Introduction

This page contains links to some web sites and  software which I like and use. It is not an unbiased or comprehensive review, just a personal selection.

Web Sites

NASA NASA Home Page. Alternatively use NASA (Skip pointless flash intro). European Space Agency More on space, this time from the ESA. SpaceWeather.com News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids Science & Technology Daily Science, technology, future developments, innovations, implications Arts & Letters Daily Arts ideas, criticism and debate. Scantips Wayne Foulton's excellent advice on how to get the best results when scanning your photographs. Gibson Research A free test of your computer's internet security.

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Software

Free Software

Increasingly it is the Free Software Movement which is producing the best quality software as well as the most economical.

Free Software Foundation "`Free' as in `Freedom'". GNU's not UNIX The GNU project, where it all began. Distrowatch News about all the latest GNU/Linux distributions. Take your pick: Debian, SUSE, Red Hat/Fedora, Mandriva and hundreds more. Source Forge Vast repository of free software. NoNags Another repository containing freeware but not all of which is free software. Mozilla Firefox Probably the best browser in the world. Mozilla Thunderbird Probably the best e-mail program in the world. HT Track Web site Copier - Off-line Browser. FileZilla FTP Open Office Free Software version of Sun Microsystem's Star Office. 7Zip Compression utility. Blender 3D software The GIMP Excellent bitmap graphics software. Inkscape Vector graphics software.

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Proprietary Software

Some of this software is free in the more limited sense that there are freeware versions available.

Satori FilmFX At the price, the most powerful graphics software available for artists and designers. I have provided some tutorials for FilmFX in this site. NetObjects Fusion Not perfect but still the best web site construction package for anyone who wants maximum results for minimum technical entanglement. Anfy applets Java applets for web site animation and graphics. Free with minor restrictions and registration is inexpensive. See the Pixels Gallery for examples. Irfanview A very useful, versatile file viewer and converter. Zone Alarm An effective software fire wall. Ad-aware Two effective anti-spyware programs. Spybot

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