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[Browser: Suite] [Browser] [Browser: Shell] [Browser: Small] [Get Weather] [Browser Tool] [Content Filter] [Content Filter: Hosts] [URL Checker] [Chat Client] [Email Client] [Email Checker] [Email Tool: Spam] [Newsreader] [Newsreader: Binary] [Download Manager] [Download Web Sites] [BitTorrent Client] [FTP Client] [FTP Tool] [Server: Mail: News] [DUN: Speed Optimizer] [Network Monitor] [Network Tool] [Network Tool: IP Address] [Network Computing] [Phone On-Line]Browser: Suite
Opera
Company: Opera Software
Author: --
(Freeware)
http://www.opera.com/
Windows OS: Windows (32 bit)
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Home page:
http://www.opera.com/
download page:
v 9.25 (2007-12-19)
[ Opera_9.25_Classic_Setup.exe (4117 KB) Windows (English)]
[ Opera_9.25_Eng_Setup.exe (4807 KB) Windows (English)]
[ Opera_9.25_International_Setup.exe (6430 KB) Windows (International)]
http://www.opera.com/download/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-05) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: Opera_9.10_Eng_Setup.exe
SeaMonkey
Company: Mozilla.org
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License) (sucessor to Mozilla)
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Windows 95 requires DCOM for Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/com/default.mspx
Other OS: MAC OS X; Linux, OS2/BeOS
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite".
Home Page:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Wiki HomePage:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page
download page:
v 1.1.7 (2007-11-28)
[ seamonkey-1.1.7.en-US.win32.installer.exe (12720 KB) Windows (English)]
[ seamonkey-1.1.7.en-US.win32.zip (11060 KB) Windows (English)]
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: seamonkey-1.1.en-US.win32.installer.exe seamonkey-1.1.en-US.win32.zip
Browser
K-meleon
Company: Contributors to the K-Meleon project
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Russian
Description: K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). It supports customization for toolbar, menu, context menu, and keyboard shortcuts, uses themes and skins, provides plugins and advanced macro capabilities. NOTES: Optimized for speed and small memory footprint
Home page:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/
download page:
v 1.1.3 (2007-11-26)
[ K-Meleon1.1.3en-US.7z (4675 KB)]
[ K-Meleon1.1.3en-US.exe (5322 KB) English]
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/Download
alternate download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14285
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: K-Meleon1.02.exe
Mozilla Firefox (was Mozilla Firebird) (was Phoenix)
Company: Mozilla.org
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source)
http://www.mozilla.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: MAC OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
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.
Home Page:
http://www.mozilla.com/
download page:
v 2.0.0.11 (2007-11-29)
[ Firefox Setup 2.0.0.11.exe (5886 KB) Windows (English-US)]
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/firefox.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: Firefox Setup 2.0.0.1.exe
Browser: Shell
Maxthon (was MyIE2)
Company: Mysoft Technology
Author: Bloodchen
(Donationware) (free)
http://www.maxthon.com/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features like: Tabbed Browsing Interface; Mouse Gestures; Super Drag and Drop; Privacy Protection; AD Hunter; RSS Reader; IE Extensions Utility Bar; and Skinning
Home page:
http://www.maxthon.com/
download page:
v 2.0.7.1245 (2007-12-28)
[ mx_2.0.7.1245.exe (2950 KB)]
http://www.maxthon.com/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Browser: Small
OffByOne
Company: Off By One Productions
Author: --
(Freeware)
http://www.offbyone.com/
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, and now also a tabbed browsing interface. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component.
Home page:
http://www.offbyone.com/
download: page:
v 3.5.d (2006-01-02)
[ OffByOneSetup.exe (1011 KB)]
[ OffByOne.zip (839 KB)]
[ OffByOneNoSSL.zip (469 KB)]
http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ob1_download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Get Weather
Weather Watcher
Company: Singer's Creations
Author: Mike Singer
(Donationware) (free) older versions that are bundled contain Adware
http://www.singerscreations.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon. Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition image in a tray icon, designate which weather information is displayed in the Weather Watcher system tray tooltip, convert the weather data using almost any conversion, display a weather map as your desktop wallpaper, log the weather data in any format, export the weather data in any format, customize the look of the Weather Watcher interface and icons via skins, and much more.
