Russell Bateman’s free and open software information site...

Links to my own pages for open software

• OpenOffice.org productivity suite FAQ
  
• Open Office productivity suite links
  
• The GIMP graphics software FAQ
  

Raw links to open software

• OpenOffice.org: office productivity suite
• Firefox: the hit new Internet browser
• Thunderbird: new e-mail client
• Sunbird: calendaring software project
• The GIMP: graphics manipulation application (like PhotoShop)
• Inkscape: vector graphics application (like Adobe Illustrator®)
• WinSCP: free SFTP, FTP and SCP client (better than FileZilla and the only one you can use to maintain pages on my web server)
• FileZilla: fast and reliable FTP client and server
• Nvu: webpage layout application
  Nvu down-loads:
  • nvu-1.0-win32-installer-full.exe—Windows full installer
  • nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip—Zip version of above file for those behind restrictive firewalls.

Additional free or low-cost software links

• Grisoft AVG® Anti-virus software (best)
  
• Burn4Free® (great CD/DVD creation software, easy-to-use)
  

List of software that I use everyday

• Firefox (ALL of my browsing at home and at work)
  
• Thunderbird (all my personal mail)
  
• OpenOffice (home and work—even when I have
  Microsoft Office!)
  
• WinSCP (to maintain all my webpages from my Windows host)
• AVG (all my personal computers running Windows) Note that you have to be very clever to get the absolutely free version of this utility. Otherwise, you’ll end up getting the free, 30-day trial for the commercial one. For version 8, look in the “Free basic protection” box, click on “Get it now!” and then look for “private use only”—click on the “Continue to AVG Free download.”
• Burn4Free (at home and at work)
  
• (I don’t use Nvu because I write all my HTML, CSS and JavaScript by hand. I can’t recommend it, but then I can’t recommend any software, like FrontPage or Dreamweaver that writes
  HTML for you.)