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I've been thinking for a very long time that I should put together a list of the free software I use. Free in the $0, no nags, no ads, we-want-you-to-use-it-for-free way. (If for no other reason, then at least so as to give them some well deserved Google juice.) So, here it is:
- FTP client: FileZilla
- Drive emulator: Daemon Tools
- CD ripper: CDex (Latest ogg codecs here.)
- Music/video player: Winamp
- Calculator: GraphCalc (For those who feel limited by the windows calculator.)
- Image editor: GIMP (Feels a little strange to begin with, but is pretty powerful once you get to know it.)
- Office Suite: OpenOffice (Will rock even more once version 2.0 is out.)
- Web browser: Firefox (Goes without saying.)
- Email: Thunderbird
- Anti-spyware: Spybot Search & Destroy
- Antivirus: AVG (Not free for businesses. Now even easier to get - no registration necessary.)
- Bittorrent client: Azureus
- Instant messenging: Gaim (Chat without those pesky msn ads!)
- PDF maker: Ghostword (Short guide here.)
- Website/HTML editor: Nvu (The preview release still has some bugs, but v1.0 should be out pretty soon.)
Edit: As I see it there are three levels of free:
- Free: Use this software, but you'll have to put up with enless nags about paying and/or ads.
- Free-er: Use this software without paying, and with no nags or ads.
- Free-est: Use and alter our software in any way you like.
Software classed as free-est can be counted as belonging to the free-er class too, since it to most users is simply free - $0, 0 nags.
Labels: firefox, openoffice
2 Comment(s):
At 2:33 AM,
jer said…
You ought to qualify that by "free software" you mean "software that doesn't cost any money." Many of the programs you listed are actually open source, free to use however you want, some are not.
At 9:57 AM,
David Naylor said…
Well, since that wasn't really the point of my post, I didn't feel the need to make that distinction.
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