GreatDane's Free Stuff!

Site Aid - This is a great freeware html editor that has the look and feel of an expensive commercial editor. I use this my self.
PeopleLink - This new free software service enables you to communicate instantly with people online. PeopleLink gives you "interactive messaging", a new medium that combines the best features of E-mail (ease-of-use, safety and selectivity) with the one major advantage of chat, interactivity. (For Windows and Mac).
Free Bible program - This awesome program contains the King James Bible, with over 12,000 topics to select from in both the Old and New Testaments. Also included in this free package are parables, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Matthew Henry Commentary, a bookmark feature, scripture search, maps and much more. For Windows.
Freeware themes installer - OK, here's the deal. You've been checking out all these cool free desktop themes for Windows that are all over the Web, such as here. And you wish you could install them on your machine, but you don't want to purchase Microsoft Plus! Well, here's the solution. Free Themes is a freeware program that will load themes without the Plus! program. If you feel guilty, go ahead and send Bill Gates a check.
Bits: a programmer's aid - This free program helps you convert easily from RGB to HEX values, for selecting colors for a Web site. Bits also allows programmers to manipulate bits in a value or convert values. BITS makes it easy to shift or perform other operations on a 32-bit value, and to see the results visually.
Netdate - This is an excellent utility for setting your computer's internal clock over the Internet. You can run it as an icon in the taskbar's tray. This free program is the best way to ensure that your computer is set to the correct time. (For Windows).
PureVoice Player/Recorder - This free application offers a player and recorder for voice messages that you can use with your E-mail software. PureVoice offers excellent sound quality and its files are 10 times smaller than .wav files. There's a plug-in specifically for Eudora software, and a separate application for other E-mail products.
ASP1-A3 - The next time you're downloading pictures of pastoral landscape scenes from your favorite newsgroup, you'll appreciate this cool free utility. ASP1-A3 automatically downloads images for you while filtering out spam. The freeware version is supported by ads.
Mini Clipboard - Are you a clipboard addict? Check out this free little Win 95 utility. It's a small clipboard that sits in the tray. It has three different cut/paste sections, and a section showing you what currently resides in the clipboard. Also, it has an internet URL section, an E-mail section and a Telnet section that you can paste to. A nice surfing tool.
Net Vampire - If you surf around a lot and spot files here and there that you'd like to download, then you need this program. Just drop-and-drop the URLs to Net Vampire and you can do all your downloading in one batch. Net Vampire resumes broken connections and restarts downloads. It's also specially designed to deal successfully with noisy servers and unreliable links.
TrayMenu - The more time I spend with Win 95, the more useful I find it to launch stuff from the tray. TrayMenu lets you access your favorite shortcuts from the tray. You can also organize shortcuts in menus and navigate folders through cascaded menus. A useful free toy.
freeDUM - Here's a nifty free utility that replaces Windows 95's lame dial-up manager. Features an Explorer-like interface, a custom dailer and records log profiles, phone numbers, time online and disconnect info, (if you're bumped off-line.) freeDum will also automatically launch applications for you.
WebTurbo - This freeware program (supported by ads) works within your browser to speed up your Web travels and make it easier for you to search the Net. It also automatically organizes the sites you find. The program's "Web Previewer" feature lets you quickly view an outline of the contents and links on a page without having to download the page itself. Useful!
Calmira: give Win 3.1 a Win 95 interface - If you're running Window 3.1, but would like to have Windows 95-style features, then check out this freeware. Designed to run on low-end computers. This file is 1.5 megs and the source code is included. (Does not work with Win NT).
ShoeString's PictureDicer - This is a freeware tool that chops any image file into several smaller images, suitable for creating mouseover effects and pseudo-imagemaps on Web pages. It also generates the HTML for a table to contain the partial images and display them so they appear as the original uncut image.
Celebrity Calculators - Are you tired of your boring Windows calculator? Why not replace it with one of your favorite celebrity? Celebrity Calculators are a good way to spice up your Windows environment. There's currently over 75 celebrities available here, from The Spice Girls to Brad Pitt.
Web-O-Rama Web page editor - This HTML editor offers far more features, for free, what even commercial editors charged 60 bucks or more only a few months ago (in fact, some still do). This is a full-featured editor with a nice interface and many useful features, including intuitive forms for adding images, tables, links, lists, sounds, hex values, frames and more. All forms can be kept on top as floating toolbars. Free, but donations are accepted.
AlphaCONNECT StockVue - This is a useful, well-done program that'll let you track your financial information on the Internet. Using it, you can receive unlimited free quotes for stocks and mutual funds and much more.
Go!Zilla - If you download a lot of files, then you really ought to get this freeware download manager utility. Go!Zilla allows you to recover from download errors and manage and categorize files to download later (and get those files from the most responsive site.) Go!Zilla will even resume a failed download.
