I'm partial to the freeware program, Fractal Explorer. It is definately among the best--if not the best--of the freeware fractal programs available. As the programmers don't speak English very well, they have paid particular attention to ease of use. There are now 'mouse over' context help for almost every feature. New versions, including Betas, are avalable rather frequently, always adding new features. It makes available literally hundreds of established formulas, some 55 Sterling equations and supports user defined formulas. It also supports IFS constuctors, 3D attractors and Quaternations as well. At the price, it's definitely worth a try. The URL to the home site is: www.eclectasy.com/Fractal-Explorer/index.html. Just my 2,000 cents (adjusted for inflation. :)).

Hello All! I've only been here a week, but I've had some intersting problems uploading images and activating some links like Add To Your Favorite Artists or Images. Most of the time everything works smoothly. A couple of times when I wasn't able to upload, as well as other 'operations', I've found 2 solutions. One is just to wait a few hours and try again. Usually works on this 2nd try. Alternatively, so far, when I have a problem with MSIE I've switched to Netscape (both the current versions). It has worked every time I've tried it, but I'm the first to admit that I don't have much experience here yet.