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(Free Stuff!)

 

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]

 
Link to AVG Anti-virus
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]  
Link to Microsoft Office Live
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]  
Link to Lavasoft Adaware
Google Earth provides scrollable Satellite pictures of everywhere on the planet, for us this is one of the web's most exciting products [link]  
Link to Google Earth
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]  
Link to Microsoft Office Online
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]  
Link to Skype
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]  
Link to the Google Pack
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]  
Link to Microsoft Expression
Open Office - Opensource (free) office software, including all the regular office functionality you would expect to need.  
Link to OpenOffice.org
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]  
Link to Mozilla Thunderbird
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]  
Link to Microsoft IE7
Cacheman XP Freeware - manages the memory (RAM) useage on your Windows XP computer, and keeps it running faster. [link]  
Cacheman XP frees up your memory
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]  
Channel Computing help chose and operating system

 

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Free Stuff!
We're put a whole new section on the site showing our users where to get the best software and services on-line, including a page on all the best FREE software that we know about.
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Content Management.
This is where your web site can easily be updated by yourselves, without needing an expesive developer to do it for you. Channel Computing specialise in providing cutting edge 'CMS' Systems.
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e-commerce
is booming, and if you haven't started using it you must be asking whether you should? Talk to us to learn what the options are - it won't cost you anything!
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PPC Advertising
PPC Advertising and on-line marketing. The biggest thing on the web, one of the world's greatest growth industies..
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