little of your precious Today screen real estate as possible so you can see everything you need at a glance.  Some samples:

• Omerta (noun): secrecy sworn to by oath: code of silence

• gadfly (noun): one who persistently annoys

• punctilious (adjective): extremely attentive to minute details of action or behaviour

• palliate (verb): 1: to ease without curing 2: to cover by excuses

Installation:

Simply download the program and run it, it will unzip both titles to the directory you specify.  Run them to automatically and painlessly set up each program.