Around 200 titles are mentioned in this month's massive software special in the magazine – we've gathered together over 150 of these on your cover CD, #107 September 2003. That's a lot of download time-saving. You will find the titles throughout the pages on this CD – in fact, there's not been space for much else!

Some of the titles mentioned are online services or require free registration first. Below are links to these as well as to other resources online:

ActiveTracker Desktop W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP Track whether your sent email gets opened and whether it gets forwarded. Meca 3.0 W98SE/Me/2000/NT4SP6/XP Interoperable and skinnable chat client with funky emoticons. CyberTalkOnline 5 W9x/2000/NT/XP Make unlimited voice calls from one PC to another using the program's buddy list and a mic. Xray 2 Win2000/XP Validates your XML in real time as you type, helping you learn from your mistakes. SmartDraw 6 W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP Create all sorts of charts, flyers, etc. EzCart Customisable online commerce software for your Web site. Pay the developers only when you make a sale. Free Web hosting and other resources: Free Images Access thousands of exciting and free stock photos here. www.freeimages.co.uk Free Foto Overwhelming repository of pics for non-commercial use. www.freefoto.com Netfirms Free banner-ad supported Web hosting for small businesses that even hosts your domain for free. Get a generous 1GB data transfer a month, CGI Bin directory, 25MB disk space, FTP uploads and one webmail account. FrontPage extensions are also supported. www.netfirms.com Yahoo! Geocities In one form or another, this service has been around for many years now. http://geocities.yahoo.com Tripod Get free PHP4U and MySQL with Tripod's Web building services, as well as a generous allocation of 50MB disk space. www.tripod.co.uk ZeroCatch Get a generous 100MB of free Web space here! There are some limitations (such as the inability to support certain file types), but the ample Web space just about makes up for it. www.0catch.com Freeservers A good place for beginners and you can even customise how the obligatory ads are displayed on your pages! www.freeservers.com Brinkster Playing with Microsoft's Active Server Pages and .NET? Take your first steps for free with this ASP/XML/WAP/Access-supported host. www.brinkster.com FortuneCity Absolute novices who don't know HTML might like to visit the redesigned FortuneCity home page to create their first Web site. www.fortunecity.com * * * Also inside... Actinic 6.1.2 Includes everything you need to design, build and run an online store. Crystal Button Create great looking navigation buttons for your Web site. Cookie Pal A cookie management system that works with most popular browsers. Hot Downloads Clutter An alternative interface for your MP3 music collection. System Cleaner Get rid of the rubbish strewn inside your computer system. EBooksWriter Lite Create electronic books for digital redistribution. tinySpell Check spelling in any Windows application of the fly.