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Windows
3.1 Windows 95
Apple Mac
SwitchIt for
Microsoft Internet Mail 
URL: http://www.oz.net/~patrickf/switchit.html
Registration: $US5
If you use Microsoft's Internet Mail, SwitchIt allows you to set up multiple profiles that can be used without rebooting Windows 95. This means that you can have different sender names, e-mail addresses, accounts, mail servers, address books, signatures and more! All changed with one click.
Internet Explorer 3.01
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 
The next best thing to IE 3.01 for Windows 95. A new version for Windows 3.1. 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 version of 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.
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 3.01
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.
URL: http://www.firmware.com.au/fusion
From: Firmware Design (047) 21 7211
Price: Around $695
Billed as the smart way to build Web sites, Fusion is a Web authoring package that lets you create a web site with no HTML coding. It offers advances features like pixel-perfect placing of objects, site management, templates and styles, and support for java ActiveX and Shockwave built in.
GeoBoy
List price: $39.95
From: NDG Software (09) 388 8814
URL: http://www.ndg.com.au
System requirements: Windows 95
GeoBoy is the world's first 3D geographical tracing tool, capable of tracing and displaying routes taken by traffic traversing the Internet, and allowing you to locate Internet delays and traffic congestion.
You can view traces on a flat map or spinning 3D globe, resulting data can be saved and restored and maps can be rotated and manipulated.
The retail version also allows users to zoom in on the globe with a resolution of around 30 square kilometres.
A shareware version is also available, and whilst complete with almost every other feature, it does not allow multi-level zooming and will only show major capital cities.
We were so impressed by a demonstration of GeoBoy that we awarded it PC User's Best New Media Product for Sydney's PC97 show. Stay tuned for a full review soon.
The shareware version is available from NDG Software's Web site from http://www.ndg.com.au and on our May 97 CD.
Internet Explorer 3.02
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.
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 3.01
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.
Apple MacAll of the the following programs can be found in the \Tools\Mac folder on the CD.
Netscape Navigator 3.01
URL: http://www.netscape.com
Rating: 9/10
Internet Explorer 3.0
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 9/10
Microsoft's browser 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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