Useful Freeware

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Undoubtedly the best freeware graphics viewer available. This will even view movies and some of the lesser known graphic types with the plugins available from the site. Small fast and free, you cannot go wrong with this.

 

The Freeware Publishing Site

Offers a collection of the best freeware for WINDOWS 95/98.

 

Antivirus

 

InoculateIT Antivirus

I have used this one for a while and found that it is a good all  round programme offering a full range of protection, updates are free  and available on the website. 

Fprot  Antivirus

This one has been around for a long time so they should know what  they are talking about. Note that only the DOS version is free. 

Anywhere  Antivirus

A very good virus scanner that will detect most forms of 'infection'  allowing you to delete any infected file. 

Antivirus Personal Edition

Scans and protects your system on demand and in the background, a  good place to start looking for your antivirus freebies.

 

 

Email

 

 

Eudora Light

This is perhaps the most popular mail client of all time, until recently it's features were unsurpassed for a free mail client, but now with the Netscape Communicator and Outlook Express packages around it is starting to show it's age.  Don't however let this put you off, if you want a stand alone mail package then you will want for little should you use this.

Pegasus Mail

This one too has been around for a long time and gone through a lot of development.  It has a lot to offer and still has a large following, it,s also worth checking the homesite as ther are a bundle of add on's that can be downloaded there.

Phoenix Mail

Another full featured package with multiple account support and a host of other good things.  This also comes in a German Version.

Email Remover

This allows you to preview your email headers before they are delivered, that way you can clear the junk out before collecting your mail.

Bounce Spam Mail

Get revenge on the spammers with this, it will reply to the spammer with a message suggesting that your email address is invalid.

Ghost mail

want to send a mail to someone without them knowing where it came from ?, this will let you do just that.

Rocket Talk

Send voice messages to your friends and relatives through email.  Read the full instructions on the site for how to use this.

Schizo Schiz (Site Down)

If you want one of those whacky ASCI signatures on the bottom of your email this will generate on for you.

Pronto Mail

Pronto Mail is a free email client for Windows. Features include the ability to exchange voice messages, a  spell checker, support for multiple address books, search engines and filters.  The only drawback is that it is supported by advertisments

Foxmail

A 32 bit Internet mail client supporting full Internet mail functions, multiple accounts, filters and lots more

 

 

 

FTP

 

 

Net Vampire

This is another of those programs that I could not be with out.  If say you want to download multiple files from a server but don't want to spend ages typing in all the addresses, just drag the links on to the Net vampire 'drop box' and it starts downloading in the background.  There are other facilities such as scheduled downloads and a built in search engine.  Get this one !!.

FTP Commander

A nice simple FTP Prog. with all the usual features such as create and delete directories on the server.

Leech FTP

A multi threaded FTP client (and http) that will offer you an awful lot of gadgets to play with, give it a go it's free.

GoZilla

A nice little download manager that will resume the download where it left off should your connection get broken. (ad supported)

WS FTP

This is probably the most widely used FTP application, not too many bells and whistles but reliable and does the job, what more can you ask for.

FTP Explorer

 This application is simple to use, and makes transferring files between the internet and your machine as simple as using file manager

WAR FTP

A full featured  FTP client, multiple document Interface (MDI) allows unlimited open sessions to FTP servers from the same program. All standard FTP commands including REST (resume broken transfers). Both graphical windows interface  and  a traditional FTP command interpereter for advanced use. This dual interface allows you to click and drag to do routine tasks and enter powerful FTP commands

Agent

IM Agent is both an FTP client and a Telnet programme, it. is loaded with advanced options, and is easy to use. IM Agent allows you to run multiple sessions simultaneously. You can have total control over your FTP session through the toolbar, and you can enter DOS, Unix, or FTP commands if you wish. Also features multifile downloading, a save option for your FTP or Telnet sessions, quick reconnections, logging, and more. Now it also has a chat feature called DiV Talk

 

 

Newsreaders

 

 

Free Agent

The most popular of them all,a online offline reader with binary support.

XNews

A newsXpress lookalike with support for multiple accounts, filters and kill lists etc

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Programming

 

 

Programmers File Editor

A large file capacity editor with lots of functions including the ability to run a compiler.  It would even make a good text editor if you wanted a program that will do both jobs.

Hackman

A hugely popular hex editor and disassembler combined with a list of features too big to mention, available in many languages.  I would suggest you have a look at this for yourself.

Frhead

A 32 Bit editor with a lot's of features

Script Pad

If you have been using notepad for writing scripts try using this dedicated utility and see how much easier it is.

Res Thief

This will extract all the resources that are packed into any executable file, this one certainly satisfies the curious amongst us.

Java Mill

A nice Java editor that will support most of the JDK 1.02.  I has a multiple doc. interface and will compile HTML files for you to test your work

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HTML Editors

 

 

Arachnophilia

A Powerful editor that imports fully formatted text, tables, outlines from any Windows 95 compliant application, automatically converts to HTML. and Supports up to 6 Web browsers, with an  FTP client which automatically uploads your files.

HTML Kit

Intended to help HTML authors to edit, format, validate, preview and publish web pages. This can be used by experts as well as beginners.

SiteAid

SiteAid has many options for designing your web site, for those users who have MS Internet Explorer installed, SiteAid has a built in browser to view your work. It also provides helpers to make tasks such as body attribute selection, tables, frames, lists, links and images easy to insert.

Webford

A HTML editor that makes it easy for anybody even a beginner to create  Webpages.

Reactor

This is a new HTML source editor with a very user friendly interface.

Webeditor

A editor with full drag-and-drop, print-preview, send-as-mail, scripts, tags, tables, unlimited file size, syntax coloring, internal browser etc.

Web O Rama

A editor with a clean, uncluttered interface and many useful features, including tools for adding images, tables, links, lists, sounds, hex values, special characters, frames, body and font attributes.

Blue Ice

A open source HTML editor for the intermediate to advanced user designed to speed up your editing through keyboard shortcuts and tools which automate creation of tags.

HTML Builder

Spell checking. Drag and drop editing( just select the text and drag it to a new location). Support for forms. etc..

Araneae

A Notepad replacement with HTML specific features that makes coding web pages faster and easier. Araneae does not have a file size limit and it supports multiple documents open at once which you can easily access through the tabs at the bottom of the screen. With helpful tools such as a colour picker, image dimension insertion, date insertion, and syntax highlighting.