X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,618396b81b6c1e02,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: News Manager Subject: New Internet Software Report 2/1/97 Date: 1997/02/01 Message-ID: <5culkf$o1i@usenet4.interramp.com> X-Deja-AN: 213818353 organization: SymGroup & FastLink newsgroups: alt.ascii-art ###################################################################### F A S T L I N K S O F T W A R E U P D A T E ###################################################################### Volume 3, Number 2 * February 1, 1997 This weekly update reports on ALL new software that has appeared on the internet in the past week. This update covers all software sources, depots, publishers, and others. All software has been downloaded and verified and all links for downloading software have been fully verified to be active and working during the week of this report. FastLink editors spend hundreds of hours checking and comparing all sources so you don't have to. NOTE: If you do not wish to spend the hours necessary to download programs you are interested in, all these programs, plus hundreds more can be purchased on CD-ROM for as little as $6.95. Every month, all new programs are compiled onto CD-ROM. All the programs can be easily found and installed, and are presented in 3D VRML2, and HTML for easy access. More details can be obtained by going to: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/ or EMail our autoresponder at cd-info@symgroup.com for details. _______________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: _______________________________________ 1. INTRODUCTION 2. BUSINESS CENTER 3. THE GAMES DIMENSION 4. HOME & PERSONAL OUTLET 5. THE WEB ZONE 6. KIDS CLUB 7. MULTIMEDIA & DESIGN DOMAIN 8. UTILITIES DEPOT 9. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION _______________________________________ ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 1. INTRODUCTION 1. INTRODUCTION ##################################################################### ##################################################################### Welcome to another edition of the FastLink Software Update - an e-mail newsletter published every week with the sole purpose of informing Web surfers of the latest and best PC software available on the Internet. In each concise description you'll find the program title, latest version number, publisher, summary, web site, size, and operating system and location where to download the program. NOTE: If you do not wish to spend the hours necessary to download programs you are interested in, all these programs, plus hundreds more can be purchased on CD-ROM for as little as $6.95. Every month, all new programs are compiled onto CD-ROM. All the programs can be easily found and installed, and are presented in 3D VRML2, and HTML for easy access. More details can be obtained by going to: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/ or EMail our autoresponder at cd-info@symgroup.com for details. ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 2. BUSINESS 2. BUSINESS ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ TASKEY PERSONAL 2.0.0.352 ___________________________________________________________ TASKey PERSONAL 2.0 boasts the quickest and easiest method and software to plan and manage a vision, actions, people, resources, expenses and income for projects and tasks for any person no matter how busy. PUBLISHER: TASK Solutions DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.taskey.com/ SIZE: 4.9 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ WINSTOCK 1.13.5 ___________________________________________________________ WinStock is a stock market tracking program and includes the following features: Automatic stock quote retrieval; Portfolio management; A Ticker Toolbar; Printed reports; Fully automatic Quicken Export and Import; No intermediate file is needed; Support for 9 different quote servers, including market index quotes, options, commodities, foreign exchanges and more; Historical and Intra-day graphs at a single mouse-click; Business news for securities at a single mouse-click; Multi-threaded operation allows WinStock to conduct up to 20 simultaneous "conversations" with quote servers. On a fast Internet connection, 30 quotes can be fetched in less than 15 seconds! On dialup connections, the speed is limited by your modem. PUBLISHER: Michael A. Goldsmith DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.teleport.com/~magoldsm/winstock/index.html SIZE: 1.8 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 3. THE GAMES DIMENSION 3. THE GAMES DIMENSION ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ AIR WARRIOR II ___________________________________________________________ Air Warrior II is two different games in the same box. Fly historically based missions at home or with a friend over the modem. Fly the online game on CompuServe, America OnLine, or Earthlink. PUBLISHER: Interactive Magic DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.imagicgames.com/aw2.dir/aw2.html SIZE: 14.5 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ DIABLO ___________________________________________________________ Diablo, a new critically acclained game from Blizzard, invites you to enter a world of dark gothic fantasy. Play as a brave Warrior, cunning Rogue, or mysterious Sorcerer. As you venture deeper into the labyrinth, you'll discover weapons, armor, and magical treasures, and develop your character's skills and abilities. You might also want to bring a friend or two to help... Built in support for Battle.net, as well as modem, serial, and network play, insures that you'll never have to go in alone. PUBLISHER: Blizzard