Software Links

Emulators

Stella: An Atari 2600 emulator for quite a few operating systems, including Windows 95, Windows NT and Linux.
MAME: All the classic arcade games, playable on your PC.
Basilisk II: Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator

Email Clients

Eudora
Slipstick: Lots of information about Outlook. Also has some add-on packages.
Automatically bcc all outgoing messages in Outlook 2000: Instructions on how to use VBA code to automatically bcc an address on all outgoing emails from Outlook 2000. Note that to avoid a macro warning, you will most likely also need to follow these SelfCert instructions.
Email Templates: Add-on for Microsoft Outlook that provides the ability to create email templates to deal with common situations.
BLAT: Command-line email client, freeware

FTP Clients

FTP Voyager: Nice graphical drag-n-drop interface.
LeechFTP: Not the nicest interface in the world, but it does support the ability to limit the bandwidth used when transfering files.
ReGet: FTP manager - keeps trying to download files, automatically restarts if errors. Also can speed up download time by downloading multiple pieces of the same file simultaneously from multiple connections.
NetVampire: Another FTP client which will keep trying to download specified files until it succeeds or you tell it to give up.

Music / mp3

CDex: Extracts audio tracks from a CD. Works with most newer CD-ROM drives. Can create .wav or .mp3 files.
mp3.com: Good source of mp3 songs, players and general information
WinAmp: mp3 player for Windows

UNIX for Win32

UNIX for Windows: "Provides a mechanism for building and running UNIX applications on Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows 95 with few, if any, changes necessary." Does this by providing ksh (the project is headed by David Korn) and other tools, as well as the common UNIX API for development.
NT Shell: An alternative to the DOS-box or Command Prompt provided by Windows. (Warning: This site may cause some browsers to hang.)
CommandPack: A few useful unix-originating utilities for Windows.

Text / Programming Editors

GNU Emacs for Windows: The traditionally UNIX text editor, ported to Windows. Works just like the X-Windows-based version of the UNIX port (not XEmacs, but the X-Windows version of GNU Emacs). This site also includes a FAQ.
XMLSpy: XML editor with well-formedness validation and schema editing and validation.
SlickEdit: Nice, general-purpose programmer's editor, with some IDE features also built in.

Servers

JSMail: A Win32 SMTP/POP3 server. It allows you to run a mail server on Windows NT/2000/9x.
DNews News Server: Usenet news server for Windows.
ServerWatch: Links to and reviews of various types of Windows-based servers.
Exchange Documentation: The official documentation for Microsoft Excahnge 5.5

Windows NT/2000/XP Utilities

Active+ Software: Utilities for dealing with Windows services
HttpLog: ISAPI filter for logging/debugging HTTP traffic on a web server
Windows NT Server Tools for Windows NT Workstation: Server Manager and User Manager for Domains, both for Windows NT Workstation
TweakUI: Utility to tweak various parts of the user interface for Windows 2000/NT/Me/9x
Dorian Software: Tools for managing the Windows NT Event Log.

CD-R

Goldenhawk Technologies: Provides Windows 95/NT software for using a CD-R drive.
CloneCD: Reputedly makes exact copies of CDs, subcode data and all

Scanner

VueScan: Scanner software. Produces very good scans, also supports batch scanning

Clock Synchronization

WebTime: Synchronize your PC's clock with one of the NIST atomic clocks.
Time Synchronizer: Syncs your PC's clock to a public time server atomic clock through an Internet connection

Miscllaneous

Info-ZIP: Freeware command-line zip utilities.
ComponentSoftware: Makers of CS-RCS, an inexpensive graphical version control system for Win32.
FerretSoft: Collection of utilities to find various information on the Internet
MemTurbo: Defragments RAM
Altamira Group: Fractal compression technology for storing scanned photos, etc., providing improved enlargements.
JP Software: Various command-line and command prompt replacements for Windows NT and Windows 9x.
ShutdownPlus: Replaces the standard Windows shutdown dialog, allowing various events to be scheduled to happen on shutdown.
Systems Internals: Various, usually pretty low-level, utilities for Windows NT/2000
xearth for Windows: Similar to the unix X-Windows equivalent, this Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP utility sets the background to a map of the Earth, shifting as the local clock changes to show the Earth's rotation
PuTTY: Freeware Win32 Telnet/SSH client
X-Setup: Sort of similar to TweakUI, but with some additional capabilities

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