Toolkit

You can browse 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/Me, Windows NT/2000, Mac OS, Linux
Requires: Linux: 32M RAM, X Windows

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A flexible, all-purpose, cross-platform compression program, this tool 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/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

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

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

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		Mac OS

A real-time, transaction-based file-sharing system for MP3 users, this program utilises a Web-based interface to allow you to search for artists, tracks and albums, and download the tracks onto your computer.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.audiogalaxy.com/satellite/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

A download manager for X Windows, this tool supports both FTP and HTTP protocols and can resume interrupted downloads. It also features a download queue, recursive downloading, proxy support and drag-and-drop support.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
Operating system: Linux
Requires: X Windows, Gtk+ 1.2.3

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		Linux

Basically an email client, this program 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 plug-in that allows voice message exchanges; a customisable interface; field autocompletion; and a filter that will "speak" the name and subject of incoming messages.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.eudora.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

This is an Internet file management and retrieval system that allows you to gather URL links for files you want to download simply by dragging them from your browser. It also allows you to 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/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

Use this messaging program to communicate with other users who are online by chatting, sending messages, sending email, exchanging files, and playing games. ICQ (I Seek You) tells you when friends sign on, and allows you to quickly launch any application, including voice and video applications. Among the features available are: multi-user chat, PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calls, and integrated SMS.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.icq.com
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

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 Windows, Gtk+ 1.2.3

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		Linux

This is a powerful and flexible FTP client for Mac OS. It can transfer files through 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 Internet 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: PowerPC, System 7

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		Mac OS

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 allows you to 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 Windows

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		Linux

A configurable IRC client with an intuitive user interface, events handler, and full send and receive capabilities for direct client connection files, this program 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/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: 16M RAM

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		Windows

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/Me, Windows NT/2000, Mac OS
Requires: Mac: 604 PowerPC, Mac OS 8.1, 32M RAM, 65M virtual memory, Internet Explorer 4.01 or Netscape 4.05 Windows: Pentium 120, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000, 16M RAM, Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape 4

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Windows			Mac OS

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: PowerPC, System 7.1, 1.5M hard disk space, OpenTransport

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		Mac OS

Play streaming and downloadable digital audio, video and other Internet content with this program. Play back CD and digital recordings and use the jukebox function to play or copy an entire CD to your PC.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/EN/default.asp
Operating system: Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000, Mac OS 8.5
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A straight-forward, 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/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

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/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows