| Electronic Library Dictionaries and English Language References These are programs that will run right off the web on your PC or may be downloaded. Internet Explorer will give you the option to Open the file or Save the file. You may choose to Open the file and it will open without saving to your hard-drive. Mozilla Firefox browser does not give you the option to Open the file and only gives you the option to save the file. You can still save the file and then run it without having to install it. These have been tested on Windows XP only but will work on other Windows versions. These are web sites that have programs that run right off the web but can not be downloaded Flash Cards Allows you to study by using on-line flash cards that you can make Online Text Editor Allows you to create text files online Online HTML Editor Allows you to create web pages online Online Typing Program Allows you to practice typing and view your typing speed Online 10-Key Program Allows you to practice on the 10-key keypad Toast.net Allows you to test your internet connection speed Audit My PC Allows you to test your if your firewall is working properly. Click on 1 for basic and 2 for advanced testing These are programs that do not need to be installed but can't run right off the web. They must be downloaded and saved into their own separate folders Lynx.exe Allows you to browse the web in text form. The file Lynx.cfg must also be downloaded and saved into the same folder as Lynx.exe Windiz28.exe Is a file zip and unzip with a windows interface. It won't run directly off the web. You can download the file and give it the destination folder where you would like the files to be extracted. It does not need to be installed. ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk Version allows you to recover data from a failed floppy disk MP3VCR allows you do record shoutcast music from the web and save them as mp3 files. Download the zip file, uncompress the zip file and open mp3vcr.exe FrontPage Express allows you to make web pages without having to know HTML code. HD Clone Free Edition (1.5M) Allows you to make a bootable disk cloning floppy disk or CD. PDF file and readme.txt file Zip/Unzip (1.75M) Zips and Unzips files. You can create self-extracting executables if you download file bszipper-files.exe and save them to a folder. It is a self-extracting executable which contains the files to be able to turn zip files into self-extracting exe files. These are utility programs that must be downloaded and then installed on your computer. They are free and have been tested for viruses and spyware. WGET (2.27M) is a command line utility that allows you to retrieve web pages AdAware is a program that will look for spy-ware programs on your computer and remove them. SpyBot is another program that will look and remove spy-ware programs from your computer. AVG is an anti-virus program that is pretty good and also free. CCleaner is a registry clean-up program. Microsoft Management Console Save it to your desktop. Right click on the link with Firefox browser and choose Save Link As. Right click on the link with Internet Explorer and choose Save Target As. These are web sites that have portable applications that can run from a USB thumbdrive and do not need to be installed http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php http://www.psychpage.com/tech/portable.html http://www.techtastic.ca/articles/portable.html http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1676&page=1 http://software.u3.com/ProductCategoryList.aspx?CategoryId=1&Selection=0 http://www.kikizas.net/en/usbapps.html http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Portable.htm http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1849710,00.asp This page has links to other references including student contributions |