This utility lets you quickly find out which FTP site,
out of a list of mirrors, is the fastest to download from. Simply drag
and drop or cut and paste any URL into DipStick's window to see how
busy the site is, or drag and drop a list of URLs to see which one is
the fastest.
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This timesaving utility allows users to create hot
keys for frequently used actions, phrases, e-mail addresses, macros,
etc. Perfect Keyboard supports macro recording, allowing users to
simply record macros instead of programming them. Perfect Keyboard
also offers an easy- to-use Explorer-like interface.
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Set up your desktop to look much like the bulletin
board on you wall, but with more features. Corkboard is a combination
information manager and screen saver that you can customize. If you
register (for free), you get more desktop objects to use on your
corkboard.
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This boot manager comes with a powerful paritioning
program. It lets you install and run up to six operating systems on a
single PC. You can password-protect operating systems, hide and unhide
FAT partitions for compatibility, set up a custom delay time, and
more.
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This browsing utility helps search the Web for
business and corporate information. 1Jump maintains a database of over
922,000 important company Web sites and lets you search by company and
brand name, stock ticker symbols, and nicknames. You can also search
by region, with ZIP, postal, or telephone area codes.
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Use virtual encrypted drives by creating a container
file on an existing hard drive with a password. This container can
then be mounted by the Scramdisk software, which creates a new drive
letter to represent the drive. The virtual drive can then be accessed
only with the correct password.
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This handy utility makes filling out Internet
registration forms a snap. RoboForm automatically inputs your personal
data, including name, e-mail and home address, and more. Just
right-click on the form and RoboForm does the rest. You must have MSIE
4 or higher.
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This anti-viral Windows NT utility was specifically
designed to detect and disable the Worm.ExploreZip virus. Windows NT
WormKiller allows you to quickly detect the Worm virus across an
entire network and disable the virus without visiting each individual
infected machine.
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Protect your privacy with this utility, which rejects
cookies before they hit your hard disk. Supports both Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. You'll need both files for
Cookie Crusher. The ccfiles.exe contains the author's runtime files.
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This utility is ideal if you distribute a lot of jokes
through e-mail. See, it's really annoying to see all the leading ">"
symbols in the front of each line. This nifty little program removes
them from e-mail, making the message look cleaner and avoids all the
multiple lines with chopped word-wrapping. Now if only it made the
jokes funny.
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This utility integrates with Windows to give you
control over the memory used by different applications. It allows you
to assign more memory to programs to make them quicker and more
responsive. It also allows you to put unused programs to sleep,
monitor how your computer is using memory, fine-tune your computer's
caching, and recover large amounts of RAM.
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Edit, convert, and view images with this powerful
graphics program. PaintShop Pro supports more than 30 image formats
and includes several painting and drawing tools. Version 5.03 supports
Kai's Power Tools 5 and Photoshop's PSD format.
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This simple utility allows you to import text to any
application with the press of a hot key. KeyText includes a Clipboard
extender, random quotes, auto-date, and a handy virtual keyboard for
entering symbols and accented characters. Automation options let you
launch applications with the press of a button.
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Change the look and feel of Windows 98 with this
customization utility. WinBoost lets you change how Explorer, the
Start menu, the desktop, and even various start-up and shutdown
options function.
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Tired of being interrupted when you're on AOL? This
utility will let you banish those “You have been idle” messages,
Instant Messages, and invitations to chat. Once you download and
install this program, put it in your Windows Startup folder.
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This utility backs up specific files or folders by
monitoring changes in them and copying them into backup folders
whenever they are modified. You can include or exclude specific files
or sets of files from the copy and keep up to 25 older versions of
files. Once configured, an icon sits in the Windows system tray and
the program copies files in the background.
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This free Web utility makes viewing your favorite
daily sites a snap. BIGpage allows you to view up to five sites
simultaneously. It also lets you set up categories of favorites and
access them with a mouse click.
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This full-featured archiving utility supports a wide
array of formats, including RAR, ZIP, ARJ, CAB, and LZH files. WinRAR
creates useful "RAR" archives, which often take up less space than ZIP
or ARJ files. WinRAR also estimates compression ratios, and its
"favorites" menu feature lets you highlight selected folders and
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This Web utility allows you to download and save
entire Web sites to your hard drive. WebZIP saves sites within a
single compressed Zip file and lets you view them offline with your
preferred browser. Easy drop-and-drag functionality makes mirroring
Web sites on your PC simple.
