- Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free, portable, high-quality versions
of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible
with the DOS-based PKZIP by PKWARE, Inc.
setdatec.zip 1994-12-29, my program (Modula
2 source code available) for putting the date and time variables into the
environment for use by other programs. Automatically create a signature file
with today's date in it, etc.
NetNak - Graphical
display of data rate through your modem. 30 day trial. ComSoft says the version is
FTP Explorer - FTP Explorer is a file transfer protocol client for
Windows 9x/ME/2000 and NT 4.0, that looks and acts very
much like the Windows Explorer, offering a fun way to FTP...
Free for Home and Educational Use!
Dial-Up Networking Monitor shows the throughput on Windows 95/98 Dial-Up
Networking and Windows NT RAS connections. The throughput is shown in
the form of a fully configurable graph window and as detailed
statistics.
CallCenter - CallCenter is a FREE 32-bit, integrated fax, voicemail and data
communications application with a simple to use interface providing fax
send and receive functionality, basic (single mailbox) answering machine capability, and sophistcated data communications. (CallCenter Pro is the enhanced full-featured "big brother" of CallCenter.)
EDXOR is a versatile, convenient and optimal text editor and data processor. It offers innovative clipboard handling, cryptographic options and logic text conversions, great for education, fun, or privacy. EDXOR is very fast and can edit large files, limited only by the capacity of your system. Supports drag-and-drop, file associations and command line. EDXOR provides over 50 menu items and custom-built data processing functions for professional applications.
- pretty good substitute for Notepad. Selectable font, recent files list, word wrap, very small, dirty file indication.
Win32Pad
Filesize is limited to the available memory. (not 64k)
Recent Files feature implemented. (will handle up to 5 entries)
Revert features implemented. (Let's you re-read the file from disk)
32k executable size. (C & win32 api)
Able to read UNIX style text files. (will save as DOS style)
GearVox
GearVox is a talking time and e-mail notification utility for Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP. GearVox
can automatically check and speak the e-mail sender and subject for an unlimited number of
POP e-mail accounts. GearVox is FREE to use on one account and never expires.
E-Res-Q
Simple, portable POP3 mail reader. Enables you to
selectively read and delete messages without having to download them all.
Ideal for getting rid of large messages that clog up your mailbox. Work for
an advanced 2.0 version in progress.
Off-line email and news reader
See here
for news of the company. "Our second step will be the
design and production of Agent 2.0"
Turbo Navigator - It is a very fast, very powerful, very versatile and very informative
file manager - and that's just for starters. TN is based upon Norton
Commander (NC), the legendary file manager for DOS and Windows. The
feature that made NC legendary is its two-pane window display that
enabled user to see the contents of two different file folders
(directories) at the same time. This feature is essential for the
efficient copying, moving and reorganisation of files; thus it is
present in Turbo Navigator.
TN has also inherited NC's use of unique keyboard shortcuts.
SequoiaView - File and directory space viewer. Created at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing Science of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
SPLITF - DOS File Splitter and Re-assembler, Pierre Martineau
This version is a free download with no time or usage limits on the user. It includes PowerDesk File Manager -- the world's best file manager! The file manager provides you with single or dual pane file management windows, a powerful file finder, zip and unzip capabilities, a dialog helper, plus many other features. If you have QuickView or QuickView Plus, you can view many different types of files directly in the integrated PowerDesk viewer pane (QuickView comes with Windows® 95, 98 and NT).
No 640K memory barrier...log unlimited disks & files Supports long file and
directory names Support for external archiving utilities such as ARJ, CAB, LHA,
RAR and ZIP
- This upgrade to our FontViewer utility can scan the files on your hard disk and tell you which fonts you are actually using. You can then highlight fonts you don't use, and select the uninstall command to remove them.
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Browse installed and uninstalled fonts,
Associate notes with fonts,
Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once,
Copy or delete any number of font files at once,
Filter fonts according to their type.
The original Japanese Edition was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software to be quite unique and different from other tools.
(See also the images section of the Other Links page)
Photocopier
Turn your scanner and printer into a photocopier!
Pixia - This website is to introduce a graphic software, Pixia.
Thumbnails is a popular freeware utility for creating accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down copies from a wide range of popular picture formats but not GIF.
Image viewer that makes it easy to acquire, view, edit, organize and publish digital images.
Program features include:
A unique, uncluttered user interface.
Exceptionally fast image viewer and editor, ideally suited for processing large images created by modern digital cameras.
Digital camera support. Download, upload, process and rename images. Add date/time/exposure stamp to images. The program supports JPG (EXIF, CIFF, JFIF/APP12), BMP and PNG file formats.
Photoshop plug-in filter support. View, edit and create Filter Factory plugins.
Lossless JPEG transformations: rotate, mirror, crop and add comments.
High quality image re-sampling and rotation. Image corrections: brightness, contrast, histogram, levels, RGB, HSL, Gamma, ICC profiles and more.
Add voice annotations to images, create AVI movies from still images, create image collections on CD-ROM.
Batch conversions: resample and rotate images, apply Photoshop filters and much more.
