INTERNET SOFTWARE
Backto 1997 EDUCATIONAL LINKS... by Nanis
http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html
This is the most complete set of Internet resourcesaccessible from one site anywhere on the Web, making it a greatdefault home page, and the warren of pointers to browsers,Gophers, virtual maps, catalogues and directories will probablyhave you lost underground for hours. Tutorials range from gettingstarted through to designing your own pages. The formerlywonderful 'what's new' has moved to Yahoo but the 'what's cool'is still great.
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http://www.focusmm.co.uk/java/index.html
[pcx - java.pcx] Classic arcade games such as Tetris, SpaceInvaders and PacMan are all available as Java applets from thisWeb site. The games are unsophisticated, but addictive but thebiggest problem with the site is the length of time it takes todownload the games - no less than five minutes for Pacman! Canyou wait that long?
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http://www.java.co.uk
A flashing neon sign announces the Java Centre, allegedlyñdestined to become the premiere Java resource in the UK.îCould be true. There's enough applets here to keep you up wellpast bedtime, and comprehensive listings of UK Java developers,as well as seminars, tutorials, and exhibitions. A cute spinninglogo and auto-scrolling mini-menu point you to every Java-link incyberspace, including online games like Solitaire and Mr PotatoHead, build your own railroad track, stab a cartoon in the neckand watch it bleed, mix your own six-track audio demo, lust aftera bouncy nude, or celebrity painting by choosing from a galaxy ofstars and brushing on Madonna's eyes, Clinton's chin, Bill Gates'hair, etc. Or relax with a collection of Java jokes... what'sbrown and sticky? A stick. Do I smell Reeves and Mortimer?
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http://www.meat.com/textures/
This an extremely popular and much-mirrored site, housing, asit does, a collection of 298 textured backgrounds for use in yourWeb pages, 3D modelling or VRML. Three separate sectionsconcentrate on normal textures (simple bubbly-surfacedabstracts), abnormal textures (warped spacey landscapes) and odds'n ends (close-ups from a class biology lesson). Personal usersget to download them for free but commercial sites should pay amodest fee. Lastly, to see that it's legible and to check theoverall effect ,you can also link to a whizzy little Windowsutility called the Color Manipulation Device. Just like that!
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http://www.quickvr.com/
QuickTime VRis Apple's latest technology which bringsvirtual reality photography to the computer screen. If you'veever fancied a dabble or just want to see what all the fuss isabout, this is the place to visit. You don't need any sillygoggles or gloves and you can see excellent examples of what canbe done. There's also a decent collection of relevant shareware.And you can download the QuickTime player if you don't alreadyhave it.
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http://pollanens-cyberland.com/
Quite what this site is up to I'm not sure but it's tacky ina cute kind of a way. Essentially it's home to lots of links toother equally quirky sites. You can search through the databaseof sites or scroll through the section headings. You get adifferent background every time you load up the site and yoursurf can be accompanied by some rather lovely ambient music -imagine, if you will, Smoke on the water played on a stylophone!All that and some really bad spelling - here instead of here forexample makes for a pleasantly tacky site.
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Netscape's hosting more plug-ins than you've had hot chipsand this site serves them up from an easy-to-access menu. Nevermind the fancy-schmancy... just click and ride! Among thefree/shareware and demo goodies for every kind of machine are: aplug-in developer's kit, beta downloadables galore from jolly oldstandbys like Adobe's Acrobat Reader and the Real Audio player,to more complex programs like Open2U, which will embed MPEGmovies with synch sound. Links to presentation packs, multi-mediaplayers, vector graphic and VR viewers (thrill to the animatedbirdie, play the virtual piano, make the 'copter fly), globaltime clocks, business software to view Excel graphs online, allkindsa stuff.
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http://www.netscapeuk.itl.net/
Rapid developments at Netscape's stateside home page havemade sure that downloading software is as quick and easy assomthing that's quick and easy but for anyone looking to putspecific queries to Netscape's European operations team then thisis the place to do it.
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http://www.netgen.com/
The nice people at net.Genesis specialise in designing WorldWide Web server-based applications and offer a few products thatmight make structuring your Web site a whole lot easier.net.Thread creates topic-sorted discussion areas for your pagesand net.Form 2.0 simplifies the process of collating data fromyour site's users. The company also does Web consulting and haspublished a Build A Web Site DIY book.
