Headgap's Internet Plug-In & FTP Site List

THIS IS VERY DATED INFORMATION. The links below will take you directly to Web pages or FTP sites containing the application listed. This page is dated and some links may no longer be active.

PLUG-IN CATEGORIES: Graphics | Animation | Audio/Speech | Video | 3D/VRML | Interactivity | Portable Documents | Miscellaneous

Graphics

  • FIGleaf Inline -- Web Page
    View, zoom, and manipulate graphics in these formats: TIFF, EPS, BMP, WMF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and more
  • Fractal Viewer -- Web Page
    View sharp fractal images (image/fif)
  • LightningDraw GX -- Web Page
    See pictures and animations in QuickDraw GX format (image/x-qdgx)
  • Lightning Strike -- Web Page
    View highly compressed graphics (image/cis-cod)
  • PNG Live -- Web Page
    See graphics in the up-and-coming PNG format (image/x-png)
  • Shockwave for FreeHand -- Web Page
    View, pan, and zoom in on FreeHand vector graphics (application/x-freehand)
  • Wavelet Image -- Web Page
    View Summus wavelet images (image/wavelet) 

Animation

  • FutureSplash -- Web Page
    View vector-based animations, some of which are interactive (application/futuresplash)
  • LightningDraw GX -- Web Page
    See pictures and animations in QuickDraw GX format (image/x-qdgx)
  • mBED -- Web Page
    View mbedlet animations, many of which are interactive (application/mbedlet)
  • Shockwave for Director -- Web Page
    View animations and interactive movies created with Director (application/x-director)

    Audio & Speech

    • Crescendo -- Web Page
      Listen to MIDI sound files; includes streaming for a fee (audio/midi)
    • KM's Multimedia Plug -- FTP Site
      Hear AU, AIFF, WAV, and MIDI sounds
    • ListenUp -- Web Page
      Talk to Web pages with PlainTalk speech recognition (plugin/listenup)
    • MacZilla -- Web Page
      Listen to audio in AU, WAV, MIDI, AIFF, or MP2 format
    • MIDIPlugin -- Web Page
      Listen to MIDI sound files (audio/midi)
    • MIDPLUG -- Web Page
      Hear MIDI sound files (audio/midi)
    • RapidTransit -- Web Page
      Play back compressed sound files in the RT (CODEC) format
    • RealAudio -- Web Page
      Listen to and deliver live and on-demand audio; includes streaming (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin)
    • ShockTalk -- Web Page
      Enable speech recognition with Shockwave for Director movies (application/x-director)
    • Talker -- Web Page
      Hear Web page content spoken aloud (text/x-speech)
    • ToolVox -- Web Page
      Listen to a site's sounds and speech (audio/voxware)

    Video

    • KM's Multimedia Plug -- FTP Site
      View MPEG or QuickTime (MOV) movies
    • MacZilla -- Web Page
      Watch movies in QuickTime (MOV), AVI, or MPEG format
    • MovieStar -- Web Page
      View QuickTime (MOV) and QuickTime VR movies; includes streaming
    • TEC Player -- Web Page
      View QuickTime (MOV) movies
    • ViewMovie -- Web Page
      View QuickTime (MOV) movies within your browser window 

    3D & VRML

    • Chemscape Chime -- Web Page
      View 2D and 3D chemical structures and images (chemical/x-pdb)
    • ExpressVR -- Web Page
      View and move around in 3D VRML worlds (x-world/x-vrml)
    • HotSauce -- Web Page
      Fly through 3D spaces (Meta Content Format files) (image/vasa)
    • PhotoBubble -- Web Page
      Look all around you and zoom in/out (like QuickTime VR) (application/photobubble)
    • VRML Equinox -- Web Page
      View and move around in 3D VRML worlds (x-world/x-vrml)
    • Web-Active -- Web Page
      Display and manipulate 3D Web VR images (x-world/x-wvr)
    • WhurlPlug -- Web Page
      View 3DMF 3D models (x-world/x-3dmf) 

    Interactivity

    • FutureSplash -- Web Page
      View vector-based animations, some of which are interactive (application/futuresplash)
    • HyperStudio -- Web Page
      View HyperStudio multimedia projects (application/hstu)
    • mBED -- Web Page
      View mbedlet animations, many of which are interactive (application/mbedlet)
    • Roadster -- Web Page
      View Roadster multimedia applications (application/x-supercard)
    • Shockwave for Authorware -- Web Page
      Interact with Authorware multimedia applications; includes streaming (application/x-authorware)
    • Shockwave for Director -- Web Page
      Interact with professional Director movies; includes streaming (application/x-director) 

    Portable Documents

    • Acrobat -- Web Page
      View and print Adobe Acrobat PDF documents (application/pdf)
    • Envoy -- Web Page
      View Envoy electronic documents (application/envoy) 

    Miscellaneous

    • ichat -- Web Page
      Connect to IRC or ichat servers and gab (application/x-chat)
    • Plug Master -- Web Page
      Control your plug-ins like the Mac Extensions Manager controls extensions
    • Tcl Plugin -- Web Page
      View applications created with the Tcl scripting language (application/x-tcl)

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