BROWSERS

Tera Term (Pro) - Here's a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and more .
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EasyTerm - Here's an excellent, fully-featured sockets-enabled Telnet terminal program. Supports many protocols besides Telnet, such as SMTP and POP3. EasyTerm emulates a DEC VT100 terminal and supports ANSI colors. EasyTerm will log your entire session, supports clipboard transfers, and will print the current display. It also remembers up to 32 hosts and protocols. Careware (no money required. "You just have to care.")
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HyperTerminal Private Edition - This free program offers a more powerful version of the HyperTerminal program that comes in Windows 95 and NT 4.0. HyperTerminal PE, on its surface, seems almost identical to HyperTerminal (except for its animated banner screen). Both are speedy 32-bit programs that take full advantage of the Windows 95 and NT 4.0 interface and key features, such as TAPI (Telephony API ) and Unimodem universal modem support .
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COMPRESSION UTILITIES

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STUFFIT EXPANDER - ZIP and ARJ as well as others. Only un-compresses. (347KB)
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PROZIP - Just un-compresses ZIPs. Commercial version ZIPs. (1.2MB)
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ARJ - Compresses and un-compresses. Stuffit un-compresses this. Free for non-commercial use. This is a DOS version. (350KB)
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JAR - Supposedly compresses more than any other. This is a DOS version. Free for non-commercial use. (501KB)
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WINJAR - Winjar is a Windows interface to the JAR compression utility. (1MB)
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STARFISH INTERNET UTILITIES LITE - A lot more than a ZIP program but it ZIPs and un-ZIPs too. Free for non-commercial use. (2.03MB)
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E-ZIP WIZARD - Another un-zip utility. This one is an evaluation of the zip/unzip functions. After 30 days the Zip times-out but the Unzip remains functional. (581KB)
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WALLABY -This one's from Australia (1.5MB)
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AVIEW - This is a Windows add-on for the ARJ (see above) DOS compression tool. It isn't a real simple interface but it does make using ARJ a lot easier. It's an ARJ archive that can be uncompressed with ARJ or Stuffit which also supports ARJ. (399KB)
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FASTWARE FASTZIP - A zip/unzip utility that is fast and easy to use. (399KB)
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POWERZIP - Does ARJ too. (1.8MB)
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BK ZIP 97 -  (2.3MB)
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CABIT - This creates and extracts CAB files. You can extract the EVIL EMPIRE'S files off the Win 95 disk. (159KB)
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INFOZIP - A small compact zip/unzip utility.
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CAB PACK - For making and extracting CAB files. This (CAB files) is what the EVIL EMPIRE uses for compression (457KB)
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EMAIL

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EUDORA LIGHT VER 3.0.6 - By far the best free E-mail product. It's popularity ensures a lot of third party add-ons. It's got junk mail filtering and more. There is also a PGP encryption version. (4.5MB)
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ARIAL'S E-MAIL MERGE - This program is used to send multiple E-mail messages without it appearing as though everyone received the same message. A Eudora add-on. (582KB)
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PEGASUS MAIL - Another good freeware mail package. Less disk space than Eudora. (2.6MB)
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COOLCARDS - This is a program to make E-mail postcards. Pictures are not included. You must find your own pictures either on your hardrive or CD-ROMS. (2.9MB)
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SPAM MAIL - This is software to help deal with all types of unwanted mail. (742KB)
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OPENSOFT EXPRESS MAIL - This E-mail package uses and integrates with your 'Inbox'.(1.46MB)
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QUICK MAIL EXPRESS FOR WINDOWS - Very easy to use. (2.04MB)
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PRONTO MAIL PRO - It has a spell checker, filters and more. This is ad supported. (4.2MB)
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PRONTO MAIL FAMILY EDITION  - This is sort of E-mail designed for kids. It also allows multiple mailboxes for all family members. It is also a massive download (13.4MB)
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PRIVATE IDAHO - This is for simplifying PGP encryption, as well as, a tool to use as an anonymous remailer. Obviously it's for protecting your privacy. (4.7MB)
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ISMAILER - This checks for your E-mail (in multiple accounts) at set intervals and lets you know if you received any mail (1.6 MB)
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MAGIC MAIL MONITOR - A small utility to check for your mail. It can check multiple accounts and download message headers. (48KB)
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BRAVOMAIL LITE - This allows you to make multimedia E-mails. You can add pictures, voice and whiteboard drawings all integrated and attached to an E-mail message. This lite version allows for only 30 second messages. (1.6MB)
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SPAMMER SLAMMER - It filters your mail to hopefully reduce your volume of junk. (1.1MB)
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JUNO MAIL - It's ad supported Everyone can use multiple E-mail addresses. (1.3MB)
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FREE MAIL EXPRESS - (1.8MB)
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E-FILTER - This can block out junk mail.(2.7MB)
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EMAIL REMOVER - With this you can download just the email headers. If you don't like what you got, you can delete it from the server without downloading it. (177KB)
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SPAMEATER - Spameater will connect with your ISP's mail server (via POP3) and check each email message found there - prior to your downloading with your email client program. It compares the information in the message with your valid email addresses (since most spammers, it seems use the TO field of the message as something other than your address), and against an extensive listing of known spammers (currently nearly 4,000 are included with SpamEater). (1.0MB)
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AVIRMAIL - Will check mail from two POP accounts. (777KB)
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SAFE-NET MAIL - This is an email program for families. It's designed to allow you to filter out all that nasty porn mail and other inappropriate mail that your young-uns should not lay their eyes on. (2.0MB)
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FAXING

