Great Downloads

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April 1, Saturday- 7:14 am CST- April Fools day!!! Here is a download just for it: Fatal Error* is a small but nasty little joke program that consists of a single .exe file. When run, it displays a message box that says, "Warning... Your system has become unstable." You're presented with three buttons: Abort, Retry, and Ignore. Depending on the one you push, you'll get another dialog that looks like it will erase all data on the C: drive, format the C: drive, or delete the operating system. Put this in the unsuspecting victim's Startup folder and watch them squirm -- as long as their system has the VB6 runtime on it.

MP3 Liquid Burn* makes exact original CD recordings from MP3 files. A great utility that has alot of great functions. Very fast and very efficient. Other features include DVD, listening room and lots of other great features.

March 31, Friday- 1:11 pm CST- VIRUS ALERT: Win32/Aspam.Trojan A faked e-mail letter claiming to come from Microsoft is being send around recently. New Downloads: Medved QuoteTracker A program that allows you to manage and track your stock portfolios using various real-time or delayed web sites that supply stock quotes. Intraday charts as well historical charts are also available.

March 30, Thursday- 3:47 pm CST- Yahoo! sued for piracy. Accused of gaining profits from pirated games. New Downloads: BullsEye 2 is a superb ad-supported desktop search agent that enables you to fully exploit untapped resources of the Internet. At its most basic level, it simultaneously sends your search words/phrases to several major search engines, weeds out duplicates, and ranks results according to relevance. You can also choose to validate and/or download the results to your computer. Select an entry in the resulting hit list to view the page in the built-in browser window. For a better look, send it to your default browser. Beyond simple Web searches, BullsEye 2 provides 14 additional major search categories (broken down into more than 120 total categories and 700 search engines), including News, Shopping, Computers, Books, Multimedia, and Health, and a special section for searching the expansive ZDNet Website. You can generate search reports as HTML or send them out as email. As you browse search results, you can mark each as read or unread and choose to include/exclude each from your report. You can also save and manage your searches, manage Web browser bookmarks, refine existing searches, and send individual links as email

March 29, Wednesday- 3:14 pm CST-New Downloads: SysTrayPlay*puts a free MP3 player in your system tray that should give most users all they need to enjoy their favorite tunes. Even though it doesn't take up much space -- or consume much processing power -- it still manages to provide full M3U playlist support and an 8-band equalizer. Left-click on its icon to start or pause the player. Its right-click menu gives you access to more controls plus several options. Play stereo MP3s in mono to further cut down on CPU load, or hear just the right or left channel. You can also select from five priority levels.

March 28, Tuesday- 3:48 pm CST- New things coming soon. Be alert!! ;-) New Downloads: BestPrice is a fast and easy search utility to compare prices on the Net. Choose from the picklist of search engines those you wish to query then enter a few keyword to quickly get the links to the product you want at the price you're willing to pay. Boolean searches are supported to quickly tailor your requests. Sort on description, price or source by clicking on the list header. A click on any listing in the return window will launch your browser and take you directly to the selected purchase site. A picture preview window offers a shortcut to see what the product looks like without going to the Web page. This free version queries Yahoo, Alta Vista, MSN, Excite, and Infoseek. A Pro edition offers more search engines and optional skins for a small registration fee.

Gooey Tired of Web surfing alone? Get Gooey and merge chat with your Web browsing. Gooey launches with your start group or only when you want it. You configure your interests from a picklist, then when Gooey is running you can view the "Hitwave," which shows the top 100 Websites currently being visited by other Gooey users. When you go to any site, you'll immediately see the "nick list" of who else is using Gooey and viewing the same site. A chat window lets you discuss what you're viewing in the group or privately. The "Gooey Zone" in the center of the main window offers quick access to games, interest areas, or the latest news from Reuters on the topics you choose.

NewsDart 1.00a lets you quickly retrieve news from the Internet. Very easy to set up and use, it will keep you on top of what's going on in the world. Although it's preconfigured for all the major news sources on the Internet, what sets it apart from many similar programs is its ability to also scan custom URLs that you configure. Working in the background, it scans the news sources you designate, looking for keywords in headlines and/or news stories. When it finds matches, it displays a list of headlines, which you can click on to view the full story in your browser.

Preview Release:(download at your own risk, they say it themselves, Windows 95 will not work with this preview release of Media Player 7, hardware requirements and more info here: Windows Media Player 7 is a truly unified player that offers one place to find, organize, and play digital media. It includes one-click access to all of your most common digital media experiences, including discovering great new movies and music, organizing your media into personalized playlists, tuning into distant radio stations, and transferring your music to your portable music player. A single easy-to-use interface stitches together all of your activities into one seamless experience.

March 27, Monday- 3:57 pm-New Downloads: Hardware-Lynx* is a simple little program you can use to keep your computer hardware drivers current. It includes a simple Web browser, based on Internet Explorer, and a fine link collection of hardware-related Websites. Just about any major supplier of computer hardware is included in this collection, which is well organized according to category. Available categories include Bios, CD-ROM, Digital Cameras, Modems, Monitors, Mouse, Printers, Scanners, Sound Cards, Video, and more. Hardware-Lynx also enables you to conduct Internet searches and organize your favorite sites. It's convenient, easy to use, and best of all -- free.

iCASTER combines a slick player for multimedia files and streaming broadcasts with Internet chat, instant messaging, and search functions. This free (thanks to banner ads) multipurpose app lets you enjoy every type of audio and video format that the Windows Player supports, including MP3. Create customized playlists and automatically grab CD track titles from the CDDB. You can set up iCASTER to use AOL Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger Service for instant messaging and conversing with your online buddies. Locate and enjoy media files and online stations located all over the world, and organize media streams the way you see fit. Plus, you can customize its interface with skins and user-defined event sounds.

March 26, Sunday- 7:14 am CST-New Downloads: Eudora Light Probably the most popular e-mail applications on the Net, Eudora Light is the trimmed down version of Eudora Pro. With its powerful and easy-to-use interface, it's no surprise.

Free Agent A great freeware Newsreader with an easy to use interface with autopost, autodecode of binaries, and a great subscribed group organization method.

March 25, Saturday- 7:30 am CST- VIRUS ALERT: VBS/Irok.Trojan.Worm Irok is a Microsoft Outlook e-mail spreading worm that also exhibits destructive viral behavior.

New Downloads: : iShell* is a rich-media authoring tool, ideal for building custom Internet applications, advanced CD-ROM-Internet hybrids and networked information appliances like kiosks. Full QuickTime 4 support is offered for features including streaming, filters, and all advanced effects.

Nap 'n Coffee*Need a break from your computer at the office? Nap 'n Coffee is a fun way to let others know you're away from your computer. It displays a progress bar which you can dictate the speed it travels and text you can customize. For example, you could place "Gone to lunch." and have the time set for an hour, or "Gone fishing." with the time set to 4 hours. ;-)

March 24, Friday- 1:53 pm CST-New Downloads: IrfanView 3.15 is a fast and powerful image viewer and multimedia player that just so happens to be gratis for non-commercial use. It supports most popular graphics formats, including multiple image icons, animated .gif files, and multipage .tif files. It also lets you play audio CDs and .mid, .rmi, .mov, .avi, .mpg, .wav, and .aif files. Its impressive feature set includes thumbnail creation, drag-and-drop support, fast directory viewing, a slideshow mode, batch conversion, screen capturing, cutting/cropping, image effects, and more -- and it's all packaged in a small .exe file that requires no .dlls or runtime libraries. Plus, the main window doesn't take up much desktop space. Download this freeware gem today and see if it doesn't become one of your most-used programs.

v-GO Universal Password is a fascinating solution to the problem of password overload. It maintains an encrypted list of all your logins and passwords, and uses that list to automatically fill in login dialogs. Your encrypted list is protected by a single v-GO password, which is the only password you need to remember. To make life easy, your v-GO password is visual: you choose one of a half-dozen graphical password interfaces -- such as a hand of cards or a periodic table -- to create an easily remembered password. v-GO Logon watches over your actions and offers to learn new application and Web site passwords on the fly, so that after a while you'll find yourself logging on hands free. v-GO is highly configurable, allowing you to opt for ultra easy password access or tougher security. Highly recommended.

March 23, Thursday- 3:50 pm CST-Virus Alert:6:14pm CST-Win32/Platan.Trojan password stealing trojan New Downloads: CuteMX (Media eXchange) offers an innovative, powerful way to get the hottest files on the Net. CuteMX users become part of a file sharing community, and can easily find and download multimedia files, graphics, programs and more -- all without the broken links and incomplete downloads that most Internet users have had to deal with.

March 22, Wednesday- 3:58 pm CST- Windows 2001 "Whistler" leaks out on web!!New Downloads: WinBolt is the ultimate Windows 98 protection. Safeguard the privacy of your computer with a simple yet effective program. Enter or change your password and ensure that nobody messes with your settings. It's safe, reliable, and easy to use..

March 21, Tuesday- 3:52 pm CST- New Downloads: Obongo Attention online shoppers: Here's a free app that will eliminate much of the hassle factor of buying stuff on the Internet -- and could even save you some money to boot. Obongo is a toolbar that docks to the bottom of your Web browser. Use it to log in and out of sites with a single click, as well as remember your passwords, credit card numbers, and shipping addresses. This means a lot less typing. Obongo can also compare prices among sites to make sure you're paying bottom dollar. You'll also find Web search capabilities, personal privacy protection, stock quotes, and email filtering. Since the service is Web-based, you can access your Obongo account anywhere there's an Internet connection.

March 20, Monday- 3:41 pm CST- New Downloads: NetNak* is a small system-tray utility that graphically displays the data transfer rate of your modem. This ad-sponsored software is attractive, easy to use, and best of all -- free. You see real-time graphs and text for both sent and received data. If you wish, you can set the display to dock to the top or bottom of your screen. You can also set it to display only when an active connection is detected, and to autohide -- much like the Windows taskbar. NetNak provides a separate display that shows online time as well as accumulated connection statistics (hourly, daily, monthly, or just the last 5 minutes). Other features include custom warnings and an automatic disconnect feature.

PowerDesk is a powerful and versatile file-management utility that's everything Windows Explorer should have been and then some. It is without a doubt one of the finest free software packages you'll ever see. In addition to all that Explorer offers, PowerDesk offers the powerful menus and toolbars that old-timers got accustomed to with File Manager. You can choose to use the familiar Explorer-style interface or opt for a double-pane view. A total of six customizable toolbars are available (including your own custom launch bar), which you can show or hide as you like. A fully integrated archive manager treats every major compression format as folders, with automatic spanning of oversized files across multiple disks. A powerful File Finder offers enhanced features such as text content searches, logical search operators, and multiple-disk searches. Other features include secure file wipes, encryption/decryption, folder comparisons, and email client integration. A separate Dialog Helper adds recently used file and folder lists to all Open and Save dialog boxes. A professional version with FTP support, folder synchronization, and powerful integrated file viewers is also available.

March 19, Sunday- 7:42 am CST- New Downloads: SpamBuster* is an e-mail filter designed to help you get rid junk e-mail. Rather than ban the transmission of e-mail (which can get into rather thorny first amendment issues) at the source, use technology to help eliminate junk e-mail at the target (that is, your machine). You can launch into your e-mail program to retrieve and read the e-mail that you wish to read after cleaning up the incoming mail. SpamBuster does not download the entire message body, so its very fast. Not only will it flag junk e-mail, it will allow you to preview and selectively delete any message (including non-spam) you wish simply by marking it.

Wotches are small, free desktop programs that help you navigate the web and your PC desktop faster. Wotches enhance your favourite browser, making it easier to get to any web site or web search.

March 18, Saturday- 8:55 am CST- New Downloads: WS-FTP LE is a great application that allows remote file edits, chmods on UNIX boxes and file moves. A good FTP program.(I feel like celebrating!!! wohoo!!! determination does pay off ;-))

March 17, Friday- 3:31 pm CST- New Downloads: FreeMeter is a system-tray utility that shows you lots of information about your computer. It's attractive, informative, and best of all -- free. It shows total and free space for all available hard drives, memory usage statistics, and real-time graphs that depict network traffic and disk transfer rates. You can customize the display to show just the information you're interested in. You have the option of placing icon meters in the system tray that depict CPU usage, memory information, and free space on individual hard drives. You can also establish low free-space levels for each drive and have FreeMeter provide an audible warning when that level is reached. You can even have FreeMeter break down your hard-disk usage into a treeview folder analysis

eSafe Desktop provides comprehensive security for PCs, emphasizing protection against Internet hazards. It uses four modules, covering antivirus scanning, personal firewalls, sandbox protection for applications, and administration. All modules can be configured to precise specifications. A wizard helps you to put everything in place -- the level of safeguards should satisfy even the most security-conscious. Virus protection is fairly comprehensive, with automatic and on-demand scanning, integrity files to detect unknown viruses, and multilevel scanning of popular file archive formats. You can define multiple firewalls to control access to particular IP addresses, forbid access to URLs containing particular words, and force encryption of sensitive information (such as passwords) before transmission over the Internet. The sandbox feature lets you create safe working environments for any application -- especially important for browsers and email clients. Finally, the administration module helps you to coordinate and schedule everything and is invaluable if your PC has multiple users.

March 16, Thursday- 3:13 pm CST-New Downloads: Opera is a genuine darkhorse competitor in the race among the top Web browsers. Although not free, it's sleek, fast, well-integrated, and handsome. Weighing in at just over 1MB, it ignores some of the proprietary fanciness of browser-specific designs, sticking to standard HTML (most of 3.2). It operates as well offline as online, making it ideal for displaying distributed HTML files (allowing it to run under Win 3.1 without the Win32s additions). Unlike the market leaders, it doesn't have an NCSA Mosaic heritage, and it has as many customization options as you'll find with any browser. Most operational functions can be handled with hotkeys -- ideal for visually or physically handicapped users. No matter how well you like your current browser, Opera might have you singing a different song.

March 15, Wednesday- 3:45 pm CST-New Downloads: Internet Guard Dog 3.0 offers chat filtering and web site blocking. Protects your privacy, very similar to Norton Internet Security 2000. This is shareware.

March 14, Tuesday- 4:30 pm CST- New Downloads: Offline Explorer is a fine tool for rapidly downloading and viewing Websites offline. At its simplest, it lets you supply a URL and click the download button to download a page and all first-level links. At its most complex, it gives you complete control over which pages are downloaded. You can include and exclude downloads from individual servers, folders, URLs, and pages and use keyword inclusion/exclusion lists to define individual page downloads.

March 13, Monday- 4:23 pm CST- New Downloads: FlashGet(JetCar)* Use FlashGet(JetCar) to manage your Internet downloads. It's convenient, easy to use, and the price can't be beat. This handy system tray utility provides a small, always-on-top drop box and monitors your Clipboard for downloadable URLs. When a download is detected or dropped onto the box, FlashGet(JetCar) speeds up the download process (especially for high-speed modems) by splitting the file into several pieces and transferring them simultaneously. If you'd rather, you can use FlashGet(JetCar) as a download queue, saving dropped and intercepted transfers for later. A scheduler is included to automate the process. You can even have the program terminate your connection and shut down the computer when the transfer is complete.

Naviscope provides an interesting collection of Internet tools geared toward speeding up your Web browsing. A system tray icon and autohide taskbar access its considerable arsenal of tools. Among these tools are Web page ad-blocking and pre-fetching. The ad-blocking feature works quite nicely, stopping banner ads from loading. You can also choose to block blinking text, background images, background sounds, and cookies. Pre-fetching is especially handy when conducting Internet searches, as search results are downloaded while you're browsing. When active, Naviscope puts a sizable, floating status window on the desktop, showing the average and peak connection speed, connection delay, time saved by pre-fetching, and the number of ads blocked

March 12, Sunday- 7:27 am CST- New Downloads: ItweakU lets you customize many aspects of Windows 9x/NT. ItweakU makes it a snap to change the appearance and behavior of Windows without resorting to tinkering with the Registry.

March 11, Saturday- 6:48 am CST- New Downloads:CD player Maximus is a cd player for Windows 95/98/NT. Features include window for programming, edit names of songs, authors and albums, small and big display, and much more. ---- Wow, I've been looking through this site, man did I put some weird info in this site. The bugs section is still in currently in construction, and the new download categories are being done. I think I'll also remake the links and opinion sections. Been busy lately, hopefully, this site is useful to you. Have any comments? Send them to VikingThunder. One last thing, since I'm in a good mood, I've bought 5 CD keys to BlackIce Defender, one of the best firewall security program. The first four people to send me an e-mail with a comment will get them.

March 10, Friday- 3:58 pm CST- 8:29 pm:VIRUS ALERT:Win32/Shoerec is a new Win32 virus which has been posted to several newsgroups under names such as fun.exe, funny.exe, avanti.exe, and punch.exe among others. New Downloads: WebCopier is a first-rate, speedy offline Web browser that makes it a cinch to download entire or partial Websites then view them offline. This handsome program is very easy to use: Create a new project, select from a range of download options, and click the Start Download button. WebCopier downloads multiple files simultaneously and creates an easily navigable tree of the Website. You can control the amount of information downloaded by overall size, number of pages, page size, and time. You can also limit the download to a single host or let it roam to other domains. WebCopier includes file filters that let you download, say, just the graphics from a site or just the audio. It's impressively thorough in tracing URLs, parsing JavaScript to locate links often missed by other offline browsers. This fine program is free but includes Web-based advertising banners.

March 9, Thursday- 3:58 pm CST-VIRUS ALERT:W97M/Melissa.AO This e-mail spreading Microsoft Word 97/2000 macro virus / worm uses the same infection routine as Melissa.A but has a different payload. New Downloads: CipherNet* is a full featured web browser. You will be able to search the Net with the search engine. It also has a skin (not customizable in this version) as well as an HTML editor to create your own webpages or see the source of the one you are visiting. Also included is a simple upload/download FTP client. You can also use CipherNet with your paybars. And you will be able to see your IP address and to enable or disable annoying pop-up windows from free webspace providers (angelfire, geocities, ...).

