Downloadable Resources to Power Up Your Web Browser
- Stuffit Expander/Aladdin Expander
- Free utility program to decompress files downloaded from the web (handles many file formats)
- http://www.Aladdinsys.com/expander/
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Free viewer for documents in Adobe PDF format
- http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
- Macromedia Shockwave player
- Free viewer/player for Shockwave and Flash animations
(includes games, cartoons and music as well as academic
content)
-
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
- RasMol
- View and rotate molecular structures in 3D - particularly useful for PDB data files.
- http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/getras.htm
- Chime
- Chime is a browser plug-in that allows you to view 3D molecular structures within a web page.
- It is used for many online tutorials about structural biology
- Download Chime http://www.mdli.com/support/chime/download.html
- Chime Resources http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/index.html
- QuickTime 4
- Free viewer for internet video in QuickTime 4 format (Macintosh and Windows 95/97/NT)
- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/install/
- RealPlayer
- A free viewer for RealAudio/RealVideo internet audio and video formats from RealNetworks
- (currently the most popular format on the Web) - available for all types of computers.
- http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=dl0599&src=choice_1&lang=en#form
- Microsoft Media Player
- A free viewer for Microsoft's own format for sending video over the Web
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/
- Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer
- A free viewer for Microsoft PowerPoint slide presentations
- (useful if you don't have PowerPoint, or just don't have enough RAM to run it while you
browse the web)
- Macintosh version http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice/productinfo/98dl/pptvdl.htm
- Windows 3.x http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/ppview16.htm
- Windows 95/97/NT http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/ppview97.htm