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This is a MUST! Picasa
2 is software that helps you instantly find,
edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa,
it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you
had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder
names you will recognise - I use it!
Google Maps &
NOW - even better -Get
Google Earth
www.saynoto0870.com This is a MUST!
Don't
phone 0870 or 0845 etc numbers until you try this. This site lists many
well known companies, and their equivalent geographical numbers.
Search
to find an alternative number
SoftPerfect File Recovery is a
FREE and very useful
tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks,
USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports
the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5
with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and
you can?t find them in the recycle bin, try this software product and
get the files back to life. Easy to use, no installation is required.
You will need to
use a "Card Reader" - just slip the SD card in the reader - run the File
Recovery program and point it to the SD card - the rest is easy. http://www.softperfect.com/download/file_recovery.exe
FREE Newsletter on
Computers Tips on things you can do with
your PC plus "reader's questions" section where you can obtain
support
Download The Real Alternative is an alternative to
REAL PLAYER - no adverts - will allow you to play RealMedia files
without having to install
RealPlayer/RealOne Player or to suffer the adverts. A player that is capable of playing RealMedia. The included
Media Player Classic supports it and works very well. Supported:
RealAudio (.ra .rpm).
OpenOffice (read more about it) A comprehensive, free office suite - almost like a basic
MS Office, (not as powerful - but its FREE) for
Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows
NT, Windows XP - FREEWARE
Size 50.6MB - will take quite a time!!
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly
any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any
program into a PDF-machine
Download PDFCreator-0_8_0_AFPLGhostscript.exe
Antivirus
software
AVG has
a
free anti virus program
you can download to protect your computer from
damaging viruses. No computer should be without anti-virus software and
this one does the job nicely with regular updates available. Remember
its important to check and make sure that you have regularly updated
anti-virus patterns.
PRO's a tried and tested program which catches all the
baddies
CON's prints an advert for AVG anti-virus software at the foot of your
emails, but a price well worth paying for an excellent program.
Ad Aware
This is a spyware removal utility that scans your memory,
registry and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you
remove them. Options such as scanning depth and automatic modes can be
set in the preferences menu. It features a wizard-style interface that
will guide you through the scanning and removal process.
Log on to
http://www.lavasoft.de/ and choose the mirror
site to download
This is their freeware and shareware
Downloads page! Choose a site to download your copy of Ad-Aware SE
Personal Edition, skins, help manuals, RegHance and the latest
definition file from. The freeware*
version of Ad-Aware is compatible with
Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003
File Size
2.50 Megabyte
Download time at 56 Kbs 10 mins.
Firewall
A
Firewall is a program which prevents hackers from gaining access to your
computer. As ASDL becomes more popular and people are spending longer
on line, its important that they are protected. Zone Alarm 3 is
available free of charge from
www.zonelabs.com
File Size
3.4 Megabyte
Download time at 56 Kbs 12 mins.
Adobe
Acrobat Reader
The
industry standard for sending documents using graphics and retaining
original fonts is PDF Portable Document File and it is essential that
you have this to open these files. A definite must have program.
Website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
File size:
8.6 Mb
Download Time
at 56 Kbs 30 mins
PopUp
Stopper Free Edition
Although a popular form of advertising, pop up ads are a real pain, but
this clever little program blocks most pop up ads before they get a
chance to expose themselves. Very useful little program.
Website:
www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html
File Size:
442 Kbs
Download Time
at 56 Kbs 2mins
Mailwasher
V1.32
SPAM
the scourge of the email world, this free program allows you to block
all unwanted email and reduce the SPAM you receive by up to 90+%
(I use it!!)
Website:
Get it from CNET Download.com!
File Size: 1.6 Mb
Download Time at 56 Kbs 6 mins
Lots of Freeware and Shareware products at
http://www.tucows.com
http://www.download.com
If you like the Shareware product you should buy it!!
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