URLy Warning is a free, ad-supported offering that monitors selected Web pages for changed content. It's lightweight, unobtrusive, and works quite nicely. Just load the page in your Web browser, then add it to the URLy Warning menu. Select the interval at which the page is checked, and optionally tag it to monitor a specific keyword or phrase. When a modification is detected, it provides both audible and visual notification. A single mouse click launches the page, with all detected modifications clearly highlighted.

March 8. Wednesday- 3:55 pm CST- New Downloads: Updated:AOL Instant Messenger Version Number 3.5.1856 lets AOL users and non-users alike communicate through a private, personalized chat window. Find your online buddies using the wizard to search on name, email address, or interests, then organize your Buddy List. Set up your own public or confidential profile to let others find you. Then categorize your Buddy List, classifying your chat partners any way you like.

FilZip 2000 is a file compression tool fully compatible to PKZIP version 2.04g. It's created for Windows 98, but it should also work with Windows 95.

Internet Search Plus* Find anyone or anything fast! Find people plan trips, Research any subject, Thousands of links and more.

OnScan Use Onscan to stay on top of content changes on important Websites. This fine offering is available from both the system tray and the Internet Explorer toolbar, and provides both visible and audible notification when a monitored Web page has been modified. Available options also provide email, pager, and cell phone alerts. Use Internet Explorer to navigate to an important Web page, then use the new Onscan tool buttons to add it to your list of monitored sites

March 7, Tuesday- 4:00 pm CST- New Downloads: HearMe for ICQ is a simple add-on that lets you voice-chat with your ICQ contacts. When you install HearMe, it will add a voice link to your ICQ homepage as well as integrate with your ICQ interface to let folks know that you're voice-enabled. A double click on the little house icon will send a chat request. If the user doesn't have HearMe installed, they'll be provided the opportunity for a quick download. If they do have HearMe, they can start talking over a clear, unlimited-time voice channel. No complex configuration or setup is involved, and the add-on is free.

Jet-Audio Plus Looking for a snazzy program to play your multimedia files? Try Jet-Audio Plus. Featuring one of the best-looking rack-stereo-motif interfaces we've seen, Jet-Audio bundles players for digital audio files, audio CDs, MIDI files, and various video formats along with a mixer, a sound-effects module, a remote control, and Internet radio tuner. All components are chock full of "must-have" and "nice-to-have" features.

March 6, Monday- 3:51 pm CST- AMD Beats Intel to it!!! AMD has released their 1000mhz Athlon Processor, beating Intel, who is expected to release its chip Wednesday, in "limited" quanities, while AMD has promised 1ghz chips in mass construction!!! on another note, the revolutionary Playstation 2 is unvealed in Japan, today, to a crowd of thousands. New Downloads: DesktopShield 2000* Keep others from accessing your computer with DesktopShield 2000. You can choose from an array of available options to apply just the right level of security to meet your needs. You can have the program load automatically with Windows, lock your desktop at startup, disable your boot keys (F5 and F9), and launch with a single mouse click when you step away from your computer. While security is enabled, your desktop is completely disabled and hidden. Other features include an optional virtual desktop and access attempt logging support. If security is an issue for you, give DesktopShield 2000 a look. Although it's not impossible to defeat, it's well-designed, easy to use, and best of all -- free.

FastOpen* is a free, system-tray-based menu utility. It lets you launch your favorite programs, documents, Websites, and single-pane Explorer views of your frequently used folders from its right-click menu. Arrange your menu entries in any order you wish and add separators to organize items into logical groups. Options let you instantly add all drives to a menu or submenu; insert Run, Find, Open, Connect, and/or Disconnect commands; and automatically place a separator after a certain number of items. FastOpen is easy to use and a nice alternative to the Windows Start Menu.

Pegasus Mail is a full-featured email client that offers special support for Novell networks. It can be used on a NetWare network with virtually no setup. It reads the bindery to obtain user information, eliminating the need to set up users and mail directories. As a standalone application, it can transfer Internet mail via TCP/IP Winsock through a POP3 server. On a network, it can forward Internet mail through a gateway. Full MHS and SMTP support is offered, along with notice boards, which can be used as public message areas on a LAN. Features include distribution lists, carbon and blind carbon copies, a built-in spelling checker, message template support, hierarchical mail folders for sorting and saving mail, an address book, a mail filtering feature, a user list feature for finding NetWare user names, encryption, full MAPI support, IMAP4 protocol support, sort and search, and support for up to 64 attachments per email. Very easy to use and well documented, Pegasus Mail is one of the most comprehensive email programs available, and -- best of all -- it's free!

March 5, Sunday- 7:16 am CST- New Downloads: GuruNet This is a new instant information service. Just point to any word in any windows app and Alt-Click. GuruNet brings the information to you, both reference (dictionary, encyclopedia) and real-time information (news, sports) about the word you Alt-Clicked. Very fast and very cool.

March 4, Saturday- 7:10 am CST- New Downloads: AnalogX MaxMem is a simple but effective system-tray utility that works to keep a steady supply of physical memory available. It's a snap to use, and can keep your system running smooth as silk. A configuration box lets you set the minimum amount of memory to maintain, the amount of memory to periodically free, and the amount of memory to aggressively free. Program operation is automatic, and the system-tray icon actually doubles as a memory usage graph over the last 60 seconds. Hover your mouse over the tray icon to see how much memory is available, and click the icon to manually free some more.

March 3, Friday- 4:10 pm CST- New Downloads:FAQ-Man is a Frequently Asked Questions Manager* It is designed to make it very easy to create a customer support base as well as any other FAQ's you wish to manage. It is also designed to create web pages that are optimized to receive top ratings in the major search engines. This is important because if someone was to do a search for the question you have in your database, they will most likely end up at your site.

SurfSaver lets you save Web pages directly from Internet Explorer into searchable folders. You can then quickly search and browse these pages while not connected to the Internet. To access SurfSaver, simply use Internet Explorer's right-click context menu. You can either perform a quick save or store and retrieve pages in separate, specially created folders.

Updated:ZipFree 2000! is a well-designed utility that enables you to work with ZIP archives. You can use it to extract from, edit, and create new ZIP files. You can also extract and view individual files from within archives, create multiple-disk and password-protected archives, and even create self-extracting ZIPs (both 16- and 32-bit). Some other features include anti-virus integration, a built-in image viewer, and a capable email client that allows you to send your zipped files to friends and family. So what makes ZipFree 2000! different from other top-quality ZIP utilities? Just one little thing -- it's free!

March 2, Thursday- 3:44 pm CST- New Downloads:Compass* is a sophisticated Internet bookmarking system that's easy to use and compatible with Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, and Opera. Windows Explorer-style windows make it easy to organize your bookmarks using drag-and-drop techniques to move between categories; a toolbar gives quick access to operations. Adding new bookmarks can be as simple as dragging and dropping links directly from your browser, or importing links from any of the three supported browser types.

March 1, Wednesday- 5:46 pm CST- New Downloads: 23rdBrowser* is a handy slimware alternative in the browser wars. This modest Web browser is small, elegant, and has enough features to satisfy most surfing needs. Although it requires Internet Explorer 4.x as a foundation to deliver Web content and extras like Java and scripting, it adds some nice touches of its own. Features include a customizable favorites database you can store on a floppy (handy for shared machine environments); selectable home, search, and startup pages; and an IP address display for gaming and chat use. The browsers main selling point is an integrated Pop-up window filter. Options let you allow all, parent-only, or no sub windows. While 23rdBrowser would benefit from some polish and a bit of documentation, it's a nicely priced solution for everyday surfing.

Absolutely On-Line is a handy system-tray tool that prevents your ISP from disconnecting you due to inactivity. It's easy to use, and provides plenty of options to achieve the desired effect. You can use the program's default online strategy, or choose simulated HTTP, FTP, or SMTP activity.--

Updated:E-Mail Notify* is a system tray-based email checker with several useful options. It can check multiple email accounts at once -- both POP3 and HotMail. Most programs of this type assume you have a dedicated Internet connection; if you don't, E-Mail Notify uses your dial-up connections to automatically log on and check your mail.-

-Use Mass Downloader to handle your Internet downloads, so they won't interfere with your normal Web browsing. It runs as a standalone program that monitors the Clipboard for file URLs and accepts drag-and-drops from your browser. Features include multithreading, FTP and HTTP support, resumed transfers, a connection speed monitor, and a built-in scheduler.--

SimpleSubmit* Submit your Website to major search engines with SimpleSubmit. Enter contact information, the URL, site title, description, and keywords. A simple META tag generator is available to help with your description and keyword selection. A list of 28 search engines is available. You can select the ones you want or simply submit to all.

