Active Worlds Browser  (1,987,896) Real-time chat software that can be used from the World Wide Web. Has a 3D type interface where everyone adopts an "avatar" and rather than chat rooms, you point and click to walk closer to different groups. There are many "worlds" available where you can go to chat with different people.  

BeeLine  Search for information, e-mail addresses, homepages and people 

Compass  This is a bookmark manager 

Copernic98  You can search on multiple search engines 

Country Codes  Identifies url country codes 

D4 Time Server  Can set the system clock 

Doorbell  This is a Internet program that tells you who's online. Doorbell is alerting you in realtime when friends sign on and tells you which are online. Doorbell has a multilingual interface.  

DUN Connection Assistant  This is a DUN connection wizard. 

Easy MTU  This is a configure your MTU to speed up surfing 

Ewan  If you want a better telnet program that the one that comes with Windows, then you may like Ewan.  

Finger  A small finger client for Winsock that resolves IP/Host addresses.  

Free Agent  A great freeware Newsreader with an easy to use interface with autopost, autodecode of binaries, and a great subscribed group organization method.  

Go!zilla  A fully featured download program 

Lemon Dialer  If you don't need the features of the other two 

Loafer v2.0 One of these programs that will keep your Internet connection alive. Newer versions of Loafer are shareware.  

IRC Gold (3,990,625) An IRC chat client that gives you tons of options like, live radio, live tv, buddy list, and much much more. A great program for those who like to do a lot of things on the Internet at once. 

Jet-MailMonitor  (734,577) This is a system tray E-Mail checking utility that conveniently notifies you when new messages arrive on your POP3 mail server. It can support up to 5 different e-mail accounts and supports Exchange, Netscape, Outlook97, Internet Mail, Outlook Express by default. 

Magic Mail Monitor  This is a e-mail notification program 

Mail Checker (145,555) A simple but effective program, it resides on your taskbar and the icon changes when you have mail. You just set the mail server, username and password, and the interval, and it takes care of the rest.  

Microsoft Chat  (1,786,096) This is a new kind of graphical chat program. As users type text a comic strip unfolds showing the various participants in the conversation as comics characters, and their utterances in word balloons.  

Microsoft V-Chat (3,867,768) Visit with your friends or meet new people in Microsoft V-Chat. In V-Chat, you start by selecting an avatar, a graphical representation for yourself. With your avatar you can chat, gesture, or explore 2D or 3D environments.  

MR Tech Systray  Flush your browser cookies, cache, history, and more 

MultiNet  I am not to sure what this is either. 

NetLab  This does ping, finger, dns lookup, whois, traceroute and more 

Net Vampire  And another that maximizes efficiency on poor connections 

NetLaunch  This connectes to the internet, launch programs, and much more 

News Xpress  (264,747) Is a window based newsreader with many advanced options such as killfiles, window arrangements, and even to show toolbars or not, so you get maximum viewing space. Also contains a built-in viewer for graphics files while they're downloading.  

Pegasus You cannot find a mail reader with more features. This program even beats any paid-for mail programs! However, Pegasus does require some time to learn.  

Picture Sucker  (121,000) Connects to any NNTP server and automatically downloads articles with user selectable content. Automatically decodes and stores articles where you want them. Clean install and running with no system files to edit or registry keys to change.  

T42 (249,856) This is a chat client/daemon with some useful features like secretary (answering machine), proper handling of multihomed machine, sleep mode (notification of activity in backgrounded talk sessions) 

QDPGP  Is a integrates pgp encryption with Pegasus (this site has links to (required) pgp) 

Quick Send  With this program you send e-mail quickly  

ViruSafeWeb  Browser plug-in to virus check downloads 

Weather Update  You can download weather information with this (Be sure to use WEATHER.NOAA.GOV for the new FTP site name in the options!) 

WebFerret  Another one (puts fewer entries in your registry) 

WebDownloader  Download pages to disk to read offline (will go to shareware soon) 

Yahoo! Pager for Internet Explorer (447,416) A great program that alerts you when your Internet buddies are on-line and lets you chat with them. Includes Yahoo! mail checker and sound alerts. A great program for those who spend a great deal of time on-line.  

Yahoo! Pager for Netscape (767,416) A great program that alerts you when your Internet buddies are on-line and lets you chat with them. Includes Yahoo! mail checker and sound alerts. A great program for those who spend a great deal of time on-line.