Free Software Recommendations

OpenOffice

A popular office suite, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office. Load, edit and save in all Microsoft formats, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Also freely exports to PDF format.

Mozilla Thunderbird

A great alternative to Outlook/Windows Mail, from the makers of Firefox.

Essential PIM

a Great personal information manager.

MediaMonkey

Excellent and lightweight drop-in replacement for iTunes. Syncs with your iPod.

Winamp

Old school media player, and still one of the best.

uTorrent

Lightweight BitTorrent client.

Revo Uninstaller

Force the removal of 32 and 64-bit software installations and remove all their traces and remnants easily. Excellent program with several other tools available.

IMGBurn

Simple, easy-to-use CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application software (for example, to create an ISO image of a CD/DVD on your Hard Disk Drive and burn an ISO image to a CD/DVD). Great for Windows XP and above.

VLC Media Player

Free, open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Converter for most multimedia file formats as well. Works with Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Unix.

PuTTY

Telnet and SSH client.

WinSCP

SCP, FTP, and SFTP client.

WinRAR

For all your compressed file needs. 32 and 64-bit versions available.

GNUCash

Personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Totally free, fully featured accounting and invoicing solution. Recommended.

Teamviewer

Free remote access and remote desktop sharing over the internet. Great for remote support. Simple and easy-to-use! All-in-one remote support solution for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

Allway Sync

Freeware Backup, Data Replication, File/data synchronization software loaded with many features. Highly Recommended.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program - Free, drop-in replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

Foxit Reader

Great and secure alternative to Adobe Reader.

PrimoPDF

PDF creator and converter.

Secunia PSI

Patch management software for Windows--keep all your software secure and up-to-date. Version 2.0 has been released, but we still recommend version 1.5.0.2, via the link below.

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