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Software

If you know of any Free Software that may be of help to people with disabilities please get in touch with me web_newsletter@fidn.co.uk Also if you find any of the below links are no longer working also let me know, Thanks.

Most of the below Software is Free

Security

Anti-Virus

PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition

http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/download/

Avast 4 Home Edition

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Comodo Anti-Virus

http://antivirus.comodo.com/

Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic

http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html

Avg Anti-Virus Free Edition

http://www.avguk.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/uk/crp/0

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390

Anti-Malware

Avg Anti-Spyware Free Edition

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-spyware-free

Spybot-Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Ad-Aware 2007 Free

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Spyware Terminator

http://www.spywareterminator.com/

SuperAntiSpyware

http://www.superantispyware.com/

ThreatFire Free

http://www.threatfire.com/download/

FireWalls

ZoneAlarm Free 7.0.337.0

http://www.filehippo.com/download_zonealarm_free/

PC Tools Firewalls Plus

http://www.pctools.com/firewall/

Comodo Firewall Professional

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Ashampoo Firewall Free

http://www2.ashampoo.com/webcache/html/1/product_2_0050__.htm

Utilities

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

www.ccleaner.com

PDF Creator

Freeware. Lightweight. No nags

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

New in doPDF 5.3: Optimized the text compression algorithm so now the size of PDF files is reduced by up to 80% (for PDFs consisting mainly of text), Finnish and Arabic user interface localizations added.

doPDF^5.3 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer. The video below shows how to create a PDF file from Microsoft Word (click on the image to start playing the movie):

http://www.dopdf.com/

PDF Creator

Pdf995 Suite

The pdf995 suite of products - Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 - is a complete solution for your document publishing needs. It provides ease of use, flexibility in format, and industry-standard security- and all at no cost to you.

http://www.pdf995.com/

PDF Creator

CutePDF Writer (Freeware)

Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No popup Web advertisements! Now supports 64-bit Windows.
Free Download (1.6MB) (Vista Ready) Learn More

PDF Creator

pdfonline

Documents
-MS Word
-MS PowerPoint
-MS Publisher
-MS Excel
-HTML

-Text

PDF Online has been helping people quickly generates PDF at the time they need it the most.
http://www.pdfonline.com/

Universal Extractor 1.5

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far it's proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.

I should stress that this application is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. It will never replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. What it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2204497/universal-extractor

Browsers

An Alternative Internet Browser to Microsoft`s Internet Explorer

http://www.firefox2.com/

Opera

http://www.opera.com/

IE Tab 1.3.2

View IE content within Firefox

Most people do not realise that Internet Explorer is embedded within the Windows operating system as the web core. This web core is used by other applications (basically any apps that use HTML, such as iTunes) to display web content. It’s also used for HTML-based help.

However, this also means that this same web core (the Internet Explorer web engine) could be used….within another web browser. Indeed they do, Maxthon, Avant and others are an extensive wrapper around the existing IE core. But, what happens if someone went one step further and enabled you to view IE content within Firefox. This would be ideal for web developers who wanted to see how their web page appears within Firefox and Internet Explorer, without having to use Internet Explorer. If you’re a regular web user, you might stumble across a web page that appears irregular within Firefox and you need Internet Explorer to view the page correctly.

IE Tab is an extension for Firefox that enables you to view Internet Explorer content within Firefox, in its own tab.

http://mail.vnunet.com/cgi-bin1/flo/y/e6oO0FopOU0ac60DtCe0EE

Some Free Software from Microsoft

Windows XP PowerToys and Add-ins

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/default.mspx

Install and train Microsoft speech recognition

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/HP030844541033.aspx

Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86EC97-40A7-453F-B0EE-6583171B4530&displaylang=en#QuickInfoContainer

Searched All Office Online for "Windows Speech Recognition"

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/results.aspx?qu=Windows+Speech+Recognition+

Some Text-to-Speech Software

IESpeaker

"Internet Explorer Speaker / Internet Explorer Reader / IE Reader / IE Speaker" is add-on for Internet Explorer which makes the web document talk to you.

http://www.neurospeech.com/Products/IESpeaker.aspx

IE Page-Reader Bar is an Internet Explorer tool Bar, that can read Web pages

http://www.text-reader.com/pagereaderbar/index.html

Internet Explorer Reader is a powerful Text-To-Speech plugin, which can read web pages and headlines for you and even read pages into MP3.

http://www.latestsoft.com/index.htm

NaturalSoft Text-to-speech

NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.

http://www.naturalreaders.com/?gclid=CI6hq66MtIsCFQcXEAodslZ7wg

Dragon

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Standard, you can talk to your computer and watch your spoken words instantly appear in documents, emails and instant messages. Fast, easy and amazingly accurate. No script reading required to get started! Just use your voice to dictate and edit in just about any Windows® application, including Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Outlook® Express, Microsoft® Internet Explorer, America Online® and Corel® WordPerfect®. You can even surf the web just by speaking! No special script reading is required to get started - it learns to recognise your voice instantly, and continually improves the more you use it! A Nuance-approved noise-cancelling microphone is included.

http://www.nuance.co.uk/talk/

Browsealoud

Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments.

http://www.browsealoud.com/

ReadPlease 2003 -

Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software.

http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/#rp2003

Say-Now Voice and Speech Recognition 3.5 - FREE DOWNLOAD

http://www.programurl.com/say-now-voice-and-speech-recognition.htm

ACROBAT READER 8.0

http://www.acrobat-stop.com/index.asp?s=go-uk&a=acrobat&kw=acrobat

MediaPlayer`s

Realplayer

http://uk.real.com/player/

QuickTime

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

DivX Player

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/?tiger_aff=z01_download_divx_player&cid=GGL0000321&gclid=CImE3KmdtIsCFSoMQgoddynw1w

VLC Media Player

VLC is a versatile and highly portable multimedia player that can be used for many existent audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

http://www.download-all-area.com/vlcplayer/

http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-2194_4-10267151.html

iTunes

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Some Software Download Websites

Freeware-guide

http://www.freeware-guide.com/

Webbie

WebbIE is a web browser for blind and visually-impaired people, especially those using screen readers. It comes with the Accessible programs, letting you access news and audio on the Internet in a simple and accessible way, allowing you to use podcasts, listen to the radio and read RSS and news with your screen reader or other access solution. Together they provide a way to access websites and other great things online - and they are all free! Learn more about WebbIE.

http://www.webbie.org.uk/

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