| | Software Recommendations |
| by Mark Kaprielian |
| 04-01-01 |
| Web Applications |
| | 3D-FTP | 4.02 | http://www.3dftp.com | $0.00 |
| | Last Reviewed 7/12/2000 | This program is a graphical Filt Transer Program. After searching around for a replacement |
| | for good old WS_FTP, I decided to give this program a try. What attracted me to this |
| | particular program were primarily two features. First, the ability to save a list of |
| | untransfered files should the connection break or the server go down. For me, this is a |
| | tremendous feature. I do all my web work live over the net to the actual site. Unlike most |
| | people, I have the need to download all the files from the server to my local PC in order to |
| | have a back-up copy. Unfortunately, my web hosts server doesn't like long transfer |
| | sessions so it often crashes or, prior to using this program, just plain disconnects. With the |
| | ability to save what remains in the "transfer queue", I can just resume from where I left off |
| | because I set the option to remove items from the queue after sucessful tranfer. The |
| | second feature was ability for 10 transfers to occur simultaniously, and hence, 10 times |
| | faster than most other programs. What is also nice is that the program supports and has |
| | many "skins" to suit your taste of what things youd like to watch going on during transfers. |
| | Another nice feature is that it a test button to check the rate of tranfer. This way you can |
| | tell if the Internet is having a bad night. I highly recommend this program. |
| | Ad-Aware | 4.51 | http://www.lavasoft.de/ | $0.00 |
| | Last Reviewed 12/18/2000 | AD-aware is a free multi-spyware removal tool that detects and safely removes advertising |
| | 1:35:58 AM | spyware from your system. |
| | AddWeb | 4.55 | http://www.cyberspacehq.com/ |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | Search Engine Submittal program. I haven't tried many tools but this one seems pretty good. |
| | They are always making improvements to it. It lets you create submittal profiles for you sites. |
| | It will also determine how findable your site is on the major engines. Will let you select |
| | types of engines and individual engines to submit too. |
| | Applet Marquee Wizard | 3.5 | http://www.CoffeeCup.com |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | A reasonably good Java Applet based animated banner program. Lets you manage multiple |
| | items in the banner and properties for each. When you have all the items ready, press the |
| | copy button and it puts the code you need to insert onto the webpage onto the clipboard for |
| | pasting into the page. |
| | BlackICE | 2.5ch | http://www.networkice.com/ |
| | Last Reviewed 7/12/2000 | Personal Fire Wall. I still like this program after 7 months of use. I did try Zone Alarm for a |
| | couple of weeks and then switched back to Black Ice. What was nice about AtGuard is |
| | that it watches all outgoing transmissions to prevent your machine from being used as an |
| | intermediary. The not so great thing is that you have to build up the list of what you approve |
| | as they first occur. It is well implemented but initially annoying. The primary reason I |
| | switched back was that I prefered to be able to see where the attacks were coming from |
| | which Black Ice shows you at a glance. First reviewd 1999-11 |
| | For a real education on network attacks, check out |
| | http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/sniffing-faq.html |
| | eCleaner | 2.01 | http://members.tripod.com/schin26/index.htm | $0.00 |
| | Last Reviewed 12/18/2000 | A free utility that strips out hard returns and other stuff so you can turn email into something |
| | 1:41:12 AM | ready to paste into Word or an html page. |
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