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This page aims to provide our customers with a set of web resources, allowing you to access the latest and most useful features on the web. We'll update it when we find more stuff, so please bookmark the page and come back from time to time, we aim to make it worth your while. We'll start with 2 sections - Free stuff, and Useful stuff (not free). Please let us know if you find this section of our site useful.
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Free Anti Virus software from AVG. We use this all the time, you can upgrate to a paid for 'professional' version, or stick with the free one. [link] |
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| Free Web Site, email and hosting from Microsoft Office Live. This is a major new initiative from Microsoft, packed with free software and functionality, including your own web site hosted free by microsoft, your own domain name, and email addresses. info [link] |
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| Free anti-spyware program: Ad-aware SE Personal. We use this all the time, update regularlay with the latest definitions, then run every few days to clean to nasties from your computer. To download this product browse their site to 'Products', then select 'Adaware SE Personal' [link] |
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| Google Earth provides scrollable Satellite pictures of everywhere on the planet, for us this is one of the web's most exciting products [link] |
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| Free Trial of Microsoft Office 2007 - get one step ahead of the game. This is a Beta version and free for 60 days, but then you have to pay. [link] |
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| Skype - free phone calls online to other skype users, or really cheap calls to conventional phones. Works best if you buy a cheap set of headphones. Skype is one of the leading providers of VoIP (Voice over the Internet) [link] |
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| Google's Freepack includes Picassa (very useful for Photo editing), Skype (free phone calls), 6 months subscription to Norton Anti-virus (pay after that), Google search, and others. Remember you can select which pieces of software you select from these downloads, so only take the ones you want. Remember screen-savers can slow your system down, and duplicating tools (such as search tools) may not both be used. [link] |
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| Free web development software (Beta version) - Microsoft Expression Web Design. This is basically Microsoft's answer to Macromedia (Adobe) Dreamweaver, and allows you to develop standards-based (read 'normal') web sites to a commercial standard. [link] |
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| Open Office - Opensource (free) office software, including all the regular office functionality you would expect to need. |
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| Free 'Thunderbird' email client: Mozilla is an organisation which specialises in 'open source' (free) software. One of the most popular is Mozilla Thunderbird, an email client (roughly the equivalent of Microsoft Outlook). Its not quite as slick as Outlook, but its free and equally powerful. The other option is Mozilla Firefox, a web browser (similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer). For more information [link] |
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| Microsoft Internet Explorer 7: Most people are still using Microsoft IE6 or earlier, but 7 is now available to upgrade for free. The most useful feature of the new version is the tabbed windown, meaning that you can have several windows open at once within one instance of the programme. Security is also much improved. [link] |
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| Cacheman XP Freeware - manages the memory (RAM) useage on your Windows XP computer, and keeps it running faster. [link] |
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| Linux Operating System: Becoming a very important alternative for business, freeing you from expensive software licensing and regular hardware upgrades. We can assist with the selection and implementation of Ubuntu and other open-source alternatives. [link] |
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