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(Browser) (Browser: Shell) (Browser: Small) (Browser: Suite) (Browser Tool) (Content Filter) (Cookie Manager) (Popup Killer) (URL: Bookmarks-Favorites) (URL: Checker-Validator) (URL: Clipboard tool) (URL: Convert To HTML) (Chat Client) (Email Client) (Email Checker) (Email Spam Tool) (Email And News Client) (Email And News Server) (Email And News Tool) (Newsreader) (Newsreader: Binary) (Download Manager) (Download Web Sites) (Download: Peer To Peer ) (FTP Client) (Telnet Client) (Network Computing) (Network Tool) (Network: DUN Manager)Browser Mozilla Firefox (was Mozilla Firebird) (was Phoenix)
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: MAC OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Mozilla Firefox is a speedy, full-featured browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes: comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop; a tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on; integrated search (powered by Google); industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable; a large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser; ...and a number of other details that work together with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Company: Mozilla.org Author: --
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/firefox.html
Home Page:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
download page v 1.0 (2004-11-08) (Windows) (English) (Firefox Setup 1.0.exe) (4803 KB), (Firefox 1.0.zip) (6404 KB)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/
(desc. rev.: 2004-11-16)K-meleon
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows (32-bit)
Languages: English and many other languages see: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/resources/translations.php
Description: K-Meleon is a fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla).
Company: K-Meleon Author: --
Home Page:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
download page v 0.8.2 (2003-12-22) (kmeleon082.exe) (5 286 198 bytes)
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14285
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-13)
Browser: Shell Maxthon (was MyIE2)
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Win all Requires Internet Explorer or Mozilla (Gecko engine).
Languages: English, many other languages
Description: Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in IE, works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like... Tabbed Browsing Interface; Mouse Gestures; Super Drag&Drop; Privacy Protection; AD Hunter; Google Bar Support; External Utility Bar; Skinning; And Much More
Company: Maxthon Author: Bloodchen
Home Page:
http://www.maxthon.com/
download page v 1.1.120 (2005-01-09) (Combo) (mcombo.exe) (4925 KB); (Standard) (msetup.exe) (1941 KB)
http://www.maxthon.com/en/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-18)Avant Browser
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Avant Browser, an upgrade for Internet Explorer, is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. Features include: Pop-up Stopper, Additional Mouse Functions, options to block download of pictures, videos, sounds and ActiveX components, Multi-Window Browsing, Built-in Google Search Engine, Integrated Cleaner to help you to keep your privacy. Avant Browser is compatible with all Internet Explorer functions, including Java Script, Cookies, Real player, Media Player, Internet Explorer Favorites, Macromedia Flash and ActiveX Controls.
Company: -- Author: Anderson Che
Home Page:
http://www.avantbrowser.com/
download page v 10.0 Build 035 (2004-11-22) (absetup.exe) (1139 KB)
http://www.avantbrowser.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)
Browser: Small OffByOne
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest web browser with full HTML 3.2 support. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component.
Company: Off By One Productions Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.offbyone.com/
download: page v 3.4.a (2002-12-09) (OffByOneSetup.exe) (998 KB), v 3.4.a (2002-12-09) (OffByOne.zip) (850 KB)
http://www.offbyone.com/ob1_download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-29)
Browser: Suite Mozilla
(Donationware) (open source: Mozilla Public License)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: MAC OS X; Linux
Languages: English
Description: Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
Company: Mozilla.org Author: --
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/mozilla.html
Home Page:
http://www.mozilla.org/
download Windows v 1.7.5 (2004-12-17) (mozilla-win32-1.7.5-installer.exe) (11.5 MB) (mozilla-win32-1.7.5.zip) (10.9 MB)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)
Browser Tool Google Toolbar
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Only for IE browsers. Requires IE 5+ The pop-up blocker requires IE 5.5+
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
Description: The new Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to install. When the Google Toolbar is installed, it automatically appears along with the Internet Explorer toolbar. This means you can quickly and easily use Google to search from any website location, without returning to the Google home page to begin another search. NOTE: The Page Rank feature of the Toolbar necessitates a connection to Google. Simply install without the Advanced Features to prevent information on which sites you visit to be sent back to Google. This feature can be enabled or disabled from the drop menu. NOTES: The Google Toolbar version 2 has an automatic program update feature that cannot be disabled.