Homepage:
http://www.singerscreations.com/
Download page:
v 5.6.24 (2007-09-24)
[ WW5624ASETUP.EXE (2209 KB)]
http://www.singerscreations.com/AboutWeatherWatcher.asp
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-07) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: WW5618SETUP.EXE
Browser Tool
MozBackup
Company: --
Author: Pavel Cvrcek
(Freeware)
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Thunderbird or Netscape
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: MozBackup is a utility for creating backups of Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup mail, favorites, contacts, etc.
Home Page:
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
download page:
v 1.4.7 (2007-09-02)
[ MozBackup-1.4.7-ENG.exe (877 KB) English]
[ MozBackup-1.4.7-ENG.zip (842 KB) English]
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
Download translations:
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/translations.php
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Content Filter
The Proxomitron (v 4.5J)
Company: --
Author: Scott Lemmon
(Freeware) LFW (v 4.5J June)
http://www.proxomitron.info/
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.
Program description:
http://www.proxomitron.info/
download page:
v 4.5 (2003-06- )
[ ProxN45j.exe (1380 KB)]
[ ProxN45j.zip (1110 KB)]
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/
(desc. rev.: 2007-02-13) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: ProxN45j.exe ProxN45j.zip
Content Filter: Hosts
Hosts File
Company: --
Author: --
(Freeware)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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".
Home Page; download:
v (2008-01-03)
[ hosts.zip (146 KB)]
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: hosts.zip
URL Checker
AM-DeadLink
Company: --
Author: Martin Aignesberger
(Freeware)
http://aignes.com/products.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the internal preview and delete it from your Browser. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks. AM-Deadlink works with Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Firefox.
Home page:
http://aignes.com/products.htm
Program description; download:
v 3.1 (2007-04-11)
[ dlsetup.exe (1144 KB)]
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-03) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: dlsetup.exe
Xenu's Link Sleuth
Company: --
Author: Tilman Hausherr
(Requestware) (free)
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
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.
Homepage; download:
v 1.2j (2007-10-08)
[ XENU.ZIP (545 KB)]
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-10-27) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: XENU.ZIP
Chat Client
Trillian
Company: Cerulean Studios
Author: --
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Languages: English
Description: Trillian Basic 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.
Home page:
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
download page:
v 3.1.9.0 (2007-12-12)
[ trillian-v3.1.9.0.exe (8851 KB)]
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-07) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Email Client
Mozilla Thunderbird
Company: The Mozilla Organization
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License)
http://www.mozilla.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. Thunderbird tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail. View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your e-mail. Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts. Thunderbird lets you add additional features as you need them through extensions. Extensions are a powerful tool to help you build a mail client that meets your specific needs.
Home page:
http://www.mozilla.com/
Program description:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
download page:
v 2.0.0.9 (2007-11-14)
[ Thunderbird Setup 2.0.0.9.exe (6575 KB) Windows (English)]
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: Thunderbird Setup 1.5.0.9.exe
Pegasus Mail
Company: --
Author: David Harris
(Freeware)
http://www.pmail.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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.
Home page:
http://www.pmail.com/
download page:
v 4.41 (2006-07-16)
[ w32-441.exe (6996 KB) English]
http://www.pmail.com/downloads.htm
alternate download page:
ftp://ftp.usm.maine.edu/pegasus/winpmail/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-06) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Email Checker
Mailwasher (v 1.33)
Company: --
Author: Nick Bolton
(Freeware) LFW (v. 1.33) (v. 2beta28) last uncrippled versions
http://www.pcrescue.ws/publicdomain/mailwasher133.exe
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.
