COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE

[Windows 95] [DOS] [Miscellaneous]

Windows 95 Software

E-MAIL SOFTWARE

 

Eudora

The most popular e-mail software for Windows 3.x/95. It comes in many flavours - 16-bit & 32-bit. Lite & Pro! My favourite email software.

Information Transfer Professional

This handy e-mail utility makes attaching and detaching binary files a breeze. It handles UUencode, MIME, BinHex, and other encoding formats.

CheckMail

CheckMail is just the thing for you! Every so often, it will check your e-mail and see if you have any new mail. If you do, it can page you, send an e-mail to your cell phone, display a message box, play a movie, play a sound, or start your e-mail program. It can filter out unwanted mail and even send automated messages back to the senders of e-mail that it has filtered.

WEB BROWSERS

 

MS Internet Explorer

A very good browser from Microsoft. It is slowly taking the browser market away from Netscape.

Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator is the most popular web browser. To make it more competitive Netscape will be making Netscape Communicator 5.0 freeware and will give away its source code too!!!

Opera

A very compact browser with unique zoom and window features with support for multimedia and animated GIFs. It does not support Java and has mediocre Help files. No built-in email client.

Cello

One of the first web browsers that was developed

NSCA Mosaic

One of the first browsers that was developed. It is totally free.

Spry Mosaic

 

VRML BROWSERS

 

Netscape's Live3D

Plugin for Netscape Navigator

SGI's Cosmo Player

 

Virtus Voyager

 

Chaco's VR Scout

 

Calligari's Pioneer

 

Intervista's Worldview

 

OnLive Traveler

 

Black Sun's CyberGate

 

ParaGraph's Virtual Home Space Builder and Viewer

 

NEWS READERS

 

Free Agent

The most shareware popular news reader.

Newswatcher

 

WEB SERVERS

 

Apache Web Server

A freeware web server which comes with source code! It is the most popular web server on the 'net.

Yahoo!'s list of Web server information resources

 

Yahoo!'s list of Web server software

 

EMWAC's Web server

EMWAC's free Web Server for Windows NT

Internet Information Server

Microsoft's free Internet Information Server for Windows NT

NCSA HTTP server information

 

CERN HTTP server information

 

Virtual Library List of Servers

Web developer's Virtual Library list of servers

FTP

 

CuteFTP

A very popular FTP client, with some excellent advanced features, like directory comparison, etc. My favourite FTP program. A must for all those having their own home pages.

WS_FTP

The most popular FTP program.

Bullet Proof FTP

An excellent FTP program with support for file resumes.

WEB BROWSER PLUGINS

 

RealAudio

A plugin for RealAudio files (.au).

Shockwave

The new streaming Shockwave player enables animation and sound files to start playing immediately while it downloads in the background

VDOLive

The VDOLive Control allows for real-time audio & video within your browser, using compression techniques to deliver continuous playback without quality deterioration.

Crescendo Plus

Crescendo is a Web music player that lets you listen to MIDI music as you browse a web site. Streaming functionality is activated at streaming-enabled web sites.

Light Lib Multimedia Video

It has been designed to manage sound files - WAV and MIDI - and manage AVI video enabling your pages to work with multimedia resources.

QuickTime

The QuickTime control supports playback of WAV, MIDI, AIFF & AU, QuickTime, and AVI files, providing interoperability with most major audio & video file formats.

VivoActive Player

The VivoActive Player for ActiveX is a popular web browser enhancement for viewing streaming video on the web over normal dialup connections.

ActiveCGM

The ActiveCGM control supports animations produced with ActiveCGM Author and ActiveCGM Editor and provides advanced viewing capability with magnifying, pan and zoom controls.

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike is a new file format based upon wavelets that produces highly compressed images that won't offend your eye.

Liquid Motion

The Liquid Motion control allows you to quickly download and display animations ony any Liquid Motion enhanced page.

PlanetFX

PlanetFX provides six ActiveX controls packed full of visual features that turn dull, boring web pages and Internet applications into sensational presentations

Sizzler

The Sizzler for ActiveX control allows users to play live, real-time interactive animation and sound on the web

VectorFX

The VectorFX control displays CDR, CGM, DRW, DXF, EPS Preview, GEM, PLT, HGL, PIC, WPG, and WMF images with special effects!

Adobe Acrobat

The Adobe Acrobat 3.0 with the ActiveX control enables users to view and navigate files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) directly inside of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

Citrix WinFrame

With the Citrix WinFrame ActiveX control, you can run applications off the Internet without having to install them on your local hard disk

iChat

When users visit a chat-enabled web page, ichat displays an on-going chat session among all the visitors to that web page. Users can communicate with each other simply by typing.

