FAQ 6 Part F: Quick List

You can find many important details about this program in FAQ 6 D.

From the makers of ACDSee, this is an addon to Win95. Every time you right click on an image file, it shows you a preview of it (even if you're browsing while using the "Open file" command).

There are many advantages to this, and I've found it a nice convenience. Of course, this can be a bad thing, if your wife uses your computer too. ;)

This is another image viewer I have reviewed. I like ACDSee a lot more, but as always another person might like Thumbs32 more. It's all personal preference. My review is around the bottom of this FAQ.

This is a new url, I haven't tried it yet.

This is a basic image editor.

• it allows you to edit image dimensions (the size of an image on the screen)
• it allows you to adjust image quality (to save disk space)
• it allows you to convert one image format to another
• it allows you to perform screen captures (create an image file from what's on your screen)
• it is not very fancy, so for more sophisticated uses, Adobe Photoshop is much better
• this program is not for everyone

I recommend you set your file associations so that whenever you double-click on an image, LviewPro will launch it (instead of ACDSee for a few reasons). Lview Pro 1.0 and 2.0 have major differences. I use 1.0 because it's smaller.

Microsoft has released the beta Microsoft Media Player Netshow. It can play NetShow ASF, Real Audio, Real Video, QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, and WAV file formats.

Among a few other things, this plays .rm files. If you don't know what ".rm" files are and haven't seen them before, then you don't need it - yet. For the free version, click on the button on the top left that says "free" and choose to download RealPlayer.

This plays .qm files. Sort of like the Japanese equivalent of Realplayer. The url is here, thanks to Casahobo:

They have Mac versions as well.

Just figured out why qm didn't work for some people. If you read the notice at the website, it says: Active Movie 1.0 required. It is definitely required (I have confirmed this). You can download it here:

Now I told some people about this, and they told me that they already had active movie 1.0. It turns out that you need a relatively recent version of Active Movie to run QM, possibly (?) because the older version didn't support other languages.

This program can check for multiple copies of the same image in the folders you select.

• This is very useful for those who have problems with this, though not essential
• Usually just checking for duplicate filesize is sufficient, since that process is much faster than the rest
• For some reason the Win95 version doesn't seem to work for me, so I suggest the win 3.1 version.
• This program is not for everyone.

I don't use D'peg. Instead, I strongly prefer using ACDSee for a lot of reasons.

This program is really good for renaming a large number of files in sequential order.

This is highly recommended for those who collect a large number of files of any type. This is because if you get a list of files that have unusual or annoying names (like 1000.ukn, 1001.ukn, 1002.ukn, etc...) you'd save time and trouble by using this program.

To use this program:

As I mentioned, one thing I really like is the ability to edit filenames as if the list was a text file. In addition, this can also be useful if you want to make a text list of all files in a directory (I sometimes yse this when I make a large index page of assorted files for a site). Still, if all you want is to get a list of files, some other programs do this better (i.e. provide image filesize and dimensions as information)

For locations to download newsreaders, check FAQ 2B.

For locations to download Masking Tools, check FAQ 1.

This program is a very efficient program for helping you download files from the web. Here are the most useful features:

1) You can set Gozilla up so that while using Internet Explorer or Netscape, every time you click on a link leading to a specific type of file (for example, .mp3, .zip, etc...), Gozilla will add that file to its download list. Then you can later tell Gozilla to start downloading everything on the list. Gozilla is very good at this, becase it tests the network to see what method and path is the fastest way to download a file (it tries to avoid traffic jams and can optionally download multiple files simultaneously).

2) Gozilla has the ability to resume broken downloads if possible. For example, suppose you were downloading a 50 megabyte file and you get disconnected from the net halfway at 25 megs. Gozilla can resume download at the 25 megabyte mark, provided that the place you're downloading from recognizes the resume command (most sites do).

3) Gozilla works with both Websites (http) and FTP sites (ftp).

4) You can create multiple download folders and assign each folder group a priority. Gozilla will download the ones in the higher priority folders first unless it decides that traffic to those files is too high.