Program description; download:
v 1.33 (2002- )
[ mailwasher133.zip (1563 KB)]
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page2.html
Direct download:
v 2beta28 (2002- )
[ mailwasher2b28.exe (1428 KB)]
http://digilander.libero.it/molearchive3/mailwasher2b28.zip
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.firetrust.com/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
POP Peeper
Company: Mortal Universe Software Entertainment:
Author: Jeff Meier
(Freeware)
http://www.poppeeper.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: Requires IE 4+ for certain features (Webmail and for viewing HTML).
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, or RediffMail accounts. Send mail using your SMTP server or through your webmail account directly from POP Peeper. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your email the same way as you would in your email client. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). If you share your computer, you can password-protect your accounts or password-protect access to POP Peeper.
Home page:
http://www.poppeeper.com
download page:
v 3.0.1.0 (2006-11-15)
[ POPPeeper-Install.exe (998 KB)]
[ POPPeeper.zip (1342 KB)]
http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-14) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: POPPeeper-Install.exe POPPeeper.zip
Email Tool: Spam
K9
Company: --
Author: Robin Keir
(Donationware) (free)
http://keir.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; Guides available in several languages
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.
Home page:
http://keir.net/
Program description; download:
v 1.28 (2004-04-18)
[ k9v1.zip (77 KB) English]
[ k9v1setup.exe (113 KB) English]
http://keir.net/k9.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: k9v1.zip k9v1setup.exe
Newsreader
40tude Dialog
Company: Softwareentwicklung M.Mönnig
Author: Marcus Mönnig
(Donationware) (free for personal use)
http://www.40tude.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
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)).
Home page:
http://www.40tude.com/
Project description:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
download page:
v 2.0 Beta 38 (Built 2.0.15.1) (2005-02-07)
[ 4d2b38.exe (3913 KB)]
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: 4d2b38.exe
Free Agent (v 1.21)
Company: Forte Internet Software
Author: --
(Liteware) LFW (v 1.21) last uncrippled version (fa32-121.exe)
http://archives.mysteryfcm.co.uk/?f=Internet/News/Free_Agent
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Free Agent is your guide to news, fun and information in the Usenet newsgroups.
download page:
v 1.21 (2000- - )
[ fa32-121.exe (1079 KB)]
http://archives.mysteryfcm.co.uk/?f=Internet/News/Free_Agent
alternate download page
http://papa.indstate.edu:8888/ftp/main!Windows95!News.html
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-13) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Xnews
Company: --
Author: Luu Tran
(Donationware) (free)
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
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.
Home Page; download:
v 5.04.25 (2002-04-25)
[ xnews.zip (680 KB)]
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
download page:
test version 2006.08.24 (2006-08-24)
[ TEST.ZIP (582 KB) (update file)]
http://xnews.newsguy.com/test/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-20) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Newsreader: Binary
GrabIt
Company: --
Author: Ilan Shemes
(Betaware) (Donationware) (Liteware) (free)
http://www.shemes.com/
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 COMMENTS: Probably the best freeware available for downloading with .NZB files. Software offers free trial to Grabit Usenet Search and Browser, but the software itself is fully functional without using the service. Free binary usenet searches and .NZB creation are available on web pages such as http://yabse.com/
Home Page:
http://www.shemes.com/
download page:
v 1.7.1 ßeta (2007-05-06)
[ GrabIt171b.exe (1688 KB)]
http://www.shemes.com/index.php?p=download
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: GrabIt162b.exe
Download Manager
DLExpert
Company: --
Author: Chen Ying
(Freeware)
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/internet/dlman.html
Languages: English
Description: DLExpert is a multi-thread resuming downloading software. It makes full use of the resources of the client and the server to download files from Internet at the fastest rate available. DLExpert's powerful multi-thread function makes it download different parts of the same file simultaneously. Namely it can divide the file into parts. Each part will be downloaded by one thread, so different parts can be downloaded simultaneously. DLExpert supports HTTP and FTP, also HTTP and FTP proxy. Its function of auto-dial, auto-hang up, schedule downloading and auto- shutdown make it convenient and quick to download files. NOTES: The download file on the home page is corrupted (noted on 2006-03-03), and again on (2006-10-31).
