Toolbox.
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AceFTP 2.06
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/ftp/ace_ftp/

AceFTP is an excellent FTP client that is easy to use. The program has powerful features and puts in a good turn of speed. Make server-to-server file transfers, open several FTP sites easily, execute multiple file transfers concurrently, preview files with the integrated viewer, resume broken transfers and monitor transfers graphically with the Transfer Rate Viewer.

URL: http://freeware.aceftp.com/

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Ad-Aware 5.83
W98/ME/2000/NT4/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/adaware/

Ad-Aware is a spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely. These components are used by advertising supported software to 'call home' and exchange statistical data. Ad-Aware will list all detected files.

Removal is optional and may cause some 'adware' programs to stop working. You can build backups easily before removing adware components or fixing your registry. The included backup-manager lets you reinstall a backup with a single mouseclick. You can also select to ignore certain components, and keep them on your system without triggering an alert each time you scan. Ad-Aware detects the following systems ñ Adware, Alexa, Aureate, Comet Cursor, Cydoor, Doubleclick, DSSAgent, EverAd, OnFlow, Flyswat, Gator, and more.

URL: www.lavasoftusa.com

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AddWeb Website Promoter Professional 5.2
W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Trial version
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/addweb/

AddWeb enables you to submit your Web site to thousands of search engines, directories and link sites. Check and track your ranking, and get advice on boosting your site's position on search engines.

By following submission guidelines for each engine, automated rules-checking keeps you from accidentally spamming search engines. AddWeb also features a built-in FTP uploader and Microsoft FrontPage support, free automated software updates, search engine database updates, and search engine knowledgebase updates so your copy is never out-of-date.

Only 10 major engines are supported in the trial version.

URL: www.cyberspacehq.com

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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

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AntiVir Personal Edition 6.15.08.58
W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Free – updated
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/antivir/

AntiVir Personal Edition detects and removes more than 50,000 viruses and includes a Virus Guard and an Internet update wizard for easy updating.

URL: www.free-av.com

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BHODemon 1
W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/bhodemon/

BHODemon protects you from Browser Helper Objects, or BHOs, which are tiny hidden programs often installed without your knowledge. A BHO is a small program that runs automatically every time you start your Internet browser. Typical BHOs are put there by adware programs such as Go!Zilla that tracks which advertisements you see as you use the Web.

BHODemon resides in the System Tray and when you run it, it scans your Registry for BHOs, and presents any it finds in a list. By highlighting a BHO in this list and clicking the Details button, you can see information about the BHO and disable it if you want. BHOs are disabled simply by renaming the DLL that houses them, so that you have the option of enabling them again if you wish.

URL: www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

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BlackWidow 4.34
W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
30-day trial
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/blackwidow/

BlackWidow will scan a Web site and present files in an Explorer-like view. You specify file types you want it to show (HTML, GIF, JPEG, etc.) and BlackWidow maps the entire Web site to search for them. You can view information about each file and select files to download.

The program also features a browser, the ability to resume broken downloads, wildcard file selection, maximum and minimum file size selection, the ability to scan FTP sites, and a true offline browser with automatic links and indexes. You can write your own Plug-ins for 'impossible to scan' sites.

URL: www.softbytelabs.com

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Blubster 1.2.3
W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/blubster/

Share music with Blubster, a peer-to-peer network with a new private protocol that works without a central server.

URL: www.blubster.org

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Cookie Monster 1.4
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/cookie_monster/

This is a tool to manage and delete your browser cookies – supports IE, Netscape and Opera.

URL: www.angelfire.com/electronic/ampsoft/index.html

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DirectFlashDown 1
W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Shareware
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/directflashdown/

DirectFlashDown is a utility to download flash files (SWFs) from Web pages in one hit. Normally this is not possible unless you trawl through your system cache folders. When you type in a Web address, you get a flash file list. You can right click any of the files and save it to your hard drive. DirectFlashDown also lists Flash files that are in IE's temporary folders.

