Free and Cheap Resources for Our Windows
Computers
Free Programs and Online Services:
Office Suite: www.OpenOffice.org
IBM Lotus Symphony: a prettier version of OpenOffice: symphony.lotus.com
Gmail: full support for POP Email programs, 6 GB InBox: gmail.com
Email: Thunderbird: www.mozilla.com
AntiVirus and AntiSpyware ("AVG"): www.grisoft.com
Firewall: ZoneLabs.com
Backup: www.mozy.com, up to 2 GB
backed-up for free, automatically.
Better and Safer Web Browser: Mozilla
Firefox: www.mozilla.com
Graphics Editing:
GIMP
www.gimp.org
Paint.NET http://www.getpaint.net/download.html,
docs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET
Typesetting:
TeX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
Security checkups:
Symantec Online Security Scanner:
http://www.symantec.com/norton
ShieldsUP! and other free Windows Security
utilities: www.grc.com
Syncing between Multiple Devices and
Computers:
Sync your Palm, Pocket PC or Outlook
with another computer, via Yahoo Calendar:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us
Google offers a Sync between their Calendar
and Outlook, as well:
http://www.google.com/googlecal
Office Applications:
Google offers free Word Processor, Spreadsheet
and Slide-Show Presentation software via their Google Docs: docs.google.com and they're all compatible with Microsoft
Office and many other file formats.
Media Player: VLC VideoLAN:
www.videolan.org/
Sync files between multiple computers
and/or devices:
http://www.microsoft.com
FTP (for large file transfers):
FileZilla: www.filezilla-project.org
Web Page Editing:
Arachnophilia: www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia
Cheap Programs and Services Online:
Carbonite.com, $50 per year per computer,
for unlimited, encrypted, automatic online (off-site!) backup.
Mozy.com, same idea, same price for Personal User.
MozyPro.com for Businesses.
If those don't give you enough ideas,
well then...
"The Best Free Software", March
2008, PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2
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Version 2.0 --- June 24th, 2008
Bill Thomassen, Novelty Hill Networks,
www.NoveltyHill.net, bill@noveltyhill.net, 425-952-0274