Just in case you haven't noticed by now, this month's cover disk is a Special Edition, crammed full with over 150 of the very best freely available files harvested from this month's Free Web Treasure cover feature.

Some of the regularly updated software packages often to be found on your disk have made way this month to make space for the huge raft of freebies on offer, but there are more than enough bits and pieces squeezed into over 600MB to keep you busy! Whether you're after the latest updates of old favourites such as the NeoPlanet browser, Eudora Mail for both Mac and PC or Kazaa Media Desktop, some essentials for your techy toolkit including CoffeeCup Webcam, Geeklog or Trillian IM, or just some fun in the shape of Tetris for the Mac, Pacman or even Kim's favourite The Falafel Game, we hope there's loads here to please everyone.

There're also more than enough tools and apps to help those with a practical bent with this month's projects. You'll find Snitz Forums, Crystal Buttons, Actinic Catalog, MySQL, Cookie Pal and phpBB will all come in handy for the tutorials in this issue. And of course we've included all the best stuff from our features and regular items, including Tim's new trawl for Hot Downloads. We hope you have fun playing with this software, which represents some of the very best freeware, shareware, trial and just plain freebie creations the Web has to offer. Please remember to support the programmers where applicable if you really find an application invaluable, and do your bit to boost co-operation within the Web development community.

Enjoy yourselves,