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FAXSAV - This is a service and software for sending faxes over the internet. You get 20 free faxes. They also have some other fax tools like faxing from your E-mail program.(1.04MB)
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INTERNET FAX - This is a service that allows you to send free faxes over the internet. Not all geographic areas are covered.
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FREE EMAIL SERVICES

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Rocketmail - (web based)
Yahoo mail - (web based)
AltaVista - (web based)
NetAddress  - (web based) With this you get to pick your email address.
Visto briefcase - (web based) Not only mail with this one but also 3 megs of free internet storage space. For files, email, address book, calendar, and bookmarks!
Free stamp - (POP) These work like your regular interrnet mail.
Ever perfect - (POP)
ForFree - (POP)
NetTaxi - (POP) with a free webspace.

FTP CLIENTS     Click here for more FTP utilities and FTP sites

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WS_FTP LE - Free for non-commercial use. The best FTP client on the market.  (566KB)
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AUTO FTP - Another good FTP client. The free one is ad supported. (1.3MB)
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WAR FTP BETA - The only battles you'll have is which FTP client to use. Another substantial FTP client. (1.21MB)
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ELEET FTP - Another if FTP agent you don't need to give your track winnings to pay for. (1.7MB)
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FTP EXPLORER - This FTP program has a Windoze explorer like interface. If there's still anyone out there without a homepage, you still need a FTP client. Free for home use. (662KB)
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W3FILER - Standard features. Upload, download. You know the routine. (449KB)
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GRAPHICS       Click here for more graphic resources

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IRFAN IMAGE VIEWER - This displays many types of image formats. It also can convert between formats. It has other image manipulation capabilities as well. It supports BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPG, PNG, PCX, PCD, RAS, TGA, RLE, DIB, ICO, AVI, WMF, and EMF. Hope that's enough for you. If not go make one yourself. (304KB)
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DRAW  PLUS INTRO - This is an introductory graphics tool. A mini Corel Draw? Not quite but it can do some graphic arts stuff. I had to call for a registration number to continue using the program. They didn't ask for my name. What the heck is the point of that? (960KB)
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MINOS 2 - A CAD design program. It can design and manipulate many different 3-D shapes. Maybe you could use it to design a new better looking computer. Something we could all use. Imagine if Bill designed the computer, as well as, the software. Kind of makes you ill doesn't it? (880KB)
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GRAPH X IMAGE VIEWER - I believe this is the best free image viewer on the market. It can convert formats, adjust color, gamma and brightness. It seems to keep and manipulate the images in a higher resolution than other viewers. I strongly recommend this download. (865KB)
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ICON EDIT -This is a nice editor for icons and cursors. Gives a small image while you're working to see your changes in real time. Make some cool cursors or improve Windows' dumb icons. (149KB)
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IMAGE AXS - Finds, catalogues and views multimedia files. Good if you have a lot of stuff to categorize and search through. (5.3MB)
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SPIROGRAPH - With Spirograph you can draw some really nice-looking figures from trigonometrical formulas just by entering some parameters, or you can choose the "autorun" mode, where the figures are created randomly. (97KB)
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ANI TO AVI - This converts animated cursors to AVI format files. It also includes the EVIL EMPIRE'S Aniedit, so you can create your own animated cursors!!! Try making one with Bill Gates counting his money. Would make a nice Christmas one, wouldn't it? Bah humbug and all that. (998KB)
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BEHEMOT - Behemot Graphics Editor is a full-featured ray-tracing renderer and editor. It allows you to create elaborate 3-D scenes, objects and models with varying light sources, textures and views. (2.8MB)
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ACSOFT PHOTO ALBUM - AcsSoft Photo Album manages your family photos electronically by combining the photos, calendar/diary, personal directory and pre-recorded voice together. If you happen to have several families, you may need several of these. (6.5MB)
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MORPH MAN - With this you can do computer morphs. Morph anyone into anything. Try morphing your mother-in-law into a human being. (1.6MB)
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WOCAR - This converts scanned documents to text documents. Any scanner that supports TWAIN interface can be used. (2.0MB)
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POV RAYTRACER - This is a tool to create realistic 3-D graphics. Someone make some good games please. (4.4MB)
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CADSTD - A 2-D CAD program. Use it for designing many different things. (860KB)
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PAGE DRAW - A small drawing tool. Does your basic shapes and such. It's fairly simple (270KB)
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ULTIMATE PAINT - A paint program similar to the  Paint program. It does drawing and brushes etc. Scanner support.(1.3MB)
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DESKTOP HELPER - Desktop Helper handles all things graphics and multimedia: view/edit/resize/set wallpaper/make thumbnails of graphics files, play midi/wav/mp3 audio, view avi/mpg/mov video with loop and speed controls, play CD audio, lots more. (4.6MB)
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PHOTONYX VIEWER - 30+ file formats, gamma correction, convert, slide show etc. (2.4MB)
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GERBER FILE VIEWER - No it's not the baby food company but Gerber is the standard file format for Printed Circuit boards.   (4.2MB)
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HTML EDITORS AND JAVA

