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  1. How to E-mail an assignment to your instructor.
  2. How to copy a picture from a web page into a Word Document.
  3. To copy anything on your screen, try this.
  4. Here's a PowerPoint Tutorial
  5. How to bonk Excel over the head and get something into a speadsheet.
  6. Shareware and Freeware for Macs and PCs: Drivers and Plug-ins.
  7. Visit Tucows for shareware and freeware (good stuff!).
  8. Get your quicktime plugin here.
  9. NoNag Freeware is here.
  10. WinZip: Needed to extract files and programs from downloaded ZIP files..
  11. Image/Painting/Photo software. Visit JASC for a variety of shareware and demoware products.
  12. Real Audio Player. Required for viewing some movies and sound clips. Get it free here.
  13. Adobe Acrobat Reader: Needed to read many downloaded articles in PDF format. Get it here (free).
  14. Weather Station 1.2: This program gives you local temperature, dewpoints, relative humidity, etc. as well as access to US and world satellite data. Absolutely free!
  15. Altitude utility. Find the altitude at any point on earth (never know when you'll need that).
  16. Lots of free games, utilities, and other goodies can be found at CNET and ZDNET (see the downloads section for each).
  17. ZDNet ftp science programs are here.
  18. Snap-Shot.com: Your source for free screensavers and wallpaper. Includes animal pix, plants, scenic, etc.
  19. Files viewers for text, graphics, and video. Get them here.
  20. Byte Online.
  21. Computer Shopper online.
  22. World's Smallest Webserver.
  23. Microsoft NetMeeting (free).
  24. Host Resolver. Know your IP address in case you need it to use a chat or conference program such as NetMeeting
  25. 50 Fabulous Freebies!!!
  26. 365 Screen Savers! A screen saver per day keeps the boredom at bay.
  27. Desktop Theme Heaven.
  28. Discrete Dynamics Laboratory: Tools for cellular automata, etc.
  29. Ulead PhotoImpact Viewer. It's good and it's free! Use to view just about any image file.
  30. Ulead Gif Animator Lite. This is free too!
  31. Almost 100 web backgrounds are here.
  32. Sign up for the SETI@home screen saver!
  33. Matt's script archive.
  34. Developer.com: Lots of free JAVA stuff after registration.
  35. Paint Shop Source/ Quick Demo Free Clones: IrFanView, IrFanView pix are here Try ImageForge (It's free!)
  36. For a full-featured paint program download GIMP (Available in Linux and Windows Versions) Caution: Steep learning curve (But worth it!!)
  37. Free Morph Program: Morphius See how here
  38. Wav to Mpeg and Mpeg to wav: Music File Converter
  39. Computer programs for ecology and behavior data collection and analysis.
  40. Run Linux instead of Windows for free!!!
  41. Read Extreme Tech
  42. Free Video Editors
  43. Microsoft Antispyware: Free for now...