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Tools
This area of the website is dedicated to providing you with a list
of tried-and-tested applications in order to help you use your
computer on a day-to-day basis.
Some of these applications are Free, some are Trials, some you have
to pay for, but rest assured that they have all been tried and
tested by our team.
Please take the time to click on some of our advertisers links - it
allows us to fund this site and provide information and services for
free, or at a very low cost.
| Product
Description |
Cost |
URL
Link to Website |
| DVD Shrink This product allows you to
'rip' a DVD to your hard disk for later viewing, or to back it up
to a DVD-R or even to a CDR (by compressing the movie) |
FREE! |
www.dvdshrink.org
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| Ad-Aware Pop-ups, Spy-ware, Trojans and
other Mal-ware (programs designed to illicitly capture your
surfing habits) are all spotted and removed with this excellent
piece of software |
FREE! |
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ |
| Ultra VNC VNC (Virtual Network Computer)
is a mechanism to take "remote control" of your computer from
another location utilising the Internet. This is a lot like
pcAnywhere, PC Duo etc, but its much faster, much small and
completely free. In addition, it works cross-platform with support
for Windows, Unix, BeOS, OS2 etc. |
FREE! |
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ |
| Avast! Anti-Virus After trying many
antivirus applications, our team recommends Avast! as their
top-tip for virus protection. Free for personal use, and priced
reasonably for business use, this application is suitable for all
modern versions of Windows (including Server editions) and does
not impede the speed of your PC (as some other Anti-Virus
applications do) |
FREE! (personal use)
Costed for businesses |
http://www.avast.com
Click here to purchase |
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