The big thing in the press just now is WAP - Wireless Application Protocol. The proud downer of a WAP phone can now surf the web to specially formatted websites. These are written in a special version of HTML. If you would like to see a simulation of a WAP phone, go to

http://www.gelon.net/

Better still, word has reached our scribe that one of our members has just got hold of one of the latest Nokia WAP phones, and will give us a demo on Monday night.
If you have not got a WAP phone there is good news, you can receive short emails on your conventional mobile simply by registering with BT's free Genie service.

http://www.genie.co.uk/

Top software on offer this month includes:

Two route planners: AA Milemaster 99 and Route Master from the Ordnance Survey.

JBuilder: one of the best development suites for Java.

Euro 2000 includes video footage of Michael Owens' greatest goals as well as all the teams and fixtures for the big event.

eSafe which was awarded the 1999 PC Magazine Editor's Choice for best Internet Security Suite.

World Travel Guide 2000: Provides comprehensive information on travel destinations around the world and is well respected in the industry.

4th dimension: a very powerful RAD tool for database application development.

Powerdesk 4: Replaces Windows Explorer and allows instant QuickView access to most file types, a built-in zip/unzip capability and lots more.

Via Voice 98: A top quality speech recognition package.

Compton's Interactive Encyclopaedia '99 Photopaint 2000: A startlingly powerful image

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There are times when you are surfing the web when you could really do with two browsers running at the same time. Up till now this would entail you launching another instance of your browser, and thereby using up a lot of your system's resources. Webattack recently featured a very cleaver plugin for IE4/5 called DuoPage.

DuoPage is a companion for Microsoft® Internet Explorer (4.0 or later) that provides simultaneous display of two different web pages and enables interaction between them. In a nutshell, it provides a separate browser window in the left pane of the Internet Explorer, so that clicking on the hyperlinks in the left window will display the corresponding page in the right window. It can be very convenient when used with:

• contents (index) pages of large web sites



• search engines



• anonymous FTP sites