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This utility provides 128-bit cryptography to users of
Netscape Navigator and Communicator. This is particularly useful for
those who use Netscape's export-grade browsers.
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Hide active windows, icons in the system tray, and
even taskbar items. You can customize how your programs are hidden or
minimized, and you can also apply password protection to prevent
others from changing your program options. Free for personal,
noncommercial use.
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This JAVA stock-tracking utility provides continuously
updated quotes, charts, and financial news. Quote Grabber is a
full-featured portfolio management application. It offers
drag-and-drop functionality, multiple alert types, extensive shell
configurations, and more.
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This desktop utility keeps your applications running
after they crash so you can save your work before you exit the
application. Stay Alive offers automatic crash protection so you can
easily recover work when programs crash.
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This utility can zip and unzip files, span disks, and
create self-extracting archives. It works on files inside an archive
without extracting them and supports encoding and decoding most common
formats (.zip, .exe, .gz, .tar, .taz, .tgz) including Windows
compressed format and e-mail formats, UU Encode (.uue), Binhex (.hqx),
and MIME (.mme, .b64).
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Remove all those unnecessary files that accumulate on
your PC -- Internet cache files, temp files, duplicate files, and
more. UnInstaller lets you identify the amount of disk space you want
to free and then recommends the files for deletion. The download link
for this file takes you to McAfee's Web site, where you have to
register for the demo.
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If you accidentally make a mistake, encounter software
download problems, have a power failure, or your computer simply
freezes and won't function, this utility will reset your PC. The
program restores at the DOS level, independent of the Windows
operating system. It allows users of any level to save critical DLL,
VxD, DRV, and OCX files for quick crash recovery.
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Install and uninstall program files, and optionally
remove garbage from your system such as temporary Internet files,
duplicate files, and even invalid registry entries. Demo limited to
three uses. This version is the little brother of WinDelete 97 Deluxe.
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Use this utility in place of Windows' File Manager to
view two folders side by side, as well as move, copy, organize, and
back up files. FileTiger uses your already-installed ZIP archiving
programs, or you can use its built-in ZIP support to view and manage
your archives and other file-management utilities.
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MSIE has a little known privacy 'bug/feature' in which
it stores visited URLs in hidden 'index.dat' files even after users
clear cache and history files. Spider finds these files and allows you
to delete them from your hard drive. Spider also lets you clear
temporary Internet and history files as well as cookies.
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Try this demo of the popular CheckIt Diagnostics.
Features include a defragmenter, an IRQ conflict checker, and more.
Active Update is disabled in this trial version.
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This systems utility splits large files into smaller
pieces so they can be saved onto floppy disks. FileSplit can split
multiple files simultaneously, batch files for merging, compare files,
and use different splitting methods.
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This security software keeps track of your usernames
and passwords so you can automatically log on to all your
password-protected programs and Web sites. Universal Password offers
an intuitive interface and stores all your information in an encrypted
file for your security.
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Move files and folders quickly with this handy shell
extension. Targets increases your right-click functionality, enabling
you to copy or move files anywhere on your hard drive with a simple
click. It also allows you to create a "favorites" sub-menu for easy
movement of files to commonly used folders.
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Keep track of your Web downloading and automate
download processes to take advantage of off-peak times. Download
Assistant will download and track files you designate, categorizing
them as it downloads. It will also automatically run virus-scanning
routines to check for infection, and you can easily drop downloaded
files to folders to help categorize your activities.
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Launch files, folders, programs, and Web sites from a
single toolbar with this file management utility. Linkmenu lets you
access anything on your desktop quickly and easily. It also lets you
create your own menus for programs, files, folders, and Web links.
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This Internet utility gives you current news, live
sports, weather forecasts, stock quotes, music, and more all on one
scrolling ticker. Netropa offers programmable alerts to let you know
when news is updated.
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This graphics utility lets you create posters, signs,
banners, cards, murals, and more. Poster combines graphic, word
processing, and desktop publishing features to help you create slick,
error-free work. It supports TrueType fonts and allows you to import
and customize a variety of different graphical formats, including BMP,
GIF, JPEG, and WMF.
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This Web Accelerator optimizes your Windows TCP/IP
settings, which means faster Web browsing, faster e-mail, quicker
downloads, and improved overall Internet performance. SpeedConnect
prevents fragmentation in data transfer, greatly increasing modem
throughput. Version 2.0 features extended support for AOL connections.
