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FREE program downloads and help for computer novices
Cleaner-upper for messed up text formats
Get virus help online
Download WebFerret - excellent search programme
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South Africa's Concerned Public Website
Have you read something in the papers that has bothered you?  Have you heard something through reliable sources that you are angry about?  Do you want to do something about this?  We tend to think that if something bad is going down then someone else is doing something about it.  Wrong!  This is very often not the case.  A few of us on the Mail and Guardian forum have decided we want to pro-actively start taking a stand on issues instead of just reading the news in torment.  If you would like to join us in our actvisit escapades please jump right in, the more of us there are, the less they will be able to keep the bad quiet!
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South Africa's Concerned Public Website

Have you read something in the papers that has bothered you?  Have you heard something through reliable sources that you are angry about?  Do you want to do something about this?  We tend to think that if something bad is going down then someone else is doing something about it.  Wrong!  This is very often not the case.  A few of us on the Mail and Guardian forum have decided we want to pro-actively start taking a stand on issues instead of just reading the news in torment.  If you would like to join us in our actvisit escapades please jump right in, the more of us there are, the less they will be able to keep the bad quiet!
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Clean up those Forwarded Emails and text copied from the Web

Here's a programme to clean up and delete all those "<<<" and ">>>" thingies (cehvrons) you get in emails that have been forwarded to you. And have you noticed that when you copy text from the Web and paste it somewhere, it often contains lots of spaces and paragrapgh breaks, and needs to be formatted?  This can be a real pain.  Well, with this little programme, just copy the text as usual, then click on the smiley button and your text is immediately pasted with all those spaces and paragraph breaks eliminated. Then just lift the clean text out of the Cleaner programme paste it where you want it.   It's great!
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Get Virus Help Online

This web site was created to help people understand today's computer viruses and to assist them in cleaning their own systems. Questions are answered using a Q & A format with straightforward terminology. Some general information is listed dealing with common questions being asked today.
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WebFerret - A "Magic" Downloadable Search Programme

WebFerret provides a handy and efficient way to find information on the Web.  It's fast, easy to use, and available from your desktop and from Search Web Pages in your Start menu.  Enter your search words and choose from four radio buttons: All keywords, Any keyword, Exact phrase, or Boolean Expression.  WebFerret will use your Internet connection to query popular search engines and returns an unlimited number of hits.  You can validate selected results, save your search history, and filter pornography and foul language.  Advanced features let you set the closeness of the match and remove duplicates.  The results are returned as a sortable list.  Just double-click on a link to bring up your browser and launch the page.
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Free Email Retrieval & Notification Programme - without having to open your e-mail programme!

ePrompter™ is a free email retrieval and notification utility that automatically checks up to eight password protected email accounts for AOL, AltaVista, Earthlink, Email.com, GO, Hotmail, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, Netscape, POP3, Rediffmail, Switchboard, USA, Yahoo, ZDNetOneBox and hundreds of other email domains - all at the same time.  It allows to you see what mail you have on your mail server, delete unwanted or read mail before it even reaches your PC.  A really neat and useful little programme.

mail2web is a web-based service
It allows you to check your regular e-mail wherever you may be
Unlike ePrompter, which is a programme you download to your PC, mail2web  is a web-based service that ofefrs similar features to ePrompter, except that you can use it from any computer without having to install anything.  Read your incoming e-mails while on holiday, or at a friend, an internet cafe, hotel, etc.  All you need to know is your e-mail Username and Password you have for your regular mail service, and you're home and dry!

One e-mail address for life, with bigfoot.com
You need never again advise people of a new e-mail address.  Bigfoot can be your permanent e-mail address for life. Bigfoot is not a web-based e-mail service like hotmail, webmail, etc.  It's a mail routing service, and it's FREE up to a certain limit of maximum daily mail traffic.  Thereafter there's a small fee.  Bigfoot  will forward all e-mails on to your registered email address.   So, when you change your ISP and e-mail adress, just change the settings at Bigfoot, and all your e-mails will be redirected to your new ISP e-mail address.  There's no need to advise all the people in your address book, and all those banks and insurance companies, etc.  Check it out.
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Free Internet online communicator programme

ICQ is a revolutionary, user-friendly Internet tool that informs you who's on-line at any time and enables you to contact them at will.  No longer will you search in vain for friends or associates on the Net.  ICQ does the searching for you, alerting you in real time when they log on.
The need to conduct a directory search each time you want to communicate with a specific person is eliminated.

With ICQ, you can chat, send messages, files and URL's, play games, speak with voice, or just hang out with your fellow 'Netters' while still surfing the Net.

You can also check out the simpler Yahoo messager and msn messenger services which also have the voice chat option.
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FREE program downloads and other nifty stuff
Hosted by The Really Realy Really Easy Computer Books for Absolutely Beginners, this website has some very useful programs and other stuff for novices. And if you're already quite an expert, it's a good site to recommend to friends and family who are still novices.   Well worth a visit.
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FREE International calls with Skype

Genuine, no-gimmicks, excellent program to make FREE internation phonecalls PC to PC, and extremely cheap calls from your PC to a landline in any country of the world. The sound quality is brilliant! Call charges to a landline are in the region of R0.14 per minute (Oct 2004) to countries such as the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and more. It's phenomenol! All you'll need is your PC microphone and speakers or headset. Check it out!
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ArriveAlive.co.za
The www.arrivealive.co.za web site was developed solely with the intention to enhance road safety and further to compliment efforts of the Ministry of Transport, the Arrive Alive Campaign as well as several international institutions who have contributed to road safety. Consequently, this constitutes a non-commercial web site with no intention to derive any personal or financial gain or benefit.


RIGHT is MIGHT

If all motorists simply complied with the Rules of the Road and Road Signs, our roads would be much safer all year round and we would have no need to have our taxpayer money wasted on road safety campaigns, silly advertising, etc.  Think about it.  What can we as motorists do about it?  One way is to report online any road law violations we witness, and start creating a greater awareness that crime is wrong, and RIGHT is MIGHT.

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