Aladdin Stuffit Expander 7.5
	W98/2000/NT/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/stuffit_expander/

Aladdin's Stuffit Expander gives you an easy way to expand most compressed or encoded files including those downloaded from online services and the Internet. The program handles Mac and Windows archive files.

Note: StuffIt Expander is a free component of StuffIt 7.5. This means that you will also have the opportunity to install an unregistered trial version of StuffIt Standard Edition, as well as unregistered shareware versions of DropStuff and StuffIt Browser.

URL: www.stuffit.com

AntiVir Personal Edition 6.16.00.71
	W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Free ñ updated
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/antivir/

URL: www.free-av.com

Download Express 1.3
	W9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/ftp/download_express/

Download Express is a download tool that lets you download individual files from Web and FTP sites at the maximum possible speed. It is a free cut down - though still useful - version of Mass Downloader.

The program uses a multiple download channel technology which splits a file into manageable chunks to speed up downloads. Download Express integrates with your browser and automatically takes over as soon as you click on a specified link type (.exe, .zip, .pdf, etc.) and replaces the standard IE download dialog. Besides the multi-channel download function, it allows you to stop and resume the download.

Note: requires MS IE4 or later.

URL: www.metaproducts.com

Magic Translator 3.01
	W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
15-day trial
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/magic_translator/

Magic Translator is an online translator that uses Internet-based resources, like the SETI project. The program is packaged with its own text editor, so you can quickly copy or load a text file onto the screen. After selecting the source and target languages from a drop-down menu, it displays the translation.

You can export the translation via the clipboard or save it to disk. Magic Translator currently supports 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The program also includes a built-in Web browser, allowing you to translate entire Web pages as you surf. Performance may vary depending on your Internet connection, though the developers claim that the program can translate over 3,000 words per second over a standard dial-up modem.

URL: www.zhangduo.com

MegaPing 3.1
	W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
30-day trial
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/megaping/

MegaPing is a suite of network utilities available from the Windows standard command line but wrapped up in a convenient GUI. The two-paned interface provides one-click access to host monitor, finger, name lookup, network time synchroniser, ping, port scanner, traceroute and whois utilities.

It also provides information about the processes running on your computer, including a summary and detailed information on threads, memory usage, loaded modules and a number of other parameters. MegaPing supports monitoring of multiple remote computers simultaneously as well as processing any number of ping, traceroute, general DNS, finger, and whois requests simultaneously.

URL: www.magnetosoft.com

Password Reminder 1.3
	W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limited shareware
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/password_reminder/

With this unregistered shareware version you can only get half of the password that you want.

Password Reminder is a handy utility if you've forgotten important passwords on your system. The program should be used with caution as it can reveal almost any password on your PC. This includes IE web page passwords such as AutoComplete Passwords on forms and any other password that is masked by asterisks.

To use the program, you simply drag the dialog over the masked password and it will reveal it. In addition, it can reveal the administrator password in 2000/NT (requires admin privileges) and cached passwords in 95/98/ME which are stored in .pwl files. For those using Award BIOSes, Password reminder can not only reveal those passwords but can also erase them.

URL: www.newpowersoft.com

VNC 3.3.4
	W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Free Open Source
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/vnc/

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is remote control software that allows you to view and interact with one computer (the 'server') using a simple program (the 'viewer') on another computer anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home.

You could control another computer across a network, as if sitting in front of that computer: help friends and relatives solve problems on their systems; provide a flexible hot-desking environment by allowing employees to access their office desktop and server machines from any machine in the company's offices or from other remote sites; VNC can also be used in educational contexts, for example to allow a distributed group of students simultaneously to view a computer screen being manipulated by an instructor, or to allow the instructor to take control of the students' computers to provide assistance.

URL: www.realvnc.com

WinZip 8.1
	W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP
Shareware
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/winzip/

A key addition to this latest†version is compatibility with Windows XP. There are also major enhancements to the integration of WinZip into Windows Explorer, with many new functions and options in the context menu. You should generally find the handling of your ZIP files easier than before. There are various cosmetic changes and improvements to the program and its help files.

URL: www.winzip.com

WS_FTP LE 5.08
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/ftp/ws_ftp/

WS_FTP LE (Limited Edition) is the cut-down version of WS_FTP Pro. It still gives you the most important file transfer functions: you can transfer files between a local PC and another remote computer system connected via a modem or by a local-area network; browse through directories and files, and transfer files between the two systems; create, change, and remove directories and view, execute, rename, or delete files; the program can also resume interrupted file transfers.

Free for non-commercial use.

URL: www.ipswitch.com

Captain FTP 1.4
	OS X
Free – new version
Location on CD: software/mac/utils/captain_ftp/

Captain FTP is a full-featured FTP client for OS X. It has all the tools you'd expect from an FTP client including unlimited simultaneous connections to different servers, file and folder transfer and an address book that stores all your FTP session parameters. The two-paned Aqua interface is easy to use and functions like any Finder window. You can drag and drop files from a local folder to a remote server, or double click files to initiate transfers.

Other features allow you to specify connection ports, firewall and proxy support, file manager functions such as renaming, creating and deleting directories, folder searching and more.†This version†is now Jaguar ready and incorporates enhanced LIST command management.

Note: Captain FTP is free for non-commercial use only – commercial users must treat it as a 14-day trial.

URL: http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/ftp/description.htm

PrintToPDF 2.4.4
Shareware
Location on CD: software/mac/utils/print_to_pdf/

PrintToPDF is a printer driver that creates PDF files (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader or GhostScript on any platform) from within applications such as word processors and DTP.

You can create PDF bookmarks to your section and subsection headings, and URLs will become hot links. PrintToPDF is not as powerful as Acrobat, but it creates simple PDFs for a much lower price.

You will need Acrobat Reader 3 or later (see the 'Viewing' section on this CD) to view the manual and the created PDFs.

URL: www.jwwalker.com/index.html