Internet Related Programs

This page contains links to programs that are associated with the Internet.

Page last updated 28 December 2006.

Freereader http://www.feedreader.com/

This is a free RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader.

RSS shows headlines on your desktop. Clicking on the links shows the full story.

Freereader enables you to view a list of the current headlines against each feed and a summary of unread headlines.

John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk Free Download Manager http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Free Download Manager speeds up the download process by splitting the download into a number or parallel "threads".

It organises the downloads in folders under different categories (although it does not always get this right!).

It allows the download traffic to be prioritised so that downloads do not hog the available bandwidth.

Downloads can be scheduled with the computer shutting itself down when completed although I do not use this feature very often.

I am now using this for most of my downloads. I like the visual indication as to how far the download has progressed and te summary of the download speed.

John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk Kompozer http://www.kompozer.net/

This application provides WYSIYG web page editing. Pages can be published directly from the program to the web server.

The program also has good integration with stylesheets and can edit the style sheet from within the program. The effect is shown immediately on the preview window.

I have just started using this program and am quite impressed.

I have found some quirks associated with having images and stylesheets in their own folders (a single folder is all right). I can live with this. Entry created 22 June 2008. John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk 1st Page 2000 http://www.evrsoft.com

Create a Web site. Manages multiple pages and folders. Used to create parts of this site.

Not WYSIWG but does have a live preview. The free version is still available but a later non-free version is also available, Installation may (should) report a virus - one of the Javascript sample files "Six Buttons From Hell" is detected by many virus scanners. This can be removed it is not essential to the program operation. John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk Top Style Lite http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/tslite/

Used to inspect and manage Cascading Style Sheets. This site uses a single Style Sheet that controls the format and layout of every page. This program was originally used to edit the styles within this page.

Note: use the Lite version which is free.

I am now using Kompozer

John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk Dialup Network Monitor http://jongrieve.net/dunmon/default.taf?beta

Displays a graph which shows transmitted and received data and confirms that the network is connected.

Recommend using the Beta version which works better (not perfectly) with XP. I find I have to start it manually the first time I log in after XP has booted up. Only of value with dialup connections. Programs such as Sunbelt/Kerio Firewall (recommended) have their own graph. Updated 28 Dec 2006 John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk HTTrack Website Copier http://www.httrack.com

Copies the contents of a web site to the local disk for off-line browsing. Works very well.

Updated 28 Dec 2006 John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk Smart FTP http://www.smartftp.com

Copy files to/from an FTP server. You may need this to transfer your web pages to your web server.

I use Internet Explorer for uploading/downloading web pages and Free Download Manager for program downloads. John Steele gxcc.techsupport soroban.co.uk