{"id":269,"date":"2011-08-03T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:20:12","slug":"free-utilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/membership-home\/setting-up-vt\/free-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qomeXLJzJ5A? rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below I have listed some FREE utilities that you can either download or use on line. Familiarise yourself with these as we use them in the trainings.\u00a0 They are all simple and easy to use. Watch the video above for more information. Click the links below for access and download.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I now suggest winzip for unziping files and Canva for Image editing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast Stone Web Site &#8211; Fast Stone Capture and Fast Stone Photo Resizer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is still available and I still use it (2025)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will use Fast Stone Capture extensively and you would have found an older distributable version in the downloads area. The newer version is paid and available on their site.<\/p>\n<p>We also use fast Stone Photo Resizer which is still Freeware and is down loadable from this web site. Download a copy for your self from this site.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click this link to visit the fast Stone Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faststone.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here To Visit the Fast Stone Web Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gimp Photo Editing Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a full spec Image editing software that is FREE and that you can download and run on your computer. This is an optional item and I dont use it in the trainings. It is optional that you learn to work with it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here to visit the Gimp Image Editor Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to visit the Gimp Web Site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below I have listed some FREE utilities that you can either download or use on line. Familiarise yourself with these as we use them in the trainings.\u00a0 They are all simple and easy to use. Watch the video above for more information. Click the links below for access and download. I now suggest winzip for &#8230; <a title=\"Free Utilities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/membership-home\/setting-up-vt\/free-utilities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Free Utilities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"parent":116,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/1088"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlbradbrook.org\/vt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}