Spinner Plus takes advantage of RealAudio G2 technology to let you listen to over 130 channels of high-quality music streamed over your stable Internet connection. Each channel features a different genre of music, such as Awesome 80s, Trance, Modern Mix, Urban Divas, Delta Blues, and Smooth Jazz. The artist, song, album, and channel are displayed in the program's attractive interface, as are the names of the next two artists coming up.

3DMark2000* is a comprehensive benchmarking suite that provides highly configurable performance tests for advanced 3D accelerators. Its easy-to-use front end lets you stress-test individual cards (onboard, 2D, and supplemental 3D) and save results, to painlessly generate benchmark runs for system-wide video performance.

February 29, Tuesday- 4:23 pm CST- Any problems with leap day? I've only experienced some problem with my watch showing March 1.New Downloads: HackerWacker 2000 PE monitors and logs all user activity on your system. This includes Internet activity. It includes a small personal firewall, email notification, keystroke logging, active window logging, URL logging, firewall logging, file/system logging, executable file logging, options to close apps and lock cursor, User customized word detection system, immunity user list, screen captures, sound notify, stealth mode, and more

February 28, Monday- 4:07 pm CST-New Downloads: ExtraDNS is a handy little system tray tool that can speed up your access to the Internet. It's effortless to use and has a definite impact on the time it takes to access frequently visited Internet sites. All you have to do to gain a noticeable improvement in performance is run the program--NewsDart lets you quickly retrieve news from the Internet. Very easy to set up and use, it will keep you on top of what's going on in the world. Although it's preconfigured for all the major news sources on the Internet, what sets it apart from many similar programs is its ability to also scan custom URLs that you configure. .Updated: NetSonic 2.5 Dramatically reduce your Web browsing time with NetSonic. Employing IntelliCache technology, it stores your favorite Web pages in its special cache. The next time you revisit a Web page, instead of waiting for text files and images to download over the Internet, see them instantly as NetSonic displays the requested Web page from its intelligent cache. If the content of the page has changed since the last visit, NetSonic indicates that the page should be refreshed.

February 27, Sunday- 8:48 am CST-New Downloads: ZipCentral lets you create new, open existing, extract from, and add to zip files. It supports creation of self-extracting archives, drag-and-drop, quick view, shell execution, and more. ZipCentral has an easy and familiar user interface, and is a great compression utility for beginners.

February 26, Saturday- 7:15 am CST- New Downloads: BCWipe is a powerful file-removal utility for those concerned that their drives may be checked. BCWipe has varying levels of wiping, up to and including United States government standards. BCWipe can also wipe the free space on your hard drive clean. It is a valuable tool for those who feel privacy is a must.

February 25, Friday 2000- 8:10 am CST- New Downloads:Backup Plus Lite Version is a quick, easy way to back up important files on your computer. If you've never used backup software before, Backup Plus would be a good place to start. A wizard walks you through creating a backup set and helps you select a folder or individual files to back up. Those more familiar with backup software can manually create their sets. You can control the compression of the backup and decide where it will be stored. Backup Plus supports multidisk backups, backups to removable media, and CD-R/CD-RW backups. Restores can be done for a complete backup set or individual files. This Lite Version of Backup Plus is free, but has some limitations: a 25 meg backup set limit, and no timed saves.

February 24, Thursday 2000- 12:00 pm CST-New Downloads:Stay Connected 2.5* If your Internet service provider or online service disconnects you after a few minutes of inactivity, Stay Connected! can help. It's versatile and easy to use to keep your Internet connection alive. This automated utility keeps your dial-up networking connection going by sending and receiving packets to Internet hosts either randomly or at a specified interval while quietly residing in your system tray.

February 23, Wednesday 2000-4:10 pm CST-New Downloads: InternetTweak 2000* Use InternetTweak (previously well known as NetMaster) to tweak your desktop and Internet settings. This is a finely-crafted, attractive tool you'll really enjoy using. It provides access to a variety of settings you can change, including Windows DUN Performance, Internet Explorer Enhancements, Outlook Express Enhancements, and Netscape Enhancements

NEW Updates: Netscape Communicator 4.72 is released. <-- Full release. Click here for more download types. Use smartupdate if you already own Netscape.

February 22, Tuesday 2000- 4:05 pm CST-New Downloads: Internet SpeedUp Speed your Internet connection with Internet SpeedUp. It's a snap to use, and might just squeeze the best possible performance from active Internet connections. It accesses several difficult-to-reach Windows Registry settings that can have a noticible impact on the speed and efficiency of your connections. For beginners, the process is as simple as a mouse click, though a prior backup of your settings is both recommended and easily accomplished. Advanced users can change MaxMTU, TTL, Large Windows Scaling, Acknowledge, SACK, and Port Setting. Documentation is included that explains the significance of each setting.

February 21, Monday 2000- 12:10 pm CST- Happy President's day!!New Downloads: HiDialer 2000* is a multipurpose utility to assist with DUN connections to the Internet. It allows you to easily establish an active connection from any DUN setting from a handy system-tray icon. It can automatically launch one or more applications when an active connection is established, and close them when the connection is closed. You can use it to schedule connections (and disconnections), automatically set your PC's clock, automatically reconnect lost connections, and more. A 'keep alive' function prevents your ISP from disconnecting you due to inactivity. Other features include logging support, online cost tracking, and a visible connection speed and duration window. HiDialer 2000 is attractive, highly configurable, and very easy to set up and use.

February 20, Sunday 2000- 7:06 am CST- New Downloads: MediaRing Talk PC to PC internet telephone which can make and receive calls 24 hours a day. You don't even need to be logged on! Features include Automatic signaling and connection to the internet. Short lag time and an excellent connection. Caller and Receiver must both have software installed.

Mobile Internet Messenger Send FREE messages to Mobile Phones and Pagers anywhere in the world from your PC. This requires that the Mobile Phone have text messaging available.

February 19, Saturday 2000- 7:21 am CST-New Downloads: Magic Folders* Trying to protect some folders on your computer from discovery by those who use your computer? Incriminating photos, your diary, embarrassingly bad poetry? Hide the folders from Explorer and even DOS with Magic Folders. It is easy to use but very useful; you can even rename the executable so as to hide it from attention (this is why we don't include the program's icon). You can even have multiple passworded accounts.

February 18, Friday 2000- 7:42 am CST-New Downloads: EZPop*Features: * Support for multiple Pop accounts (up to ten) * 1-99 minutes between checks * Fully skinnable, with support for transparency * Choice of associated mail client * Alarm sound * Memo window to read the messages, with "delete" & "reply to" buttons * and more.

February 17, Thursday 2000- 3:37 pm CST- New Downloads: BullsEye 2 is a superb desktop search agent that enables you to fully exploit untapped resources of the Internet. At its most basic level, it simultaneously sends your search words/phrases to several major search engines, weeds out duplicates, and ranks results according to relevance. You can also choose to validate and/or download the results to your computer. Select an entry in the resulting hit list to view the page in the built-in browser window. For a better look, send it to your default browser. Beyond simple Web searches, BullsEye 2 provides 13 additional categories

February 16, Wednesday 2000- 3:14 pm CST- No downloads today. Intel demonstrates its Pentium III Williamette, at speeds up to 1.5ghz, or 1,500mhz. Intel is expected to release its 1ghz processor in the 3rd quarter. The new intel chip, goes along with a new chipset that has Rambus Memory, and 400mhz system bus. Intel is expected to release its Pentium III at 866mhz from now to the end on 1st quarter, to try to overtake AMD Athlon currently at 850mhz.

Febuary 15, Tuesday 2000- 4:03 pm CST-Downloads of the Day: NEW!!Free!!! AVG Anti-Virus provides excellent protection against computer viruses. This free program includes fine documentation and is a strong all-around contender in the field of anti-virus utilities. It runs constantly in the background, checking files and removable disks before you access them. You can also run complete disk scans manually or by using the built-in scheduler. In addition to scanning your boot sector, memory, and files for known viruses (including macro viruses), AVG Anti-Virus employs heuristic analysis to detect unknown viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. It offers special support for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, automatically checking all incoming and outgoing email messages and their attachments for virus infections. Other features include boot disk creation, MS-DOS support (useful if you can't load Windows due to virus activity), automatic online updates, logging, and shell extension support.

February 14, Monday 2000- 3:54 pm CST-Downloads of the Day: Paint Shop Pro 6.02 is out....CheetaChat is a free yet full-featured chatting client for Yahoo! Chat and iChat sites. It has all the features you've been looking for, such as easy room management, user lists, buddy paging, weird text effects, sound support, smileys, and loads more....DNS2000* will quickly speed up your loading of frequented Websites. If you see "looking up host" or "finding site," then your browser is wasting time with domain name lookups that are taking too long. Domain name lookups are how the Internet converts a Website name to the correct IP address for the host server -- the same way you would match a phone number to a name, using a phone book. DNS2000 automatically caches these domain name lookups, so that your browser can jump directly to the proper IP address without waiting for Internet DNS servers to perform the lookup.

