This page is a selection of useful freeware available for download on the Internet.
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StarOffice (5.1)
How much would you pay for a complete full-featured office software?
You don't have to pay hundreds of $ for MS Office: you can download the new StarOffice for free! Look at the components:
StarDesktop - A Homogeneous, Integrated and Open Workplace ; StarWriter - A Professional Word-Processor ;
StarMath - the integrated formula editor ; StarCalc - A Calculation and Analysis Specialist ; StarChart - for impressive business graphics ; StarDraw - a vector-oriented draw module, with a 3-D engine ; StarImage - the image editor with many special effects ;
StarImpress - Impressive Presentations in No Time ; StarBase - a powerful tool for the management of your data ;
StarSchedule - the seamlessly integrated organizer ; StarMail - the incorporated e-mail client ;
StarDiscussion - the Newsgroups reader, with filtering and sorting functions ; a WYSIWYG HTML Editor ; and more!
All MS Office documents in any format (97, 95 or even older) can be transferred to StarOffice without losing anything because all Microsoft functions can be fully reproduced thanks to the extensive functionality of
StarOffice. You can, of course, continue to exchange documents with Microsoft Office users without any loss of quality, and
you can edit and save documents in Microsoft Word or Excel format (for example if you use MS Office at work and StarOffice at home).
Wow! And all this for free! It's available for Windows 95/98/NT, OS/2, Linux and SUN Solaris, in English, French, German and Italian.
Warning: It's a 62 Mb download so it can take a very long time. Make sure you have enough space on
your hard disk before downloading, and if you pay for connection time, do it when the price is the lowest (usually at night) (if it's too long
you can order a CD for $39.95 including a printed Installation manual and a printed User's Guide for StarOffice, as well as more
templates, cliparts and fonts).
Antivirus software
InoculateIt
Personal Edition
Full Featured Antivirus
software for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT workstation. Includes FREE software
updates, FREE virus signature updates, and FREE online support.
Email software
Eudora
Light (3.0.6)
Eudora Light is the freeware
version of the Eudora Pro Email Client. Available for Macintosh, Windows,
and Newton
Graphics/Animation utilities
IrfanView
(3.0)
IrfanView is a very fast
freeware 32-Bit graphic viewer for Windows95/98 and Windows NT. Supports
image, video and sound files.
Features:Thumbnails, Preview,
Drag & Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through directory),
Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch conversion, change
the color depth, audio CD player, Capturing, Cut/Crop, Effects (Blur, Sharpen
etc.) and many many more ...
Supported File Formats:
BMP, DIB, RLE, JPG, GIF, PNG, PCX, DCX, TIF, TGA, RAS, ICO, CUR, ANI, PSD,
AVI, MPEG, MOV, WAV, MID, RMI, AIF, WMF, EMF, IFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, EPS,
LWF, CLP, CAM, G3, PCD.
Multiple (animated) GIF
support, multipage TIFF support, multiple ICO support.
Ulead
Gif Animator Light Edition
This simple but complete
utility will help you create animated GIF images.
Features: Adding Images
(supports 15 of the most popular image formats, as well as AVI, FLC/FLI
animation, and QuickTime movie formats), Frame Arrangement, Speed Adjustment,
Creating Animations from a Single Image, Repositioning images, Filter and
Transition Effects, Instant Previews, Reducing your File Size.
PicPluck!
PicPluck is a Free Win95/98 program that easily & automatically downloads web pictures to your hard drive.
Type in the base URL, check that the options you want are selected, and click on the Go button.
Simple. PicPluck will squirrel down as many levels as you specify – the default is one level below the
main URL you entered – and you can limit the images to those on the one domain.
You can specify that the program only get either GIFs or JPGs, there are proxy facilities if you need to use
them, you can limit the minimum image size grabbed, etc. PicPluck also includes a simple
graphics viewer, and allows you to bookmark your favorite Internet sites. It's easy to use, fast, and free!
