Software
Okay. There's only one piece of software available at present: a fairly addictive word game called Hectiwords. For those familiar, it's a bit like Boggle, but on steroids. During a round, letters may change, or swap, or even disappear.
The rules are like Boggle in that legal words must be composed of letters that are "sequentially contiguous", and a specific tile cannot be reused (same letter on another tile is okay).
Rounds are 2 minutes, and you have to get to 2000 pts in 4 rounds to win. Letter scoring is based on either Scrabble or letter frequency in English words (the default). You choose.
There are several useful keyboard shortcuts, using the Function keys. F3 enters a plural from the last word, using standard plural rules. F4 enters a past tense (-ED forms; irregular verbs are not supported). F5 enters the last word but shears the first letter (SHAVE begets HAVE). F6 does the same with the last letter (PHASER begets PHASE). F8 is quite useful. If you have a legal word, its palindrome is obviously also legal, and F8 produces that. POTS gets STOP. CTRL-Z is VERY handy.
If you enter a repeat word or an invalid string (letters not there or the order is not allowed), you LOSE the value of the string you entered. CTRL-Z very nice for fumble fingers. You can also select a bad word in the list and delete it.
BTW, if you enter a word that HECTIWORDS doesn't recognize, but you're sure it's a word, send it to me, and I will update the app.
Here's the zip file: HectiwordsApp.zip
It only contains the executable, no real setup. Save to file to a place you want to run it from. You might want to provide a menu or put it on your toolbar. If I ever get formal with it, I'll rpovide all that in a setup, but for now, it's pretty much roll your own.