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| Netpad URL: http://www.flyingobjects.com Registered price: $25 Rating:  Netpad is a handy accessory to have on your screen as you browse the Web. It incorporates a browser, and as you access sites, you can select any URL or information that you want to keep, and drag it across to Netpad's "idea" screen. You can link these idea notes to other notes in any configuration you wish. The first line in each note is used to create a title, which appears in a separate screen.
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 Netpad is a handy accessory to have on your screen as you browse the Web. |
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| ACDNotes URL: http://www.acdsystems.com Registered price: $40 Rating: This is an excellent program for you if you do a lot of work with contacts, either on an intranet or on the Internet. You add the e-mail addresses of your contacts and the program notifies you when they are online so that you can share information, send messages and transfer files. The program creates an online connection between you and the people on your contact list when they are online, so you can communicate instantly and privately: your messages go directly to the person, they aren't stored on a server.
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 ACDNotes is a clever and private Internet messaging and file transfer. |
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| Paint Shop Pro 5 URL: www.jasc.com Registered price: $169 Rating: This is the latest version of Paint Shop Pro. With each new version, the program just keeps getting better, and it's a must-have if you deal with images. New features include increased file format support; direct support for Kodak digital cameras; support for pressure sensitive drawing tablets; improved TWAIN support; support for Adobe Photoshop-compatible file format and import/export plug-ins; and the inclusion of Animation Shop, which creates and saves animated GIF files for use on the World Wide Web or in multimedia presentations.
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 This is the latest version of Paint Shop Pro, the popular image editing program. |
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| RIPterm version 1.54 Terminal software for DOS
Excalibur version 1.50 Terminal software for Windows 3.1x or better
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| Internet Explorer 4.01 List price: free From: Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ Value rating: The final release of Internet Explorer 4 is finally here, but it's been worth the wait. IE 4.0 goes toe to toe with Netscape with this lineup: Explorer (the browser with integrated Webcasting), Outlook Express (integrated e-mail and newsgroups), NetMeeting (conferencing and collaboration), FrontPage Express (Web page authoring), and NetShow (broadcasting and streaming multimedia). But IE 4 is more than a great suite of Internet tools. Through its Web Integrated Desktop, IE 4 offers a revolutionary development in the integration of the operating system (Windows 95) and the Internet: browsing your hard disk and browsing the Web become essentially the same experience. On the whole, we feel that Internet Explorer 4.0 pips Communicator as an Internet suite, and, because it's free to everyone, it's even better value. Throw in desktop integration and you have a compelling case for all Windows 95 users, except perhaps Netscape devotees. And now, just as we go to press, Microsoft has released a beta version of IE 4.0 for Windows 3.1, which appears to have all the major new Internet features of IE 4.0 for Win 95. Naturally, there's a hardware hit with IE 4.0. Those of you who don't have at least a fast 486 with 16Mb of RAM can always use IE 3, which will provide many of the features of version 4, except of course the very latest and best. If you want to find out more
before you make the leap into IE 4.0 check out our Special By Rose Vines
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 Microsoft's new Internet suite is even more impressive than Netscape's. Its new Subscribe feature, for example, allows you to schedule automatic delivery of pages for offline viewing. |
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| Netscape Communicator 4.05 List price: $108 for business users From: Netscape 1800 650 199, http://www.netscape.com.au Value rating: Communicator 4 isn't just a browser -- it's a complete Internet suite. It gives us the latest version of Navigator (the browser itself), teamed with Messenger (e-mail), Collabra (newsgroup reader), Conference (collaboration), Composer (Web page authoring), Media Player (live broadcasting and streaming multimedia support) and Netcaster (Webcasting, the Web's equivalent of TV channels with information broadcast directly to your desktop). It's an excellent suite of tools, certainly good enough for dedicated Navigator users to stick with Netscape. However, bear in mind that for business users Communicator is free to try only for 90 days. Navigator 4 can be downloaded separately and is free to everyone. However, while it includes the browser and Netcaster, it's lacking all the other components including e-mail. As an alternative, Netscape is offering server-based e-mail -- users will have to connect remotely to a Netscape server if they want to use the browser to pick up their mail. The good news is that Navigator 4 can get by with 8Mb (if you're patient). However, a better low-memory option for those who want e-mail but don't want all the new technologies such as Webcasting, is to stick to Navigator 3, which will still give you a rich Internet experience. Rose Vines
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 Communicator 4 brings a complete suite of state-of-the-art Internet tools for all Windows users. One of its many new features is the SmartResume feature, which will automatically resume interrupted file downloads. |
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| Eudora Lite 3.05 URL: www.eudora.com The latest version of this popular Email program
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| Acrobat
Reader URL: http://www.adobe.com/ You'll find many documents on the Net in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format, making this reader an essential part of your toolkit.
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