February 13, Sunday 2000- 10:18 am CST- Downloads of the Day: TDS-2*: The world's most comprehensive anti-trojan package, speech synthesised and detecting over 360 trojans and worms, peace of mind with a state-of-the-art defence system is just a short download away. Also detects port-scanning, trojan hacking attempts and has over 150 configurable items. Automatic updates, a jam-packed featureset, dozens of utilities, and 3rd party plugins extends the use of TDS beyond your imagination.

AMD Athlon releases in 850mhz, once again ousting out Intel Pentium III 800mhz. The Athlon has recently been clocked at 1,100mhz, or 1.1ghz.

February 12, Saturday 2000- 7:20 am CST-Downloads of the Day: NetStat Live gives you a realtime graph of incoming and outgoing packets on any TCP/IP interface, whether it's a dialup connection or network card, It also displays ping and traceroute information, as well as CPU performance.

February 11, Friday 2000- 3:49 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: Tweaki...for Power Users2.6 lets you make more than 250 changes to your 32-bit Windows system (Windows 95/98/2000 and NT 4.0) without having to manually muck around in the Registry. Use its Right Click Wizard to create your own right-click context-sensitive menus for file types in Explorer. Get full control over boot options, as well as customize Internet Explorer's title bar and flush its URL cache.

February 10, Thursday 2000- 3:14 pm CST- Downloads of the Day:updated SpamKiller* checks multiple email accounts, using direct connection or dial-up networking, at intervals you set, on startup or at your command. It then filters your email against an extensive, editable list of spam sources. Filters can be configured for headers, subjects, text, country of origin, or Boolean operators.

February 9, Wednesday 2000- 3:06 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: Zone Alarm 2.0hot!! Protect your PC from unsavory Internet activity with ZoneAlarm. This free, easy-to-use security utility sets up a personal firewall that's particularly well suited to cable modem users. You can select one of three (low, medium, high) security levels to separately apply to local and Internet traffic. In addition, you can designate which programs on your computer are allowed to access the Internet. Each time a new application attempts to access the Internet, ZoneAlarm alerts you and asks whether or not to allow this access. You can answer in such a way that access is granted without intervention in the future. Anytime an event occurs that ZoneAlarm blocks, you're notified immediately with a pop-up window that details the offense. The program's system tray icon provides a handy menu that enables you to disable all Internet activity with a mouse click. You can also set this "lock up" to activate automatically after a selected period of inactivity or whenever your screen saver activates. Please note for AOL users you must put the security level on medium in order for your browser to work.

Febuary 8, Tuesday 2000-Downloads of the Day: Odigo* will broaden your Internet surfing horizon. Not just another instant-messaging tool, Odigo lets you configure your profiles in exceptional detail and edit your interests of the moment to focus on what you want now. The colorful, intuitive interface window lets you see how many folks are on sites that meet your criteria, then lets you view their user profiles and chat with them as you view the same Web pages. (added to internet )

February 7, Monday 2000- 3:47 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: C4U is a free Web browsing utility that does one thing and does it well -- it browses through your favorite sites and checks for any changes to links, images, email addresses, keywords, and text. With its clear and intuitive interface, and its reliable site-checking capabilities, it's one of the most appealing tools of its type that we've seen. To test C4U, we assigned it a test site, then changed some text on one of its pages. Sure enough, C4U notified us that our site had been modified (smiley face icon) and marked the updated text in red. (added to browsers )

February 6, Sunday 2000- 8:20 am CST- Downloads of the Day: Credit Card Checker* This program checksum the credit card numbers if it's valid. Can check all the credit cards of the world. --eBot, an 'electronic robot' that sits on a subscriber's computer desktop, delivers the latest software releases, patches and bug fixes relevant to the user's computer system -- all on command. Once eBot is installed, users enable eBot's Updates feature, which determines what applications are installed on their PC. eBot then searches the eBot database for updates and sends the subscriber only the free updates or software offers applicable to his or her system.

February 5, Saturday 2000- 7:03 am CST- Downloads of the Day: Updated: ICQ 99 b Beta 3.19 build 2569 Revision A is a revolutionary user-friendly Internet program that shows who's online at all times. *** The downloads are currently being categorized, sorry for any problems this may cause.***

Updated:AOL Instant Messenger is an instant chat program that allows swapping of instant messages with other people on the Internet who are also using AOL Messenger, or with anyone using American Online. AOL Instant Messenger is extremely user-friendly! Many options are available, and an icon resides in the system tray for easy access.

Febuary 4, Friday 2000- 3:17 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: The IM Machine is a free AOL accessory that answers your instant messages when you are away from the computer. It's fairly easy to set up and use if you're in te market for an AOL "answering machine". It saves all messages, and replies with a public message for everyone or private messages for individuals. It also has an ignore list, so you can automatically screen out unwanted messages. IM Machine can be set up to work with AOL 3, 4, and 5, although you may need to tweak Advanced Options a bit before getting it to work. It also works quite nicely with the standalone version of AOL Instant Messenger. The interface is straightforward; you can set the IM Machine to send out your automatic replies each time you receive an IM from a person or just once. You can even set up a series of replies so that individuals receive as many different automatic responses as you supply.

February 3, Thursday 2000- 3:57 pm CST-Downloads of the Day: Norton Internet Security 2000 Norton Internet Security provides your PC with comprehensive protection from Internet-based threats and lets you create a safe, supervised environment for family members who use the web. Using Norton Internet Security, you can: Set up a personal firewall that protects your PC and data from curious intruders, malicious hackers, and attacks by rogue Web sites; block objectionable Web sites and specify which types of Internet programs (newsgroups, chat programs, email and so on) can be used by family members; prevent family members from giving out confidential information to Web sites they visit; reduce the risks to your privacy by blocking cookies and referer fields when you visit Web sites; and block banner ads and reduce other visual distractions on web pages.

February 2, Wednesday 2000- 3:50 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: MediaRing Talk lets you make long-distance calls over the Internet to any other PC running the same program. First, register for an account. You can register up to two phone numbers and set up a password to verify all calls made from your account (you don't have to give out much information). The program's interface is gorgeous, with extensive online help available to guide you through all aspects of it. A configuration wizard makes sure you set up everything you need, though you can easily change your settings at any time. MediaRing Talk can auto-connect you to the Net when you start a call and notify you of any additional calls that come in while you're talking.

February 1, Tuesday 2000- 3:47 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from CDs. It copies the audio digitally - not through the soundcard - which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to L3enc or Fraunhofer acm codec for automatic creation of MP3's. This is also the only CD-Ripper that can grab audio through both ASPI and MSCDEX calls.

January 31, Monday 2000- 3:51 pm CST-Downloads of the Day: WebPasskey* is a slick program that captures, stores, and enters your names, passwords, and other personal information for you. If entering login information is part of your daily Internet routine, give WebPasskey a try -- you won't know how you got along without it. Almost everything about this program is automatically handled in the background. WebPasskey detects and stores any password information you enter to gain access to Websites.

January 30, Sunday 2000- 7:15 am CST- Downloads of the Day: Yep is a new browser companion that allows you to navigate the Web better than ever before. You can chat on any site, take guided tours of the Internet, and discover new information about Web sites and your own personal surfing habits. Yep also allows you to post notes and vote on the quality of any Web site.

January 29, Saturday 2000- 7:00 am CST- Downloads of the Day: Morfit WorldBuilder - This is one of the best programs for building 3D worlds. This application allows computer graphic artists and game developers to build amazing 3D worlds with click-and-drag functionalities. (includes: rich library of 3D models)

January 28, Friday 2000- 4:03 pm CST- Downloads of the Day:CyberOffice A program that is a mix of a web server, shopping cart, file exchange, net chatting, net phoning, and web browser programs. It can also help you create or alter an already existing web page in minutes.

January 27, Thursday 2000- 3:51 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: CrushPop enables you to surf the net Pop-Up FREE! After you run CrushPop 2000 once, it will create a desktop icon. Start CrushPop 2000, you should now have an icon of a hammer in your system tray. If you left click with your mouse on the hammer the CrushPop 2000 Pop-Up Manager will appear on your screen

January 26, Wednesday 2000- 3:59 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: DjVu (pronounced "deja vu") is another smart breakthrough from the researchers at AT&T Labs, this time in the field of graphics compression. The DjVu Image Viewer Plug-in lets you view DjVu images in your browser. DjVu image compression is up to 10 times as compact as JPG compression, which means Web developers can use it to distribute high-resolution documents and images.

January 25, Tuesday 2000- 3:12 pm CST-Downloads of the Day: How would you like to be able to turn MIDI files into printable sheet music -- and it didn't cost you a dime? MidiNotate is a free program that does just that.

Sonique is a free audio player that you'll either love or loathe. On the plus side, it offers an animated high-color interface that looks as cool as your favorite tunes sound. Not only can it play CD audio and .wav files but it supports today's hottest digital sound formats, including .mpg, .mp2, .mp3, .mod, .xm, .it, and all Windows Media files.

