SOFTWARE:

ANAGRAM ARTIST

ANAGRAM GENIUS

General description:

· Anagram Artist is primarily designed to aid a human anagrammatist with the task of finding anagrams by presenting suggested words and keeping track of the remaining letters as the anagram is partially formed.
· The focus is on the human operator and the software is primarily an assistant.

· Anagram Genius is designed primarily to generate anagrams all by itself.
· It uses sophisticated artificial intelligence and search techniques to do the work and attempts to find complete anagrams that are relevant and grammatical.
· Human input is optional and sought only to help steer the search to more appropriate places (and to select and tweak the best anagrams at the end).

Main Uses:

· Ideal for creating medium (40-100 letters) to long anagrams (more than 100 letters), but can be used for short anagrams, too.
· Special features help with the creation of anagrammed poems.
· It can generate anagrams only when there are 25 or less letters remaining.

· Ideal for creating short anagrams, such as peoples or product names.
· It automatically selects and ranks candidate words and, by utilising user-selected options, it creates the most relevant anagrams at the top of the list.

Ease of use:

· It takes a little while to become familiar with its use and all of its features.
· It requires more input by the user to create anagrams.

· Very easy to use. Just enter the subject, select options (if you wish) and hit "Enter".

Word Lists or "Dictionaries":

· It comes with one standard wordlist - which can limited to five levels of word commonness.
· Adding new customised word lists is done using the Dictionary Maker Tool.

· Multiple Word Lists available.
· Options of including Vulgar Words, Interjections, or dropped 'H' words can be selected.
· Customised word lists can be added and word lists can be edited.

Size of anagram:

· Any size anagram can be created, but the actual anagram generator can only be used when there are 25 letters remaining.

· It is capable of generating anagrams of up to 45 letters quite easily.
· Longer anagrams, well over 100 letters, are possible by selecting out "Compulsory" words.

Selecting out key words:

· Simply type them into the Anagram field.

· The user can select individual words from the word list (by double clicking) and to make each one "Compulsory".

Tracking the number of letters:

· Letter frequency is displayed numerically and graphically. The letter frequency histogram displays excess or sparse letters by different colours.

Tracking vowel/consonant ratio:

· Ratio is displayed numerically and visually. Vowel percentage can be varied when looking for candidate words.

Finding synonyms, rhyming words, or words with specific letters:

· It can do all of these, as well as finding words with particular prefixes or suffixes, and words with a particular number of syllables.
· There is a Constraints Manager for using even more spohisticated constraints.

Selecting parts of speech:

· Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, or Other parts can be selected.

Selecting gender, emphasis and language:

· Allows selection of British or American (or both) language.

· Allows the selection of Male, Female, or Inanimate.
· Allows selection of Satire, Flattery, Mixed or Neutral emphasis.
· Allows selection of British or American (or both) language.

Saving anagrams:

· Only one anagram at a time can be saved as a text file.

· Multiple anagrams can be save as a text file or as an HTML file.
· Subwords and a full list of raw anagrams can also be saved.

Help guide:

· Detailed Help Guide is available.

· Detailed searchable Help Guide is available.

Other features:

· Tweak Mode allows the temporary removal of a word without actually deleting it.
· Spell checker.

· Anagrams can be animated.
· Previous discovered anagrams from the Anagram Genius Archive can be displayed.
· Anagrams can be easily submitted to the Anagram Genius Archive.

Platforms:

· Windows 98 and XP. It may not work on other versions of Windows.
· No Apple Macintosh version.

· All Windows versions support Version 9.
· Apple Macintosh OS (pre-OSX only) supports Version 8 only.

Recommendations:

· Recommended for the more experienced anagrammer wanting control over the words and letters.
· It can be used by beginners.

· Recommended for beginners, those looking for a quick anagram, and those not needing as much control over the words and letters.

Cost:

· Free or make a donation.

· Approx $US40.00.

Where to get it:

· Here

· Free evaluation copy here.