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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #180 on: September 23, 2006, 07:12:31 am »
Dracho PM'd me some games links.

FreeOrion
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Players take the helm of a newly-spaceborne Empire to explore and colonize the stars. Sometimes thought of as "Civilization in space," FreeOrion's design also provides for a tactical combat engine along the lines of Homeworld and the Total War series.

OS: Win XP, Linux
Open Source

FreeCol
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The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). At first we'll try to make an exact clone of Colonization. The visuals will be brought up to date with more recent standards but will remain clean, simple and functional. Certain new 'features' will be implemented but the gameplay and the rules will be exactly the same as the original game. Examples of modern features are: an isometric map and multiplayer support.
This clone will be developed incrementally and result in FreeCol 1.0.0 which will be an almost exact Colonization clone. Incremental development basically means that we'll add features one at a time. This allows us to have a running program at all times and also to release an unfinished but working game once in a while.

OS: Java
Open Source

C-evo
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C-evo is a freeware empire building game for Windows.
With a time scope of several thousand years, it covers aspects of exploration and expansion, industry and agriculture, warfare and diplomacy, science and administration. C-evo follows the spirit of popular turn-based strategy games from the mid 90s, but with more emphasis on powerful AI and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge.

OS: Win95 or later
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #181 on: September 23, 2006, 06:22:51 pm »
Audio, Video and Graphics Software:
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ExpressSCH & ExpressPCB
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Both programs are completely free, fully functional and easily installed with a single InstallShield setup program. They run with Windows 98 through XP.

Learning to use our software is fast because of its standardized Windows user interface. After spending the few minutes to learn one, the other takes almost no time because it works the same way.

Note: ExpressPCB offers a service manufacturing PCBs designed with this software.
OS: Windows?

Draft IT
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Draft IT is a powerful and easy-to-use 2D CAD software for suitable for all users, in the office or at home. You can create, print and save your own drawings and designs.

OS: Win98 - Win XP
Open Source

CadStd Lite
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CadStd is a general purpose, easy to learn CAD/drafting program for creating professional quality mechanical designs, house plans, blueprints, schematics and charts utilizing ANSI drawing standards. The Lite version is free and can read any drawing created by the Pro version. CadStd Lite can export files as DXF so you can share your drawings to your friends with other CAD programs like Autocad.

OS: Windows

DESI-III
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DESI-III uses a real database for the organisation of the drawings and drawing entities: which allows to use any stored drawing as a symbol in any other drawing. Symbols (drawings) can be composed of entities and symbols, which are composed of entities and symbols, which...: DESI-III uses a level structure in a drawing.

OS: Win95 (via DOS), Linux (Via DOSemu), OS/2,

A9CAD
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A9CAD is a general purpose two-dimensional CAD program. It supports industry standard DWG & DXF drawing formats.

OS: Win98 - Win XP

A9Converter
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A9Converter is a bi-directional DWG/DXF conversion program. It supports up to Autocad 2006.

OS: Win98 - Win XP

SeaSolution v1
SeaSolution v1 - download link
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Sea Solution is a CAD system for shipbuilding.

Sea Solution is a comfortable tool for geometrical simulation and design, especially for fairing lines and shell plates development.

Note:  Current version is 6.x they allow give away V1.x as a free intro   

Art of Illusion
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Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.

OS: Java Virtual Machine
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Wings 3D
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Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

OS: Windows (OGL), Mac, Linux, Unix
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #182 on: September 23, 2006, 06:24:01 pm »
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Plone
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Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don't need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

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Available in over 35 languages, Plone was designed from the ground up for multilingual content management. It handles Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease.

OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris
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My current plan is to update the Master List again on Sunday as it appears there have been a "few" additions posted to the list.  I'll add Dracho to the official contributors list at the same time.
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #183 on: September 24, 2006, 06:22:40 am »
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Cube 2: Games based on the Cube and Cube 2 game engine
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Free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast oldskool gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on.

OS: Win95 - Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD
Open Source

NetHack
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NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems. But that's a very dry description. See the Guidebook for much more information, including the game commands.

OS: Windows, Mac, Linux?
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Pingus
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Pingus is a free Lemmings clone for GNU/Linux and Windows covered under the GNU GPL. Pingus uses ClanLib  and libxml and might also be usable on some other OSs like FreeBSD, but hasn't been tested there. Pingus is mainly developed under GNU/Linux, that's why the Windows port is sometimes a bit behind.

