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Ok, well, there is a free alternative to office, which is compatible with its formats called open office this can be found at http://www.sun.com/openofficeThis can run quite slowly, but if you want free stuff, this is the best aternative to buying office.Then, if you're into programming, i would download the evauation version of textpad, its not atall cutdown, and you can use it for as long as... read more.
Hmm , there are enough free software programs to fill your needs for a lot of programs.
GIMP in stead of Photoshop / Paint Shop Pro Openoffice in stead of microsoft office Firefox in stead of internet explorer (mmh well.. IE is free..) Thunderbird in stead of Microsoft Outlouk Lots more :
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 once again, adobe acrobat reader... probably the most freebie needed once you are running your computer..claim me if you doubted, no obj!!
Yes Florisjuh has got it exactly right apart from the hmm after firefox, you may also wish to try Netscape..thats made by mizilla also...gimp 2.0 is very good
In my opinion there are a few programs/browser plug-ins you need for your computer.
1. Sun Java 2. Flash Player 3. Shockwave Player 4. Adobe Acrobat Reader 5. Spybot Search and Destroy 6. Quicktime Player 7. Firefox Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head I'm sure there are more. Also the plug-ins I listed are required for veiwing alot of internet media so you should get them.
What do you need on your computer, and it has to be free....
MSN Messenger Maybe....Linux Firefox Total commander --->ftp issues Azereus-->bittorent Winamp-->mp3 BSPlayer-->divx/xvid player FFDshow-->divx/xvid codec AC3Filter-->AC3 plugin TSW Webcoder -->HTML maker Mine favorite
So many to chose from, so I'll just add on to those that have already been posted:
For FTP things I like Filezilla I use PasswordSafe to store my passwords. For older computers Firefox is way too big & heavy, so there you can (if you don't want to use IE), use K-Meleon, or the IE wrapper app called Maxthon. I use AVG anti-virus, which is free, and so are the updates. And I use a free version of Tiny Personal Firewall as my firewall. Also, there are loads of neat little apps on TinyApps. MICROSOFT ANTISPY get it here here ZONE ALARM get ithere AVG7 antivirus get it here KNOPPIX..... ( an entire operating system based on linux that runs from disk no install with open office built in and mozilla ) get it here 716mb so on dialup forget it but for an entire operating system thats free and can be used without installation just set to boot cdrom first and boot from the disk it installs to ram so when you reboot change back to boot hd and its gone OPEN OFFICE for most operating systems (windows/linux/mac etc) full freeware office pack get it here CDburnerXP freeware cd burning software like NERO get it here DVDdecrypter for DVD ripping and burning (using iso mode you need nero installed) get it here BURNATONCE for cd/dvd burning get it here GIMP freeware image editing tool as used by theme creators here .. get it here hmmmmm cannot think of anymore at the minute but theres loads out there these are just a few
There's loads of programs out there for just about anything, and most of the programs I use are already listed on here, but heres a list:
Azureus For BitTorrent downloads Spyware Blaster To prevent spyware from being installed onto your computer AVG Anti-Virus For an A-V program Quintessential CD Player [QCD Player] as an alternate media player. I prefer this program over all the others, becase it uses a very low amount of ram. Daemon Tools To create back-up ISO's of your CD's and DVD's
What about MSN Messenger 7? It's great.
Umm, Firefox for sure. I also like Thunderbird better then Outlook too. Latest Entries
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well, there is a free alternative to office, which is compatible with its formats called open office this can be found at http://www.sun.com/openoffice This can run quite slowly, but if you want free stuff, this is the best aternative to buying office. Then, if you're into programming, i would download the evauation version of textpad, its not atall cutdown, and you can use it for as long as you want, without buying it. find that at http://www.textpad.com/ Then if youre looking for a free antivirus, get AVG free, youll have to download antivirus, and antispyware, but you dont have to pay for it, and it even seems to get rid of things like messenger viruses thats http://www.avg.com/product-avg-anti-virus-free-edition I would recomend getting the newest meesenger, because it comes with other software like windows live mail - a mail application, which works with multiple accounts, which i have found to be as good as outlook that will be at http://get.live.com/messenger/overview want an icon or cursor editor, go to http://www.rw-designer.com/ there are many free tools for cursor, image and icon editing ect. Also, you should go to http://www.microsoft.com/genuine and have your operating system verified as genuine, you can then get LOTS of free software, like document viewers for the new MS office files, and world wide telescope ect. You should also look at he google pack, you probably wont want all of it, but you can select what you want, and some of it is quite good. Youll get star office free with that - (thats the pay version of open office) find that at http://pack.google.com/ There is other google software you could get like - google chrome - google sketchup - google web accelerator they have loads of software for download which is very good just search the softwares name in goofle. Internet running slowly? Why, google web accellerator of course. http://webaccelerator.google.com/ and finally we come to the software that is virtually essential for using the innternet flash player - http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ java - http://www.sun.com/download/ acrobat reader - http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
I see that AVG Antivirus has been mentioned. DON'T GET IT! It's awful! Comodo Anti-Virus is better than most commercial Anti-viruses and it's free!
Graphics Gale is a great alternative to any pixel art program like Paint.
I use Firefox, Internet Explorer 8.
Windows: Microsoft Office 2000 Firefox 3 Internet Explorer 8 (incase Firefox crashes and doesn't load) Photoshop CS3 ImageReady Windows Media Player And any other programs you want.  -Sky
instead of firefox, in my winXP, i am using IE7.,
most of firefox feature already have in ie7 addon suc as ie7Pro
Freeware software I use:
Windows: open office (Office alternative) Miranda IM or Pidgin (Instant Message) AVG Free (Anti-virus) thunderbird (email) Firefox / Google Chrome (Internet browser) celtx (Scriptwriting) Audacity (basic recording) Kristal Audio Engine (Multi-track recording) GIMP (Image editing) Picasa (photo management) Quintessential Media Player (QMP/QCD) Google Desktop (Searching) and some freeware games Mac: Neo office (Office suite) Adium (instant message) Camino/firefox (Web Browser) Cog (Media Player) Celtx (Scriptwriting) Google Desktop (Searching and indexing) Thunderbird (email) Smultron (HTML editing) VLC (Media Playback) Virtual Box (PC emulation) Stuffit expander (archiving) Onyx (Utility) Thats most of the free software I use.
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