Company: Google Author: --
Home Page
http://toolbar.google.com/
download v 2.0.114.9 (2004-12-09) (English) (GoogleToolbarInstaller.exe) (463 KB)
http://toolbar.google.com/data/en/deleon/current/GoogleToolbarInstaller.exe
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)SetBrowser
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: A very simple program that lets you set the default web browser in Windows. Select the browser you want, and the program will modify the required registry settings. Can now also automatically locate the browser. A valuable tool for anybody who uses more than one web browser on their system (e.g. if you switch between Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and others). Warning: Since most web browsers have the ability to make themselves default (and automatically set all the proper registry settings), only use SetBrowser in situations where browsers don't recognize the current settings. "Forcing" the default browser, as SetBrowser does, is really a last resort.
Company: PC-Tools.Net Author: Jem Berkes
Home Page:
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/freeware/setbrowser/
download v 1.4 (stbrws14.exe) (42 KB)
http://www.pc-tools.net/files/win32/freeware/stbrws14.exe
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)IE 5 Power Tweaks Web Accessories
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows Requires IE 5+
Languages: English
Description: Web Accessories is designed to make your life easier. It adds an Offline/Online button to your toolbar that's especially useful for notebook computer users. Restriction commands right in the tools menu help you set sites as trusted or restricted without having to wade through the control panel to find the controls. Finally, with a right click of the mouse you can copy a URL right into the clipboard so you can paste locations in e-mail or any document.
Company: Microsoft Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/pwrtwks.asp
download: (pwrtwks.exe) (129 KB)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie5/Utility/1/W9XNT4MeXP/EN-US/pwrtwks.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)IE 5 Web Accessories
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows Requires IE 5+
Languages: English
Description: Selection of some very useful utilities for Internet Explorer 5. Most of these are activated by 'right-clicking' on an appropriate item in the browser and choosing the associated command. For example, if you want to use the Text Highlighter, select some text with the cursor, then right-click on the selected text and choose 'Highlight' from the list of commands. Others such as the Image Toggler and Quick Search are located in the links bar.
Company: Microsoft Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp
download: (ie5wa.exe) (134 KB)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie5/Utility/1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie5wa.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)Weather Watcher
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Adware-free, spyware-free, hassle-free... Your weather, your way. View current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for almost any city world-wide!
Company: Singer's Creations Author: Mike Singer
Home Page: download v 5.5b (2004-07-20) (WW55BSETUP.EXE) (1288 KB)
http://www.singerscreations.com/
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-09)
Content Filter The Proxomitron
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, French, Korean (documentation available in other languages)
Description: Using special HTML filters, the Proxomitron can transform web pages on the fly - changing most anything you wish. Speed your browsing by saying goodbye to slow loading cyber spam and other web-gimmickry. Customize pages to suit your tastes. Take control of your web viewing, and don't be slave to some web-master's whims. Works with any browser to eliminate cyber-spam like pop-up windows, alerts, banners, animated GIFs, auto-play music, sounds, dynamic HTML, and more. Replace background images with your own, rewrite JavaScripts, even filter normally hidden HTTP header messages.
Company: -- Author: Scott Lemmon
Program description:
http://www.proxomitron.info/index.shtml
download page:
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.shtml
download v 4.5 (June 2003) (ProxN45j.exe) (1380 KB)
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/download/ProxN45j.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-31)Hosts File
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is it's ability to block other applications from connecting to the Internet, as long the the entry exists. You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, cookies, web bugs, and even most hijackers. The HOSTS file now includes most major parasites, hijackers and unwanted Search Engines! In many cases this can speed the loading of web pages by not having to wait for these ads, banners, hit counters, etc. to load. This also helps to protect your Privacy by blocking servers that track your viewing habits, known as "click-thru tracking".
Company: -- Author: --
Home Page; download Hosts files (2005-01-04) (hosts.zip) (45 KB)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-09)Webwasher
(Freeware) (free for home and educational use (schools and universities))
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP Requires IE; NS or Opera browser
Other OS: Macintosh; Linux
Languages: English
Description: WebWasher's standard filters prevent unwanted data objects on Web pages from being loaded: unwanted advertising banners, URLs and pop-up windows. Suppresses the execution of scripts that are executed when Web pages are loaded or closed. Animated graphics can be displayed only once or entirely eliminated. Graphics can be replaced with your own image.