WinShaper (direct download) - Tired of looking at the same ol' desktop on your computer? Why not liven it up with this cool utility, which allows you to change the shape of any window on your desktop. Windows can be shaped as a triangle, a circle, a cross, a heart and more. using this free program. For Win 95/NT.
SchizoSigz! - This is a handy E-mail signature generator that works with any E-mail program that utilizes ASCII based signature files. SchizoSigz! takes a header file, footer file, and a file filled with quotes, taglines, or whatever, and generates an E-mail signature file at a specified interval. It runs from the Win 95/NT task bar.
Alexa - This is a useful tool can enhance your Web travels. For starters, there's a helpful desktop reference, that allows you to research the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus without leaving the page you're on. And if you are a Webmaster, you'll like Alexa's features. It allows you to determine all kinds of information about Web sites (not just your own). With Alexa, you can get information about a site's popularity and find out how often other people visit a site and how deep they click through it. You can also see how often a site is updated, how fast it loads, and the total number of pages within the site. Available for Windows; Mac version "coming soon."
NetLab - Here's a very useful Win 95/NT program that does everything but take out your garbage. NETLAB is like a Swiss Army knife, it's so versatile. It offers a finger service, a "Whois" service, a daytime service (to get the time of day), a Clock Synchronization service, a ping service, a "traceroute" service (used to get a route a connection to a remote host takes), a "Quote of the Day," a DNS lookup and a Port Scan.
Arachnophilia - Don't spend $50 on a commercial Web authoring program until you've tried this cool free program. Arachnophilia is an outstanding Web editor, bursting with features. It'll import fully formatted text, tables, and outlines from any Win 95-compliant application and automatically convert it to HTML. It also has a built-in FTP client that automatically uploads changed files. Powerful keyboard macros can include system commands---even other macros, for maximum flexibility. For Win 95/NT.
Super Fred - First there were virtual pets; now there are "Desktop Buddies." Super Fred is a hilarious superhero cartoon character for your Windows desktop. Watch Fred walk, fall, whistle, pick his nose, sleep, drink and do dozen other silly things right on your desktop even when you work on something else.
WebWerx - This is a good, solid freeware Web authoring program that offers goodies like intelligent tag insertion, intuitive shortcut keys, easy access for your preferred browser, and more.
Driver Detective - Do you ever wonder if your computer's hardware drivers are up-to-date? Hardware drivers are hidden from you by Windows95, making them hard to find and even harder to get information on. To solve this problem, check out this cool free utility, which will not only show you ALL the hardware drivers used by Windows on your system, but it will also make getting all the vital information on them as easy as clicking on that driver.
Start 2 Finish - Looking for a project manager? This program offers lot of features: job costing, unit cost, time tracking, employee productivity, alarms, multiple projects and more. Also features stunning U.S. space program photos that liven up your desktop as you work Described as "free" shareware, but registering will get the advanced features turned on. For Win 95/NT.
Alice - Are you interested in 3D graphics, but find the whole process too involved and complicated for a novice? Then check out Alice. It's a 3D "Interactive Graphics Programming Environment." The goal of Alice is to make it easy for novice programmers to develop interesting 3D environments.
WordWeb - This utility could well help improve your writing skills. WordWeb is a free feature-packed thesaurus/dictionary for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 that can be used from your word processor or as a stand-alone program. View screen shot
Hide It - Here's a cool freeware Windows program that allows you to hide any application window and its button in the taskbar. The application is also removed from the Alt-Tab chain, so it won't disturb your task switching, it is just as if it wasn't there. Useful!
Monster Eyes - Install this 32-bit app and then watch creepy, bloodshot eyes follow your mouse as it moves across the desktop. Pretty useless, but fun. (and it's only 44K in size).
Spammer Slammer - If you've spent very long on the Net, you've no doubt been the victim of a spammer (someone who sends unsolicited junk E-mail.) Now you can fight back with this cool program, called Spammer Slammer. It's an easy-to-use client that works with any POP3 e-mail software. It also works for multiple accounts on the same machine. Another plus: there's no blacklist, huge domain lists, or spammer list to maintain.
SuperZip - If you're new to downloading programs off the Net, you may have noticed that many of them are in "ZIP," or archived form. You need a program to unzip these files before you can use them. SuperZip is an easy-to-use and handles virtually all the of ZIP files you'll come across, as well as offering many other nice features.
Dipstick - If you download a lot of files (like us) you really need this essential freeware utility. Among other things, Dipstick will query various mirror sites and tell you which will give you the fastest download. Dipstick is now also available as an Active X control.
