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Winamp

Audio player for Internet Radio

http://www.winamp.com/

Streamripper plugin for Winamp

Streamripper

Shoutcast Website Radio selector for Winamp

Shoutcast

Open Office (formerly Star Office)

Office Suite

A word processor,spreadsheet, presentation and data base programs from Sun Microsystems old Star Office project, now Open Office.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Here is a short look at what Open Office does.

TOTAL RECORDER

Audio

Total Recorder is a cheap ($12.00) sound recording program. It can record streaming Internet Radio and most other sounds on a PC. Total Recorder is a bit difficult to use, but once set up it is easy enough. It can be had from...

http://www.highcriteria.com/

Audacity: Free Sound Editor

Audio

One of the best free audio editors around, open source cross platform...

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

SOUND PAD: SOUND EDITOR

Audio

A free sound recorder just a little bit better than the Windows built in sound recorder is Sound Pad. You can download this at...

http--www.menasoft.com-soundpad-

MP3 PLUGIN FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

Audio

Andrew Ferguson has a plugin for Windows Media player that makes it act as an mp3 ripper for you cds. You can get this at...

MP3 codec and registry file

...to install it do the following. After unzipping the files into a new empty folder..

Copy the L3codecp.acm file to your C:\windows\system32\ directory
Double click on MP3_W2K.reg and click "Yes" when the computer asks are you sure you want to add the information to the registry.
Open Windows Media Player, click Tools > Options
Click on the Copy Music tab
Select MP3Encoding from the Format Tab

You are ready to go!

ALTERNATIVE FOR REAL PLAYER

Audio

There is a good alternative to Real Player called strangely enough Real Alternative. You can get this at...

Free-Codecs.com Download Real Alternative 1.29

Quicktime Alternative

Audio

Quicktime Alternative is a program that replaces the Quicktime program. This alternative is able to play som ebut not all Quictime type files. It is a large download at over eight megabytes. It can be downloaded from

http://www.free-codecs.com/QuickTime_Alternative_download.htm

ACID EXPRESS FROM SONY

Audio

Acid Express is a free sound mixer and recorder. It is a big download at 37 megs and you have to fill out your name and email address to get it. But is is very good and really free. You can get it at...

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/freestuff.asp

..time and curcumstance hammered together to make a thing of use...unknown

Gimp

Graphics

Gimp is a free open source substitute for commercial photo editing software. It is a big download. But it is afair photo editor , a bit complicated but it works fine. It is available from...

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

there is an online book manual for Gimp at...

http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

there is a Gimp user group at

http://gug.sunsite.dk/

Ezthumbs

Graphics

Ezthumbs is a free thumbnail creator it can be found at...

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Nvu

Web page editor

Nvu is a free web page editor almost as good as the commercial editors.

It can be found at...

http://www.nvu.com/

Firefox

Web Browser

Firefox is a free web browser from Mozilla in the open source community. It can be downloaded at...

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

AVG Anti-Virus

Virus Protection

One of the best antivirus programs is AVG Antivirus. It's completely free and won't slow down your system the way some commercial anti-virus programs do. It gets updated with new virus signatures every couple of days. There is a pay for version so select the free one carefully, if you like.

http://www.grisoft.com/

Adaware and Spybot

Spyware Detectors

Unfortunately spyware is becoming more and more ubiquitous. It won't actually damage your computer but it "phones home" and makes you the target of unwanted e-mail. Two excellent anti-spyware programs are Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy. They're both very good but each occasionally misses a spyware file. It's best to use both of them.

Adaware

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot Search and Distroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

Sygate Personal Firewall

Firewall

No computer should ever log unto the Internet without a working firewall that will block unauthorized connections both into and out of the computer. An excellent free one is Sygate Personal Firewall.

http://smb.sygate.com/download_buy.htm

Zone alarm Free

Firewall

Zone Alrm is another free firewall that is very popular. They have a pay version that is reasonable in cost as well. Here is a linl to the download stite for Zone Alarm.

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Any Password

Password Management

Many web sites, particularly financially sensitive ones, require the use of a password. How to manage and remember all these passwords in a secure manner becomes a real challenge. Any Password solves this problem by storing the information in an encrcypted file. All you need to remember is the password for that file.

http://www.romanlab.com/apw/index.html

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