Doing everything on you computer for free.

asininity

Since this site is about money saving wouldn't it be an idea to have a section with free software that allows users to see if they can do something for free before paying for sometimes expensive software?

Below is some of the programs I use:

Internet

Firefox - nuf said.
Flock - basically firefox geared towards social networking.
Opera - extremely fast browser.
Thunderbird - better and more secure than outlook plus with addons can do webmail.
Pidgin - multi-protocol chat client.
Trillian - multi-protocol chat client more features than pidgin.

Multimedia

VLC Media Player - plays just about everything.
Media Player Classic - plays just about anything.
Realplayer Alternative - replaces Realplayer and has a lot less bloat and no nag-ware.
Quicktime Alternative - replaces Quicktime and has less bloat.

Irfranview - image viewer.
The GIMP - photo editing, a bit complicated.
Paint.NET - photo editing more user friendly need .NET framework.

IMGBurn - for burning iso files to disk.
CDBurnerXP - good cd/dvd burning utility.

MP3Tag - very good mp3 tag editor.
Audacity - audio editor.
Exact Audio Copy - cd ripper.


Security

I know its been covered in the stickies. I used to use zonealarm but no its just not up to scratch, and I also used AVG but the recent update 8 seems to have problems.

Antivir - anti-virus.
Avast - anti-virus.
Spybot SD - anti-spyware.
Spyware Terminator - anti-spyware with real-time shield.
PC Tool Firewall Plus - firewall very user friendly comes with Threatfire malware scanner.
Comodo Firewall Pro - firewall very good but less user friendly the the above.
RootKit Revealer - finds rootkits.

File Mangement

7zip - archiver.
Universal Extractor - can extract just about anything from anything.

System

CCleaner - cleans windows up for you.
JKDefrag - excellent defragger.
SIW - system information.
WinAudit - system information.
CPU-Z - system information.


Office

Openoffice - office suite.
StarDict - offline dictionary very useful.
Foxit PDF Reader - pdf reader thats light weight and a hell of a lot faster than adobes.
FreeMind - mind mapping program.
Bullzip - pdf writer.
PDFCreator - pdf writer.
GNUCash - personal finance sofware.
Evernote - note organiser program
ATNotes - sticky notes program.

Reluctant_spender

Freeware Replacements For Common Commercial Apps

Lord_Gardener

Reluctant_spender wrote: »

Freeware Replacements For Common Commercial Apps

There's not many on that list is there? :rotfl:

asininity

Good link, I think this board needs something like that.