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Elegant Software

These are pointers to programs that someone feels work well for their intended purpose and deliver value with minimal pain. They are either free or relatively inexpensive. Some may, however, require more than basic user-level skills to use effectively. Other recommendations are welcome!

• Irfanview

  A graphics viewer on steroids. Free for personal use. Windows only, though -- sorry!

• Trillian

  Instant Messaging (IM -- e.g., AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, etc.) has become a multi-million user service, in many cases free to end users. Trillian (available both in free and priced versions) supports five of these systems in one skinnable interface and product -- the three mentioned above, plus ICQ and IRC. Windows only, though -- sorry!

• Post-it® Software Notes

  Are you addicted to "stickies"? Do you cover (read "obscure") your screen with little yellow notes? You can do it with software ... A worthy competitor to this product is StickyNote. Neither product is free; both are Windows-only, sorry.

• Opera

  Opera is the number three (after IE and Netscape/Mozilla) web browser. It is much faster than numbers one and two, and has a nifty feature set. It comes in a free version (displays advertising) and a purchased version (no advertising). Versions are available for multiple operating systems.

• Mozilla Firefox

  Firefox is from the folks who brought you Mozilla. However, whereas Mozilla is a direct competitor to Internet Explorer – with all the implied features – Firefox is just a browser. Currently in beta, it still is an excellent tool. As part of the Open Source "movement" it is completely free. Versions are available for multiple operating systems.

• Notepad++

  This is not a word processor. But it is a very slick text editor, and completely free. Windows only, sorry.

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