General Utilities

You can browse Portable Document Format (PDF) files with this program. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated and printed in their original state and exactly as the author intended, by any system that has this program installed.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Mac OS, Linux
Requires: Linux: 32M RAM, X Window

Install instructions: Mac users: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file. Linux users: Download the file to your local drive, decompress the archive with the utility of your choice, then run the install file.

Windows		Mac		Linux

This archive utility for Macintosh users will decompress just about any file including StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex, and MacBinary files. It is also OS 9.0 compatible.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.aladdinsys.com/
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: System 7.1.1

Install instructions:  Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Mac (on CD 2)

This email client has features such as multiple address book formatting options; the ability to filter, redirect, and forward mail; background mail checking and sending; the ability to import existing settings, email and address books; a plugin that allows voice message exchanges; a customisable interface; field autocompletion; and a filter that will "speak" the name and subject of incoming messages (sound card required).

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.eudora.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Mac OS
Requires: Mac: Power PC, Mac OS 8.1

Install instructions: 

Windows				Mac

This is an Internet file management and retrieval system that lets you gather URL links for files you want to download simply by dragging them from your browser. It also lets you instantly see file sizes, estimated download times, and network connection performance. It allows you to schedule files for later downloading, when network traffic dies down.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.gozilla.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Requires:

Install instructions:  Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Windows ( on CD 2)

A powerful, yet easy to use FTP client for Linux, this program makes full use of the GTK+ library and offers many features not included with other graphical clients available on Unix-based systems, including FXP transfers, extended firewall support, drag-and-drop, URL clipboard monitoring and remote directory caching

Licence: Shareware (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.littleigloo.org/
Operating system: Linux
Requires: X Window

Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Linux

This is a powerful and flexible FTP client for Mac OS. It can transfer files via FTP and HTTP, search the Internet to find the files you want, provide information about remote servers as well as your local Internet connection and applications, help manage remote servers, and allow you to control and test your Macintosh across the Internet from remote locations.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.stairways.com/
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: System 7, Power PC

Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Mac

Designed to make it easier for you to archive files and folders on the Linux platform, this is a full-featured file compression utility. It lets you add and extract files with ease, and features an interface that looks similar to that of the popular Windows archiver, Winzip. It supports TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, ZIP, TGZ, LZH, ARJ, and GZ archives, and even allows you to add files to existing compressed files.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.linzip.com/
Operating system: Linux
Requires: X Window

Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Linux

This is a configurable IRC client with an intuitive user interface, events handler, and full send and receive capabilities for DCC (direct client connection) files. It also features colour text, aliases, remote commands, a backgrounds option and sound. It automatically opens Web sites when they are mentioned in conversation.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.mirc.co.uk/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Requires: 16M RAM

Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Windows (on CD 2)

mIRC made

With this program you can enjoy streaming audio and video on networks and over the Internet. It provides enhanced sound quality and even newscast-quality video to systems with at least a 28.8Kbps modem. It includes the Buffered Play feature for playing content that is encoded for higher bit rates than your connection provides.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.real.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Mac OS, Linux
Requires: Mac: 604 Power PC, 32M RAM, 65M virtual memory, Mac OS 8.1, Internet Explorer 4.01 or Navigator 4.05 Windows: Pentium 120, 16M RAM, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Internet Explorer 4 or Navigator 4 Linux: Linux for Intel, kernel 2.0/2.2, 64M RAM, glibc, 14.4kbps modem (audio only), 28.8kpbs modem (video), 16-bit sound card, 8-bit video card

Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

Windows				Mac

This freeware IRC client offers several features at the present time, including IRCD 2.7-2.10 compliance, one-click operation for many features, notify and ignore lists, colours and sounds.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.smircle.de/
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: Power PC, System 7.1, OpenTransport, 1.5M hard disk space

Install instructions: Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Mac

A flexible, all-purpose, cross-platform compression program, it supports SIT, ZIP, RAR, ACE, ARJ, TAR, GZ, TGZ, LZH, and CAB archive formats plus MIME/B64, Uuencode, BinHex and MacBinary encoding and decoding.

Licence: Shareware (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.aladdinsys.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Install instructions: 

		Windows

A straightforward, fast and easy-to-use zipping and unzipping utility, it includes built-in support for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, ZIP, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, MIME and Unix-compressed files.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.winzip.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Install instructions:  Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Windows (on CD 2)

WinZip 8.0 made

This FTP client has a well-designed user interface. It displays two panes: one shows a local system view with all drives, directories and files; the other displays the directories and files on the remote system. Simply select files and click on buttons to perform various actions (sort, copy, delete, rename, view, refresh, create directory).

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WS_FTP/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Install instructions:  Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Navigator users download to your local drive and run the install file.

		Windows