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AOL PRESS -  The program does tables, forms and other stuff. You don't even have to know what HTML means to use it . (3.18MB)
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ARACHNOPHILIA - This is Careware. There are no monetary charges but the author asks for something in return. See homepage. Also see homepage for the appropriate download.
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BROOKLYN NORTH SOFTWARE - A freeware of their commercial version.  (1.61MB)
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SOFTQUAD'S HOT METAL VER 2.0 - This is a popular package that is not to hard to use. Version 2.0 is the freeware. (1.6MB)
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JMK HTML AUTHOR - Author has just released new version. Added many new features. (1.5MB)
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HTML VALIDATOR - This program from Spyglass checks your HTML code for you. (1.24MB)
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JMK JAVASCRIPT EDITOR VER. 2.0 -You still need to learn the scripting language but this helps ease your writing chores and helps to keep you from making those syntax errors. (5.2 MB)
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MAP THIS - This creates clickable image maps for your web pages. It's changing to shareware (891KB)
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BIGGBYTE SOFTWARE LINK CHECKER   - After you've created your pages, you'll want to check your links.  (1.03MB)
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 HTML FONT COLORIZER - I AM NOT SURE WHAT THIS DOES.  IF YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT,  TRY DOWNLOADING IT.  I THINK IT CAN BE USED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. (261KB)
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APPLET FX  - This allows you to make a bunch of applets without knowing any programming. (3.0MB)
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JAVASCRIPT DEBUGGER - This is Netscape's preview release of their Javascript debugger. It is a beta that TIMES-OUT. I assume it will continue to be free on the final release so I'm listing it here. If it is not free after the final release. This requires Netscape communicator to be installed. (357KB)
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W3e -  An excellent HTML editor. It does the basics plus has some advanced features. It has some prewritten javascripts. It can create clickable image maps. It has a basic editor for writing applets but you must have Sun's SDK installed to compile them. (1.9MB)
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THINKING IN JAVA (A book - NOT software) - This is a complete book on Java programming. A nice language to learn if you want to avoid the EVIL EMPIRE'S scourge.The book comes in PDF format which can be read with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. (2.64MB)
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REVOL WEB WORKER - Another HTML editor. It has switched to shareware. This freeware has most basic functions and tags including image maps. (1.9MB)
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UGLY JAVASCRIPT (A BOOK - NOT SOFTWARE) - This is a small book or tutorial on Javascript. It is not too technical . You can learn some scripting or just copy some of the examples. Javascript is becoming widely used on the web, so it is quite useful to learn. (364KB)
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SUN'S JAVA DEVELOPMENT KIT - For programmers who wish to make their own applets and applications using Java. Comes with a bunch of free applets too!!! Some of this is DOS stuff. (8.0MB)
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WEBFORD - A simple HTML editor. Doesn't include all tags but comes with some pre-defined forms and Javascript functions. (1.0MB)
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SITEAID - Another HTML editor. Includes some wizards.SiteAid provides numerous helpers to make mundane tasks such as body attribute selection, tables, frames, lists, links and images an absolute breeze to insert. They may switch to shareware. (2.3MB)
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HTMLTOOL - Another free HTML editor. Comes with all the tags. Comes with some pre-written Javascripts AND Applets. (366KB)
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ULEAD GIF ANIMATOR - Here's a cool product. Make animated GIF's. Less time to load than Java. With this, you could almost make this site look professional (1.8MB)
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WEBORAMA - An HTML editing program including intuitive dialogs for adding images, tables, links, lists, sounds, forms, scrolling text, hex values, special characters, frames, body and font attributes, and more. (2.4MB)
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XDLGEN - This creates a Javascript search engine for your pages.  (636KB)
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HYPERHITS - This submits your website to fifty search engines.(1MB)
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NETINTELLECT LITE - This can analyze your server log files and create a report. This free version only works on small sites   (4.7MB)
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ALPHA MAKEAPAGE - A small HTML editor. Just has the basic tags. (50KB)
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STONE'S WEBWRITER - Simple to use and comes with wizard's for tables and forms and has an area for working with javascript. Lots of help hints too (914KB)
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WEB TV TESTER - This will check your pages as Web TV viewers see them. (4.4MB)
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KIDS