Entertainment DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo/diablo.htm SIZE: 50 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ FRAGILE ALLIANCE ___________________________________________________________ Fragile Allegiance takes space strategy simulation to new heights with its in-depth and addictive real-time gameplay. A wide variety of missions, combat scenarios and highly advanced artificial intelligence will challenge strategy gamers of all levels. PUBLISHER: Gremlin/Interplay DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.interplay.com/games/frag.html SIZE: 22.7 MB SYSTEM: DOS ___________________________________________________________ HUNTER/HUNTED: HEAD TO HEAD MISSIONS ___________________________________________________________ An action packed and unique side scrolling adventure game. Features inlcude: Play head to head or cooperative action. It works with a modem or a network. Be the human...or the beast. 100 missons: single player and split screen, 2 player death matches. 10 CD-Quality music tracks PUBLISHER: Sierra On-Line DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.sierra.com/games/hunt/ SIZE: 8.8 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ LINKS LS ___________________________________________________________ How do you go further up when you're already on top of the mountain? You sprout wings and fly! After winning nearly every possible award for a sports simulation with Links 386, ACCESS Software had to dig deep and stretch the limits of technology to bring you the next generation of Links-- Links LS designed for Pentium-based PC's. So what's new about Links LS? Every stroke, every blade of grass, every contour, every chirp... PUBLISHER: Access Software DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.accesssoftware.com/golf/engines/linksls.html SIZE: 19.2 MB SYSTEM: DOS ___________________________________________________________ SIMCOPTER ___________________________________________________________ Here's your chance to really get into SimCity 2000, just climb aboard SimCopter. In SimCopter, players fly harrowing missions over the hills and between the skyscrapers of a virtual 3D city. Players can either fly missions in one of the many cities that come with SimCopter or fly through a city they created in SimCity 2000. Although it is a stand-alone game, SimCopter can import SimCity 2000 files and transform them into a detailed 3D environment. Players get an up-close view of their cities as they zoom between the skyscrapers, factories, residences and all of the other urban landmarks from SimCity 2000. PUBLISHER: Maxis DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.maxis.com/products/simcopter/ SIZE: 17 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ SIMGOLF ___________________________________________________________ Introducing the game that turns blueprints into greens: SimGolf, with the comprehensive Course Architect. Choose from over 100 course elements, including bunkers, lakes and trees, to create�and play�your one-of-a-kind courses. Get design tips from legendary course architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and tee off on two Jones masterpieces, Rancho La Quinta and The Prince Course. You can even round up a virtual foursome to play your custom courses on the Internet. PUBLISHER: Maxis DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.maxis.com/shopping/product.cgi?ProductName=simgolf SIZE: 19.2 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ STAR COMMAND REVOLUTION ___________________________________________________________ Is the enemy of your enemy your friend? Four races are at violent odds for control of the galaxy! It will take all your strategic genius to harvest resources, learn new technologies and build the superior space armada. But looming over all of you is the ultimate threat! An evil race more powerful than you and your combined enemies! PUBLISHER: GT Interactive DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.gtinteractive.com/minisite/star/ SIZE: 6 MB SYSTEM: DOS ___________________________________________________________ XS ___________________________________________________________ Enter the arena for the ultimate multiplayer death-match in SCi's first person state of the art combat game. Advanced AI characters and glorious 3D modelling put this game far beyond the level of the usual blast fest and transform this into a true combat experience. PUBLISHER: Sci/GT Interactive DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.sci.co.uk/xs/index.html SIZE: 7.8 MB SYSTEM: DOS ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 4. HOME & PERSONAL OUTLET 4. HOME & PERSONAL OUTLET ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ A.D.A.M. ESSESNTIALS ___________________________________________________________ A.D.A.M. Essentials is an excellent reference and study tool for introductory human anatomy. The anatomical terminology and content within A.D.A.M. Essentials are tailored to advanced secondary school biology programs or introductory college-level courses. In addition to its approximate 100 layers of dissectible anatomical images and two views. A.D.A.M. Essentials contains 38 narrated animations for study of basic physiological concepts, and six challenging interactive puzzles. PUBLISHER: ADAM Software DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.adam.com/ SIZE: 1.