Internet Applications and Resources

Here you'll find a listing of free and/or open source software applications and systems that are useful. Please report any broken links.


Mozilla's Firefox browser, with countless extensions and themes. Updated frequently.

Mozilla's Thunderbird email client.

Excellent free anti-virus protection for your personal PC.

Free version of their firewall product.

CygWin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. If you're a Linux user that can't stand using Windoze, this is for you.

GNU's image manipulation tool, It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Gaim/Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

An all-in-one web server with Apache, PHP 5, and MySQL. Easy installation of everything you need to run your personal server on Windows.