Office and Productivity
Neo Office -www.neooffice.org - Neo Office is a M$ Office competitor with a Word processor, spreadsheet, Database, Presentation, illustration, and mathematic editor. Their parent project can be found at www.openoffice.org. This software supports mulitple platforms and is very versitle. Best of all its free.
Google docs - docs.google.com - Google Docs is a webbased office suite that has word processesing, spreadsheet, and presentation apps. All the documents you create are stored within your Google account and are accessible form any computer with an internet connection and supported web browser. You do need to sign up with a google account, which is free, and in addition to the Google docs you will have access to Google calander and Gmail. |
System utilities
a-Squared Anti Malware - www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ - a-Squared Anti Malware comes in both a free version and a pay per year version. With the free version you get all the standard scanning freatures as in the pay version. The pay version, however, has background and realtime scanning, automatic updates and more managable scanning and scheduling features.
Lavasoft Ad-aware - www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Lavasoft ad-aware has been a staple in the toolbox of many techs for detecting and removing adaware for many years now.
AVG Antivirus - free.gridsoft.com - AVG Antivirus is a free virus scanner that takes up little system resources and have online updates. There is also a paid version that include tech-support, firewall and spyware/adware scanning. |
Sound and Audio
iTunes - www.apple.com/itunes - iTunes is a free Audio/Movie player that also has a portal to the iTunes store where customers can purchase music, movies or TV shows without paying a monthly subscription. iTunes is also Adware free! |
Graphic applications
The Gimp - www.gimp.org - The Gimp is a full featured image editing software that can rival software that costs hundreds of dollars more. |
