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Ben Lovejoy <ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm extremely happy with Claris Emailer 2 and WhatRoute (ping, traceroute,
> etc, etc), so won't be changing those. But I'm open to suggestions for
> everything else. I've put in brackets what I'm currently using:
> 
> - Newsreader (Newshopper 1.2)

Newshopper is a fine newsreader but Macsoup is (IMHO) better, see
<http://www.snafu.de/~stk/macsoup/>.

> - Web browser (Netscape Communicator)

I use 4.5, it's a pity that no Navigator 4.5 is available, I don't want
the newsreader/email bits.

> - IRC (Ircle 3.something)

I don't think they really come any better.

> - FTP (Fetch)

I have stuck with fetch because I rarely use FTP but Anarchie and
Transmit (formerly Transit) might be worth looking at if you fancy a
change.

> In particular, I'm quite out of touch with video formats - I've seeing more
> and more websites with motorcycling videos, and people also email me same,
> but I haven't worked out how to view most of them. The main formats I've
> seen are .avi and .rm.

.rm are Realmeadia files, very small but bad quality, pretty crap and
unstable player though, see <http://www.real.com> for the Real player.
.avi are windows video files, the extension means very little though,
from that you don't know if you will be able to play them.  avi files
can use any number of different "codecs", that is the scheme used to
encode them, 2 of them are not available in Mac Versions, Indeo 5 &
I263.  Quicktime 3 will play most of them but you will also need Indeo
3.2 & Indeo 4 extensions in order to play those files, both should be
available from <http://www.intel.com>, the 3.2 extension will play all
previous versions, oddly the v4 extension will play only v4 files.
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