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows 3.1 ___________________________________________________________ CUMBERLAND FAMILY TREE 2.10X ___________________________________________________________ A very comprehensive family history program for beginners and professionals. Supports multiple languages, a million individuals per database, record a variety of events, print 31 different types of reports and charts, built in photo/document album, built in index, add source notes, import GEDCOM files, powerful database merge and split utilities, calculate dates, and many, many more features and options. PUBLISHER: Cumberland Family Software DOWNLOAD AT: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/iralund/ SIZE: 2.4 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ EXPRESSION CALCULATOR 2.31 ___________________________________________________________ This is not just another calculator. It performs all and more oprations you'll ever need on a calculator, it is a full expression analyser, stacked signed parenthesis, algebric priority and functions aware. It brings the power of your multitasking environment allowing to execute a virtually infinite number of long operations at the same time such as prime numbers generation. Operations are done with extended numbers (-3.4*10^4932..1.1*10^4932). Still some operations' results are limited by 2^32, anyway, 1500! is not just possible, but the result is almost immediate since most powerful algorithms have been used. The Expression Calculator can perform decimal operations in degrees and radians, as well as hexadecimal, octal and binary integer calculations and conversions. PUBLISHER: dBlock DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.infomaniak.ch/~dblock/express.htm SIZE: 1 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ WRITER'S SOFTWARE COMPANION ___________________________________________________________ The Writer's Software Companion is a multimedia learning system for fiction writers, the collaboration of Writer's Digest columnist, Nancy Kress, and computer industry learning expert, Terry Boothman. It dramatically accelerates learning, bringing writers to publishable quality in a fraction of the usual time. An extraordinary tool for novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, short story writers, and authors of all kinds. PUBLISHER: Novation Learning Systems, Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.novalearn.com/ SIZE: 3.1 MB SYSTEM: Windows 3.1 ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 5. THE WEB ZONE 5. THE WEB ZONE ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ CASTANET TUNER 1.0 ___________________________________________________________ Castanet is a new technology for the distribution of channels over the Internet and Intra-net. Each channel can be a stand- alone Java application, a Java applet, or a Web site. Channels are stored locally, and can be used repeatedly without waiting for them to reload every time. With the Castanet Tuner you are able to subscribe, download, and update channels in an very efficient and incremental manner. Once subscribed to a channel, it is updated automatically, and it can be used even if you are currently not connected! PUBLISHER: Marimba Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.marimba.com/ SIZE: 2.7 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ CYBERKIT 2.2 ___________________________________________________________ With a true Windows 95 'Find Files' look, CyberKit offers you the following functions: Ping, TraceRoute, Finger, WhoIs, Name Server LookUp, Quote Of The Day, Mail Notify and more! Freeware. PUBLISHER: Luc Neijens DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.ping.be/user/Luc.Neijens/ SIZE: 866 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ DOWNTOWN ___________________________________________________________ The second beta release of Downtown takes 'push' technology to an even higher level by making all of the best features, including accelerated web browsing, automatic content delivery, and information customization, faster and more efficient (requires less of your system's resources). It's available now, free, in a single, easy-to-use product which resides on your desktop with the same convenience and accessibility of a toolbar. PUBLISHER: inComman DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.incommon.com/ SIZE: 1.9 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ FREELOADER 2.5 BETA 1 ___________________________________________________________ FreeLoader 2.5 represents the latest in Internet technology. With automatic news delivery from NewsPage, Sports action from SportsLine, Political insight from Slate, and daily editorials from FreeLoader's Web team, we're faster and have better aim than the paperboy. Plus, with FreeLoader's revolutionary Web technology, you can store any and all of your favorite Web sites on your hard drive - with fresh updates hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly! Requires Netscape 2.0 or better or Internet Explorer 3.0 PUBLISHER: FreeLoader, Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.freeloader.com/ SIZE: 3.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows ___________________________________________________________ GRAVITY 1.1 ___________________________________________________________ Gravity is unique in that it was designed exclusively for the 32-bit Windows 95/NT environment. This design feature provides excellent multi-tasking capabilities for searching, sorting and completing most newsreading tasks in the background. As a result, you get the information that you want. It features an integrated spellchecker, supports URL links, has Cross-posting filters, includes e-mail Capability and much more. PUBLISHER: Anawave DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.anawave.com/gravity.html SIZE: 1.6 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ HOTDOG PROFESSIONAL 3.0.19 ___________________________________________________________ The HotDog Professional 3 Web Editor is the ultimate HTML Authoring powertool for Windows 95. Even though HotDog is tremendously powerful and feature-rich, the program is very user-friendly thanks to the superb built-in help files, detailed tutorials and intuitive interface. PUBLISHER: Sausage Software DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.sausage.com/hotdog32.htm SIZE: 6.