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THE X-FILES TRIVIA GAME -  (532KB)
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MARIO BROS. - Mario, everyone's favorite plumber is in this simple game. It's just Mario (No Luigi) fighting increasing numbers of enemies. Should be O.K. for the kids if they have not played the real thing. This is a DOS game. (47KB)
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FAMILY GAMES - This company makes mostly children's games. They have a Tic-Tac-Toe like game. A program for learning musical notes. Some puzzle solvers. They also have on-line trivia games for the kiddies.
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BEDTER - This is a tetris clone. It seems to be aa well made game.  (376KB)
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HANGMAN - A version of the popular hangman game. Can be played in several different languages. (494KB)
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YAHTZEE - A dice game. Play Yahtzee on your computer. (540KB)
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KUNG FU KIM - A game of Kung Fu. You fight flying objects with your Kung Fu moves. The game is freeware but a nag screen asks for a donation (not required). (1.39MB)
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CHECKERS - (60KB)
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GLOBAL PETZ  - This is a virtual pet.(1.8MB)
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ACROPOLIS CASINO - This is a casino game. You can bet for real on-line (and probably lose). Or you can just try the games on your own computer (which should prove to be a little less expensive).
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BIBLE TRIVIA - (214KB)
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POCOMAN - Check the homepage for a description or download it and be surprised. (1.8MB)
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SOLITAIRE - This includes 30 different solitaire games. (180KB)
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SCOUT - A solitaire card game. The idea is to rid yourself of cards before your opponent. You can play against the computer or online. Be honest, you bought your computer to play games didn't you? So try this one too. (180KB)
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PONG - A simple arcade type game of Pong. You can play an opponent or the computer . (3.1MB)
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MATH FLASH CARDS  - A program for helping to learn the times table. Basically math flash cards. (900KB)
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WORDS OF FORTUNE - A Wheel of Fortune clone. (471KB)
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SPORTS SCHEDULES - This program gives schedules for all teams in all the major sports. You need to register to get the schedules updated. (3.8MB)
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3-D TIC TAC TOE - You need to get four in a row in any dimension. As with the other, there are a lot of ties. (31KB)
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AMIGLOBE 98 - Not a game but educational. Amiglobe 98 is a world atlas and database with information about 200 countries. You can easily zoom in on any area to display cities, rivers, and main peaks. You can also quickly locate a city or country on the map using a drop down list. (2.5MB)
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ROLL EM UP PINBALL - Most free pinball games are junk but this one's not too bad. The setup and webpage are not in English but the game is. (4.0MB)
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PAC GUYS 2 - A pac-man like game. Eat things. Shoot things. Score points. Win game. (2.1MB)
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SOLSUITE - SolSuite Freeware includes five solitaire games. Computer card games are cool. (1.9MB)
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SLOT MACHINE 98 - You pop in fake money and pull the handle. You can ad your own little pictures to match on the spinning wheel. (1.1MB)
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WINGAMES - The collection includes: Othello, Yahtzee, Master Mind, Blip, Poker Machine, Tic-Tac-Toe and Super Memory, plus some Blip extra levels. Decent collection of games. (1.0MB)
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UTILITIES FOR WIN AND UNCLASSIFIED FILES

