Software

This site has a lot of links related to software for use on PCs and Unix. The Simtel site is probably the best source for special software you can't find anywhere else.

	Searching	Use these to look for software. Try Simtel first.
	Programs	Specific programs that may be of interest.
	Graphics Software	Drawing and image manipulation programs.
	Animation Software	Software you can use to make your own animations.
	Poser Sites	Popular program used to generate 3D animations of people and animals.
	Perl	The most common tool used to write CGI scripts.
	Java	learn more about Java and find Java applets and programs that are freely available.
	JavaScript	Learn more about JavaScript and find JavaScript programs that are freely available.
	Linux	Linux links.
	Emacs	The most sophisticated estensible text editor.
	Netscape Plug-Ins	Need I say more?

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comp.sources.u nix archive

Download.com Many categories of things to download.

Frazer's Freeware Finds Freeware Finds is a collection of Freeware resources, lists and programs which you may find useful.

Jumbo! This site contains information on over 300,000 Shareware And Freeware Programs for the PC, Linux and Mac.

Simtel.net Simtel.Net is a worldwide distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain programs for all Microsoft operating systems.

 
The GNU software is great collection of software that costs you nothing. All of this software comes with the source code and often has been prebuilt on various platforms. Pick a mirror site near you and go there.

 
The Garbo software is great collection of freeware and shareware. Most of this software is written for MS-DOS. The collection is not as extensive as simtel, but is still worth scanning. Pick a mirror site near you and go there.

DaveCentral Shareware, Freeware, Demos and Betas

DS Design Home Page Has a reasonably large list of software for sale intended to aid the WebMaster. Each item has an abstract.

TUCOWS Software Searching The world's best collection of Internet Software. Don't they all say that?

Welcome to shareware.com Search from more than 250,000 files.

FTP Directory: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/usenet/alt.sources/articles/ Collection of source code. Be aware that there is a lot of noise to filter out from this site.

Programs

List of Web Browsers

CcDoc The CcDoc tool is a javadoc like tool that automatically generates web documentation from C++ programs by parsing the source file headers.

Cocoon The Cocoon utilities process C++ include files and produce a net of web pages that document the libraries, classes, and global functions and types that are found in them.

D JGPP - Compilers, etc. D JGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. It includes ports of many GNU development utilities. The development tools require a 80386 or newer computer to run, as do the programs they produce.

The Franz Inc. Home Page Find out what this lisp thing is about.

FVWM Homepage (Official) FVWM is an ICCCM compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for X11 created by by Robert Nation and derived originally from twm code.

GSview - GhostScript Viewer GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers.

McAfee Associates Virus Home Page Buy the latest McAfee software, including VirusScan, Guard Dog, McAfee Office, and more.

Pentium Compiler Group The Pentium Compiler Group was founded in late 1995 to enhance and support Pentium optimization in GCC (the GNU C Compiler). GCC does a very good job when optimizing, but the Pentium Chip's architecture demanded different optimization strategies.

Unix General Security Tools Collection of general Unix security tools. A synopsis is listed with each one.

Graphics Software

Alchemy Mindworks Inc.

Drawing package - Welcome to Macromedia Great software from Macromedia.

Drawing package - QFX Image Editing Software QFX is a full-featured image editing, painting and composition program for the PC, processing images in full 32-bit mode.

The Graphics File Format Page (utils + info) Programs to read just about any graphics file format.

MotifZone The Motif Zone is sponsored by Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS), the leader in X Windows and Motif development tools, making Motif now available to the open source community under The Open Group Public License.

Netpbm - a toolkit for conversion of image formats Netpbm is a set of tools for conversion of images between a variety of different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations. The package is intended to be portable to many platforms.

NIH Image Home Page NIH Image is a public domain image processing and analysis program for the Macintosh. It was developed at the Research Services Branch (RSB) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
A free PC version of Image, called Scion Image for Windows, is available from Scion Corporation. There is also Image/J, a Java program inspired by Image that "runs anywhere".

Paintlib - C++ Class Library paintlib is a library of image file decoders. It is useable from C++-programs as a portable C++ class library and from any Windows-based language as ActiveX control. It currently supports the PNG, TGA, TIFF, JPEG/JFIF, Windows BMP, and Mac PICT formats as well as EPS previews.

Pixel 3D This $40 program does some special effects and format conversion. It is intended to be used to generate 3D Logos, but can be used for other purposes.

Wotsit's File Format Collection This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.

Animation Software

3D CAFE(tm) by Platinum Pictures - links for artists

Imagine In depth review of Imagine for Windows from Impulse.

Impulse home page - Imagine for window is sold here We make cool software, with high end features at a price that everyone can afford. The power is there, the creativity you supply. If you are looking for great 3D software, check out our product line. We promise to help you make the most of your time and get you the best 3D images possible.

Perl

Perl Home Page

Perl Variables List of all of Perl's predefined variables.

Perl Functions List of all of Perl's builtin functions.

Perl 5 Module List This document is a semi-formal list of Perl 5 Modules. The Perl 4 concept of packages has been extended in Perl 5 and a new standardised form of reusable software component has been defined: the Module.

Perl/Tk modules list This is the new version of the Perl/Tk modules list. More modules have been added with more links to provide a fast access to the cpan search site.

Java

JDK JavaDocs

J2EE JavaDocs API for version 1.3.1 of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition specification.

ACME Java On this page the following is stated:
"Welcome to the ACME Java mines! ACME Labs is exploring the use of Java for fun and profit. We are happy to share our findings."

Gamelan Learn how to do sprite animation in Java.

