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Adobe Acrobat is software that allows you to download and view pdf documents that are often small in size. This makes pdf files a good choice amongst webmasters to distribute their content so the users can print and read content offline without having to wait for a while just for the document to download.

You do not need to install Adobe Acrobat to use this site unless you want to download pdf documents that resides on this site and normally a message will prompt you you to install Adobe Acrobat if you have it on disk or if you wish to download off http://www.abobe.com.

On 4hip.co.uk there are pdf downloads, all you have to is look out for the icon that looks like the one below

Macromedia Flash is software that web and multimedia developers with various uses. This site uses Flash to make it more interactive and produce visual effects.

To view Flash, your browser will require Flash Player to be installed. This can be downloaded from the Macromedia website, http://www.macromedia.com but normally when you try and view Flash you will be prompted to download Flash Player if you do not already have it.

So you do need the Flash Player if you want to use this site to its full potential.

You can use any mainstream browser to view this site with. At the time when this website was developed, the mainstream browsers were:

• Internet Explorer 6
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer 5

This site should work on these browsers with ease.

4hip.co.uk requires you to have javascript enabled as there are features such as a countdown clock and intereactive navigation features that require you to have a javascript enabled browser.

Every browser you install should also install the Java plugin that runs Javascript. You can diasble the Java plugin during installation or in your browsers internet options, if you have this disabled then enable it.

As a roung indication, 9/10 people in the world use Javascript enabled browsers. Source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

This site was developed to suit a user viewing the site with a screen resoltion of 1024 x 768 pixels. 800 x 600 will also be effective but will require you to scroll down a lot more than any of the higher screen resolutions.

Anything lower than 800 x 600 is not recommended due to the amounts of content on the site.