Multilanguage Support

With the Multilanguage Support control, you can view foreign language character sets for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, Polish and Hungarian

ToolVox for the Web is a speech-oriented audio technology that can stream clear sound across the Internet through incredibly low-bandwidth connections - as slow as 2,400 bps. The player is a Netscape plugin, offers a slick trick we've seen nowhere else; the ability to speed up and slow down the rate of playback.

The DSP Group's TrueSpeech Internet offers a zero-cost path to putting high-quality streaming audio on your Web site. TrueSpeech Player is a free download, and the encoder is built into the Windows 95 Sound Recorder.

Gold Disk's Astound Web Player is a utility that lets you view multimedia content created in Astound & Studio M presentations directly in your Netscape Navigator window.

Fractal Viewer lets you view and manipulate Fractal Image Format (FIF) files, a compressed format that eats less bandwidth that other image types.

Iterated System complements its Fractal Viewer with CoolFusion, a Netscape plugin which lets you explore audio, video, and animation on the Web. CoolFusion lets you view a file as it is being downloaded, for a near-streaming effect.

The shareware version is a multimedia viewer that not only supports audio (MIDI and WAV) and video (AVI and MOV) files but will even control your CD-ROM drive!

NetToob is a multimedia player whose ability to play many of the standard digital video formats on the Web (MPEG, QuickTime, VFW) is a plus for the web surfer who wants an all-in-one viewer.

PreVu is a Netscape plugin MPEG player, which unlike other video plygins lets you look at the first frame before you commit to a full download. If you decide to go ahead, you can either download and play the file for viewing with any MPEG player or else view the download as it happens, for a near-streaming effect.

StreamWorks offers true streaming video across the Internet. What makes StreamWorks unique is its ability to provide realtime encoding and transmitting across the Web to StreamWorks clients.

WIRL is a high-power, extended-VRML plugin for Netscape that displays right in the browser window.

Enliven Viewer for ActiveX

It lets you enjoy continuous audio and video even at dialup speeds.

INTERNET TELEPHONY

 

PowWow

This is one of the best personal communication applications on the Web.

DIALUP NETWORKING

 

RAS+

If you use Windows 95's Dial-Up Networking tool to connect to the Net, RAS+ will make your life easier. It handles multiple internet accounts, tracks online time, and more.

TCP/IP EMULATORS

 

ShellSock

 

This has been developed by an Indian company based in Cochin. It allows shell users to use Netscape Navigator and MSIE with graphics support! ShellSock is currently a 16-bit version and supports 16-bit versions of Navigator & IE.

BlueLaser

BlueLaser is yet another TCP/IP emulator developed by an Indian company. This is available in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions. For some reason, this software never became as popular as ShellSock.

COMMUNICATION

 

Hyperterminal Private

Hyperterminal is a free communication software which comes bundled with Windows 95. The Private Edition is more popular and free of bugs! Get it today.

USEFUL UTILITIES

 

Get Right

 

GetRight allows you to resume broken downloads over a TCP/IP account. It is a must for all those who download programs from the internet.

WebFerret

The best way to search for information on the web.

WebEx

One of the best offline browsers. You can schedule your downloads and browse the Web off-line with this handy Net utility.

Microsoft NetShow

Netshow streams production-scale video,audio, and audio with synchronised images over the Internet and corporate intranets.

ICQ

I Seek You is an excellent software which tells you whether your friends are currently logged on the Internet on not. So, the next time you log on, you will know which friends of yours are on the Internet -- and then you can chat, chat, and chat!

LINKS TO COMM S/W

 

TUCOWS

TUCOWS is short for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software, and the title pretty much sums it up. It's a large, well organized, well-documented collection of Internet utilities.

Shroud's Consummate Winsock List

 

Shareware Winsock Apps

 

NetEx Unofficial Software Archive: Internet

 

The Ultimate Winsock List

 

Freeware Winsock Apps

 

Trumpet Winsock

 

DOS Software

COMMUNICATION

 

Terminate

My favourite DOS based communication program. It's got the best implemented ZModem protocol I've come across. Besides the fantastic communication stuff, it's got a build it FAX manager, CD-Player & File Manager.

QWK MAIL READERS

 

OLX TD

Offline Express (Test Drive) is the most popular Offline QWK Mail Reader.

BlueWave

This is yet another Offline Mail Reader and is my favourite.

MISCELLANEOUS STUFF

MIME

 

MetaMail

One of the most popular MIME tools

The MIME FAQ

This is the MIME FAQ maintained by Jerry Sweet. It is posted monthly on comp.mail.mime.

Mime Info

This is another document on MIME maintained by Mark Grant.