| Links |
| The following links to other web sites is provided for your convenience. We do believe that these sites are likely to be useful, but do not officially endorse them or their contents. The sites highlighted here were selected by our web-master. We would appreciate your feedback about our selection of sites, and your suggestions about other sites to promote in this area of our web site. |
| Essential Utilities: |
| Hear it, see it, zip it, play it. With our essential utilities, you can expand your PC power and surf the Web in style. |
| Acrobat Reader |
| Use a language everyone can understand, Portable Document Format (PDF). Visit Adobe and download Acrobat Reader |
| Macromedia Flash Player |
| Over 363 million Web users can now use Macromedia Flash Player to seamlessly view content created with Macromedia Flash, the professional standard for producing high-impact, vector-based Web experiences. |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer |
| Go directly to Microsoft.com and download the latest browser software |
| Quicktime |
| See it live with Apple's new version of QuickTime, a free technology that allows you to play both audio and video formats. |
| Real Player |
| Get sharp pictures and superior sound quality with RealPlayer, an online video player. |
| Winzip |
| There's no need to hang up your messaging system with a massive file. Go to WinZip.com and download a utility for compressing and decompressing big files. |
| Finance & Investments |
| The Motley Fool Investment forum located at www.fool.com is perhaps the most popular investment related web site of interest to the individual investor. |
| The NASDAQ web site located at www.nasdaq.com offers invaluable information, statistics and analytical metrics about all securities traded over the NASDAQ system. |
| Check out the web site maintained by Intuit (makers of Quicken) at www.quicken.com for a comprehensive presentation of all matters financial, including stock quotes and reports, insurance quotes, mortgage rates etc |
| General Consumer Interest |
| The web site maintained by the not-for-profit and advertisement-phobic Consumers Union at http://www.consumerreports.org is perhaps the ultimate repository of information about what is good and what is bad about everything from toilet paper to turbo-charged inter-cooled autos, and everything in between. No one should make a major purchase without consulting the Consumer Reports. |
| If you constantly stumble over confusing computer jargon and TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms), it helps to have 24-hr online web support for these make-or-break-your-career 'words'. The one we like is found at www.instantweb.com/foldoc/ |
| And if that doesn't work, and you continue to feel lost and confused in today's tech-prone and jargon-heavy world, you can visit www.webopedia.com to get clear definitions of common and not-so-common terms. Its tag line says it all: The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology. |
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