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Software Download Links
Here are some links to FREE software that we've found useful. If you need software to help you design your home page---or just to make using your computer more functional and more fun---check these out. If you've found a freely downloadable application you think should be on this list, send us the url.Note to Mac users: Sorry, we no longer specifically list Mac applications here. This is not because we wouldn't like to. It's just that everybody at trinidadusa.net has switched to Linux, and we don't have anyone to recommend and test Mac software (For that matter, our Windows expertise is getting kind of rusty too.) If you're a Mac user and would like to help fill this gap, send me email.
ENJOY!
All Platforms
Browsing, Email, News, Web Page Development:-
Mozilla
Mozilla is a free, open source, standards-compliant suite of Internet tools consisting of:- a Web browser,
- an email client,
- a WYSIWYG Web page editor,
- and some other smaller utilities mainly of interest to developers.
This is superb software, stable, secure, friendly, attractive and fun. The browser and email reader do about everything Explorer and Outlook Express do (except invade your privacy and infest your machine with viruses). Important features include tabbed browsing (open multiple pages at once in the same browser window), mutiple email accounts, advanced mail filtering, cookie control, zapping banner advertisements and pop-up ads, and lots of other cool stuff. The Web page editor is probably the best free WYSIWIG tool available.
Note that Mozilla is a big program and needs a reasonably capable machine to run properly. 266 Mhz and 64 MB of ram (128 would be better) is probably the minimum.
Supported platforms: Windows, MacOS 9, MacOS X, i386 Linux, Linux PPC, Solaris, FreeBSD, Irix, BeOS, HPUX, OS/2, BSD/OS and others.
Download sizes vary from 9 to 14 MB depending on the platform.
Word Processing, Drawing, Spreadsheet, generally getting things done:
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Open Office
OpenOffice is a free, open source office productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office. It consists of:- Writer, a full-featured word processor, equivalent to MS Word;
- Calc, a spreadsheet equivalent to MS Excel;
- Impress, a presentation maker similar to MS Powerpoint;
- Draw, a nice vector drawing program (similar to programs like Illustrator and Corel Draw);
- Some other minor stuff like a formula editor, an HTML editor, etc.
OpenOffice runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris. The Mac version is still incomplete but is said to be quite usable.
Major benefits of OpenOffice include:
- It's free. Just download it, install it, and go to work. You can install it on as many machines as you like. No strings attached.
- Easy to install and learn.
- Attractive and highly customizable.
- Uses an open XML file format, which gives you unprecedented flexibility to use your data in other applications and on other operating systems.
- Database connectivity via ODBC, JDBC, dBase and others.
- It boasts near-total compatibility with MS Office file formats. This means that your data created in old-fashioned proprietary file formats (.doc, .xls, etc) will work in OpenOffice just fine. It also means that the files you create with OpenOffice can be exchanged with clueless colleagues that continue to use MS Office.
We highly recommend OpenOffice, especially if you have been thinking of spending money to buy or upgrade a commercial office suite. Most people find that OpenOffice is as good or better than the ones you pay big bucks for.
More information and downloads are available at www.openoffice.org. The Windows installer is around 45 MB. The Linux binary is 74 MB. If you're planning to use it on an old machine, be sure to check system requirements for your platform before you download.
