Best free software

[PC]

We all use the stuff so what couldn't you live without?

 

[stugster]

Great post!!!


FireFox: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/
PHP: http://www.php.net/
mySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
Apache: http://www.apache.org/

and my favourite for personal home users who keep getting shafted by high-priced anti-virus solutions that don't work: http://free.grisoft.com/

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

Love Firefox , a big fan and I always try and get people to use that over IE.

Others I use.....

PDF Redirect > Great for converting almost anything to pdf

Sugar CRM > Open Source CRM Software. Now use it on two projects.

Foxit PDF Reader > Just like Adobe but much smaller file size.

I'm sure I could think of some more. Like I said on the other forum I think it would be a really cool idea to come up with an a-z guide and publish it as an article or something.

 

[nothing does]

I agree Firefox is great and much better than IE. Other free software I couldn't do without....itunes so I can listen to great music while I work. However probably one of the most useful for my industry (graphic design) has to be Acrobat. But it's only Reader that's free.

 

[mikejd]

Linux OS plus following applications:

KDE - desktop environment
OpenOffice - word processor, spread sheet
Gimp - image manipulation.
Firefox - web browser
Inkscape - svg graphics
Evolution - email client
Quanta - web editor
many more...

 

[stugster]

Good shout about OpenOffice and Gimp!

 

[PC]

Good shout about OpenOffice and Gimp!

How could I have forgotten about those??!!

I use the gimp regularly - as good as photoshop IMHO

 

[PC]

And another one: spambayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/)

It's a fantastic, good and free spam filter for (mainly) outlook but will also work with outlook express and any other pop3 email program.

 

[PC]

And another...

Spicebird aims to be the Outlook replacement from Mozilla.

It is still very much a beta but it appears to be pretty stable.


http://www.spicebird.com/

 

[Greg Findley]

I think most of you will probably know about these, but just incase you don't...

Anti-Virus- AVG Free Edition
Firewall- XoneAlarm Free Edition
Spyware Removal- SpyBot
System Optimisation & Privacy Tool- CCleaner