Company: Webwasher.com Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.webwasher.com/
download page Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP v 3.3 (wash33.exe) (1066 KB)
http://www.webwasher.com/client/download/private_use/windows/index.html?lang=de_EN
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)
Cookie Manager Cookie Muncher
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000
Languages: English
Description: A must have privacy program. Stop the Evil Empire watching your every move. Eats a cookie as soon as it arrives.
Company: -- Author: Steve Seymour
Program Description:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cookiemunch.html
download v 3.7 (2001-07-11) (cookiem37.zip) (162 KB)
http://www.snapfiles.com/php/download.php?id=100879
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)CookieWall
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows Requires IE (only for IE browser)
Languages: English
Description: CookieWall allows you to quickly and easily decide which cookies can stay on your system, and which cookies should go - once you let CookieWall know which ones are unwelcome, it does the rest. CookieWall can be configured to delete cookies as soon as they arrive, to notify you of any new ones, or just que them up for you to check out at a later date.
Company: -- Author: Analog X
Home Page:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm
download v 1.01 (cookiei.exe) (228 KB)
http://www.analogx.com/files/cookiei.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-01)
Popup Killer Pop-Up Stopper
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Requires IE 5 or later or NS 4 or later
Languages: English
Description: Pop-Up Stopper provides pop-up and pop-under ad blocking. Pop-Up Stopper runs in the system tray next to your clock for instant access. Simply right-click on the white hand and you will be presented with the menu. From this menu you may access the preferences, monitor your Privacy Report and identity theft risk assessment, check for product updates and more!
Company: Panicware Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.panicware.com/
program description:
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
download v 3.1.1012 (PopUpStopperFree.exe) (477 KB)
http://www.panicware.com/downloads/PopUpStopperFree.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)
URL: Bookmarks-Favorites Columbine Bookmark Merge (CBM)
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/NT
Languages: English
Description: CBM is an accessory for the NetScape, MSIE, Mosaic, and Opera world-wide web browsers. It permits you to merge NetScape bookmark files, MSIE favorites files, Mosaic hotlist files, Opera Hot List files, or NetScape e-mail addressbook files together without producing duplicates or unwanted bookmarks.
Company: -- Author: Gary Cramblitt
download v 3.3 (cbm33m.zip) (682,592 bytes)
http://www.belkaplan.de/opera/columbin/cbm33m.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)
URL: Checker-Validator AM-DeadLink
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English, language pack available for basque, catalan, chinese_big5, chinese_gb, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, french, galego, greek, hebrew, hungarian, italian, japanese, latvian, norway, polish, portuguese, portuguese-brazil, russian, serbian, slovak, spanish, swedish, taiwan, turkish
Description: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it from your Browser. AM-Deadlink checks Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.
Company: -- Author: Martin Aignesberger
Home Page:
http://aignes.com/products.htm
Program description; download page v 2.05 (2004-12-20) (dlsetup.exe) (786 KB)
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-08)Xenu's Link Sleuth
(Requestware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Xenus Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on normal links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Company: -- Author: Tilman Hausherr
Home Page:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
download v 1.2f (2004-08-06) (XENU.ZIP) (506 KB)
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/XENU.ZIP
(desc. rev.: 2004-08-07)
URL: Clipboard tool CopyURL
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: CopyURL is a shell extension that helps you to copy different information from your Internet Shortcut files (entries in the Favorites folder or *.url files) to the clipboard. Then you can simply paste it from clipboard to your e-mails, HTML editor or other documents. It adds commands Copy URL, Copy Link and Copy Name to the shell context menu of Internet Shortcut files.
Company: Moon Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp
download: v 2.3.0 (2001-08-20) (CopyURL_230.exe) (214 KB)
http://www.moonsoftware.com/getfile.asp?copyurl
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)Visit URL
(Freeware) (unsupported)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: VisitURL is designed to help maintain a list of URLs that you intend to visit. If you copy a URL to clipboard, Visit will automatically intercept it and save to its database. If you copy several URLs at once, Visit will get all of them. (You may also add URLs manually or directly from an open browser window.) If you copy the URL with some text around it, Visit will optionally treat that text as a description for the URL you copied. To access the bookmarked site, you can either view the HTML page that Visit creates in your browser, or click a toolbar button to launch the browser directly from Visit. There is no limit to how many URLs you may store, though the program is primarily designed to hold, view and edit a short, temporary list.