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Space Invaders OpenGL
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Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D game based on the old arcade classic in which you must destroy enemy ships by shooting them up.

It is developed in OpenGL under Visual C++, and is still in development (alpha version).
It should run under Windows 98/ME/2000/XP with a 3D accelerator card and OpenGL drivers.

Open Source

The TA Spring Project
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Spring is a project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). There are three principle goals which we hope to achieve.

   1. Reach a stage where TA Spring can flawlessly execute most of Total Annihilation's original gameplay, with its original units in their original format.
   2. Add new features as we see fit, fix bugs, and release new versions when we feel it is appropriate to do so.
   3. Support the mod community as we see fit.
   4. Improving the already fine original TA Interface in a way that the Players will have more tatctical Options, more Control, more Comfort and still don`t get lost, as long as they are willing to learn.

OS: Windows, Linux (Requires Total Annihalation still)
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UFO: ALIEN INVASION
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UFO: ALIEN INVASION is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. You are in command of a small special unit which has been founded to face the alien strike force. To be successful on the long run, you will also have to have a research team study the aliens and their technologies in order to learn as much as possible about their technology, their goals and the aliens themselves.

OS: Windows, Linux
Note: Based on Quake 2 engine (modified)
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Globulation 2
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Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. Take a look at the screenshots or just download and try it right now. Globulation 2 is Free Software, licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
Open Source

Frozen Bubble
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Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, a level-editor, 3 professional quality 20-channels music tracks, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects.

OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD
Open Source

Freedroid
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THE CLASSICAL FREEDROID: Freedroid is a clone of the classic game "Paradroid" on Commodore 64 with some improvements and extensions to the classic version.

In this game, you control a robot, depicted by a small white ball with a few numbers within an interstellar spaceship consisting of several decks connected by elevators.

The aim of the game is to destroy all enemy robots, depicted by small black balls with a few numbers, by either shooting them or seizing control over them by creating connections in a short subgame of electric circuits.

Development of this game is now complete.  The final version came out in august 2003 and runs on Linux, Mac OSX, Sharp Zaurus and even that strange Windows wannabe of an operating system.  Thanks to all who helped.  Minor fixes and maintainance will of course still continue though...

OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Zaurus.
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #184 on: September 24, 2006, 10:53:00 am »
Update COMPLETED.  For now.  I also fixed some errors that crept in last time.

Next I think is to work on a list of portable applications.  Those intended to run from a USB key drive.  They let  you carry needed (okay desired) applications and run them on computers they are not installed on.
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #185 on: September 27, 2006, 09:35:53 pm »
Free Clipart

Free-Clipart.Com

Classroom Clipart

With all the office software some clipart might go well.
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #186 on: September 28, 2006, 08:14:18 pm »
This thread has become one of the 10 most viewed threads on the forums :).  I guess people are interested in free software.
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #187 on: September 29, 2006, 03:16:25 pm »
This thread has become one of the 10 most viewed threads on the forums :).  I guess people are interested in free software.


Yeah.  Free stuff and knockers, kind of says something about the psyche of the inhabitance of this place doesn’t it.   ;D

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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #188 on: September 30, 2006, 05:37:07 am »
This thread has become one of the 10 most viewed threads on the forums :).  I guess people are interested in free software.


Yeah.  Free stuff and knockers, kind of says something about the psyche of the inhabitance of this place doesn’t it.   ;D


Don't forget TWO Seti threads make the list.
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #189 on: September 30, 2006, 06:16:13 am »
Fixed a few errors.  Things out of alphabetical order or on the Master List but not the matching Sublist (and vice versa).  Didn't add anything to the list at this time.

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AntiCutAndPaste
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About:
AntiCutAndPaste is designed to search for text fragments that have been copied and pasted in programming language source code or plain text. It has been tested on sources from large C++, Pascal, Java, and C# (Mono) projects. The algorithms used are very fast and can handle up to three million C++ code lines in one minute. Minor modifications of code are ignored during the search. Reports are sorted conveniently by the total size of all similar fragments and there are many report customization options.


Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS.
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Microsoft® Word only exists on platforms supported by Microsoft itself. On other platforms, reading Microsoft® Word files is usually difficult, sometimes expensive and often impossible.


OpenPBX.org
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About the project:
OpenPBX.org is an open Source Private Branch Exchange System (PBX) in software for the Linux Operating system.  OpenPBX.org is licenesd under the GNU General Public License or GPL.

Goals:
The goal of the project is to produce a free Software PBX that will be highly robust and stable, featureful, and easy to use and deploy.  We will build a positive and forward-thinking community around OpenPBX.org to support it and carry it forward.


FMSLogo
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A Logo programming environment for MS-Windows operating systems. FMSLogo (contrasted with other Logo dialects) has an easy-to-use GUI that encourages learning, especially for young children. FMSLogo was once called MSWLogo.


ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word
This is the plugin that was developed to allow MS-Word to use Open Document Format for compatiblity reasons. 
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #190 on: September 30, 2006, 07:17:43 pm »
About a week ago I found out an advantage of Free Software that I hadn't thought of before. 

I took my (personal) laptop with me to work, on the way it refused to boot.  I managed to use the built in restore for the OS but that removed all the applications (but not data, its on a different partiiton).  Just about everything on the laptop that I installed is free software (or a game) and the install files were left on the HD on purpose so I was able to reinstall the software (I wasn't playing games so that was no problem) I needed and use the laptop without waiting to get home and dig out the install CDs.   

No worries about doing a reinstall on the road and not having your CDs and no worry about having the CDs stolen or lost if you carry them so you can reinstall while on the road. 
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #191 on: October 02, 2006, 10:45:09 am »
Found this one for you guys, It's basicly a Fallout radius Proggy, where you can set Kiloton range and wind speed. It's a small file and does run in native windows. Of course I scanned the attached file for Viruses before posting it here.

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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #192 on: October 07, 2006, 12:08:14 pm »
http://www.altme.com/

An AltME safeworld is a private world of instant communication that runs from your computer (rather than from AOL, MSN, or ICQ's computers). In a way, it's like having your own private AOL system.

I was doing some research into running my own Private FTP, and a friend told me about this. He claims, he is using it too host well over two TB's of pics, Video's etc, with his family, and Seems to be very pleased with it. Personaly, I like this idea of a private network , and may even talk to Frey about it for here, as an alternative to our current ftp.

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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #193 on: October 09, 2006, 01:17:44 pm »
Circle Virtual CD
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Circle Virtual CD creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC. This allows you to make images of your favorite CD-ROMs and use them without inserting a CD into a CD-ROM drive. Circle Virtual CD: 1) improves the speed at which you access data, 2) stops you from having to switch disks in and out of your CD-ROM drive. Use Circle Virtual CD to easily access your favorite games, favorite music or favorite software programs. Since Circle Virtual CD uses CircleScan(tm), nearly *any* CD can be imaged.


JCalculator
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JCalculator is a freeware. You can evaluate some mathematical expressions by entering an expression to be evaluated and pressing the CALCULATE button.  Copy and paste the results to the other application. The results could be revived since the calculation history is stored in the combo box.


JExplorer
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JExplorer is a dual-panel type file manager and web-browser as well. It is similar to widely used Windows Commander. JExplorer provides many advanced features such as file manager, web browser, file compress/decompress, folder comparator, FTP clent, POP3 email check, image capture, character recognition on the image, virtual drive mount. JExplorer is a freeware and it runs under Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT4/2K/XP. Power toys JOCR, JMounter, and JCalculator are included in the JExplorer 1.8.


JMount
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JMount  is a freeware. JMount allows you to create virtual drives by mapping your favorite folder to a drive letter. The virtual drive behaves as a real hard drive. It makes you save time to browse for a folder with a long file path, and then provides you prompt access to the folder. For example, the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\" could be simply mapped to drive "Z:\".


JOCR
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JOCR is a freeware. JOCR enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful to revive the protected files whose text can not be copied.  JOCR enables you to copy text from any files and images on the screen such as protected Web pages, PDF files, error messages.  The program offers several capture modes.

JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or higher version. If JCOR does not work, please manually install "Micorosoft Office Document Imaging" (MODI) that is included in the setup file of Microsoft Office. You can find MODI under "Office Tools" of the setup file.