Home Page (corrupt download):
http://www.yanew.com/english.htm
Program description and download:
v 0.99 (2001-12-20)
[ dlexpert099.zip (738 KB)]
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/internet/dlman.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/dlexpert.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-10-23) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: dlexpert099.exe
Free Download Manager (FDM)
Company: FreeDownloadManager.ORG
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: IE 5.0 and above
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. You can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. FDM has an intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can resume broken downloads (and it warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers). You can schedule the following operations: set or hang up the Internet connection, exit from the program and shutdown the computer. If you want to browse web pages faster with a low speed connection FDM lets you adjust traffic usage. COMMENTS: One older version (v 1.45 beta) contains NavHelper (malware) (installation is optional).
Home page:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedownload/
download page:
v 2.5.738 (2007-12-31)
[ fdminst.exe (5570 KB)]
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
alternate download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=201856
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: fdminst.exe
Download Web Sites
HTTRACK (WinHTTrack)
Company: --
Author: Xavier Roche
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://www.httrack.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English and 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.
Home page:
http://www.httrack.com/
download page:
v 3.42 (2007-11-16)
[ httrack-3.42.exe (3384 KB) Windows]
[ httrack-noinst-3.42.zip (3600 KB) Windows]
http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: httrack-3.41.exe httrack-noinst-3.41.zip
BitTorrent Client
µTorrent
Company: BitTorrent Inc.
Author: Ludvig Strigeus
(Donationware) (free)
http://www.utorrent.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 Notes: No install. Windows 95 users need to install the Winsock2 Update from Microsoft
Languages: English; language pack for other languages
Description: uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. With BitTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth.
Home Page:
http://www.utorrent.com/
download page:
v 1.7.5 (build 4602) (2007-09-11)
[ utorrent.exe (214 KB)]
[ utorrent-help.zip (162 KB) help file]
[ utorrent.lng (469 KB) language pack]
http://www.utorrent.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
FTP Client
FileZilla
Company: --
Author: Tim Kosse
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP NOTES: Older versions are available that support Windows 95/98/ME
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.
Home Page:
http://filezilla-project.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
download page:
v 3.0.4.1 (2007-11-26)
[ FileZilla_3.0.4.1_win32-setup.exe (2885 KB)]
[ FileZilla_3.0.4.1_win32.zip (4092 KB)]
v 2.2.22 (2006-04-20) last version that supports Win 95/98/ME
[ FileZilla_2_2_32_setup.exe (3377 KB)]
[ FileZilla_2_2_32.zip (4535 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/filezilla.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: FileZilla_2_2_30a_setup.exe FileZilla_2_2_30a.zip
FTP Tool
FTPpie
Company: --
Author: David Taylor
(Freeware) (free for personal use)
http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES:No install.
Languages: English
Description: Your ISP offers you 30MB of disk space, but doesn't tell you how much space is used! This tool enables you to get a usage piechart from your FTP service, showing which directories are taking the most space, and to drill down into those directories to see which are the largest files. Simply double-click on a pie segment to drill down!
Home page:
http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Program description; download:
v 1.4.0 (2003-03-26)
[ ftppie140.zip (248 KB)]
http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/software/net.htm
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-13) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: ftppie140.zip
Server: Mail: News
Hamster
Company: --
Author: Juergen Haible; Thomas G. Liesner and many other
(Freeware) (open source)
http://home.arcor.de/tgl70/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; German, many other languages
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 ...
Home page:
http://home.arcor.de/tgl70/
download page:
v 2.1.0.11 (2006-03-28)
[ Hamster.2.1.0.11.zip (3017 KB)]
http://home.arcor.de/tgl70/misc/hamster_en.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-13) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: Hamster.2.1.0.11.zip
DUN: Speed Optimizer
TCP Optimizer (TCP/IP Optimizer)
Company: Speed Guide Inc.
Author: --
(Freeware)
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP NOTES: No install.
