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Recommended Standard Applications 2015 v1.2 The latest version of this document can be found here: http://www.adamj.org/apps Table of Contents Adobe Flash Player ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Java Runtime Environment ........................................................................................................................... 2 VLC media player .......................................................................................................................................... 2 7-Zip File Manager ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Foxit PDF Reader ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Printing to PDF .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Adobe Acrobat Reader .................................................................................................................................. 3 PDFCreator .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Printing to PDF .......................................................................................................................................... 4 KeePass ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 FireFox & FireFox Addons ............................................................................................................................. 4 Recommended FireFox Addons ................................................................................................................ 5 Adblock Plus .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon .................................................................................................................. 5 OpenWith .............................................................................................................................................. 5 RefControl ............................................................................................................................................. 5 KeeFox ................................................................................................................................................... 5 CCleaner (Not free for Commercial Use) ...................................................................................................... 6 BleachBit ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Not free for Commercial Use) ...................................................................... 6 SUPERAntiSpyware ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender ..................................................................................... 7 Avast! (Not free for Commercial Use)........................................................................................................... 7 LibreOffice ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 ©2015, Adamj Consulting Page 1 http://www.adamj.org Last Modified: 2015.01.21 Recommended Standard Applications 2015 v1.2 Adobe Flash Player http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after its acquisition. Java Runtime Environment http://www.java.com/en Java is a programming language and computing platform. It is the underlying technology that powers state-of-the-art programs including utilities, games, and business applications. Java runs on more than 850 million personal computers worldwide, and on billions of devices worldwide, including mobile and TV devices. There are lots of applications and websites that won't work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere! VLC media player http://www.videolan.org VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. It’s simple, fast and a very powerful media player that plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. It plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...) It runs on all platforms: (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...) It can even do media conversion and streaming. 7-Zip File Manager http://www.7-zip.org 7-Zip is a free and open source file archiver with a high compression ratio. High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression Supported formats: o Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM o Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats Self-extracting capability for 7z format Integration with Windows Shell Powerful File Manager ©2015, Adamj Consulting Page 2 http://www.adamj.org Last Modified: 2015.01.21 Recommended Standard Applications 2015 v1.2 Foxit PDF Reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader The Foxit Reader is a small, fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, and print any PDF file. Unlike other free PDF readers, Foxit Reader also includes easy to use collaboration features like the ability to add annotations to PDF, fill out PDF forms, and share information with social networks. Foxit Reader has a small footprint that starts up instantly, renders PDF files quickly and uses very little memory, which is especially important with today's mobile devices. The Foxit Reader is packed full of convenient and easy to use viewing, commenting and printing features that make document collaboration simple. Foxit Reader's PDF secure platform insures worry free operation against malicious virus and provides a secure and reliable digital signature verification platform for PDF documents without putting the user at risk from falsified documents. Foxit PDF Reader also comes with a PDF Printer that allows you to print any document to the PDF Printer and save it as a PDF File. Printing to PDF 1. Open the document you wish to convert into a PDF in its default application. 2. Print the document as you would on a standard printer. 3. When the print dialog appears, change the printer from your default printer to the Foxit PDF Printer. If the Foxit PDF Printer is your default printer, you do not have to change it. 4. Another window will appear asking you to save your PDF. Browse to the location you wish to save it, type in a name for the PDF, and click Save. Adobe Acrobat Reader http://get.adobe.com/reader Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It's the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Adobe Reader does not come with a PDF Printer to create PDF Documents by printing to a PDF Printer. For that reason, PDFCreator is usually coupled with installs of Adobe Acrobat Reader to provide the extra functionality. PDFCreator http://www.pdfforge.org PDFCreator is a free and open source application that can create PDF files from just about any program that prints using windows printers. With PDFCreator you can: Create PDF's from just about any program that prints using Windows printers. Create documents in the following formats: Portable Document Format PDF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, Postscript (PS), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), Text, Adobe Photoshop (PSD), PCL, RAW and SVG (experimental). Combine multiple documents into one PDF. Password protect and apply up to 128 bit encryption to your PDF documents. ©2015, Adamj Consulting Page 3 http://www.adamj.org Last Modified: 2015.01.21 Recommended Standard Applications 2015 v1.2 Automatically save PDF documents with current settings without being prompted for information Creating a PDF with PDFCreator couldn't be easier. Just follow the steps below and you will be creating PDF's in no time. There are five ways to create PDF in PDFCreator: Printing, Drag and Drop, Document Adding, Command Line, and via Windows Explorer. Printing to