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BC WIPE -  This product wipes clean your data after it has been deleted. You've seen the movies where deleted data is recovered. Well not anymore.  (880KB)
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INSTANT ON - This product from Intel (the other monopoly) can schedule computer tasks unattended. (981KB)
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MORTGAGE SOFTWARE - This software analyses payments to help determine a better payment schedule.
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CHEMIT - This is software for chemistry. Has things like the periodic table.(1.77MB)
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HYPERTERMINAL PE - This is the update to Win95's hyperterminal. (643KB)
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WINTUNE 97 - This program analyses your system and recommends improvements. (1.0MB)
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YEAH WRITE - Some former Wordperfect people got together and made this little ol' thing. It's got different formats for letter writing, diaries, journals and other stuff. They have disabled a number of the other formats in the free version though. (980KB)
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MATH ASSISTANT - This thing can solve really cool stuff like algebra problems. It also has other fun math problem solvers. (639KB)
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ATOM TIME - This sets your computer to a super accurate atomic clock over the internet. Helpful for amateur astronomers who need to time events accurately. For others, It's always nice to know your computer clock is accurate to the nanosecond. The author has now made it shareware. This is the last free version.(107KB)
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XCAVATE - This finds all those nasty EVIL EMPIRE Active X controls on your computer. Lots of security problems with these.(47KB)
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PANORAMA - This program changes your wallpaper at set intervals.
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LEXICON - This is a Windows help file that has lots of definitions for the internet and computer related stuff. It even has 250 emoticons (392KB)
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CROSSWORD PUZZLES - This is a browser helper application for doing on-line crosswords. It does come with a number of sample puzzles. You can download more samples from their pages. (329KB)
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ADOBE ACROBAT READER - The acrobat reader is used for reading files with a PDF extension. Many documents are in this format. The Eudora Mail help files come in this format. It can be used as a plug-in to read PDF documents on web pages too. (3.9MB)
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NOTEPAD - Notepad+ allows larger file sizes (20 MB?). Has some other improvements over Notepad too. (203 KB)
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CLIP ART? - A bunch of different (mostly small) images. It's called psycho clipart but it seemed like fairly normal stuff (787KB)
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WORDWEB - A dictionary and thesaurus. Plug in a word and it gives a definition (fairly simple one) and some synonyms.(4.5 MB)
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E-SUPPORT - This is a service providing technical software support. You fill in the information and they try and route the query to the appropriate company for a response. Certainly an interesting service if they can get enough vendors to cooperate. (1.4MB)
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D4TIME - Set your PC's clock to any one of many scattered across the internet. Set your time to a different clock every day if you want (155KB)
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EXCALIBUR (calculator) - This is a calculator for your computer. This comes with many functions (Scientific, Statistics, Business, Conversion, Programming, Geometry, Complex Numbers, More). (809KB)
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CHEMISTRY STUFF - This is just a page listing many chemistry related programs. Some demos, some freeware. Mostly rather technical.
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WEATHER MONITORING - This baby collects local weather information across the U.S.A. (only) and sends it to your computer. Delivers the usual suspects, you know, temperature, pressure etc. (1.0MB)
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REGISTOY - This is to backup and restore the Win 95 registry if it becomes corrupted. Once your registry becomes corrupted you'll probably need to re-format . The registry consists of SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT (435KB)
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WIN CONVERT EXPRESS - This does metric conversions etc. Converts plenty of different items. (1.1MB)
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SPADE - Advanced internet utility tool. Does IP lookup, ping whois, finger etc. (830KB)
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EASY OFFICE - An office package. Comes with Spreadsheet, word processor etc. (4.9MB)
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WEB TIMER - Totals your time spent online. Count your kids time online when you're not home (305KB)
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CLIPPLUS - It can allow you to store multiple items in your clipboard, instead of just one. Also, allows you to save them for next time. (520KB)
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DIRECTORY SNOOP - This allows viewing more information about your files and clusters. View the names of your "erased" files with the option to purge them. View the file allocation table (FAT). View raw clusters for any file or directory and more. (317KB)
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ASTROSCAN beta - It is some sort of Astrology program. Tells the significance of your birth date. (890KB)
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WORD MAGIC - A wordprocessor. (2.2MB)
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WIN 95 TIPS AND TRICKS - Tips and tricks for Win 95. (150KB)
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VTUNER - This is kind of neat. Listen to radio on the internet. Allows you to tune-in stations from around the world. I don't think it translates though. (3.5MB)
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REGBACK II - A program for backing up and restoring your registry. (1.5MB)
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ATTACHMENT FINDER - Quickly searches through thousands of usenet articles and downloads the pictures, sounds and other files matching your search criteria. (1MB)
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SUPERALARM - A small alarm for your computer. Everyone needs this reminder that it's time to shut off that game and get back to work. (41KB)
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FREEDRIVE  (NOT software) - Freedrive is a free service for storing stuff on the web. They give you 7.5 MB of storage to use. You can upload and download files to your space for backup or whatever.
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MORE PROPERTIES - Program to allow more functionality to Win 95. Changes icons, folders and many other settings adjustments to your desktop and properties. Tweaks a lot of settings. (352KB)
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NEWS UTILITIES     Click here for more news resources   and newgroups

