General Interest & News Links

Whirlpool - Australian Broadband News

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Riverland West Local Action Planning Association - Action group for improving natural resources in the Riverland West (South Australia) region

The Register - IT News site

Toms Hardware - IT News & reviews site

Boing Boing - blog site with weird / funny / interesting stuff every day!

Security Links

Microsoft Security - Windows security information

Microsoft Windows Update - Update your copy of Windows with the latest patches and addons

Spybot Search and Destroy - excellent Malware detection and removal tool - free version available

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - excellent Malware detection and removal tool - free version available

AVG Antivirus - Simply the best antivirus software currently available - small, affordable, fast, local (Australian) support!

Combofix - Targeted malware removal - direct download link  **please only use this if advised by me to download**

Photography Links

Andrew Kroehn Photography - online gallery with prints for sale
Australian Digital Photo of the Day (ADPOTD) - online photo competitions, forums, photo galleries
Digital Photography Review - great digital photography news site, with highly active forums
Digital Secrets - Digital camera info and news, great e-books for sale for various model Nikon and Sony cameras
Irfanview - one of the most popular (and in my opinion the best) simple photo viewers/editors around, and best of all it's freeware!
ACDSee - digital photo software - excellent easy to use commercial photo organiser & editor

Windows Utilities

Tucows (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software) - Good source of trial, shareware and freeware utilities

Download.com - Good source of trial, shareware and freeware utilities & software

Bullzip PDF Printer - freeware PDF printer for saving files as a PDF

Foxit PDF Reader - Small and FAST free PDF viewer - replace your slow and bloated Adobe Reader with this!

7-Zip - Open Source (free) compression program - use instead of WinZIP, WinRAR etc

OpenOffice.org - A free alternative to Microsoft Office, will open almost any other document type including MS Office!

utorrent - currently the best bittorrent client around