Languages: English
Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free Windows program designed to help optimize your Internet connection. Just download and run, no installaion required. The program makes it easy to find the best MaxMTU value, test latency and tweak all the important broadband related registry parameters. The Optimizer can be helpful with tuning any Internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+ :)
Home page:
http://www.speedguide.net/
Program description; download:
v 2.0.3 (2006-01-06)
[ TCPOptimizer.exe 596 KB)]
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
(desc. rev.: 2007-02-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: TCPOptimizer.exe
Network Monitor
NetMeter (was Haim's Net Meter)
Company: ReadError
Author: Haim Gelfenbeyn
(Donationware) (free)
http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: No install.
Languages: English
Description: NetMeter is a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program. COMMENTS:A perfect download looks like a solid red rectangle moving to the left. Pauses or disturbances in the transmission or low speeds are easy to see. Netmeter can be customized in many ways. The title line and text line can be disabled leaving only a rectangle diagram. The possible top speed of your connection can be set to be at the top of the diagram. The graph window can be dimensioned and moved easily to any size, shape and position. Rightclicking on the tray icon shows a menu with functions like options and statistics for daily, weekly and monthly up and download numbers.
Home page; download:
v 1.1.3 (stable) (2007-08-11)
[ NetMeter_v113.exe (600 KB)]
http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/netmeter.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-05) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Network Tool
IPResolve (v 1.0)
Company: Zone 17 Software
Author: Benoit Bousquet
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.0)
http://www.brothersoft.com/ipresolve-10724.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 NOTES: No install; no registry entries.
Other OS: BeOS 5.x x86/PPC
Languages: English
Description: A simple application which resolves IP addresses to their DNS names as well as the other way around. It can be useful when trying to trace the originator of spam e-mail, or simply just for the heck of it.
Program description; download:
v 1.0 (2000-08-26)
[ IPResolve-1.0-Win32.zip (4 KB) Windows]
http://www.brothersoft.com/ipresolve-10724.html
Author's Homepage:
http://software.zone17.com/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Network Tool: IP Address
IPNetInfo
Company: NirSoft
Author: Nir Sofer
(Freeware)
http://www.nirsoft.net/
Windows OS: 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 Note: A no install version is available.
Languages: English; language packs for many other languages
Description: IPNetInfo is a small utility that allows you to easily find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more. This utility can be very useful for finding the origin of unsolicited mail. You can simply copy the message headers from your email software and paste them into IPNetInfo utility. IPNetInfo automatically extracts all IP addresses from the message headers, and displays the information about these IP addresses. The IP address information is retrieved by sending a request to the whois server of ARIN. If ARIN doesn't maintain the information about the requested IP address, a second request is sent to the whois server of RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC or AfriNIC. After the IP address information is retrieved, IPNetInfo analyzes the Whois record and displays it in a table. Notice: From time to time, the WHOIS server of ARIN is down and doesn't respond to WHOIS requests from IPNetInfo, and thus IPNetinfo fails to retrieve the IP address. When such a thing occurs, simply try again later.
Homepage:
http://www.nirsoft.net/
Program description; download:
v 1.10 (2007-10-15)
[ ipnetinfo.zip (48 KB)]
[ ipnetinfo_setup.exe (87 KB)]
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Network Computing
TightVNC
Company: TightVNC Software
Author: Constantin Kaplinsky (lead developer)
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: A no install version is available.
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.
Home page:
http://www.tightvnc.com/
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight/
download page:
v 1.3.9 (2007-05-08)
[ tightvnc-1.3.9-setup.exe (1561 KB) Windows]
[ tightvnc-1.3.9_x86.zip (920 KB) Windows (no install)]
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
Alternate download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14067
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-07) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: tightvnc-1.2.9-setup.exe tightvnc-1.2.9_x86.zip
Phone On-Line
Skype
Company: Skype Limited (Sharman Networks)
Author: --
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.skype.com/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP/ NOTES: A Windows CE (Pocket PC) version is available. Windows 2000 users require DirectX 9.0 for video calls.
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype.
Homepage:
http://www.skype.com/
download page:
v 3.6.0.244.(2007-12-17)
[ SkypeSetup.exe (22066 KB) Win 2000/XP]
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/
alternate download page (older versions are also available)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_skype/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-07) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
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