 Windows 95 Windows OS/2
December 1996
iShare
1.0
From Artisoft, the company which brought
you the LANtastic networking system,
i.Share 1.0 allows you to share one
Internet connection with other users on a network.
This fully working trial version, which
expires on January 31, 1997, allows up to
five applications to use the one Internet connection.
iShare requires a Windows 95 server but
networked PCs can be running Windows 95 or
3.1.
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Internet Explorer 3.01
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 9/10
Microsoft recommends that users
of version 3.0 upgrade to this minor upgrade/bug
fix. An excellent Web browser which surpasses Netscape
-- but only just -- in terms of ease of use. See
our Guide to
Choosing a Web browser for more details.
PaintShop Pro 4.1
http://www.jasc.com
PaintShop Pro has always been our favourite
graphic file viewer and converter, but in this
latest version, PaintShop Pro is now a comprehensive
graphics package and virtually a must for anyone getting
into Web page authoring. It lets you view, create
and save graphics in the GIF and JPG formats
common on the Web, and provides image
manipulation tools that'll let you grab a photo
or other image and edit it to your heart's
content. See our Guide
to Web authoring tools.
Netscape Navigator 3.0
ftp://ftp-au.netscape.com/pub/navigator/3.0/
Rating: 9/10
Just pipped by Internet Explorer in terms of
ease of use, but there are still plenty of
reasons to stay with this excellent, marketing leading
Web browser. See our Guide
to Choosing a Web browser for more details.
Hot Dog Pro
http://www.sausage.com.au
Thirty-day trial version of this excellent
Australian-made HTML editor. Hot Dog has an
attractively garish interface and like any good HTML
editor, it automates the process of placing HTML
tags into your document. Make sure you install
the Hot Dog for Win 95 support files before you
install the main program. See our Guide
to Web authoring tools.
mIRC
http://www.ozemail.com.au/ozemail/oz1195s/help/soft/mirc.html
Internet Relay Chat is one of the best ways to
meet people on the Net, and mIRC is currently the
best way to do that. See Choosing IRC Software.
RealAudio
http://www.realaudio.com/products/player2.0.html
Web plug-in that gives you live AM-radio like
sound over the Net with your browser. See our
guide to Using RealAudio
for more information.
ShockWave for Director, Authorware &
Freehand
http://www-1.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/Plugin/plugin.cgi
Web plug-in that adds mind-blowing animation,
sound and interactivity to Web pages. See our Guide to Plug-ins for more information.
WinZip 6.2
http://www.winzip.com
Rating: 9/10
The award-winning
shareware utility WinZip is our perennial favourite
for unzipping and zipping files under Windows.
This new version includes built-in support for
popular Internet file formats: TAR, gzip, Unix
compress,UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, and MIME. It
also includes WinZip Self-Extractor Personal
Edition. See also
our guide on How to Use WinZip.
CuteFTP
http://www.cuteftp.com/
Available versions: Windows 95,
Windows 3.1
Currently the best of the shareware FTP
utilities, CuteFTP displays the contents of
distant servers in a File Manager-like screen
with drag-and-drop transfers across the Net. See
our guide to Choosing FTP
Software.
Internet Explorer 3.0 beta
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 7/10
The next best thing to IE 3.01
for Windows 95, but apparently missing some
features found in the Win 95 Web browser. Also,
this is still in beta, so this version will have
a time limit and probably some bugs too.
Netscape Navigator 3.0
ftp://ftp-au.netscape.com/pub/navigator/3.0/
Rating: 9/10
With Internet Explorer still in beta,
Navigator is still the best choice Web browser
for Windows 3.1 users. See our Guide
to Choosing a Web browser for more details.
mIRC
http://www.ozemail.com.au/ozemail/oz1195s/help/soft/mirc.html
Internet Relay Chat is one of the best ways to
meet people on the Net, and mIRC is currently the
best way to do that. See Choosing IRC Software.
Hot Dog Pro
http://www.sausage.com.au
Thirty-day trial version of this excellent
Australian-made HTML editor. Hot Dog has an
attractively garish interface and like any good HTML
editor, it automates the process of placing HTML
tags into your document. See our Guide
to Web authoring tools.
PaintShop Pro 3.11
http://www.jasc.com
PaintShop Pro has always been our favourite
graphic file viewer and converter, but in this
latest version, PaintShop Pro is now a comprehensive
graphics package and virtually a must for anyone getting
into Web page authoring. It lets you view, create
and save graphics in the GIF and JPG formats
common on the Web, and provides image
manipulation tools that'll let you grab a photo
or other image and edit it to your heart's
content. See our Guide
to Web authoring tools.
RealAudio
http://www.realaudio.com/products/player2.0.html
Web plug-in that gives you live AM-radio like
sound over the Net with your browser. See our
guide to Using RealAudio
for more information.
ShockWave for Director, Authorware &
Freehand
http://www-1.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/Plugin/plugin.cgi
Web plug-in that adds mind-blowing animation,
sound and interactivity to Web pages. See our Guide to Plug-ins for more information.
WinZip 6.2
http://www.winzip.com
Rating: 9/10
The award-winning
shareware utility WinZip is our perennial favourite
for unzipping and zipping files under Windows.
This new version includes built-in support for
popular Internet file formats: TAR, gzip, Unix
compress,UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, and MIME. It
also includes WinZip Self-Extractor Personal
Edition. See also
our guide on How to Use WinZip.
Eudora Lite
http://www.eudora.com/
Freeware Internet e-mail program which is easy
to use and popular, chosen by many ISPs as part
of their software package to users. Power e-mail
users will want the commercial `Pro' version,
however. See our guide to Choosing E-mail
Software for more details.
FreeAgent
http://www.forteinc.com/forte/
For those who take Internet newsgroups
seriously and value offline operation, message
screening, sorting and other highly evolved functions,
the award-winning FreeAgent is hard to beat.
CuteFTP
http://www.cuteftp.com/
Available versions: Windows 95,
Windows 3.1
Currently the best of the shareware FTP
utilities, CuteFTP displays the contents of
distant servers in a File Manager-like screen
with drag-and-drop transfers across the Net. See
our guide to Choosing FTP
Software.
Netscape Navigator 2.02 beta 1a
http://www.internet.ibm.com/browsers/netscape/warp
Now OS/2 Warp users get the chance to use the
industry-standard Web browser. It's still in beta
though, so this version will have a time limit
and probably some bugs too. Keep an eye on
Netscape's Web page or IBM's (above) for updates.
Web Explorer
http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/WebExplorer
Not keen on using the OS/2 Netscape beta? Web
Explorer is still a good Web browser and it's
free! See our Guide
to OS/2 Internet software for more.
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