Fast, searchable image database and image browser. Option to export image information to a SQL database.
Built-in Web server: integrated with the image database, it does not require you to maintain HTML files. Publish images on the Web and use your web browser to view and print images and thumbnails.
A fast and free graphics viewer for Microsoft
Windows9x/Me/2000/XP and WindowsNT4. Set of 10 filters (more will be
available soon). Futuris Imager is first image viewer with open plug-in
system - any developer can create plug-ins and add-ons for Futuris
Imager.
Batch Thumbs - takes a list of images you specify and creates high quality thumbnail images as GIF, JPG, BMP, WMF, or EMF. Optionally create HTML with linkbacks.
PhotoPlayer Image Player has been renamed as PhotoPlayer.
PhotoPlayer is a standalone program for playing pictures specially
designed to be included on a picture CD-ROM. As a green program, not
only does it NOT need installation, but also offers option to memorize
and remove settings in your Windows registry. Some highlights are
minimized user interactions, full range of options, retaking options
from autorun.inf on CD-ROM, very simple shortcut keys, quick tips,
customized background color, quick access to folder view, tool bar,
status bar and tips during full screen play, integrated autorun.inf
creator and play while searching. PhotoPlayer will play pictures of
JPEG, BITMAP, Windows Meta and GIF formats.
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This site contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing GIMP.
- Dogwaffle - Natural paint, multiple undo's, realtime filters, paper textures, custom and procedural brushes, realistic drybrush, buffer mixing, alpha channel, transforms and resampling, realtime warping, make seamless brushes, a plugin interface, tool-tips help, a nearly full paintbox, installs under 8 megs, and it's true freeware.
Lots of supported file formats.
Some features of IrfanView:
Multi language support, Thumbnail option, preview option, slideshow,
drag & drop support, fast directory view (fast moving through directory),
batch conversion, email option, audio CD player, print option,
change color depth, scan support, cut/crop, effects (sharpen, blur,
Photoshop filter factory), capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLLs,
lossless JPG rotation, many hotkeys, many command line options ...
1st Page 2000 -
an extensive web editor that allows you to build and enhance Web sites.
Arachnophilia -
Supports up to 6 Web browsers. CGI, Frames, Javascript development. Fully user-customizable toolbars provide frequently used tags. Multiple document interface with full drag & drop capability. Built-in tutorials on HTML development, JavaScript, the Internet, and built-in FTP client.
HTML-Kit - HTML-Kit is a full-featured text editor designed to help HTML, XML and script authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Newcomers to HTML coding can benefit from letting it point out errors and suggest improvements. Experts can save time spent on common tasks using the customizable and extendible editor while maintaining full control over the code.
ddcrypt - a small and fast encryption utility. It can be used to encrypt single files or entire folders. It uses the 448 bit Blowfish encryption algorithm.
ZoneAlarm - ZoneAlarm is designed to protect your DSL or cable-connected PC from hackers.
Places a number of user selected files in a single self
extracting / self decrypting executable file called a File Vault.
The encryption algorithm used in File Vault is the highly regarded
64-bit BLOWFISH by Bruce Schneier, world renowned Cryptographer.
- Cryptext is a shell extension that performs strong file encryption
Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility, that scans your
memory,registry and hard drives for known spyware components and lets
you remove them safely.
Many options like scanning depth or automatic modes can be set in the
preferences menu.
Ad-aware features an easy to use wizard-style interface, guiding you
through the scanning and removal process.
GetWeb GetWeb is a free offline browser -- WWW mirroring utility for linux and other UNIX flavors. It has an X Windows interface but it can be executed from the command line as well. Some of its features are : Getting FTP links, HTTP Basic authentication, filename pattern matching, getting only new/modified content converting absolute links to relative and testing for broken links in a web tree.
WebCopier - WebCopier is a
powerful offline browser that records websites and stores them locally until you are
ready to view them. Two versions, one free, one not.
NetSpider - from SA is a program for easy browsing and downloading files from Internet from HTTP and FTP servers. .
Total Recorder is a universal sound recording tool that allows you to record different digital and analog sounds. The resulting sound file can be stored on your hard drive in WAVE format (plain or compressed) or MP3 format and, if needed, is ready to be put on CD-R.
CapTime - CapTime is a little program that changes the title of the active window as you wish. It can add the time and date, decorations, and even your name or a self-note.
- My Digital Clock for DOS.
Counts down to the New Year. (14kB)
AboutTime - AboutTime is a superior source of time for your computer. As a time client, it will acquire time from the Internet with great accuracy, and as a server it will provide four kinds of time signals to other computers on your local network.
AboutTime uses advanced signal-processing techniques to correct for network delays, making high accuracy possible even over a slow modem connection.
AboutTime can be instructed to perform its tasks automatically, at startup or at chosen time intervals. It is a small program that can be run in the background without requiring many resources.
AboutTime is CareWare -- that means no money, now or ever. You just have to care.
Yankee-Clipper
A super powerful Windows clipboard extender/memory- now in its third generation. Handles Pictures, Richtext, URLS, etc - any size. Features printing, drag and drop, optional permanent storage of clippings. Familiar "Outlook" interface. Freeware.
