Resources

Resources is a collection of must have software and extremely helpful links.
Most of the software listed below is free.

Anti-virus Software

AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.

www.grisoft.com

Symantec's Norton AntiVirus™ is one of the world’s most trusted antivirus solutions.* It removes viruses, worms, and Trojan horses automatically—without interrupting your work. New Norton™ Internet Worm Protection blocks certain more sophisticated worms (such as Blaster and Sasser) before they enter your computer. Norton AntiVirus can also detect spyware and other non-virus threats.

www.symantec.com

Spam Email Filtering Software

MailWasher Anti Spam Email Software

MailWasher® is the ultimate innovation in anti-spam software. Stop spam and unwanted email with MailWasher Pro. It's easy to use and very effective. Over 5 million downloads!

www.firetrust.com

Voice Over IP - Web Based Communication (VOIP) Software

With Skype you can talk to anyone, anywhere for FREE

Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It’s free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers.

www.skype.com

Open Office is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

We highly recommend this piece of software

www.openoffice.org

Media Players

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. additional features including free-form skins, a new decoder, built-in cross fade, and an advanced Media Library.

www.winamp.com

Apple's multi-platform, industry-standard,
multimedia software.

www.apple.com

The basic version of the RealPlayer lets you play every major media type and includes:

Delivers pristine audio and video playback quality.
Plays CDs, DVDs and all major file types.

Supports over 100 secure portable devices,
including the iPod.

www.real.com

Adobe Flash & Shockwave Players

Enjoy the most vivid content on the web
Watch video without extra downloads
Interact with applications on your favorite sites.

An absolute must have for browsing websites feature rich with animation,
audio and games!!

Shockwave Player is the web standard for powerful multimedia playback. The Shockwave Player allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser.

File Compression Software

The most popular compression utility for Windows, with more than 140+ million downloads

Quickly and easily zip and unzip files and folders

Save storage space, dramatically reduce e-mail transmission time, and efficiently archive documents

www.winzip.com

Winrar

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads.

www.rarlab.com

PDF File Reader (Portable Document File)

Adobe Acrobat Reader™

Free software for viewing and printing Adobe PDF files. Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™ is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all major computer platforms.

Virtual Reality Viewer

Cortona VRML Client

Cortona VRML Client is a fast and highly interactive Web 3D viewer for viewing 3D models on the Web. Cortona VRML Client works as a VRML plug-in for popular Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and so on) and office applications (Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and so on).

www.parallelgraphics.com

Search Engines

The first place you should visit to search the web.
Currently the worlds largest search engine.
Need we say more?...

www.google.co.uk

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

www.dmoz.org

Web Based Email (like our own webmail)

Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

gmail.google.com

Hotmail is the originator of free web-based e-mail. Your e-mail ID is yours for life whether you change jobs, move a few thousand miles or change your name. No software to download, install or configure. You can get mail from an external POP mail account. You can access your Hotmail anywhere in the world that you can gain access to a web browser.

www.hotmail.com

Internet Web Browsers

Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser.

www.mozilla.org

Operating Systems (OS)

All things Microsoft

The entry page to Microsoft's Web site. Find software, solutions and answers.

Support, and Microsoft news.

Linux

Linux is a free alternative operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.

www.linux.org