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Free Useful Software
Some of our pages and downloadable files require the use of third party software. This page contains a list of links to many free third party software that may help you ustilise some of the information provided on our website.
Adobe PDF Reader
- Read PDFs (Portable Document Format). There are a lot of these documents on our website so we encourage you to download the latest version of Adober Reader.
- http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Word Processors
If you do not have Microsoft Word and do not wish to purchase it, consider some of the following free alternatives to assist you opening Word Documents.
- Abiword (5.3MB to 7.1MB, depending on file additions)
- http://www.abisource.com/download/
- OpenOffice (108.7MB)
- This is a large install but it includes equivalents to Excel and Powerpoint as well as Word.
- http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html
Media Player Plug-ins (for video and animations)
- Flash (used for video playback and animations)
- Latest version: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
- Quicktime (used for video playback and with some Flash movies)
- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
- Media Player (used for video playback on Windows)
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
Browsers (Macintosh or Windows)
- Opera (for mobile phone browsing)
- http://www.opera.com/
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