URL: www.direct-soft.com

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Go!Zilla 4.11.39
W98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Free (adware)
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/gozilla/

Go!Zilla aims to help with managing downloads and provides integration with most current browsers. It includes Zip!Zilla, an integrated utility that lets you immediately install files after they're downloaded. You can drag-and-drop links to a desktop target. If you need to download several files Link Leecher can grab all files on an open Web page. Once a supported file type is detected, Go!Zilla goes to work by finding available mirror sites, and then downloading at the highest speeds possible.

Other features include auto-recovery from download errors, resume failed downloads, skin support, mulit-part downloading, download scheduler and FTP archive search.

URL: www.gozilla.com

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HIT Mail Privacy LITE 1.01
W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/hitmail/

HIT Mail Privacy LITE allows you to hide a message within a picture and supports most popular image formats.

URL: www.4t-niagara.com

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KaZaA Media Desktop 2
W9x/NT/2000
Free 'adware'
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/kazaa_media_desktop/

Kazaa Media Desktop is a top peer-to-peer application allowing people around the world to share files. Search for and download media files from other KaZaA users. You can also organise, view, and play your media files through an integrated media jukebox, publish your own work, reach an audience, and communicate with other KaZaA users. It features recommendations and an automated feature that lets you communicate with contacts.

Version 2 offers improved image handling, customisable skins, integrated antivirus protection where shared folders can be automatically scanned on start-up and during each download for greater protection against viruses, and the addition of integrity ratings to help improve the reliability of files.

Note: the software is ad-supported and includes Cydoor, the Web tracking system.

URL: www.kazaa.com

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KaZaA Speedup 3.02
W9x/Me/NT/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/kazaa_speedup/

KaZaA Speedup is an add-on for downloading with KaZaA Media Desktop. It automatically finds more sources for downloads at user-defined intervals. It also includes auto window checking to ensure stability and correct functionality. It is ideal for leaving the computer on when downloading overnight or for any unattended downloading on KaZaA. It resumes interrupted downloads and also minimises into the system tray for fast and easy access with a click of the right mouse button.

URL: fengsoft.digitalsouth.net

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Look n Stop Lite 1.04
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/looknstop/

A rule-based firewall that allows you to filter all incoming traffic to your computer by setting up rules for individual ports and protocols.

URL: www.soft4ever.com/LooknStop/En/index2.htm

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Mass Downloader 2.5.319
W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Evaluation version
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/ftp/mass_downloader/

Mass Downloader allows you to download individual files or lists of files from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum available speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases the time necessary to download files. MD also allows you to browse Zip archives before loading them and to choose only the desired files to download -very handy.

URL: www.metaproducts.com

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Modem Monitor Graph 4.1
W98/Me/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/modem_monitor/

MMG plots in realtime all data sent and received using the dial-up networking adapter and modem. Includes talking clock with alarms and can sync system time with an atomic clock over the Internet.

URL: www.geocities.com/modemgph

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Outpost Firewall 
W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/outpost/

A personal firewall that provides peace of mind from any threats by cookies, banner ads, email viruses, backdoors, spyware, crackers, adware, and more.

URL: www.agnitum.com

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ScripTrap 1.03
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/scriptrap/

ScripTrap is particularly useful for trapping scripts that arrive in email attachments, such as the ILOVEYOU virus.

URL: http://keir.net/scriptrap.html

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SignPoster 4.1.1
W9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
21-day trial – updated
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/signposter/

SignPoster Web site promotion software features meta-tag creation, page analysis (fixes problems and suggests improvements), customisable doorway page (SignPost) generation, search engine submission, an integrated FTP engine and report viewer.

URL: www.signposter.com

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Surfin Guard Pro 5.7beta2
W9x/ME/NT/2000 Pro/ XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/surfinguard/

Protects you from threats by proactively monitoring and containing the behaviour of downloaded active content. Free for personal and non-commercial use only.

