RISC OS Free Software

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    Bookmarks BookMaker Bookmark (hotlist) manager for storing URLs for use in multiple browsers 2.00ß-9G 32-bit Web
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    CDDB AcornCD CDDB server: downloads and stores track listings for your CDs from an online audio CD database 0.25 32-bit Web
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    Development version with source, documentation and an extra tool 0.25 Zip See
    Connection Acornet Free Internet connection suite including email/newsreader, simple browser and other utilities: both Acorn stack and Freenet versions are supplied 0.21 (Acorn), 0.22 (Freenet) Web See
    ArmTCP Internet connection suite; requires other Internet software (e.g. a browser) to be installed 0.16b Web
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    PPPdriver PPPdriver software for use with DCI 2 and DCI 4 Internet stacks 1.16 (DCI 2) 2.30 (DCI 4) Web See
    Socketeer Stress-free way of connecting a RISC OS machine to the Internet through a telephone or ISDN line 0.17 Web
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    Flash Flash Plug-in to enable RISC OS Web browsers to display Macromedia Flash files 0.410.1.1 Web
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    FTP & File transfer FileFetch Utility for managing Web-based file downloads; can attempt to resume interrupted transfer operations, and handles batches 1.15l 32-bit Web Zip
    See Run
    FTPc Easy-to-use RISC OS File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client 1.41 32-bit Web Zip
    See Run
    WebGet Utility to download entire Web sites for viewing on a local disc 0.18 Web
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    Instant Messaging AcornICQ RISC OS 'I Seek You' client 0.40.0 Web
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    LIRC RISC OS Internet Relay Chat client 1.85 Web
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    MSN Messenger RISC OS client for Microsoft's instant messaging service 0.25 Web
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    Email & News Attacher Utility to encode and decode email attachments in UUcode and Base64 formats 1.04 Web Zip
    See Run
    FreeSMTP SMTP transport for use with Newsbase 1.38 Web
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    Messenger Advanced email/newsreader utility for use with Newsbase 1.41d Web
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    Newsbase Multi-user email/news server 0.70b2 Web
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    NewsHound Downloads Usenet news with NNTP and stores it for offline reading 1.42 Web
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    PGP Pretty Good Privacy encrypted message system for RISC OS 2.6.3ia Web
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    POPStar POP3 mail transport 2.05 32-bit Web
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    SysLog Enables easy logging from a variety of applications on RISC OS 3, 4.0x & 5
    (Note: users of RISC OS Select should remove any instances of this software from their systems, as an improved SysLog module is built into RISC OS 4.2+)
    0.20 32-bit Web
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    Ticker A simple news ticker that uses the BBC News Online ticker, or any RDF ticker feed, to display headlines and link to full stories 0.80 32-bit Web Zip
    See Run
    Spam Filtering AntiSpam Powerful rules-based email transport system that can delete unwanted messages on the server without the need to download them first
    AntiSpam has an online support group at SmartGroups
    1.19 32-bit Web
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    SpamStamp Spam-filtering application that adds headers to downloaded email based on its judgement of whether each message is spam; uses Bayesian analysis to learn and improve in accuracy, and hence does not need to be set up with rules 0.14ß 32-bit Web
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    IMDb MovieDB Front-end to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for RISC OS 1.42 32-bit Web
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    Telnet FreeTerm Terminal emulator for use with any TCP/IP stack that supports the Acorn sockets interface 1.44 Web
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    Nettle Terminal emulator with a range of emulations, plus an ANSI task window for running ports of Unix programs etc. 0.2032r Web Zip
    See Run
    Time FreeTime Sets your computer's clock according to a time-server on the Internet 1.14 32-bit Web
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    Web ArcWeb Early RISC OS Web browser supporting HTML 2.0; stable software, but it does not render HTML tables, and its frame-handling is primitive 1.92 Web
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    Historian Utility for maintenance of Fresco's history list 0.18 Dev Zip
    See Run
    IEurl Allows use of Microsoft Internet Explorer 'favourites' files with RISC OS browsers 2.00 32-bit Dev Zip
    See Run
    NetWatch A utility which checks for updated sites on the Web, notifying you if a page has changed 1.65 32-bit Web Zip
    See Run
    Web coding HTMLcheck Validates HTML files using a port of the sgmls SGML parser (the archive also includes a fully generalised front-end to sgmls) 1.12 32-bit Dev Zip
    See Run
    Perl 5 Practical Extraction and Report Language version 5.005 (widely used for CGI) 1.12 Web
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    Documentation for Perl version 5.001 in HTML, Impression and StrongHelp formats 5.001 Zip See
    PHP 4.3.2 HTML-embedded script language whose scripts are interpreted by the server, so it works with all browers 2.16 32-bit Web
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    WebJames HTTP server for RISC OS complete with PHP support 0.40 32-bit Web
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