January 24, Monday 2000- 3:49 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: MemoKit *combines system memory enhancement functions with several useful desktop tools. It's based in the system tray, but can run as a toolbar as well. Based on an automatically managed "hysteresis memory release" mechanism, its Automatic Memory Optimizer claims to dramatically boost system performance at regular intervals

Access and edit your startup information with StartPro (formerly SmartStart). Easy to use and well documented, it will get you one step closer to controlling your desktop. Load the program to instantly return a list of programs that Windows loads each time it starts.

January 23, Sunday 2000- 6:53 am CST- Downloads of the Day: AtomTime98 is a 32-bit tool that can connect through the Internet to the atomic clock time server in Boulder, Colorado. The current atomic clock time is fetched, compared to your system's time, and the difference is displayed. You then can push a button to update your PC clock to match the atomic clock value.

January 22, Saturday 2000- 6:58 am CST- Downloads of the Day: If you haven't enough space at your windows desktop JS Pager Virtual Desktop* solves this for you. You can with this program use up to 360 times more screen space. JS Pager Virtual Desktop creates a grid where each item/square of the grid correspond to a screen surface where windows can be placed. The program has a skinable interface which gives the user total control over its size and appearance. The interface contains a map over all desktops and windows where the user can move windows to any desktop with a single mouse operation.

January 21, Friday 2000- 3:09 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: Quicktime 4.1 A great multimedia program now has a new version, go check it out.

Use JetCar to manage your Internet downloads. This handy system tray utility provides a small, always-on-top drop box and monitors your Clipboard for downloadable URLs. When a download is detected or dropped onto the box, JetCar speeds up the download process (especially for high-speed modems) by splitting the file into several pieces and transferring them simultaneously.

January 20, Thursdsay 2000- 3:09 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: The newest version of Netscape 4.71Communicator is here -- and it's better than ever.

FreeON+ for America Online (formerly knows as stayOL) was developed to interfere with AOL's annoying habit of disconnecting you periodically, which gets in the way of common tasks such as typing mail and downloading files. Easy to use, FreeON+ for AOL runs from your system tray, silently but diligently detecting and preventing AOL's attempts to disconnect you.

January 19, Wednesday 2000- 5:32 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: TalkyMail uses Microsoft agent to read your e-mails, web pages, documents, help files, clipboard content or just about any other text. TalkyMail is an advanced e-mail client that supports multiple accounts if you have more than one account with many ISPs. With TalkyMail you can send and receive plain-text and Rich-Text format Messages. TalkyMail will notify you of your new e-mails and will read them for you. ---Sorry for late update, having some computer problems.

January 18, Tuesday 2000- 3:52 pm CST- Downloads of the Day: SuperFassst!'98 dramatically speeds loading of applications, enhances your system’s multitasking capabilities, increases the speed of your Windows menu displays, and provides fast file and folder disposal in the Incinerator.

-----Webcelerator is a free system tray utility that speeds Web browsing by both remembering where you've been and anticipating where you'll go. It's fully configurable and works in the background to cache pages with a system that's more efficient than that offered by standard browsers.

-----Winzip 8.0 Beta one of the best zip programs has now gotten a new version. Check out this beta version.

-----ZipFree 2000! is a well-designed utility that enables you to work with ZIP archives. You can use it to extract from, edit, and create new ZIP files. -- Wow, can't keep track of all these downloads, I'll organize them this week.

January 17, Monday 2000- 8:03 am CST- Download of the Day: RZSplit 97 is a fast, easy way to split files of any size into smaller pieces. You can split a large file into predefined sizes to fit on any type of removable disk (from 100M to 360K) or define your own size for custom uses. RZSplit 97 creates sequentially numbered files that compose the original. To rejoin the files, just select the first piece, click Join, and the file is reassembled, ready to run

January 16, Sunday 2000- 9:00 am CST- Download of the Day: Download Accelerator is an FTP/HTTP accelerator that is fully integrated into the browser and will run automatically upon trying to download files from the internet.Terminal Overdrive 2000 Automatically speeds up your connection for the fastest possible browsing, downloads, e-mail etc.----- The new frames version of this site is going on great, should be released soon.

January 15, Saturday 2000- 8:06 am CST- Download of the Day: ItweakU lets you customize many aspects of Windows 9x/NT. ItweakU makes it a snap to change the appearance and behavior of Windows without resorting to tinkering with the Registry.

Also another download which is a game Allegiance open Beta is a great space sim game. I was fortunate enough to be one of the early beta testers. Come try it out.

January 14, Friday 2000- 7:35 am CST- Bill Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft, becomes "head software architect" Download of the Day:Tweaki for Power Users Allows you to make over 100 changes to your Windows 95/98/NT4.0/5.0 operating system. Also lets you add items to your "right click" menu which adds simplicity to your operating system. Also adds and removes many desktop appearance features. User friendly and easy to use.

January 13, Thursday 2000- 3:06 pm CST- Download of the Day: flyswat is a deep navigation tool that creates links from any Web page directly to related information elsewhere on the Web. While you surf, flyswat creates live links -- flycons -- within the text of the web page. Clicking on a flycon raises a menu with related information. You can find stock quotes, company profiles, word definitions, auctions, product pricing, and more.

January 12, Wednesday 2000- 3:16 pm CST- Download of the Day:Description: GetRight Version 4.1.2 allows graceful recovery and resuming if you are disconnected in the middle of saving a file from the Web to your PC's harddrive. For example, if you have finished getting 95% of that 10 megabyte file and get disconnected, GetRight finishes getting the last 5% of that 10 megabyte file and disconnects. GetRight just finishes getting the last 5% without restarting from the beginning

January 11, Tuesday 2000- 3:18 pm CST- Download of the Day: SpamKiller is very powerful yet easy to use. Five different filter types let you filter on any message part, including the message text, headers and country codes. The Friends list ensures that all normal e-mail reaches you, and copies are made of all automatically filtered mail.

January 10, Monday 2000- 3:11 pm CST- Download of the Day: F-Secure Anti-Virus(demo) is a comprehensive real-time and on-demand virus scanning and protection system for all Windows platforms. F-Secure Anti-Virus is the first line of anti-virus software to combine multiple-virus scanning engines into a single framework. What one virus scanner misses, another will find.

Gateway introduces its PCs with AMD Athlons, after blasting Intel for its bad profits.

January 9, Sunday 2000- 7:47am CST- Download of the Day: Powerbar is an excellent toolbar with extensive functionality featuring enhanced virtual desktops, quick paster, e-mail support, scheduler, quick connect to dial-up network , clipboard enhancer, multi-user aware, hotkeys, screen capture, tray support,shutdown/restart, quick resolution change, real-time memory monitor, multimedia built-in, analog clock, digital clock, instant-drive access, tasklist, IE look, tool tips, auto-hide, auto-zoom, columns. All items are drop targets with easy configuration. Everything is presented in an attractive way.

January 8, Saturday 2000- 7:40 am CST- Download of the Day: ASPack this program compresses your .exe and dll files and makes them take up less space. The software you compress with ASPack works just the same as before. A great way to take back some Hard disk space.

January 7, Friday 2000- 3:57 pm CST- Download of the Day: PC Accelerator 4000 PC Accelerator 4000 allows easy access to some Registry settings that affect the overall speed of your PC. You can accelerate 3D effects and TCP/IP settings by simply making the appropriate selection for your hardware. ----- Downloads will be organized tomorrow. For now please use the search site link to find info. Also frames version of this site will be finished soon.

January 6, Thursday 2000- 3:13 pm CST- Download of the Day: InboxSpecialist checks e-mail waiting for you. It gets pertinent information for you so that you can decide whether you want to download it to your home pc or not. All information such as file size and whether or not a file is attached is given so that you don't have to waste your precious time downloading huge files.-- Oh well, here goes another day, also Windows 2000 Professional has proved to be faster then all the other Windows OSs.

January 5, Wednesday 2000- 3:51 pm CST- Download of the Day: Zip N All This archive utility manages ZIP, RAR, LZH, LHA, AE, ARJ, CAB, TAR, GZ, UUE, and more. Nice dual window to view files and file contents. Easy to use interface and you are able to create new archives very easily.

January 4, Tuesday 2000- 4:04 pm CST- Download of the Day: Top-10 Tracker will run separate queries on each of the top search engines, and will return the results in a easy-to-read and understand report. The large buttons make it very easy to use. Satisfying results of the queries appear after a brief minute.

January 3, Monday 2000 3:51 pm CST- Download of the Day: Advanced Mail List Verify (AMV) - program for ail lists verifying to determine which of addresses in mail list are dead. The program works on the same algorithm as ISP mail systems do. Mail servers addresses for e-mail are extracted from DNS. AMV tries to connect with found SMTP-servers and simulates the sending of message. It does not come to the message sending - AMV disconnect as soon as mail server informs does this address exist or not.

January 2, Sunday 2000 8:08 am CST- Download of the Day: Netscape Communicator 4.71(18mbs) This new version of Netscape Communicator has loads of new features. It includes an e-mail client, a news reader, HTML editor, and it also allows you to view embedded MPEGS. It includes new and improved options and a more attractive interface!! Seems I have a y2k problem of my own. Some of you may have noticed the messed up date on my pages. I'm still fixing them.