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ MOSAIC 3.0 ___________________________________________________________ NCSA Mosaic was the first World Wide Web browser that let you see graphics and text together. This latest release adds a few new features such as Table support is now at HTML 3.2 compliance, New Toolbars, Hotlist Drop Down Menu, and more. A major step in the right direction. PUBLISHER: NCSA DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/mosaic-w/ SIZE: 2.9 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ NETOBJECTS FUSION 2.0 PRE-RELEASE TRAIL ___________________________________________________________ Award-winning NetObjects Fusion is a revolutionary site- oriented application that gives you unprecedented visual control over the design and production of your entire Web site. It's the first application that combines automatic site building, professional-quality design and data publishing features. Start from scratch or enhance an existing site- NetObjects Fusion reduces the time, cost and tedium of creating high quality Web sites. No HTML coding required! This new version includes over 100 improvements or enhancements. PUBLISHER: NetObjects, Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.netobjects.com/ SIZE: 14.1 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ NEWS XPRESS 2.0 FINAL RELEASE ___________________________________________________________ News Xpress is a fully threaded news reader that has tons of features. Here's a partial listing: able to pack multipart articles automatically, supports cross-posted article management, has a killfile that accepts regular expressions for specifying patterns, supports local folders and an outbox, supports CC-by-mail and Copy-self, built-in UUencode, UUdecode, and Base64, built-in JPEG viewer, MIME- conformant and supports Quoted-Printable, it launches your web browser by double clicking on a URL, has remote find articles by Subject and Keywords and will allow the user to rebind keys. A minimal installation of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 is recommended. Freeware. PUBLISHER: Ken Ng DOWNLOAD AT: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/c/conrads/default.html SIZE: 253 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ OZ VIRTUAL BROWSER 1.0 ___________________________________________________________ OZ Virtual is the future application of networked communications and interaction. Navigate within rich virtual worlds, communicate with other people and be part of the OZ Virtual community. Free beta. (Note: Minimum requirements include a 90MHz Pentium, 16 MB RAM, Graphics Card with 16 bit color, Sound Card, 28.8 kb modem, Microsoft DirectSound and Microsoft ActiveX installed ) Will run on NT 4.0 PUBLISHER: OZ DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.oz-inc.com/main_index.html SIZE: 4.2 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ SURFBOT 3.0 ___________________________________________________________ Find what you need. Eliminate the World Wide Wait. Surfbot 3.0 provides advanced Agent capabilities for Internet information discovery, retrieval and management. Operating as a browser plug-in, Surfbot actively fetches, filters and organizes content from any World Wide Web source. Surfbot monitors bookmarks, downloads Web sites, searches for information, cuts connect time, and runs automatically according to your schedule. PUBLISHER: Surflogic DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.surflogic.com/sb30menu.html SIZE: 464 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ THE ANGEL ___________________________________________________________ The Angel turns the overwhelming Internet universe into a world personalized specifically for you. Your personal Angel profiles you and intelligently recommends places on the web that will interest you. You view these recommendations on your own World Page, and you can also store and access them in Angel Marks NetAngels' state-of-the-art bookmarking database. Not only does your Angel search out and recommend interesting sites on the web, but it also allows you to use different computers to access the preferences and bookmarks stored on your primary computer. As you browse the Internet, the Angel speeds up your web page access, and logs in to password protected sites for you. PUBLISHER: NetAngels.com, Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.netangels.com/ SIZE: 4.1 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ TIERRA HIGHLIGHTS2 ___________________________________________________________ A complete Internet news monitoring solution - Tierra Highlights. The Internet and corporate intranet have emerged as valuable sources of new information. The problem is you are overloaded with too much new information, making it impossible to get the news that's most important. Highlights solves this problem: it brings you the news you need, from the sources you choose. You get current information from the sources that you say are important. Sources can be any page on the Internet or intranet. Works with the environments you are already familiar with: Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. It practically reads the news for you by highlighting the most important parts. PUBLISHER: Tierra