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POINTCAST NETWORK - The oldest news deliverer. Delivers live news feeds to your desktop over the internet. (4.6MB)
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INTERMIND COMMUNICATOR - This one allows you to select customizable channels for delivery to your desktop.
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MY YAHOO NEWS TICKER - A news delivery service from yahoo (275KB)
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BACKWEB - This is software that can customize your web content delivery. It sets up customized channels that send web content to your desktop.
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DESKTOP NEWS - Delivers a live feed to your desktop. All the news that's fit to print  Give yourself a lively active desktop. (1.5MB)
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WORLDFLASH - Worldflash delivers customized news to your desktop. You can pick and choose among many newsfeeds all over the world. So you can be more informed than anyone in town. (1.1MB)
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POWER CRYSTAL - Power Crystal is a software program that instantly gathers the daily headlines, horoscopes , winning lottery numbers , weather forecasts, and stock quotes from the Internet. (433KB)
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SPORTSWEB WORLD CUP NEWS TICKER - This ticker application delivers headlines and up-to-the-minute scores directly from a news-feed on the Reuters server. (173KB)
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PRINTING UTILITIES

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PRINTSCREEN 95 - This is a good printing utility. The problem is you can only use it fifty times. However, you can do most of your work with other screencapture/printing utilities and use this only when you need it. (1.3MB)
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HARDCOPY 95 - This is a print utility that allows you to print the screen with a key touch.(600KB)
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OTTO'S PRINTSCREEN - This allows you to capture a portion of your screen for printing. You can also send the captured screen to the clipboard or save it as a file. This is an excellent utility. (365KB)
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SCREEN CAPTURE - This is supposed to capture your screen for export into other programs.(237KB)
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ANOTHER SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL - This is very good screen capture tool. Captures your screen in Bitmap format and can then be used however you like. Export it into a graphics format and edit your screen capture if you like. (151KB)
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COPIER  -  This is a copy machine for your computer. It's for making copies with a TWAIN scanner and printer. It makes 1 to 99 copies.(1.4MB)
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AVAIL DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT - This creates an electronic filing cabinet for organizing your scanned documents. (1.3MB)
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PRINTKEY - A print screen and screen capture tool. It can print the screen, active window or send the screen capture to the clipboard. A nice utility (180KB)
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SCREEN CAPTURE UTILITY - A simple screen capture tool. Will capture the full screen or portion as a bitmap or send to your printer. (114KB)
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PRIVACY AND SECURITY

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PGP (PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY) - This encrypts your E-mail to keep it private. Someone could intercept your mail. (4.0 MB)
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F-PROT DESKTOP ENCRYPTION Version 2 - This encrypts files and folders on your computer. Easy to use. Strong encryption.   (1.5MB)
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SEE WHAT THE EVIL EMPIRE IS UP TO - Download a demo of IE clean 3.0. It's quite an eye opener. For the computer savvy, the critical files are "mm2048.dat" and "mm256.dat". Do a search for them. They are located in a number of folders. They contain records of the websites you visited, the pictures you looked at and the times you visited. (1.05MB)
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SYMANTEC SECRET STUFF - This makes encrypted files and E-mail. It's different from such things as PGP because the receiving party does not need the software. The receiving party just needs to know a secret password you supply to un-lock the encryption. It must be stressed that this is not strong encryption. It is safe for most purposes. (159KB)
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PASSKEEPER - With this program you can store all your passwords in encrypted form. (85KB)
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BLOW CRYPT - This is an encryption product. However, it is not strong encryption. Current laws prohibit their distribution of stronger encryption. (535KB)
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S-TOOLS 4 - This product is kind of cool. It has a couple of uses. It can hide a secret message in a picture file so no one suspects there's a message. This can also be a way to mark a picture like a copyright proof of ownership. (273KB) HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD | | DOWNLOAD

WHISPER - A tool for storing and encrypting passwords. (418KB)
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PRIVATE IDAHO - This is for simplifying PGP encryption, as well as, a tool to use as an anonymous remailer. (3.5MB)
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ANONYMOUS COOKIE - Blocks all cookie(1.3MB)
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CODEDRAG - This is an encryption program for your files and folders. Keep prying eyes away. If you develop any good computer viruses you'll certainly want to encrypt them. (495KB)
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DESKTOP-LOK -  is a utility developed to lock your desktop when you walk away from your computer or when your computer starts up. When the user clicks on one of the standard icons a dialog will pop up prompting the user for a password. (2.1MB)
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CRYPTION 97 - A program to encrypt and de-crypt files. (120KB)
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SWAP FILE OVERWRITE - A little utility to make sure your swap file has all it's data removed so it can't be accessed by prying eyes. It also requires an extra file so be sure to check the README. Free for non-commercial use. (240KB)
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JBOOT - Just a little ditty to password protect your computer on start-up. (52KB)
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ISCRAMBLER - Encrypts files on your computer.(2.3MB)
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WHAT ABOUT PRIVACY - What about privacy murders MRU/ History / Recent File Lists. Scans your registry for other privacy invaders.  (918KB)
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THE SAFE - Protects your passwords with PGP. Needs PGP installed. Will start the download for you if you don't have it. (496KB)
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ERASER - Eraser overwrites deleted data on your hardrive so it cannot be retrieved. Since your boss probably already read all your emails, this may not get the job done entirely but every little bit helps. (150KB)
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WITHOUT A TRACE - Securely deletes your files so they cannot be retrieved with file recovery utilities. Comes with a status bar to keep you abreast of it's progress. (735KB)
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SEARCH UTILITY