URL: www.finjan.com/products/surfinguard.cfm

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Synchromagic Pro 3
W9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
30-day evaluation
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/synchromagic/

Synchromagic synchronises files and directories between two or more machines, either one-way or bi-directionally. Synchromagic can also delete files on the destination directory that are not present in the source directory. Tasks can be performed over a local area network and to FTP sites. Mirror sites can be created for disaster recovery or to backup files, directories, and even entire drives.

A separate ScanFolder utility can determine disk space allocation in case you run out of space. Synchromagic has command line support and integration with Windows Task Scheduler and can shut down your PC when a task is complete. A task advisor also emails you when a task is complete.

URL: www.gelosoft.com

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Tracks Eraser Pro 3
W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
15-day trial
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/tracks_eraser/

Tracks Eraser Pro is a privacy cleaner that cleans up all Internet tracks and other activity trails you leave on your PC when browsing the Web. The program lets you erase the browser cache, cookies, history, URLs, auto-complete form entries, your browser's index.dat file, Windows temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents and more.

Tracks Eraser Pro also erases the tracks left by other popular applications, such as Realplayer's playlist, Mediaplayer, QuickTime, MS Office, Acrobat, Winzip and others. Cleaning can be run automatically with the built in scheduler, or manually. A testing mode lets you preview files to be deleted before making any changes to your system.

URL: www.acesoft.net

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Web Roller 
NT/2000/XP
30-day trial
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/web_roller/

Web Roller is a load-testing tool that provides a consistent and reliable way to learn about and test performance characteristics of Web and Intranet applications on your server. It creates a substantial load on your server and identifies performance problems associated with the system server. Web Roller records real-time user activity in terms of HTTP requests and creates a simple script that you can modify using embedded test data-generating capabilities.

You can set various parameters and then run a script or a batch of scripts and test performance. Various graphs and reports provide you with detailed information about application performance.

URL: www.webapplicationstesting.com

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WebLog Expert Lite 1.6
W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Free
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/weblog_expert/

WebLog Expert Lite is a free log analyzer, a light-weight version of WebLog Expert. It allows you quickly and easily to analyze your log files and get information about your site's visitors: activity statistics, what files visitors accessed, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, and more.

URL: www.weblogexpert.com

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WebPosition Gold 2
W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
30-day trial
Location on CD: software/windows/utils/webposition/

WebPosition Gold is a popular suite of tools aimed at raising your Web site into a top 10 ranking in the major search engines. WPG includes the following modules: Page Generator, which creates doorway pages and is 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; Page Editor, which facilitates easy changes; and Upload Manager, which automates Web site page uploads.

In this trial version there is support for only three search engines.

URL: www.webposition.com

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

WinZip is an excellent archive file manager, handling ZIP and other compression formats, including many common on the Internet, such as TAR, BinHex, UUencode and MIME. Features handy integration with Windows explorer.

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

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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

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Aladdin Stuffit Expander 6.5.1
OS X
Free
Location on CD: software/mac/utils/stuffit/

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.

There is also a version on this disc for systems earlier than OS X.

URL: www.stuffit.com

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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

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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

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RBrowserLite 3.0.8
OS X 10.1.5+
Free
Location on CD: software/mac/utils/rbrowserlite/

If you work on remote systems or have to move files back and forth often, RBrowserLite can make your life a lot easier.

Entire file trees can be moved between local and remote host, or between remote hosts by simple drag & drop. Multitasking allows you to perform many operations simultaneously.

RBrowserLite is the free cut down version of RBrowser.

Delete all installations and installation files you may have on your system before installing this new version.

URL: www.rbrowserlite.com

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SubmitWolf MAC 4.02.4
OS 8+
Trial version – updated
Location on CD: software/mac/utils/submitwolf/

SubmitWolf MAC is an easy to use Web site promotion tool that automates the process of getting your Web site listed on the Internet. It has a huge database of search engines, link lists and business directories.

The number of search engines is limited in this trial version.

URL: www.trellian.com