FREE STUFF

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A old idea with a new twist: "Do no harm" - A movement that deserves your curiosity
Use OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Don't waste another Penny on any other office program - never mind office suite!

 

Tired like most people of a slow computer that actually never eeally work as expected?
UBUNTU and it's siblings are computer operating systems that work a lot like Windows, however under the pretty surface runs LINUX. There is nothing you can not do with this software, and virtuallu hundrets of stable softaware will be at your fingertips for free. You even can just give it a test drive from a disk, before you make the decision to instal it.

Local email program ThunderBird. Less spam and everything a good email program should have. Easy to operate. Tons of ad-on's for free as well.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Firefox Internet Browser. Fast and super secure and of course with free ad ons and skins for every need and purpose.

Anti Virus Program. Very effective. Automated up-dates

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0

The light version of AdAware is free and an excellent spy-ware scanner and eliminator. The paid version does thereal time protection.

Itr's hard to beat this program!

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

SpyBot Search&Destroy is a spam and scumware finding and protection program. Can be run in novice and expert mode. Very effective. Can also immunize your. Immunize your computer, and a lot more advanced functions.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Calendar and planer with reminder function. Different views. Plenty of space to write things in.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

Easy to handle recipe program with logical functions.

http://www.homeplansoftware.com/recipe.htm
Whisper32

Password collector and protector. Stand alone version. Will run of a memory stick

http://www.ivory.org/oldwebsite/Default.htm
XNView

Graphical HTML editor

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enxnview.html
Irfan

Photo and graphic manipulation program. It also can mange your camera and convert tons of picture formats into tons of other picture formats.Thumbnail pre-view. Manipulate any picture without ever hurting the original.

http://www.irfanview.com/
CCleaner

The safest and easiest windows registry cleaner I know.

http://www.ccleaner.com/download
Root Kit Cleaner Specialized virus cleaner that searches where other programs won't go.
Egg Timer

Little timer that helps you to stop your time at your computer, or can be used as count down so you are back in the kitchen on time.

http://www.bttsoftware.co.uk/eggtimer.html
WinAmp

A Media Player for music, sound files and movies.? Download the light, full version.

Comes with tons of TV and radio stations, including some commercial free satellite radio (XM) stations. Loads of ways to customize it's appearance with color schemes, skins and visualizations.

Of course you can manage your mp3 player with it and burn cds.

http://www.winamp.com/player
Skype

Telephone Program to replace your land line. Make voice calls from computer to computer for free. You also can call any land line from your computer for a ridiculous low fee. All you need is a head set or mic and speakers for your computer ( which are build into most pap-tops).

http://skype.com/intl/en/
MWSnap3

ScreenShot program. Take pictures of anything on your computer screen, in a variety of ways. Save up in a variety of picture formats, incl. bmp, .jpg, etc.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html
Photo Filter

Do some fun stuff with you photos; enhance them and more

http://www.opanda.com/en/pf/index.html
Miranda

Chat program. Will run of a memory stick. Will connect with most known chat clients, all in one program window. It will connect to Yahoo, MSM, ICQ, and and and, including IRC....! One program can do it all.

http://www.miranda-im.com/
The Gimp

Great program for all your paint needs and photo editing. Can be considered the "photo shop" for the poor.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
The Font Thing

Compare your fonts, see them, test them, sort them and more.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
Audacity Sound recorder for everything you can hear on your computer speakers.
Fox it

PDF READER and WRITER. Create pdf files as many as you need.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm
KompoZer

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

http://kompozer.net/