Communications Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.tierra.com SIZE: 1.7 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ TRANSOFT MAIL CONTROL 3.25 ___________________________________________________________ This is an e-mail program that has one of the largest set features we have seen. Features include: true HTML viewing and editing, voice mail, remote control, automatic send and receive, macros, built in PGP encryption, mail filters, support for miltiple mail boxes, users, and folders, message templates, spell checker, address book, multiple signatures, smooth interface, and many other features. PUBLISHER: Transoft DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg SIZE: 3.9 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 6. KIDS CLUB 6. KIDS CLUB ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ FREDDI FISH 2: THE CASE OF THE HAUNTED SCHOOLHOUSE ___________________________________________________________ So who is haunting the schoolhouse, taking the toys and practically scaring the scales off of all the guppies? Good thing super-sleuths Freddi Fish and Luther are on the case. Their plan: Build a trap to capture and expose the phony ghost. To reach their goal the two friends need your child's help to find a few things-- and the list of items changes every time they play. Kids will dive right in to direct this undersea mystery filled with old friends, new faces and a festive sing- along soundtrack. Ages 3-8. PUBLISHER: Humongous Entertainment DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.humongous.com/ SIZE: 23.4 MB SYSTEM: Windows ___________________________________________________________ NICKELODEON 3D MOVIE MAKER ___________________________________________________________ Calling all Nickelodeon Fans! Make Ren Dance! Stimpy Float! Krumm Juggle! New Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker, from Microsoft, gives you the power to easily create your own original 3D animated movies. You control lots of scenes, actions, special effects and your favorite characters from Nicktoons such as, The Ren & Stimpy Show�, AAAHH!!! Real Monsters� and Rocko's Modern Life�. PUBLISHER: Microsoft Corporation DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.microsoft.com/kids/nick3d.htm SIZE: 4 MB SYSTEM: Windows ___________________________________________________________ THE MAGIC BUS EXPLORES THE HUMAN BODY ___________________________________________________________ Oh no! Arnold swallowed the bus with everybody on board, and it's up to you to figure out how to escape! So get behind the wheel of the bus, fasten your seat belt, and drive off on a thrilling adventure that you control, with Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body CD-ROM! In this demo Play pinball in the heart with blood cells and you'll breathe easy seeing how oxygen in the blood works! PUBLISHER: Microsoft DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.microsoft.com/kids/msbhuman.htm SIZE: 2.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 7. MULTIMEDIA & DESIGN DOMAIN 7. MULTIMEDIA & DESIGN DOMAIN ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ ANIMAGIC .95 ___________________________________________________________ Animagic GIF is a simple yet powerful GIF animation tool. It produces output files that are 10% to 60% smaller than non- optimized GIF's and builds animations from individual frames or from existing animated GIF's. Users can easily control loops, frame rate, transparent color, copy/cut/paste frames, add/delete comment frames and more. All of that can be done without any knowledge of GIF format (no need to know about graphic control blocks, extension blocks and other low level parameters). PUBLISHER: Right to Left Software DOWNLOAD AT: http://rtlsoft.com/animagic/index.html SIZE: 390 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ CD/SPECTRUM PRO 3.0 ___________________________________________________________ CD/Spectrum Pro is a 32bit shareware CD-Audio Player with Graphical Spectrum Analyzer for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 (also known as 'Shell Update Release' or 'SUR'). CD/Spectrum Pro has two independent parts: The CD-Audio player and the spectrum analyzer. The CD-Audio player has almost every feature you can find on any software CD player - programmed mode, intro mode, optional taskbar icon operation,auto-play, auto-exit, auto-eject, artist/track/title database, etc. It also recognizes CDP files which can save you from typing in all the track/title information for your CDs. The spectrum analyzer graphically depicts the frequency spectra of the CD music in real time. (Unless you don't have a Pentium, in which case it is *almost* real time ) PUBLISHER: John Hornick DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.halcyon.com/gator/cdspro.htm SIZE: 223 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ COOL EDIT 96 ___________________________________________________________ Cool Edit is a digital sound editor for Windows. You might think of it as a paint program for audio- just as a paint program enables you to create images with colors, brush strokes, and a variety of special effects. Cool Edit enables you to "paint" with sound: tones, pieces of songs and voices and miscellaneous noises, sine waves and sawtooth waves, noise, or just pure silence. Cool Edit also gives you a wide variety of special effects to "touch up" your sounds: reverberation, noise reduction, echo and delay, flanging, filtering, and many others. It's like having thousands of dollars' worth of professional audio equipme nt all in one easy-to-use software package. PUBLISHER: Syntrillium DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.syntrillium.com/index.htm SIZE: 2 