MyCostaBlanca.Info

As an English speaking expat living on the Costa Blanca you will be pleased to hear that there is now a website where you can find someone to help you. All the advertisers speak english so you are assured that you will not have any difficulties in making yourself understood. Just click here to find a tradesman, somewhere to buy your british products, somewhere to have your car serviced, someone to clean your pool or even someone to housesit and look after your pets or elderly relative while you are on holiday. You can even find emergency numbers and some articles on local tourist spots if you are looking for somewhere to take visitors.

Open Office

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites including Microsoft, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Adobe Acrobat Reader -  Freeware

Free software for viewing and printing PDF files      

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Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 -  Freeware

The leading rich client for Internet content and applications across the broadest range of platforms.

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Java - Freeware

Free software for viewing video images.

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PDF995 -  Freeware

Create and edit your own PDF Files with this freeware product. In order to run correctly you need to download all three files: PDF995, PDFEdit995 and Signature995, but once these are up and running you will find creating PDF files easy and painless.

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Net Nanny -  Buy online

Protect your children when surfing the web using the world’s leading parental control software. 

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Spybot Search & Destroy

Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowledge, you most probably have spyware. Spybot-S&D is a free download.

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Microsoft Windows Defender Beta

Windows Defender (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software.

This download is only available to customers running GENUINE Microsoft Windows, a validation process precedes installation.

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Mail Washer - Free Spam Blocker

Delete unwanted e-mails before you download the whole message. You’ll be able to see who the email is from, the subject, and the attachment. This will enable you to decide if you want to delete the email or keep it. A great way to stop viruses or large attachments.

Blacklist. Any e-mails you bounce back get their senders details put on the blacklist for easy removal if they come back. You can even set it to automatically bounce and delete blacklisted e-mails, or whole domains off the server. Plus, MailWasher can use external blacklists such as ORDB and Spam Cop or you can specify your own.

Friends List. Add your friends email addresses to MailWasher and they will always be recognised. You can even hide your friends from the screen so the spam is easy to recognise.

Preview. Easily preview the message in your email to see what the sender has to say before downloading it. Just double click on the message.

Bounce back unwanted e-mails so it looks as if your email address is not valid. This will make the sender think your address is no longer active so your name can be removed from their list. This unique feature is great for privacy and it couldn’t be simpler!

Filtering. Effective filtering to automatically spot spam, plus it uses a customisable list of blacklisted e-mail senders and/or regular expressions to filter out potential spammer addresses and messages.

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RealOne - Freeware

Currently, BBCi Music streams its content in Real Player format and some tracks in Windows Media format, and you will need specific software from both Real.com or Microsoft to access all their audio content.
 

Real Player - Download the FREE basic player here

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Live Webcams along the coast of the Valencia Community

Use the arrows by the side of the map to scroll up and down the coast and see the beaches as they are right now.  You need to have Java installed to see the images, if you don’t have it look below for the relevant link.

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Free Text/Webpage Translation by Babel Fish

Rocket Spanish

Who Else Wants to Learn to Speak Spanish Confidently and Naturally in less than 3 months? A full Learn-to-Speak Spanish course, which can be downloaded to your computer.

Click The Link Above For Your Free Preview and Spanish Mini-Course! You'll Learn Amazing Information That You Can Start Using Right Away.

Speak Rocket Spanish - Free 6 Day E-course.

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Amazon.co.uk

If you are looking for a specific book or film or even a present to send to a friend or relative in England it’s worth looking at Amazon, they have thousands of English DVDs, Videos, Books, CDs and many other items.  They accept payment by credit or debit card to an address in Spain and will allow delivery to an address in England, Spain or I’m sure many other countries, you can even arrange it to be gift wrapped with a personal message.  Take the hassle out of shopping, wrapping and posting to UK, have a look at Amazon

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Montgo Web Design, Web Hosting and Domain Registration

Montgo supplies domain names probably cheaper than anyone else (10 euros a year). With three high quality servers it hosts over 300 clients’ websites and is based in Ontinyent. Most clients are in Spain but some are in the UK, Holland and a couple are in Australia.

It's web design and graphic design side has grown greatly over the years. It has never aimed for flashy, complicated websites that nobody sees and the search engines can't navigate. Montgo makes simple sites that are pleasing to the eye.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a relatively new skill. So often good designers seem to have a blind spot concerning SEO. They get so engrossed in the "art" that they miss the practicality. However good a site is there is no point in having it if nobody visits it!

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Drawing for Children - Freeware

Drawing for Childen is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. The best way to learn to use it is simply to use it. There is though a document describing the use of the program.

OOfun.com

Looking for a greetings card to email - click the link above for a wide selection of free e-cards for every occasion

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Device Drivers

If you are looking for updated drivers for any of your devices we would recommend that you check the manufacturer’s website, i.e. www.hp.co.uk and www.epson.co.uk.  If this does not provide you with the required driver we suggest www.driverguide.com, you will need to register but once you have done so you can do a search for the hardware and access the links to many drivers that have already been found by other users.