Company: Tranglos.com Author: Marek Jedlinski
Home Page:
http://www.tranglos.com/
download v 1.74 (2002-11-30) (visit.zip) (650 KB)
http://www.tranglos.com/free/files/visit.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)
URL: Convert To HTML Bookmark Wizard
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Bookmark Wizard is a little program with a simple wizard-like interface that generates an HTML page with all/selected links from your Internet Favorites folder. The links in the resulting page are grouped and sorted in ascending order like they are in your Favorites folder. You can specify colors for links and backgrounds, title, caption, etc., for your page. Also, you can exclude certain folders from being listed. Advanced users are able to edit the entire page template to customize it further. The resulting web page can be used as a links page on your homepage; you can send it to a friend or use it just as a startup page for your web browser etc. NOTES: This program is not an HTML to Favorites converter, it can only create a HTML page from Favorites.
Company: Moon Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp
download v 2.0.1 (1999-07-10) (Bookmark_Wizard_201.exe) (401 KB)
http://moonsoftware.com/getfile.asp?bmwizard
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)
Chat Client Trillian
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.
Company: Cerulean Studios Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
download page v 3.0 (2004-12- ) (trillian-v3.0.exe) (9413 KB)
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-05)Miranda IM
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory, requires no installation and can easily be carried around on a single floppy disc. The powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more than 130 plugins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality in Miranda IM. Plugins can be installed to add support for ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, netsend and other protocols. NOTES: To Upgrade, just overwrite/install over the existing installation.
Company: -- Author: Miranda
Home Page:
http://www.miranda-im.org/
download v 0.3.3.1 (2004-04-24) (miranda-im-v0.3.3.1.exe) (725 KB), (miranda-im-v0.3.3.1.zip) (771 KB)
http://www.miranda-im.org/release/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)
Email Client Pegasus Mail
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, German
Description: Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. A proven product, it has served millions of users since it was released in 1990. It is extremely feature-rich and powerful, yet remains small and fast.
Company: -- Author: David Harris
Home Page:
http://www.pmail.com/index.htm
download page v 4.21c (2004-06-30) {English} (w32-421c.exe) (4.5 MB)
http://www.pmail.com/downloads.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-29)FoxMail
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Not stated
Languages: English, Chinese
Description: FoxMail is a small, fast, and free multiple POP3 account email client. Remote mail management, downloads/deletes emails directly from the mail server. Local mailbox with encryption feature and address book. Imports/exports messages to and from Outlook. Includes notifier, which lets you know when new mail has arrived.
Company: Author: --
Home Page:
http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm
download page v 5.0.800.0 (2004 - - ) (English) (fm50en.exe) (3894 KB)
http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english2.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-28)Calypso
(Freeware) (last Freeware version) (unsupported) (Registerware: name and email)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, multi-language spelling support
Description: The Calypso Email Client supports unlimited POP3 and IMAP4 accounts for an unlimited number of users. Its features include a configurable window layout, complete with dockable toolbars; a spelling checker; an automatic response option; offline mode; a local delete option that leaves the message on the server; and Web browser integration. MIME, BinHex, and UUencode attachments are supported. Please note that this version has some minor issues running under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Company: Rose City Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/calypso/
download v 3.3 (calypso.exe) (4.12 MB)
http://www.rosecitydownloads.com/calypso.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-30)
Email Checker Mailwasher
(Freeware) (last uncrippled Freeware versions)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: MailWasher is a powerful email checker with effective spam elimination. Discover the safe way to stop unwanted viruses and e-mails before they get to your computer.
Company: -- Author: Nick Bolton
download v 1.33 (mailwasher133.exe) (1575 KB)
http://www.pcrescue.ws/publicdomain/mailwasher133.exe
download v 2beta28 (mailwasher2b28.exe) (1428 KB)
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/filepilot/windows/email/mailwasher2b28.exe
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.firetrust.com/
(desc. rev.: 2004-10-26)PopCorn
(Freeware) (last uncrippled Freeware versions)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Popcorn is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client It works as a client/server application, reading mail "directly" from POP3 servers. It is ideally suited for "on the road" mail access, for scanning, reading and sending mail over slow connections. It supports multiple user profiles, enabling you to read and send mail from any number of accounts. It requires no installation, no data is saved locally other than a portable .INI file containing account information. It is ideal for cleaning up POP3 accounts, removing spam, unwanted mail, large attachments etc... It has a mail editor allowing you to compose and send new mail, reply to, forward and re-direct received mail. It fits easily on a floppy or other portable (even read only) media, making it easy carry around at all times. NOTES: Liteware version is limited to one account.