January 1, Saturday 2000 8:45 am CST- Happy New Years- Nothing happened at all with the y2k bug. However, home users still may get bitten by the y2k bug. The y2k software should solve your y2k problems. Download of the Day: The Cookie Cutter removes all of your cookies instantly. The program places a small button that stays on top of the screen and when pushed eliminates all cookies.

December 31, Friday 6:49 CST-Happy New Years Eve- Remember, update your virus software, and scan your entire system. Seems the first time zone to go through the new year has caused little problem, except a short power outage in New Zealand. Watch the major news corporations for the latest. Nothing much will hopefully happen. Download of the Day: Irfan View32, a great program to view and convert images.

December 30, Thursday- Download of the Day: Activator™: This browser has many features not found in Netscape or IE4. It features a loadup of programs, a 3500-link personalized on-board portal, seamless one-click connection and disconnection, and more. This is an excellent browser. requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher and Active Desktop.

December 29, Wednesday- Download of the Day: Market Analyzer for Windows Version Number: 1.3 A tool for creating and maintaining historical stock quote files, and viewing and analyzing the resulting historical data. It is capable of tracking thousands of daily stock or futures quotes with very reasonable daily download times.

December 28, Tuesday- Download of the Day: System Mechanic 3.2b One of the best program I ever downloaded. However its shareware, worth a try though. It fixes, and tunes up your computer.

December 27, Monday- Download of the Day: NetZip Download Demon 3 Lets you resume downloads if your computer crashes, or you get disconnected. The same as what GetRight does.

December 26, Sunday- Download of the Day: TurboZIP Express lets you unzip and zip files quickly. TurboZIP integrates with Internet Explorer to quickly add, zip, and unzip files, without even opening up the program itself. It also does file spanning and supports PDF, MP3,MPEG, and many other formats.

E.Spy will check your e-mail for all your different e-mail accounts, giving you the opportunity to delete the mail from the server, have different notifying sounds for each account, quickly view e-mail, and more.

December 25, Saturday- Merry Christmas!!Download of the Day: SpeedTec 2.0 modifies Windows settings to speed data transfer for any modem. The result? Faster web browsing, faster downloads, faster e-mail, faster online gaming, faster audio/video streaming, and faster chat. SpeedTec increases the efficiency of your Internet connection and squeezes the maximum speed through your modem. Properly supports AOL adapters and DUN 1.3.

Terminal Overdrive 2000 Automatically speeds up your connection for the fastest possible browsing, downloads, e-mail etc.

December 24, Friday- Merry Christmas!! Download of the Day: buddyPhone is a fantastic utility that lets you place phone calls over the Internet at no additional charges. It has a slick, simple to use interface and offers high audio quality. You can use buddyPhone in conjunction with Mirabilis' ICQ, and all of your ICQ contacts will automatically appear in your call menu. ICQ is not required, however, and buddyPhone is a full-featured call management system in its own right.

December 23, Thursday- Download of the Day: WinRescue 95 is a quick easy way to back up critical Windows 95 system files, making it easy to restore them in case of a system crash or other problems. WinRescue 98 is a quick easy way to back up critical Windows 98 system files, making it easy to restore them in case of a system crash or other problems.

December 22, Wednesday- Download of the Day: Paint Shop Pro 6.01 - the best graphics editor ever created.

December 21, Tuesday- Download of the Day: Express is an easy-search utility that allows you to quickly search on the Internet by searching nine search engines simultaneously, efficent use of search time

December 20, Monday- Download of the Day: R U Sure's Shopping Agent is a powerful, revolutionary yet easy-to-use online comparison shopping tool. It allows you to compare prices without leaving the shopping site you are currently on. When you browse and open any product page at one of R U Sure's supported online stores, the Shopping Agent instantly compares online prices for that product, and can provide you with important information including shipping costs, availability, product reviews and more. Requires Internet Explorer 4.x 5.x

December 19, Sunday- Download of the Day: XNview 1.12 is an excellent program for viewing and converting your graphics files. It supports 70 file formats and can edit them all. Blur, emboss, trace, etc. It can also make slide-shows. All of this and it is freeware!

December 18, Saturday- Download of the Day: Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 - one of the best programs for web developers, perfect for the beginner or the web professional.

December 17, Friday- Download of the Day: Paint Shop Pro 6.01 is the latest version of this easy-to-use popular graphics editor

15 days to Y2K.

December 16, Thursday- Download of the Day: Weather 1 A weather program that sites in your system tray and keeps you posted of current weather conditions, forecasts, warnings & advisories, satellite images, radar images including state level radar.

December 15, Wednesday- Download of the Day: Speaking Clock Deluxe is an attractive, system tray-based timepiece that announces the time at specified intervals using a female voice with a European accent, and more.

December 14, Tuesday- Download of the Day: WinHacker The best utility that you can use to configure the hidden Windows 95 settings. Some of the features include, ability to rename or change the icon of any shell folder (such as My Computer, Recycle Bin), Add /Remove specific shell folders from My Computer or the Desktop, show Windows Bitmaps as thumbnails in Explorer and more..

December 13, Monday- Download of the Day: Desktop News Delivers a personally customized news feed direct to your desktop in a clever, compact headline "ticker". You establish your specific areas of interest and Desktop News continually seeks out and delivers your custom content utilizing sophisticated personal News Agent software.

December 12, Sunday- Download of the Day: FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories in Windows 95/NT4. FreeZip integrates with Windows Explorer and uses file associations and context menus to zip or unzip files, including long file names and subdirectories. If you know how to use Windows Explorer, then you do not have to learn anything new to use FreeZip. --- Another free antivirus program updated into Virus section.

December 11, Saturday- Download of the Day: Aureate Group Mail is a full-featured mail-management program that gives the user mail merge, mail management, and group-mail management, and much more. Group Mail is a must have!

December 10, Friday- Download of the Day: Outlook Express 5.01- one of the best e-mail programs available. Internet Explorer 5 required.

December 9, Thursday- Download of the Day: Super System Info 2.0 Need to see some info about your computer? Then this is the program you need. This baby shows everything. There are ten different categories ranging from your operating system to your printer to your network connection to your memory. It displays very thorough information for each category. All this is displayed in a simple easy to use interface.

December 8, Wendesday- Download of the Day:Wall Street Messenger will help you keep track of news events and stock prices for major corporations by using a technique called Historical Events Analysis which will help you in predicting stock price movement.

December 7, Tuesday- Download of the Day: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (Beta)- a preview to the new IE5, with better handling of advanced HTML features.

December 6, Monday- Download of the Day: HiClock gives you an easy and thorough way to synchronize your system clock to the exact time using the Internet. It queries one of the National Institute of Standards and Technology timeservers, which then returns the correct standard time.

December 5, Sunday- Download of the Day: TweakDUN- one of the best web accelerators out there.

December 4, Saturday- Download of the Day: Capture Eze Pro A Screen capture utility that has a great user friendly interface with lots of useful options. Use these options to capture regions, full captures, specific object capture and scrolling web page capture.

December 3, Friday- Download of the Day: System Safe Protect your system files with this powerful program. It repairs/replaces corrupt/missing system files. FileScan can scan your system at Windows startup and make corrections if needed. System File Lab can protect hundreds of files.

December 2, Thursday- Download of the Day: Weather 1 A weather program that sites in your system tray and keeps you posted of current weather conditions, forecasts, warnings & advisories, satellite images, radar images including state level radar.

December 1, Wednesday-Download of the Day: Memory Elevator free utility that frees up memory for a faster computer experience.

November 30, Tuesday-Download of the Day: Tardis 2000 The latest and greatest time synchronization program for Win95/98. It can find out what the right time is in a variety of ways including using networked time servers, GPS (Global Positioning System), and by listening for time broadcasts over the LAN.

November 29, Monday- Download of the Day: Power Pro great program that makes your desktop more organized and useful.

November 28, Sunday- Download of the Day:ActiveNames brings you the latest in e-mail technology! ActiveNames provides you an easy way of keeping track of your friends and business contacts, no matter how many times they change e-mail addresses, by instantly redirecting your messages to the new e-mail address that the user has provided. ActiveNames supports any SMTP e-mail client.

November 27, Saturday- Download of the Day: America Online Instant Messenger 3.5- great instant messenging software, over 36 million users.

November 26, Friday- Download of the Day: HTML Shrinker- Makes webpages smaller, therefore making it load quicker.

November 25, Thursday- Happy Thanksgiving!Download of the Day: PC Accelerator-helps change your system settings making it run faster.

November 24, Wednesday- Download of the Day: Galaxy Worlds Virtual 3D Browser provides a new way to promote products and services in a Virtual 3D environment over the Internet. Custom Sounds, Mass Conferencing, Animations, Multimedia, Voice Chat, Business Store Fronts, Offices, Malls, and more.

November 23, Tuesday- Download of the Day: Superscape Viscape is a 3D browser for exploring both VRML and Superscape's own SVR-enabled Web pages. It is a great browser add-on!