5) Gozilla also provides statistics like download estimation times (for all files, before you even start downloading any of them). Of course, estimations aren't exact, but Gozilla's estimation tends to be much more reasonable than those provided by Netscape and most other utilities.

6) In addition to analyzing network performance, Gozilla will also try to determine alternate download sites (in order to find the fastest one). For example, for one 20 megabyte download I wanted to make, Gozilla found 41 FTP sites that carried the exact same file (and was able to determine through tests which one was the fastest of all at the moment).

Recommendation: Learn what all the settings in Gozilla do. I recommend that you set up Gozilla so that it does not automatically start up (so that it only works when you manually run it). This is because you don't always want Gozilla to be downloading your files (if it's only a 10kb file, why bother getting it the fancy way?). However, Gozilla is perfect for downloading 20 large files from a website or for protecting yourself from losing a download because of an interruption.

http://www.gozilla.com/

Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB United States West Coast
Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB United States East Coast
Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB Canada Ontario
Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB United Kingdom
Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB Germany
Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB Australia
Go!Zilla v3.0 1.3MB Hong Kong

This is a webpage spidering program, the webpage equivalent of a newsbot.

Complete instructions for this program are rather complicated, though both people I've helped use this program seem to be using it alright, so I hope you are smart enough to figure it out if you try it. Here's a hint on using: If you want to stay on one particular page (without following links to another), uncheck the box that says download all filetypes and uncheck the box for downloading .htm and .html files. Also, the very first option you see varies a lot; most of the time you want to download from the domain. Keep in mind that the advantage of this program is that it is automatic (you can sleep as it works). The big disadvantage is if you don't configure it just right, it won't do what you want it to. ;)

I recommend Netscape Gold 3.04 for various reasons.

• It has significantly less bugs than Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4, partly because it is the last version of Netscape 3.
• It is much more stable than Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4. While it does crash in certain instances, N4 and IE4 crash far more often.
• IE 4 has several major flaws; in fact, even Microsoft's Marketing department refused to use it when it came out, and they're the ones that are supposed to be selling it to everyone else.
• Netscape 4's java is incredibly flawed and inefficient.
• Netscape 4 has a major bug in caching partial pages; it never caches partial pages correctly under any conditions, which is rather appalling (if it never works, why even try?).

Win95 Complete Netscape Gold 3.04

Macintosh Complete Netscape Gold 3.04 .bin format

Win 3.1 Complete Netscape Gold 3.04

This program allows you to post to newsgroups.

You can use this to connect to telnet sites.

Most of you might not need FTP (most browsers support reading FTP anyways), but if you want a good program to upload, I recommend CuteFTP. It is a shareware that has all the essentials.

http://www.cuteftp.com

This is a simple program for pinging and resolving IPs. If you don't know what it's for, you probably don't need it. ;)

http://www.filedudes.com/win95/genutil/files/iptoolb2.exe

This is another program that resolves IPs and gives a detailed readout. So, it has both disadvantages and advantages compared to IP Search Toolbar. You can see an online demo here:

You can download it here:

Casahobo suggests an online virus scanner to protect you from downloading something that could harm your computer (and collection!). Even if you have one, be careful what you download nonetheless.

I've downloaded several gigs of programs alone (yes just in programs) and never once in all these years have I gotten a virus. That's because I never download something without knowing it is safe beyond a reasonable doubt. By the way, to those of you who have heard stories (before you even start asking), you can't get a virus by viewing an image using an IBM PC (if your computer crashes from viewing one, it's always because of a bug in the viewer). Macs are a different matter, but for various reasons such viruses are very uncommon.

Also, without any exception, a virus is only harmful if it is executed. Your computer must either run a virus program (or a program with a virus attached) or attempt to boot from a floppy disk carrying a boot sector virus. One trick to get you to execute a virus is to put it in a .doc file (known as a macro virus). I have no idea what Bill Gates was thinking when he allowed .doc files to carry executables, but Microsoft has since released fixes to this.

