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Mozilla
- home of the Firefox Web browser A more secure alternative to Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing.
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Smart Computing magazine
One of the better magazines for computer users. Lots of useful information.
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http://pcsupport.about.com/
Visit this excellent site to get tips to beginners, power users, and
everyone in between. Give it a try.
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www.adobe.com
If you own a computer, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader
to open ubiquitous pdf (portable document format) files
used by governments, businesses, and organizations. Click this link to get
your free copy.
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www.winzip.com
Visit this site to download a copy of WinZip for a nominal charge. WinZip is one
of the most popular compression programs around.
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www.macromedia.com/downloads
This is the site to get Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave. Flash enables
your browser to play animation. Shockwave enables your browser to play
interactive multimedia. Nearly 300 million PC users have downloaded one or
both of these free browser plug-ins.
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www.real.com/player
Click this URL to get Real
Player's free RealOne Player which features a media player, music
jukebox, and a built-in media browser to play a wide variety of
streaming media formats on the Web. When you arrive at this site, click
the "Our Free Player" text. On the subsequent page, the free
RealOne Player download is on the left side of the screen.
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Lavasoft
Visit this site to download Ad-aware which detects and deletes spyware,
programs which track your web surfing habits and secretly send this
information to another site.
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www.zonelabs.com This
is the place to get Zone Alarm, a personal firewall program. This is one of the best
firewalls available, and it's free.
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www.download.com and
www.tucows.com
We don't have enough space to list all of the great programs available for
download. If you visit these two sites, however, you will find
thousands of selections. In case you're wondering, TUCOWS
is an acronym that stands for "the ultimate collection of worthwhile
software."
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www.microsoft.com
This is one of the largest sites on the web with several hundred thousand
pages including Windows updates, program patches, product information, a
huge technical knowledge database, and much more. Try not to get
lost.
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OpenOffice
A free office suite that interoperates with Microsoft Office.
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UltraVNC
A free remote desktop program that operates on all recent Windows versions.
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Picasa
A free digital photo manager and enhancer from Google.
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Wifi FAQ - 801.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g
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Netcraft Anti-Phishing toolbar
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