November 22, Monday- Download of the Day: TI-FindMail A great utility for people who have multiple, active, e-mail addresses. TI-FindMail will check nearly unlimited number of POP3 servers for new mail on set intervals, or an optional CONFIGURABLE hotkey. Runs out of your way in the system tray, and can be set to startup when Windows boots.

November 21, Sunday- Download of the Day: Dimesion 4 keep your computer clock accurate.

November 19, Friday- Download of the Day: Quote Ticker Bar A great program that delivers time delayed stock quotes. Similar to the official ticker bar's of the market. Very cool.

November 18, Thursday- Download of the Day: New IE Version 5.01!! this is a repeat download from yesterday, but this is a real important update everyone should get. New features include faster download speeds for pages with dynamic content, drag-and-drop support through FTP connections and new 56-bit encryption.

Download of the Day: New IE Version 5.01!!

Download of the Day: Go!Zilla Download resumer, finds the fastest download sites, great free program.

November 16, Tuesday- Download of the Day: DiskState Get a very detailed overview of your hard disk space. Eliminate wasted disk space by safely removing old and temporary files, and tidy up duplicate files. Capture disk states and compare, generate reports, schedule cleanup, extract, boot blocks for multiboot, cover you tracks after surfing the web, and much more.

November 15, Monday- Download of the Day: The great Instant Messenging program from AOL, AIM version 3.0

November 14, Sunday- Download of the Day: Super System Info 1.5.6 Need to see some info about your computer? Then this is the program you need. This baby shows everything. There are ten different categories ranging from your operating system to your printer to your network connection to your memory. It displays very thorough information for each category. All this is displayed in a simple easy to use interface.

November 13, Saturday- Download of the Day:WinWeather An excellent program that shows hourly weather reports and forecasts

November 12, Friday- Download of the Day:XNews has a NewsXpress-like interface. it also features Plonk files, quick filter score files for even more advance filtering, support for multiple servers/identities, binaries handling Optional Header and article caching; plus folders for permanent archival.

November 11, Thursday- Download the bubbleboy virus fix.

Download of the Day: Have you ever had problems with your computer going too slow? Then this might help, Cacheman controls the way your computer handles cache for a more faster experience.

November 10, Wednesday- Download of the Day: A simple scanner that checks all of your files in a single click. Once installed, you can use the Scanner to check your software for Year 2000 compliance. After scanning all the files on your hard drives, NET2000 the NET2000 Trial Scanner Version will list all of the files on your PC that contain potential Year 2000 conflicts!

November 9, Tuesday- Download of the Day:TurboZIP Express lets you unzip and zip files quickly. TurboZIP integrates with Internet Explorer to quickly add, zip, and unzip files, without even opening up the program itself. It also does file spanning and supports PDF, MP3,MPEG, and many other formats.

November 8, Monday- Download of the Day: RealPlayer is one of the most popular music player software. Today, RealNetworks introduced new version 7.0, upgrade of RealPlayer G2. If you already have RealPlayer use the upgrade option. You will have to click learn more, and then wait until the video ends to download it. If you don't click here.

November 7, Sunday- Download of the Day: WinBiff is a POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail notifier for Windows 95 and it supports MIME. It features message filtering and spam deletion and has automatic dialing and hangup. WinBiff may be customized and configured to your specific needs and desires.

November 6, Saturday- Download of the Day:Web Sleuth is surveillance software that runs unnoticed and virtually undetectable on your PC, capturing screen images at pre-set intervals and storing them for later viewing. Know what your children or employees are seeing!

Download of the Day: CoffeeCup Direct FTP is breaking new ground by allowing you to edit HTML and text right on the server

Download of the Day: E-Validator verifies every e-mail address from a given mailing list. You don't need to disturb your clients and friends anymore to check if their e-mail addresses are still valid.

November 3, Wednesday- SpamEater Pro will remove spam from your mailbox and notify you when there is new mail waiting! SpamEater Pro will connect with your ISP's mail server and check each e-mail message found there - prior to your downloading with your e-mail client program. It compares the information in the message with your valid e-mail addresses and against an extensive listing of known spammers. If the message is found not to be to one of your valid addresses (which you define), or if a match is found against the list of known spammers, then the message is deleted from the mail server.

November 2, Tuesday-TopDog allows you to see how your site is positioned on all of the top internet search engines. You can view the report results to see if your website has moved up or down in the rankings or see who your competitors are. An especially nice feature is "Instant Updates" which automatically delivers all updates to you over the internet.

November 1, Monday- DesktopShield 2000 Keep others from accessing your computer with DesktopShield 2000. You can choose from an array of available options to apply just the right level of security to meet your needs.

October 31, Sunday-InterQuick is a Web Accelerator designed to optimize the connection between a local computer or a local area network. InterQuick Preserves limited network resources and using InterQuick's intuitive design runs the network or dial up connection to peak efficiency.

October 30, Saturday-RocketTalk is a very neat little program that enables you to send clear, quality voice e-mails over the Internet. It automatically converts the file to an .exe file for recipients who are not yet using RocketTalk. You can also use RocketTalk to search the Internet with one of the eight major search engines.

October 29, Friday- Dial your ISP, browse the Web, FTP a file, and check your email with just one application. ISP Commander combines the functions of your most widely used apps. Best of all, it's FREE!

October 28, Thursday- Update GetRight Download Resumer to 4.1.1

October 27, Wednesday- All Aboard! enables many users to share a single internet connection such as via a modem, cable modem or a DSL connection. InternetShare is compatible with all of the popular internet applications

October 26, Tuesday-Download of the Day: Chroma is an advanced windows theming and user-interface engine; it allows you to completely customize the "look and feel" of your Microsft Windows environment. Using Chroma, you can replace Windows' drab rectangular controls with a variety of industrial, sci-fi, designer and miscellaneous other themes featuring pulsing scrollbars, free-form window-frames, glowing buttons and much more.

October 25, Monday- System Safe II Protect your system files with this powerful program. It repairs/replaces corrupt/missing system files. FileScan can scan your system at Windows startup and make corrections if needed. System File Lab can protect hundreds of files.

October 24, Sunday- Anvil Studio 2.9mb Anvil Studio lets you multi-track record, compose, edit, and mix MIDI and digital audio program. It is a great program to have, any knowledge of music will do.

October 23, Saturday- :WeatherXpress (4.6mb)can follow the current weather at 10 selected locations out of about 1500 cities worldwide! Weather forecasts for most U.S. cities, current weather warnings, and statewide forecasts are available. Also includes satellite photos, radar, forecast maps, and much more! //// Tray Temperature (3.4mb) another great weather program.

October 22, Friday- Tweaki...for Power Users Allows you to make over 100 changes to your Windows 95/98/NT4.0/5.0 operating system. Also lets you add items to your "right click" menu which adds simplicity to your operating system. Also adds and removes many desktop appearance features. User friendly and easy to use.

October 21, Thursday- WebCrypt 2000 Stop linkbacks that eat up your bandwidth. Guard agains spammers who use spiders to get email addresses from your site. Protect your graphics by encrypting your html and using WebCrypt's built in no-right-click script. This software takes your HTML code and encrypts it.

October 20, Wednesday- Window Washer tweaks your Windows 95 operating system by setting up scheduled cleanings of your Web browser cache, your Windows find history, recycle bin, temp directory, and much more. Window Washer is also good for protecting information that you may not want others to see. The new version features enhanced support for IE 5.

October 19, Tuesday- A-LOCK Type or receive Eudora, Netscape, Microsoft, cc:mail, ICQ, Hotmail, DejaNews,and much more. Mail the message as usual, then click the A-LOCK icon on your computer tray to automatically encrypt or decrypt. A-LOCK blocks snooping on shared and portable computers or while on the Internet is in use. A-LOCK is easy to use, with just one mouse click, and it displays the decrypted message in a private window while leaving the original message encrypted. A-LOCK includes a lockable password book with an option to specify a default encrypted password.

October 18, Monday- BeeLine A great searchbot that takes the hassle out of searching the web. Beeline takes you to what you want and evaluates the results and returns the best matches. BeeLine also removes duplicate responses and sifts though all those misses too.

October 17, Sunday- RadioChat Chat-Server is a powerful chat server filled with a variety of features. It allows you to set up chat rooms through an already existing web host. The features are too many to fully list, but include dozens of commands, server side includes, a programmable api for your own commands and much more. Comes with an example installation to get you up and running.

October 16, Saturday- SpamKiller is very powerful yet easy to use. Five different filter types let you filter on any message part, including the message text, headers and country codes. The Friends list ensures that all normal e-mail reaches you, and copies are made of all automatically filtered mail. The Filter Wizard makes it easy to add your own filters, and registered users receive online updates. Both automatic and manual complaints are supported, and you can write your own messages. SpamKiller handles any number of POP3 or MAPI accounts

October 15, Firday- BitMagic-BitMagic is a playful form of entertainment that pokes fun at net culture, current events, and life in general. Get your cartoons, clickstories, games, and tons of other entertaining stuff delivered to you daily in the BitMagic player

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