MagicISO
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MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs ---- It works like a real CD/DVD-ROM: You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. Allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD/DVD-ROM
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #194 on: October 17, 2006, 06:50:21 pm »
Gnome Partition Editor (aka GParted)

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GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.

A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one larger and the adjacent one smaller) The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).


I downloaded this last night and just used it to repartition my laptop HD which was in one partition using FAT32.  Now it has multiple partitions and some of them are NTFS.  Seems fine so far.
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« Reply #195 on: October 18, 2006, 09:00:24 pm »
Portable Applications

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The goal of the Portable Apps project is to make applications portable... taking high-quality, existing applications and packaging them up to run from a portable device (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc).

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« Reply #196 on: October 28, 2006, 12:20:08 pm »
DVD43
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DVD43 is a free decrypter. This site will help you find DVD43 so you don't have to pay money for a decrypter.  At the bottom of this page you will find links to several sites which host DVD43, a list of software that works well with DVD43 and a list of DVD copy review sites in case you are looking for a DVD copy program.  DVD43.com does not host DVD43 and is not affiliated with the authors of DVD43.

WHAT DOES IT DO?: DVD43 decrypts DVD movies.  DVD43 only works on Win2K and WinXP.  If you have Win98 or WinME, use DVD Decrypter (use 'Mode' 'File') which allows you to rip all the files of a DVD to your hard drive and then copy with your favorite copy software.


DVDFab Decrypter
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DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying.

 on the same URL is Free DVD
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Free DVD removes several protections from a DVD folder on the hard disk. It removes region code (RC), region code enhancement (RCE), analog copy protection, and user operation prohibitions (UOPs). You can use it to get a free DVD before you burn the DVD folder. It's only 44K.


Virtual Dimension
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So, first of all, what is a virtual desktop? Simply said, a "desktop" is what you see when you run windows: the actual windows desktop, with the icons on it; some open windows; some minimized windows. The main goal of the project is thus to allow working with only some of the applications visible at a time. Later, some other windows may be visible. The program thus allows to have a few set of applications/windows, where you can simply choose which group is visible, and switch between one group or the other.

Now, one may ask what is the interest of such a thing ? Well, this is quite simple. If you only have a few windows open at any time, I guess there isn't much interest. However, if you are working with lots of applications, you desktop can easily become overcrowded: you lose time finding your windows, taskbar buttons are too small for you to read the text and find the right window, using drag and drop becomes a nightmare... The solution is Virtual Dimension.[/quote
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Re: Freely available and legal software.
« Reply #197 on: November 12, 2006, 12:08:10 pm »
Free software list website.

I've been working on a web site for the Free software list.  It is about 1/2 complete not counting testing all the links.  The sublists are being worked on in alphabetical order and are done up to Office software.  I have not tested the links as the pages were mostly composed offline.

The site is valid XHTML 1.0 strict according to the W3C Validator.  I have tested it on Firefox and Opera under Windows so far.

If you find any errors including broken links please let me know.
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« Reply #198 on: November 19, 2006, 09:14:30 pm »
I have continued working on the web site and am in the process of validating the next batch of pages and a few minor tweaks and fixes to the existing pages.  However my time is somewhat constrained by offline issues so I won't be getting the new stuff validated and uploaded very quickly.  The next batch of updates will probably include everything but the OS page - but no promises as to when or if all those pages will be done and validated at the same time.

I have had some feedback to the effect that the main panel does not display right in IE 5 but does in a later version (I don't know if it is 6 or 7 though).  Once everything is uploaded and working to spec on Firefox, Opera and Konquerer I'll look at the CSS and try to see what is different that causes it to display the top and side panel correctly but not the main panel in IE 5, it should be fixable.

My niece offered to make it "prettier" with flowers and nicer colours.  I pointed out that her feminine touches might just give you guys the wrong idea about me ;) .
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« Reply #199 on: November 21, 2006, 10:12:32 pm »
I use the entire FreshDevices utilities suite that is completely freeware and require just a one time free registration.

You can find the entire suite at the Fresh Devices website:

http://www.freshdevices.com/ where you will find:

FreshDownload
FreshUI
FreshDiagnose
FreshView
FreshFTP

And I highly recommend the above programs.

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