New
to the Internet? Visit Internet 101 - the fast-moving and user-friendly
tutorials cover such subjects as the history of the Internet, surfing
and optimising your browsers, Web sites, search engines (including
tips on getting your site listed more prominently), e-mail, browser
plug-ins, FTP, online security, and much, much more.  |
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huge site with tons of applications for all flavours of Windows
and Mac OS. Excellent search features help you to quickly find the
software you need. Strictly for the download maniac! |
| TUCOWS
is the best place on the Web to access the latest and greatest Internet
software for Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1, Macintosh, and OS/2. Each
file is performance rated and has been checked for viruses.
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WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of Zip files
and other archive and compression formats. The optional wizard interface
makes unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support
CAB files and for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, gzip,
UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported
via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.
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Aladdin offers free downloads of StuffIt expanders for Windows,
DOS, and Mac OS — making cross-platform compression problems a thing
of the past. Now PC users can automatically open StuffIt archives
and Mac users can instantly open Zipped files. Aladdin Expanders
will also decompress files in the uuencoded (.uue), BinHex (.hqx),
and MacBinary (.bin) formats commonly found on the Internet. Other
archive formats supported include ARC (.arc), Arj (.arj), and gzip
(.gz). Aladdin also sells the shareware programs StuffIt Deluxe
and Stuffit Lite, which offer complete archiving and compression
solutions for the Mac OS. |
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CuteMX is a client-server application extending the reach of Internet
search engines to the end-user’s desktop. GlobalSCAPE’s search technology
allows users to easily locate and transfer files on a peer-to-peer
basis. If you thought that Napster, Wrapster, Gnutella or Scour
Exchange where powerful and flexible, then CuteMX will come as huge
surprise. |
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ACDSee 3.0 is a fast, full-featured image viewer, browser, database,
file management, and image manipulation tool in one. This first-class
software supports over 40 popular image formats and allows users
to view, manage, and print images and thumbnails. The latest release
of ACDSee has extended photo enhancement features such as crop,
resize, and colour balance. ACDSee 3.0 will allow you to send and
share pictures over the Internet as well as view, browse, and search
inside ZIP and LZH files. With ACDSee 3.0 you can play WAV files
in the software, preview window or organize your image archives
and sounds clips. As a bonus the program offers on-screen slide
show capabilities. Expand ACDSee 3.0 with third party plug-ins.
ACDSee 3.0 is image viewing at its very best! |
| ICQ
is a revolutionary, user-friendly Internet tool that informs you
who's on-line at any time and enables you to contact them at will.
No longer will you search in vain for friends or associates on the
Net. ICQ does the searching for you, alerting you in real time when
they log on. The need to conduct a directory search each time you
want to communicate with a specific person is eliminated. With ICQ,
you can chat, send messages, files and URL's, play games, or just
hang out with your fellow 'Netters' while still surfing the Net.
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| IRC
(Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from
all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity
of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to
participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of
IRC channels, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever
they are in the world.
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use IRC you need a small program like mIRC, a shareware IRC client
for Windows. mIRC is a friendly IRC client that is well equipped
with options and tools.
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| Hotline
enables private and public virtual community building and live interaction
with real time chat, conferencing, messaging, data warehousing and
file transfer and viewing -- performed with minimal technical knowledge.
More than two million people already use Hotline to exchange information
and ideas. |
| Napster
is a completely new way of thinking about music online. Imagine...an
application that takes the hassle out of searching for MP3s. No
more broken links, no more slow downloads, and no more busy, disorganized
FTP sites. With Napster, you can locate and download your favourite
music in MP3 format from one convenient, easy-to-use interface.
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months of sitting on the sidelines, the rest of us Mac users can
finally join the full Napster community. Macster Preview 5 now has
file sharing so you can share the exciting new music you discover
with friends.
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