Mac

Windows

30-day demo – latest version

WebPosition Gold offers a suite of tools aimed at raising your Web site into a top 10 ranking in the major search engines – something everybody would like.

The modules comprising the suite are: Page Generator, which generates 'doorway' pages that are optimised to achieve high rankings in specific search engines; Page Critic, which compares your Web site's HTML code to those of top-ranked Web pages, then suggests improvements to boost your site's rankings; Page Editor, which facilitates easy changes; Upload Manager, which automates Web site page uploads; Submitter, which submits your pages to the major search engines automatically; Reporter, which reports your positions on each search engine for each keyword you are targeting; Traffic Analyzer, which tracks the number of visitors to your site, where they came from, and what keywords they used to find you; and Scheduler, which activates the Reporter daily, weekly, or monthly to check automatically your Web site's positions.

In this update performance has been significantly improved in the Reporter and Submitter for many systems, through a new special cacheing technology. Program responsiveness while running long Reporter or Submitter tasks has been improved and numerous other enhancements and fixes have been made.

Web link: www.empixcommunications.com

Free – 'sponsor ware'

This is a fast, inexpensive (or even free) way to create professional-quality Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Create PDF files by selecting the print command from any application.

Note: the free version loads a sponsor page in your Web browser each time you create a PDF file. You can eliminate this by paying the small registration fee.

Web link: www.pdf995.com

Shareware – 30-day evaluation

PDF Converter is a batch conversion tool for changing text files into PDF files. Customise page size, page colour and font attributes. It is a native converter, so you don't need to pass documents through PostScript and it does not require Adobe Acrobat.

Web link: www.sysaga.com

Shareware

Use this chat server for real-time chatting over both a local network and the Internet. People can visit your Web-based chatroom using any browser. You can kick out abusive users and set forbidden IPs, preventing specific users from participating. You can easily customise the appearance of your chatroom.

Because this software contains a simple Web server, you needn't install IIS, Apache or the like. Your chatroom visitors don't need specific client software.

Web link: www.lionmax.com

Free – recently updated

ICQ ('I seek you') is a popular instant-messaging program that lets you communicate with friends and colleagues in real time. To seek out a friend on the ICQ network, simply enter his or her ICQ number, name, nickname, or email address. Once your contact list is set up, you'll be notified when your friends are online so that you can chat, send instant messages or files, play games and more.

This latest version features new file sharing options, the ability to pick and choose which features you want, improved support for working behind firewalls, the ability to access your contact list from any computer, two-way messaging with cell phones, and email integration. There is also now a spell checker for your messages.

Note: you will need to be online when installing in order to register on the network.

Web link: www.icq.com

Adware

Odigo Messenger is a multilingual Internet Messenger application, with which you can: manage a buddy list and send instant messages; see who's surfing the same Web page as you; exchange mail, files and URLs; post notes and find people by their interests; voice-chat and conference; and more. Odigo now supports ICQ and AIM, as well as Yahoo! Messenger, enabling you to send and receive messages amongst your friends, even if they use other messengers.

You can take Odigo with you using Odigo Express, which connects you to Odigo from any computer without a download, and Odigo Mobile which lets you connect to Odigo from any WAP-enabled phone. There is an autoupdate feature to keep your software current.

Web link: www.odigo.com

Shareware

iCamMaster lets you collect and view Webcams. Collecting Webcams can be done using your preferred Web browser. Once collected, Webcams can be placed on your desktop and iCamMaster will periodically retrieve the latest picture for each of them.

Note: this trial versions display banners until registered and will ask you to register after 15 minutes of use. Requires Quicktime 3 or later.

Web link: www.catdis.com

30-day trial

Webcam Uploader 2001 is a Webcam image uploader. You can choose to upload an image to the Internet via FTP from your Webcam at regular intervals, for instance every minute.

Web link: www.acsoftwares.com

Mac OS

NOTE: The Mac programs on this CD are mostly in archived 'HQX' (BinHex) files – they can be extracted with several applications, including Stuffit Expander (which is on the CD...). Clicking on the links below should set the process in motion. You may receive a message that the file cannot be loaded into Simple Text – if so, start Stuffit and then open the HQX (or other archve) file you want from within Stuffit.

Shareware – new version

Note: runs native on Mac OS X, or on Mac OS 9.x with CarbonLib v1.1, and also on Palm.

Web Confidential is a powerful password manager with strong encryption (using BlowFish) and browser integration. With this latest version you can generate random passwords manually and there is a new category to store all your online Banking records.

Web link: www.web-confidential.com

Free

Sambucus is a time-management program that allows you to keep track of time spent on different tasks, grouped by projects. It has multiple undo capabilities and a floating timer window.

Web link: www3.sympatico.ca/fuzzies/EN/index.html

Free

This is the latest version of ICQ and can install both on OS X and on OS 8.6 or higher with CarbonLib 1.3 or higher.

ICQ ('I seek you') is a popular instant-messaging program that lets you communicate with friends and colleagues in real time. To seek out a friend on the ICQ network, simply enter his or her ICQ number, name, nickname, or email address. Once your contact list is set up, you'll be notified when your friends are online so that you can chat, send instant messages or files, play games and more.

ICQ now stores your contact list on the server – this means that your contact list can be instantly available to you when you use your ICQ number on another computer or wireless device. A new ICQ global hot key can be set in the preferences – it brings ICQ to the front and opens the first pending message. You can search for other ICQ users by keyword. There are various other fixes and enhancements in this update, including improved AppleScript support.

Web link: www.icq.com

Free

Odigo Messenger is an Internet Messenger application that allows you to send and receive 'instant messages' between friends and colleagues. Set up 'buddy lists' so you know when contacts are online. Odigo now supports ICQ, enabling you to 'chat' with your ICQ friends. The program provides galleries of images for choosing a 'personality' to represent yourself to the chat world. You can alter the appearance of the program's interface with changeable 'skins'.

Note: minimum requirements are G3/G4/iMac computer; MAC OS 7.x; Netscape (4.x or above) or IE (4.x or above) or iCab (1.9 or above).

Web link: www.odigo.com/mac

Shareware

iCamMaster
v1.9.3
(PPC, OS 8+)

Shareware

iCamMaster lets you collect and view Webcams. Collecting Webcams can be done using your preferred Web browser. Once collected, Webcams can be placed on your desktop and iCamMaster will periodically retrieve the latest picture for each of them.

Note: these trial versions display banners until registered and will ask you to register after 15 minutes of use.

Web link: www.catdis.com

Recently updated – Shareware

If you're not already familiar with Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) you will most likely come across PDF files at some time on the Web or elsewhere. We include Adobe's free Acrobat Reader on this CD for you to be able to view PDF files, but their PDF creation tool carries a hefty price tag.

However there is an alternative if you wish to create distributable documents (including layout, images, hyperlinks, etc.) on the cheap. PrintToPDF is a little shareware printer driver that allows you to create PDFs within many applications, simply by hitting the print button.

While PrintToPDF does not incorporate many of the features of Adobe Acrobat, it can be useful if you need to send documents to a variety of platforms, but have the documents look the same.

This update includes various bug fixes and adds several enhancements to the interface.

Web link: www.jwwalker.com