Utilities

WinZIP WinRAR

Utilities enabling you to view and open special files

Reports and promotional material that is available on the internet and this site, often requires additional software for viewing. There are many formats in use today the most common are listed below...

WinZip  will allow you to open files with the file extension *.zip. Zip is a compressed file which takes up less storage space used for archiving and sending large files via email. 

WinRAR will allow you to open files with the file extension *.rar. Rar is a compressed file which takes up less storage space used for archiving and sending large files via email. 

There are many other types of archive - compressed files available *.UHA is one of the newer types with *7-zip (7z) being a free readily available archiver, which you can use with 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, GZIP, BZIP2, and TAR formats.

There are many multi-format archive programs available Squeez  being the one I personally like. It's simple to use and covers the most common formats.

There are many browsers available to you as internet user the best known are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape. If you want to try an alternative try Opera which has the advantage of being a tabbed browser. Or try Firefox  Both Opera and Firefox  are fast and adaptable to your needs.