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VIRONIX WEBFERRET - It searches several search engines and gives back more than enough answers. (568KB)
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BEELINE - The perfect search tool. It also can search for people's E-mail addresses and people's homepages. (1.0MB)
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DATAGRAB 2.0 - A search tool that can look through a myriad of search engines and directories. You pick what database to search and enter your search term. This software can search hundreds of different web directories. A worthwhile product. (865KB)
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SEARCHPAL - Searchpal allows you to highlight a word in any document and then perform an Altavista search on it. So if you don't know what that name you were called in a recent E-mail was, Look it Up. (1.2MB)
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ALTAVISTA SEARCH PERSONAL - It indexes all text based documents on your computer (including your internet cache and mail). Find stuff you lost or didn't know you had. (5.0MB)
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COPERNIC 98 - A nice multiple search engine tool. One query gets 10 results from each of the major search engines. Does a good job. (2MB)
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FUZZY SEARCH  - This tool will ferret out text on your computer. The idea of the fuzzy logic is that you don't need to be exact in your search. It will search text files, HTML files etc. for that elusive quarry you so desperately want to nab. (128KB)
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ALTAVISTA DISCOVERY - Puts up a toolbar so you can do an Altatvista search anytime. It also builds a database to enable you to search your own computer files for keywords. It then displays the results like an Altavista results page except the links are to your own files. If you have this you don't need personal search (above). (10.7MB)
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SOUND UTILITIES

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MIDIPLUS - This sound utility plays WAV's and MIDI's. It allows you to program your own sequence. (930KB)
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RANDOMEDIA - Another player utility. It plays WAV's MIDI's and CD's. (1.59MB)
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DILIGENCE ENCOUNTER BETA - This utility is still in beta so it may have what are referred to as bugs. This utility can play and edit sound files to your liking. (1.9MB)
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MUSIC PLAYER - This program will find all the music files on your drive and plays them.
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MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - The MIDInight Express II is a real time, emulated wavetable MIDI jukebox and renderer. It runs with any 16 bit Windows sound card capable of playing 22050 Hz digital audio. It can also copy its output to a WAV file for fast MID to WAV rendering. (3.8MB)
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YAMP 3 - A player for CD's, WAV's, MID's, MOD's and others. Many additional features. (2.0MB)
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RAMPLAYER MP3 PLAYER - Features: FF/REW, ID3 Tag Editor, play list, random, 4 preset + 1 default play list, Repeat Track/Play List, Minimize to System Tray, Full Volume Control, Drag N Drop. (2MB)
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CD RUNNER 4.0 - Compact CD Audio/CD-ROM Launcher for Windows. Trys to emulate the features of a real CD player. (1.8MB)
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CD NOTIFY - This can play CD's as well as access an outside server to gather information about the CD you're playing. (119KB)
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MOD PLUGIN - PLAYER - TRACKER - Three different programs for MOD music files. A plugin to listen to MOD files on the web. A player to play MOD files on your computer. Tracker, to create and edit MOD music files. Visit the homepage and download your selection.
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ANVIL STUDIO - Record, play, compose, and edit standard MIDI music files. Of course you need the keyboard to record files. (3.0MB)
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ECHOVIEW PRO - EchoView Pro is an integrated suite of powerful, interactive music calculating tools for musicians, sound engineers and producers. Check hompage for details. (2.4MB)
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UNINSTALLERS

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CLEANSWEEP BY QUARTERDECK - It will scan for all different types of un-needed files. With this demo you then have to delete the files manually. It isn't a big deal. When you want to un-install a program, it will identify the files. Deleting them manually is easy because most of the files will be in the program folder, so they can all be deleted at once. There's usually just a few other files and the shortcuts to delete. (7.7MB)
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FIND AND DELETE DUPLICATE FILES - This program finds all the duplicate files on your system and then allows you to delete them. (190KB)
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QUICKCLEAN - This cleans your drive of junk files. You can set which file types to eliminate and it can backup your important files as well. For advanced users only. (1.9MB)
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UPGRADE SOFTWARE

