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Really Important Links
Software Links
Crucial Software
Highly Recommended Software
Graphics Software
Other Software
Computer Security
My LibreOffice Templates
Web Page Resources
Website Server-side Applications & Style Sheet Design Add-ons
Really Important Links
- Snopes.com -- Please read before sending me a chain e-mail, PLEASE
- Credit Agency Initial Fraud Report
Equifax fraud division 800-525-6285 (no online reporting available)
Experian
TransUnion Fraud Victim Assistance Department 1-800-680-7289 (no online reporting available)
- Do Not Call Registry -- Official Do Not Call Registry site from the FTC
- GetHuman.com -- One of the best resources for cutting through the maze of customer service phone menus
- Opt-Out Prescreen -- Official Consumer Credit Reporting Industry Opt-Out Prescreen website (ie MUCH junk mail)
Software Links
Crucial Software
- Antivirus Software
Avast! -- FREE
AVG Antivirus -- FREE
- Firewall Software
Comodo Firewall -- FREE and really good firewall
Zone Alarm -- FREE and really good firewall
- Spyware/Adware Detection and Removal
Spybot Search and Destroy -- FREE
Ad-Aware -- FREE
- Other Basic Software
Mozilla.org -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE browser, email, and calendar
LibreOffice.org -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE Office Software (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing)
Highly Recommended
- FileZilla -- a very nice OPEN SOURCE FTP client
- Skype -- FREE video calls
- 2BrightSparks Software -- Home of SyncBackSE -- a really nice backup and file synchronization program
Graphics Software
- The Graphics Software I Use the Most
- ACDsee Photo Management Software -- After a lot of consideration, I am now using this software to manage my photos
- The GIMP -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE photo and picture editor (think Photoshop)!
Grokking The GIMP - A great GIMP resource
UFRaw - UFRaw Plugin for RAW camera files
- Inkscape -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE vector graphics editor (think Illustrator or Freehand)
- Photomatix -- the software I use for creating HDR images from exposure-bracketed photos
- Other Good Graphic Software
- CamStudio -- Capture Skype video (or any other video from your screen) OPEN SOURCE
-- we use it to record the kids talking to the grandparents on Skype and to capture images from a digital microscope
- Foto-Mosaik
- ImageMagick -- a converter program for image files
- Lightscribe Software Archive -- Lightscribe has been killed by HP, but you can still get the software here
- Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 -- A really nice EXIF, but now pretty outdated, editor for RAW and jpg files FREE
- Picasa -- FREE image viewer/manager
- SureThing -- a great commercial utility for creating LightScribe lables
- ThumbsPlus! -- HIGHLY recommended graphics software
Other Software
- Colossal Cave Adventure Page
- Font Creator
- BOINC! -- Distributed Software Screensaver for donating computer time to worthy scientific endeavors
Einstein@home
SETI@home
- PolderbitS -- Sound recorder and editor (transfer recordings from LPs or cassettes)
- Printer's Apprentice -- Great font manager
- Scribus -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE desktop publishing software (page layout: think Pagemaker)
- SourceForge.net -- OPEN SOURCE -- Use to be the main source for Open Source Software -- beware of crapware and adware additions to your downloads
Audacity -- sound editor
Bid-o-Matic -- an eBay sniper tool
JBidwatcher --Another eBay auction tracker and sniper
Opcion Font Viewer
- Video Editing Software (Open Source)
Jahshaka
VirtualDub
- VLC Media Player
- Zork I, II & III -- or look here to see how to play it on Android or iPhone
Computer Security
- Active@ Kill Disk -- erase a harddrive - completely
- Microsoft Sysinternals -- some really handy utilities from Microsoft
- Shields Up Homepage -- OK, this is a really tricky site, and very hard to navigate. Just keep looking for Shields Up, or call me to walk you through it.
- Silent Runners - another nice place to check if you've been hijacked
- Trojan TCP/IP Ports -- a great security site
- What's Running -- a really nice utility for examining and customizing your system
My LibreOffice Templates
- James' Perpetual Calendar 3.4 - the ever-evolving, highly-customizable, printable twelve month calendar; updated with 2012 holidays and moon phases; fully functional with LO 3.4.4 - Updated 11/9/11
- James' Perpetual Calendar 4.1 - same as above, but with prior and next month automatically at top of calendar - Updated 20 March 2012
- Katharina's Kalender - An example of different formatting options, based on v4.0, 2012 holidays, German set-up - Updated 11/9/11
- Simple Amortization Spreadsheet 1.1b2 - Works for standard 80/20, 80/15/5, and other 1st/2nd mortgages that have fixed rates, very powerful tool - Updated 4/28/09
- How Much House Can I Afford Calculator 1.0b2 - Also calculates your monthly payments - Updated 4/27/09
Web Page Resources
- 1&1.com
-- Good and inexpensive web hosting, multiple (unlimited) domains
- Antique Clipart
- Clipart ETC from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse
- ColorCombos.com -- test out various web color combinations
- CSS Play -- a great CSS resource, lots of example coding
- w3schools CSS Guides -- wonderful list and explanation of CCS elements
- HTML & CSS Editors
- Amaya
-- Open Source CSS editor from W3C
- NVU --
Open Source CSS & HTML editor (my favorite so far)
- tsWebEditor -- Open Source HTML editor
- OpenClipArt.org -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE Clip Art
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- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
- W3C HTML Validation Service
- Whois.net -- or at Internic
- Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain Media Resources
Website Server-side Applications & Style Sheet Design Add-ons
- Dynamic Drive -- great resource for free DHTML & Javacripts
- Lightbox JS -- free simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page
- phpBB -- high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable free bulletin board package
- WordPress -- OPEN SOURCE Blog (and more) software
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