Glenn's website - Internet Links
IT Links
http://www.bcs.org - The British Computer Society
http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/speed-test.asp - How fast is your internet connection? (UK)
http://adslspeedtest.info/adsl-speed-testing.php - How fast is your internet connection? (USA)
http://sourceforge.net/ - My favourite in "Open Source" free software downloads
http://www.winzip.com - Home of the WinZip shareware compression utility
http://www.rarlabs.com - Home of the WinRAR shareware compression utility
Microsoft Word viewer - Newest Word 2003 viewer (View .DOC and .DOT files)
Microsoft Excel 2003 spreadsheet viewer - Excel 2003 viewer (View .XLS files)
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation viewer - PowerPoint viewer (View .PPT and .PPS files)
Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2007 - Install after viewers above for Office 2007 reading
Adobe Acrobat Reader - Portable Document Format viewer (View .PDF files)
http://messenger.msn.com - MSN Messenger Live for Instant Messaging
http://www.hotmail.co.uk & http://www.hotmail.com - Free web based E-mail
http://www.limewire.com - Fast P2P File Sharing Software
http://www.utorrent.com – Fast & Small bit torrent client for .torrent downloads
http://www.facebook.com - Social networking 1
http://www.myspace.com - Social networking 2
http://www.friendsreunited.com - Social networking 3
IT Security – Software and Information
http://www.auditmypc.com/ - Firewall, Popup, IP, Speed & Anonymous Tests
http://www.windowsupdate.com - Keep your MS-Windows system up to date
http://www.avast.com - Freeware Anti-Virus software (home edition)
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-u3.html - Free 2 month Trial of Anti-Virus software for SanDisk U3 USB Flash Memory Pen-Drives
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com - Excellent free home pro firewall for XP/Vista (protect your PC against hackers)
http://www.zonealarm.com - Excellent commercial home Firewall, some with Anti-Virus / Anti-Spy-Ware options
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ - P2P Privacy Firewall (Peer Guardian) Blocks Spyware IP Internet Addresses
http://phrosty.phoenixlabs.org/pg2-rc1/ - Peer Guardian 2 for VISTA and XP - (Test release but functions well)
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/ - Home of Block List Manager (create BIGGER Peer Guardian Privacy Block Lists)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/ - Home of Microsoft Anti-Spy-Ware
http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/win32/7.0.3/ - Latest PGP Freeware version 7.0.3
http://www.pgp.com/downloads/desktoptrial.html - Latest PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) Commercial version
http://www.microsoft.com/security/ - Home of Microsoft Security
http://www.rsasecurity.com/ - Corporate IT security solutions
http://www.securityfocus.com/ - Keep up to date in IT security issues
http://www.i-hacked.com/ - Security for educational purposes only
http://www.hackthissite.org/ - Practice your security skills safely
http://www.eicar.org/ - European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research
http://www.cert.org/ - Computer Emergency Response Team
Family & Friends
http://www.myspace.com/missingandy - Rob Master General's Pop/Alternative Music Band
http://www.myspace.com/kymberleypody - Kym, a Model, Singer and Essex Radio's "Black Thunder"
http://www.cmxs.com - Chris Moore's website
http://www.ranjiv.com - Jeff's Ram's website
http://www.glennroast.co.uk/gary.htm - Gary Garman
Extra Links
http://www.pooletourism.com/ - Visit Poole in Dorset, England for your next UK holiday (UK)
http://www.nasa.gov - Space exploration (USA)
http://www.avis.co.uk/ - Rent a decent new motor car (Worldwide)
http://www.multimap.com - Excellent Worldwide & GB/UK road travel planner (Worldwide)
http://www.hotelscene.co.uk/ - Hire your business and personal hotel accommodation (UK)
http://www.needtoknowselfdefence.co.uk/ - A Great Self -Defence Video for a one-off £4.95 (550MB,AVI,PayPal)
http://www.videowaza.com/ - An excellent martial arts instruction videos download site - 7 days free then $14.95 per month