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ HYPERCAM 1.12 ___________________________________________________________ Captures the action from your Windows 95 or NT screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded. Ideal tool for creating tutorials, demos, and presentations. PUBLISHER: Hyperionics DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.hyperionics.com/www/hypercam.htm SIZE: 244 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ LET'S DRAW 1.0 ___________________________________________________________ >From accomplished professional to absolute beginner, Let's Draw gives you the tools you need to turn your simplest ideas into colorful calendars, cards, wrapping paper and much more! Bring any document to life with over 100 professionally designed caricatures of famous people, or create your own wacky designs using Let's Draw's collection of versatile drawing tools. Looking for a more sophisticated drawing program? Look no further. Let's Draw is loaded with advanced drawing tools, usually only available in packages costing hundreds of dollars more! Distort, taper or skew images at the click of a button. Re-size, rotate, and group at a fraction of the cost of professionally priced software packages, and without having to labor through a bulky instruction manual. PUBLISHER: Microforum, Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.microforum.com/products/utility/letsd/Default.htm SIZE: 1.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows ___________________________________________________________ MIDIMASTER 6.0 ___________________________________________________________ MidiMaster is a multimedia player for Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 that supports MID, RMI, AVI, QuickTime and WAV formats. It is not only a media player but also a media file organizer. It is specially designed for those who like a desktop media player which brings convenience whenever they play and manage their beloved media files. MidiMaster runs on both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 as it provides specific Windows 95 GUI features. Also, users can either minimize MidiMaster to taskbar or shrink it to the TaskTray of Windows 95. MidiMaster also provides library functions for managing or categorizing media files. It has many extensive functions which make media files playing extremely simple and controllable. There are many more functions available to make your life of playing media files easier. PUBLISHER: Paul Kam-fai Leung DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~paul/mm/ SIZE: 830 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ PAINTSHOP PRO 4.12 OFFICIAL RELEASE ___________________________________________________________ Paint Shop Pro is one of the easiest and most powerful image viewing, editing and converting programs you may ever use. With support for over 30 image formats, and several drawing and painting tools, this may be the only graphics program you will ever need. Now, Paint Shop Pro version 4 is available for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. The new version has an all new Windows 95 look and many new features and enhancements. The new enhancements and features include dockable tool bars, enhanced selection options, built in special effects filters, RGB color separation, support for new image formats (Progressive JPG, Mac PICT and PNG with transparency), enhanced resampling, enhanced masking options and much more! PUBLISHER: JASC Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.jasc.com/pspdl.html SIZE: 2.9 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ RHINO 32 ___________________________________________________________ Rhinoceros or "Rhino" is a conceptual design and modeling tool for industrial, product, and scene designers. Whether you build heart valves or ship hulls, packaging or gears, Rhino is an easy-to-learn-and-use, flexible, and accurate modeler. You can create, edit, and render any combination of freeform curves, surfaces, and solids. You can then export your model to down stream processes. Rhino objects are smooth NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines) curves and surfaces rather than line segments or polygon meshes. Rhino brings the full power of the AGLib NURBS modeling technology to Windows for the first time. Rhino's robust spline-based models can be used in most rendering and animation products, including 3D Studio MAX, Softimage, and LightWave 3D. PUBLISHER: Robert McNeel & Associates DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.rhino3d.com/ SIZE: 2.4 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ STREETGRAPHICS 1.02A ___________________________________________________________ This is a new vector drawing program that delivers images you might expect to come from a paint program. Similiar to Corel's Xara, it has many features: anti-aliasing, 24 bit color, transparentcy, custom brushes, bitmap blends, text drawing, smotth resizing, curve drawing, tiled images, wizards, team drawing throught TCP/IP, presets, and much more. PUBLISHER: Orbis Tertius Informatique, Inc. DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.odyssee.net/~hugow/ SIZE: 1.8 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ ULEAD PHOTOIMPACT EXPLORER 4.1 ___________________________________________________________ Don't open that huge image file! For a quick thumbnail view, why not just use PhotoImpact Explorer? PhotoImpact Explorer is a must-have visual file manager if you work with images or multimedia clips, because it lets you see the image and video files you are organizing. Be sure to check out great features like automatic HTML thumbnail output, quick-and- easy slide