Text utilities
Naf (Not Another Font viewer) (1.0)
As the name says (!) Naf is a font viewer. Have you ever wondered
what all these fonts you have on your system look like? Well this utility will help you. Its great advantage
upon other font viewers is that it's really simple and small. It takes almost no memory and doesn't even need
installation: just unzip the file in a directory and it's ready to run!
NotesPad
(8.0)
Notespad is a free text
editor you can use to replace the deficient Windows Notepad. It features
an amazing number of functions, like editing up to 16 large files at once,
multiple undo and redo commands, spell checking in seven different languages,
configurable toolbars, a lot of additional formatting commands, and many
more!
CSDiff
ComponentSoftware Diff (CSDiff)
is a free advanced file difference analysis tool for Windows 95/NT. Use
it to analyze what has changed between two revisions of the same file or
folder. CSDiff is usually used to analyze program source files, HTML documents
and MS-Word documents.
CSDiff can be used as a free stand-alone program or as a part of
ComponentSoftware RCS (CS-RCS) - Revision
control system for Windows 95/98/NT. Based on GNU RCS, it is fully integrated with Windows, providing robust and intuitive configuration management and change control.
CS-RCS is free for individuals and inexpensive for workgroups.
Web browsing/Internet utilities
The
Proxomitron - Universal Web Filter
This program is wonderful.
Have you ever wished you could turn off some of those fancy new HTML features
your web browser supports? Are you tired of pages filled to the brim with
blinking banners, pop-up windows, and other such aggravations? Using special
HTML filters, the Proxomitron can transform web pages on the fly - changing
most anything you wish. And it works with every browser!
Features: Stop or limit
Pop-up windows - Control MIDI music and other sounds - Freeze animated
.GIFs (load only the first frame) - Kill most all advertising banners -
Stop Web-Branding and other scripts added by web space providers - Stop
Pop-up alert/confirm boxes - Remove slow web counters - Stop web pages
and ads from "auto-refreshing" - Remove Dynamic HTML - Prevent getting
stuck in someone's frames - Remove frames or tables altogether for that
matter - Kill or change selected Java scripts and applets - Add your own
scripts to pages! - Remove or replace web page and/or table background
images - Stop Status bar scrollers - Unhide URLs obscured by status line
text - Convert blinking text to bold - Remove Layers and Style sheets -
And much, much more...
Web page creation
Arachnophilia
(3.9)
Arachnophilia is a feature-rich
and powerful HTML editor for Windows 95/98. Its lot of features make it
easy for you to create great web pages.
Misc. Utilities
Moon Software
Moon Software offer 10 useful
Windows 95/98/NT utilities. You can download them from their Website. FileTargets is a shell context menu
extension that simplifies copying/moving files to your favorite folders.
FontLoader is a new and revolutionary utility to make your font installing/uninstalling a
snap. Font Xplorer Lite is a fast and fully functional font viewer program with
cool features. CopyURL is a shell extension that helps you to
copy different information from your Internet Shortcut files (entries in the Favorites
folder) to clipboard. Bookmark Wizard is a little program with simple
wizard-like interface that generates a HTML page with all/selected links from
your Internet Favorites folder. FileNote is a little shell extension that allows you to add
textual descriptions to your files by easily editing or creating text file that has the same name as the
initial file, but with the extension TXT. ClipClear is a tiny proggie that just clears your clipboard
contents to free memory used by info that remains in the clipboard after a copy/paste operation.
FreshIcons is a repair utility that instructs Windows to
refresh icons displayed on the Desktop and in Windows
Explorer etc. when wrong icons are displayed. Registry Key Backup
helps you to back up your registry keys. RegisterEx is a shell context menu extension for software
developers who deal with OLE servers (mostly in DLL and OCX files).
Development
LCC-Win32
LCC-Win32 is a C compiler
and environment for Win95/98. It features an integrated environment with
the editor, the compiler, an utility to help you create GUI programs for
Win95/98 easily, and a very complete documentation.
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