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| A list of low cost resources |
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Apache open source HTTP Server. This software is used to run this site. Very Highly Recommended. |
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MySQL Database Server (open source). This software is used to run this site. Very Highly Recommended. |
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PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor (open source). This software is used to run this site. Very Highly Recommended. |
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World Wide Web Consortium - Online Markup Validation Service. (see also main site http://www.w3c.org/ ). An excellent resource. |
| HTMLTrim | The HTMLTrim Project. XHTML & HTML cleanup software (open source). Also useful for error checking (see also W3C's online validator http://validator.w3.org/ ) |
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Amaya. The W3C open source HTML browser/editor. Not yet tested. |
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Arachnophilia. A careware HTML editor. Basic but very good software. Can be used for editing other programming languages. Recommended. |
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Dreamweaver, an HTML editor. Macromedia offer a 30 day free trial, after which you have the option to pay them lots of money. But it is very good software. Highly recommended. |
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IrfanView. Viewer for probably every digital graphics format you can think of (well almost). Highly recommended. |
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IconArt. An icon editor/creator. Freeware version (free!) and Pro version ($9.95). |
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Messer. An mp3 recorder. Very useful for recording radio programs from radio/tv cards, DAB cards and the internet. Unfortunately no longer supported by the author, but still available for download from the Messer site. Recommended. |
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DigiGuide. UK TV & Radio listings. Not free but very cheap (£8.99 per year). You select the TV and Radio channels you want and their listings are sent to your PC at regular intervals. Very Highly Recommended. |
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BBC Desktop Alert software. Popup windows shows breaking news, alerts for TV and Radio news. Can even set your system clock. Free. Recommended. |
| BBC E-Mail Services | BBC E-Mail Services. Have a selection of news items emailed to you at a specified time and/or have breaking news emailed as it happens. Free. Very Highly Recommended. |
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ZoneAlarm. A free firewall for home use. Keeps your PC safe from unwanted internet intrusion. An excellent product, Very Highly Recommended. |
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ZoneAlarm Security Suite. $70 for two year subscription. Provides a firewall, virus protection, junk mail filter, pop-up blocker et al. Still being tested but so far so good. Recommended. |
| SpamBayes | SpamBayes. Free spam filtering add on for your mail software (Express, Outlook etc). Uses a Bayesian anti-spam filter to score emails as spam, suspect spam and clean. Highly Recommended. |
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Avast! Anti-virus software. Automatic online virus definition and software updates. Option to create a file recovery database just in case a virus does get through. Free for home use. Recommended. |
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Ad-Aware SE. Removes spyware and other nasties that pass on information about you and may even harm your computer. Free for personal use. Very Highly Recommended. |
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PHP Layers menu. Very useful and powerful script for creating site
navigation menus. The "Site Map" for this site is driven
by Layers Menu.
Visit the author's site at http://www.marcopratesi.it/ |
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Simple "breadcrumb trail" site navigation script.
Visit the author's site at http://www.sulata.com.pk/ |
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PHP DBForm. Powerful database forms scripts. Used by this site for searching our Links database. |
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PHP News. An RSS news retriever written in php. |
| PHPrss | PHPrss. Very nice code
much easier to customise than PHP news. Used by this site
to show UK and International news headlines from the
BBC. Visit author site at http://www.suttree.com/code/rss/ |
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PHPlot. Displays data from a database in a number of display types. Used by this site to display temperature, rainfall and humidity data for certain plants in our database . |
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Firefox. Fully featured, clean and supposedly
immune to the IE vulnerabilities. Free. Very Highly
Recommended.
Produced by Mozilla. |
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Internet Explorer. Probably the most widely used browser. Reliable, fully
featured. Free. Highly Recommended.
Produced by Microsoft. |
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Netscape. Very widely used browser. Clean interface and fully
featured. Free. Highly Recommended.
Produced by Netscape. |
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Opera. Messy interface and tries to do too much.
Free if you like adverts in your browser or you can pay
to remove them. Not Recommended. Produced by Opera Software ASA |
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NetCaptor. Free with adverts or costs to remove
them. Interesting interface & apparently extensive
security. Not tested. Produced by Stilesoft Inc. |
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Ace Explorer. Free. Not Tested. Produced by Ace Explorer |
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Avant Browser. Free. Not Tested. Produced by Avant Force |
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Any Browser Campaign - Not a browser but a campaign for browser and website standardisation. |
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