Xircon IRC Software - An IRC client that appeals to users of all skill levels. Instantly usable, endlessly configurable.

Quickchat - Add a java chat applet on your page with minimal work! Just copy and paste the code on your page, and your chat is all setup.

Everychat - Freeware perl CGI chat script specifically designed to work on every browser available, from Lynx to Netscape! It requires absolutely no special software on the client side and doesn't require plug-ins such as Java, Javascript, or ActiveX.

The Prochatting Community - The Prochatting Community, provides free family based chat for people of all ages using Chatspace V2.0 JAVA.

17 Chat - SMS mobile messaging client for Windows.

COOL FREEWARE MUSIC APPLICATIONS

Hammerhead Rhythm Station - a simple TR-909-like drum computer program aimed at the dance-scene.

Synfactory - Analoge style modular software synthesizer software.

Japy - A fast mp3 player with the best sounding decoder engine available

Songcatcher - 'catches' songs as you play them and sends their title securely to VPWSYS.

X2CD Music CD Burner - Burn a custom music CD from MP3s, WMAs and DVD using X2CD Music mp3 CD burner! Convert wma, mp3 to wave files!

Headcase Player - Displays a realistic animated human face on your desktop that plays your audio files and "mouths" the sounds.

Crescendo - the only MIDI player in the world that offers true MIDI streaming and the LiveSynth for high quality MIDI playback through any sound card.

Fox Play - a new program for Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0. It is a Music Frontend and Playlist Organizer. It can organize up to ALL of the files you have on your hard drive into a single, easy-to-use Playlist and play MIDI, MOD, MP3 and RealAudio/RealMedia files all together.

Winamp - An excellent player/radio with thousands of downloadable skins and many plugins

Burn To The Brim - Determines how to ideally fit files & folders on a CD or other medium and will optionally move each found group to a separate directory ready for copying or burning (these can also be dragged straight to the CD burning program). Requires WNASPI32.DLL.

Kramixer - Professional quality DJ software suitable for clubs, parties, etc; features auto/manual BPM counters, variable frequency range, sound FX/EQ, headphone cueing, 5 channel sampler, and more. Requires 1024x780 screen, 300MHz CPU, sound card (DirectX 8.1 advisable).

Quartz AudioMaster Freeware - A multitrack recorder, editor & MIDI sequencer suite; features 4 stereo audio tracks, 16 MIDI tracks, effect plug-ins, per-track EQ, Aux buses, Video sync, Score, GM/GS/XG & “Piano roll” editors, etc. Author’s site requires free membership signup & includes Webspace.

Audacity - A 16-bit, 2 channel audio editor which can record & play sounds, import & export WAV, AIFF & MP3 files, edit sound files, mix tracks, and apply effects; features built-in effects (Bass Boost, Wahwah, Noise Removal, etc), supports VST plug-in effects, etc. Requires Win98/ME.

FMaudio (full player) - A feature-rich media player supporting MIDI (using a software synthesizer, not just the onboard MIDI), MP3, streaming MP3, OGG, WAV, MOD, etc; features all basic media player functions, EQ, play list, tuner, plus includes client-side engine & browser plugin.

vanBasco's Karaoke Player - Player of Karaoke (KAR) and standard MIDI (MID, MIDI & RMI) files; features include customizable Karaoke window, ability to change tempo, volume, key of song, can mute or play solo individual instruments, piano view displays notes on a big piano keyboard, etc.

CDex - Audio CD extraction (also known as 'CD ripping') saves Digital Audio files in WAV or MP3 format; with CDDB facility, convert from WAV to MP3, etc. Be careful of copyright laws!

CD to WAV/MP3 Ripper - Rips audio CDs to MP3 or WAV digital audio files; features 14 different bitrates for MP3, MP3 files are high-speed-encoded on the fly, WAV format for burning to CD-R, etc. Requires VB6 runtime files, advertiser supported.

Songs DB - A digital-music manager which can handle collections of music files (MP3s, WMAs or audio CDs); features a scanner, player, encoder, decoder, convertor, grabber, tagger, renamer, previewer, playlister, locator, cacher, & CDDBer.

COOL FREEWARE HTML EDITORS

Arachnophilia - New internal browser "Instant View" mode shows your HTML changes as you make them. Accepts fully formatted text, tables, automatically creates HTML pages and more.

1st Page 2000 - "One of the top 3 HTML editors ever made". - Michael Kor. Winner of 30+ Product Awards!

Easy HTML - Colorcoded HTML tags, free Javascripts, edit multiple HTML documents at the same time, Large help file, user friendly and much more.

IMS Web Dwarf - A new Drag and Drop WYSIWYG HTML editor with pixel precision positioning and scaling. Features include a TEXT, HTML and Rich Text editor.

COOL FREEWARE GRAPHIC APPLICATIONS

Ulead Photo Explorer 6 - is an easy-to-use tool for acquiring, viewing, organizing, adjusting and sharing digital images.

Irfanview - is a compact, easy to use image viewer. You can also edit images directly in IrfanView, to produce a variety of effects.

Photo Wizard - Import pictures from digital cameras, scanners, the Internet or your PC. You can retouch your photos, or add special effects. Crop and size your pictures to get them just right. Enhance the colors, the brightness, remove "red eye", and more. Even add a customizable frame.

Magnitrax - is a revolutionary image viewer! Use it to view both traditional images and new HoloGrafix images, create lists of images, or sweep all of the images from a web site!

Texture Viewer Version 3.0 - a fast texture browser. Allows easy viewing and manipulation of tiled texture or background bitmaps in .bmp, .jpg and .gif formats. Includes some sample textures

10 of Jan's Graphics Programs - Freeware GIF-animator, scriptable Painting program and Image Converter plus more.

Reptile - An excellent webpage background generator. It allows you to easily produce many combinations of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth texture background graphics. Clean simple to use interface has near zero learning curve.

Win Morph - is a high performance morphing and warping software.

Colorificator - A color picker for Windows.

Imagemapic - Generate html code for circle, rectangle and polygon imagemaps from a Windows GUI.

VCW VicMan's Photo Editor - A powerful, award-winning application with a skin-based interface, an excellent feature set, and support for more than 30 file types.

COOL FREEWARE SECURITY APPLICATIONS

AVG Anti Virus - Sophisticated anti-virus program with a resident shield, e-mail scanner, on-demand scanner & update manager; features scheduled virus definition updates (needs an Internet connection) & system scan, virus vault, and more. Requires free on-line registration.

Anti-Vir - Anti-virus program; features on-line update Wizard, protection against over 50,000 viruses, Virus Guard offers real-time protection, scanning & repair of macro viruses, protection against previously unknown viruses, and more. For Win9x only

Surfin' Guard - Protects PC users from new, unknown Internet threats by monitoring & containing the behavior of downloaded programs & active content, and running active content (eg executables, ActiveX, scripts, Windows scripting files & Java) in a protected mode.

Jim’s Encryptor Decryptor (JED) - Allows the user to encrypt/decrypt personal files (text or binary) with a 256-character key and, to increase security, the user also has the option of adding extra ‘salt’ to the encryption process.

Spytech IntegrityCheck - An easy 5 step wizard that checks a PC system for vulnerable points and trojan infection; it will check for open ports that may be a result of trojan or backdoor infection, and for trojan infection in current running processes.

Revelation - Access the password under that row of asterisks.

Gatekeeper - A simple Javascript protection script for your page.

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