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Downloads - Software

Software's pretty useful stuff for an ICT course!!! On the downside the commercial stuff tends to cost a lot of money which can be a bit of a strain on the old biscuit fund. There's lots of freeware/shareware stuff out there that can help stretch the biscuit budget just that little bit further allowing you to buy *real* hobnobs rather than those revolting unbranded things you get from the supermarket. Get your priorities right!!!
 


Free Books!!!
 




Whacking great
16MB download
but FREE!



Free WikiBook
written for AQA
ICT
 

Web Browsers
Pretty crucial stuff for surfing!!! Also pretty important if you're doing a website project for ICT3 and need to test your site in different browsers.
 
ff Mozilla Firefox
Firefox 1.5 has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers Web pages faster than ever. It’s easy to install and import your favorites. (Their words not mine!)
 
opera Opera
It's now ad-free!!! Opera is allegedly "The fastest browser on earth" (they've clearly not seen FatMax *browsing* at the pizza sales!) It's got lots of nice features like an E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.
 
maxthon Maxthon
Tabbed browser based on IE which has a highly customisable interface. All the usual stuff you'd expect from a browser - pop-up blocking etc. PLUS mouse kung-fu! Don't ask.
 
evolt evolt Archive
More browsers than you can shake a stick at! Includes loads of "old" and now defunct browsers but well worth a visit IMNSHO to see "how we used to live"
 
Graphics Tools
V. useful for doing the documentation for projects and stuff.
 
evolt IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer/ editor. A very useful tool for optimising the screenshots for coursework documentation.
 
smart SmartDraw
Free 30 day trial of useful software for creating flowcharts and DFDs for ICT3/ICT6. Download this just before starting your project documentation!!!
 
gantt Gantt Chart Designer
Free, easy to use, utility for drawing Gantt charts!!! Let's be honest, some of you need all the help you can get organising your time!!!
 
 
Utilities
7zip 7-zip
A bit like Winzip but free and slightly better (i.e better compression). Supports ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats.
 
winzip Winzip
Just in case you like the UI! It's NOT free although AFAIK it runs forever

 

Office Stuff
You'll need these to view a lot of the stuff on FatMax (and other A level sites)

 
ooo OpenOffice.org
Free office suite that will read and write Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Biggish download at 60+MB. Buy a CD for a small charge from a community distributor if you have no/limited Internet access
 
getpdf Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat reader. You need it to read a lot of stuff (everything actually!) from AQA. It's a bit of a fat download so mebbee you're better off looking for it on a magazine cover?
 
office Office Viewers
Free viewers for Word, PowerPoint etc. from Microsoft. To be honest you'd be much better off downloading OpenOffice.org from the link above!
 
Access Add-ins
 
access Access Database Mechanic
The dog ate my coursework DB!!! This handy tool automates the process of attempting to recover a corrupt MS Access database, using three standard operations. Versions for Access2000/2002/2003.
 
 
 

 

 

 
 

 


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