Clipomatic
is a clipboard cache program - it remembers what was copied to the clipboard even after new data is copied, and allows you to retrieve the old data.
ZTree keyboard macros
are yet another powerful mechanism for speeding up and re-using your work. They allow you to store a sequence of keystrokes as a "program" that you can later execute.
Word 97/2000 Viewer (Word 97) (Windows 95/98/ NT)
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This viewer allows users to view and print documents created in the
Word native file format, even if they do not have Word. Users are
allowed to zoom, outline, or view page layout, headers/footers,
footnotes, and annotations.
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files securely. Software Gun - Software submission agent for software authors.
Breeze for Windows - Comprehensive text system. Internet Search - Search up
to four search engines at once. Viewhtml - Quickly and easily view web documents
off-line. NewSpeak Politically correct translator Thinking Music - Midi File
Player with great classical pieces Listpics - creates an HTML file to display
your collection of graphic files. Clean System Directory - utility for power
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- access often-used pieces of text with ease. Control3 (DOS version) - Fast
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SAMenu - A handy little Explorer extension that provides batch file
renaming, permission changing, path copy to clipboard, etc..
SACrypt - Encrypt (and decrypt) files from Explorer. Very simple and fast!
Stash - Put any data file inside an image file using one of Stash's
five data hiding techniques.
Screen Savers - A bunch of Win95 screen savers.
Remind - Simple reminder program. Runs on start-up.
WHD - Hex/Dec file viewer. View and edit the contents of any file as Hex bytes.
Tyler 3 - Tyler uses images as tiles to generate mosaics of other images.
DirCase - Change file names to upper or lower case, a directory at a time.
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Notepad FTP is designed for he who has experience with FTP
clients and shell accounts, but does a lot of file editing by hand.
It is a standard file editor, with a quick little FTP client built in.
WebStore is a real nice (FREE) Shopping Cart CGI that allows a lot of
flexiblility, and is pretty easy to set up.
WebStore Manager's goal is to make managing the WebStore on-line
shopping cart easier, so that even someone with just some basic
data entry experience can manipulate the webstore data file
without really ever having to touch it, then upload it to the
website, without having to hire a webmaster to make changes
each time stock or prices change. Note: WebstoreMan is currently
limited to stores with less than 1000 items.
ITSDIAG Internet Tech Support Diagnostics is helpful,
easy to use, and free."
Get2Edit (Shareware) removes html formatting from web pages and saves
only the link and the associated text.
Nettime - freeware utility. Put a shortcut to it in your
startup group and it will update your system clock each
time you log onto the Internet. Plus, now you can run
programs automatically when you get connected using NetTime.
Sleeper 32 is a Scheduling Program that will run programs at
scheduled times. It will accept file input as well, via an ini file.
RemoteMail32 is a POP3 Remote Mail Client that allows
you to rid your mailbox on your ISP's server of large
attachments, without having to download all of the mail.
WCL_FTP is a basic Windows Command Line FTP program.
It was designed to do a very limited set of FTP commands,
without user intervention. It is completely command line driven.
Perfect for batch or automated programming or adding FTP
capability to programs that need it.
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Win32Pad
Off-line email and news reader
Off-line email (choice of advertiser supported)
Turbo Navigator - It is a very fast, very powerful, very versatile and very informative
file manager - and that's just for starters. TN is based upon Norton
Commander (NC), the legendary file manager for DOS and Windows. The
feature that made NC legendary is its two-pane window display that
enabled user to see the contents of two different file folders
(directories) at the same time. This feature is essential for the
efficient copying, moving and reorganisation of files; thus it is
present in Turbo Navigator.
TN has also inherited NC's use of unique keyboard shortcuts.
Ztree - a sort of xtree for Windows - Trialware
Futuris Imager - 
PhotoPlayer Image Player has been renamed as PhotoPlayer.
PhotoPlayer is a standalone program for playing pictures specially
designed to be included on a picture CD-ROM. As a green program, not
only does it NOT need installation, but also offers option to memorize
and remove settings in your Windows registry. Some highlights are
minimized user interactions, full range of options, retaking options
from autorun.inf on CD-ROM, very simple shortcut keys, quick tips,
customized background color, quick access to folder view, tool bar,
status bar and tips during full screen play, integrated autorun.inf
creator and play while searching. PhotoPlayer will play pictures of
JPEG, BITMAP, Windows Meta and GIF formats.
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This site contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing GIMP.
- Dogwaffle - Natural paint, multiple undo's, realtime filters, paper textures, custom and procedural brushes, realistic drybrush, buffer mixing, alpha channel, transforms and resampling, realtime warping, make seamless brushes, a plugin interface, tool-tips help, a nearly full paintbox, installs under 8 megs, and it's true freeware.
IrfanView - for viewing graphics files 
ZPaint - for creating 3D-looking elements for websites and software interfaces
- Harm's Tiles - free graphics program with many effects
- Cryptext is a shell extension that performs strong file encryption 
- My Digital Clock for DOS.
Counts down to the New Year. (14kB)
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