Company: UltraFunk Author: --
download v 1.48 (2003-08-26) (popsetup.exe) (188 KB)
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/filepilot/windows/email/popsetup.exe
download v. 1.50 beta 3 (popcorn150b3.zip) (126 KB)
http://digilander.libero.it/rareware/popcorn150b3.zip
Home Page ($ware, Liteware):
http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn/
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-29)POP Peeper
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP Requires IE 4+ for certain features (Webmail and for viewing HTML).
Languages: English, many other kanguages (separate downloads).
Description: POP Peeper is a utility that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN or Yahoo accounts. You can also use POP Peeper to read and delete your email. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your email the same way as you would in your email client. COMMENTS: Perfect for weeding out spam and for mail reading. View as rich text/ noHTML is safe and private. Launches your mail client for answering, filing, etc. Very unobtrusive.
Company: Mortal Universe Software Entertainment: Author: Jeff Meier
Home Page:
http://www.poppeeper.com
download page v 2.3.4 (2004-12-01) (POPPeeper-Install.exe) (745 KB)
http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)YahooPOPs! (YPOPs!)
(Donationware) (open source: GPL Version 2 )
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X 10.1; Linux
Languages: English
Description: YPOPs! emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo! accounts. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! COMMENTS:Very unobtrusive. Once the config is right, never know it's there.
Company: -- Author: Anuj Seth; K Shyam; Daniel Bryg
Home Page:
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
download page v 0.6 (2004-05-23) (yahoopops-win-0.6.exe) (1155 KB)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yahoopops/
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-29)
Email Spam Tool K9
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (guides available in Gerrman and Spanish)
Description: K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis that can result in extremely high accuracy over time. K9 learns from its mistakes and becomes better and better at being able to identify spam. More importantly it learns to recognize what you consider to be spam. K9 is for standard POP3 email accounts only. It does not directly support Hotmail, AOL or any other kind of webmail type systems, nor does it support SSL or secure authentication as used by MSN.
Company: -- Author: Robin Keir
Home Page:
http://keir.net/
download v 1.28 (2004-04-18) (k9v1.zip) (77 KB). (k9v1setup.exe) (113 KB)
http://keir.net/k9.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-04-19)POPFile
(Freeware) (open source: GPL)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: POPFile is an automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will work in the background of your computer, scanning mail as it arrives and filing it however you wish. You can give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or a complicated one - like filing mail into a dozen folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox.
Company: -- Author: John Graham-Cumming
Home Page:
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
download page v 0.22.2 (2004-12-17) (popfile-0.22.2-windows.zip) (4891 KB)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)
Email And News Client Outlook Express
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP Requires IE
Other OS: Macintosh; Unix
Languages: English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Description: Outlook Express is the easy way to send e-mail and participate in Internet newsgroups. Even if you've never sent e-mail before, Outlook Express makes it simple by including a setup wizard to help you get started. If you're switching from another e-mail program, the import function lets you transfer your address book and messages quickly and easily. To get Outlook Express, you need to download Internet Explorer Version 6.00.2800.1123 (2002-09-09). Total download size for a typical installation is approximately 25 megabytes (MB). However, because Setup downloads only those files that are necessary for your computer, this size can vary between 11 and 75 MB.
Company: Microsoft Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.asp
download (English) setup file (ie6setup.exe) (479 KB)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie6setup.exe
download page for other languages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/worldwide/ie6sp1downloads.asp
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)Pimmy
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP Requires IE 4+
Languages: English, Dutch, French, Galician Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Venezuela)
Description: Geminisoft Pimmy is an email and newsgroup client that allows you to manage multiple email accounts and newsgroups. You can check your mail, save it locally, send replies, preview messages, delete selected items and more. It also comes with a built-in address book and support for custom signatures and templates. Pimmy can automatically download your mail, notify you when new mail arrives and more. Pimmy has great filter capabilities.
Company: Geminisoft Author: Angelo and Antonio Donatiello
Home Page:
http://www.geminisoft.com/
download v 3.5 (2004-05-18) (English) (pimmy350-english-setup.exe) (638 KB), (pimmy350-english.zip) (361 KB)
http://www.geminisoft.com/en/download.aspx
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)
Email And News Server Hamster
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows (32-bit)
Languages: English
Description: Hamster is a local server for news and mail. It's a windows-32-bit-program. It allows the use of multiple news- and mailserver and combines them to one mail- and newsserver for the news/mail-client. It load faster than a normal newsreader because many threads can run simultaneous. It contains scorefile for news and mail, a build-in script language, the GUI allows translation to other languages, it can be used in a network and that's not all ...
