Anti-Virus Clients
Avast! Antivirus Free Anti-virus client for home users
AVG Highly rated free Anti-virus app
Spyware Terminator Despite the name it's actually an AV scanner that also picks up spyware, keyloggers, ect.
Anti-Spyware Clients
Firewalls
Alternatives to popular software
Trillian Good all-in-one messenger
Pidgin Used to be GAIM, same purpose as Trillian
Firefox Widely popular web browser, has ton of extensions and security options that make it more secure than IE
Thunderbird From makers of Firefox, alternative to Outlook
VLC Media Player Media Player that will play tons of formats
Quicktime Alternative Plays Quicktime files without the bloatware and mem hogging processes
Real Alternative Same as above except for RealMedia files
Filezilla Free ftp client
GIMP Open Source Photoshop alternative, high functionality
Paint.NetFree photo editor with many options
Foxit Reader Like Adobe Reader without the obscene load times or bloatware
Open Office Open Source version of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, ect and will open files created in MS office
CutePDF Free PDF creator
7-zip Like Winzip
System Utilities
Bart PE Creates a bootable disk that allows you access to a command prompt, registry, ect when unable to boot into Windows, has many other uses
CCleaner Good disk and registry cleanup utility
SpeedFan Temperature Monitoring and fan control program
Undelete Plus File Recovery Program
CPU-Z Shows info about your processor, voltage, clocks, ect. Good when testing overclocks.
Keepass Store and manage usernames and passwords
Memtest86 Utility for testing RAM
Prime95 CPU stress test, universal standard for testing system stability when overclocking
Orthos like Prime95 but better support for multiple-core CPUs
3dMark06 Widely accepted standard for benchmarking video cards
PC Inspector Another file recovery program
Synergy Share your mouse and keyboard across multiple computers, seamless and great if you have multiple computers running next to each other
Crossloop Free Remote assist software
EraserFully deletes and destroys file data
LookatLAN Network discovery tool
Media Player Classic builtin codecs similar to VLC, but in the "good old style" of WMP 6.4 and with a few bonus features
GPU-Zdoes for GPUs what CPU-Z does for processors
Orbit/Grab++ download manager, with its component grab++ you can even download streamed songs and flash-vids from youtube &co
SUPER extremely powerful audio/video converter, has support for special formats (like for consoles or mobile phones)
JDiskReportshows disk usage of folders and files, requires java
FreeCommander one of those countless Norton commander clones, nice alternative for windows explorer
Rivatuner a very good graphics card utility with tons of features
Misc Utilities
Skype Make phone calls from your PC. great for long distance calling
Safari Apple's web browser, works on Windows
Daemon Tools Virtual Drive manager, can mount an ISO instead of wasting CD/DVDs
DVDfab Rips DVDs and copies to your hard drive, and removes protection
Winamp Widely popular music player
CCCP Codec Pack Codec pack that has pretty much everything
Samurize lets you build individual desktop widgets and monitoring boxes, has tons of user-made layouts available
ATITool monitoring/benchmark/overclocking software for GPUs (yup, even for nvidia ones ^^)
Hamachi LAN parties across the net ^^ uses encrypted VPN tunnels
CSpace decentralized instant messenger, uses TLS encryption and offers file transfers as well as remote desktop functionality over the VNC protocol
FLV Player easy player for viewing those .flv files ripped from video streaming sites
Notepad++ not just a notepad clone, but a full-fledged editor for pretty much any web/programming language (and of course a nice replacement for good old notepad ^^)
Eclipse free development platform, entirely written in java
SafeKids The fact that - regardless of what technology parents try to employ, the best filter is the one that runs in the young person’s brain - not on a computer.
Cybertip is Canada’s national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children
Deal Whether you require a presentation on E-Literacy that covers all the
details, or one that you can customize yourself, the presentations displayed on our site are tailored to meet your needs.
Techsoup - “The Technology Place for Nonprofits”
“How To” section - articles, worksheets, and inspirational stories on topics such as Database, Web Building, Training, etc.
Discussion board and FAQ’s
Products and Services
… and much more
Charity Village
“Charity Village® Main Street is your first stop for news, jobs, volunteer and event listings, resources, how-to articles, and anything to do with Canada’s nonprofit sector.”
GCP Learn Free
“GCF Global Learning® offers free, beginning computer courses and other learning opportunities in English and Spanish world-wide — start learning today!”
Register now to:
View online tutorials and articles - tutorials for computer and Internet basics, Office XP and Office 2003, Open Office, and Life Skills
Register for FREE online classes - such as Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint, and Math Basics
Participate in Bulletin Board discussions about online tutorial
vubiz
Vubiz is an e-learning company has more than 200 hours of leading-edge, informative online business learning modules, covering more than 50 titles, with new releases on an ongoing basis. Vubiz also offers certificate programs on key business topics.
Vubiz enters into strategic relations with organizations that want to offer the Vubiz e-learning modules to their customers or members on a fee basis.
W3schools
A wonderful site with lots of FREE web building tutorials and reference guides
Lone Eagles
Provides many tools and links to resources such as:
Consulting Services
Internet Training Guides
Grant Writing Assistance
Online Courses for Educators
Building Rural Communities
PCMag delivers authoritative, labs-based comparative reviews of computing and Internet products to highly engaged technology buyers.PCMag defines technology for e-business and is the only magazine with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
Technology Review
The oldest technology magazine in the world (est. 1899),
Technology Review aims to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and to analyze their commercial, social, and political impacts.
GizMag
Gizmag.com covers invention, innovation and emerging technologies in all fields of human endeavour – everything from computing, communication and automation, through social innovation, new ideas, inventions, and services to enhance life, work and play for people of all ages.
Wired
Tech News of all kinds, from gadgets to gaming to politics.
Low-Tech Magazine
Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message: high-tech has become the idol of our society.
Tech Magazine: the Comic
Tech Magazine is a weekly comic strip, updated (almost) every Sunday. I'd do it more often, but there's just not enough time. The first edition was officially published on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2000, although it first appeared on the web about two weeks earlier. Had to have time to get a few strips ahead.
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