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Create eye-catching multimedia screen savers and
wallpaper with this desktop utility. Image Carousel's screen saver
options let you choose delay time between images, select between 36
transition effects, shrink and enlarge images to fit the screen,
display images sequentially or randomly, include WAV files for
background music, show captions, and more. You can even set up install
and uninstall programs so you can share screen savers with friends.
The wallpaper wizard lets you customize images and schedule your
wallpaper to be changed at specified time intervals.
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This full-featured backup utility lets you create
backups based on individual files, full folders, and drives. Backup
Plus supports single archive backup as well as removable storage
devices. Intuitive task manager enables you to access backup data such
as the time and date backups were performed.
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This free and intuitive zipped-file manager makes
creating, opening, and extracting zip files a snap. ZipCentral offers
drag and drop, hotkeys, the option to designate default add and
extract folders, self-extracting archive creation, shell execution,
and more.
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This handy utility allows you to create graphic hot
spots on your Web site for easy navigation. Just select the areas of
the picture that you want "hot," designate where you want the hotspot
to point, and CuteMAP creates the image map for you. You can then
easily add the image map to your HTML code.
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Make e-mailing Web pages, reports, proposals, images,
and more a snap with this free utility. HotSend allows you to send
hassle-free attachments. No special software is needed, and recipients
need only double-click to read or view attachments.
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Quickly view, delete, and send e-mail without having
to load your full e-mail package using this notification utility.
Cyber-Info E-Mail Notify supports HTML-formatted mail, including
Web-based e-mail, and has spam-filtering options that make it easy to
delete unwanted mail.
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Organize and access all your MP3 files with this
Windows Explorer-like utility. MP3 Explorer automatically displays all
your files sorted by artist, genre, and album, and allows you to
launch MP3s from its interface. It also supports intuitive
drag-and-drop functionality for easy play list creation. It's
compatible with a variety of MP3 players, including Winamp, Sonique,
K-Jofol, Soritong, and NAD.
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This text-to-speech utility is a concatenative
synthesis engine, meaning the audio output is generated from files
containing voices recorded from real people. It can be configured to
read text from a variety of desktop applications.
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Spice up your e-mails with eye-catching pictures,
images, drawings, tables, and more with this e-mail utility. Email
Effects is an excellent ASCII art creator and is perfect for greetings
cards, signatures, program flow diagrams, maps, tables, and logos.
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This system-tray-based utility lets you organize all
your important dates and times. xReminder Pro lets you create your own
customized event types, quickly filter events, run search functions,
export data, and more.
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Manage your image collection with this
system-tray-based graphics utility. 2GIF allows you to make multiple
file batch conversions and offers five different zoom methods and
customizable quality and destination settings. It supports a variety
of graphics formats, including TIFF, GIF, Bitmap, PCX, DCX, EPS,
Targa, JPEG, and PNG.
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Manage your image collection with this
system-tray-based graphics utility. 2JPEG allows you to make multiple
file batch conversions and offers five different zoom methods and
customizable quality and destination settings. It supports a variety
of graphics formats, including TIFF, GIF, Bitmap, PCX, DCX, EPS,
Targa, JPEG, and PNG.
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This handy zip utility allows you to search zip files
for specific filenames and text. ScanZIP lets you specify multiple
search criteria and supports wildcards. You can run file-size-specific
queries, make searches case or non-case sensitive, and save search
results to disk.
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Run benchmark tests on your Win9x machine with this
systems utility. HardInfo Pro provides detailed test results on all
your hardware, including your CPU, hard drives, storage devices,
display adapters, audio devices, network cards, modems/faxes,
printers, MCI devices, sound cards, TCP/IP information, and more. The
intuitive interface allows you to benchmark your CPU and see how it
rates against the competition.
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This handy Internet tool helps keep track of your URLs
and e-mail addresses. NetTree keeps your Internet data in its own
files, not in the registry, so you can easily restore or move your
bookmarks and other preferences. You can also export and import
folders, URLs, and HTML files.
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Use this Web privacy utility to cover your surfing
tracks. SurfSecret periodically deletes images and texts stored on
your hard drive, temporary Internet files, cache and cookie files, and
more.