Company: -- Author: Juergen Haible; Thomas G. Liesner and many other
Home Page:
http://www.tglsoft.de/misc/hamster_en.htm
download: v 2.0.0.1 (2003-02-19) (Hamster.2.0.0.1.zip) (2.1MB)
http://hamster.arcornews.de/tgl/hamster/Hamster.2.0.0.1.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-30)
Email And News Tool OE-Quotefix
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP Requires OE 5.x/6.x
Languages: English
Description: OE-QuoteFix will extend the functionality of MS Outlook Express in numerous ways! Its main purpose is to modify message composition windows on-the-fly to allow for correct quoting and to change the appearance of your plain-text replies and forwards in general: move your signature, use compressed indentation, have RFC compliant signatures, etc. But the second feature is equally practical: OE-QuoteFix can instantly color quoted passages (according to the level of indentation), fix bad quoting and generally beautify messages as you view them in Outlook Express.
Company: -- Author: Dominik Jain
Program description:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
download page v 1.19.2 (2003-08-21) (oequotefix1192.exe) (420 KB)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4029.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-31)Outlook-Quotefix
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows NT4/2000/XP Requires Outlook 98/2000/2002/XP
Languages: English
Description: Outlook-QuoteFix can modify MS Outlook's message composition windows on-the-fly to allow for correct quoting and to change the appearance of your plain-text replies and forwards in general: move your signature, use compressed indentation, customize your quote header, etc.
Company: -- Author: Dominik Jain
Program description:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
download: v 0.9 (2003-10-30) (outlookquotefix090.exe) (379 KB)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4030.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-31)
Newsreader Xnews
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, French, Italian
Description: Xnews features Plonk file (aka bozo bin), quick filter, score file for advanced filtering, support for multiple servers/identities, subscribed groups can be organized into categories, remappable keyboard, binaries handling (mime, base64, uuencode, what have you), optional header and article caching and, finally, folders for permanent archival.
Company: -- Author: Luu Tran
Home Page: download v 5.04.25 (2002-04-25) (xnews.zip) (680 KB)
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
download test version 6.12.01 (2004-12- 02) (TEST.ZIP) (584 KB) (update file)
http://xnews.newsguy.com/test/
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-11)Gravity
(Donationware) (unsupported) (note: was $ware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Italian
Description: Gravity is an extremely powerful newsreader featuring: automatic image combining and decoding; integrated multi-server support; image Gallery - a free image viewer and organizer; powerful Article Scoring; a Complete Rules System; advanced View Filtering System: many other incredible features.
Company: MicroPlanet Author: --
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/Gravity.html
Program description:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/start1.html
download: v 2.5 (grav25.exe) (2.34 MB)
http://www.speckz.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=42
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-30)Super Gravity
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: Super Gravity is the unofficial version of the Gravity usenet news reader that can show complete multi-part binaries and provides numerous enhancements.
Company: -- Author: Albert Choy
Home Page:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/super.html
download page: v 2.6 Build 2060 installer (2004-02-27) (setup2060.zip) (2.42 MB), v 2.6 build 2060 (2004-01-25) (super2060.zip) (1.11 MB)
http://www.speckz.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=8&min=0&orderby=titleA&show=10
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-27)Free Agent
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/
Languages: English, many other languages (dictionary download)
Description: Free Agent is your guide to news, fun and information in the Usenet newsgroups.
Company: Forte Internet Software Author: --
Program description; download v 1.21 (2000) (Agent121.exe) (1079 KB)
http://www.winarchives.com/workstation/news_readers.html
Alternate program description; download v 1.21 (2000) (Agent121.exe) (1079 KB)
http://www.ntware.com/workstation/news_readers.html
Home Page ($ware and Crippleware versions):
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-10-19)40tude Dialog
(Donationware) (free for private users) (Betaware)
Windows OS: Windows 95 needs the "Winsock 2" update from Microsoft.
Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Croatian and Greek
Description: 40tude Dialog is a feature loaded, multi-server, multi-threaded Windows newsreader with Unicode character support. It supports multiple servers and identities, has filtering/scoring support, integrated email functionality and binary support including support for multiparts. NOTES: To run 40tude Dialog on Windows 95 you need the "Winsock 2" update (see site). The time limitation has been removed (beginning with v 2.0.9.1 (Beta 32)).
