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Opera |
A great Web browser. Very powerful, very flexible, and very fast. Homepage: http://www.opera.com/ |
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A very good open source Web browser designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability. This is the stand-alone
browser, with built-in RSS feed reading capability.
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org |
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| Mozilla |
A very good open source Web browser designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability. This is the full suite,
containing these clients: email and chat; these applications: HTML
editor, calendar and address book; and, of course, the browser.
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org |
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Privoxy |
A local (runs on your computer) web proxy for browsers. It can
filter web page content, cookies, banners, and other obnoxious
Internet junk. (See also the
Panix provided
proxy.) Homepage: http://www.privoxy.org/ |
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Thunderbird |
A relatively new entry into the mail client sector. Supports
IMAP, POP, and SSL. Utterly free. Developed and maintained by a
group under the Mozilla umbrella. Homepage: Thunderbird |
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Pegasus | Somewhat more sophisticated client. Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, PH; SSL Support; Support for multiple "identities"; preview a POP3 mailbox before downloading it; and on and on. For a full list of features, visit the Pegasus homepage: Pegasus Mail | ||||
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Eudora |
A nearly ubiquitous email client. Supports IMAP, POP, SSL, and
Kerberos. Installs as either an ad-sponsored full version, or a
free lite version. Homepage: Eudora |
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FreeAgent |
A good newsreading client. The free version of 'Agent' has some
freeware limitations that it's commercialware older brother
doesn't, but it is still worth trying out. Homepage: http://www.forteinc.com |
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NewsXpress |
A tiny, no-install, competent newsreading client. Homepage: http://www.malch.com/nxfaq.html |
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| Gravity |
A feature rich, very powerful newsreading client. The authoring
company does not support the software anymore, and has made it
freeware. Unofficial Homepage: The Gravity Newsreader |
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Xchat |
An open source IRC client that has been been ported to several
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Miranda |
Superb Instant Messaging client. Originally written as an ICQ
clone, there are now plugins available for intercommunication
between every major network. Homepage: http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net/ |
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PuTTY |
Excellent SSH client that supports telnet, SSH 1 & 2, and port
forwarding. Also available from the same author are SSH-keygen
and SSH-agent clones. Homepage: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ |
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Smart FTP |
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Filezilla | Another powerful FTP client that
has the added ability of encrypting the session over a SSH
tunnel. Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ |
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