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http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder
If you're building a Web site you simply have to visit thissite! It's big Bill Gates at his most generous - dishing outloads of free booty in exchange for you simply filling out a formand including the Internet Explorer logo on your site. On thesite you'll find the release version of Microsoft's Front Pageauthoring software, a beta copy of Visual J++ and loads morebesides. It may all be part of Bill's masterplan to make InternetExplorer the world's most prominent browser, but hey you can'tcomplain too much all the stuff on there is free.
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http://md.simplenet.com/
Marek reckon he's got the top site if you're looking for32-bit shareware and Internet resources. He could have apoint...there are Net apps, links,hints and tips...indeedeverything you could want to spice up your surfing. Shame aboutthe crappy design though.
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http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/hexed.html
For those of you confused by the complexities of colouringyour Netscape-enhanced Web pages, Get Hexed! provides a very neatsolution that stops you from getting it wrong. Simply select thered, green and blue values you think you want for your backgroundcolour, text and highlighted links and Get Hexed! does the rest.It shows you how it's going to look (so you can make sure it'slegible and the colours don't clash). It then provides a
tag for you to insert into your next HTML document. Marvellouslooking Web site without all the maths.
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/triviaware/index.htm
If you lack imagination and/or time but want to wow yourmates and/or business contacts with your wit and erudition, EmailTrivia is probably the program for you. It will append apointless piece of prose to your messages and you can choose fromcategories including On This Day, Poems, Quotes, Jokes andFascinating Facts or, if you value visual impact, Ascii Art. Thefull program costs £20 but you can download a 10-day demohere.
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http://www.eliashim.com
The site looks kind of dull, but at least you can downloadfree anti-virus software. ViruSafe WEB scans files for viruses asfiles are downloaded from the Net and works with most of thepopular browsers. It's also worth downloading the utility whichremoves the particularly deadly Hare.Krishna.7610 virus.
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http://bongo.cc.utexas.edu/~neuroses/xcwsa.html
Like everyone else on the Net, your looking for the latestrelease shareware, and alternatives to your present set-up. Her'sthe place to find just that, along with ratings and links to theFTP servers.
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Well shiver my timbers, Cap'n Fishy is overly fixated withall things nautical and seafaring and he has trawled the Net foryou. His haddock-grabbing hotlinks to all sorts of Net softwareare meant for beginners who are also Windows-users, but sometimeshis marine metaphors get in the way of clear and conciseinformation. Shipwrecked!
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http://www.javaworld.com/
JavaWorld fuels every pumped programmer's caffeine-filledaddiction to Java, one computer language with a real adrenalinbuzz Ü tutorials, trends, tools, applet reviews and cappuccinoculture. Just try and keep it down to one or two cups a day!
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http://www.browserwatch.com/
An excellent service from the bloke that originally broughtus Browserwatch, a service that supplies the latest informationon new browsers, servers, cgi's etc. What with Netscape add-onsand whatnots currently appearing left, right and centre, nowseems an opportune moment to open Browserwatch's Plug-In Plaza.Essentially it tracks the development of the latest software,telling you which company it comes from, what platforms itsupports, what stage of development it's at, and then it linksyou to it. A simple and effective idea and also a great way ofkeeping up with the Jones'.
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http://wishing.com/websnoop/ws.html
This site sounds kind of cutsie doesn't it? An affectionatetribute to your favourite cuddly cartoon dog, perhaps? Well, noÜæthis is surveillance Ü a simple bit of code that collectsthe email addresses of people visiting your Web site. It's like'thanks very much for visiting us Ü we know where you live!'Actually it's also a handy way of collecting data from peoplevisiting, like an audit and an email list generator all-in-one.Get visitors to answer a few questions or fill out a survey andyou've created an instant mailing list. A free trial subscriptionis available to try before you buy.
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http://www.webtalk.com
The snazzy little service on offer here is something thatcreates public, private or moderated discussion groups betweentwo or more users on the Net. A 30-day demo is available from thesite.
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http://www.xingtech.com/
Xing is responsible for Real Audio rival Streamworks, whichsupplies on-demand audio and video over the Internet and localarea networks. Macintosh is currently audio-only but the WindowsPC version is pretty impressive. Quality over the Net is betterthan Real Audio and images are updated regularly. Using a28.8kbps modem it is still worth the effort ,although as you'retapping into a stream of audio, as it were, when it gets too busyyou're thrown off. At the moment it's mainly American radiostations that you get to check out. Go to it.
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http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/
Move your mouse and it feels like a point of view shot forsome nasty cinematic serial killer approaching a victim. Checkout San Francisco and feel your head spinning as you look outover the wide expanse of the Bay. Available for Windows 3.1 and95 as well as Macintosh, the kinds of sample environments andobjects you can investigate with your QTVR player provide thekind of groovy gimmicks you'll be calling your colleagues over atwork to witness.