Presenting Java: Examples Index (alpha release) This web contains information about Java, including examples and source code used in the book, Presenting Java.

The Java Boutique About 50 free Java applets, many of which are pretty cool.

The Java Language Environment: A White Paper A set of about 12 papers written about various aspects of using Java.

Texture3D Cover Page Texture3D is a Java applet which lets user view and manipulate parametric 3D object such as sphere and torus.

JavaScript

JavaScript FAQ Knowledge Base

JavaScript.com The definitive JavaScript resource for JavaScript tutorials and free JavaScript scripts.

Danny Goodman FAQ - JavaScript goodies Here you'll find the latest versions of implementation examples excerpted from all three editions of his JavaScript book.

ECMA-262 - JavaScript Language Standard To find this standard you need to drill down through "Publications", then select "list" from the ECMA Standards (blue cover). Scroll about 2/3 of the way down the page to find the ECMA-262 standard.
This ECMA Standard defines the ECMAScript scripting language, a general purpose, cross-platform programming language. This ECMA Standard is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape Communications) and JScript (Microsoft Corporation).

IDM's JavaScript FAQ Well organized FAQ for learning JavaScript, troubleshooting and programming tools.

JAMMER Hide your HTML, Javascripts and VRML source code on your webpages from the browsers' VIEW SOURCE Window (then the potential thief will not be able to cut and paste your script)

Java/JavaScript Resources on the Internet List of links to other sites, most of which contain examples of JavaScript scripts.

JavaScript Contains several examples of things like an alert message and dynamic images. Also contains a list of links to other sites to snip from.

JavaScript Authoring Guide Click on the JavaScript link to get Netscape's JavaScript documentation.

JavaScript Discussion List This site has subscription information, a Resources section (listing many useful sites on JavaScript/JScript documentation, compatibility issues, tutorials, collections of scripts and tips, FAQ's, online JavaScript tools, and other lists/newsgroups), and a bookstore (in association with Amazon.com).

JavaScript made easy, Wizards and other tools - program WebScripter helps you create html pages that are embedded with JavaScript. HTML Wizards include: forms, tables, frames, images and links and fonts. JavaScript Wizards include: message dialogs, clocks, sound, new windows, JavaScript links, a dropdown navigator, password links, browser checking, mouseover events, rollover menus, rotating banners, scrolling messages, advanced email validation and cookies. WebScripter has a utility that converts embedded JavaScript into reference files (js) that are not seen with the view source method. There is a full library of HTML 4.0 tags with an attribute assistant and a library of JavaScript objects, their properties, methods and event handlers. There is a built-in FTP client for uploads and directory maintenance. WebScripter supports 3 different browsers and third party FTP and Image editing software.

JavaScript FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Several articles on how to implement special JavaScript techniques.

JavaScripts Contains many examples of various techniques implemented with JavaScript.

JMyth Code Encryption Utility This program obfuscates a JavaScript program to make it more difficult for someone else to utilize the code. The registered version of this program is $25.00.

Linux

Linux Online

Linux Documentation Project The Linux Documentation Project is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system.

Linux Gazette Linux Gazette™, a member of the Linux Documentation Project, is an on-line WWW publication dedicated to two simple ideas: making Linux just a little more fun and sharing ideas and discoveries.

HOWTOs - Linux Documentation Project A long list of HOWTOs courtesy of the Linux Documentation Project.

Linux Junior A place for guests and members to learn about Linux, share their views and help each other.

LinuxApps Huge directory of Linux software.

Linux Step by Steps These guides provide notebook style, first person accounts of installing software or hardware on a Linux system. They are intentionally specific rather than being of a generalized nature.

Setting up Ethernet A work-in-progress on how to set up your network.

Newbie's Top Ten Commands List of the top ten commands that every new Linux user should learn about to save time, effort and usenet flames.

Wine Development HQ A free implementation of Windows for Unix.

Linux-biz This site contains a list of references to commercial sites that make use of Linux to support their day-to-day business function.

HP printers and Linux HP is investing resources in open source efforts to improve the support for devices within Linux, including HP printers. The following information is provided to help guide you regarding the current status of support for Hewlet Packard printers with Linux, as well as a list of sites for additional information.

HP OfficeJet Linux driver project This is an HP-sponsored project to develop Linux support for most Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet, and other products.

The ProFTPD Project Highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software.

freshmeat.net freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software.

Emacs

"Cheat Sheets" for software

Emacs Goodies Here is a slightly random collection of Emacs goodies, some of which will help you with your Python programming.

Emacs . (dot) files This site actually has configuration files for many programs, one of which is emacs.

GNU Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/ME/NT/XP and 2000 This port is known to run on all versions of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. The Windows port is built using the Windows Win32 API and supports most of the features of the Unix version, there are some omissions at this time, which will be available in the future.

Index of /pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/ This archive contains various pieces and packages of Emacs Lisp code.

MIME and Emacs In this multimedia hungry world (country?) of ours, people have begun to send MIME encoded mail. I find it to be rather annoying, if I wanted pictures I would use Emacs-W3 or Nutscape to find them.

Netscape Plug-Ins

Netscape Plug-ins Plug-ins are software programs that extend the capabilities of Netscape Navigator in a specific way - giving you, for example, the ability to play audio samples or view video movies from within Navigator.

News Reader add-on for Netscape: FixNews FixNews works in conjunction with the newsreader, and provides the ability to "killfile", i.e. to filter articles based upon the subject and/or author. Wildcard support is included.

Shockwave for Director: Plug-In Center Shockwave is the Web standard for powerful multimedia playback. It lets you view interactive Web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your Web browser.

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