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You've decided 1997 is the year you're going to organize your life, and you will -- right after you check your horoscope, catch that rerun of Baywatch, and look through the catalogs that came in today's mail. Sure, you'd really get organized, if only you had a little help from some software. But who has time to schmooze with the folks at the computer store to pick something out? And who can afford a bunch of fancy software anyway?

Hey. It's all here. A bunch of it is free. You can download all kinds of programs that'll help put your affairs in order.

You can get those upgrades to the programs you already use -- you know, the ones you never got around to requesting. Been meaning to straighten up around the house? Download programs to help organize your stacks of books and home videos. Is your music collection painfully out of order? Use AlbumMaster to arrange your selections and print labels for them.

Determined to finally do something with the coffee table you bought last year at a garage sale? Software can help you sponge it a new color. While you're getting so much done, maybe you'd better get something to help you begin doing your taxes.

Maybe you'd like to be able to mention -- oh so casually -- a little something about your Web page. But you don't have one. And you don't have time to learn HTML -- at least not till you finish that new novel in which the space aliens and Nazis are duking it out. But we know you can spare a few minutes to snare some Web-authoring and design software like Claris HomePage.

Heck, you can not only download software to straighten up your life, you can download software that'll make you look cool. Take a language translator, for example, and write your Hungarian cousin a letter. She'll be so surprised to read it in her native tongue. And won't you look clever?

Think how impressive, how organized, how very together you'll seem when you mention that you used software you got off the Net to calculate college aid, find the perfect plant for your garden, design your dream house, and make some business cards. And to those other friends of yours, you can mention how you acquired a choice set of programs that have no practical use whatsoever.

So put down that TV Guide. I'm coming over next week, and the place had better look good.

-- Marieke Boer

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Snappy Picks

Where to get software
Internet Shopping Network
CNET: Download.com for the PC
Freeware Central
The Internet goodies
Nerd's Heaven: The Software Directory Directory
The CICA Archive
MacUser Software Central
Info-Mac
Tucows
ZD Net Software Library
Jumbo!
Oil Change

FTP sites
NetGuide Live: Transferring files with FTP
FTP Software and Support
Software packages from wuarchive
Free Software Foundation
Stanford University Info -- Mac Archive
Tile.Net/FTP
The Monster FTP Sites List

Shareware
Association of Shareware Professionals
CNET: Shareware.Com
Father of Shareware
Shareware Shop
Star

E-mail newsletters
Software Express
Shareware Dispatch!
Versions

Anti-virus programs
McAfee Anti-Virus
Norton AntiVirus
Integrity Master
Mac Virus Utilities


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