PDF Reader
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
If this isn't on your machine, sooner or later you'll need to download it. If you have an old version, sooner or later you'll need to upgrade.Supported platforms: Pocket PC, Win 95, Win 98, Win Me, Win NT, Win 2000/XP, Win 3.1, Mac OS X, Mac 9.x, Mac 8.6, Mac 8.1-8.5, Mac 7.5.3, Mac68K, Linux, Sun Solaris x86, Sun Solaris SPARC, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Digital Unix, OS/2 Warp
Windows Software
Email-
Pegasus Mail
An amazingly full-featured, "industrial-strength" email client for power users. Possibly the most powerful Windows email client in existence, free or otherwise. Be warned, Pegasus assumes you know what you're doing. Not for beginners.Supported platforms: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000, Mac
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Popcorn
A small, fast POP3/SMTP email client that is easy and fun to use. It handles multiple accounts; and, best of all, you can read your mail and delete unwanted messages without downloading it.Supported platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
HTML Editors:
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HTML-Kit
Edit, look up, validate, and publish your Web pages with one program. This editor has lots of additional plug-ins for a truly powerful, customizable and enjoyable Web publishing experience. One of the best things about it is the ability to modify your HTML pages right on the server.Supported platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
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1st Page 2000
Make HTML/script authoring easier with this powerful tool for beginners, intermediate, and professional Web builders. This is another editor that we really like.Supported platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
File Transfer
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WS_FTP LE
An FTP client, used to transfer files via the Internet. You need this to upload pages to your Website. It's also handy for downloading software. A "professional" version also exists which has more features and costs money.Supported platforms: Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP
Text Editor
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NoteTab Lite
Web development requires a decent text editor, and you'll quickly find that Notepad, the Windows default, doesn't cut it. NoteTab Lite will open multiple files, open large files, handle Mac and Unix line ending correctly, etc. It can be customized through a simple macro language so you can automate repetitive tasks. There are also non-free versions with additional features: NoteTab Standard ($9.95) and NoteTab Pro ($19.95).Supported platforms: Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP
Linux/Unix Software
On Linux, both the Gnome and KDE Desktop environments come with a lot of Internet and productivity software. If you have installed RedHat, Mandrake, Debian or any other major Linux distribution, these programs are probably already on your computer. The programs listed below are not specific to any particular Linux desktop environment.
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Sylpheed
Sylpheed is an email client (and news reader) for X Windows. It has speed, security, abundant features, easy configuration, intuitive operation, unlimited multiple account handling, thread display, filtering, and XML-based address book and much more. The appearance and interface are similar to some popular email clients for Windows, such as Outlook Express.
HTML Editor:
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Bluefish
Nice HTML editor---fast, stable, simple, customizable.
Text Editor:
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NEdit
Linux (and Unix in general) is blessed with a variety of incredibly powerful text editors. My own favorite is NEdit, which combines the power and extensibility of the great Unix text editors (like Emacs and Vi) with the intuitive ease-of-use of Mac editors like Tex-Edit Plus. This site is maintained using NEdit.Pre-built executables are available for AIX, HPUX, IRIX, Linux, Linux Alpha, Compaq Tru64, and Windows with Cygwin 1.3.1 (X Server Required).
HTML/Web "How-To's" and Tutorials:
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Web Design Group
The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics. We hope that with this site as a reference, you will be able to create Web sites that can be used by every person on the Internet, regardless of browser, platform, or settings.Here you'll find tutorials, references, validation tools and lots of other good stuff. One of the best sites of its kind on the Internet.
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Spotlight! Build Your First Web Site
Before you start learning about HTML, you'll want to know your main objectives, devise an outline of all the information your site will contain, and target your audience. The resources and tutorials at this site will help you plan your Web site with the fundamental elements of Web design, page layout, site planning, and navigation. There's also a link to show you"how-not-to" design a Web page. -
Intro to HTML
Good introduction to Web development in tutorial form. -
www.php.net
Php is a server-side Web programming language that allows you to easily create dynamic content and consistent "look and feel". Microsoft's Active Server Pages scripting language is a crude attempt to imitate the power of Php. Php is fully supported on our Web servers.The link above will take you to the main Php Website, where you'll find downloads, documentation and links to other resources.
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| Freshmeat.net | This has become the central Internet repository for open-source software. Hundreds of apps are added or updated every week, nearly all freely available under the GNU General Public Licence. | |
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| Info-Mac | Huge archive of Mac stuff, hosted by MIT. | |
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| LinuxApps | A user-friendly Linux archive. If you're new to Linux, this will be easier for you the figure out than Freshmeat. | |
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| NoNags | Freeware and Shareware. | |
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| Tucows | Easy to navigate and friendly. A good place to start if you haven't downloaded software from the Internet before. | |
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