Useful Resources

Firefox is a free open source web browser from Mozilla Corporation. It possesses excellent security features, using a sandbox security model, to protect communications and data and has a rich pool of extensions, add-ons and customisable features from third-party developers.

Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way: It's quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap, and runs complex web applications fast. Chrome's browser window is streamlined, clean and simple and jam-packed with features, extensions and apps.

Safari is Apple's graphical web browser for Mac and PC users. It allows you to browse your entire history with cover flow, a preview of the website, and cleverly detects when you are reading an article and extracts it into its article reader. It also provides great developer tools.

Adobe Flash Player is a piece of software that alllows you to view animations and films using your computer's browser or compatible programs. Flashplayer can also run ShockWave Flash files created using Macromedia tools or third-party tools and comes packed full of features.

Adobe Reader, part of the Adobe Acrobat family, is freeware that enables you to view, edit, manage and print PDF (Portable Document Format) files available to download directly from Adobe's website. PDF files are useful for presenting information in paper publication format.

Adobe Photoshop Express is a free, flash-based online image editing application. If you need to make some quick amendments to your images, like cropping or colour balance, or store your images, you can do this online or with the iPhone and Android mobile applications.

Teamviewer is free remote access software that allows you to view a fellow Teamviewer's desktop. You can show someone what you are doing from your perspective, or if you are having issues, let someone with the knowledge take control of your desktop and fix the problem remotely.

iStockphoto is the most popular provider of royalty-free, microstock photography images used worldwide. It uses a micropayment business model where you buy credits to purchase stock images and, depending on the size and collection, images range from 1 -200 credits.