Lorenz Graf's HTMLtool - Here's a nice, free HTML editor that makes it easy to develop great-looking Web pages with knowing everything about every tag. This program offers tons of features, including a JavaScript "Script Wizard," a table assistant, a URL assistant, preview function and a "JavaKit," with ready-to-run applets.
WebMarks - A free Win 95 and NT application that catalogs and stores your favorite sites. Its capabilities far surpass the bookmarking features found in Netscape and IE. It solves a problem that many of us have: the need to use both browsers. It also stores all your bookmarks in a single file that makes it easy to move your bookmarks from system to system.
WebFerret - A great search utility. It's easy to use: You can find Web pages by simply entering a keyword, and clicking "Find Now." It's also unbelievably fast and finds results almost immediately. The whole process from launching WebFerret to receiving results takes just a few seconds.
Servers Alive - This is a freeware network monitor tool. This program will check a host to see of a particular service/deamon is still running. It can check HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, Echo server, DNS, IMAP4, Gopher, Telnet or it can just ping the server. For Windows 95 or NT.
Digital Pad - A nifty freeware utility, Digital Pad offers you a smart alternative to pen and paper. Don't write messages for other on paper, just leave a note on the computer. This utility features multi-user support, so different people can use it, with their own accounts (which can be protected by passwords), and a well designed, graphical interface.
Pegasus Mail - One of the Net's all-time classic freeware products, Pegasus is the best E-mail client out there, bar none. It has tons of great features, including a spell checker, multiple signatures, checking of multiple mailboxes, etc. If you download Pegasus, then be sure to check out the Guide to Pegasus Mail Add-ons, which is a good collection of enhancement programs for this E-mail client.
Notespad - An incredibly useful program that replaces Windows' flimsy Notepad text editor. Notespad is a free, full-fledged text editor with tons of wonderful features. You'll wonder how you managed without it! Allows opening of many files simultaneously, bookmarking of favorites, customized colors and fonts, macros, a file editor, lots of right-click goodies and tons more.
Super NoteTab - Another great text editor, this program features a tabbed interface that lets you open and edit a virtually unlimited number of documents of any size. There's also an "Editor Clipbook" with templates for HTML tags, smilies, acronyms, etc., as well as management of favorite files and folders.
IrfanView32 - Great freeware graphics viewer. We use this as our system's default image viewer and converter because it loads quickly, is easily customizable, has Drag & Drop support and supports many file formats: JPEG, GIF files, including animated GIFs, BMP, RLE, DIB, PCX, PNG, TGA, RAS, TIFF, ICO, AVI, WMF and more.
WebArchitect - Great freeware Web authoring program that offers tons of features, including multiple document interface, MS Office-like toolbar, a commands guide, table editor, frame wizard, home page wizard, ActiveX control wizard and much more.
HTML Builder - A useful free 32-bit Web authoring tool. Offers HTML 3.2 capabilities, forms support, drag & drop, spell checker and much more.
The Love Calculator - This freeware program, for Windows and DOS, "enables you to calculate the possibility of a successful relationship between two people," it says here.
The Mortgage Manager - This is free software for managing your home mortgage. This site also has "facts and information your lender doesn't want you to know."
ViruSafe WEB - Essential freeware virus scanner plug-in, compatible with all Web Browsers. Checks for viruses every time you download files from the internet. Whenever you download a file, ViruSafe WEB will automatically scan it for viruses, before it is saved to the disk. ViruSafe WEB can scan programs, ZIP files and Word documents.
WS_FTP - The most widely-used FTP client on the Net. If you have a Web site, you'll need this program to upload your pages to your server. Free for home and academic uses.
RFtp - RFtp is a free GUI-based FTP client for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. While having the load-time and footprint of an "applet", it retains the features and functionality of a full-sized application.
Eudora Light - Our favorite E-mail program. Eudora offers you tons of features: filtering your mail & organizing it into folders, multiple signatures, search functions, nicknames and much more.
Free Agent (32-bit) - Free Agent is an essential newsgroup reader that features an easy-to-use interface with lots of icons and pull-down menus. Free Agent provides multipane viewing, flexible article purging options, database compacting, carbon copying for E-mail and article posting, editing of all fields, and canceling of posts. For full E-mail support and more advanced features, you can upgrade to the full-featured commercial version. Available for Windows 95 and Windows 3.x.
Real Player - An essential client, RealPlayer plays RealAudio and RealVideo content on the Web, all without download delays. It offers stereo at 28.8, near-CD quality at higher bitrates, AM-quality at 14.4 -- newscast-quality video at 28.8 and full-motion at higher bitrates. Free for individual use.
CU-See Me- A free videoconferencing program (the only one of its type) that allows you to videoconference with anyone with a Macintosh or Windows and a connection to the Internet. By using a reflector, multiple users can participate in a group CU-See Me session.