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Windows
3.1 Windows 95
Apple Mac
Visual Office
URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/visualoffice
Registered price: $70
Rating: 
Visual Office is a clever graphical productivity tool to manage your virtual office. You can use it to store and track all your work files, Web pages, and your multimedia files on CD-ROM. It incorporates binders, so you can clip together Web pages and files related by topic. You can add Post-it notes or a 'To-do' list to any file or Web page. Click on a URL and you're taken to the page. Some 300 sites are included to get you started.
Lost in virtual space? Visual Office lets you manage your PC files as you manage your physical ones.
Internet Book provides an easy place to store your online data.
URL:
http://www.hotfiles.com
Registered price: $20
Rating:
Internet Book is an easy, graphical way to store all
your online data. The interface is that of a loose-leaf
notebook. It provides a table of contents, and you can
store Web, gopher, archie and FTP addresses, e-mail
addresses, as well as Usenet newsgroups. Each item you
store can have up to eight fields of information. It's
easy to search and sort the various fields and it
supports all popular browsers.
Internet Explorer 3.0
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating:
The next
best thing to IE 3.01 for Windows 95, but apparently
missing some features found in the Win 95 Web browser.
This is default browser being used on our CD.
Netscape Navigator 3.01
URL:
ftp://ftp-au.netscape.com/pub/navigator/3.0/
Rating:
The latest
update for this popular Web browser.
PaintShop Pro 3.11
URL:
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
URL: 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.
Macromedia's Shockwave
URL: 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.
URL: http://www.quicktime.apple.com
Apple's Quicktime plug-in lets you view QuickTime movies and QuickTime VR Panoramas and Objects directly in your browser window.
If you already had QuickTime installed, you can download the plugin (NPQTW16.DLL) and the QuickTime VR Software (QTVRW.QTC) separately. Regardless of whether you download them with the "Easy Download" or individially, you must move these files to the proper locations:
Move the file QTVRW.QTC in the WINDOWS directory of your primary drive.
Move NPQTW16.DLL to the "Plugins" directory in your browser folder. If you are running a beta version of Internet Explorer 3.0, you will need to create a folder called "plugins" in the same directory as Internet Explorer 3.0.
WinZip 6.2
URL:
http://www.winzip.com
Rating:
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
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.
GIF Construction Set
URL: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html
Web
animations can be done with high-end tools such as Java
and Director, but an easier way for most of us is to
create animated GIFs with this shareware program. See our
Guide to Web authoring tools.
URL:
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.
Netscape Navigator 3.01
URL: http://www.netscape.com
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.
Netscape Communicator (preview release 2)
URL: http://www.netscape.com
Rating: N/A
This preview edition of the next version of Netscape will give you a taste of what's to come. Be warned though that this is still a beta product.
PaintShop Pro 4.12
URL: 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
URL: 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.
Macromedia Shockwave
URL: 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. Or just check out the menu bar above to
see an example of it in action.
Apple's Quicktime Plug-in for the Internet
URL: http://www.quicktime.apple.com
Apple's Quicktime plug-in lets you view QuickTime movies and QuickTime VR Panoramas and Objects directly in your browser window.
WinZip 6.2
URL: 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
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.
GIF Construction Set
URL: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html
Web animations can be done with high-end tools s
uch as Java and Director, but an easier way for most of us is to create animated GIFs with this shareware program. See our Guide to Web authoring tools.
Apple MacNetscape Navigator 3.01
URL: http://www.netscape.com
Rating: 9/10
For the Mac users out there we offer Netscape Navigator as a compressed self-executing HQX file.
Internet Explorer 3.0
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 9/10
Microsoft's browser now finally released for the Apple Mac in Version 3.0.
Eudora Lite
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.
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