Company: Softwareentwicklung M.Mönnig Author: Marcus Mönnig
Home Page:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
download v Beta 37 (Build 2.0.14.1) (2004-09-18) (4d2b37.exe) (3692 KB)
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-19)
Newsreader: Binary GrabIt
(Donationware) (Betaware)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: binary-newsgroups downloader Features: Easy to use and familiar looking user interface; Fast selecting, downloading and decoding of binary attachments; Download and decode multiple articles at once; Pause function to free bandwidth; Exact resume (after pause or stop); Advanced error checking; Multiple server support; Incremental group update; Post articles
Company: -- Author: Ilan Shemes
Home Page:
http://www.shemes.com/
download page v 1.5.1 ßeta (build 888) (2004-11-21) (GrabIt151b.exe) (1272 KB)
http://www.shemes.com/index.php?p=download
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)
Download Manager DLExpert
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT4
Languages: English
Description: DLExpert is a multi-thread resuming downloading software. It makes full use of resources of the client and the server to download files from the Internet at the most speedy rate. DLExpert can divide the file into any parts, at most more than 100 parts (NOT ONLY 5 OR 6 PARTS). Each of them will be downloaded by one thread, so different parts can be downloaded simultaneously, resulting in speedy downloading. DLExpert supports HTTP and FTP, also HTTP and FTP proxy. Its function of auto-dial, auto-hangup, schedule downloading and auto-shutdown make it convenient.
Company: -- Author: Chen Ying
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/dlexpert.html
Home Page; download v 0.99 (dlexpert099.exe) (768 KB)
http://www.yanew.com/english.htm
alternate download v 0.99 (dlexpert099.exe) (768 KB)
http://yesterday.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ftp/dlexpert099.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-10-19)Star Downloader
(Freeware) (last freeware version)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/XP/2000
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Star Downloader is a download manager that accelerates your downloads by splitting the files into several parts and downloading them simultaneously. Download speeds are increased further by choosing the fastest mirror sites. You may automatically resume broken downloads if your connection is lost or if your computer accidentally shuts down. With the scheduler, you can download files at certain times of the day. Star Downloader may also automatically connect to your ISP and hang-up upon completion of downloads. To help you organize and manage your downloads there is an advanced category system and an integrated unzipping utility can automatically unzip and install downloaded files. Star Downloader also integrates with your antivirus program to automatically scan files upon completion of the download. Star Downloader supports FTP and HTTP. Proxy is also supported. NOTES: Uncheck the option to search for new versions. $ware is detected as a new version on startup.
Company: Star Downloader Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.stardownloader.com/
download page v 1.44 (2004-12-17) (sdfree.exe) (1622 KB)
http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)LeechGet
(Liteware) (free for non-commercial use) (unsupported)
Windows OS: Windows Requires IE
Languages: English
Description: LeechGet was designed as a fast, comfortable and also powerful download manager. One of the main aspects while developing LeechGet was simplicity. LeechGet uses a Microsoft Outlook-like user interface with which many users should already be familiar: a navigation bar on the left and a concise menu provide access to important functions of the program while Wizards are used to perform more complex tasks. LeechGet seamlessly integrates in the Windows 9x/2000/XP environment and the Internet Explorer. LeechGet also includes a full-featured FTP client that allows you to download, delete and manage files on FTP servers. LeechGet provides many functions such a automatic downloading, download timer, automatic hang-up and shutdown to perform unattended downloads or uploads. A Webparser lets you download complete websites. NOTES: Only 3 simultaneous downloads are allowed with the free edition.
Company: LeechGet 2002 Author: Martin Albiez
Home Page:
http://www.leechget.net/en/
download page v 1.1 RC 1520 (2004) (LeechGet_2004_RC5Ver1001520.exe) (2572 KB)
http://www.leechget.net/en/phpBB2/route.php?my_topic_title=Downloads&mylang=english
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)
Download Web Sites HTTRACK (WinHTTrack)
(Freeware) (open source: GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English, several other languages
Description: WinHTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your computer. WinHTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the 'mirrored' website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. WinHTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. WinHTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. NOTES: WinHTTrack is the Windows release of HTTrack.
