Windows users: try these helpers, utilities and applications:

.	Netscape Navigator: A comprehensive web navigation package with many uptodate pre-installed plugins. Programs include Navigator for browsing the web, composer for creating your own webpages and more. .
.	Internet Explorer: Another web browser, packed full with features and enhancments on previous versions.
.	Macromedia Dreamweaver: A 'what you see is what you get' html editor, webpage designer. Very comprehensive and easy to use with full compatability for the www's most powerful capabilities such as shockwave flash, java etc. .
.	MIRC: A program that makes chatting on IRC easy. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of channels, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world. .
.	Cute FTP: In my opinion the best ftp program that you will find. CuteFTP is a Windows-based File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client that allows users to utilize the capabilities of FTP without having to know all the details of the protocol itself. .
	Quicktime 5: A program required to view some movie formats on the internet.