shows, web posting, and fun calendar and screen saver makers. PUBLISHER: Ulead DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.ulead.com/ SIZE: 3 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 8. UTILITIES DEPOT 8. UTILITIES DEPOT ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html ___________________________________________________________ BALI TOOLS 4.20 ___________________________________________________________ Bali TOOLS is a Windows 95/NT utility that adds a lot of functionnalities that you can access using an icon in the tray area. You may : quit or restart windows, inhibit the screen saver, use a calculator, manage your phone numbers and 'to do' list, modify automatically your wallpaper, launch applications or documents directly from the tray area, count how much time you spend using Internet, announce the time every half an hour, query your mailboxes, announce and display any new mail, simplify connection process, ... PUBLISHER: Jean-Michel CAMBOT DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.cge-ol.fr/baliciel/welcome1.htm SIZE: 1.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ CLIPMATE 4.2.0 ___________________________________________________________ An answer to the age-old question: Isn't there a better way to cut and paste in Windows?The native clipboad in Windows is great for cutting and pasting a single item at a time, but if you want to move a series of items, or save items for later use, then you need ClipMate! ClipMate enhances the native clipboard functionality by remembering all items (both text and graphic) that are copied to the clipboard and storing them in "collections" for later pasting into other applications. Powerful tools enable users to retrieve, append, print, reformat, and edit data. An exclusive PowerPaste feature puts ClipMate in "rapid fire" mode, allowing quick pasting of a series of items into an application. With ClipMate as a Windows companion, users will never accidentally lose a piece of clipboard data again. PUBLISHER: Thornsoft DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.thornsoft.com/ SIZE: 546 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ CLOCKMAN95 1.0.055 ___________________________________________________________ ClockMan is an event scheduler. Event schedulers are designed to take routine or complicated tasks and have them occur on off-hours and weekends. From backups, to system maintenance, to database maintenance, tasks that demand consistence and accuracy benefit from automation. The most powerful and flexible tool for this type of job is ClockMan95. With it's award-winning WIL language and it's unsurpassed flexibility, ClockMan95 is the best tool for the job. Has built- in support for programs like Norton Utilities, McAfee, CompuServe readers (OzCIS, TAPCIS, etc.), TCP/IP Internet tools like Netscape mail, Eudora, Agent/Free Agent, Pegasus Mail, etc. PUBLISHER: Graphical Dynamics DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.graphicaldynamics.com/ SIZE: 1.5 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ DRAG AND ZIP 1.31 ___________________________________________________________ Drag And Zip zips and unzips files (.ZIP, .LZH, .GZ, .AR*, .TAR) and Scans zip files for viruses. includes ZipView, which lets you decompress files on the fly from Netscape, Explorer, or Mosaic browsers. PUBLISHER: Canyon Software DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.canyonsw.com/dnz.htm SIZE: 996 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ GHOSTMOUSE 2.0 ___________________________________________________________ GhostMouse 2.0 records system-level mouse events which can then be played back so that the computer can execute and operate applications on its own. GhostMouse can be placed in the Windows startup group so that preprogrammed tasks are carried out when Windows starts up. v2.0 offers improved performance, two new features, and smaller program size. PUBLISHER: Clarence Donath DOWNLOAD AT: http://www2.pcix.com/~donath/ SIZE: 682 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ MEG 97 2.4 ___________________________________________________________ Meg 97 is a complete system monitor and disk utility designed exclusively for Windows 95. Features include: Intuitive interface. Starting with simple disk and memory pie graphs you drill down by clicking for additional information. Extensive help features for easy use, including pop up help. Six separate memory graphs, including Real, Virtual, and total memory. Memory Tree, Each Branch shows a Windows 95 Process. Details include all Modules, size, location, and use count. Memory task list which shows what Windows 95 is currently running. All Disk screen showing pie graphs of all of your drives at once. Disk space graphs. Display in space totals in Mb, Kb, or Bytes. 3D Graph Option. Two Powerful file management utilities which pick up where explorer leaves off. Create lists of files including subdirectories . Use any standard file selection masks like *.TXT. Files can be sorted many ways and optionally be sent to the recycle bin. All screens are extremely customizable, so you can change colors and fonts and settings are saved for you automatically. Meg fully utilizes the Windows 95 operating system and displays long file names. All files deleted are sent to the recycle bin. Meg uses the most advanced install program on the market and features an uninstall icon. PUBLISHER: Jim Tolliver DOWNLOAD AT: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mrvegas/meg.htm SIZE: 394 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ PASSWORDS PLUS 2.0A ___________________________________________________________ Passwords Plus allows an unlimited number of