Company: -- Author: Xavier Roche
Home Page:
http://www.httrack.com/index.php
download page (Windows) v 3.32-2 (2004-05-08) (httrack-3.32-2.exe) (3655 KB), (httrack-noinst-3.32-2.zip) (3343 KB)
http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)
Download: Peer To Peer WinMX
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: WinMX allows you to connect, download, and share files with MILLIONS of other users through the decentralized WinMX Peer Network. Once WinMX is installed, you'll have access to one of the largest and most diverse networks of shared media files in the world. And unlike many other 'peer to peer' software providers, we respect your privacy and will never sell you out to spyware. When you download WinMX, you're getting WinMX and only WinMX, no bundled spyware, no ads, no B.S.
Company: Frontcode Technologies Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.winmx.com/
download page v 3.53 (2004-07-02) (winmx353.exe) (804 KB)
http://www.winmx.com/download/
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-29)
FTP Client FileZilla
(Donationware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish
Description: FileZilla has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable. The main features of FileZilla are: Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it), Custom Commands, Site Manager with folders, Keep Alive system, Timeout detection, Firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support, SSL secured connections, SFTP support, Upload/Download Queue, Drag and Drop, Multi-language support, GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos.
Company: -- Author: Tim Kosse
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/filezilla.html
Home Page:
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
download page v 2.2.9 (2004-10-26) (FileZilla_2_2_9_setup.exe) (4 574 559 bytes); (FileZilla_2_2_9.zip) (4 279 927 bytes)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558
(desc. rev.: 2004-11-16)LeechFTP
(Freeware) (unsupported)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: LeechFTP is a freeware multi-threaded FTP client for Windows ! In addition to its FTP capabilities, LeechFTP can do HTTP file downloads. NOTES: This program requires common control library 4.71 (comctl32.dll). There will be a warning on program startup if this file isn't up-to-date. You can download this file from the Microsoft web server. http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrlx86.asp
Company: -- Author: Jan Debis
Home Page:
http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/
download (English) v 1.3 Build 207 (1999-04-16) (lftp13.zip) (620 KB)
http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/files/lftp13.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-30)
Telnet Client PuTTY
(Freeware) (Betaware) (open source MIT licence)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Company: -- Author: Simon Tatham
Home Page:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
download: page v 0.56 (2004-10-26) (putty.exe) (372 KB)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)
Network Computing TightVNC
(Donationware) (open source GPL)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: TightVNC is a free remote control package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.
Company: TightVNC Software Author: Constantin Kaplinsky (lead developer)
Home Page:
http://www.tightvnc.com/
download v 1.2.9 (2003-08-02) (tightvnc-1.2.9_x86.zip) (691,916 bytes)
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
download v 1.2.9 (2003-08-02) (tightvnc-1.2.9-setup.exe) (967,486 bytes)
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-31)VNC
(Donationware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English
Description: VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
Company: RealVNC Ltd Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.realvnc.com/
download page v 4.0 (2004-06) (Windows) (vnc-4.0-x86_win32.exe) (726 KB), (vnc-4.0-x86_win32.zip) (703 KB)
http://www.realvnc.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-08)
Network Tool Sam Spade
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000
Languages: English
Description: Network query tool. Each tool displays its output in its own window, and everything is multi-threaded so you dont need to wait for one query to complete before starting the next one. Some functions are threaded still further to allow lazy reverse DNS lookups (never do a traceroute -n again). The output from each query is hotlinked, so you can right click on an email address, IP address, hostname or internic tag to run another query on it. Appending the results of a query to the log window is a single button function.
Company: SamSpade.org Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.samspade.org/ssw/
download v 1.14 (spade114.exe) (1.75 MB)
http://static.samspade.org/ssw/spade114.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-31)
Network: DUN Manager NetLaunch
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, many other languages (v 3.14E)
Description: NetLaunch allows you to start and shutdown applications whenever you connect and disconnect from the internet via Dial-Up Networking. It allows you to schedule connections and disconnections, and can automatically fill-in your password and press the Connect button for you. It also gives you a handy place to keep all your popular Internet applications.
Company: Black Castle Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.blackcastlesoft.com/netlaunch/default.asp
download page v 3.14E (Win 9X/ME/NT4) (English) (nlsetup.exe) (152 KB), v 4.00.0320 (2004-03-11) (Win 2000/XP) (English) (setup.msi) (673 KB)
http://www.blackcastlesoft.com/NetLaunch/download.asp
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-29)