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This handy utility helps you get online and stay
online, and it lets you monitor your Internet activity. Advanced
Dialer dials your ISP when you run a program that requires an Internet
connection, and it automatically reconnects whenever the connection is
lost. Track your ISP costs and create charts of your Internet activity
with its intuitive interface. You can even program it to connect and
disconnect at designated times.
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This audio utility makes collecting and managing
private music archives fast and simple by using space-saving MP3 and
WAV formats. AudioCD MP3 studio allows you to extract and encode
tracks from audio CDs into MP3 or WAV files, then store them on your
hard drive. Create your own audio CDs with tracks from your personal
library or from MP3s downloaded off the Internet.
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Use this free Web tool to enhance the visibility of
your Web site. Link Crafter lets you run multithreaded keyword
searches for sites related to yours. It then provides you with a list
of sites you can link to for optimal exposure.
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This shell management utility lets you make over 200
changes to your Windows operating system. Tweaki expands your
right-click functionality to include full control over boot options, a
variety of shell management tools, and the ability to print Explorer
directory structures and contents. This version allows you to remove
the Web Folders icon from Explorer.
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This installer application allows you to create setup
wizards and HTML-based installations with uninstallers, and it
automatically saves all your work in a package-script file. Using
InstallConstruct does not require any programming skills, and its
intuitive interface supports most major languages.
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This capture utility allows you to cut text from the
Windows raster screen and import it to your Clipboard. Kleptomania
lets you capture text in menus, dialog boxes, message boxes, status
lines, and application areas and maintain specific text
characteristics.
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Free up your RAM and monitor your PC's memory with
this system utility. RAMBooster defragments your RAM, freeing it up so
your PC runs faster and smoother. It also keeps track of your system's
memory at all times and will automatically boost your RAM if it gets
too low.
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Change the style of title bars, buttons, check boxes,
and toolbars on your Windows desktop. You can configure sound effects
and place system icons on title bars. An Object Desktop Personality
feature lets your Windows desktop look like a Mac OS, a BePC, or an
OS/2 Warp interface. This version adds toolbar skinning and a "skin of
the week" download option.
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This set of system diagnostic and benchmarking tools
helps keep your computer running smoothly and efficiently. SANDRA
offers a wide array of diagnostic, benchmarking, and performance
tune-ups for all your hardware devices and subsystems. Reporting
features let you easily save, print, fax, and e-mail detailed system
reports. This version offers several more modules, including CPU
multimedia, network, and memory bandwidth benchmarking.
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This system utility supercharges your Clipboard and
lets you cut and paste multiple items to and from various applications
with one click. SmartBoard runs invisibly on your desktop and supports
hot keys for quick and easy use.
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Not merely a viewer, CPIC also converts files, edits
wallpaper, scans, and plays sound and video files. It supports more
than 22 graphics formats and does slide shows, screen savers, and
thumbnail views. CPIC can now remove red-eye and other distortions
from images, and there are many more new features to explore in this
major update
This free Internet utility lets you quickly access
information about text in any Windows application. Just click on any
word and GuruNet automatically gives you reference information from
online dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias and offers links
to relevant sites.
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Use this text search utility to find text anywhere on
your drives. The text can reside in text files, word processing
documents, databases, spreadsheets, and even binary files. Super Text
Search can also look inside ZIP archive files for specified or
wildcard text.
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This intuitive backup utility allows you to easily
store backup information and restore your system when it crashes. The
Scheduler function lets you back up all your drives periodically.
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Simplify collecting, collaborating, manipulating, and
responding to data from Web forms with this Internet utility.
ProFormer lets you create and dispatch automated responses to mailing
lists of up to ten thousand. Each message can be completely
personalized for the specific recipients' details, and the database
viewer/editor lets you keep track of all your responses and make
changes instantly. You can also filter responses by geographic specs,
date, and more.
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This suite of dial-up modem tools optimizes your
Internet experience. Dialer 2000 simulates random activity to keep you
online and will automatically reconnect you if you are disconnected
for any reason. It offers graphing functionality for connectivity
performance evaluations, e-mail notification and messaging support,
time synchronization, and more.
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This free Internet accelerator speeds up MSIE by
retrieving Web pages ahead of time. WebRifle enhances your Web
navigation by predicting your need for Web pages with a sophisticated
algorithm to anticipate hyperlinks and retrieve Web pages before the
browser needs to display them. You can even drag and drop links into
WebRifle's interface to download pages while you are surfing. You must
have VB5 Runtime Files installed for WebRifle to work.
