THE H-REPORT

Internet

by Daniel P. Dern

Billing Software For ISPs

If you're an Internet Service Provider (and who isn't, these days), check out the User Tracking and Accounting (UTA) billing software program from RTD Systems and Network. UTA is a Unix-based customer registration and billing system for ISPs. It also can have some use for managing internal company users. See http://www.rtd.com/ software/uta.html, or send e-mail to uta-sales@rtd.com, or call (800) 299-0430.

JUMBO Freeware Site

Looking for copies of freeware/shareware Internet browsers and other business and fun programs? Hop over to the JUMBO Site at http://www.jumbo.com/ for searchable access to more than 20,000 programs for Windows, Unix, Mac, OS/2 and DOS. Windows95 and Newton are coming soon. Read the descriptions and documentation before you download. Windows users may want to go directly to the /util/win/ winsock/ directory.

Pick Of The Month

Put a little "zip" in your Web browsing--try Henry Minsky's HTML Active filter on your favorite URL, for example: http://www.ua.com/cgi-bin/sfx/techweb.cmp.com.

Internet Population Approaches 30 Million

Smoot Carl-Mitchell and John Quarterman of Matrix Information & Directory Services (MIDS) calculate that we finally have reached the 20 to 30 million level for Internet population. The press release is available at: http://www.mids. org/mids/press957.html.

How To Fight The Word Virus

Worried about picking up a virus from downloaded Microsoft Word files? Trend Micro Devices offers a their PC-Cillin Lite scanner program that will check .DOC and .DOT files for the "Word Virus," from http://www.teleport.com/~trend/main.htm. Microsoft is also offering assistance at http://www.microsoft.com/office/.

New Features In Free Agent

Free Agent 1.0 now also handles e-mail as well as UseNet News. Additional features include "kill" and "watch" lists, URL-launchings and MIME attachments. See http://www.forteinc.com/forte/.

New Internet Mail Support For Mac Users

Looking for a new e-mail program? If your Mac has a 68020 or better processor, you may want to check out Emailer from Claris, which includes support for BinHex, uuencode and MIME attachments. See http://www.claris.com/News or ftp.claris.com for information and a downloadable demo version.

Icons And Other Graphics Resources

If you don't have enough clip art, images or textures yet, see: http:// www.itw.com/~imagesys. Also recommended: Daniel's Icon Archive, at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/~mccoy/Icons/index.html. Randy D. Ralph offers HTML developers access to his collection of GIF images and icons at http://www. infi.net:80/~rdralph/icons/ and his GIF fractals, suitable for Windows wallpaper, now at: http://www.infi.net:80/~rdralph/fractals/.

Daniel P. Dern can be reached at ddern@world.std.com.

November 1, 1995