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Opera is another good alternative to Internet Explorer. It's stable,
good, and free. If you have a web-enabled cell phone, you should also
check out the download for Opera Mini. So far this is the best way to
surf the web on portable devices! |
Automatically keep your PC time correct by synchronizing it to the
world time server. Lots of other goodies available at this website, too. |
VOIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol. Digital Telephone. Call and talk
with anyone else who has Skype for free. Get a webcam and use the
videophone feature, for free. Call land lines or cell phones anywhere
in the world, cheap. Go crazy and buy a Skype phone number and anyone
can call you on Skype from ANY phone. |
This Java-based bit torrent client is one of the better ones for
peers-to-peer downloading. The new version called Vuze (vuse.com), is geared
toward video. |
A good, open source WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web page
editor. This is evolving into "Composer", which is part of the Mozilla
"Seamonkey" project (mozilla.org).
NVU
was derived from Netscape Composer, and now Mozilla Composer will
eventually succeed NVU. (Mozilla Firefox is also derived from Netscape
Navigator, and Thunderbird from Netscape Communicator). |
If you have to use FTP to transfer files on the Internet, Filezilla is
one of the best programs for doing so. |
For many of you, the next two are obvious. If you haven't downloaded the follow browser plug-ins, these two are extremely common, heavily used, and good to have.
Use this browser plug-in to view PDF (portable document format) files.
Lots of sites use them. |
And use this one to view multimedia content. It used to be "Macromedia
Flash", but billions of dollars changed hands and now it's Adobe Flash. |