Useful Utilities. Here are links to free third party applications that we use and recommend.

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1 Useful Utilities Here are links to free third party applications that we use and recommend. Ad-Aware This is an amazingly useful free product from Lavasoft. Ad-Aware is a multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely. Adobe Acrobat Reader This reader allows you to read Acrobat.PDF files- you'll find that they're used in lots of web pages, including these. Adobe PDF files look exactly like original documents and preserve the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source file regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Adobe Flash Media live encoder Is a media encoder that streams audio and video in real time to Flash Media Server. AnyClient If you re using WebDAV to transfer files from your PC to, say, your Learning Management System, and you ve recently upgraded to Windows 7, you ll want to use this little free utility. It provides the functionality that you won t find in Windows 7. AnyClient is a free platform independent file transfer application that supports all major file transfer protocols including FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV/S. Audacity Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Authorware Web Player We occasionally distribute and post applications that require the Authorware plug-in. It allows users to view streaming Authorware programs within a browser.

2 Avidemux Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Camstudio CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) CloneZilla Allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery Desktop Restore This tiny application operates as a Shell extension. It records the layout and positions of icons and programs on the Windows Desktop, and permits restoration of the layout. DIA Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. Eraser Eraser is a secure data removal tool, which allows you to remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns. FileZilla FileZilla is an open source FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. Gimp 2 Image Manipulation program Handbrake HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder. Supported sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some.vob and.ts files, Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. Outputs: File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM, Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding), Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

3 InfraRecorder InfraRecorder is a CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. Inkscape An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. IrfanView IrfanView is a fast and simple image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, and TGA. In addition, it features drag-anddrop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications, such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen. Juice Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere. MediaCoder MediaCoder is a universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer lets you view and print slides on a computer that does not have PowerPoint installed. 19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en Microsoft Word Viewer Microsoft Word Viewer lets you view and print Word documents on a computer that does not have Word installed.

4 Microsoft Excel Viewer Microsoft Excel Viewer lets you view and print spreadsheets on a computer that does not have Excel installed. Mozilla Firefox browser Firefox, the open-source, full-featured browser from Mozilla, is a great alternative to Explorer or Netscape. Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser OpenOffice Free and Open Productivity Suite ScreenHunter 5 Free, easy to use screen capture software. syn Text Editor Is highly customizable text and programming editor. Syn features syntax highlighting for many languages, active scripting, macro recording, the ability to launch a program (e.g. a Compiler) and capture the output, support for projects, etc. TrueCrypt Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux Windows Media Encoder Windows Media Encoder 9 Series is a powerful tool for content producers who want to take advantage of the many innovations in Windows Media 9 Series including high-quality multichannel sound, high-definition video quality, new support for mixed-mode voice and music content, and more. WinZip The most popular compression utility for Windows, WinZip allows for quick and easy zipping and unzipping

5 of files and folders - save storage space, dramatically reduce transmission time, and efficiently archive documents.