Internet Browser
Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/
Firefox is a next generation internet browser that is incredibly fast, stable and
includes a lot of nice features such as tabbed browsing. Also, it is not affected
by all of the exploits and viruses that affect Internet Explorer, so using it as
your web browser makes your internet access more secure.
E-Mail Application
Thunderbird Email
http://www.mozilla.com/
Thunderbird is an enterprise level e-mail client that includes all of the extra
features that make using e-mail more effective such as a personal calendar, spam
blocking, e-mail preview window, and much more.
Anti-Virus
F-Prot Anti Virus
http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/win/
Church Office Online recommends using F-Prot Anti Virus to secure your church
computers from viruses. While not free, F-Prot is only $50.00 for 10 computer
licenses, which works out to be $5.00 per church computer. F-Prot is easy on
system resources and uses an advanced heuristics-based detection to defend
against new and unknown threats.
Anti-Spyware
Microsoft Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/antispyware
In addition to anti-virus, every computer should have protection against spyware
installed. Microsoft has created a great anti-spyware application and is offering
it free of charge. Microsoft Anti-Spyware will automatically scan and protect your
computer from spyware that attempts to hijack or steal data from your computer.
PDF Generator
PDFCreator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PDFCreator is a free application that once installed allows to you create a PDF
of any application that can print. After installing PDFCreator a new printer is
installed on your system that allows you to "print" to PDF, which you can save to
your computer or e-mail to others. This works with all application, including Church
Membership Online.
***Note: Download the PDFCreator_X_X_X_AFPLGhostscript.exe and run it to install
PDFCreator.
Office Application
OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org/
OpenOffice is an award winning, free office application that provides all of the
functionality of Microsoft Office. OpenOffice provides the same applications as
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and can read and write Microsoft Office
documents natively. Why pay hundreds of dollars per copy of Microsoft Office when
you can get all of the same great office application functionality FREE! Using OpenOffice
can save your church thousands of dollars per year.
Bible Translations, Commentaries & Dictionaries
E-Sword
http://www.e-sword.net/
E-Sword is an awesome Bible application that can be run on either your PC or your
Pocket PC based handheld device. E-Sword gives you access to many different Bible
translations, commentaries, dictionaries and provides an easy to use user interface
with features such as bookmarks, personal comments, searching and much more!
Berean Bible Study Freeware
http://www.berbible.org
BerBible is simplified Bible study freeware that includes the complete ESV
(English Standard Version ©2001 by Good News and Crossway Publishers)
and the NKJV (New King James Version ©1982 from Thomas Nelson, Inc.)
Bibles at no cost.