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Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher is strongly recommended in order to view the paper based tutorials, especially if you want to access the accessibility features of the pages.

Microsoft Windows Media Player Windows Media Player 10 is the all-in-one media player that provides the best experience for discovering, playing and taking your digital entertainment anywhere--on Windows XP PCs and the widest choice of portable devices. Windows Media Player 9 Series for Windows 98 Second Edition, Me, and 2000

 Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X this new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media 9 content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the web. New plug-in support added for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Safari enables playback of Windows Media files right from the browser. If you don't have Mac OS X, get the Windows Media Player for Mac 7.1 which runs on the Mac Classic OS.

Macromedia Flash 8 is strongly recommended in order to view materials that are interactive and flashed based.  It is a free download.

Download.com a website to get free downloads, plug-ins, drivers, and utilities, etc... Download.com is safe, trusted, spyware-free and of the CNET family.

QuickTime for Windows is used to play Mac formatted  Music and Videos files on a PC.  QuickTime 7 Player takes advantage of the latest video compression technology. It’s called H.264, and it’s an important new industry standard that’s quickly garnered widespread support.
 

QuickTime for Mac's is used to play Mac formatted  Music and Videos files. This version is for Mac's only. QuickTime 7 Player takes advantage of the latest video compression technology. It’s called H.264, and it’s an important new industry standard that’s quickly garnered widespread support.

Java Scripts is the industry-standard platform architecture for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing Web services-enabled multi-tier enterprise applications...

PowerPoint Viewer If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint, part of Microsoft Office Suite, you can view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations using this viewer. PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.

Real Player You can download a free version or an upgraded version; this one will cost you money.  Real Player is used to play music, radio, sports, news, games, videos, etc... Plays every major media format. LivePause and Perfect Play allows you to control your video streams Transfer your music to over 100 portable devices.

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.

Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 100 million others and make the switch today — Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.

 DivX  is the name of a popular new video compression technology developed by DivX, Inc. The format was developed to enable users to play and create high-quality videos in a fast and convenient way, while still maintaining the best quality possible. The DivX codec is currently the most popular MPEG-4 based codec because of its quality, speed and efficiency as well as the wide range of DVD players that support DivX.

U3 Launch Pad Removal Tool.  Use this tool to remove the U3 software that came with your San Disk USB drives.

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Freeware

• WinZip is the most popular compression utility for Windows, with more than 150 million downloads.  Easy-to-use and powerful user interface: the intuitive WinZip Wizard for first-time users and the award-winning WinZip Classic interface for power users.

• StuffIt and ZipMagic Family of products is designed to meet any level of compression needs; from basic expansion to advanced archive manipulation, to automating routine compression tasks, and even building compression into a software application. Scan the list of products below to find just the right StuffIt for you!

• EZANALYZE is a computer program designed to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft Excel by adding "point and click" functionality for analyzing data and creating graphs. It works on both Macs and PC's.

• Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editor developed by a team of software developers, translators, documentation writers, and other contributors around the world. This website contains information about the team developing Audacity, resources for Audacity users and developers, and information about how to donate money or help sponsor development. Audacity tutorials can be found at: Audacity Wikipedia page: good help or Audacity Tutorial: Technology School of the Future, South Australia.

• Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software (like Captivate and Camtasia), primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

• Download.com a website to get free downloads, plug-ins, and drivers, utilities, etc...

• Google Earth Explore, search, and discover: Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

• WebbIE is a web browser for blind and visually-impaired people, especially those using screen readers. It is based on Microsoft's Internet Explorer to ensure that a maximum of sites work with it. It allows you access to the vast majority of WebPages and tries to present all the information there simply and easily so you can explore and use the web fully.

• Mozilla Products You can download Mozilla products including:

  • Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 100 million others and make the switch today — Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.

  • Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more.

  • Mozilla Suite Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.

  • Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively...

  • Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with powerful web-browsing capabilities such as the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. The Camino project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all types of users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.

• Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze".

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Spyware

• Ad-Aware SE personal edition with the ability to scan your RAM, registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware SE easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.

• Spybot - Search & Destroy adds some truly useful features to an already excellent application. The program still checks your system against a comprehensive database of adware and other system invaders, but it works much faster now.

• Spyware Doctor for Window 3.2 Spyware Doctor is not only one of the most popular spyware removal and real-time protection tools on the market (with 500,000+ downloads per week) but also one of the most highly awarded!

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