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This audio utility puts all your PC's volume, balance,
treble, and bass controls on your desktop. AudioSphere gives you
continuous, real-time control of all your computer's audio functions.
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These tools supplement your Windows 95 operating
system. They make autoplay work on any non-audio CD, start a
command prompt in the folder of your choice, let you access your files
without having to open their folders, and allow you to open items on
your desktop by using a convenient menu. You can also open Explorer no
matter where you are on the network or on your own computer's file
system. In addition, you can change the screen resolution of your
Windows desktop without having to restart your computer.
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This program lets you copy complete program, game, and
music CDs (for archival purposes only). You can mix and record your
favorite music CDs, then play them back on your stereo. Or you can
copy songs from CD to hard disk, then play them back on your computer.
Copy songs from an LP or tape, filter the noise, add special effects,
and then record to CD. You can also print color CD labels with over
100 high-quality images; play music from MP3, .wav files, and CDs;
erase CD-RW CDs; and format UDF 2.0 data CDs.
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This viewing application lets you open and view most
multimedia e-mail attachments. Fastview works as both a
desktop utility and an Internet plug-in, and it automatically
activates whenever you open a multimedia file. Fastview supports most
major file formats, including AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, MIDI, WAV, AIFF,
and Microsoft Video. It also includes Adobe's Acrobat Reader for
viewing PDF files.
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This developer application allows you to create and
apply update patches for programs. WinPatch compares file information
and then creates self-extracting patches that you can distribute to
update files to the newer version.
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This free skinnable e-mail utility lets you check
multiple POP accounts. EzPop is fully customizable, and it can be
set to check mail periodically from 1 to 99 minutes. It comes equipped
with three default skins.
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This Excite plug-in lets you access personalized
online information from your desktop. Excite Assistant gives you
news, weather, stock quotes, e-mail, and more without you having to
open your browser. It supports RealAudio so you can listen to
streaming music, and it offers alerts for incoming music and e-mails.
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This utility lets you automatically recover and
restore data after accidental data loss, or from corrupted media
caused by a disk crash or logical system failure. Lost & Found will
recover data if the partition has been reformatted or if the FAT
tables have been destroyed.
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Back up the Registry and other important files your
system needs to stay healthy. WinRescue also backs up your
Favorites folder, Start menu, and other files you specify. A DOS-level
utility is included to help with emergency recovery.
Tweak the settings to your Windows 95 hidden disk
cache settings for better system performance. This utility will
walk you through the changes you need to make to your system.ini file
in a GUI form.
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SnagIt captures all or any portion of the Windows
display, from bitmaps to text files to AVI files. It sends
the captured image to the printer, the Clipboard, a graphics file, or
as an e-mail attachment. Other features include an audio recording
option during video capture, transparent GIF support, and enhanced
menu capture.
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This screen capture utility lets you capture images
from your desktop in customized shapes. Capture Express sits in
your system tray and offers hot-key functionality so you can perform
screen capture with one click. It supports a variety of different
formats, including BMP, JPG, GIF, and more.
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This e-mail utility reads your e-mails aloud to you.
TalkyMail uses Microsoft Agent to enable your PC to read e-mail
as well as Web pages, documents, help files, Clipboard content, and
just about any other text. Its also features multiple-account support
so you easily check e-mail from different ISPs.
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This handy taskbar utility helps you keep track of
weather conditions around the world. Weather1 allows you to
access current conditions, extended forecasts, warnings, and
advisories with one click. Other features include the ability to print
satellite and radar images, view 10-day weather outlooks, check
population and census information, and more.
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This toolbar utility helps you turn your cluttered
desktop into an efficient workspace where all your favorite
applications are one click away. BeDeamon lets you create fully
customizable bars that act as shortcuts to all your folders,
applications, and drives. BeDeamon also offers a variety of embedded
tools, such as system information and Internet mail access, ping
support, bookmark functionality, and more.