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MANAGEABLE'S CATCH-UP - This is software and a service that looks in it's database for upgrades to your software products (including shareware and freeware). It allows you to see if updates are available and where to download them. (1.4MB)
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WEBPATCH - This is software and a service to upgrade your commercial software. It is using new techniques so that you only have to download the small update file rather than download the complete new product. Free for non commercial users. (716KB)
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ANTI - VIRUS SOFTWARE

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VIRUSAFE WEB - (Eliashim)-integrates with your browser. (953KB)
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F-PROT - One of the best free ones. Free for non-commercial use. (1.5MB)
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ANYWHERE ANTI-VIRUS - Another free Anti-virus product. (1.2MB)
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SYMANTEC ANTI-VIRUS - Symantec's Anti-virus scanner. This one detects but does not remove viruses.(2.2MB)
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ALL MICRO ANTI-VIRUS - The updates are not free so it is not going to catch newer viruses. (1.07MB)
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BOOTMINDER - This program will warn you if a floppy is in your A: drive when closing down Windows. This way, you will be less likely to start up again with the floppy still in the A: drive. This means: no boot-virus infection. Bootviruses are the most common of computer diseases. (109KB)
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HOUSECALL - This is NOT SOFTWARE. It is a service for your computer. They will scan your computer for viruses and let you know if you have any. Couldn't be simpler but it takes awhile. If someone sends you an unexpected E-mail attachment it's nice to know whether or not it's safe.
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VRML

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VRML PLUGIN - This is a plugin for Netscape and the EVIL EMPIRE browser. It allows you to view the VRML 3-D worlds.
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COSMO PLAYER PLUGIN - This was created by Silicon Graphics. Silicon Graphics has always focused on graphic intensive applications. (3.1MB)
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WINPLACE - WinPlace is an application which allows you to create and place objects into an area and view the results in 3D formats. Both VRML 1.0 and AcroSpin file formats are supported. (9.8MB)
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WEB TOOLS

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FREELOADER - An off-line browser. The cool thing about this type of software, is seeing how fast the pages load from the hardrive instead of the internet. It doesn't do Java (3.0MB)
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NETATTACHE LITE - An off-line browser. Downloads websites unattended. (1.34MB)
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NETBUDDY - Checks to see which websites have changed. Beta. (231KB)
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QUICKLINKS - Organizes bookmarks and favorites and keeps them organized in a Windows Explorer like fashion. (4.2MB)
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NET VAMPIRE - It schedules downloads and does the file download unattended ( It can even continue a download at a later time). (1.1MB)
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ALEXA - This product helps you surf the web . It gives background information (if it has any) on the sites you visit. It can also give you where-to-go suggestions. It also (supposedly) archives past pages so if you get the dreaded 404 error it can bring up the original page - if it ever existed. (1.7MB)
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WEB TURBO - This program gives little previews of upcoming web pages. It also has a search feature that lets you search multiple engines. It is free because it is ad supported. (1.6MB)
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GOZILLA - Recover from download errors and resume failed downloads, manage and categorize files to download later and get those files from the most responsive site with Go!Zilla. (1.3MB)
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NETMETER - Check your bandwidth. See if your internet provider is "giving it to you". Or perhaps it is just a slow server. Whichever, this meter gives you a real-time look. (28KB)
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FASTNET - This program is supposed to speed up web surfing. I don't think it will help much. It puts a DNS lookup on your desktop so your browser doesn't have to find a website's DNS number. This is not the slowest part of the process and will probably only save a couple seconds. (1.9MB)
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NETSONIC - Works with your browser to cache pages. Checks to see if pages and images have changed. If not, it will reload the image from cache speeding your web-surfing. Of course my hardrive is so small that I always empty the cache. (811KB)
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REGET - A nice download tool. You can resume canceled downloads. Schedule multiple downloads. Do two downloads at once (744KB)
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WEBCELERATOR - It's primary mission is to cache your pages. It then checks those pages against your return visit to a website. If the page changes, you download a new one. Otherwise it just serves up the page from cache. (1.3MB)
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TURBO EXPLORER - This will start to download pages while your modem is idle. So when you click on a link the page will already have started downloading. Guessing which link you'll click on could be a problem though. (1MB)
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NETSCAPE ACCELERATOR - This speeds up launching Netscape Communicator (not version 3). It doesn't speed web-surfing, just opening the program. Didn't work too good for me but it may depend on your configuration. (452KB)
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ISPEED - A software program that makes a few changes to your internet settings to try and speed up your web-surfing (we wouldn't need this if stupid webmasters didn't load their pages with five thousand images and animations). Changes are reversible. (1MB)
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