For locations to download newsreaders, check FAQ 2B.

For locations to download Masking Tools, check FAQ 1.

Winzip handles almost all archiving formats.

http://winzip.com

Here's an analogy. Lha:Japan::Pkzip:US. Well, more or less, at least.

If the link doesn't work, go to www.excite.com and search for lha213.exe AND download

How to install Lha so that it works automatically through Winzip. These instructions can be found in Winzip's help file and are not written by me.

1. LHA is distributed as a self-extracting archive called LHA213.EXE. First download LHA213.EXE from your favorite online service.
2. Use the File Manager or Explorer to create the folder C:\LHA. You can use a different folder but then you will need to substitute that folder name in the following instructions.
3. Use the File Manager or Explorer to copy LHA213.EXE from your download folder to the C:\LHA folder.
4. Double click on LHA213.EXE to run it. This will cause the files in LHA213.EXE to "self-extract" into the C:\LHA folder.
5. Start WinZip. Pull down the Options menu and select Program Locations.
6. In the LHA field in the Program Locations dialog box type
c:\lha\lha.exe

If you follow the above instructions, you will now be able to unzip .lzh files through Winzip.

Another version can be found below

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a program that allows you to do a one-way encryption of any file or text. One way means that under normal conditions only the intended recipient may decrypt the file or message (once it's encrypted, not even you can decrypt it). If the recipient wants to reply, they encrypt their message so that only you can decrypt it.

How this works is each user generates two keys, one being the public key. This key can be given to anyone at all without any worries about security (often they are posted in a public directory). Under normal conditions, any message or file encrypted using this key can only be decrypted by the one who has the private key AND knows the password associated with the private key. So, to send someone a message using PGP, you must first find out their public key.

Pretty good privacy. It is what the title suggests. The demo has all the essentials.

Casahobo cautions that PGP is what the name suggest and does not mean gauranteed privacy, adding that the US (which controls PGP) has the backdoor key. In addition, I must add that it is only secure provided you can trust the recipient.

If you don't know what this is by now, you probably don't need it. Most of the time that someone asks me how to use it, they intend to try cracking a zip that's already been cracked anyways. ;)

I do mention a few tips and instructions on how to use this in one of the other FAQs.

February 16, 1998 by Fernando Papa Budzyn
If you want a test file to practice cracking, try here.

This program automatically searches the current directory for all .zip files and unpacks all of them.

Wincode and XferPro decode Mime encoded files that are found on newsgroups. I strongly recommend you use a good newsreader that has this feature built in, but if you have no alternative, you can try these programs instead.

I prefer Xferpro, but I don't have the url available for that (hey, I'm lazy). This uuencodes/decodes for newsgroup posts (the ones that look like a bunch of random letters, each line starting with the letter 'M')

If you want to practice uudecoding files, try here. It is a text file similar to the files you might see on a newsgroup. Note the header "begin..." and the "end" at the end. Also note that each line must begin with the letter M. Multipart files are no different. Just use a plain text editor like windows write and paste them together into one big file.

If you want to view Japanese characters on your computer, you can try Kanjikit 97, which works with Netscape:

Or, if you don't want to download software, you can try using Shodouka Launchpad:

You can also try the Typhoon/Tsunami translator for translating (it only gives you a rough translation, and it's almost a 10 meg download).

If you need a japanese reader or word processor (including dictionaries)...

One program that I've found useful is located at:

Rar for DOS (268 kb)

WinRar (481 kb)

Powertoys (204 kb)

Realmovie Tools 1.1 (407 kb)

WinWhatWhere

CompuPic
This program is an image viewer that has two nice features. It makes pretty good thumbnail indexes (an image with small thumbnail versions of a series of files). It even allows you to view images as raw data (if you're into that kind of stuff. ;) It also uudecodes files (such as those textfiles you might find on a newsgroup).
Download.com

Some of the links here die out occasionally, so I have arranged for someone with a good connection to upload some of the files...they won't be up for a while though.