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http://www.worlds.net/
Superb proprietary technology, the potential of which has, asyet, to be fully exploited. Pick a character or 'avatar'. Choosefrom stuff like a penguin, a statue, Alice in Wonderland etc.Give yourself a name. Then wander around some neat 3D environsenquiring of your fellow Worlds Chat companions whatsoever youwish. This is the future.
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http://www.netmind.com/
The awfully nice people at NetMind have made a page ofawfully nice links to places that provide fabulous free servicesfor using on the Net. Examples include a URL-minder that lets youknow when your fave pages change and a Usenet signaturegeneration service. This is for the kind of person who can'tresist a gadget.
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http://www.ffg.com
Two Internet tools that you'll wonder how you did without:first, GrabNet, which allows you to take text and images off theWeb and organise them in files on your desktop; and secondly,WebWhacker, which enables you to 'whack' entire pages and theirlinks to a local drive for browsing offline. Available forWindows and Macintosh. Cool beans.
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http://www.teachersoft.com
A free trial version of TeacherSoft's new Internet software,InterGO, is available here. Developed from a background ofeducational expertise, it is designed to be used in the schoolenvironment and incorporates browsing, searching, email, FTP,Telnet and virus scanning with licensed, integrated referencesources like The Columbia Encyclopedia, American HeritageDictionary and Roget's. In addition to this, InterGO uses eitherKinderGuard or SafeSurf to screen for objectionable material.Just how important it is to have the whole package prepared foryou, and just how reliable a censor it proves to be, is for youto decide.
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http://www.lpac.ac.uk/Trel/
A top little site that takes you to Internet product pages onthe Web. From audio through to censoring software, onlineconferencing, firewalls, newsreaders, remote access, Telnet, FTP,Web browers, servers and wireless products. Take your pick andjump off straight to the vendor's Web site for furtherinformation.
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http://www.realaudio.com
Progressive Networks' Real Audio PC software offers real-timesound over the Internet. It claims to compress sound files by upto 14:1 depending on the source material. Unfortunately, tolisten to the information on the site you'll have to be runningReal Audio in the first place!
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Trying to convert something into HTML format to put it on theWeb? Here's where to find help.
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This is the place to find out about, and retrieve, thesecurity hole sniffing software that all the fuss was about. Itonly runs on UNIX but will find imperfections in any system. Ifyou're a network manager, test your system before someone elsedoes.
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http://www.spry.com
Home of the first commercial version of Mosaic and Internetin a Box.
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http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu
This essential site is the home of Mosaic, the widely usedWindows and Macintosh-based Web browser. It has the latestversions of most Mosaic-related tools including the GIF and JPEGviewers and multimedia players, along with documentation invarying degrees of complexity.
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http://galaxy.einet.net/
EInet's Web site not only houses the latest versions of itsMacintosh and Windows Web clients (MacWeb/ WinWeb); it alsocontains a swag of information on topics as diverse asarchitecture and current affairs.
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http://www.indstate.edu/CU-SeeMe/index.html
CU-SeeMe has caused quite a stir around the Internet, becauseit offers public domain video conferencing for Macintosh andWindows. To broadcast video, you need a Video Spigot (Macintosh)or Windows multimedia-compliant video card (PC).
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/cello/cellotop.html
This is the home page for the Cello Internet Web browser forWindows. Cello is primarily a Web client, but also has built-insupport for FTP, NNTP news, phone servers and Gopher. Optionalutilities can be used to extend this to WAIS, Hytelnet, Telnetand Telnet 3270.
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http://web.doc.ic.ac.uk/archieplexform.html/
Archie is a popular way to search anonymous FTP sites forspecific files. Any WWW client can do a simple search, but forfull searches you need forms-compatible client software such asMosaic 2.0 or MacWeb.
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http://www.omnipresence.com/amosaic/2.0/
The Commodore Amiga is one of the many machines able toaccess the Internet. To download the latest version of thecompany's browser, simply click on the FTP archive link providedon this page. A complete preview of the browser, includingembedded screen-shots, is available if you wish to appraise itbefore download. You may join the Amiga Mosaic mailing list bysending mail to witbrock@cmu.edu
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Telnet:millbrook.lib.rmit.edu.au (login: Lynx)
A virtual library maintained by the Royal Melbourne Instituteof Technology in Australia, providing hypertext access to the Webusing the Lynx browser. This features a textual rather thangraphical interface, making it very like a Gopher menu, exceptwith the click-on links expected from Mosaic.
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