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Upgrade to Linux. The
'Open Source' operating system. Secure, fast and free. Multi-tasking, multi-user 64 bit (now). |
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OPEN SOURCE Capable and free word processor,
spreadsheet, presentation manager (MS Office replacement) |
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A series of programs and plug-ins used by BBC multimedia material. | |
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The
Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications,
enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for
the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge
for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational
institutions, who make their pages available on the web. |
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A small utility called CourseGenie is one of the best programming ideas that I have come across in some while. CourseGenie can be added to Microsofts Word 2000 and is used to generate web sites like this. (Strictly, should be under the Utilities heading). |
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DV Portfolio has been developed by David Baugh as a convenient way of storing and recording DV projects. | |
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Macromedia's powerful Authorware client. | |
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Exodus - An Instant Messenger client used in csn. | |
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Tight VNC - Control a machine remotely | |
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Tight VNC - Remotely view a machine | |
 Exodus (pretending
to be a picture) 
Tight Viewer Only (as a picture)
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Browsers |
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Fast Browser | |
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Standards compliant
browser (get rid of the security challenges in cardiffschools.net) |
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Utilities |
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Zone Alarm. Probably the best known Personal Firewall. There are free and paid for versions available. Read this before installing . | |
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WinZip - file decompression utility. | |
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Adobe Acrobat - read pdf files | |
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Flash Player | |
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Shockwave Player. | |
| Swish - a first rate flash tool (see larger list of Flash links) | ||
| Wild FX - another good Flash tool (see larger list of Flash links) | ||
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Real Video | |
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Real Player One | |
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Helix Producer | |
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Quick Time | |
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Movie Maker 2 - A Video Editing Tool from Microsoft (Simple to use) | |
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Their video compression tool (inferior to Real) | |
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'Word' and 'PowerPoint' Viewers | |
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