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This home finance utility lets you compare loan
options. Enter any three of these figures--amount financed,
payment term, interest rate, or payment amount--and AprCalc will
compute the fourth. The utility shows you amortizations for fixed,
variable, biweekly, and other types of mortgages, and you can specify
weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually
payment schedules. Annual and per-payment subtotals can be displayed
easily. You can create professional quality printouts, and registered
users can customize the program. You can save scenarios in files and
even password-protect them. A variety of prepayment options let you
compare effects on principal, compute the amount necessary to shorten
the term to a specified number of payments, and more. You can
calculate break-even dates for
discount points on mortgage loans to determine how long you'll need to
own a house to come out ahead.
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This audio utility lets you create MP3 playlists, edit
ID3 tags, and listen to MP3s. MP3 File Editor allows you to
edit multiple ID3 tags simultaneously, and it lets you save and export
playlists to DBF, TXT, M3I, or HTML. It also offers multiple language
support, drop-and-drag functionality, Win Amp support, and more.
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This graphics utility lets you create snazzy icons
from any image or photo on your hard drive. HappyIcon makes
creating icons a snap. It supports a variety of file formats,
including BMP, GIF, J6I, JPG, PCD, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, SJ1, TGA, and
TIF.
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The fastest way to find and fetch files from the Net.
FileFerret searches both Web-based file databases and the
Archie protocol databases for shareware, public domain software and
other files. The files can then be downloaded using built-in FTP
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This time-synchronization utility helps you keep your
system clock up-to-date. Dimension 4 Time Synchronization
Utility accesses public time servers on the Internet to help set and
maintain your system clock. This version allows you to adjust timeout
values and retry timings, turn off message boxes, and more.
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This utility automatically checks your Web-based mail.
It supports multiple accounts on different services, and it allows
users to log in by opening their browsers to the home page of an
e-mail account.
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This collection of office tools lets you keep track of
your employees. It includes a real-time In/Out Board, routable When
You Were Away memos, routable Yellow Sticky Notes, a Caller Contact
Database, and an internal Employee Directory.
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When you paste an e-mail message into a WordPerfect 8
document, you often find short lines of text, caused by hard returns
at the end of each line. This macro automatically eliminates these
hard returns, allowing your text to wrap freely. ForNote: A Microsoft
Word version of this macro is also available.
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This handy browser utility can convert your bookmark
files from Netscape Navigator to Internet Explorer, and vice versa.
Features include command-line conversions and remote conversions for
networked machines.
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Access your Web-based e-mail account without using a
browser. This utility sits in your system tray and lets you
monitor multiple accounts for new mail simultaneously. An automatic
update mechanism adds new mail providers to the program as they become
available.
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Features built-in zip and unzip; handles long
filenames, MIME, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, TAR, and other formats.
Drag and drop to or from the Explorer, or zip and unzip without
leaving Explorer. This version adds support for self-extracting files
spanning multiple floppies, list-printing capability inside zip files,
and much more.
You will need the Windows Common Control library v4.71 or higher. If
you're running Windows 98 or Internet Explorer 4.x, you have this
file. Otherwise, it's available on the author's site. http://www.winzip.com
Read and write from Macintosh-formatted disks with a
PC, and access Mac disks within a Windows Explorer interface. This
utility can copy files in binary or text mode, and shows each file's
Mac OS finder information. It can handle 1.44MB floppy disks, as well
as SyQuest, Bernoulli, and Iomega Zip and Jaz disks.
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Reclaim wasted disk space with this utility. When
programs access the Windows system, they leave binary and hex data
behind, eventually filling the hard disk. This program finds garbage
data, checks whether it's being used, compresses it, recovers disk
space, and then deletes the data.
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Shut down your PC with a simple click using this handy
desktop utility. Kill Win sits in your system tray and lets you shut
down, restart, log off, and reboot your computer. Kill Win also lets
you open DOS windows and has the ability to close folders and windows.
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Organize all your URLs and e-mail addresses. This
desktop utility integrates with your browser, e-mail, or
word processing application and incorporates address information. It
supports drag-and-drop functionality for easy import and export from
and to other desktop applications.
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Speed up your downloads and keep them manageable with
this free utility, which splits files into smaller pieces
and downloads them simultaneously. It also creates file directories
for organizing downloads. Other features include proxy support,
scheduling, and a customizable toolbar and columns.
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This utility allows users connected to a network
through NetWare Client32 to see everyone using a specific file. It
also allows viewing of the user's rights to the file, shows how the
file was opened, and displays the date and time the user logged onto
the network. You can use FileSpy when an updated application needs to
be installed on the network. Users can be contacted to exit an
application so that the updated version may be installed.
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