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Shareware and Freeware
Shareware.com
links to other archives. Includes Mac software.
TUCOWS (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software)
has outgrown its name (winsock = TCP/IP network protocol driver) and now has graphics and other Windows tools.
Simtel.net
is one of the largest collections, including DOS-based and Windows software.
Cute Animated Games and Screen Toys
People love this stuff. Your coworkers probably e-mailed you some in the past.
Nstorm
, makers of "Elf Bowling".
ScreenMates
. (Programmed by
CodeHammer
[UK], marketed by
AdTools
.)
Prog-Net
, makers of Fred.
Windows Sounds and Gimmicks
Windows Dressing
[Netherlands]. Site is in Dutch but you can figure it out. One of our favorites.
Rhode Island Soft Systems
makes screen savers and related products.
Hardware
Dynamism
is a grey-market importer of cool Japanese subnotebook PCs.
PC World's
Here's How to Upgrade Guide
archive.
Hooleon
sells custom keyboards/keycaps/labels with braille, dvorak, international, etc. layouts.
Leave Your Computer Running All the Time?
Here's what to do with those spare cycles:
Defrag your hard disk.
Help
distributed.net
strengthen encryption.
Run
SETI@home
which, if nothing else, makes for a cool-looking screen saver. You'd think this would be uncontroversial, but check out
the "boycott SETI@home" page
[ebb] and
a FullOn3D rant
and
a bunch of geeks arguing about it
[Slashdot].
Viruses
Anti-virus software vendors:
Datafellows
,
Symantec
(SARC),
Computer Associates
,
Command
,
IBM
,
IKARUS
[Austria],
Kaspersky Lab
[Russia],
Network Associates
,
Sophos
[UK],
Trend Micro
.
List of current viruses:
IBM
Hoaxes and Fake Viruses:
ICSA
,
IBM
ICSA
is a computer security consulting outfit which publishes
lists of certified anti-virus products
but some of their info (e.g.,
their wildlist
) is out of date.
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