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SOFTWARE (FREEWARE)

No claims can be made here with respect to either the utility, reliability, or system security impacts of this software. Download and use at your own risk! Many of these programs have been used successfully in the past. Some sites listed here may no longer exist. An attempt has been made here to identify sources associated with the software production, and not secondary download sites that may pose more of a risk. Contact the editor for Peckhamia if you know of software that should be evaluated for possible addition to this list.

Adobe Reader 9.1	The best and most functional application for reading PDFs
Avira AntiVir Personal	Antivirus software, highly rated by Consumer Reports
CombineZM 1.0	Software for compositing photographs taken at varying focus, to extend depth of field.
Dia 0.97	Diagram creation program
FastStone Image Viewer 3.9	Easy viewing and conversion of many different image formats, including JP 2, from FastStone
FileZilla Client 3.2.4.1	Well-supported and highly functional FTP application; FileZilla Server is also available here
FLV Player	FLV player from Appian Technologies, with option to install Ask and Record Toolbar to your browser
FreeOCR 2.6	FreeOCR,.net 2.6, optical character recognition based on Tesseract engine; language packs for English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and others are also available to install in this outstanding program
Google Chrome	Streamlined web browser
GraphCalc 4.0.1	2D and 3D graphing calculator, simple and with low overhead
Graphing Calculator 3D 3.0	Fairly sophisticated 3D calculator, although free version is limited in capability
Inkscape 0.46	Vector graphics editor, scalable and open source, very sophisticated program
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10	Most popular alternative web browser
OpenOffice 3.1	Full-featured office suite that also generates PDFs directly, new version also supports overlining
PDFTools 1.3	Useful application for splitting large PDFs
PrimoPDF	Allows you to print other documents directly to a PDF
Prism	Versatile video conversion software, can use imported CODECs
QuickTime 7.6.2	Quicktime movie player from Apple
Riva FLV Player	Plays flash videos
Ruler Tool	Great utility for making accurate measurements from photographs or drawings, or anything that appears on your computer screen; distributed by Autodesk ® (select DOWNLOADS at top of page); use with M/S Windows Magnify utility
Safari 4	Apple alternative browser with Mac styling
SeaMonkey 1.1.16	Efficient web-browser and email client also includes an HTML editor for web pages, from Mozilla
SPAMfighter	SPAM (email) filter, highly rated by Consumer Reports and other sources
Windows Defender	Spyware protection from Microsoft, highly rated by Consumer Reports

female Phidippus clarus

Adult female Mopsus mormon, the largest known Australian jumping spider. Photograph by Troy 'teejaybee' Bell. Use subject to Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License. Most semi-transparent salticids have at least a patch of scales covering the optic quadrangle like this, perhaps to conceal scanning movements of the AME.