Offerings from the Open Source gods...
I've come across a website just yesterday showcasing some of the very best open source software out there, and some of it really is very high quality indeed, including an open source alternative to photoshop; now there's a good way to save a lot of money. This is a site that should be visited by anyone who hasn't already got the software and has a brain, which may quite possibly mean you.
Recently I've stopped using Internet explorer in favour of the brilliance that is Firefox (except for a few cases where it won't access, for instance, music videos on Yahoo). Tabbed browsing is a boon, but the best thing about it is the plethora of easily accessible and incredibly simple to install extensions available for it. For instance, a few short downloads done, and i can preview google entries by holding the mouse over the site name, instantly translate any page in a wide range of languages whilst still retaining the original format and so on, download embedded items (ie Flash) from pages, access random well-rated sites according to subject preferences (allowing browsing in the truest sense of the word, which I've always felt was missing from the net), and so on. You can even customise the appearance of the browser very easily using downloadable themes, which is fun if not terribly important. Also useful is the way the toolbar incorporates a quicksearch function using Google, Yahoo, Answers.com, creative commons, amazon, chambers dictionary and eBay. Oh, and you can add more search engines if the need takes you.
What else... oh, and it incorporates a built-in download manager, which is a real help. And a JavaScript console, though I don't use this as I can't code. All in all, it's a much more complete, well-featured and customisable web explorer than IE, and YOU NEED IT NOW!
Recently I've stopped using Internet explorer in favour of the brilliance that is Firefox (except for a few cases where it won't access, for instance, music videos on Yahoo). Tabbed browsing is a boon, but the best thing about it is the plethora of easily accessible and incredibly simple to install extensions available for it. For instance, a few short downloads done, and i can preview google entries by holding the mouse over the site name, instantly translate any page in a wide range of languages whilst still retaining the original format and so on, download embedded items (ie Flash) from pages, access random well-rated sites according to subject preferences (allowing browsing in the truest sense of the word, which I've always felt was missing from the net), and so on. You can even customise the appearance of the browser very easily using downloadable themes, which is fun if not terribly important. Also useful is the way the toolbar incorporates a quicksearch function using Google, Yahoo, Answers.com, creative commons, amazon, chambers dictionary and eBay. Oh, and you can add more search engines if the need takes you.
What else... oh, and it incorporates a built-in download manager, which is a real help. And a JavaScript console, though I don't use this as I can't code. All in all, it's a much more complete, well-featured and customisable web explorer than IE, and YOU NEED IT NOW!
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