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Downloads
A selection of useful, FREE software, to replace your commonly used PC applications, such as Office®, Outlook®, Acrobat® and Internet Explorer®.
 OpenOffice, this version by Sun Microsystems, is an Open-Source Project to develop a FREE Microsoft-Office Alternative. This is an excellent product, well documented and supported and totally free. It reads all Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, it is smoother, looks familiar, but better, it is a faster and superior product to Office, fixing many of the office problems, such as Styles, Stylesheets and cost.
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 The now world-famous Mozilla Firefox Web Browser, a better browser than Internet Explorer® by far, more secure, smoother, easier to customise, etc, etc. More and more people are using this as their main browser, it has now overtaken IE as the de-facto browser of choice available.
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 The Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client, a must-have replacement for all Outlook and Outlook Express users. Identical in nearly every way, except it feels smoother, has better data handling, and much better security.
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 A very useful program, LogMeIn ® has both Pro and FREE versions and enables one person to totally control another PC over the Internet. This could be a customer who you provide technical support to, it could be your office PC, and you want to access it from home, it could be a PC in another room or another continent.
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 Award-winning AVG is really world class Anti-Virus Software from Grisoft in the Czech Republic, rumoured home of many of the early virus writers. It is free-to-use or you can pay a little for a licensed version. Because of its widespread uptake, solidity, and accuracy of its virus database, as well as is its efficiency both file-wise and in performance, we recommend this product for your anti-virus needs.
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SourceForge.net - many, many Free and Open-source softwares available, always check here first!
Free Software Foundation Directory - UNESCO supported open-source software
Download.com - reputable download repository, make sure you search for FREE and not TRIAL software
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FileMap v4.0.5
Essential Security Utility, alerts you about system/32/registry changes, lets you quarantine or delete them
Active@ ISO Burner
Burn an ISO image file to CD, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Freeware
VLC Media Player
Not very pretty, but cross-platform & plays everything, no need for extra codecs
PSPad Programmer's Editor
Excellent text editor with syntax highlighting, projects, etc.
Check Point's ZoneAlarm Firewall
One of the first companies to make firewalls, use this if you don't have hardware
doPDF 6.0 PDF Writer
Create PDF documents easily from anything (installs as printer, no ghostscript)
PDF-XChange PDF Viewer
Alternative to Adobe® PDF Reader, fully featured, faster & FREE for Private & Commercial use
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If you have any suggestions about useful free software, please let us know:
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