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HOME USERS
- Digital
Photography
- Create
smaller photo files for emailing: If you
have Windows XP, get the power toy from Microsoft called Image Resizer
at www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
If you don't have Windows XP, a great free image viewer and editor is IrfanView,
and it has a batch processing capability that lets you convert a whole
group of photos to smaller ones at once. Photoshop Elements has a
similar command.
- Security:
- For a free Firewall, get Zone
Alarm
- For free Anti-Spy software, get both AdAware
(this link is to their home page -- from there, look for AdAware SE
Personal free version) and Spybot
Search&Destroy (watch out for similarly named
imitators).
- Office
Applications -- Word, Excel, Access, Outlook,
Outlook
Express, Thunderbird, Firefox, Internet Explorer, WorPerfect,
QuattroPro, Open
Office
(FREE office suite
that works extremely well and is very compatible with Microsoft's
office suite). A great, free, open source program for creating pdf
files, PDFCreator, is available at http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
It acts like a printer in windows, so you print to that printer and it
throws up a dialog box for you to fill in filename and other details
before creating the pdf file. Works great!