users to each keep an individual password-protected encrypted list of their passwords. Names, passwords, and other information can be viewed, printed, sent to other applications directly, and imported from/exported to text files. Passwords Plus also tracks when passwords were last changed, optionally generates random passwords, and can automatically shut down if you don't use it for a specified period. PUBLISHER: Vince Sorensen DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.dlcwest.com/~sorev/passplus.html SIZE: 793 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ POWERPANEL97 5.0 ___________________________________________________________ powerPANEL97 is a simple, yet indispensable utility designed specially for users of Windows95. It is also a total rewrite of the popular utility powerPANEL96. It has a small footprint and takes up a small screen real estate on your Windows desktop. Designed to stay 'Always on top', powerPANEL97 will always be there when you need some quick handy access to its time-saving features. powerPANEL97 can be configured to show a combination of different information including time, date, free disk space, memory load and free physical memory on virtually any drive currently on your system. If your hard disk is limited in disk space and you wished to be informed if available space dropped beyond a certain level, powerPANEL97 offers a disk space monitoring feature. PUBLISHER: Edscape Software Designs DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.geocities.com/~edscape/esdhome.htm SIZE: 2.3 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ SEARCH32 2.0 ___________________________________________________________ Search32 text retrieval system provides you a special "search engine". Developed on Anet's unique algorithm, this engine, like those used by Yahoo and Infoseek, does not scan the whole disk. Instead, it browses preprepaired "index files". These index files contain information about every word in every text file. Result? Superfast search results showing text strings and file names! Files easy to identify and open one by one. It's fast. taking only 90 seconds to index 15 MB of text, there are no size limitations, and it is inexpensive. PUBLISHER: Anet Company DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.anetusa.com/ SIZE: 362 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ TREESIZE PRO ___________________________________________________________ TreeSize professional is a powerful and flexible space manager for Windows 95 and Windows NT4. It shows you the size, allocated & wasted space, the number of files, 3D bar and pie charts and much more information for several folders or drives you choose. The application has an intutive Explorer-like GUI and it is fast and multithreaded. You can print detailed reports or export the collected Data to Excel or an ASCII file. TreeSize Pro is in the context menu of every folder or drive. PUBLISHER: Marder DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/CIP/marder/treesize.html SIZE: 1.2 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ TURBOBROWSER 5.2C ___________________________________________________________ There never seems to be enough room to keep all the files in your computer. Wouldn't it be nice to have an easy and safe way to backup and clean up old files? Finding files may sometimes take forever. Would you like to have quick filters to find you the files, even when you are not sure what you are looking for? TURBO BROWSER offers an easier way to safely manage, archive, and cleanup all your files anywhere on your computers and network neighborhood - view and print all popular file formats quickly without the application that created the files. Now includes ActiveX and ActiveMovie Support! PUBLISHER: Pacific Gold Coast DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.turbobrowser.com/ SIZE: 1.8 MB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ___________________________________________________________ X-REPLACE 1.61 ___________________________________________________________ XReplace-32 is designed to provide a secure and fast replacement of text in text files (like .INI or .HTM). You can select as many files you like that are accessible from your computer. You can replace a virtually infinite number of strings of any length and lines quantity at a click of a button. You can perform amazing and indispensable replacements between two lines! You can set XReplace-32 options to perform as YOU wish, including prompted replace, whole words and case sensitive replace, log file generation, etc & etc... PUBLISHER: dBlock DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.infomaniak.ch/~dblock/xreplace.htm SIZE: 884 KB SYSTEM: Windows 95 ##################################################################### ##################################################################### 9. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION 9. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ##################################################################### ##################################################################### NOTE: All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! Detail at: http://www.symgroup.com/ng/home.html If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter yourself, it's easy. Just send an e-mail to subscribe@symgroup.com - that's it. You don't need to do anything else. You do not have to put anything in the subject or body. It's also just as easy to unsubscribe, but send an e-mail to unsubscribe@symgroup.com. DON'T FORGET! All these programs, plus hundreds more can be found on the FastLink CD for only $6.95! 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