Real Player
This is a very a easy program to download and install onto your computer. The website gives you step by step instructions, allowing the most basic user to perform the installation easily. The only confusing process is choosing the correct free download. One option is to have a free trial, but there is another for a free download. The free trial requires your bank detail, so you need to make sure that you download the "freeload".
I played around with the program, and I found it very similar to other programs such as Quicktime and VLC. Real player is also very easy to use and allows you to play many types of files such as MPEG, SWF and AVI. You can also set the program as a default player when you have chosen to play these certain files. I find that this program is very useful for all aspects but because it is a common program i dont think you need to have the similar programs installed. I really need to trial this program for a few weeks to get a good feel of it, but after using it for a short period of time I believe that it is very easy and user friendly. I am not familiar with the differences with the extensions, but after reading up on the quicktime player and real player it seems as though the only difference with the 2 programs is that the quicktime player can play windows extensions.
URL Manager Pro
This is a very interesting program which I haven't installed on my computer before. I haven't really come across using a program such as this, but I am really interested in exploring it further. I usually use my Firefox bookmark organiser and I haven't really had any problems but it would be good to use a program which doesn't need to be connect to the internet. I don't think there are a lot of programs such as this, I personally haven't come across any. I searched around to see if there were other's which are simiar but only came across 2 other names opera and powermark.
The program is very easy to download and install, but the only problem with this download is the fact that you need to pay for it to use all the settings. Although it doesn't cost much, but it would be good if you could trial the complete program before purchasing.
I found this program to be a little fiddly and hard to get a hang of. The instructions are not very helpful but eventually I worked out how to use it. This program seems to be similar to outlook express but with the bookmarking system to be the main component. I like the fact that you can also check your email from here too. When you have all the site bookmarked through this program, I think it would be much easier to find and navigate. The bookmarking system on Firefox is very simple and once you begin to save a lot of sites the tabs can appear messy. With this program, it allows you to have folders (the same as Firefox) and group the same topics in one place. But when you look through these folders, they appear as though you are searching for documents on your computer, this is very easy on your eyes. The "fav" setting is also a good feature. I like the fact that you can have all your sites organised with the appropriate heading. The best part of this program is the search function. If you have forgotten where you have saved the url, you can easily do a search for it, this will save you so much time!
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